Patent ID: 8529314

Claim:
A method of transporting a work comprising the steps of: fixing a first fixing jig in close contact with one surface of a thin plate-like work and performing a predetermined processing on an opposite surface of the work, or fixing a first fixing jig in close contact with one surface of a thin plate-like work in which said one surface has been subjected to a predetermined processing; and subsequently fixing a second fixing jig in close contact with the opposite surface of the work so as to sandwich the work between the first and second fixing jigs; and handing over the work to the second fixing jig, wherein each of the first fixing jig and the second fixing jig comprises: a plate-like jig main body; and a close contact layer which is disposed on one surface of the jig main body so as to detachably hold the work in close contact with the close contact layer, wherein the jig main body has on said one surface thereof a plurality of supporting projections which support the close contact layer, and a side wall along a peripheral portion of said one surface of the jig main body, the side wall having substantially an equal height as the supporting projections, the close contact layer being adhered to an end surface of the side wall thereby defining a partitioned space enclosed by the side wall between the close contact layer and the jig main body, wherein the jig main body has formed therein a ventilation hole which is in communication with the partitioned space such that the close contact layer is deformed by sucking air within the partitioned space via the ventilation hole, thereby lessening the hold of the close contact layer upon the work, and wherein the handing of the work from the first fixing jig to the second fixing jig is performed by first deforming the close contact layer of the first fixing jig so as to lessen its hold upon the work and by thereafter removing the first fixing jig from the work by relatively moving the first fixing jig and the second fixing jig away from each other, thereby leaving the work fixed in close contact to the second fixing jig.