On another forum, Jack400 seems to guggest that the 3 papers EEStor recently published discuss patented product that EEStor is prepared to licence. Furthermore, one cannot make those products without using one or more of their patents.

 

How absurd. Aluminum, glas/ceramic/ and decoupling capacitors have been around for decades.

 

One cannot patent ideas alone. There has to be a structure that is unique.

The first paper Jack400 references is proposing replacing Aluminum capacitors with ceramic. It’s not an original idea, and  certainly cannot be considered a patentable product.  There are ceramic equivalents of AEC already (see   http://catalogs.avx.com/AdvancedCeramicCapacitors.pdf) AEC’s are compared at several points, for example p 5. Above about 5uF, AEC are much cheaper, and always will be, regardless of the ceramic material or process. For the LED lamp, the AEC is 10 cents, the ceramic MLC is 100 dollars! So much for “low cost disruptive”

The CMBT/glass historically was a low cost electrode material, with permittivity around 1000. Then low fire CMBT’s were developed, allowing base metal electrodes and K’s in the 3-5000 range, which soon I obsoleted the glass ceramic and its messy processing. To reconstruct that process to make less efficient capacitors is not only silly, but expensive. The costs would be at least 10 times that of the current BME capacitor. Again, so much for “low cost disruptive”

 

Decoupling capacitors, as we have discussed, are made by the hundreds of millions, every day. For someone to consider using Weirs silane coated CMBT, interrupting their current maximum output. That’s the only “disruption” here.

So in summary, EEStor does not provide a “low cost disruptive” solution in any of those areas, itfact the opposite is true.

Furthermore all those products are, and have been made in the millions for years, and none rely on the patents EEStor has. 

Another real drawback to adopting any of Weir’s dielectrics is that it would require total reconfiguration of the front of the line, and isolation because silica is a contaminant to many dielectrics.