Searching in Cooperative Patent Classification: Comparison between keyword and concept-based search

T Montecchi, D Russo, Y Liu - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2013 - Elsevier
International patent corpus is a gigantic source containing today about 80million of
documents. Every patent is manually analyzed by patent officers and then classified by a …

Automatic extraction of function–behaviour–state information from patents

G Fantoni, R Apreda, F Dell'Orletta, M Monge - Advanced Engineering …, 2013 - Elsevier
Patents contain a large quantity of technical information not available elsewhere and
therefore very interesting for both academia and industry. The purpose of the research is to …

A hybrid approach for the automation of functional decomposition in conceptual design

L Yuan, Y Liu, Z Sun, Y Cao… - Journal of Engineering …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Multidisciplinary complex mechatronic systems span disciplines such as mechanics,
electronics, control and software. Increasing complexity makes the implementation of …

A new method for extracting knowledge from patents to inspire designers during the problem-solving phase

UY Valverde, JP Nadeau… - Journal of Engineering …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Nowadays, patents are more than an industrial property protection, they constitute a
considerable source of information. Several approaches deal with the extraction of pertinent …

TRIZ 40 Inventive principles classification through FBS ontology

D Russo, C Spreafico - Procedia engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Altshuller screened patents in order to find out what kind of contradictions were resolved or
dissolved by the inventors/inventions and the way this had been achieved. From this he …

FBOS: function/behaviour–oriented search

T Montecchi, D Russo - Procedia engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a patent searching framework to assess the state of the art of a
product or a technology and to support technology transfer activities. It combines several …

Functional-based search for patent technology transfer

D Russo, T Montecchi, Y Liu - … and Information in …, 2012 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Patent literature contains over 70 million patent documents, so the amount of information
available to companies and the opportunity to derive business value and market new …

An automated functional decomposition method based on morphological changes of material flows

L Yuan, Y Liu, Y Lin, J Zhao - Journal of Engineering Design, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Conceptual design has been paid increasing attention by academia and industry. However,
there is no consensus of the concept of 'function'in the domain of conceptual design, making …

Knowledge based approach for formulating TRIZ contradictions

T Montecchi, D Russo - Procedia engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
The article presents how to innovate a product using information extraction from patents
literature to identify and overcome TRIZ contradictions. Each initial inventive situation has to …

Innovation through pertinent patents research based on physical phenomena involved

U Valverde, JP Nadeau, D Scaravetti, JF Leon - Procedia CIRP, 2014 - Elsevier
One can find innovative solutions to complex industrial problems by looking for knowledge
in patents. Traditional search using keywords in databases of patents has been widely used …