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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2022

Filed:

May. 17, 2020
Applicant:

Tokyo Electron Limited, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Daisuke Kawano, Miyagi, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 27/26 (2006.01); G01K 13/00 (2021.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); H01J 37/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 27/2605 (2013.01); G01K 13/00 (2013.01); H01L 21/67248 (2013.01); H01J 37/32899 (2013.01); H01J 2237/24585 (2013.01); H01J 2237/334 (2013.01); H01L 21/67069 (2013.01); H01L 21/67167 (2013.01); H01L 21/67259 (2013.01);
Abstract

A measuring device is provided. The measuring device includes a base substrate, sensor electrodes, a temperature sensor, a high frequency oscillator, C/V conversion circuits for generating voltage signals corresponding to electrostatic capacitances of the sensor electrodes, an A/D converter for converting the voltage signals to digital values, a calculation unit for calculating measurement values indicating the electrostatic capacitances based on the digital values, and phase control circuits connected between the sensor electrodes and the high-frequency oscillator. Each of the conversion circuits includes an operational amplifier, and the high-frequency oscillator is connected to a non-inverting input terminal of the amplifier and is connected to an inverting input terminal thereof through a corresponding phase control circuit. The calculation unit stores parameters for setting admittances of the phase control circuits in association with temperatures and adjusts the admittances of the phase control circuits using a parameter associated with a detected temperature.


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