PANEL CARRYING APPARATUS, AND PANEL CARRYING METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a panel carrying apparatus and method having a high productivity the operations of whose robots are non-wasteful. SOLUTION: In the panel carrying method, respective optical sensors 18a, 18b provided in respective gripping portions 19a, 19b of two robots R1, R2 so position in stand-by positions W1, W2 in the stand-by state of a panel carrying apparatus 1 as to move respectively along moving routes Q1, Q2 from the stand-by positions W1, W2. The stand-by positions W1, W2 align on a line parallel with the Y axis of an X-Y plane. After the respective optical sensors 18a, 18b present in the respective stand-by positions W1, W2 pass respectively an one-side edge member JK of the respective one-side edge members of the long-member side of a liquid-crystal displaying panel 4, the moving routes Q1, Q2 are each set up so that the optical sensor 18a of the first robot R1 proceeds to an other-side edge member KL of the respective other-side edge members of the short-member side of the liquid-crystal displaying panel 4. The optical sensor 18b of the second robot R2 proceeds to another other-side edge member MJ of the respective other-side edge members of the short-member side of the liquid-crystal displaying panel 4. That is, the optical sensors 18a, 18b are so set as to move to the respective other-side edge members of the short-member side in the separating directions from each other. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT