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6369874 Photoresist outgassing mitigation system method and apparatus for in-vacuum lithography  
A windowless system and apparatus are provided that prevent outgases from contaminating the projection optics of an in-vacuum lithography system. The outgassing mitigation apparatus comprises a...
6359678 Exposure apparatus, method for producing the same, and exposure method  
When an illumination light beam is radiated by an illumination system at a predetermined angle of incidence θ with respect to a pattern plane of a mask, the illumination light beam is reflected by...
6356338 Semiconductor production system with an in-line subsystem  
A semiconductor production system has an exposure apparatus, a coater-developer, and an in-line subsystem for connecting the exposure apparatus and the coater-developer. The in-line subsystem has a...
6338582 Substrate delivery apparatus and coating and developing processing system  
In an interface section, a transfer device is disposed to face a second cooling processing unit group in a processing station, and a thermal processing unit group in which thermal processing units...
6332724 Substrate processing apparatus  
Outside air taken in from the outside is cooled to a predetermined temperature by a cooler, and the air cooled by the cooler flows through a low temperature side flow path in a heat exchanger,...
6327021 Mask inspection system and method of manufacturing semiconductor device  
There is described a mask inspection system suitable for reliably removing dust particles from a mask. The system is intended for eliminating the necessity of repetition of dust particle inspection...
6295118 Optical arrangement for exposure apparatus  
An optical arrangement includes a diffractive optical element and a curvature control system for changing curvature of the diffractive optical element. The optical arrangement can be incorporated...
6295121 Exposure apparatus  
An exposure apparatus includes a light supplying device for supplying exposure light, an optical system for directing the exposure light to a substrate to be exposed, a cover for covering a...
6287023 Processing apparatus and method  
A processing apparatus includes a housing, a plurality of process units arranged within the housing for subjecting an object to a series of processes including coating of processing solution,...
6288773 Method and apparatus for removing residual material from an alignment mark of a semiconductor wafer  
A method of exposing an alignment mark defined in a first side of a semiconductor wafer includes the step of engaging a second side of the wafer with a wafer chuck. The method also includes the...
6283645 Camera with film debris catching comb  
A camera has a rear backframe (exposure) opening, including a pair of spaced opposite ends across which successive sections of a filmstrip are moved for each section of the filmstrip to be advanced...
6279601 Liquid zone seal  
A seal assembly that provides a means for establishing multiple pressure zones within a system. The seal assembly combines a plate extending from the inner wall of a housing or inner enclosure that...
6278511 Method and apparatus for stacking and drying cut imaged media  
A conventional imagesetting system includes an imagesetter for transferring an image onto media, a wet chemical processor for processing the imaged media, an enclosed dryer section for drying the...
6253042 Method for controlling a fan of an electronic photo device  
Disclosed is a method for controlling the operation of a fan in an electronic photo device including a developing device, a fan for keeping the temperature in the electronic photo device uniformly,...
6239884 Scanner and method of controlling lighting cold-cathode tube thereof  
A scanner according to the present invention includes a cold-cathode tube for radiating light on a manuscript reading position where an image on a manuscript is detected by an image sensor, a...
6236419 Liquid electrophotographic imaging system  
In a liquid electrophotographic imaging system including a photoreceptor medium, a laser scanning unit scans light onto the photoreceptor medium to form an electrostatic latent image on a...
6226073 Stage system with driving mechanism, and exposure apparatus having the same  
A driving system has a driving mechanism for producing a driving force, a drive controlling device for controlling the driving mechanism, and a temperature adjusting mechanism for collecting heat...
6222609 Reduction projection aligner free from reaction product tarnishing photo-mask and method for transferring pattern image through the photo-mask  
A reduction projection aligner has a light source accommodated in an air-tight vessel, an optical filter fitted in the air-tight vessel, a reticle provided outside of the air-tight vessel and a...
6219128 Automatic processing apparatus and image recording device  
A photosensitive material which has been exposed by an exposure device is fed into a processor, which is an automatic developing device, by a delivery section and processed. Within the exposure...
6211943 Apparatus and method for improving print quality of high speed package printer  
An apparatus and method relating to the print quality of a high speed package printer that produces photographs of varying size from film negatives. The high speed package printer includes a...
6201594 Image recording apparatus and application device thereof  
An image recording apparatus which effects digital exposure while aiming for compactness. An exposure unit digitally exposes a photosensitive material successively while moving above a stage. An...
6191843 Exposure device, method of making and using same, and objects exposed by the exposure device  
Even when a surface temperature of an illumination optical system becomes high, detection accuracy of a reticle alignment detection system is not negatively affected. An illumination optical system...
6153877 Projection exposure apparatus  
An object of a inventions of the present application is raising the pattern position precision by stabilizing the temperature of a reticle or a reduction lens in a projection aligner. The...
6133982 Exposure apparatus  
An exposure apparatus having an optical stand for supporting a projecting optical system and a reticle stage, and a base frame have a plurality of struts for supporting the optical stand via...
6133981 Processing system  
A processing system includes a coating/developing station for performing either a solution processing for processing a substrate using solution or a thermal processing for thermally processing the...
6116794 Apparatus for cooling a thermally processed material  
Disclosed is an apparatus for cooling a thermally processed, imaging material which has been heated to a first temperature by a thermal processor. The cooling apparatus includes a cooling article,...
6097469 Method of processing resist onto substrate and resist processing apparatus  
A method of forming a resist on a substrate and processing the resist in a resist processing system having a processing region and a non-processing region which are air-conditioned, the method...
6088080 Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method  
An exposure apparatus includes a stage for holding a substrate at an exposure station, an arm mechanism for conveying a substrate to be exposed, onto the stage, and a sensor provided on one of the...
6043906 Orginal reading apparatus having temperature detector and control method thereof  
An original reading apparatus includes a thermistor that is arranged close to a reading position. When the output of the thermistor represents a warning temperature range, a CPU activates a cooling...
6020950 Exposure method and projection exposure apparatus  
In an exposure method of imaging/projecting, through a projection optical system, a pattern formed on a mask onto an object to be exposed, a mask is placed on an object plane side of the projection...
6002987 Methods to control the environment and exposure apparatus  
An exposure apparatus includes an exposure system which transfers a pattern of a mask onto a substrate; a chamber in which the exposure system is housed; an air-conditioner which is associated with...
5997963 Microchamber  
The invented apparatus is a relatively small-volumed chamber useful for processing a substrate. The apparatus includes a reference member with a substantially flat surface. The apparatus also...
5983800 Machine for insulating and cooling photopolymer plates for flexographic printing  
An improved machine for insolating photopolymer plates and comprising a device secured sidewise onto the frame and delivering a flow of cooling air tangentially to the top part of the frame of the...
5973764 Vacuum assisted debris removal system  
A vacuum manifold having a rectangular opening with vacuum access bores connected into the rectangular opening for an illumination field to be projected there through. A vacuum manifold is placed...
5973863 Exposure projection apparatus  
The exposure projection apparatus includes an illumination system which illuminates a mask with a light beam, and a optical projection system which projects the image of a pattern formed on the...
5946078 Dust excluding mechanism for an image recording apparatus  
According to the improved apparatus for recording images using exposing optics equipped with a dust excluding mechanism which prevents optical paths of light beams from being blocked by dust...
5920377 Multi-hood system for correcting individual lens distortions  
A multi-hood system for correcting individual lens distortions includes an air supply hood provided on an outer circumference of a lens; a plurality of air dividing partitions for dividing the air...
5907390 Positioning apparatus, exposure apparatus and method of manufacturing semiconductor device  
Positioning accuracy of a scanning stage is improved as a result of reducing error by reducing a non-uniformity in the temperature of air on an optical path of length measurement of the stage. An...
5905565 Photographic exposure apparatus with improved exposure control  
A photographic exposure apparatus includes an exposure lens, a lens carriage having a light shield region and a lens mount region, and a device to move the lens carriage selectively to a position...
5894341 Exposure apparatus and method for measuring a quantity of light with temperature variations  
A reticle and a wafer are relatively scanned in a scanning exposure type of projection exposure apparatus so that a pattern on the reticle is transferred onto the wafer by exposure. Heat exchangers...
5876280 Substrate treating system and substrate treating method  
The present invention provides a substrate treating system for successively treating a plurality of substrates W under an air-conditioned environment. The system comprises an outer casing provided...
5877843 Exposure apparatus  
A scanning type exposure apparatus, which is used to expose a wafer with an image of a pattern on a reticle by synchronously moving the reticle and the wafer, comprises a second gas conditioner for...
5871587 Processing system for semiconductor device manufacture of otherwise  
A processing system includes a processing chamber, a circulating device for purifying an inside ambience gas of the processing chamber and for circulating the purified gas back into the processing...
5870197 Precision stage interferometer system with local single air duct  
A local air duct directs a temperature-controlled stream of air across two perpendicular sets of interferometer beams which are used to measure the two dimension (X-Y) position of a precision stage...
5864386 Exposure apparatus  
An exposure apparatus includes a stage, a table mounted on the stage and having a fiduciary mark and a moving mirror, a holder mounted on the stage for holding a substrate, and a temperature...
5844662 Resist processing apparatus and a resist processing method  
The resist processing apparatus comprises a loader/unloader section provided with a plurality of cassettes, a first convey mechanism provided in the loader/unloader section, and for taking out an...
5812242 Projection exposure apparatus including a temperature control system for the lens elements of the optical system  
A projection exposure apparatus according to the present invention (in particular, an excimer stepper) includes a projection optical system, which may include a lens element of synthetic quartz and...
5805273 Projection exposure apparatus and microdevice manufacturing method  
A projection exposure apparatus includes a projection optical system for projecting a pattern of a first object onto a second object, and a correcting device for substantially correcting rotational...
5796469 Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method using the same  
An exposure apparatus in which a portion of a pattern of a reticle is projected onto a wafer and in which the reticle and the wafer are scanned synchronously such that the pattern of the reticle is...
5754275 Optical apparatus having lens-system drive device for temperature correction in direction of optical axis  
A photographic printing apparatus for printing an image projected from a film on to a photosensitive material is disclosed. The apparatus has a lens system for forming the image of the film located...