Transfer apparatus for compensating for a transfer error
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMinoru Yomoda, Izumi Tsukamoto
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Abstract
Disclosed is a transfer apparatus provided with a first body having a plurality of alignment marks, a second body having a plurality of alignment marks, a projection optical system for projecting the image of the first body upon the second body, a probing device for probing the alignment marks of the first body and probing the alignment marks of the second body through the projection optical system, an operation device electrically coupled to the probing device and deriving a transfer error from the alignment error of the alignment marks, and a compensation device coupled to the operation device for eliminating the transfer error and for compensating for the projection optical system.
Claims11
A transfer apparatus comprising:
- optical means for optically relating a first object having at least one first mark thereon to a second object having at least one second mark thereon;
- detecting means for detecting the relationship between the first and second marks respectively on the first and second objects and optically related by said optical means, and for producing an output signal representing the detection;
- discriminating means for discriminating at least one of a magnification error and a distortion error which occur at the time of relating the first and second objects with each other by said optical means, in accordance with the output signal produced by said detecting means, said discriminating means producing an output signal representing the discrimination;
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- compensation means, responsive to the output signal produced by said discriminating means, for compensating for at least one of said magnification error and said distortion error.
A transfer apparatus comprising:
- optical means for optically relating a first object having a plurality of first marks thereon to a second object having a plurality of second marks thereon, each of the plurality of second marks being related to one of the plurality of first marks thereby to define a plurality of sets of first and second marks;
- detecting means for detecting the relationship between each set of first and second marks related by said optical means and for producing an output signal representing the detection;
- discriminating means for discriminating at least one of a magnification error and a distortion error which occur at the time of relating the first and second objects with each other by said optical means, said discriminating means performing the discrimination as aforesaid by discriminating an amount of deviation between the first and second marks in each set in accordance with the output signal produced by said detecting means and then discriminating at least one of the amount of the magnification error and the amount of the distortion error in accordance with the amount of deviation between the first and second marks in each set, said discriminating means producing an output signal representing the discrimination;
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- compensation means, responsive to the output signal produced by said discriminating means, for compensating for at least one of the magnification error and the distortion error.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.