Patents by Inventor Miwako Ando

Miwako Ando 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: 8411250
    Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes a measurement system which performs exposure control measurement using a first mark arranged on an original stage and a second mark arranged on a substrate stage, and a control unit which can set, when the measurement system performs the measurement in order to expose a substrate to light under a certain illumination condition, an illumination condition different from the certain illumination condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Miwako Ando
  • Patent number: 7602504
    Abstract: An exposure apparatus, which equipped with a projection optical system that is configured to project a pattern of an original onto a substrate, includes an interferometer configured to measure a wavefront in a first direction and a wavefront in a second direction of light passed through the projection optical system; a focus detecting unit configured to detect focus positions in the first and second directions of the projection optical system; and a calculating unit configured to calculate wavefront aberration of the projection optical system on the basis of the measurement result of the interferometer and the detection result of the focus detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Miwako Ando, Yoshinori Ohsaki
  • Publication number: 20090002665
    Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes a measurement system which performs exposure control measurement using a first mark arranged on an original stage and a second mark arranged on a substrate stage, and a control unit which can set, when the measurement system performs the measurement in order to expose a substrate to light under a certain illumination condition, an illumination condition different from the certain illumination condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Miwako Ando
  • Publication number: 20080259349
    Abstract: An exposure apparatus, which equipped with a projection optical system that is configured to project a pattern of an original onto a substrate, includes an interferometer configured to measure a wavefront in a first direction and a wavefront in a second direction of light passed through the projection optical system; a focus detecting unit configured to detect focus positions in the first and second directions of the projection optical system; and a calculating unit configured to calculate wavefront aberration of the projection optical system on the basis of the measurement result of the interferometer and the detection result of the focus detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Miwako Ando, Yoshinori Ohsaki
  • Publication number: 20060119821
    Abstract: Provided is an exposure apparatus including a projection optical system for projecting an exposure pattern onto an object to be exposed, a measurement device for measuring an optical performance of the projection optical system by guiding light to the projection optical system through a measurement pattern to detect interference fringes formed by the light emitted from the projection optical system, and an adjustment portion for adjusting a numerical aperture of the light that illuminates the measurement pattern, in which the adjustment portion adjusts the numerical aperture so that the visibility of the interference fringes V, which is defined as V=(Imax?Imin)/(Imax+Imin), is equal to or more than 0.3, where Imax represents the maximum amount of light of the interference fringes, and Imin represents the minimum amount of light of the interference fringes, when the measurement device measures an optical performance of the projection optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Miwako Ando, Yoshinori Ohsaki