Transport apparatus and method

Abstract

This invention aims at providing a transport apparatus that can cope with a change in the pitch or number of works to be placed on a carrier without altering the transport apparatus. To achieve this object, a transport apparatus for transporting a carrier with a plurality of works placed thereon includes a loading unit for loading the carrier into a processing unit for performing a predetermined process for the works (N), a transport unit for receiving the carrier loaded by the loading unit and intermittently transporting the carrier such that the plurality of works are sequentially positioned at a process position of the processing unit one by one, and an unloading unit for receiving the carrier from the transport unit after all of the plurality of works are subjected to the predetermined process at the process position, and unloading the carrier outside the processing unit.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.