Patent ID: 6876900
Filing Date: 2005-04-05
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A unit designing apparatus for designing a unit including a plurality of function blocks, comprising: a function block memory for storing a design example, which is a result of a past design for which consultations concerning production techniques were performed, including an outer shape of each of the function blocks in association with a specification including a basic dimension of the unit; a search engine for searching, with respect to each of the plurality of function blocks, a design example to be applied in correlation with a specification of the unit; a raw material shape designing device for laying out, in a basic structural view of the unit, an outer shape for each of the function blocks obtained as a result of the search to thereby design a raw material shape for the unit; a production machining information memory for storing production machining information, resulting from the past design for which consultations concerning production techniques were performed, including a machining shape applied to a design example for each of the function blocks; a production machining information search engine for searching the production machining information including a machining shape for application to each of the function blocks in its raw material shape; and a product shape designing device for applying to the raw material shape for the unit a machining shape for each of the function blocks obtained as a result of the search to thereby design a product shape for the unit.