Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Satoshi Yoshimura

Tatsuya Hasegawa

Yoshikazu Yomogihara

Yasunori Fukumoto

Toshiaki Miyoshi

Shinichi Koyama

Keizo Tanaka

Sanae Tokunaga

Masaichi Okubo

A heater tool, which bonds by thermocompression outer leads of a TCP to electrodes on an array substrate, is fixed to a support block and is movable between a compression-bonding position, wherein the distal end portion of the heater tool presses the TCP to compression-bond the outer leads to the electrodes of the array substrate, and a waiting position wherein the distal end portion is spaced apart from the TCP. A pressing mechanism having a pressing member is mounted on the support block and movable in interlock with the movement of the heater tool. The pressing member presses the TCP to press the outer leads against the array substrate when the heater tool moves from the waiting position toward the compression bonding position.

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The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a flat-panel display unit and a carrier therefor which make it unnecessary to implement alignment in each step, except for alignment which require higher precision, by performing the alignment in advance in the pre-stage of a series of steps. The present invention also provides a manufacturing method of a flat-panel display unit which allows alignment with accuracy of about 50 to 100 .mu.m to be performed simply, reliably and quickly. According to the inventive manufacturing method, a display panel is mounted non-shiftably on the carrier and while being mounted thereon, is then carried between processing machines and is processed by the processing machines. In mounting the display panel on the carrier, it is aligned with the carrier in advance by visually aligning alignment marks thereof. In processing it by the processing machine, the carrier and the processing machine are put into a predetermined state in which they are aligned and thereby, the display panel is put into a state in which it is aligned with the processing machine.

Manufacturing method of flat-panel display unit, display panel carrier

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Hyogo-ken, Japan

Satoshi Yoshimura