Method and system for developing a vehicle package

US7447616B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Nanxin Wang · Novi, US
• Doug Vandervoort · Novi, US
• Jian Wan · Novi, US
• Gianna Gomez-levi · Ann Arbor, US
• Stephan Sieczka · Brighton, US
• Jack Malone · Paradise, US
• David Bradley Pulliam · Lawrence Park, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 10, 2005
• Grant date: Nov 4, 2008
• Expiry date: Jun 28, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/30
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for rapidly designing a vehicle package is disclosed. The method receives virtual vehicle package model data, converts the data into mechanical vehicle package model data and transmits the data to a mechanical vehicle package model system. A method is also disclosed for adjusting the mechanical model, converting the adjustment into data readable by a computer aided design system and transmitting the data to the computer aided design system for generating or modifying the virtual vehicle package. A system for designing a vehicle package is disclosed having a mechanical vehicle package model, a computer aided design system, a translator embodied in a computer system in communication with the computer aided design system and a mechanical vehicle package model in communication with the translator.