Barr Group's experienced electronics and software experts consult with attorneys in product liability and patent and trade secret litigations. Our experts in battery charging and energy technologies have hands-on experience designing such systems and the credentials and integrity to testify successfully before judges and juries.
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Renewable Energy Technologies
Renewable energy technologies include solar-, wind-, and rechargeable battery-powered systems and contain electronics and software. When an energy generation, storage, or transfer system malfunctions the results can be deadly, especially in a high-voltage situation, as well as lead to blackouts and other adverse effects. Barr Group is in the business of designing reliable and secure embedded systems and our expert software engineers, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers are well acquainted with the design of energy-related systems and products such as:
- Hybrid and electric vehicles (EV) and their traction battery packs
- Laptop, cell phone, implantable medical, and e-cigarette batteries
- Battery recharging algorithms and charge-sensing electronics
- Inductive charging, a.k.a. wireless charging, including Qi and PMA
- Lithium and Li-ion batteries, charging and storage safety
- Supercapacitors and ultracapacitors
- Fuel cells, including hydrogen
- Battery chemistry and electrochemical energy storage
- Electrochemistries from alkaline to NiMH, NiCd, NiZn, and ZnBr
- Battery mass production and quality control, including factory setup
- Battery failure analysis and fire safety considerations
- Biomass thermophysical conversion technologies
- Energy generation, storage, and transfer, in general
- Wind and oceanic wave energy capture such as wind farms and turbines
- Solar photovoltaic (PV) cells, panels and systems (including in orbit/space)
- Space propulsion systems, including lunar dust extraction and utilization
- Smart grid technologies for high-voltage energy distribution networks
- Voltage Stability Monitoring & Control (VSMC) software
- Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), a.k.a. "smart meters"
Barr Group's electronics and software experts are familiar with all of the technologies used in battery recharging and renewable energy systems. This includes FPGAs and ASICs programmed in Verilog and VHDL, processors such as ARM cores programmed in assembly, C/C++, and other languages, as well as Linux and real-time operating systems like VxWorks. And we are just as comfortable with other tools such as MATLAB and LabVIEW.
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Renewable Energy Expert Witness Services
Barr Group's renewable energy technology experts support plaintiffs and defendants in litigation, including in U.S. District Courts and state courts, at the International Trade Commission (ITC), and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Our services include:
- Technical assistance with drafting of discovery requests
- Analysis of electronics and related design documents
- Software source code review and analysis
- Tear-downs and comparisons for copyright and trade secret theft
- Prior art review for patent invalidity
- Reverse engineering, including disassembly of binary code
- Battery testing and characterization
- Battery failure and degradation analysis
- CFEI fire, explosion, and malfunction investigations
- Expert reports, declarations, and witness statements
- Testimony at deposition, oral hearings, and trials
Barr Group has a demonstrated ability to quickly activate one or more electronics and software reviewers to match the size, scope, and complexity of any project.
The following is a representative subset of Barr Group's experts who have experience designing and/or testifying about these technologies:
Registered Professional Engineer (PE) with several decades of hands-on industry experience...
Chemist and consultant with four decades of experience in the area of electrochemical energy...
Experienced electrochemist, consultant, and adjunct professor of materials science and...
Technology consultant with more than thirty years of experience in battery, materials, and...
Physicist with over three decades of industry experience and a prolific innovator in electro-...
Professor of electrical and computer engineering with over twenty-five years of experience in...
Chemist and portable power expert with thirty years of industry experience in the fields of...
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