Patent ID: 8087376

Claim:
A coating apparatus for a lens, comprising: a centering device for determining a center of a lens; a spinning device for rotating a lens; an applicator device comprising a nozzle for discharging a coating fluid for applying the coating fluid onto the surface of the lens held at the spinning device; a drying device for drying the coating fluid on the surface of the lens; and a lens transport device for transporting the lens from the centering device to the spinning device, and further transporting the lens from the spinning device to the drying device, wherein each of the centering device and the spinning device has a lens support portion, the drying device has plural of lens support portions, the lens transport device has a pair of lens support portions; the lens support portion of the centering device, the lens support portion of the spinning device, one of lens support portions of the drying device, and a pair of lens support portions of the lens transport device are arranged such that these all lens support portions are being located on an identical line and also that the distance between a pair of lens holding portions of the transport device, the distance between the lens support portion of the centering device and the lens support portion of the spinning device, and the distance between the lens support portion of the spinning device and the lens support portion of the drying device are being the same; a first lens support portion of the transport device transports the lens from the lens support portion of the centering device to the lens support portion of the spinning device; and a second lens support portion of the transport device simultaneously transports the lens from the lens support portion of the spinning device to the lens support portion of the drying device.