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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 25, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356237 ; 359618 ;
Abstract
A surface state inspecting device includes an illumination system for illuminating a surface to be inspected, with a beam having non-uniform sectional intensity distribution, a uniforming system for substantially uniforming the sectional intensity distribution of the beam, and an inspecting portion for detecting scattered light from the surface to determine the state of the surface.