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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1995
Yuji Chiba, Isehara, JP;
Nobutoshi Mizusawa, Yamato, JP;
Kazunori Iwamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Yutaka Tanaka, Yokohama, JP;
Shinichi Hara, Yokohama, JP;
Mitsuji Marumo, Sagamihara, JP;
Shin Matsui, Atsugi, JP;
Hiroshi Kurosawa, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A substrate holding apparatus in which first and second vacuum clamping devices each have a holding surface for holding a portion of a substrate, a first driving device for rotating the first vacuum clamping device relative to the second vacuum clamping device, and a second driving device for reciprocally moving the first vacuum clamping device between a position in which it protrudes by a predetermined amount from the holding surface of the second vacuum clamping device and a position in which it does not protrude from that holding surface. Also disclosed is a substrate holding device in which a vacuum clamping device creates a vacuum clamp force on the holding surface thereof, a cylindrical delivering member surrounds at least a portion of the holding surface and is reciprocally movable between a position in which it protrudes by a predetermined amount from the holding surface and a position in which it does not protrude from the holding surface, and a driving device for moving the delivering member.