US 12,306,617 B2
Automated manufacturing architectural millwork
Robert Anthony Baker, Washington, DC (US)
Filed by Robert Anthony Baker, Washington, DC (US)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/077,656.
Application 18/077,656 is a division of application No. 16/582,330, filed on Sep. 25, 2019, granted, now 11,556,116.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/736,641, filed on Sep. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0097555 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G05B 19/418 (2006.01); B27C 5/00 (2006.01); B27M 3/18 (2006.01); G05B 19/4093 (2006.01); G05B 19/4097 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/41865 (2013.01) [G05B 19/40931 (2013.01); G05B 19/4097 (2013.01); B27C 5/00 (2013.01); B27M 3/18 (2013.01); G05B 2219/45145 (2013.01); G05B 2219/45197 (2013.01); G05B 2219/45229 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer program product for designing a unit, embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising program code that, when executed, causes a computer to perform the steps of:
providing, to a user, a user interface comprising a design interface;
receiving, from the design interface, a plurality of unit parameters for the unit, the plurality of unit parameters comprising at least two of: a type of the unit, a length of the unit, a height of the unit, a width of the unit, a depth of the unit, a number of doors of the unit, a number of other peripherals of the unit, and a number of adjacencies of the unit;
generating a manufacturing model from the plurality of unit parameters received from the design interface, wherein the generated manufacturing model is modeled as a set in a network of sets comprising at least one parent set and a plurality of child sets, the at least one parent set corresponds to an overall space, each parent set has at least two corresponding child sets, and each child set has one corresponding parent set;
computing, from the manufacturing model, two or more constituent parts that make up the unit;
writing a manufacturing file comprising the two or more constituent parts computed from the manufacturing model;
arranging the two or more constituent parts spatially in a workspace to minimize waste of manufacturing material during manufacture;
transmitting the manufacturing file to one or more manufacturing centers;
ordering the two or more constituent parts to be delivered;
executing the manufacturing file when received by an automated manufacturing tool to produce the unit from the two or more delivered constituent parts;
wherein the manufacturing file is generated from the manufacturing model.