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...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 |
| 7398129 | Representation of sheet metal part models Data for a 3D sheet metal part model is stored in a file. The stored data includes features of the part and manufacturing information. When different manufacturing processes are used, different geometry can be created. The file can store multiple processes for manuf... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7369976 | Method of designing tire, optimization analyzer and storage medium on which optimization analysis program is recorded A design of a tire can be facilitated. An optimization apparatus 30 inputs known design parameters of the shape, structure, and pattern of a tire, and performances thereof by an experimental data input unit 40 and learns, as a conversion system of a ne... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7333868 | Systems and methods for designing and manufacturing engineered objects A system for manufacturing an engineered object comprising an estimate generator, layout drawing generator, and design generator. The estimate generator generates a cost estimate based on a request for proposal defining the engineered object. The layout drawing gene... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7197486 | Optimization method with constraints and apparatus therefor In a method for determining a minimum value of an optimization function under constraints given by equations, a set of points which satisfy the constraints is regarded as a Riemannian manifold within a finite-dimensional real-vector space, the Riemannian manifold is... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194324 | Method and configurator for creating a plant concept from a number of plant components An electronic data processing (EDP)-based method and configurator are for creating a plant concept from a number of plant components. A desired specification of a technical plant is recorded using specification data. Then, from a stored supply of plant component typ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7180411 | Methods and apparatus for generating a data structure indicative of an alarm system circuit A user of a computer aided design (CAD) system graphically places fire alarm appliances, such as smoke detectors and sirens, in a drawing area. After elements are placed and physical paths are determined, a series of electrical circuit connections between alarm sour... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7099738 | CAM system and program, and method for controlling CAM system A Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) system enables high efficiency and high quality. The CAM system of this invention includes a unit that uses a computer aided design (CAD) model that is solid model data of a metal mold to be made and a measured work geometric mod... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7068282 | Coloration indicative of draft angles An object may be colored to indicate draft angles of a pull direction at various locations of the object. The coloration advantageously employs a color map specifying a color spectrum for a range of trigonometric values of the draft angles. ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7013247 | Method of designing forms of cable clamp and cables using three-dimensional CAD system, and computer readable storage medium storing relevant processes A method of designing the form of a cable clamp and cables using a three-dimensional CAD system for easily designing the form of the cables passing through the cable clamp is disclosed. According to the method, the cable clamp is checked by comparing the area necess... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7013028 | Advanced schematic editor An editor in a computer system for editing an schematic having a number of pages. The editor may cut a selected portion of the schematic from any one of the schematic pages, paste the cut portion of the schematic onto any one of the schematic pages, and connect nets... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6992575 | Methods and apparatus for generating a data structure indicative of an alarm system circuit A user of a computer aided design (CAD) system graphically places fire alarm appliances, such as smoke detectors and sirens, in a drawing area. After elements are placed and physical paths are determined, a series of electrical circuit connections between alarm sour... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6985835 | Method and apparatus for edge correlation between design objects Computer implemented techniques for edge correlation between design objects in computer-aided design systems are provided. According to one embodiment, a source edge is exported from a source CAD system into a data representation in a global scene. The global scene ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6968075 | System and method for three-dimensional shape and size measurement A method for three-dimensional shape and size measurement of a three-dimensional body surface comprising providing a three-dimensional scanner, providing a processor, providing a three-dimensional Computer Aided Design system, scanning in three dimensions with the t... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6850813 | Method of producing a wobble die The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a wobble die (9) for shaping the internal contour or the external contour of a workpiece (4) in a wobble process. Thereby a wobble movement is initially selected. The three-dimensional geometry of the ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6751735 | Apparatus for control of cryptography implementations in third party applications An apparatus and method provide a controlled, dynamically loaded, modular, cryptographic implementation for integration of flexible policy implementations on policy engines, and the like, into a base executable having at least one slot. The base executable may rely ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6728581 | Differential budding: method and apparatus for path planning with moving obstacles and goals A method is presented for path planning after changes in task space. In one embodiment, the method is applied to planning a path for a robot arm. The method identifies areas in the configuration space which are affected by the changes in task space. Cost waves can t... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6721614 | Multi-discipline universal CAD library The present invention relates to a system for facilitating design and production engineering processes in a multi-disciplinary computer aided design environment. The system includes first enterprise including a workstation running a CAD application relating to a fir... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6604005 | Method and apparatus for path planning A method and apparatus for path planning are presented. Path planning involves propagating cost waves in a configuration space representation of a task space. A space variant metric and budding are used for cost wave propagation. The disclosed method and ... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6587741 | Method and system for designing a spline coupling A method and a system for designing a spline coupling, comprising the steps of creating signals representing a spline coupling knowledge base of information having a plurality of rule signals with respect to a corresponding plurality of parameter signals ... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6546350 | Configuration and parameterization system for diagnostic devices and associated method The invention is directed to a system and a method for the configuration and/or parameterization of diagnostic devices for test objects. The system includes a first data object having a collection of technological test object parameters of the test object... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6536935 | Computerized system for market-based constraint optimization An apparatus for determining assignments to attributes (e.g., electrical power or overall dimensional size) of components within a system. A computerized constraint network is constructed which uses constraint agents, variable agents, and task agents in o... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6532586 | Software producing method, processor, processing method and recording medium Firstly, definitive identifiers are determined, which are the screen needed for the software to be produced. Next, words existing in the definitive identifier are sorted out, as well as the homogeneity map is created where all pallets needed for the softw... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6449587 | Process for the automatic machine production of engineering data A process, in which the original master diagram, which is used as the generic representation of the variation spectrum of the product and in which at least one symbol corresponds to every possible component of the product, is stored in the coded form in t... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6424959 | Method and apparatus for automatic synthesis, placement and routing of complex structures The present invention consists of a method and apparatus for the automatic creation of the topology, component sizing, placement, and routing of complex structures, such as electronic circuits or mechanical systems, to satisfy prespecified high-level desi... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6385494 | System and method for producing production control software A method and system for producing production control software for a plurality of electronic control modules, is provided. The electronic control modules are located on production machines. Each production machine includes a subset of the electronic contro... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6292707 | Integrated design and manufacturing system The present invention provides an integrated design and manufacturing system (100). The system (100) includes a specification step (102), a sequence of events step (104), a model step (106), a graphics step (108), a method sheets step (110), a configurati... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6269473 | Method and apparatus for the development of dynamically configurable software systems A software modeling environment is presented that supports the development and execution of software that can be dynamically configured. This is achieved by introducing a design-time object modeling construct called a dynamically configurable type (DCT) t... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6243611 | Apparatus and methods for integrating intelligent manufacturing system with expert sheet metal planning and bending system An apparatus and method are provided for integrating an intelligent manufacturing system with an expert sheet metal planning and bending system. The intelligent manufacturing system manages and distributes part design and manufacturing information through... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6232982 | Enhanced chronological feature browser for computer aided design An enhanced chronological feature browser for computer aided design indicates dependencies among features of an object, including identifying a feature of the object for which a logical dependency is to be displayed and augmenting a chronological feature ... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6223092 | Automatic manufacturing evaluation method and system A designed object workability evaluating system for evaluating quantitatively at a stage of designing an article whether a structure of the article as designed can be realized with work easy to do in a manufacturing stage for thereby selectively determini... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6219049 | Mate inferencing A dynamic mate inferencing system permits display and manipulation of a computer model, including features of allowing a user to select a feature of the model, determining a characteristic geometry of the feature, dynamically previewing the mating of the ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6148265 | Valence correct molecular structures using cellular encoding A method for developing a valence correct molecular structure using cellular encoding in which a set of basic types are determined for a set of basic components of the valence correct molecular structure. Each of a set of development operators for develop... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6138268 | Software production method, processing apparatus and recording medium First, a defining member identifier constituting a screen required for software to be produced is determined. The words contained in the defining member identifier are then taken out, and a processing path diagram in which all pallets required for the sof... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6063126 | Modeling system having constraint solvers A model of a physical object is constructed in a modeling system running on a computer system. The model includes model objects and constraints. The constraints on the model describe the relationship between the model objects. The modeling system construc... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6063128 | Object-oriented computerized modeling system A computer system for modeling is disclosed, where the computer system has a storage device, first and second platforms, a portable persistent model, and first and second platform-dependent computerized modeling systems (CMS). Each platform is interfaced ... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5970431 | Iconized DMIS An icon based DMIS program allows for simplified and enhanced use in a coordinate measurement machine environment. Each listed icon is associated with an underlying DMIS code. Double clicking on a DMIS icon will open a window which shows the underlying DM... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5966310 | Personal design system and personal equipment production system for actually producing equipment having designed appearance A personal design system according to the present invention designs the appearance of an equipment suiting the sensibility and the physical features of a user by establishing data communication between a user terminal comprising a user information inputti... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5943245 | Motor application and selection method and apparatus Variable speed AC motors are selected in accordance with user defined characteristics. A reference database containing information on a selected variety of frame/modules is modified in accordance with selected input data. The complexity of selecting an ap... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5923573 | Three-dimensional CAD system for producing a three-dimensional model Kit models stored in the storage are displayed on a display by the display unit. The kit model being displayed has geometric shape data such as points, curved lines and curved surfaces as well as correlation data which indicates correlation of the geometr... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5856925 | Method for making electronic circuit design data and CAD system using the method In a method for managing design data regarding an electronic circuit in order to design and analyze the electronic circuit, the design data is arranged according to a hierarchical-layer module structure. The design data in each of hierarchical layers of t... | 01/05/1999 |
