Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Itabashi

Hiroaki Itabashi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11243462
    Abstract: A lithography apparatus includes a formation unit that forms an alignment mark on a substrate by irradiating the substrate that includes a photosensitizer with light, and a transfer unit that aligns the substrate on the basis of the position of the alignment mark and that transfers a pattern to the substrate by illuminating the photosensitizer with exposure light. The formation unit irradiates a material of a grounding of the photosensitizer with irradiation light at a wavelength that differs from that of the exposure light and forms the alignment mark on the material by processing the material with energy of the irradiation light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Itabashi, Takuji Maruta, Ryo Nakamichi, Tomonori Tsukahara
  • Publication number: 20190302606
    Abstract: A lithography apparatus includes a formation unit that forms an alignment mark on a substrate by irradiating the substrate that includes a photosensitizer with light, and a transfer unit that aligns the substrate on the basis of the position of the alignment mark and that transfers a pattern to the substrate by illuminating the photosensitizer with exposure light. The formation unit irradiates a material of a grounding of the photosensitizer with irradiation light at a wavelength that differs from that of the exposure light and forms the alignment mark on the material by processing the material with energy of the irradiation light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroaki Itabashi, Takuji Maruta, Ryo Nakamichi, Tomonori Tsukahara