Patents by Inventor David Leonard DATE

David Leonard DATE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Finite element mesh customisation
    Patent number: 9704293
    Abstract: Method of providing the generic finite element mesh; providing a library of displacement shapes of generic mesh, each displacement shape being applicable to the generic mesh to generate altered mesh; providing a set of scanned data points which map the surface of the actual component, each scanned data point defining the spatial position of a respective location on the surface of the actual component; superposing the scanned data points on the surface of generic mesh; projecting scanned data points onto respective proximal surface locations of generic mesh to form a set of near data points, each near data point defining the spatial position of respective location on the surface of the generic mesh; determining a combination of the displacement shapes; and applying the combination of displacement shapes to the generic mesh to generate a customized finite element mesh for the actual component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: David Leonard Date, Ronald Anthony Bates
  • FINITE ELEMENT MESH CUSTOMISATION
    Publication number: 20150339851
    Abstract: Method of providing the generic finite element mesh; providing a library of displacement shapes of generic mesh, each displacement shape being applicable to the generic mesh to generate altered mesh; providing a set of scanned data points which map the surface of the actual component, each scanned data point defining the spatial position of a respective location on the surface of the actual component; superposing the scanned data points on the surface of generic mesh; projecting scanned data points onto respective proximal surface locations of generic mesh to form a set of near data points, each near data point defining the spatial position of respective location on the surface of the generic mesh; determining a combination of the displacement shapes; and applying the combination of displacement shapes to the generic mesh to generate a customised finite element mesh for the actual component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: David Leonard DATE, Ronald Anthony BATES