Did You Know...
...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5260866 | Expert configurator A multi-level system generates multiple custom work orders for the manufacture of an end item and lower-level configurable items comprising the end item. The system includes an order entry configuration for obtaining option values that define specificatio... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5225987 | System for implementing a PC computer configuration system for assembling and mounting of a complex product in situ A generic tool is provided by storing into a PC computer data representing structurally a vertical section and objects to be placed inside the vertical section, and by manipulating virtually with the PC computer selected objects in relation to cases withi... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5170554 | High mix printed circuit assembly technique A technique for efficient use of component placement apparatus used for assembling many different printed circuit boards, wherein all of the printed circuit boards are collectively comprised of more parts than can be handled by a single setup. A portion o... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5130932 | Generating device for production system simulator In a generating device for a production system simulator according to the present invention, interactive parameter input using graphic symbols is made possible by a production system model input section, and also the automatic creation of the production s... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5109337 | Conceptual design tool A conceptual design tool uses a sketch sheet approach on a computer display to enter the functional design of a product, thereby encouraging the designer to use a top down approach to the design process. The user keys in part descriptions, and the system ... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5101352 | Material requirements planning system An integrated MRP system for distributors, manufacture and job shops is provided. The MRP system of the present invention is specifically directed to an user which manufactures and sells products that have a wide variety of options. In particular, the MRP... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5058027 | Hydraulic torque converter A method for forming a torque converter flow path defined by an impeller, a turbine and a stator comprising initiating a meanline design path having an outer radius R1 and an inner radius R2 connected by a tangent line, wherein the outer radius is initial... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5006990 | Method and apparatus for the design and construction of composite parts An improved system and method are designed to take engineering composite drawings released in a computer-aided design (CAD) data set, determine the attributes of each of a plurality of plies into its composite drawing, and pass the information on to using... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4998206 | Automated method and apparatus for fabricating sheet metal parts and the like using multiple manufacturing stations A method and apparatus for fabricating sheet metal parts using workpiece manipulators to transfer a workpiece from one work station to another and position the workpiece for each operation to be performed. The invention eliminates the need of individual o... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4961148 | Method for preparing automotive assembly operations documents A method for preparing documents that enable execution of automotive assembly operations at a central production engineering location and electronically transmitting the documents to a remote user location is provided. The method involves the use of data ... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4945488 | Integrated aircraft manufacturing system A method of manufacturing aircraft includes constructing a definition of the aircraft in a computer memory and then defining in the memory a first tool for forming a component part of the aircraft and a second tool for assembling a component part made wit... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4875162 | Automated interfacing of design/engineering software with project management software A method for the automatic interfacing of a conceptual design tool with a project management tool is disclosed. The conceptual design tool provides for the early manufacturing involvement information needed to aid and improve the total design and manufact... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4845634 | Product information network system A manufacturing data creation and distribution system comprises a computer with a graphics-capable display screen. The computer is capable of processing programmable instructions and creating data, and of generating graphic images on the display screen. A... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4839803 | Planning support method and system With the aim of designing efficiently and quickly such plans as production plans having a variety of requirements involved and requiring frequent modification of software, a planning logic prepared without regard to the preparation sequence of a plan is c... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4700318 | Project construction with depiction means and methods Construction of projects such as buildings, bridges, dams, industrial plants, means of transport, or the like with the aid of means and methods for incremental depiction of such buildings, etc. Complex structural features of the construction project are d... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4615011 | Iterative method for establishing connections and resulting product A method for establishing connections by automatically routing a plurality of paths between individual components using initially simple connection path shapes. The method is used to create an interconnection package with better use of wiring space. Each ... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4604718 | Computer simulation system A computer system for simulating a user-specified automated manufacturing and/or materials handling facility. The system includes a CPU interconnected to an operator terminal through which information is entered by a designer who specifies various compute... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4527402 | Program-controlled knitting machine, method and products thereof A program-controlled knitting machine provides a method of knitting circular knit elasticized tubular goods, e.g., compressive stockings, in which the size of the goods and the amount of compression asserted when worn are controlled according to the speci... | 07/09/1985 |
