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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:
Aug. 06, 1996

Filed:

Jul. 17, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:

Toshiki Shinoda, Tokyo, JP;

Tetsuo Takezawa, Tokyo, JP;

Shigeru Noguchi, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430 22 ; 430-5 ; 356401 ; 437924 ;
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for exposing a pattern plate having an alignment pattern, controlling the positional relationship between the alignment pattern and the device pattern with high accuracy. When exposing a device pattern B such as reticle pattern, shadow mask pattern, etc. and alignment patterns A1, A2 and A3, the alignment patterns A1, A2 and A3 are exposed at least once before exposing the device pattern B, and the alignment patterns A1, A2 and A3 are overlap-exposed again after the device pattern has been exposed. Thus, it is possible to almost perfectly correct relative positional deviation between the alignment patterns, which change depending upon the exposure time during exposure of the device pattern, and the device pattern, and to reduce the degradation of the positional accuracy of exposure, which changes according to pattern size.


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