- Power plants based on heat energy
-from fossil fuels as coal, gas, oil or garbage as conventional fuels,
-from nuclear energy via nuclear fission or thermonuclear fusion,
-from renewable energy as biomass, hydrogen, methane,
-from solar energy with thermal collectors for solar heat or
-from geothermal energy from near surface, thermal spring, - Aggregates for combined heat and power generation, heat engines as cogeneration plant or block power station,
in particular mobile and portable units, - Configuration and operation of energy storages such as
hydrogen reservoirs, pump storages or accumulators,
batteries with lithium, zinc, nickel, lead or metall hydride, including constituents as half cells, galvanic cells and separators, - Manufacturing and usage of fuel cells along with the electrodes, membranes and electrolytes,
- Power plant technology and components of power plants
as boiler, reactor, collector, rotor, water wheel, pumps, piping system, steam generator, turbine, generator, condenser, transformer, flue gas treatment, for instance denitrification (DeNox) or desulfurization, cooling equipment
and apparatuses for operation, control and monitoring together with safety engineering, - Facilities for electricity generation
-from sunlight per photovoltaic,
-from wind energy per wind park or offshore,
-from water power per stream, wave or tidal power plant and not least - Fuel elements, in particular its preparation, storage, transport and treatment.
Should your invention not be assigned to one of the listed special fields, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Technical solutions for such systems can be protected by patent or utility model. The subject-matter of a novel usage can only be obtained with a patent. The protection of usage can also range over to known products. A characteristic case is the "second medical indication" of a known drug which from now on shall be protected for the therapy of a different disease with different (treatment-)purpose.
Problems may occur because the application area (for example battery in electric vehicle, a propeller blade in turbine) is obvious or a dependent patent results from the patent application because somebody else has filed or gained a protective right for a component of the product or the usage. Also the justification (=lack of protection interest) can be missing, because a patent for a product is already granted to the same applicant, for example for an electrical processor whose "usage" patent is limited to the use of this processor with a computer only.
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