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These 13 Inventive Principles deliver good solutions for tasks and problems mainly in construction and design.

The Inventive Principles contain recommendations for changes of technical systems: they help to strengthen useful characteristics and to eliminate the objectionable ones.

 

Segmentation

Extraction

Local Quality

Asymmetry

Combining

Universality

Integration

Anty-weight

Inversion (Other Way Round)

Dynamism

Shift to Another Dimension

Mediator

Flexible Shells and Thin Films

HINT:

The use of Inventive Principles consists of three system levels:

 

- System or objekt itself (e.g. office phone)
- Sub-System (e.g. phone receiver)
- Super-System and environment (e.g. telephone system and telefon network).


If you cannot find a satisfying solution use all the 40 Inventive Principles.