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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tomio Jindo, Yokohama, JP;
Yoji Shimizu, Yokosuka, JP;
Assignee:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395500 ; 36455101 ; 364578 ; 364581 ; 364604 ;
Abstract
The invention is a design evaluation apparatus for evaluating a design composed of a plurality of design elements. The apparatus has a database stored therein. The database contains design elements, evaluation terms and a table defining relations of the respective design elements with respect to each of the evaluation terms. At least one of the evaluation terms representative of the design is selected from the table, based upon the design elements of the design. The selected evaluation term is used to produce an evaluation result.