Patent ID: 8014895

Claim:
A temperature setting method for a heat processing plate for mounting and heat-processing a substrate thereon, the heat processing plate being divided into a plurality of regions and temperature-settable for each of the regions, said method comprising: a first step of converting a processing result of the substrate into a temperature of the substrate to be mounted on the heat processing plate in a heat processing time; and a second step of setting temperatures of the regions of the heat processing plate based on a result of the temperature conversion so that the temperature within the substrate is kept uniform during a heat processing period from the time when the substrate is mounted on the heat processing plate to the time when a predetermined heat processing time elapses in an actual heat processing time, wherein the temperatures of the regions of the heat processing plate are set so that any one or more of an accumulated temperature during a period when a temperature to cause a chemical reaction in a film on a substrate is exceeded in the heat processing period, and an accumulated reaction temperature obtained by multiplying reaction factors of a film on the substrate by the substrate temperatures in the heat processing period and accumulating resulting temperatures, is/are kept uniform within the substrate.