Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1994-08-15
1996-12-17
Weinhardt, Robert A.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
36446815, 364512, 395229, G06F 1750
Patent
active
055860222
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a method of designing an article or a part so that works and processings which the article or part is to undergo can be facilitated. In particular, the present invention quantitatively evaluates influences such as size, shape, structure or material which factor into easiness of the work and the processing of the article or the part at different stages of maintenance/inspection/repair, dismantling, disassembling and recycling for resources. The evaluation furnishes a guideline for enhancing easiness of the work and processing together with results of evaluation. With the guideline and results time or costs involved in the works and processings which the article or the part undergoes at various stages of the life thereof such as the stages of manufacture or production, sale, use, maintenance/inspection/repair, recovery, dismantling, disassembling, recycling for resources, nontoxication and scrapping (or depositing). Further the invention is concerned with an apparatus for automatically executing the evaluation and for providing a guideline for enhancing easiness of the works and the processings.
BACKGROUND ART
As a procedure known heretofore for evaluating whether works and processings or treatments to be performed on an article at various life stages thereof are easy or not, there can first be mentioned a method according to which a designer is furnished with a check sheet for checking whether or not requisite items as listed are satisfied. A second method is a so-called design review method according to which the person skilled in design and implementation techniques judges the degree of easiness of the work and the processing or treatment which an article is to undergo on the basis of his or her experience to thereby point out those items which can be improved. Thirdly, an assemblability evaluation method and a processability evaluation method which are directed to the assembling and the processing or treatment as particular types of works may be mentioned.
As for the first and second procedures mentioned above, there are a contribution entitled "KANKYO HOZENGATA SEIHIN SEKKEI NO SUSUME (RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENT PRESERVATION TYPE PRODUCT DESIGNS)" contained in "NIKKEI NEW MATERIALS", pp. 14-25, (Jun. 10, 1991) and others. As for the techniques which concern the third evaluation method, there can be mentioned that disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publications Nos. 69703/1992 and 114003/1993 (JP-A-H4-699703 and JP-A-H5-114003).
It is most desirable from the view point of effectiveness to examine or study sufficiently or adequately at the stage of designing an article whether the works and processings or treatments which the article undergoes at various life cycles or stages such as manufacturing, sale, use, maintenance/inspection/repair, recovery, dismantling, disassembling, recycling for resources, nontoxication, scrapping (or depositing) so that the results of the examination are reflected to the implementation of the article.
In order to realize the above, there is required some preparatory evaluation method. Additionally, it is also necessary to perform design improvement on the basis of evaluation indexes as determined by the evaluation method.
In view of the demand mentioned above, there have heretofore been published several preparatory evaluation methods such as mentioned above. However, most of the publicly known methods suffer from problems mentioned below and could not be applied to the evaluation concerning the maintenance/inspection/repair, dismantling and the recycling for resources. Namely, containing items of "should" or "should not" type, wherein the indexes for evaluation as determined are necessarily of a qualitative nature, rendering it impossible to make a quantitative evaluation. involved in the works and the processings or treatments, making it difficult to determine whether design is satisfactory or not. point close thereto, which means that the design having undergone the evaluation is difficult to improv
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Arimoto Syoji
Hiroshige Yuuzoo
Ohashi Toshijiro
Suzuki Kiyoshi
Suzuki Tatsuya
Hitachi , Ltd.
Thomas Joseph
Weinhardt Robert A.
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