Granted Patent B2

US 12,254,245 · App. 18/279,469 · Granted Mar 18, 2025

Inventors: Dong Yong Oh (Seoul, KR); Jung Ho Chang (Seoul, KR); John Roby (Seoul, KR); Sang Do Kim (Seoul, KR)

Assignee: SAMSUNG E&A CO., LTD.

G06F30/18G06F30/12G06F2113/14

Abstract

Claims (41)

1. A method of processing digitalized drawing data by a computer, the method comprising:

providing a digitalized drawing having a line ID (S10);

splitting the line ID into a plurality of topologies, which are smallest units that are mutually exclusive and do not overlap each other (S20);

generating a pipe system network (PSN) by recombining the plurality of topologies, wherein the plurality of topologies are recombined such that a start point and an end point of the PSN are each independently Equipment, Branch or Header (S30); and

generating a path item (PI) by arranging internal objects on the digitalized drawing existing between the start point and the end point of the pipe system network (PSN) and adding information usable in a subsequent process (S40),

wherein in the step (S10), the line ID comprises fluid code (FC), piping material class (PMC), sequence number (SN), unit number (UN), insulation code (IC), or a combination thereof, and

wherein the step (S20) comprises:

generating a pipe system (PS) by combining the fluid code (FC) and the piping material class (PMC) (S20-1);

generating a pipe line (PL) by combining the pipe system (PS) and the sequence number (SN) (S20-2);

generating a topology by combining the pipe line (PL) and the insulation code (IC) and classifying the resultant by the unit number (UN) (S20-3);

adding a sub-type tag to the topology generated in the step (S20-3) according to a predetermined standard (S20-4); and

classifying the topology generated in the step (S20-4) as main or branch according to a predetermined standard (S20-5).

2. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein in the step (S20-2), the start point and the end point of the pipe line (PL) may be connected to equipment (Equipment) or line break (LB) or may be self-terminated without being connected to anything.

3. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein in the step (S20-5), if a plurality of main topologies or branch topologies exist in the same pipeline (PL), the number at the end of each tag may be increased by one.

4. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein in the step (S20-5), among the topologies, the topologies connected to equipment are first classified as main, and among the topologies that are not connected to equipment, one of lines whose sub-type is normal is arbitrarily classified as main while the remaining topologies are classified as branch.

5. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the sub-type tag is Normal, Instrument, Vent_Drain, By-pass, Header, or Other system.

6. The method of claim 5 ,

wherein in the step (S30), when configuring the pipe system network (PSN), the topologies whose sub-type is Instrument or Vent_Drain are not used.

7. The method of claim 1 ,

further comprising, between the step (S30) and the step (S40), the step of adding a type tag to the pipe system network (PSN) (S32) wherein the type tag includes equipment-to-equipment (E2E), equipment-to-branch (E2B), branch-to-equipment (B2E), branch-to-branch (B2B), header-to-equipment (HDE), header-to-branch (HDB) or header-to-header (HD2).

8. The method of claim 7 ,

further comprising, between the step (S30) and the step (S40), the step of adding an order number (ON) tag to the pipe system network (PSN) (S34), wherein the order number (ON) tag is added to the pipe system network (PSN) so as to correspond in one-to-one fashion to individual pipelines (PL) in the order from the start point to the end point as much as the number of pipelines (PL) (S34).

9. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein in the step (S40), the path item (PI) is configured by assigning an order number to each item name existing between the start point and the end point of the pipe system network (PSN) according to the flow direction of the digitalized drawing.

10. The method of claim 9 ,

wherein the item name comprises branch (Branch), pipe run (PipeRun), piping component (PipingComp), or in-line instrument (Instrument).

11. The method of claim 9 ,

wherein in the step (S40), the path item (PI) starts with a new order number “0” when topology is changed in the same pipe system network (PSN).

12. The method of claim 1 ,

further comprising, after the step (S40), the step of adding Branch Topology ID tag to the path item (PI) (S42).

13. The method of claim 12 ,

wherein in the step (S42), the Branch topology ID is denoted as counterpart topology ID that is not included in the corresponding path item (PI) among two topology IDs connected to a T intersection when two different topologies are branched in a tee (T) shape.

14. The method of claim 12 ,

further comprising, after the step (S40), the step of adding a pipe system network (PSN) ID tag to the path item (PI) (S44).

15. The method of claim 14 ,

wherein in the step (S44), the pipe system network (PSN) ID is denoted as the ID of the pipe system network (PSN) that includes counterpart topology ID that is not included in the corresponding path item (PI) among two topology IDs connected to a T intersection when two different topologies are branched in a tee (T) shape, and in other cases, the pipe system network (PSN) ID is denoted as the ID of the pipe system network (PSN) that includes the topology that is included in the corresponding path item (PI).

16. A computer program stored in a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in order to execute the method of claim 1 by using a computer.

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