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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:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shigeyuki Uzawa, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 2/752 ; G03B 2/742 ; G03B 2/768 ; G03C 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 2/752 ; G03B 2/742 ; G03B 2/768 ; G03C 5/00 ;
Abstract
A projection exposure apparatus includes a projection optical system with a barrel, a pressure measuring device disposed inside and/or outside the barrel, and a device for estimating a change in pressure in accordance with an output of the pressure measuring device and for compensating for a change in optical performance of the projection optical system due to the change in pressure, in accordance with the estimation.