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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7433748 | System and method for controlling a design process by specifying active variables and passive variables A system for controlling a design process having a first design sub-process and a second design sub-process, outcomes of one of the first and second design sub-processes being linked to outcomes of the other of the design sub-processes by a relationship between one ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428724 | Interactive interface for engineering standard work A method and system for managing complex projects uses a framework having workflow maps containing activity blocks that provide detailed, easily accessible information within the framework about the project. The framework links functional groups, their associated ac... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428441 | Systems and method providing for remote system design A two-way communication and data transfer system allows a field technician and a designer to work together to create a retrofit design for a flow system, make a cost estimate for the retrofit, and gather an approval from a customer all in a single visit to the custo... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7425172 | Customized polish pads for chemical mechanical planarization A polishing pad for chemical mechanical planarization of a film on a substrate is customized by obtaining one or more characteristics of a structure on a substrate. For example, when the structure is a chip formed on a semiconductor wafer, the one or more characteri... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424334 | System, method, and article of manufacture for determining a process plan for forming features in a part A system, method, and article of manufacture for determining a process plan for forming at least one feature in a part are provided. The method includes automatically identifying first and second features to be formed in the part by accessing first and second featur... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421363 | Method for virtual inspection of virtually machined parts A method for implementing a virtual inspection of a virtually machined workpiece is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes defining a set of master reference planes, defining a set of positioning planes with respect to the set of master reference... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418306 | Framework for managing process including sequential actions A generic automation framework is provided to divide a process into a sequence of stages. The stages in the process may depend on each other and this dependency dictates the flow of the process. A stage may be an instance of a stage type, which provides a generic de... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412358 | Efficient method of extracting the pull-in parameters of an electrostatically activated MEMS device for the purpose of designing the device A method of efficiently extracting the pull-in parameters of an electrostatically activated actuator. The actuator is modeled as an elastic element. For each of a plurality of deformations of the elastic element, a corresponding voltage is calculated. The highest su... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412365 | Environmental impact estimation method and apparatus An environmental impact estimation method comprising storing information related to reuse and recycle objects in a memory unit, performing life cycle modeling to make a life cycle model, the life cycle modeling including reading information related to the reuse and ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412297 | Method and system for designing and manufacturing lens modules A method for designing and manufacturing lens modules includes selecting design parameters from a design database stored with the design parameters suitable for a lens module desired to be manufactured to design the lens module according to characteristics of the le... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412295 | Modeling manufacturing processes to include defined markers A method, and corresponding computer program product and system, defines and uses marker points within a modeled manufacturing process routing that includes multiple sequenced operations. The method includes receiving user input that defines one or more marker point... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409254 | Data management system and trace system A design data management program directs a computer to perform a procedure of converting design data generated at a designing side to a data format applicable to a production side and transmitting the data to the production side, and a procedure of converting the da... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409255 | Module evaluation method and system A module evaluation method and system which can quickly determine overall effectiveness of the modular construction method in an automatic manner, taking into account the transportation cost and so on. A module evaluation unit prepares constructed-equipment physical... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409668 | Method for improving via's impedance A method is for controlling an impedance of a via of a printed circuit board. The Via is connected with a trace and includes a drill hole, a pad and an anti-pad. The method includes steps of: building a math model; testing whether an impedance of the via matching wi... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406361 | Rapid prototyping method and apparatus using V-CAD data V-CAD data is prepared by dividing external data 12 consisting of boundary data of an object into rectangular parallelepiped cells 13 having boundary planes orthogonal to each other in accordance with octree division and separating the respective divid... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406357 | Transforming a product description into a process network and specifying product creation Product descriptions (e.g., brochures) and processing instructions required to create a product (impose, print, fold, staple) can be abstracted into common vocabularies that link one to the other. A link from a product description to the processing instructions is m... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406403 | Systems and methods for automatically generating 3D wireframe CAD models of aircraft Computer-based systems, methods, and computer-program products for automatically creating three dimensional geometric models are provided. The geometric models may be used to generate finite element models for computer modeling and loads testing. Automatically creat... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403831 | Manufacturing apparatus, processing method and device manufacturing method A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus which processes a lot in accordance with the content of a queue table in which a process of a lot is reserved includes a volatile memory configured to store the queue table, and a controller configured to store, in a nonvolati... | 07/22/2008 |