Patent ID: 6970402

Claim:
A carrier mechanism having accommodating means and carrier means, for carrying out positioning between said accommodating means and said carrier means, to thereby insert an object carried from said carrier means into said accommodating means or take said object accommodated in said accommodating means, out of said accommodating means to said carrier means, said carrier mechanism comprising: driving means for moving said carrier means; and control means operable when said carrier means is moved to a desired position in one direction, for controlling said driving means so as to move said carrier means to a position in excess of said desired position and then to move said carrier means to said desired position, said control means controlling said driving means so as to move said carrier means to said desired position without exceeding said desired position when said carrier; means is moved to said desired position in a direction opposite to said one direction, wherein said control means controls said driving means such that said carrier means is driven at an accelerated rate at an initial activation, then braked after the acceleration, and finally subjected to a minute adjustment after the braking, and wherein said control means adjusts a quantity of said minute adjustment of said carrier means by said driving means, based on a remaining distance between a current position of said carrier means and said desired position.