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Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 27, 2013
Applicant:

Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Go Ichinose, Fukaya, JP;

Taisuke Ibe, Fukaya, JP;

Assignee:

NIKON CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 27/52 (2006.01); H01L 21/683 (2006.01); H01L 21/687 (2006.01); B25J 11/00 (2006.01); G03F 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/6838 (2013.01); B25J 11/0095 (2013.01); G03F 7/70908 (2013.01); H01L 21/68742 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a carrier system, a chuck unit is used to hold a placed wafer from above, and vertical-motion pins use suction to hold the wafer from below. Then, the chuck unit and the vertical-motion pins are subsequently lowered until a bottom surface of the wafer comes into contact with a wafer table. During the lowering, the holding force exerted by the chuck unit and the arrangement of chuck members are optimally adjusted such that, as a result of the restraint of the wafer by the chuck unit and the vertical-motion pins, localized surplus-restraint is imparted to the wafer, and warping does not occur.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Ichinose, Go. (2019). Suction device, carry-in method, carrier system and exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method (U.S. Patent No. 10242903). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10242903

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