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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 09, 2016
Applicant:

Disco Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Senichi Ryo, Tokyo, JP;

Yukinobu Ohura, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Disco Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F21V 9/16 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01); G03F 7/20 (2006.01); H01L 21/66 (2006.01); C23C 16/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/64 (2013.01); C23C 16/52 (2013.01); G01N 2021/6495 (2013.01); G03F 7/70608 (2013.01); H01L 22/12 (2013.01); H01L 22/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein is a protective film detecting method of detecting the formed condition of a protective film formed on the front side of a workpiece. The protective film detecting method includes a fluorescence intensity measuring step of forming a plurality of reference protective films having different thicknesses on the front sides of a plurality of reference workpieces, next applying excitation light absorbable by an absorbing agent contained in each reference protective film to each reference protective film, and next measuring the intensity of fluorescence emitted from the absorbing agent due to the absorption of the excitation light, and a threshold deciding step of deciding a threshold of the fluorescence intensity corresponding to a desired one of the different thicknesses of the reference protective films according to the fluorescence intensity measured above.


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