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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:
Jan. 14, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
SMC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 3/08 ; G05D 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 3/08 ; G05D 1/100 ;
Abstract
A method of selecting devices for use in a fluid pipeline network, wherein items of data concerning devices are stored in a pipe database, a pipe joint database and a valve database, and calculating equations for use in computation are also stored. Devices are temporarily selected by using the stored device data, and then computation is performed by using the stored calculating equations, thereby allowing device selection to be made easily. In addition, a block diagram of the fluid pipeline network can be made easily.