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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2002
Kaoru Yamamoto, Kyoto, JP;
Kaoru Yamamoto, Kyoto, JP;
Kyoto Seisakusho Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
An optical disk loading apparatus () for unloading a case () from a case stacking device () where a plurality of cases () are stacked with each case () closed and placed upstandingly, transferring the case () via a conveyor () and loading optical disks (D, D) into the case (). The optical disk loading apparatus () includes a case unloading and inverting device () that unloads a case () from a case supplying conveyor () of the case stacking device () and inverts the case () 90 degrees upstandingly, a case opening device () that opens the inverted case () to a flat state at its inverted position, and optical disk loading devices (') that load optical disks (D, D) into the opened case (). Since the case opening device () can be placed at a position in the vicinity of an upstream end of the conveyor (), the whole length of the conveyor () is shortened, thereby shortening the whole length (L) of the optical disk loading apparatus ().