Patent ID: 8431439

Claim:
A thin film laminated body manufacturing apparatus, which manufactures a thin film laminated body by depositing a plurality of thin films onto a surface of a strip-shape flexible substrate, the apparatus comprising: substrate transporting means for transporting the substrate in a horizontal substrate transport direction, the substrate with a width extending in a vertical direction; a plurality of film deposition chambers, arranged consecutively along the substrate transport direction, and in which film is deposited onto the substrate surface; at least one pair of gripping rollers, arranged in at least one space among spaces between the film deposition chambers, and which grasps an upper edge portion of the substrate, with the gripping roller rotation direction being diagonally upward relative to the substrate transport direction; and a control device configured to control a height of the substrate by changing a force with which at least on of the pairs of gripping rollers grasps the substrate.