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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2004
Hiroyuki Shirota, Kyoto, JP;
Hiroyuki Shirota, Kyoto, JP;
Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A pattern writing apparatus for writing a pattern on a photosensitive material comprises a head provided with a DMD having a micromirror group which modulates reflected light, a stage holding a substrate, and mechanisms for moving the head and the stage relative to each other. In the pattern writing apparatus, for pattern writing, an irradiation region group on a substrate, which corresponds to the micromirror group of the DMD, is scanned in a main scanning direction that is angled relative to the direction of arrangement of the irradiation region group. The irradiation region group is also intermittently moved in the sub-scanning direction by a distance shorter than the width of the irradiation region group in the sub-scanning direction, for pattern writing of the entire substrate.