Design process recording

• US 8,166,078 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2008
• Issued: 04/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshihiko Nakazawa
• Original Assignee: Toshihiko Nakazawa
• Inventors: Nakazawa, Toshihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Ortiz, Belix M
• Application Number:
  US12/532,389
• Publication Number:
  US 20100030356A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,519 Days
• Field of Search: 704/9, 707/803
• US Class Current: 707/803
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

Description of works such as “requirement”, “definition”, and “confirmation” in the narrow sense in a design process is made possible. A design work recording unit (22a) records in a data storage device (6) an inputted “design work name” as one of “external requirement name”, “concept definition name”, “internal requirement name”, “detailed definition name”, and so on. An inter-work relation recording unit (22b) records in the data storage device (6) a relation between two “design work names” selected from “external requirement name”, “concept definition name”, “internal requirement name”, “detailed definition name”, and so on recorded in the data storage device (6). Here, the inter-work relation recording unit (22b) records a relation between “external requirement name” and “concept definition name”, a relation between “concept definition name” and “internal requirement name”, a relation between “internal requirement name” and “detailed definition name”, and so on.

Claims

1. A design process recording apparatus, comprising:

a design work recording means for recording in a recording medium an inputted design work name as one of plural types of design work names including external requirement names, concept definition names, internal requirement names, detailed definition names, external requirement confirmation names, concept definition confirmation names, internal requirement confirmation names, and detailed definition confirmation names; and

an inter-work relation recording means for recording in the recording medium a relation between two design work names selected from one or more of the external requirement names, one or more of the concept definition names, one or more of the internal requirement names, one or more of the detailed definition names, one or more of the external requirement confirmation names, one or more of the concept definition confirmation names, one or more of the internal requirement confirmation names, and one or more of the detailed definition confirmation names recorded in the recording medium,

wherein the external requirement names are data indicating external requirements, and each of the external requirements is a work by a designer of recognizing qualitatively or quantitatively an influence on a part or whole of an artificial object as a design object from an internal factor or an external environment of the artificial object, or is an influence thereof,

wherein the concept definition names are data indicating concept definitions, and each of the concept definitions is a work of defining either of a structure of a part or whole of the artificial object that endures the influence in the external requirement and a structure of a part or whole of the artificial object depending on the influence in the external requirement, or is a matter as a work object thereof,

wherein the internal requirement names are data indicating internal requirements, and each of the internal requirements is a work of defining a characteristic that a part or whole of the artificial object should realize, or is a characteristic thereof,

wherein the detailed definition names are data indicating detailed definitions, and each of the detailed definitions is a work of defining a part or whole of the artificial object so that the characteristic defined in the internal requirement is realized, or is a matter as a work object thereof,

wherein the external requirement confirmation names are data indicating external requirement confirmations, and each of the external requirement confirmations is a work of correcting vagueness of the influence recognized in the external requirement,

wherein the concept definition confirmation names are data indicating concept definition confirmations, and each of the concept definition confirmations is a work of verifying whether or not the structure defined in the concept definition satisfies the external requirement,

wherein the internal requirement confirmation names are data indicating internal requirement confirmations, and each of the internal requirement confirmations is a work of verifying the certainty of a characteristic defined in the internal requirement,

wherein the detailed definition confirmation names are data indicating detailed definition confirmations, and each of the detailed definition confirmations is a work of verifying whether or not a part or whole of the artificial object defined in the detailed definition satisfies the internal requirement, and

wherein the inter-work relation recording means records a relation between the external requirement name and the concept definition name, a relation between the concept definition name and the internal requirement name, a relation between the internal requirement name and the detailed definition name, a relation between the external requirement name and the internal requirement name, a relation between the external requirement name and the external requirement confirmation name, a relation between the concept definition name and the concept definition confirmation name, a relation between the internal requirement name and the internal requirement confirmation name, and a relation between the detailed definition name and the detailed definition confirmation name.

2. The design process recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a user interface processing means for changing a screen of a display device to an input screen of the design work names in response to a predetermined operation, and changing the screen of the display device to an input screen of a relation between the design work names after the design work names are inputted,

wherein the design work recording means records in the recording medium the design work names inputted to the input screen of the design work names, each as one of the plural types of design work names, and

wherein the inter-work relation recording means records in the recording medium a relation between the design work names inputted to the input screen of a relation between the design work names.

3. The design process recording apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the user interface processing means displays, on the input screen of a relation between the design work names, the design work names inputted to the input screen of the design work names and, when one of the displayed design work names is selected and inputted, displays only the design work name belonging to a type which can be related to a type of the selected design work name;

and the design work name is displayed as selectable.

4. The design process recording apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the design work recording means records the design work names for each of the adaptation object names,

wherein the inter-work relation recording means records a relation between the design work names for each of the adaptation object names,

wherein the adaptation object names are data showing adaptation objects, and each of the adaptation objects is an object to which the artificial object should adapt, and

wherein the inter-work relation recording means records a relation between the concept definition or the detailed definition of a certain adaptation object name and the concept definition or the detailed definition of another adaptation object name.

5. The design process recording apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a user interface processing means for changing a screen of the display device to an input screen of the adaptation object names in response to a predetermined operation, and after the adaptation object names are inputted, changing the screen of the display device to an input screen of the design work names related to the inputted adaptation object names, and changing the screen of the display device to a second input screen of a relation between the design work names after the design work names are inputted,

wherein the design work recording means records in the recording medium, for each of the adaptation object names, the design work names inputted to the input screen of the design work names, each as one of the plural types of design work names, and

wherein the inter-work relation recording means records in the recording medium, for each of the adaptation object names, a relation between the design work names inputted to the input screen of a relation between the design work names.

6. The design process recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a searching means for retrieving based on a relation between the design work names one or more design work names related to one design work name selected from the external requirement names, the concept definition names, the internal requirement names, and the detailed definition names recorded in the recording medium; and

a user interface processing means for displaying a search result by the searching means on a display device.

7. The design process recording apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the searching means extracts only a design work name belonging to a type selected by a user.

8. A design process recording method, comprising:

a design work recording step of recording in a recording medium an inputted design work name as one of plural types of design work names including external requirement names, external requirement confirmation names, concept definition names, concept definition confirmation names, internal requirement names, internal requirement confirmation names, detailed definition names, and detailed definition confirmation names; and

an inter-work relation recording step of recording in the recording medium a relation between two design work names selected from one or more of the external requirement names, one or more of the concept definition names, one or more of the internal requirement names, one or more of the detailed definition names, one or more of the external requirement confirmation names, one or more of the concept definition confirmation names, one or more of the internal requirement confirmation names, and one or more of the detailed definition confirmation names recorded in the recording medium,

wherein the external requirement names are data indicating external requirements, and each of the external requirements is a work by a designer of recognizing qualitatively or quantitatively an influence on a part or whole of an artificial object as a design object from an internal factor or an external environment of the artificial object, or is an influence thereof,

wherein the concept definition names are data indicating concept definitions, and each of the concept definitions is a work of defining either of a structure of a part or whole of the artificial object that endures the influence in the external requirement and a structure of a part or whole of the artificial object depending on the influence in the external requirement, or is a matter as a work object thereof,

wherein the internal requirement names are data indicating internal requirements, and each of the internal requirements is a work of defining a characteristic that a part or whole of the artificial object should realize, or is a characteristic thereof,

wherein the detailed definition names are data indicating detailed definitions, and each of the detailed definitions is a work of defining a part or whole of the artificial object so that the characteristic defined in the internal requirement is realized, or is a matter as a work object thereof,

wherein the external requirement confirmation names are data indicating external requirement confirmations, and each of the external requirement confirmations is a work of correcting vagueness of the influence recognized in the external requirement,

wherein the concept definition confirmation names are data indicating concept definition confirmations, and each of the concept definition confirmations is a work of verifying whether or not the structure defined in the concept definition satisfies the external requirement,

wherein the internal requirement confirmation names are data indicating internal requirement confirmations, and each of the internal requirement confirmations is a work of verifying the certainty of a characteristic defined in the internal requirement,

wherein the detailed definition confirmation names are data indicating detailed definition confirmations, and each of the detailed definition confirmations is a work of verifying whether or not a part or whole of the artificial object defined in the detailed definition satisfies the internal requirement, and

wherein in the inter-work relation recording step, there is recorded a relation between the external requirement name and the concept definition name, a relation between the concept definition name and the internal requirement name, a relation between the internal requirement name and the detailed definition name, a relation between the external requirement name and the internal requirement name, a relation between the external requirement name and the external requirement confirmation name, a relation between the concept definition name and the concept definition confirmation name, a relation between the internal requirement name and the internal requirement confirmation name, and a relation between the detailed definition name and the detailed definition confirmation name.