Patent Document ID: 9573306
Application ID: 14246750
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A mold for manufacturing a workpiece through an injection-molding process, the mold being configured by: generating a first electronic model of the workpiece to be manufactured; analyzing the first electronic model; distorting the workpiece in the first electronic model according to the analysis; generating a second electronic model of the distorted workpiece, the second electronic model being configured with a non-zero draft angle; and generating the mold using the second electronic model, the generated mold comprising the non-zero draft angle and a spline surface that is different than a corresponding spline surface on a cooled injection-molded workpiece generated using the generated mold, such that the generated mold is configured to mold the workpiece to be injection-molded in an initially distorted form and such that the initially-distorted injection-molded workpiece, as it cools outside of the generated mold, gradually assumes substantially the shape of the workpiece in the first electronic model.