Chapter 255: Patents
After eating, when I walked on the road, I still didn't leave work in three sentences.
"Therefore, we also plan to take this opportunity to formalize the company's design department, the previous Shuhang only designed some glasses, lenses and other products, only a team of six people can be done, now we are gradually expanding the scope of business, the design department can just take the opportunity to set up. ”
At this time, although Shuhang Optics is already a regular modern company, it is still due to the short period of time, there are always some deficiencies in one way or another, including the company's independent design capabilities.
In the first two years, considering the company's lack of manpower, coupled with the lack of energy of the management, and the main glasses products did not have too complex requirements for industrial design, most of them were directly designed by Wang Zhengguo, or Shuhang submitted the relevant requirements to the Shuda Optical Laboratory, where the design could be paid for a fee.
Now it's different, first of all, the general category of glasses needs to be constantly enriched, which has to be followed up by designers, Wang Zhengguo and the optical laboratory can no longer continue to help design glasses, which is one of the reasons for the establishment of a special design department.
On the other hand, we have to consider the design of cameras and lenses, the complexity of these things is not something that can be done in a short period of time, and we must have enough historical experience inheritance and accumulation to continuously launch good products, so we must not miss a professional design department.
"It makes sense, camera design is a very comprehensive knowledge, the optical laboratory can only do the optical part, the CMOS laboratory can do the optical sensor part, other data processing, storage, overall design, these aspects have no experience in China to learn from, you can only slowly accumulate by yourself, set up a special design department, which is indeed imperative. ”
Shuhang continues to improve itself, which is a good phenomenon, which means that after waiting for some time, someone should be able to see happily that Shuhang will come out coldly and hold a new round of press conference, inviting guests from all over the world to witness the development and progress of the times.
"By the way, the designer who developed the ultrasonic motor, he specifically revealed when the product will be able to be industrialized on a large scale, this question is very critical, involving the research and development of Shuhang Optics in the autofocus technology, we must hurry up. ”
Since it has been clearly stated that there is a detailed engineering design plan, which means that it is not far from industrial production, what the project lacks is only large-scale product testing, and then make small changes to the problems exposed in the test, only these aspects of work, it does not actually take too much time.
As long as the ultrasonic motor is successfully developed, Shuhang can immediately start the research and development of autofocus technology, which is the most cutting-edge and most sought after camera key technology in the world in the 80s.
It's a pity that in the upper-plane republic, the huge camera industry does not have any unit to carry out the research and development of autofocus technology, that is, from this time, the decline of the republic's camera industry has been inevitable.
Someone has laid out the most critical CMOS optical sensor in the digital camera era in advance, and the technology is based on the 90s and the digital camera of the small book is prepared in close proximity, but it is forgotten that the autofocus technology is also extremely important.
Fortunately, Shuhang itself has realized the importance of autofocus technology, and is ready to spend a huge amount of money to support the development of ultrasonic motors, which is the most critical in autofocus technology.
Tu Zhenying didn't know Wang Zhengguo's lofty goal at this time, she was just thinking about the current problem: "Regarding the time node, the person said that as long as the capital investment is sufficient, he can guarantee that the product will be finalized within a year, that is, before the end of this year." ”
It is already very efficient to be able to finalize the ultrasonic motor before the end of the year, and the first small book to realize the industrial large-scale production of ultrasonic motors is only in 1982, and so far, it has only been less than three years after careful calculation.
Thinking of the ultrasonic motor in the small book, I suddenly considered a very real problem: how to avoid the relevant technology patents.
The reason why traditional electromagnetic motors are manufactured in large quantities is that the invention time of that thing is too early, and the patent has expired for a long time, so naturally it will not involve the issue of infringement, but if it is an ultrasonic motor, this is different, I am afraid that the new company has registered the relevant patent in 82 years, and that thing is really not easy to solve.
I was a little worried, so I hurriedly asked: "About this ultrasonic motor, did he say that he avoided the patent barriers of the small book, if it can't effectively circumvent the patents that others have applied for, it means that even if we invest in him to develop things, we will not be able to sell them in the international market in the future, and even the domestic market is not very good." ”
In the future, if you want to compete with the small book in the camera industry, you must not only be partial to the domestic market of the Republic of China, but also the international market can not be ignored, don't you know that the Republic of cameras in the 80s have been exported abroad and began to compete with international camera giants, how can you give up the situation that has been opened with great difficulty in the future.
If patent barriers cannot be circumvented, then this technical route can no longer be invested, and we can only find a way to take another technical route from scratch.
If you really can't find another feasible ultrasonic motor technology route, you can only spend money to introduce technology from a small book, but fortunately, the new industrial company that developed the first ultrasonic motor does not produce cameras, it is just a company that simply develops ultrasonic motors.
Since the ultrasonic motor has only been developed for a short time, its reputation is not obvious, and the market has not yet been fully developed, and the new industrial company is short of money and lack of marketing.
In the mid-80s, most of the other industrial giants had not noticed this and were immersed in the world of electromagnetic motors, except for the fact that they were interested in ultrasonic motors
In the general direction, in the friendly environment between China and Japan in the eighties, it is not impossible to introduce technology, but the price is different.
If it is really necessary, it is still acceptable to spend some money on the introduction of technology patents, that is, there is still some possibility at this point in time, until the late 80s, with the introduction of ultrasonic motor autofocus technology to the market, the ultrasonic motor at that time will be an instant hit, and the small book that wants to monopolize the camera industry will definitely not sit idly by and watch such an important technology spread outside the Japanese camera industry.