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Creative Design based on Inspirations Stimulated by Patent Knowledge |
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PP: 113-120 |
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Author(s) |
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Qing-Ying Qiu,
Chi Xue,
Pei-En Feng,
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Abstract |
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| Product patents contain novel techniques, principles and structures that can be refereed by designers and inspire them to
make the creativity or innovation of the product in design. The aim of this paper is to expose the effectiveness of concrete patents as
the sources of design inspiration, which has been little addressed yet, and propose a general stimulation process for creative inspiration.
First, the classification of the design knowledge contained in patents is discussed, so is the effect of each type of patent knowledge on
three innovation layers, i.e. the functional innovation layer, principle innovation layer and structural innovation layer. Next, a natural
language processing approach is presented to acquire the inspiration stimuli carried with patent knowledge, and the relationship between
the innovation layers and the inspiration stimuli is summarized. Then, a practical process is advanced to inspire designers with the aid
of the inspiration stimuli from different patents. Last, the inspiration based creative design is illustrated with a self-locking hydraulic
cylinder with novel magnetic principle. |
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