PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rice transplanter capable of stabilizing the planting posture of seedlings even on developing a change in planting load.SOLUTION: This rice transplanter installing a traveling vehicle 1 loading a seedling engine 2 and a planting part 15 equipped with a seedling-loading stand 16 and seedling-planting claws 17 is provided by linking a transplanting input shaft 49 for transmitting a driving force from the traveling vehicle 1 to the transplanting part 15, with the driving shafts 51, 53, 47 for seedling-transplanting claws by a transmitting means of almost without changing transmitting torque even on having the change in the transplanting load.COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT【課題】植付負荷変動が生じても、苗の植付姿勢を安定化できる田植機を提供する。【解決手段】 苗エンジン2を搭載した走行車1と、苗載台16及び苗植付爪17を備える植付部15とを設けた田植機において、走行車1から植付部15に駆動力を伝達する植付入力軸49と、苗植付爪用駆動軸51、53、47とを、植付負荷変動によって伝達トルクが殆ど変動しない伝動手段によって連結させた。【選択図】図9