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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2000
Harry Li, Windsor, CA;
Howard Edmund Scheer, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Jhun-Sou Lin, Novi, MI (US);
Shao-Chiung Lu, Canton, MI (US);
Visteon Global Technologies, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A design evaluation system which evaluates a design of a component or assembly, such as component or assembly . Particularly, system includes a database having several equality and inequality relationships which are required to be satisfied by the design . System also includes several equality and inequality relationships which system attempts to have satisfied by the design , but which are not required to be satisfied. System further dynamically modifies the values of certain variables within the design in order to substantially ensure that the design is modified in a manner which is consistent with certain of the equality and inequality relationships which are contained within the database