Patent ID: 7605368
Filing Date: 2009-10-20
Classification: G01Q

Abstract:
1. A vibration-type cantilever holder for fastening a cantilever opposed to a sample, the cantilever having a probe on its leading end and supported on a main body part at only a base end thereof, comprising: a cantilever-attaching stand on which the main body part of the cantilever is placed and fastened with the cantilever tilted at a predetermined angle with respect to the sample; a first vibration source fastened to the cantilever-attaching stand and that vibrates with a phase and an amplitude depending on a predetermined waveform signal; a holder main body to which the first vibration source is fastened; and a second vibration source fastened to the holder main body at at least one location which is spaced from the location at which the first vibration source is fastened to the holder main body, and that generates vibrations to balance out vibrations traveling from the first vibration source to the cantilever-attaching stand and the holder main body.