Patent ID: 7024264
Filing Date: 2006-04-04
Classification: C03B

Abstract:
1. A designing method of a new bending mold intended for use with a new glass plate making use of a 3-dimensional CAD application for solid models, said method comprising the steps of: providing bending-shape data of the new glass plate to be formed by the new bending mold to be designed; retrieving an existing solid-model of an existing bending mold from a solid model database, the existing solid-model determined based on bending-shape data of an existing glass plate; selectively replacing the bending-shape data of the existing glass plate with the bending-shape data of the new glass plate; remodeling the existing solid-model to generate a new solid model for the new bending mold based upon new design values, the new design values determined by automatically modifying design values of the existing solid-model required to be modified due to the replacing of the bending-shape data of the existing glass plate and by automatically inheriting design values of the existing solid-model not required to be modified due to the replacing of the bending-shape data of the existing glass plate; judging whether predetermined design criteria for any bending mold designed using the CAD application are satisfied by the new design values, or not; when the new design values do not satisfy the predetermined design criteria, modifying the new design values until the predetermined design criteria are satisfied; and when the new design values satisfy the predetermined design criteria, creating bending-mold fabricating data based on data of the new solid model.