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| 2H095 | PREPARATION OF ORIGINALS OR MASKS IN PHOTOMECHANICAL PROCESSES | |
| G03F1/00 -1/92@Z | ||
| G03F1/00-1/00@Z;1/88-1/90 | AA | AA00 USE OF ORIGINAL FOR PRODUCING PRINTING FORM |
AA01 | AA02 | AA03 | AA04 | AA05 | AA06 | AA07 | AA10 | ||
| . Printed circuit boards | . Shadow masks | . Bar code printing | . Form printing | . Textile printing | . Multicolour printing | . Endless printing | . Other specific uses * | |||||
| AB | AB00 MEANS |
AB01 | AB02 | AB03 | AB04 | AB05 | AB06 | AB07 | AB08 | |||
| . Scanners | . . Preparing input | . . Measuring magnification | . . Mounting of originals | . . Details | . . . Drums | . . . Reading | . . . Exposure | |||||
| AB11 | AB15 | |||||||||||
| . Television or video images | . Computers | |||||||||||
| AB21 | AB22 | AB23 | AB24 | AB25 | AB26 | AB27 | AB28 | AB30 | ||||
| . Photographic means | . . Clean proofs or block copies | . . Film originals | . . . Handling of film originals | . . Exposure | . . Materials | . . Electrophotography | . Printing forms | . Other specific means * | ||||
| AC | AC00 OPERATION |
AC01 | AC02 | AC03 | AC04 | AC05 | AC07 | AC08 | AC09 | |||
| . Pattern creation | . . Image synthesis or montages | . . Deformation enlargement or reduction | . . Moving rotating or positioning | . . Gradation | . Lay-out | . Trimming | . . Cutting out | |||||
| AC11 | AC13 | AC15 | ||||||||||
| . Dot processing or halftone processing | . Edge processing | . Other specific effects and processing * | ||||||||||
| AD | AD00 OTHERS * |
AD01 | AD02 | AD03 | AD04 | AD05 | AD07 | AD08 | AD09 | AD10 | ||
| . Inspecting | . . Originals | . . . Tools | . . Page arrangement | . . Inspection of printing forms | . Correcting | . . Contrast | . . Gradation | . . Tools | ||||
| AD11 | AD13 | |||||||||||
| . Proof-reading | . Marks | |||||||||||
| G03F1/00@Z-1/86 | BA | BA00 USE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTION |
BA01 | BA02 | BA03 | BA04 | BA05 | BA06 | BA07 | BA08 | BA09 | BA10 |
| . Projection exposure | . Step and repeat exposure | . Proximity exposure | . Contact exposure | . Divided exposure | . Lasers | . Ultraviolet light (UV) or deep ultraviolet light (DUV) | . Ion beams electron beams or corpuscular beams | . . Photo-electron beams | . X-rays | |||
| BA11 | BA12 | |||||||||||
| . Printed circuit boards | . For other equipment * | |||||||||||
| BB | BB00 PRODUCTION |
BB01 | BB02 | BB03 | BB05 | BB06 | BB07 | BB08 | BB09 | BB10 | ||
| . Pattern generation | . . Shape or arrangement | . . Phase shift masks | . Lithography | . . Exposure | . . . Beam exposure | . . . . Lasers | . . . . Ion beams | . . . . Electron beams | ||||
| BB11 | BB12 | BB13 | BB14 | BB15 | BB16 | BB17 | BB18 | BB19 | BB20 | |||
| . . . . X-rays | . . . Projection exposure | . . . Contact exposure | . . Developing or etching | . . . Wet | . . . Dry | . . . . Plasma chemical vapour deposition (Plasma CVD) | . . Removing resists | . . Rinsing or washing | . . . Physical washing | |||
| BB21 | BB22 | BB23 | BB25 | BB26 | BB27 | BB28 | BB29 | BB30 | ||||
| . . . . Spray washing | . . . Chemical washing | . . Drying or after-treatment | . Plating vapour deposition or chemical vapour deposition (CVD) | . Lift-off | . Other means * | . Combined processes | . Holding or handling originals or masks | . Preventing contamination or removing foreign matters | ||||
| BB31 | BB32 | BB33 | BB34 | BB35 | BB36 | BB37 | BB38 | |||||
| . Control adjustment or detection * | . . Amount of irradiation | . . Irradiation positions | . . Positioning | . . Film thickness | . . Shape of patterns | . . Thermal expansion or stress | . . Temperature | |||||
| BC | BC00 CONSTITUENT |
BC01 | BC02 | BC04 | BC05 | BC06 | BC07 | BC08 | BC09 | BC10 | ||
| . Resist films | . . Multi-layer | . Light shielding films | . . Quality of materials | . . . Photosensitivity | . . . Chalcogenides | . . Methods of film formation | . . Shape or arrangement | . . Embedding | ||||
| BC11 | BC13 | BC14 | BC16 | BC17 | BC19 | BC20 | ||||||
| . . Multi-layer | . Anti-reflection films | . . Quality of materials | . Conductive films | . . Quality of materials | . Protective films | . . Quality of materials | ||||||
| BC21 | BC22 | BC24 | BC26 | BC27 | BC28 | BC30 | ||||||
| . Adhesive films | . . Quality of materials | . Films for other specific effects * | . Support substrates | . . Quality of materials | . . Shape | . Frames reinforcing frames or support frames | ||||||
| BC31 | BC32 | BC33 | BC34 | BC35 | BC36 | BC37 | BC38 | BC39 | ||||
| . Pellicles | . . Films | . . . Quality of materials | . . . Manufacturing methods | . . . Surface treatment | . . Frames | . . . Quality of materials | . . . Structures | . . Mounting | ||||
| BD | BD00 INSPECTING OR CORRECTING |
BD01 | BD02 | BD03 | BD04 | BD05 | BD06 | BD07 | BD08 | BD09 | ||
| . Inspecting | . . Masks | . . . Pattern dimensions | . . . Pattern defects or flaws | . . . Foreign matters | . . . Overlapping precision | . . . Circuit connections or electrical design | . . Pellicles | . . Exposure optical systems | ||||
| BD11 | BD12 | BD13 | BD14 | BD15 | BD16 | BD17 | BD18 | BD19 | BD20 | |||
| . . Inspection optical systems | . . . Light sources | . . . . Lasers | . . . . Ion beams electron beams or X-rays | . . . Light-receiving elements | . . . . Industrial television (ITV) | . . . . Charge-coupled devices (CCD) or linear sensors | . . . Microscopes or visual inspection | . . . Specific arrangement | . . . Control of optical systems | |||
| BD21 | BD22 | BD23 | BD24 | BD25 | BD26 | BD27 | BD28 | BD29 | ||||
| . . Enhancing inspected portions | . . . Photographic processing or transferring | . . . . Inspecting on wafers | . . Signal processing | . . . Digital processing | . . . Extracting features | . . . Comparing or distinguishing signals | . . . . Comparing with design data | . . Handling or in-line inspection of inspected items | ||||
| BD31 | BD32 | BD33 | BD34 | BD35 | BD36 | BD37 | BD38 | BD39 | BD40 | |||
| . Correcting | . . Black defects | . . White defects | . . Lasers | . . Ion beams | . . Electron beams | . . Lift-off | . . Plating vapour deposition or chemical vapour deposition (CVD) | . . Application or coating | . . Other means * | |||
| BE | BE00 MARK OR OTHERS * |
BE01 | BE02 | BE03 | BE04 | BE05 | BE06 | BE07 | BE08 | BE09 | BE10 | |
| . Marks or symbols | . . Uses | . . . Alignment | . . . Distinction | . . . Inspecting resolution | . . . Inspecting exposure precision | . . . Production process management | . . Arrangement | . . Shape or quality of materials | . . Production | |||
| BE11 | BE12 | |||||||||||
| . Handling or transporting masks | . . Mask holders or mask cassettes |