Patent ID: 6891603
Filing Date: 2005-05-10
Classification: G03F

Abstract:
1. A manufacturing method for exposure apparatuses which expose a second object by an exposure beam via a first object and a projection system, comprising: a first step of assembling a first main body frame of an exposure apparatus in a first manufacturing line; a second step of assembling a second main body frame of an exposure apparatus in a second manufacturing line; a third step of installing a first adjustment stage in the first main body frame at a position where a stage which moves the first object is placed in the first manufacturing line, and assembling and adjusting an illumination system to be mounted on the first main body frame; a fourth step of assembling and adjusting a stage system which aligns the first object and the second object using the second main body frame in the second manufacturing line; and a fifth step of removing the first adjustment stage from the first main body frame in the first manufacturing line, mounting the projection system and the stage system removed from the second main body frame on the first main body frame to assemble a first exposure apparatus.