Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Haruto Uchida

Masayuki Takahashi

Noriyuki Inagaki

Issey Yasuda

A grinding apparatus includes a disc-like carrier rotatably driven and having a plurality of holding holes formed in a circumferential direction thereof, the carrier transferring a work fitted in each of the holes, a ring-shaped holder member disposed at an outer peripheral part of the carrier and holding the carrier in a stretched state, an upper and a lower guide members for guiding upper and lower surfaces of the work fitted in the holding hole of the carrier and transferred by rotation of the carrier, and a first grindstone arranged at either an upper or a lower side of a processing position for grinding one of the upper and lower surfaces of the work while the other surface of the work is guided by means of either one of the guide members.

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Kadoma, Japan

Haruto Uchida