Table 1 Relations of design around directions and evolution routes
From: Design Around Bundle Patent Portfolio Based on Technological Evolution
Circumvent direction | The role of system change | The corresponding law of evolution and route |
|---|---|---|
Add or combine | Add elements and contacts to the system | Integrity |
Add elements and contacts to the system | Deliver to complex systems | |
Delete | Remove or partially remove elements and links from the system | Increasing the idealization level –trimming |
Remove or partially remove elements and links from the system | shortening the path length of the energy flow | |
Substitute | Replace some elements of the system and contact | The unbalanced development of subsystems‒System expansion |
Divide the elements of the system into sections | Deliver to the microscopic system‒Material segmentation | |
Change the shape and size of the system element | The unbalanced development of subsystems‒Material geometry evolution | |
Change the internal structure of system elements | The unbalanced development of subsystems‒ Material internal structure evolution | |
Change the surface state of system elements | The unbalanced development of subsystems‒ Material surface characteristics of evolution | |
Change the relationship among parameters | To ensure the mobility of all parts of the system and other parameters of the variability | Dynamization |
Ensure real-time control and simplify it | Dynamization | |
Check and improve the coordination of system elements | Increasing the coordination | |
Change principle | Find effects again | Deliver to the microscopic system–Deliver to field Dynamic, flexible |