Design for invention: a framework for identifying emerging design-prior art conflict
Design for invention: a framework for identifying emerging design-prior art conflict
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发明设计：识别新兴设计与现有技术冲突的框架
DOI：
10.1080/09544828.2018.1520204
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Jiang P
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作者：
Jiang P
专利机械设计的日益复杂意味着其新颖性和创造性步骤越来越依赖于相互作用的几何特征以及它们如何对设备功能做出贡献。这些特征和相互作用通常通过明确的专利权利要求纳入专利。然而，由于其法律术语，专利可能难以解释和理解设计人员。这表明设计师有必要提高对相关现有技术的认识，以避免潜在的冲突。本文提出了一个框架，帮助设计师获得对相关现有技术的见解，并使新兴的设计与现有技术进行比较。该框架主要包括专利图形功能表示、特定领域本体和语义数据库的开发。图形化的表示方式以相互作用的几何特征来表示专利的功能推理。特定于领域的本体支持知识共享和概念化，为描述专利设计提供标准化词汇表。通过将专利数据形成语义数据库，可以识别新兴设计与现有技术之间工作原理的共性。这使得早期识别潜在的冲突，从而可以帮助设计师引导他们的新兴设计远离受保护的解决方案。本文还描述了一种基于这种方法正在开发的计算机工具。
The increasing complexity of patented mechanical designs means that their novelty and inventive steps increasingly rely on interacting geometric features and how they contribute to device functions. These features and interactions are normally incorporated in patents through clear patent claims. However, patents can be difficult to interpret and understand for designers due to their legal terminologies. This suggests there is a need for greater awareness of relevant prior art amongst designers in terms of avoiding potential conflict. This paper presents a framework that helps designers obtain insight on relevant prior art and enables emerging design–prior art comparison. The framework mainly contains development of a patent graphical functional representation, a domain-specific ontology and a semantic database. The graphical representation presenting the functional reasoning of patents in terms of interacting geometric features. A domain-specific ontology enables knowledge sharing and conceptualisation, providing a standardised vocabulary for describing patented designs. By formulating patent data into a semantic database, commonality of working principles between an emerging design and prior art can be identified. This enables early identification of potential conflict and thereby could help designers steer their emerging designs away from protected solutions. A computer tool being developed based on this approach is also described.