結合專利資訊與公理設計之創新設計流程

Development of a Design Methodology Based on Patent and Axiomatic Design

徐業良(Yeh-Liang Hsu) ； 許博爾(Po-Er Hsu) ； 洪永杰(Yung-Chieh Hung)

《品質學報》 16卷3期 (2009/06) Pp. 153-163

摘要

產業界經常面對的重要問題，是如何針對競爭者已受專利保護之產品或技術進行專利迴避設計，避免專利侵權的產生。本研究提出了一個結合專利資訊與公理設計之創新設計流程，嘗試以系統化的方式，結合公理設計的設計矩陣概念並納入專利資訊、專利侵權判斷法則、專利迴避設計策略與萃思理論，讓設計者經由本研究所發展的創新設計流程，產生僅針對既有專利的部分技術作創新，而仍能達成原有功能的創新設計架構，達到降低研發成本、縮短產品上市時間、與減少專利侵權之風險。在專利迴避設計上，本研究提出的基本想法是在產生具體工程設計概念前，先從既有專利之技術功效矩陣表所代表的設計架構出發，有系統地思考如何產生一個不致侵權的設計架構之後，再依此設計架構進行實際的工程設計。本文中以一個電磁驅動衝擊型手工具爲例，說明本研究提出的創新設計流程各步驟。

關鍵字

公理設計 ； 專利侵權 ； 專利迴避設計 ； 萃思理論

並列摘要

Patent infringements have become an important issue for industries when developing products. Designing around existing patents of competitors is a task constantly faced by designers. This research proposes an innovation design rocess by systematically integrating axiomatic design, patent information and TRIZ. The purpose of the process is to generate a new design concept that is a slight variation of one of the concerned patents but does not infringe with xisting patents. The basic idea is to consider patent infringement before engineering design concepts are actually enerated. A magnetic impact tool design example is used to illustrate the process.

並列關鍵字

axiomatic design ； patent infringement ； design around ； TRIZ

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