Obtaining Engineering Design Innovations by A Patent-related and Case-based Reasoning Approach

• Main Authors: Yuan-bin Tang, 唐遠彬
• Other Authors: Inn-chyn Her
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42617472107684112032

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 機械與機電工程學系研究所 === 94 === The procedure for developing a new product, in general, is as follows. First, the design engineer must have a thorough understanding regarding the encountered problem. And, he must produce some design concepts based on the perceived requirements. Finally, some solutions are then achieved according to the prescribed design concepts. Unfortunately, few researchers have been able to explain, in a specific rather than abstract manner, the process of generating pertinent design concepts. However, this process has to be a very critical link in the chain. Without obtaining a good design concept the entire design procedure will fall, not to mention to find a suitable solution. In this research we use an interesting analogy between the design procedure and the well-familiarized Sun/Water-cycle system, to concretely describe the task of inspiration of innovative concepts particularly in engineering design. The use of this analogy, we believe, will guide engineers to more effectively and more efficiently go through the stages of conceptual design. Consequently, the entire product development time can be reduced.