Method of manufacturing image display device

A method of manufacturing an image display device where an image display member and a light-transmitting cover member with a light-shielding layer formed on a peripheral portion thereof are stacked via a light-transmitting cured resin layer formed from a liquid photo-curable resin composition such that a light-shielding layer forming surface of the light-transmitting cover member is disposed on a side of the image display member, the method comprising the following steps of (A) to (D):

• <Step (A)>
• a step of applying the liquid photo-curable resin composition to the light-shielding layer forming surface of the light-transmitting cover member or a surface of the image display member to a thickness greater than that of the light-shielding layer so as to cancel a step formed between the light-shielding layer and the light-shielding layer forming surface of the light-transmitting cover member;
• <Step (B)>
• a step of pre-curing the applied photo-curable resin composition with irradiation of ultraviolet rays so as to form a pre-cured resin layer;
• <Step (C)>
• a step of bonding the light-transmitting cover member to the image display member such that the light-shielding layer and the pre-cured resin layer are placed inside;
• and
• <Step (D)>
• a step of subjecting the pre-cured resin layer held between the image display member and the light-transmitting cover member to the irradiation of ultraviolet rays to completely cure the resin layer to thereby stack the image display member and the light-transmitting cover member via the light-transmitting cured resin layer to obtain the image display device, wherein
• the pre-curing in the step (B) is conducted so as to obtain a cure shrinkage ratio less than 3% in the step (D) when a total value of cure shrinkage ratios of the liquid photo-curable resin composition based on the pre-curing in the step (B) and the complete curing in the step (D) is greater than or equal to 3%.