Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Irie
Nobuyuki Irie 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).
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Patent number: 7531923Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a coreless linear motor which can suppress the increase in the temperature of an armature winding.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2003Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Toru Shikayama, Nobuyuki Irie
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Publication number: 20060175907Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a coreless linear motor which can suppress the increase in the temperature of an armature winding.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2003Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventors: Toru Shikayama, Nobuyuki Irie
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Patent number: 7034922Abstract: Fine patterns with the targeted line widths are formed with a high accuracy by correcting any change in image of a light-attenuating part of a density filter on a substrate arising along with a change in illumination conditions on a reticle by adjusting an amount of defocus of the density filter with respect to a reticle conjugate plane.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2004Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Nobuyuki Irie
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Patent number: 7001674Abstract: An exposure method for preventing accumulation of process error for substrates processed by an apparatus designed for multiprocessing and producing high quality semiconductor chips. A semiconductor integrated circuit production line polishes wafers of individual lots at a first processing system and second processing system of a CMP system two at a time. Wafer processing information indicating at which processing system of the first processing system and second processing system each wafer has been processed is transmitted through a communication line to a later processing apparatus including an exposure apparatus. The wafers of a lot loaded in the exposure apparatus are allocated to a plurality of processing systems of the exposure apparatus so that wafers processed by the same processing system are processed by the same processing system among the two processing systems of the exposure apparatus and are exposed at those processing systems.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2003Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Nobuyuki Irie
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Publication number: 20050062949Abstract: Fine patterns with the targeted line widths are formed with a high accuracy by correcting any change in image of a light-attenuating part of a density filter on a substrate arising along with a change in illumination conditions on a reticle by adjusting an amount of defocus of the density filter with respect to a reticle conjugate plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2004Publication date: March 24, 2005Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Nobuyuki Irie
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Patent number: 6842225Abstract: A stitching type exposure apparatus for successively exposing an image of a pattern of a reticle (Ri) on different areas of a surface of a substrate (4) while overlaying parts of the same, wherein a density filter (Fj) having a light attenuating part for reducing the amount of light of overlaid parts of the image of the pattern in a sloping manner is provided in the vicinity of the reticle (Ri), the density filter (Fj) is held at a filter stage (FS) for adjusting the posture, the posture of the density filter (Fj) is detected by an illumination uniformity sensor (126) on the substrate stage (6), and the posture of the density filter (Fj) is matched with the posture of the reticle (Ri) by the filter stage (FS).Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2000Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Nobuyuki Irie
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Patent number: 6800968Abstract: A linear motor excellent in insulation between armature coils, easy to assemble, very small in thrust ripple, comprising a secondary side supporter attached with a secondary side consisting of a plurality of magnetic field poles, and an armature element supporter facing the secondary side via a clearance and provided with an armature element (4) having a plurality of concentrate-wound armature coils (6), the secondary side and the armature element (4) being disposed facing each other and in parallel in the advancing direction, wherein field poles in the secondary side are disposed in the advancing direction of a mover with adjacent poles being unlike every Pm pitches, and a plurality of armature coils (6) are disposed in an array in the advancing direction of the mover every Pc pitches, the coil pitch Pc=5/3×Pm.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2003Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Toru Shikayama, Nobuyuki Irie, Yasuhiro Miyamoto
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Patent number: 6731029Abstract: A canned linear motor such that increase of the temperature of the mover is suppressed, the viscous damping force is reduced, and the strength of the can does not deteriorate. A canned linear motor comprises two parts, in one of which a permanent magnet is provided as a field system and in the other of which a three-phase armature winding, a winding fixing frame for supporting the armature winding, a coolant passage through which a coolant for cooling the surface of the armature winding passes, a can (14) covering the armature winding and the coolant passage, and a header (14′) for sealing the can. Slits (151, 152) extending in the direction of travel and parallel to each other are formed in the can (14).Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2002Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Toru Shikayama, Shusaku Yoshida, Nobuyuki Irie, JianPing Yu
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Publication number: 20040070740Abstract: A pattern enlarged from a transfer pattern is divided into patterns (Pi) of a plurality of master reticles (Ri). Images of the patterns (Pi) of the plurality of master reticles (Ri) reduced by a projection optical system are successively projected and exposed on the surface of a blank (mask substrate) while stitching. Marks (M1, M2) indicating identification information for identifying a master reticle from another master reticle, transfer positions, etc. are formed on the master reticles (Ri). These marks (M1, M2) are detected before the exposure and exposure is performed in accordance with the information on the transfer position etc. shown by the marks (M1, M2) or reticle information (exposure conditions, various correction values, etc.) relating to the master reticles stored and held in advance corresponding to the identification information. The number of work steps when producing a working reticle using the plurality of master reticles is reduced and occurrence of work errors can be prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Nobuyuki Irie
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Patent number: 6710847Abstract: A pattern enlarged from a transfer pattern is divided into patterns (Pi) of a plurality of master reticles (Ri). Images of the patterns (Pi) of the plurality of master reticles (Ri) reduced by a projection optical system are successively-projected and exposed on the surface of a blank (mask substrate) while stitching. Marks (M1, M2) indicating identification information for identifying a master reticle from another master reticle, transfer positions, etc. are formed on the master reticles (Ri). These marks (M1, M2) are detected before the exposure and exposure is performed in accordance with the information on the transfer position etc. shown by the marks (M1, M2) or reticle information (exposure conditions, various correction values, etc.) relating to the master reticles stored and held in advance corresponding to the identification information. The number of work steps when producing a working reticle using the plurality of master reticles is reduced and occurrence of work errors can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2001Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Nobuyuki Irie
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Publication number: 20030211410Abstract: An exposure method for preventing accumulation of process error for substrates processed by an apparatus designed for multiprocessing and producing high quality semiconductor chips. A semiconductor integrated circuit production line polishes wafers of individual lots at a first processing system and second processing system of a CMP system two at a time. Wafer processing information indicating at which processing system of the first processing system of second processing system each wafer has been processed is transmitted through a communication line to a later processing apparatus including an exposure apparatus. The wafers of a lot loaded in the exposure apparatus are allocated to a plurality of processing systems of the exposure apparatus so that wafers processed by the same processing system are processed by the same processing system among the two processing systems of the exposure apparatus and are exposed at those processing systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2003Publication date: November 13, 2003Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Nobuyuki Irie
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Patent number: 6607863Abstract: A method of exposure while gradually reducing the exposure at peripheral parts when transferring patterns to a plurality of areas on a substrate where the peripheral parts are partially superposed, including exposing one shot area of the substrate through a density filter set so that the energy at the peripheral parts becomes a predetermined first distribution, measuring the distribution of exposure at portions corresponding to the peripheral parts on the substrate, determining a second distribution where the exposure at the peripheral parts becomes a target value based on the measured distribution of exposure, and exposes the shot areas adjoining the one shot area through a density filter set to give the second distribution.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2001Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Nobuyuki Irie
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Patent number: 6606145Abstract: An exposure apparatus exposes, for example, a substrate for production of a working reticle through a master reticle on which a pattern is formed. The apparatus is provided with three support members for supporting the substrate substantially horizontally at three locations outside illuminated areas of the substrate, e.g., a pattern area, alignment mark areas, and information mark areas.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2001Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Irie, Katsuaki Ishimaru
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Publication number: 20030138742Abstract: An exposure method which irradiates a slit-shaped illumination light IL on a reticle Ri and a substrate while moving them synchronously so as to sequentially transfer images of patterns formed on the reticle Ri to the substrate 4, wherein a density filter Fj having an attenuating part for gradually reducing the distribution of illuminance of the illumination light IL is moved in synchronization with the movement of the reticle Ri.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki Irie, Nobutaka Magome
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Publication number: 20030020340Abstract: A canned linear motor such that increase of the temperature of the mover is suppressed, the viscous damping force is reduced, and the strength of the can does not deteriorate. A canned linear motor comprises two parts, in one of which a permanent magnet is provided as a field system and in the other of which a three-phase armature winding, a winding fixing frame for supporting the armature winding, a coolant passage through which a coolant for cooling the surfaced of the armature winding passes, a can (14) covering the armature winding and the coolant passage, and a header (14′) for sealing the can. Slits (151, 152) extending in the direction of travel and parallel to each other are formed in the can (14).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2002Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventors: Toru Shikayama, Shusaku Yoshida, Nobuyuki Irie, JianPing Yu
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Patent number: 6337162Abstract: A method of exposure projecting and exposing a pattern formed on a mask on to a photosensitive substrate through a projection optical system, comprising the steps of measuring a position of an image projected by said projection optical system; and projecting and exposing said pattern of the mask in a state with imaging characteristics corrected to reduce an amount of offset of a position of said projected image from an ideal position.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2000Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Nobuyuki Irie
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Publication number: 20010055733Abstract: An exposure method which irradiates a slit-shaped illumination light IL on a reticle Ri and a substrate while moving them synchronously so as to sequentially transfer images of patterns formed on the reticle Ri to the substrate 4, wherein a density filter Fj having an attenuating part for gradually reducing the distribution of illuminance of the illumination light IL is moved in synchronization with the movement of the reticle Ri.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2001Publication date: December 27, 2001Applicant: Nikon CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Irie, Nobutaka Magome
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Publication number: 20010019401Abstract: An exposure apparatus for exposing for example a substrate for production of a working reticle through a master reticle on which a pattern is formed, provided with three support members for supporting the substrate substantially horizontally at three locations outside illuminated areas of the substrate (pattern area, alignment mark areas, and information mark areas).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2001Publication date: September 6, 2001Inventors: Nobuyuki Irie, Katsuaki Ishimaru
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Publication number: 20010018153Abstract: A method of exposure while gradually reducing the exposure at peripheral parts when transferring patterns to a plurality of areas on a substrate where the peripheral parts are partially superposed, including exposing one shot area of the substrate through a density filter set so that the energy at the peripheral parts becomes a predetermined first distribution, measuring the distribution of exposure at portions corresponding to the peripheral parts on the substrate, determining a second distribution where the exposure at the peripheral parts becomes a target value based on the measured distribution of exposure, and exposes the shot areas adjoining the one shot area through a density filter set to give the second distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2001Publication date: August 30, 2001Inventor: Nobuyuki Irie
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Patent number: 6262491Abstract: The control system of the present invention is provided for a hybrid vehicle with an engine, a motor, and a power storage unit. The control system selects one of an air intake passage pressure assist mode (PB assist mode) corresponding to a partial load range of the engine and a throttle assist mode corresponding to the opening state of a throttle.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1999Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichi Kitajima, Atsushi Izumiura, Keisuke Uchida, Katsuhiro Kumagai, Asao Ukai, Hironao Fukuchi, Kazutomo Sawamura, Hideyuki Oki, Kenji Nakano, Fumihiko Konno, Takashi Kiyomiya, Nobuyuki Irie