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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2014
Hitachi High-technologies Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiro Takahoko, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Masashi Kimura, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Sasajima, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An evacuation structure of a charged particle beam device includes: a vacuum chamber provided with a charged particle source; vacuum piping connected to the vacuum chamber; a main vacuum pump which is connected via the vacuum piping and evacuates the inside of the vacuum chamber; a non-evaporable getter pump disposed at a position between the vacuum chamber and the main vacuum pump in the vacuum piping; and a coarse evacuation port connected at a position between the vacuum chamber and the non-evaporable getter pump in the vacuum piping The coarse evacuation port includes: a coarse evacuation valve that opens and closes the coarse evacuation port; and a leak valve to open the vacuum chamber to the atmosphere.