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Volumes > Volume 07 > No. 1L

 
   

Creative Design based on Inspirations Stimulated by Patent Knowledge

PP: 113-120
Author(s)
Qing-Ying Qiu, Chi Xue, Pei-En Feng,
Abstract
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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