Inventive Principle #10: Preliminary Action (“Do It in Advance”) 81
Inventive Principle #9: Preliminary Anti-action
This principle refers to the use of a process or system design to prevent a possible future negative event, result, or harmful effect.
Examples of the Use of This Principle:
1. Chemical solution buffering
2. Prestressed concrete
3. Sunscreen lotions
4. Tape products to prevent paint leaking on to the wrong surface
5. “Poison pill” to prevent unwanted corporate takeover
6. Polymerization inhibitors
7. Dead man switches; safety interlocks
8. Pretension to avoid kickbacks in machinery
9. “Straddle” stock purchases
10. Boot camps, zero gravity exposures prior to real experience
Where have you used/seen used this principle?
Inventive Principle #10: Preliminary Action
(“Do It in Advance”)
This principle refers to performing a function before it is needed, prearranging pro- cesses or products or preparing a system for change
Examples of the Use of This Principle:
1. Job planning to avoid accidents and potential injuries
2. Employee training; emergency drills
3. Preformatting documents
4. “Stop loss” stock market orders
5. A legal will
6. Establish a line of credit before a major purchase or acquisition
7. Prepasted wall paper
8. Evacuation of major metropolitan areas prior to natural disaster such as a hurricane
9. Preheating and precooling
10. Storage for buffering of production rates with intermediate tankage and storage