The process of our Design Cycle

Home Page Project Description Process Final Design

Significant Milestones

Deliverable & Date Due	Importance
CAD Drawings of Existing Lighters- April 6	Analyze current lighters Render drawings for future products
Fuel Test Results-April 25	Compare fuel to current lighters and Demonstrate practicality of using fuel other than butane
Works-like prototype- April 19	Provide client with a proof-of-concept to show investors Demonstrate functionality of chosen fuel
Design Report-May 4	Communicate important design considerations to the client

Tools used during design

The main tool we used for our testing would be our built test apparatus. It is made of a small Aluminum tube with aluminum plates welded together. The various things coming off are pipes to hold the pressure guage, on/off valvues, and where the flame comes out.

Test apparatus during testing

Development process

The team first started out with the goal to make a fully functioning lighter. The picture below shows our initial process.

The original process used by the team. Original goal was to create a fully functioning lighter.

But with realization we had to change our process as fuel dicated how the rest of the components would come together. So we altered our process to be more like steps, with fuel being the first step to the lighter.

Design Process

Problems/ trade offs encountered and how you overcame them.

Some of the problems we encountered was buying the fuel. Since this was a flamable gas and not something at a grocery store, we had to wait on testing till fuel arrived. To overcome this, we used PAM which uses our fuel as a propellent.