Value Delivered
GreyB’s meticulous efforts led to the discovery of promising prior art. This significantly reduced the client’s risks and simplified their legal obligations.
Problem Solved
Several challenges came up while searching prior art for a design profile of the rotor pair of a screw compressor. The team was searching for a main rotor with 4 teeth and a secondary rotor with 5 teeth, i.e., a 5/4 profile. This was a specialized technological field with limited prior art. The initial results showed information about a different compressor profile (6/5), which did not match the project’s goals. When searching for system design prior art, there was no clear reference on generating the desired 5/4 profile or the math needed to calculate the secondary rotor’s profile depth. This created uncertainty about the next steps in the search.
Solutions Offered
While investigating system design, several publications were discovered by a professor at City University, London. A deep dive into the inventor’s earlier work uncovered more relevant publications. One key publication revealed that the inventor had developed a software called “DISCO,” available before the cut-off date, which could generate the intended compressor profiles. An older version of this software was installed, and a 5/4 profile was created successfully. Manual calculations were also performed for the relative profile depth. This process led to the discovery of valuable prior art that met the project’s goals.
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