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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1998
Philip Paul Beauchamp, Rexford, NY (US);
Jeffrey David Erno, Stanton, CA (US);
Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., Loveland, OH (US);
Richard Wade Stickles, Loveland, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for designing, and optionally making, an article of manufacture. Customer requirement parameters are defined and related engineering parameters are chosen. A parametric geometrical representation (i.e., a master model) of the article is created in terms of geometric parameters using a computer program. A design analysis methodology is crated and programmed into a computer code and stored on a computer medium such that the engineering parameters and the customer requirement parameters are program inputs and the geometric parameters of the master model are program outputs. Specific values of the inputs are inputted into the computer code. The computer code is run on a digital computer and specific values of the geometric parameters of the master model are outputted.