System and method for fabrication of promotional vehicle components
AssigneeCord Group LLC
InventorRobert Crandall
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Abstract
Systems and methods for producing vehicle components or components for use with vehicles or in other non-vehicle applications allow an end user to select and produce at a local job site, or optionally elsewhere as desired. The system and method can allow a manufacturer or designer to send a design for a component to a consumer for the consumer to produce. The consumer can then use one of a variety of methods, such as three dimensional printing or machining, to produce the component. The consumer can produce a component from a stock data file or can customize the component before production.
Claims26
A method for production of vehicle components directed by a consumer interacting with a computer, comprising:
- retrieving a listing of vehicle components from a vehicle component database, components on the listing of vehicle components are attachable to a produced good on a vehicle;
- displaying a subset of the listing of vehicle components to the consumer based on a time period defined by a manufacturer associated with the vehicle components or a consumer subscription for purchasing promotional vehicle components during a pre-defined time period;
- selecting a promotional vehicle component for coupling to the produced good from the vehicle component database based on a selection input from the consumer from the subset of the listing of vehicle components;
- following receipt of the selection input from the consumer, the computer generating an output data file from data for the promotional vehicle component from the vehicle component database, the output data file being configured to be readable by a production machine and to instruct the production machine to produce the promotional vehicle component;
- transmitting the output data file to the production machine;
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- causing the production machine to produce the promotional vehicle component based on the output data file;
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- wherein the promotional vehicle component produced by the production machine is attachable to the produced good for the vehicle.
A system for production of vehicle components for a produced good linked to a vehicle comprising:
- a production machine;
- a processor;
- a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a program code executable by the processor, the program code configured to:
- retrieve a list of vehicle components for coupling to an assembly comprising the produced good from a vehicle component database;
- display a subset of the list of vehicle components to the consumer based on a time period defined by a manufacturer associated with the vehicle components and a consumer subscription for purchasing promotional vehicle components;
- receive a selection input from the subset of the list of vehicle components from a user;
- select a promotional vehicle component from the vehicle component database based on the selection input;
- generate an output data file from data for the promotional vehicle component selected from the vehicle component database;
- the output data file configured to be readable by the production machine and to instruct the production machine to produce the promotional vehicle component for coupling to the assembly of the produced good;
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- transmit the output data file to the production machine to instruct the production machine to produce the promotional vehicle component for coupling to the assembly of the produced good.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.