To provide a thin plate material conveying device conveying/positioning a rectangular thin plate material having flexibility at high accuracy.
The rectangular thin plate material is taken out from a taking out position 3 by a retaining part 6 and is sucked/retained, and the retaining part 6 and the thin plate material 1 are moved/conveyed in a Y direction by a Y direction movement part 20. On the midway of the conveying, a front end side 1a and a side end side 1b of the thin plate material 1 are detected by a first front end side detection non-contact sensor 21, a second front end side detection non-contact sensor 22 and a side end side detection non-contact sensor 23, and the thin plate material 1 is positioned based on the detection result. Thereafter, the thin plate material 1 is further moved/conveyed in the Y direction and is conveyed/positioned at a predetermined positioning position 5.
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KANBARA KIYOTAKA
Hiroki Naito
Daisuke Nagano