This morning/afternoon I intend to look very briefly at the nature of patents and how they can be used as an integral part of the product development process. In particular I will look at three different forms of power and power storage currently being developed. These are lithium batteries, fuel cells and hybrid Vehicles.Within this paper I have looked at these developments in electric vehicle technology by using patent abstracts from 40 different issuing authorities over a five year period. To do this I have searched on-line using Derwent's World Patent Index (DWPI), a collection of 16 million patents abstracts going back some 40 years, and have used the various statistical analysis tools that are available with the file. From this analysis I have identified which companies are the major players in the development of each of the technologies I have focused upon.My conclusions will show that published patent applications are the largest available single source of technical information in the world, giving a comprehensive coverage of all technical areas, providing details of existing technology, thus saving money on repeated research, as well as giving a insight into the activities of your closest competitors, or equally as important companies who you didn't recognise as working in the same field of technology as you! In particular I believe that this analysis will show the strength of Japanese companies in the electric vehicle technology market.


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    Titel :

    Patents and Alternatively Powered Vehicles


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Beteiligte:
    Adams, Rob (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    International Congress & Exposition ; 1998



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    23.02.1998




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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