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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7761178 | Automated process control using an optical metrology system optimized with design goals Provided is a method of designing an optical metrology system for measuring structures on a workpiece wherein the optical metrology system is configured to meet a plurality of design goals. The design of the optical metrology system is optimized by using collected d... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7751917 | Optimisation of the design of a component A method of optimising the design of a component is provided, in which a set of principal design variants is generated, the variants having design parameters which are common to all design variants of the set and some which differ between variants. Subsets of second... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751918 | Methods for configuring tubing for interconnecting in-series multiple liquid-cooled cold plates Methods of configuring a cooling subassembly for an electronics system are provided, that is, for establishing a coolant-carrying tube layout for interconnecting multiple liquid-cooled cold plates in series-fluid communication for cooling multiple heat-generating el... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747623 | Product design support method and system A product design support method and system are disclosed in which assuming that a globally distributed commodity is disposed of as a waste product by different recycle methods in different regions or countries, the recycle cost and environmental load accrued by diff... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7734365 | Supply consumption optimization and multiple component utilization The invention disclosed here is a method for achieving simultaneous consideration of multiple independent dates associated with a single demand. The method iterates through the demands to match the demands with the supply quantities respecting demand priorities whic... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7715935 | Predetermining portioning yield A system and method for determining how food products might be portioned includes a scanner for scanning the food product and then using a computer to analyze the scanning data to develop a volume distribution of the food product. The computer operating scanning sof... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7693593 | Production planning method and production planning system Embodiments of the present invention provide a production planning method and system. Where a manufacturing apparatus is shared by a plurality of products in a production line, if a manufacturing (production) availability number is changed, a cause parameter is auto... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689308 | Method, computer-readable medium, and computer program, concerning the manufacture of dental prostheses after breakage of initial prostheses The invention relates to the examination of a dental prosthesis, wherein the dental prosthesis is examined with finite element methods. Furthermore, the invention relates to the automated manufacture of a dental prosthesis, wherein the shape of a remaining tooth are... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689309 | Method for generating an electro-hydraulic model for control design The dynamic response characteristics of an electro-hydraulic (EH) physical plant is represented by a model. The model includes a series of second order transfer functions, one for each operating point, of the EH physical plant. Command pressure, overshoot, rise time... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7684886 | Method and system for managing and validating product development A method is provided for managing and validating product development. The method may include obtaining a product specification for a product and identifying prior products that have capabilities within a defined range of the product specifications. The method may al... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7676292 | Patterns employed for module design Systems and methods are provided that facilitate construction of automation applications for utilization in an industrial automation environment. A design template component can provide a design template to yield a modular, hierarchical framework for an application.... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672745 | Manufacturing process analysis and optimization system Methods, apparatuses and systems that facilitate the design, production and/or measurement tasks associated with manufacturing and other processes. The present invention, in one implementation, provides methods, apparatuses and systems directed to facilitating the o... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7660642 | Dynamic control system for manufacturing processes Methods, apparatuses and systems that facilitate the design, production, control and/or measurement tasks associated with manufacturing and other processes. In one embodiment, the present invention provides an understanding of how the multiple characteristics of a g... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7643896 | Operation-related information display method and operation-related information display system An operation-related information display method includes storing information for identifying a printed-wiring board and information related to the printed-wiring board, identifying the printed-wiring board, obtaining information related to the printed-wiring board c... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7636607 | Phase-out product demand forecasting A system and method for generating or adjusting a demand forecast for a phased-out product is described. A demand forecast may be generated based on the historical data for the phased-out product and trends found in similar products that have been phased-out. ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7630782 | Ink-jet pocket printing An embodiment of a computer-based method to graphically specify one or more encoder lines at which one or more nozzles of a print head is to release a droplet of an organic material includes: (1) displaying on a display device a gr... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627389 | Method and apparatus for the free-form optimization of bevel and hypoid gears Method for the optimization of the surface geometry or of a variable, dependent on this, or variables, dependent on this, of bevel or hypoid gears for their production on a free-form machine which can be mapped to a free-form basic machine with at most six axes uniq... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7627390 | Method and apparatus for the free-form optimization of bevel and hypoid gears Method for the optimization of the surface geometry or of a variable, dependent on this, or variables, dependent on this, of bevel or hypoid gears for their production on a free-form machine which can be mapped to a free-form basic machine with at most six axes uniq... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7617014 | Managing and unifying structured representations of product information Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to defining, sharing, unifying, and managing multiple structured representations of product information in the context of business activities. In certain aspects a data structure is provided that enables, among o... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7617015 | Generating planning-level time and capacity requirement formulas for manufacturing processes Methods, computer program products and systems are disclosed for generating a planned time duration for a manufacturing process operation defined for planning purposes that includes an aggregation of multiple defined execution operations. Electronic information is r... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7617013 | System and method for protection system design support A method and system for examining and safely evaluating process systems, including fluid pressure systems, to aid overpressure design and/or sizing of overpressure equipment. The system includes a server subsystem, a storage subsystem, an assessment subsystem, and o... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7603191 | System and method for design of a component A design system is accessible to a designer and a plurality of manufacturers. The design system comprises a first user interface configured to receive design information for a component from the designer. The design system further comprises a second user interface c... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7599754 | Method and system for designing a power converter After specifications of a power converter are determined, circuit parameter values, a semiconductor device to be used, and an equivalent circuit of the semiconductor device are determined, and parameter values of the equivalent circuit are extracted. Semiconductor d... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7567849 | Systems and methods for designing and manufacturing engineered objects A parametric design system comprises an estimate generator, a layout drawing generator, and a design generator. The estimate generator for generating a cost estimate based on at least one of predetermined properties of the engineered object as defined by a request f... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7565215 | System and method for protection system design support A method and system for examining and safely evaluating process systems, including fluid pressure systems, to aid overpressure design and/or sizing of overpressure equipment. The system includes a server subsystem, a storage subsystem, an assessment subsystem, and o... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7558638 | Applying real-time control to a production system Methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling production systems. Methods include monitoring actual performance of a production system that includes a plurality of machines. The actual performance of the production system is compared to a planned l... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7555355 | Modeling production processes using reusable defined manufacturing segments A manufacturing production and process electronic data model and method of defining the model are provided, in which the model defines the manufacturing of a defined end output product. The electronic data model includes, firstly, a top-level database object that id... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7551975 | Consistency checking and repair of manufacturing operation groupings to be aggregated for use in planning Generating data used in planning the execution of a manufacturing process includes consistency checks that are performed on proposed groupings of manufacturing operations to make sure that the groupings are defined in a way that enables the information to be aggrega... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7546175 | Method for designing mold, mold and molded product A mold with which a molded product in a desired shape with an aspherical curved surface is molded can be designed with high precision by correcting shape deformation of the molded product molded from the mold. A mold 10 in which use surfaces 16 ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7526353 | Sequence design support system A sequence design support system is used to support a design of a sequence control program which controls a flow path condition of a fluid in an apparatus and piping system which is constructed connecting apparatus such as a valve with piping and comprises a valve p... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7512454 | Display unit with processor and communication controller A method and apparatus for scheduling appointments in a manufacturing process flow are disclosed. The method and apparatus include a number of aspects including appointments in which processing windows float within commitment windows; appointments in which the proce... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509183 | Integrated global layout and local microstructure topology optimization approach for spinal cage design and fabrication A method of designing an interbody fusion cage is disclosed. The method uses topology optimization algorithms to define the structural layout and the inner microstructures of the cage. After the structural layout is defined, a density distribution process is perform... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7509184 | Tape-out form generation methods and systems Computer-implemented tape-out form generation methods and systems. A database, comprising tape-out types, and corresponding questions and answers, is provided. The questions and the answers are generated according to historical or/and new-technological manufacturing... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7483760 | Mechanism for execution of global flow changes in a manufacturing system In one embodiment, a method for upfront specification of lot process parameters to enable automated processing is disclosed. The method comprises building a hierarchical representation of a process plan for a manufacturing object using data structures to represent o... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7471989 | Identification of engineering intent requirements in an electronic environment Methods for defining engineering requirements in an electronic environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes providing at least one of a set of master requirements and a set of version requirements to be applied to the electronic product definition... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7457678 | Method for managing ergonomic risk exposure in manufacturing A system and method of planning an operational task of a workplace collects data related to at least one task. An ergonomic risk score of each task is generated. A determination is made if the ergonomic risk score is acceptable. An option is provided to a user to pr... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7447555 | Method for engineering a control system The present method is a method to automate the repeatable process of application engineering microprocessor based control systems and creating the related documentation to submit for engineer approval and construct the control system. Prior to this method engineerin... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444199 | Method for preparing mask and wafer data files A method for converting a data file into a writer file for a mask writer is provided. A plurality of sub-files is created from the data file. The plurality of sub-files is transferred to the mask writer. A plurality of writer files is created from the plurality of s... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444195 | System and method for morphable model design space definition A method, system, and apparatus for preparing geometric models for use in a design tool are disclosed. The method comprises generating a first base shape model, separating the first base model into components, and characterizing the components. Further, the method p... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433747 | Method for generating process chains A method for generating process chains for product manufacturing is provided. Accordance to this method, all available data pertaining to the component to be manufactured is collected and the component to be manufactured is subdivided into component elements which c... | 10/07/2008 |
