Patent ID: 7211164

Claim:
A lamination apparatus for a ceramic green sheet comprising: one punching station disposed in a fixed position and adapted to punch a predetermined area of each of a plurality of long ceramic green sheets so as to form a ceramic green sheet cut piece having a predetermined size, and one lamination station disposed in a fixed position adjacent to the punching station and adapted to laminate the ceramic green sheet cut piece, such that a plurality of different types of long ceramic green sheets are processed; a single punching head which cuts each of the plurality of long ceramic green sheets in the punching station so as to form a cutting line enclosing the predetermined area thereof, and which conveys the piece from the punching station to the lamination station while holding the formed ceramic green sheet cut piece; a feeding mechanism for feeding each of the plurality of long ceramic green sheets in a longitudinal direction of the long ceramic green sheets, respectively; and a plurality of introducing mechanisms for selectively introducing respective ones of the plurality of long ceramic green sheets from different directions into the punching station disposed at the fixed position.