Photocopying – Projection printing and copying cameras – Illumination systems or details
Reexamination Certificate
2006-07-07
2010-12-14
Nguyen, Hung Henry (Department: 2882)
Photocopying
Projection printing and copying cameras
Illumination systems or details
C362S304000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07852460
ABSTRACT:
A lithographic projection apparatus includes a reflector assembly, the reflector assembly includes a first and a second reflector extending in a direction of an optical axis, the first and second reflector each having a reflective surface, a backing surface and an entry section at respectively a first and a second distance from the optical axis, the first distance being larger than the second distance, rays deriving from a point on the optical axis being cut off by the entry sections of the first and second reflectors and being reflected on the reflective surface of the first reflector and defining a high radiation intensity zone and a low radiation intensity zone between the reflectors; a radial support member configured to support the reflectors extending in the low radiation intensity zone, wherein the radial support member creates a shade in a downstream direction of the optical axis and a virtual shade in an upstream direction of the optical axis; and a structure placed in the virtual shade.
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Bakker Levinus Pieter
Jonkers Jeroen
Schuurmans Frank Jeroen Pieter
Visser Hugo Matthieu
ASML Netherlands B.V.
Nguyen Hung Henry
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw & Pittman LLP
Whitesell-Gordon Steven H
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