What every engineer should know about inventing
This book provides the reader with the information they need to develop into a person who seeks creative opportunities and responds with elegant inventions. It is intended for young inventor and to all those who have the talent and the desire to invent.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press
[2019]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009869103706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- About the Author
- 1 The Climate for Invention
- Definitions
- Patent Statistics
- The Change in Education
- The Change in Industry
- The Change in People
- Why Invent?
- Are there Opportunities to Invent?
- 2 Examples of Inventions
- Locking Thread Construction
- An Improved Socket Wrench
- A Ground Fault Interrupter
- The Independent Inventor and the Employed Inventor
- Two Kinds of Invention Problems
- 3 Learning From Great Inventors of the Past
- The Steam Engine
- Xerography
- The Negative Feedback Amplifier
- The Duplexer
- Summary
- 4 Theories of Creativity
- Selected Theories
- An Ordinary Example
- Janusian Thinking
- Blocks to Creativity
- Characteristics of Creative People
- Creativity and Age
- Individual vs. Group Effort
- 5 A Survey of Inventors
- Can Inventors Describe their Methods?
- The Responses
- Summary
- 6 How to Improve Your Ability
- Suggestions for the Would-Be Inventor
- Summary
- 7 Choosing the Best Strategy
- A Warning
- Rabinow's Patent
- 8 Methods to Stimulate Invention
- A General Method
- Adaptation
- Analogs and Duals
- Brainstorming
- Synectics
- Involvement
- Area Thinking
- Functional Synthesis
- Summary
- 9 Serendipity: Invention by Accident
- A Chance Solution
- New Discoveries
- Summary
- 10 Tests to Measure Creativity
- A Critique
- Typical Tests
- What is Important to the Engineer?
- 11 After the Invention
- The Need for Records
- How to Record Your Invention
- Conception, Diligence, and Reduction to Practice
- Presenting Your Invention
- Selecting a Patent Attorney
- Cost of a Patent
- Continue Your Development
- 12 Preparing to Sell Your Invention
- Selecting a Licensee
- Information About Manufacturers.
- Letter to Prospective Licensee
- The Nonconfidential Disclosure Agreement
- 13 Compensation
- When Your Employer has Patent Rights
- When you have Patent Rights
- 14 Refuting the Nih Theory
- The Effect of Standards
- The Loss of Motivation
- Other Factors
- 15 Finding Standards that Affect Your Invention
- Types of Standards
- Standards Organizations
- Summary
- 16 Case Histories
- A Lifetime of Inventing
- A Student's First Invention
- A Lifesaving Invention
- 17 Closure
- A Parting Word
- Exercises
- To Learn it Better
- Invention Suggestions
- References
- Index.
