Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Koji Handa

Keishi Kubo

Keiichi Yoshizumi

Hiroyuki Takeuchi

Yukio Imada

Masateru Doi

Takaaki Kassai

A method for transferring a thin plate is provided, in which three or more grasping claws of a transfer arm grasp the periphery of the thin plate in order to transfer it to a predetermined transfer position, and three or more holding claws hold the periphery of the thin plate in the transfer position. The transfer arm rotates about a shaft which is in a direction of a vector sum of a first vector perpendicular to a surface of the thin plate before transfer, and a second vector perpendicular to the surface of the thin plate after the transfer, to transfer the thin plate with changing the posture thereof.

Method and apparatus for transferring a thin plate

A stylus having a curvature radius of 1 mm or less is attached to the extremity of a probe. When the profile of an object is measured with high precision by causing the stylus to follow a measurement surface of the object, a reference ball for calibration is first measured, thereby surface profiling the object. From the measurement data, a contact position where the stylus contacts with the object is determined. A positional error caused by a curvature radius of the stylus is corrected by using an angle of inclination of the measurement surface in that contact position. The amount of profile error in the contact position is extracted by using the profile error data pertaining to the stylus determined by measurement of the reference ball. The amount of profile error is added to the measurement data, thereby correcting the profile error caused by the curvature radius of the stylus.

Profilometer and method for measuring, and method for manufacturing object of surface profiling

Optical displacement gauges are respectively arranged on both sides of a thin sheet material w, and displacement of surface position of the thin sheet material w is measured by irradiating measurement light L to the surface of the thin sheet material w. Thickness variation of the thin sheet material w is obtained from the measurement results of displacement of the surface position of the thin sheet material w.

Method and apparatus for measuring thickness variation of a thin sheet material, and probe reflector used in the apparatus

A shape measuring apparatus includes an object measuring device, a holding base, a reference plane measuring device, and a length measuring unit. The holding base holds an object-to-be-measured on its surface and has a reference plane provided on its back side so that a measured surface of the object and the reference plane can be simultaneously scanned by the object measuring device and the reference plane measuring device, respectively. Therefore, the object and the reference plane can sway integrally with each other, and the accuracy of measurement of the measured surface is not influenced by any moving straightness deviation of the holding base unless any change occurs in relative positions of the reference plane and the measured surface. Therefore, the shape of the measured surface can be measured with the flatness accuracy of the reference plane.

Shape measuring apparatus and method

Substantially collimated displacement detection light is led to a first lens and condensed by the first lens to proximities to a reflecting surface of a probe. The reflected light is displaced by an atomic force acting against a surface of a sample, where the reflected light varies in reflection angle according to the displacement. The displaced light is lead to the first lens, changed in direction by a mirror, and detected by magnifying the displacement of the probe. The detection further includes steps of moving a Z direction scan block in a direction vertical to the sample surface by a Z direction driving device, the Z direction scan block having the first lens and the probe, moving an X direction scan block in a first axial direction within a plane parallel to the sample surface by an X direction driving device, the X direction scan block having the Z direction scan block, the Z direction driving device, and the mirror, and moving a Y direction scan block by a Y direction driving device in a second axial direction perpendicular to the first axial direction within a plane parallel to the sample surface, the Y direction scan block having the X direction scan block, the X direction driving device, the detection light radiation system, and the displacement detection system.

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Osaka, Japan

Koji Handa