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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:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Visteon Global Tech., Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
Abstract
A system for designing an automotive component such as an air induction tube . A CAD system 18 receives certain programmable parameters and a user selected integer value by way of a user interface , and generates a tube design having a number of curved portions which is equal to the integer value . Each portion the resulting tube is independently programmable or modifiable, thereby providing a designer with a large degree of flexibility in altering the design and/or configuration of tube without having to redesign an entirely new tube.