Patent ID: 7108471

Claim:
A transporting tool for transporting an object to be tested to and from an object-to-be-tested stage table by a transporting arm, the object to be tested having either one of a non-fixed form and fixed form, the transporting arm comprising at least one first opening for evacuation on a surface where the object to be tested is to be placed, and the object-to-be-tested stage table having at least one third groove, on a surface where the object to be tested is to be placed, to draw the object to be tested by vacuum suction, wherein the transporting tool comprises: a main body having a first surface to place the object to be tested thereon; at least one first groove formed in the first surface of the main body to draw the object to be tested by vacuum suction; at least one second opening formed in a second surface of the main body which is opposite to the first surface, the second opening being alignable with the first opening of the transporting arm; at least one first through hole formed between the first surface and the second surface, which is opposite to the first surface, of the main body, one end of the first through hole being open to the first groove and the other end thereof being open to the second opening; at least one second groove formed in the second surface of the main body, the second groove being evacuateable through the third groove of the object-to-be-tested stage table with the transporting tool being placed on the object-to-be-tested stage table; and at least one second through hole which connects the second and first grooves of the main body, wherein the first opening of the transporting arm can draw, by vacuum suction, the object to be tested being placed on the transporting tool through the second opening, the first through hole, and the first groove of the transporting tool, and the third groove of the object-to-be-tested stage table can draw the object to be tested by vacuum suction through the second grove, the second through hole, and the first groove of the transporting tool.