US Patent Issued to PHOENIX ELECTRIC on May 13 for "Light irradiation device, and exposure apparatus provided therewith" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,627, issued on May 13, was assigned to PHOENIX ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Himeji, Japan).

"Light irradiation device, and exposure apparatus provided therewith" was invented by Tomohiko Inoue (Himeji, Japan), Kenichi Yamashita (Himeji, Japan), Hiromu Matsumoto (Himeji, Japan) and Tomihiko Ikeda (Himeji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light irradiation device for an exposure apparatus allowing implementation of photo-alignment process with a simple configuration is provided. The light irradiation device is configured using a light source with a plurality of LEDs, and a polarizing element that receives light from the light source and ap...