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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:
Apr. 16, 2024

Filed:

Jul. 02, 2019
Applicant:

Hitachi High-tech Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Naoki Akimoto, Tokyo, JP;

Takashi Doi, Tokyo, JP;

Yuzuru Mochizuki, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/28 (2006.01); H01J 37/09 (2006.01); H01J 37/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 37/28 (2013.01); H01J 37/09 (2013.01); H01J 37/265 (2013.01); H01J 2237/057 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is provided a charged particle beam system having a computer system for controlling an acceleration voltage of a charged particle beam emitted from a charged particle source, the system including: a first diaphragm group having first and second diaphragms which are diaphragms that act on the charged particle beam and have different thicknesses; and a first diaphragm switching mechanism for switching the diaphragm in the first diaphragm group, in which the computer system controls the first diaphragm switching mechanism so as to switch from the first diaphragm to the second diaphragm according to an increase or decrease of the acceleration voltage.


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