Method of producing image display device and resin dispenser

A method of producing an image display device in which an image display member and a light-transmitting cover member having a principal surface portion and a circumferential edge portion on which a light-shielding layer is formed with a step portion formed between the principal surface portion and the circumferential edge portion are laminated through a light-transmitting resin layer formed from a liquid optical resin composition so that a light-shielding layer-formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member is arranged to face the image display member, the method comprising:

• moving a resin dispenser from one end of the light-shielding layer-formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member toward the other end thereof to apply the liquid optical resin composition to the principal surface portion and a part of the light-shielding layer of the light-transmitting cover member so as to extend across both of them, and upon the moving, providing an idling region in which the resin dispenser does not discharge the optical resin composition on a part of the light-spieling layer;
• laminating the light-shielding layer-formed surface of the light-transmitting cover member to the image display member through the applied optical resin composition;
• and
• curing the applied optical resin composition held between the image display member and the light-transmitting cover member,
• wherein the optical resin composition comprises an acrylate-based oligomer component, an acrylate-based monomer component, a photopolymerization initiator, a plasticizer component and a leveling agent, and a surface tension of the optical resin composition is adjusted within the range of 24 to 28 mN/m.