Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Gunji

Kazuhiro Gunji 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: 9245710
    Abstract: A charged particle beam device that appropriately maintains a throughput of the device for each of specimens different in a gas emission volume from each other is provided. A scanning electron microscope includes an electron source, a specimen stage, a specimen chamber, and an exchange chamber, and further includes a vacuum gauge that measures an internal pressure of the exchange chamber, a time counting unit that counts time taken when a measurement result by the vacuum gauge has reached a predetermined degree of vacuum, and an integral control unit that performs comparative calculation and determination based on a measurement result by the time counting unit and integral control based on a process flow. And, the integral control unit controls changing of a content of a subsequent process based on a shift of the degree of vacuum of the exchange chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Gunji, Yasushi Ebizuka, Yuta Asaga
  • Publication number: 20150060694
    Abstract: A charged particle beam device that appropriately maintains a throughput of the device for each of specimens different in a gas emission volume from each other is provided. A scanning electron microscope includes an electron source, a specimen stage, a specimen chamber, and an exchange chamber, and further includes a vacuum gauge that measures an internal pressure of the exchange chamber, a time counting unit that counts time taken when a measurement result by the vacuum gauge has reached a predetermined degree of vacuum, and an integral control unit that performs comparative calculation and determination based on a measurement result by the time counting unit and integral control based on a process flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Gunji, Yasushi Ebizuka, Yuta Asaga