Method and apparatus for designing molds
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsAkira Oshitani, Hatsuko Kouroku, Takahisa Yamada, Tadashi Shimizu, Chiharu Kamiya, Yutaka Takamatsu
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Abstract
A design apparatus for efficiently designing a mold that has improved quality. The mold is manufactured by removing cutting area from a mold material. The apparatus includes a database for storing geometry data, which represents a shape of the mold, and a further database for storing process data, which represents the shape of the cutting area, in association with the geometry data.
Claims11
A method for designing a mold that is manufactured by machining a mold material, the method comprising the steps of:
- storing first geometry information of the mold in association with second geometry information of a cutting area, which is removed from the mold, in a database;
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- designing the mold with the first geometry information and the second geometry information.
An apparatus for designing a mold that is manufactured by machining a mold material, the apparatus comprising:
- a database for storing first information representing a geometry of the mold in association with second information representing a geometry of a cutting area, which is removed from the mold, in a database;
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- a computer-aided design (CAD) system for generating design data of the mold from the first information and the second information;
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- a computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) system for managing manufacturing of the mold in accordance with the first geometry information, the second geometry information, and the design data.
A method for designing a mold unit comprising:
- storing in a part database first geometry information of mold parts that are manufactured by removing cutting areas from mold materials;
- storing in a mold structure information database second geometry information of the cutting areas in association with the first information;
- retrieving the first geometry information and the second geometry information that is related with at least one of the mold parts from the part database and the mold structure information database to form a mold unit with the at least one of the mold parts;
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- generating design data for manufacturing the at least one mold part from the retrieved first and second geometry information.
An apparatus for designing a mold unit, the apparatus comprising:
- a part database for storing first geometry information of mold parts that are manufactured by removing cutting areas from mold materials;
- a mold structure information database storing second geometry information of the cutting areas in association with the first geometry information;
- a computer-aided design (CAD) system for retrieving the first geometry information and the second geometry information that is related with at least one of the mold parts from the part database and the mold structure information database to form a mold unit with the at least one of the mold parts and for generating design data of the at least one mold part from the retrieved first and second geometry information;
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- a computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) system for managing manufacturing of the mold unit in accordance with the first geometry information, the second geometry information, and the design data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.