Patent ID: 7346474
Filing Date: 2008-03-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of analyzing for residual fluid retainment potential in an object on which an immersion treatment is to be performed, said method comprising: generating an analysis model in which the object is represented by meshes; setting, in the analysis model, attributes of the meshes corresponding to a space which possibly becomes a cause of the residual fluid to a first substance causing the residual fluid; setting the attribute of the meshes corresponding to a boundary between the outside of the object and the space from the first substance to a second substance of which specific gravity differs from that of the first substance; assuming a processing subject is each of the meshes of which attribute is set to the first substance, changing the attribute of the mesh used as the processing subject from the first substance to the second substance according to the attribute of the meshes existing in the periphery of the mesh used as the processing subject; determining the presence or absence of possible residual fluid retainment in the object according to the presence or absence of the meshes of which attribute is set to the first substance; and conveying the presence or absence of possible residual fluid retainment.