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Title:
STAGE APPARATUS AND MICROSCOPE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2016/163064
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
A stage apparatus includes a first stage, a second stage movable in a first direction relative to the first stage, a sensor which reads a scale moving in the first direction together with the second stage and a sensor base which is formed from a material having a smaller thermal expansion coefficient than the first stage and fixes the sensor to the first stage. The sensor base is fixed to the first stage at two fixing positions located near a second axis having a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and passing through a specific position and sandwiching the specific position, and is fixed to the first stage at a fixing position located near a first axis having the first direction and passing through the specific position and the arrangement position of the sensor so as to be movable in the first direction.

Inventors:
ANDO MASAHIRO (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2016/001144
Publication Date:
October 13, 2016
Filing Date:
March 03, 2016
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Assignee:
CANON KK (JP)
International Classes:
G02B21/26
Foreign References:
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JPH11231228A1999-08-27
JP2014010354A2014-01-20
JP2010175850A2010-08-12
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
OHTSUKA, Yasunori et al. (KIOICHO PARK BLDG. 3-6, KIOICHO, CHIYODA-K, Tokyo 94, JP)
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