VEXTEC Virtual Life Management technology is based on intellectual property developed by the company. In recognition of these unique aspects of the company’s technology, three patents have been granted, and several more are pending. VEXTEC believes these advancements represent significant contributions towards improving the processes of product development, research and testing, and manufacturing, with the end results being more reliable, better designed products, at lower costs.
| Patent #: 7,480,601 |
Issued: January 20, 2009 |
| Title: Methods and apparatus for predicting the failure of a component, and for determining a grain orientation factor for a material |
| Abstract: The invention provides a method and apparatus for predicting the failure of a component using a probabilistic model of a material's microstructural-based response to fatigue. The method predicts the component failure by a computer simulation of multiple incarnations of real material behavior, or virtual prototyping. The virtual prototyping simulates the effects of characteristics that include grain size, grain orientation, micro-applied stress and micro-yield strength that are difficult to simulate with real specimens. The invention provides an apparatus for predicting the response of a component to fatigue using the method. |
| Inventors: |
Tryon, III; Robert G. (Brentwood, TN) |
| Assignee: |
Vextec Corporation (Brentwood, TN) |
| Appl. No.: |
11/335,021 |
| Filed: |
January 18, 200 |
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| Patent #: 7,016,825 |
Issued: March 21, 2006 |
| Title: Method and apparatus for predicting the failure of a component |
| Abstract: The invention provides a method and apparatus for predicting the failure of a component using a probabilistic model of a material's microstructural-based response to fatigue. The method predicts the component failure by a computer simulation of multiple incarnations of real material behavior, or virtual prototyping. The virtual prototyping simulates the effects of characteristics that include grain size, grain orientation, micro-applied stress and micro-yield strength that are difficult to simulate with real specimens. The invention provides an apparatus for predicting the response of a component to fatigue using the method. |
| Inventors: |
Tryon, III; Robert G. (Brentwood, TN) |
| Assignee: |
Vextec Corporation (Brentwood, TN) |
| Appl. No.: |
10/002,316 |
| Filed: |
October 25, 2001 |
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| Patent #: 7,006,947 |
Issued: February 28, 2006 |
| Title: Method and apparatus for predicting failure in a system |
| Abstract: The invention regards a system reliability or failure predicting apparatus and method that incorporates known information about system component failure into a system model and uses the model with or without other acquired system data to predict the probability of system failure. An embodiment of the method includes using probabilistic methods to create a system failure model from the failure models of individual system components, predicting the failure of the system based on the component models and system data, ranking the sensitivity of the system to the system variables, and communicating a failure prediction. |
| Inventors: |
Tryon, III; Robert G. (Brentwood, TN), Dey; Animesh (Brentwood, TN), Nasser; A. Lorenz (Brentwood, TN) |
| Assignee: |
Vextec Corporation (Brentwood, TN) |
| Appl. No.: |
10/043,712 |
| Filed: |
January 8, 2002 |
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