After half a year of lawyers' battles, the petty pirate An Teng Renping finally waited for the court to finally announce the verdict, and he lost the case.

However, the court did not support the 240 million yen claim filed by Taiyu Technology, and only symbolically asked Anteng Renhei's company to pay 100,000 US dollars, or 24 million yen.

This amount of money is not enough to pay even the lawyer's fees!

Guan Fei was very satisfied with this.

Piracy is a very headache because it's not an economic problem, it's a political one!

You don't see, since the country opened its doors to the outside world, it has been persistently learning (counterfeiting) the products of other countries. From pirated software to copycat mobile phones, from portable tablets, countless of the world's top companies, in the face of the surging wave of piracy in China, can only grit their teeth secretly, and occasionally catch an unlucky egg and beat him to death.

Internationally famous companies like Microsoft and Apple can't take piracy, can Guan Fei be more powerful than these companies?

The lawyers' team is not fighting a lawsuit to sweep away pirates, but its biggest role is to correct the name of the world. With a tough attitude and drastic means, let everyone understand - see clearly, this thing was invented by me, even if you buy pirated goods, but you have to be clear that I am the owner of the rights and interests of this kind of goods!

There is only one benefit to this: to break through patent limitations!

Right!

That's all there is to it.

Guan Fei did not ask for much royalty, but he entered the field in a dignified manner by preemptively crossing the threshold and becoming the inventor of the product, thereby eliminating the means used by developed countries to restrict backward countries with patents.

There are no patents without patents, I can't receive patents, but you don't want to use patents to restrict me!

For now, this tactic has been relatively successful.

Due to the huge impact of "Space Invaders", the whole world knows that it was the first invention of Taiyu Technology, so although piracy dealers are rampant, everyone is making a lot of money, and no one jumps out to say that they are the original developers of "Space Invaders". Along with it, the frame design and panel layout of the arcade machine have also successfully passed the examination of the patent offices of various countries, and it has rightfully become a patent under the name of Taiyu Technology.

The victory of the first patent protection also allowed Taiyu Technology to begin to receive patent authorization applications from some small manufacturers, which can more or less make up for the expenses of some patent lawsuits.

Perhaps for this reason, except for some family-based enterprises, which sneak out of the market, electronic building blocks have not yet appeared large-scale competitors.

Electronic building blocks are selling well, and Pan Meifeng is also full of enthusiasm and works hard every day. This made Zhou Xiaoshan complain very much, saying that it was more difficult to see her now than to see Guan Fei. After meeting for less than three sentences, you will talk about Hasbro, when it comes to electronic building blocks and Transformers.

Pan Meifeng didn't even have time to listen to the complaints.

Electronic building blocks are so hot now, orders from all over the world are rolling in, the first month of 100,000 sets of orders have been full, new orders have been extended to two months later.

After the separation of production and marketing, she only managed to produce, and then packaged and wholesaled Suteng Trading at a price of $49 per set. However, over whether this wholesale price is FOB or CIF price, two companies in the same system are also arguing.

Of course, Pan Meifeng hopes that it is fob.

The so-called FOB price means that the manufacturer sends the goods on the ship, and the responsibility ends here. A series of expenses such as shipping, mid-way losses, terminal loading and unloading, and landed distribution are ignored by manufacturers. On an FOB basis, the $49 is close to net income.

Of course, Suteng Commerce does not do it.

Everyone knows the manufacturing cost of plastic components, and even if they are embedded in electronic components, they can't add a few more money. The actual manufacturing cost of a set of electronic building blocks with a retail price of US$99 will only be a dozen Hong Kong dollars, or about three US dollars.

At FOB, Hasbro's profits are ridiculously high. And their business marketing also involves inviting experts to build momentum and advertising in the early stage, and the investment is much greater than that of manufacturers.

As for Pan Meifeng's calculation method, they resolutely cannot accept it.

Guan Fei only watched the dispute between the two sides, and occasionally persuaded him to make peace. Whoever the money goes into, it's ultimately his.

Whether it is Hasbro or Suteng Commerce, it is all for the purpose of establishing a perfect civilian production and marketing network.

As long as you don't lose money, that's enough.

After all, it is a toy project, and the number of electronic components that can be digested is only a fraction of the monthly production capacity of the military division, and the focus of his attention is not here.

His focus is on several audio products being developed in the new era, which is the highlight of the large consumption of components in the future!

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Tsui Ka-chun, a former toy company engineer who met Jiang Zeshui on the Kowloon Bus, was frowning and meditating on a design drawing.

With years of practical experience, he easily passed the recruitment and has resigned from his position in the toy factory to enter a new era.

The new era is not in the Taewoo Building, but in a few hundred meters away, and an entire building is rented and renovated. When the factory building was renovated from the first to the sixth floor, the company had already organized these new designers into three design teams on the eighth floor, purchased various R&D equipment, and had their own laboratories.

All the equipment is very good, which shows that the company is eager to find talents.

As soon as they entered the company, they shouldered the burden of the company's future product research and development, which also made all the designers sincerely afraid that they could not take out what they had learned all their lives and let the company recognize their professional and technical capabilities.

Jiang Zeshui's team is responsible for the project of portable single player, and the official product name will be Walkman in the future.

Because of his high electronic research and development ability, he was promoted to the deputy leader of the project team.

It was here that he finally got to know the joy of actually developing a project. Compared with the complex structure of the Walkman, the electronic toys he developed in the past were not worth mentioning. And years of front-line work experience, he also realized how promising the project he developed would be in the future.

Thinking of the vast market of the Walkman in the future, he was excited to know that his name is likely to be forever recorded in the history of electronic technology because of this product!

The greater the expectation, the greater the psychological pressure.

Such an epoch-making product is about to be designed by our own team, which is both an incentive and a great mental pressure.

How to design a perfect electronic product has become a heavy burden in the hearts of every designer in the design team.

Hong Kong is famous for its electronic toys, but the design capacity of other electronic products is almost nil.

There is no high-quality acoustic laboratory here, and there is no strong technical accumulation, Xu Jiajun and others didn't even know where to start when they first took over this project.

In particular, the Walkman indicators set by the company for their project team made everyone feel hopeless.

Thirteen centimeters long and not more than fourteen centimeters, eight centimeters high but not more than nine centimeters, and no more than three centimeters thick.

This size is too demanding!

A music tape is a few centimetres long and almost a centimeter thick. This means that the front of the Walkman is basically occupied by the tape, and all the mechanical transmission parts and circuitry must be compressed into the back of the tape, a small area slightly larger than the tape.

Xu Jiajun had never had experience in developing audio equipment, and he was completely at a loss in the face of the drawings.

The members of the project team are stupid, they come with great ambitions, and when the company really arranges R&D projects for them, everyone can see how much potential this project has, but they just can't do it, they can't draw a picture!

Many people begin to doubt themselves that they are not capable of doing real product development work, and that the only thing that might be suitable for them is to make simple electronic toys.

Xu Jiajun also felt that he was about to collapse, but he still gritted his teeth and insisted.

Fortunately, the company did not embarrass them.

The company found them a large number of audio circuit drawings, power amplifier circuit drawings, and mechanical transmission mechanism drawings. There are also ready-made suitable tape recorders, desktop tape recorders, and spare parts for them to analyze and study.

And just like that, they embarked on a difficult path of research and development.

With objects that can be referenced, these veterans who are accustomed to plagiarism and counterfeiting have finally found an idea.

Sketches are drawn one by one, and little by little.

The mechanical structure is first copied from the cassette recorder, and then according to the size, the transmission data is calculated, and the major changes are made.

The cassette recorder has a flat horizontal layout, and the keys are all push-down. The Walkman can be regarded as a vertical cassette recorder, so the original button direction is equivalent to a side press, which is very uncomfortable, so it should be changed to follow the direction of the fuselage and press down.

If the action of a button changes, the overall mechanical structure will also be greatly changed.

All the designers have worked hard to pick and subtract from the thickness and width of the mechanical transmission parts. In order to save space, they also need to minimize the transmission parts, and various transmission parts will also be modified to reduce the volume as much as possible while ensuring the transmission efficiency and strength.

The drawing in front of Xu Jiajun is already the twelfth he has drawn.

Compared to the original version, the thick and clumsy structure, this version was quite elaborate, but he was still not satisfied.

Xu Jiajun rubbed his sour eyes and decided to take a break.

He got up and poured himself a cup of hot coffee, and walked out of the design room with the cup in his hand, and went outside to the sample showroom.

It's full of tape recorders of all kinds.

At present, the popular tape recorders on the market are usually very large, so the official name of the home recording equipment is usually desktop audio, which is composed of a recording deck, radio, equalizer, power amplifier, etc.

There are also small ones, that is, cassette recorders and car recorders.

Structurally, both are the same thing. A cassette recorder is a long, flat box with a plastic cover that can be opened right above it, and when opened, the audio tape can be put in, automatically snapped, and then the cover closed.

The car in the tape recorder is a cassette recorder embedded in the car dashboard, but the belt feeding mechanism is slightly different, it is an open opening. There is an automatic transmission device at the inlet port, the cassette is fed in, the mechanism is touched, and the cassette is sent in by the transmission device and automatically clamped.

He was already familiar with the mechanics of these two recorders.

Xu Jiajun turned around and looked at a newly sent tape recorder on the table, revealing a look of intoxication in his eyes.

This new tape recorder is the development of another R&D team: a portable cassette recorder!

Even though it was also project development, that group was much easier than them.

This portable cassette recorder has a drawing directly on it, and they just need to assemble it according to the drawing. This kind of work can be done by ordinary technicians, and there is no difficulty at all.

Moreover, the movement of the portable tape recorder is also a finished product sent from the mainland.

Compared to the painstaking development process of their Walkman group, the portable tape recorder group is simply too happy.

Xu Jiajun walked to the front of the booth, stretched out his right index finger above the portable tape recorder, opened the position and pressed it, and the lock of the tape compartment door below was released, and it popped out quickly.

He thoughtfully closed the door and pressed the switch again, and the door popped out again.

There was no need for the R&D team to dismantle the tape recorder in eight pieces, with its parts on the side and a disassembled movement assembly.

This kind of movement, in fact, fits perfectly with the design idea of the Walkman they are going to develop!

The mechanical transmission structure, the direction of the buttons, the belt handling mechanism, and the cassette locking design, the design ideas have reached the perfect standard in his mind! It's no exaggeration to say that if you reduce the size of this movement, you can use it directly on your Walkman!

Xu Jiajun opened and closed many times and sighed deeply.

In fact, he has understood that the company asked them to develop the Walkman, just to test their actual working ability. Through this portable tape recorder, he understood that the company had already had perfect design drawings, and that the portable tape recorder was so quickly taken out to open their eyes and have a clear reference for how to design a Walkman.

Otherwise, if you really pin your hopes on this group of inexperienced R&D personnel, you may not be able to come up with mature products for a year and a half.

As for how to reduce the size of the functional circuit, in fact, this portable tape recorder also gives the answer: that is, a large number of integrated circuits!

In this one-and-a-half-foot-long portable tape recorder, more than a dozen special audio integrated circuits are used, and many audio functional circuits are condensed into small integrated blocks, and then together with other auxiliary circuits, a complete amplifier audio system is formed.

As far as he knows, these audio integrated circuits are also from the mainland.

Xu Jiajun opened the lid of the warehouse, and this time he did not close it again, but took out a tape from the box on the side and sent it to the warehouse, and then closed the lid of the warehouse.

Press play, starting with a short blank transport time.

He carefully discerned it, and the speakers on both sides of the tape recorder did not emit the familiar noise of electricity, and it was very quiet.

After a few seconds, the music slowly sounded from low to loud.

"Send you to the outside of the village, there is a sentence to explain, although it is already a hundred flowers blooming, the wildflowers on the side of the road are ......, don't pick them!"

In the brisk music, Teresa Teng's joyful singing voice came.

Xu Jiajun had never been engaged in music circuit development before, and he was not a golden ear, but he could clearly hear that the acoustics of this portable tape recorder were excellent. The treble is fast, the bass is powerful, and the audio is very clear without any muddy and watery feeling.

Such a tape recorder shows no weaker musical expression than desktop audio!

He let out another long sigh.

In his opinion, this portable tape recorder was naturally designed and developed by mainland R&D personnel, looking at other people's works, and then looking at their difficult R&D road, he once thought that a little bit of superiority that he was well-informed could no longer maintain.

In Teresa Teng's beautiful singing, Xu Jiajun finally put himself in the right position.

He is not a senior R&D personnel, and what can be valued by the company is his technical foundation in the development of electronic products for many years. If you really want to talk about R&D capabilities, the mainland is even more unfathomable, and it is not comparable to him at all.

It's no longer too ambitious, let's be an honest technical expert......