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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2009
Masataka Tanaka, Yokohama, JP;
Noriyasu Ninagawa, Kamakura, JP;
Yasuhiro Hamatsuka, Yokohama, JP;
Yuzo Hiroshige, Tokyo, JP;
Masataka Tanaka, Yokohama, JP;
Noriyasu Ninagawa, Kamakura, JP;
Yasuhiro Hamatsuka, Yokohama, JP;
Yuzo Hiroshige, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for supporting the selection of a component or chemical substance for countermeasure in compliance with a restriction or the like to limit a content rate or content amount of a chemical substance of a product coming in or going out from each enterprise. The method accepts the products to inspect a situation in compliance with the restriction and an evaluation subject restriction that are inputted by a user; acquires a threshold value of the chemical substance content rate for every subject substance under the restriction, composing components of the subject product, weight and a category of the components, and chemical substance content rates of the components; extracts components with no information on the chemical substance content rates out of the components; searches similar components with the same categories as those of the extracted components; acquires chemical substance content rates of the similar components; allocates statistic values, such as the maximum value or average value of the chemical substance content rates of the similar components to chemical substance content rates of the extracted components; calculates a chemical substance content rate of the product from the information on the composing components of the product, the weight of the components and the chemical substance content rates of the components or similar components; compares the chemical substance content rate of the extracted product with the threshold value; categorizes the chemical substances into the one that exceeds the threshold value and the other that does not exceed the threshold value as a comparison result; stores the categorized data at the memory device; and displays the comparison result on a display device.