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Table 1 Inventive principles in terms of the first coupling

From: Design process of the nanofluid injection mechanism in nuclear power plants

Inventive principles

Description of inventive principles

1. Cheap short-living

Replace an expensive object with a multitude of inexpensive objects, compromising certain qualities

2. The other way around

Invert the action used to solve a problem. For example, instead of cooling an object, heat it.

Make the movable parts fixed, and the fixed parts movable

Turn the object 'upside down'

3. Segmentation

Subdivide an object into parts

Make an object easy to disassemble

Increase the degree of fragmentation of an object

4. Inert atmosphere

Replace a normal environment with an inert one

Add neutral parts, or inert additives to an object

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