Abstract
With advances in various technologies, it is critical to create a product styling design that can trigger consumers’ willingness to buy. Various studies have been emphasizing on product styling designs that can grasp a consumer’s mind. Average people at this information age have higher demands toward product designs. When considering a purchase, people’s first consideration is whether a product is of high quality at a lower price. Product competitions on the market are affected interactively by globalization and localization and the awareness of humanization and personalization. The conventional black box design approach makes it difficult for a designer to meet consumer demands effectively. Via the framework of mechanical product innovation design approach in this study, patent specifications were reviewed and analyzed in order to decompose the essential elements and their corresponding functions. Correlation tables were built and product structural formula could be determined. More functions were included by replacing elements in order to achieve the completeness of the structural formula. For demonstrating the benefits of this approach, the design of computer cooling fan housing was chosen as a case study. The results indicated that the proposed design approach can effectively assist in the development of product innovative designs.
Highlights
For a patent, the number of citations by other patents implied a good reference of its economic value and technical developments
Patent specifications that are available in the patent database can be analyzed so that the product components and corresponding functions recorded in the patent specifications are analyzed and classified
A correlation table of components and functions is created based on the components and functions in order to generate the product structural formula
Summary
The number of citations by other patents implied a good reference of its economic value and technical developments. Other similar phrases include including, containing, characterized, or their derivatives Their implication is that at least one of the essential elements consist the technical contents that are described and this approach usually indicates a wider range of patent claim. For this type of patents, it is required to compare its essential elements with those of prior arts so as to determine the range of protection according to the improvement levels and differences. Those 40 invention principles on a product to be improved can be obtained from the engineering parameters that are determined by this approach and by look up in the matrix. The innovative design approach that is integrated by this study for mechanical products is derived from the patent database It doesn’t require importing the so-called engineering parameters.
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