US 2006/0190111 A1 · System and method of designing a product or a module therein based on experiences of modular designs accumulated previously

Abstract

A system of designing a product having a predetermined number of modules or a module therein based on experiences of modular designs accumulated previously by the system is disclosed, comprising a designer operating interface, a component database, a product module database, a modular imitation and arrangement module and a design adjustment module. A method of designing a product having a predetermined number of modules or a module therein based on experiences of modular designs accumulated previously is also disclosed, comprising the steps of providing specifications of the product, determining if there is an imitable module in a product module database with respect to each of the predetermined number of modules of the product, acquiring and arranging information associated with a portion of the predetemined number of modules of the product that is determined as yes as a portion of selected information or acquiring and modifying or re-designing the information associated with the other portion of the predetermined number of modules of the product that is determined as no as the other portion of the selected information, storing the modified or re-designed information and simulating by a computer the selected information. With the experiences of modular designs accumulated in the system, a design time for each of successive product design tasks are reduced since some arrangement and design jobs of components and modules may be skipped.

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Dependent claims

A system of designing a product having a first number of modules based on experiences of modular designs associated with a plurality of number of modules of products accumulated preveiously by the system implemented by a computer, comprising:

a designer operating interface;
a component database storing information associated with a plurality of components;
a product module database storing information associated with the plurality of modules of products having been designed by using of the system;
a modular imitation and arrangement module in which a desinger acquires information associated with a second number of imitation arrangement modules each identical to one of a second number of modules of the product among the first number of modules of the product respectively according to specifications of the product through the designer operating interface and imitates;
and
a modular design adjustment module in which the designer acquires information accociated with a third number of adjustment modules each similar to a third number of modules of the product among the first number of modules of the product from the product module database according to the specifications of the product through the designer operating interface and modifies the information associated with the third number of adjustment modules to form a third number of adjusted modules of the product and storing information associated with the third number of adjusted modules of the product into the product module database.

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A method of designing a product having a first number of modules implemented by a computer based on experiences of modular designs associated with all modules of products accumulated preveiously and stored in a product module database, comprising the steps of:

providing specifications of the product;
determining if there is a module imitible with each of the first number of modules;
acquiring information associated with a second number of imitation modules as determined imitible with a second number of modules of the product among the first number of modules of the product from the product module database and imitating the second number of imitible modules as a portion of selected information;
acquiring information associated with a third number of adjustment modules as determined non-imitible with a third number of modules of the product among the first number of modules of the product from the product module database and modifying the information associated with the third adjustment modules into information associated with a third adjustmented modules as the other portion of the selected information and storing the information associated with the third number of adjusted modules back to the product module database;
and
simulating by the computer the selected information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method of designing a product or a module therein based on experiences of modular designs accumulated previously

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System and method of designing a product or a module therein based on experiences of modular designs accumulated previously

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