Patent Document ID: 20140120509
Application ID: 14127420
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A swallowing simulation apparatus, comprising; an oral cavity modeling unit configured to form an oral cavity model formed of oral-cavity organs; an organ property setting unit configured to set an organ property of each of the oral-cavity organs in the oral cavity model; an organ movement setting unit configured to set a movement of each of the oral-cavity organs in the oral cavity model; a food product physical property setting unit configured to set a food product, a medicinal product, or a nonmedicinal product (hereinafter referred to as a food product or similar product) as an analysis target, and a physical property of the food product or similar product; an input unit configured to input a pseudo-food product to the oral cavity, the pseudo-food product being formed by modeling the food product or similar product; a movement analysis unit configured to analyze a movement of each of the oral-cavity organs and a behavior of the pseudo-food product while being swallowed in the oral-cavity model using a particle method; and a display unit configured to display an analysis result of the movement of each of the oral oral-cavity and the behavior of the pseudo-food product while being swallowed on a moving screen, the analysis result being analyzed by the movement analysis unit.