Patent Document ID: 20090024363
Application ID: 12147084
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of designing a bake oven for curing paint on an article to achieve cure criteria for predetermined areas on the article, comprising the following steps: creating a three dimensional model of the article; creating a three dimensional model of a bake oven: creating a computational model of the article divided into discreet elements based upon the three dimensional model of the article; creating a computational model of the bake oven divided into discreet elements based upon the three dimensional model of the bake oven; using a computer to set each discreet element of the article and the bake oven to initial conditions; calculating the actual conditions of each discreet element of the article and bake oven at an initial time: repeating the previous step a plurality of times to determine the temperature of each discreet element of the article as a function of time inside the oven: comparing the cure criteria for predetermined discreet elements of the article with the calculated temperature as a function of time; and modifying the computational model of the bake oven to achieve the cure criteria for predetermined areas of the article.