145 results about "Design support" patented technology

To make a meta model as a use destination meta model to be easily used by various systems with the meta model designed by certain system development as a reference source meta model.SOLUTION: A design support system updates a use destination data structure while making a reference source data structure unupdated when a use destination meta model uses a reference source meta model. Since the reference source data structure is made unupdated, the reference source meta model is maintained without changing a content even though the reference source meta model is used. Meanwhile, since the use destination data structure is updated, the use destination meta model can be created again with an updated content. For example, when the reference source meta model is upgraded, the updated use destination data structure can be applied to an upgraded reference source meta model.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 18

To provide footwear having fitting properties with which a user is satisfied.SOLUTION: A design assistance device 1 comprises: an input unit that receives, from a plurality of users, fit level data 10 evaluated by a user for each of regions and pressure data 20 obtained by determining a pressure applied to the foot for each of the regions when footwear 40 is worn; a computation unit that, on the basis of the level data 10 and the pressure data 20 received from the plurality of users, determines, as a prediction formula 30, a relationship between the fit level and the pressure applied to the foot at the level for each region; a storage unit that stores the prediction formula 30 determined by the computation unit; and an output unit that outputs the pressure applied to the foot. When the input unit newly receives a fitting level from the user, the computation unit, on the basis of the prediction formula 30, determines, from the received fitting level in a region, the pressure applied to the foot in the region of the footwear 40.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

To provide a design support system capable of supporting grasping the preference of a user regarding buildings.SOLUTION: A design support system 10 includes: a preference acquisition unit 44 which acquires preference information indicating the preference of a user; a generation unit 45 which inputs the acquired preference information to a generative AI to generate a building image, which is an image of interior or exterior of a building; an evaluation acquisition unit 46 which acquires information on evaluation made by the user for the generated building image; and an output unit 48 which outputs support information for supporting designing a building, the support information being formed by associating the generated building image with the acquired evaluation information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Provide appropriate layout information. [Solution] The layout design support device 100 comprises an estimation means and an output means. The estimation means is a trained model for inferring layout information, which includes layout items used for designing the layout of a facility for manufacturing a product, from condition information, which includes condition items representing the conditions for manufacturing a product. The estimation means applies the condition information to the trained model generated by a neural network to estimate the layout information. The output means outputs the layout information estimated by the estimation means.

To provide a design support system and a design support program to simplify facility design for an air conditioning system.SOLUTION: A design support system for supporting design of an air conditioning system includes: an operation device used for inputting a condition regarding a building and a room in which the air conditioning system is installed; a control device for selecting a plurality of devices constituting the air conditioning system in accordance with the condition input through the operation device, and generating symbols indicating the selected plurality of devices and ducts connecting the plurality of devices; and a display device for displaying a layout image with the symbols placed on a floor plan of the building.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

A design element index input unit 10 inputs multiple design element indexes obtained by quantifying design in association with multiple portions constituting shoes. A learning unit 40 uses, as teacher data, pairs of multiple design element indexes and an impression index to learn correlations between multiple design element indexes and the impression index, and creates an impression estimation model. By means of a learned impression estimation model, an impression index estimation unit 60 estimates an impression index obtained by quantifying an impression of shoes, based on a set of multiple design element indexes that have been input. An output unit 70 outputs the estimated impression index.

This design support device allows for the simulation of realistic traffic conditions by accommodating behavioral changes that align with the user's objectives. [Solution] A design support device comprising: a storage unit for storing service plan information and environmental information; an action purpose input unit for inputting action purpose information; a new facility information input unit for inputting new facility information; a generation unit that generates a behavior change model that changes the behavior of users within a domain using environmental information and action purpose information; a first calculation unit that calculates a first traffic state, which is the traffic state of the service mobile and each user in an environment where the service mobile and new facilities exist, using service plan information, environmental information, new facility information and the behavior change model; and a second calculation unit that calculates a second traffic state, which is the traffic state of each user in an environment where the service mobile and new facilities do not exist, using environmental information and the behavior change model, wherein the first calculation unit calculates the traffic state of the service mobile and each user after changing the behavior of users due to the influence of the new facilities.

Provided is a design support device capable of identifying a control parameter to be changed in response to a request in a free description format and facilitating setting.　This design support device comprises: an input unit that receives a request related to the behavior of a vehicle and described in natural language; a module selection unit that, on the basis of a first processing result obtained by natural language processing, selects a software module related to the behavior of the vehicle included in the request as a target module, with respect to the request and module description information which describes, in natural language, functions of software modules obtained by dividing vehicle control software of the vehicle for each function; a reference parameter extraction unit that extracts a reference parameter, which is a control parameter of the vehicle referenced by the target module; a parameter selection unit that, on the basis of a second processing result obtained by the natural language processing, selects a target parameter related to the behavior of the vehicle included in the request, with respect to the request and parameter description information which describes the function of the reference parameter in natural language; and an output unit that outputs the target parameter.

A design support device (2) is configured to comprise: a data acquisition unit (11) for acquiring a plurality of design candidate data containing a plurality of design parameters as candidate design data of an electric motor, and acquiring a first evaluation value of each of the plurality of sets of design candidate data; a data generation unit (13) for selecting at least one upper set of design candidate data having the first evaluation value that is relatively high as first design candidate data from the plurality of sets of design candidate data acquired by the data acquisition unit (11), and generating second design candidate data containing the plurality of design parameters from each set of the first design candidates;an evaluation value calculation unit (14) for calculating a second evaluation value of each set of first design candidate data based on the plurality of design parameters included in each set of first design candidate data, and calculating the second evaluation value of each set of second design candidate data based on the plurality of design parameters included in each set of second design candidate data; and a design data selection unit (15) for selecting design candidate data to be used as design data of the electric motor from the plurality of sets of first design candidate data and the plurality of sets of second design candidate data based on the second evaluation value calculated by the evaluation value calculation unit (14);

To easily arrange components constituting a member.SOLUTION: A design assistance device 10 acquires space information and a condition for forming a member, retrieves combinations of components satisfying the acquired condition from a database 20, displays, on a display device, a display screen showing the combinations of the retrieved components, determines an arrangement of components in the member on the basis of the space information and the shape and dimensions of each of the components constituting a combination selected from the combinations displayed on the display device, and displays, on the display device, information indicating the determined arrangement.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

To perform printing at a position desired by a user in a print target material to be printed in a folded state, in a design support device, a design support method, and a program.SOLUTION: A design support device (100, 200) comprises: a position information acquisition unit (steps S3, 120, 210) which acquires printable position information on a print target material M to be printed in a folded state; and a notification unit (steps S4, 130, 220) which notifies a user of the printable position information on the print target material M in the state before being folded.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

To efficiently manage a piping member of a piping structure by piping design.SOLUTION: A piping design support system is constituted by comprising: a data acquisition part indicated with the design of a piping structure, and acquiring a drawing which can impart a piping system identifier to a piping member in response to each of the piping systems which is formed of the piping member having a prescribed connection relationship in the piping structure; and a system setting part for specifying the piping system included with a non-imparted piping member when there is the non-imparted piping member in which the piping system identifier is not imparted in the drawing which is acquired by the data acquisition part, and imparting the piping system identifier of the specified piping system to the non-imparted piping member.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7

The present invention provides an information processing device, a design support device, and an information processing method that support the design of concrete structures. [Solution] An information processing device 2 according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an estimation unit 102 that estimates at least one of the strain distribution and stress distribution in a cross-section of a concrete structure whose volume change is constrained by a constraint body and which has a cross-section without an axis of symmetry, based on the age of the members used in the concrete structure and / or the amount of shrinkage over time due to the free strain of the concrete structure.

To provide a design method of an AC machine capable of uniquely determining a structure without depending on a designer with respect to a stator slot.SOLUTION: A design method of an AC machine comprises a first step of performing approximating an absolute value of a sine wave function changing in a circumferential direction in a magnetic pole period of stators in the AC machine by a pulse function having a pulse width corresponding to an absolute value of a sine wave function to determine an area where the pulse function becomes on-pulse in a winding arrangement area; a second step of arranging a plurality of fine cross-sectional windings at equal intervals in the determined winding arrangement area; a third step of enlarging a cross-sectional area of each winding to produce a winding aggregate by synthesizing windings closest to each other when windings adjacent to each other are overlapped, or when a ratio of a portion where a winding out of a length in a circumferential direction of the stators; and a fourth step of determining an arrangement position of each winding aggregate at a position of a slot for storing each winding aggregate thereof, when the number of the resulting winding aggregates as a result obtained by enlarging the cross-sectional area of each winding reaches the desired number.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6

A method for designing a gear cutting tool (T) comprises: a step (S1) of acquiring gear specifications, tool specifications, and a target tooth profile direction modification amount, and designing a preliminary shape of a tool cutting edge of the gear cutting tool based on the gear specifications, the tool specifications, and the target tooth profile direction modification amount; a step (S2) of acquiring a target tooth flank direction modification amount; determining a correction amount of a machining control element based on the target tooth flank direction modification amount; a step (S33) of calculating a first tooth flank shape of the gear based on the correction amount of the machining control element and the preliminary designed tool cutting edge shape;a step (S35) of comparing the first tooth flank shape with a target tooth flank shape and calculating a first target deviation of the first tooth flank shape in the tooth profile direction; and a step (S38) of fully designing the tool cutting edge shape based on the target tooth profile direction modification amount and a first target deviation correction amount for reducing the first target deviation.

A design support device S011: uses an installable area calculation unit P01 to calculate, on the basis of spatial data D01, installation rule data R01, and virtual structure design data B01, which are stored in an external storage, areas that satisfy installation rules in the installation rule data R01 and design rules in the virtual structure design data B01, and thereby acquire installable area data T01; and uses a virtual structure installation unit M01 to install, on the basis of the installable area data T01 and the virtual structure design data B01, a virtual structure within an installable area based on the installable area data T01, and acquire and output design support data E01 to the outside.

Design support facility (2), comprising: a data acquisition unit (11) to acquire a plurality of sets of design candidate data containing a plurality of design parameters as candidates for design data of an electric motor, and to acquire an initial evaluation value from each of the plurality of sets of design candidate data; a data generation unit (13) to select at least one upper set of design candidate data with the first rating value that is relatively high as the first design candidate data from the multitude of sets of design candidate data acquired by the data acquisition unit, and to perform the generation of second design candidate data containing the multitude of design parameters from each set of the first design candidate data; a rating value calculation unit (14) to calculate a second rating value of each set of the first design candidate data based on the multitude of design parameters contained in each set of the first design candidate data, and to calculate the second rating value of each set of the second design candidate data based on the multitude of design parameters contained in each set of the second design candidate data; a design data selection unit (15) for selecting design candidate data to be used as design data of the electric motor from the plurality of sets of first design candidate data and the plurality of sets of second design candidate data on the basis of the second evaluation value calculated by the evaluation value calculation unit; and a preprocessing unit (12) to calculate the first evaluation value of each of the plurality of sets of design candidate data using the plurality of design parameters contained in each of the plurality of sets of design candidate data acquired by the data acquisition unit (11), a desired level of each of the plurality of design parameters and an ideal value of each of the plurality of design parameters, and to output the first evaluation value of each of the plurality of sets of design candidate data to the data acquisition unit (11); the multitude of design parameters includes magnetic flux density, winding temperature, starting current, torque curve, permissible load time, efficiency and power factor; wherein the data acquisition unit (11) comprises a design data conversion unit (11a) configured to convert each design parameter by replacing each design parameter contained in each set of design candidate data into an objective function; and wherein the preprocessing unit (12) is configured to provide the first evaluation value V n the design candidate data x n ' to calculate by using the design parameter g(y m ') after the conversion, the desired level f m asp and the ideal value f m ideal replaced by an evaluation function that is V n = maxm ( g ( ym ' ) − fmaspfmasp − fmideal ) is expressed where max is a mathematical symbol that searches for m with a maximum value in () under m = 1,..., M and expresses the maximum value as V n determines.

This layout support device supports the design of the layout of underground equipment buried in the ground of a plant, and is provided with: an information acquisition unit that acquires ground layout information relating to the layout of ground equipment disposed on the ground of the plant and design condition information relating to the design of the underground equipment; a generation unit that generates, on the basis of the above-ground layout information and the design condition information, the positions of a plurality of water collection points for collecting liquid from the above-ground of the plant, and a first piping line in which piping for discharging the liquid collected to the plurality of water collection points from the plant is buried underground of the plant; and an output unit that outputs underground layout information indicating the position of the water collection point and the first piping line.

A design support device (2) of the present invention includes: a virtual space creation unit (211) which creates image data of a virtual space simulating a site of a design target; a penetration creation support unit (213) which has a function of creating a penetration for a penetration formation target portion in the virtual space, and is capable of creating image data of an installation area image in which an image of an area where the penetration is formable is superimposed on an image of the penetration formation target portion in the virtual space in a case where information regarding a design specification of the penetration to be created in the penetration formation target portion is acquired from an external device; and a communication unit (23) which is communicably connected to the external device, receives information regarding a design specification of the penetration from the external device, and transmits image data of the installation area image created by the penetration creation support unit to the external device.

To make it possible to realize a front loading design in consideration of an environment load index.SOLUTION: A design support system comprises: a processing category reception unit for receiving a processing category of a design target on a design screen; a BOP (Bill Of Process) candidate calculating unit for specifying a candidate of a processing method belonging to the processing category with respect to each of the processing categories to calculate, as a BOP candidate, combination of the candidates of the processing method specified with respect to all of the design targets; an environment load index calculating unit for calculating an environment load index of the BOP candidate; and a display information generating unit for displaying, on the design screen, the environment information index in association with the BOP candidate.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

To support design work of a system aiming at maintenance of provision of service even when a failure occurs.SOLUTION: In a design support system, an imparting part 120 imparts a factor that may cause a failure in a target system composed of a cloud service provided by cloud computing and a device for exchanging data with the cloud service to any of components of the target system. The detection unit 140 detects the occurrence of a failure in the target system. The changing unit 160 changes a cloud resource for executing a cloud application that provides a cloud service. The requirement identification section 170 identifies, on the basis of a result of detection by the detection section in response to application of a factor by the application section each time when the changing section is caused to change a cloud resource by a plural number of times, a requirement for a cloud resource with which a failure does not occur even if the factor is applied. The output unit 180 outputs information indicating the requirement specified by the requirement specifying unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

To evaluate quantitatively an effect caused by application of an article and visualize it to thereby easily motivate a user to repeatedly apply the article.SOLUTION: A design support apparatus according to the present invention includes: an objective function setting unit for receiving designation of at least one objective function for use in evaluation of design data for a building structure; an original design evaluation unit for evaluating original design data of the building structure using objective functions; an article information acquiring unit for acquiring article information relating to at least one second article which can be substituted for at least one first article designated by the original design data for the building structure; an article replacing unit for carrying out design change which replaces the at least one first article with the at least one second article; a post-replacement design evaluation unit for evaluating post-replacement design data obtained after the design change by the objective function; and an output unit for outputting information indicating difference between the evaluation result of the original design data and the evaluation result of the post-replacement design data.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

To provide an electrical facility design support system, an electrical facility design support method, and a program capable of appropriately calculating a transformer capacity for an actual introduced load facility.SOLUTION: An electrical facility design support system comprises: an acquisition unit for acquiring sample data indicating a time-based power consumption when a predetermined load facility is in operation and information indicating the power consumption and the number of actual introduced load facilities connected to a design support target electrical facility; and a calculation unit for calculating the time-based power consumption of the actual introduced load facility based on a coefficient indicating the correspondence between the sample data and the time-based power consumption of the actual introduced load facility, calculating a peak value of the time-based power consumption when the actual introduced load facility is in operation, and calculating the transformer capacity for the actual introduced load facility based on the peak value of the time-based power consumption when the actual introduced load facility is in operation. The information indicating the power consumption and the number of actual introduced load facilities is used to set the coefficient.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Reducing the workload and speed of generating 3D model images in residential design. [Solution] The housing design support device 1 displays a housing design support screen 3 on the user terminal 2, and the user edits the housing design from the housing design support screen 3. Editing can be done on the floor plan, interior, and exterior, and the edited results are sent to the housing design support device 1, where connection information and link information for each room, and the corresponding room models are determined. Based on the determined information, the housing design support device 1 displays a 3D image of the designed house on the housing design support screen 3. Since the 3D image is generated from connection information, link information, and the corresponding room models, the processing load can be reduced compared to conventional methods of generating a 3D model of the entire house.

The present invention can assist realization of a front loading design in consideration of an environmental impact index.　The present invention comprises: a processing category reception unit that receives processing categories for design targets on a design screen; a bill-of-process (BOP) candidate calculation unit that specifies, for each of the processing categories, a candidate for a processing method which belongs to the processing category, and calculates, as a BOP candidate, a combination of candidates for the processing method which have been specified for all of the design targets; an environmental impact index calculation unit that calculates the environmental impact index of the BOP candidate; and a display information generation unit that displays, on the design screen, the environmental impact index in association with the BOP candidate.

The present invention supports design by enabling the checking of a determination rule in consideration of material-specific characteristics or physical properties, and enabling, in the design stage, the evaluation of corrosion resistance and durability of a product to be designed.　This design support system defines a determination rule related to a combination of component materials, recognizes an adjacent component on the basis of a feature value acquired from information of a model to be designed by using a predetermined function associated with the determination rule, and determines the suitability of the combination of the materials by using the material of the adjacent component and first material determination information in which a theoretical value related to the combination of the materials is registered. The determination rule includes a threshold value of an electrochemical potential, and a theoretical value of the electrochemical potential is registered in the first material determination information. It is determined whether the combination of the materials in the adjacent component conforms to the determination rule on the basis of comparison between the theoretical value of the electrochemical potential corresponding to the combination of the materials of the adjacent component and the threshold value of the determination rule.

This invention provides a structural design support device that can evaluate vertical components, such as shear deformation. [Solution] The structural design support device includes: an evaluation point information acquisition unit that acquires evaluation point information representing the position information in a first state and the position information in a second state of evaluation points provided on a structure composed of multiple parts; and an evaluation value calculation unit that uses the evaluation point information acquired by the evaluation point information acquisition unit to calculate an evaluation value representing the magnitude of change in the positional relationship between the first evaluation point and the second evaluation point between the first state and the second state; wherein the evaluation value calculation unit calculates at least a first evaluation value which is the component perpendicular to the straight line connecting the first evaluation point and the second evaluation point of the vector obtained by dividing the relative displacement vector between the first evaluation point and the second evaluation point by the distance between the first evaluation point and the second evaluation point.

To provide a design support device and a design support method that take into consideration a non-destructive inspection.SOLUTION: A design support device includes: an input processing unit 10 that receives input of a CAD model related to an object to be subjected to a non-destructive inspection, and also receives input of information related to a supposed anticipated defect and a design variable in the CAD model; a detection probability processing unit 30 that calculates a detection probability curve for the supposed defect; a sensitivity analysis unit 40 that calculates sensitivity of a detection probability, which is the degree of change in the detection probability curve when the design variable is changed; and a display processing unit 50 that outputs the detection probability and the sensitivity. The input processing unit 10 also includes a check unit 20 that receives characteristic information of an inspection probe for performing the non-destructive inspection and determines, on the basis of the characteristic information of an inspection probe and the CAD model, whether or not the inspection probe can be installed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

The aim is to provide design support for the new construction or relocation locations of infrastructure facilities using virtual space data. [Solution] In a design support device S011, an installable area calculation unit P01 calculates an area that satisfies the installation rules in the installation rule data R01 and the design rules of the virtual structure design data B01 based on spatial data D01, installation rule data R01, and virtual structure design data B01 stored in external storage, to obtain installable area data T01, and a virtual structure installation unit M01 installs a virtual structure within the installable area based on the installable area data T01 based on the installable area data T01 and the virtual structure design data B01, to obtain design support data E01 and output it to the outside.

Efficiently calculate the energy or heat load associated with the building being designed. [Solution] The design support device acquires a room zone model representing the arrangement of rooms within the building under design. Based on the acquired room zone model, the design support device generates a performance definition model, which is a model representing the performance of the room boundaries in the building under design and a model for defining the performance of the building under design. Based on the generated performance definition model, the design support device sets the design specifications for the building under design. Based on the generated performance definition model and the set design specifications for the building under design, the design support device calculates the energy or heat load related to the building under design.