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Web-enabled system and method for designing and manufacturing laser scanners

  • US 6,182,897 B1
  • Filed: 06/09/1999
  • Issued: 02/06/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/12/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An Internet-enabled method for designing and manufacturing laser scanning systems comprising the steps of:

  • (a) using an Internet-enabled client system to transmit end-user specified laser scanning system specifications to an Internet information server;

    (b) transmitting said end-user specified laser scanning system specifications from said Internet information server to a scanner design workstation operably connected to said Internet information server;

    (c) using said scanner design workstation to access a relational database management system over an information network, wherein said relational database management system contains a library of design specifications for predesigned modules and subcomponents of one or more previously designed laser scanning systems;

    (d) at said scanner design workstation, using said end-user specified laser scanning system specifications and said library of design specifications contained in said relational database management system, in order to create a finalized laser scanner design for a laser scanning system to be constructed;

    (e) updating said library of design specifications using said finalized laser scanner design;

    (f) manufacturing the modules and subcomponents for said laser scanning system to be constructed;

    (g) assembling said manufactured modules and subcomponents to construct one or more production units of said laser scanning system in accordance with said finalized laser scanner design.

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