After finalizing the plastic structure of the sleeping pillow, Yi Yang and Wang Sangning went back.

Start thinking about something about patents.

This sleeping pillow is just a small invention.

At the first time, when I was working on the copyright of the song "The Lonely Brave", I studied a little bit of civil law by myself. It's not very deep, but I probably learned some basic knowledge about patents.

Patents are mainly divided into three categories, simply put, technical inventions, new uses, and appearances. Specifically, these three types of patents are somewhat different.

Of course, because technological inventions must publish the technical route when applying for patents, it is actually a kind of exposure of change of direction, and those technologies with high technical barriers and difficult research will not apply for patents.

Invention technology patents are characterized by complex examination and approval and long protection periods.

The utility model patent, the technical threshold is not so high, simply put, it is possible for an individual to make a one, the simplest example is that the pencil is set with an eraser, which belongs to a utility model design.

The threshold for this kind of patent is low, the approval process is short, the cost is not high, and the corresponding patent protection period is not long, only ten years.

The last category is the appearance patent, the scope of this design is relatively wide, the appearance patent on the structure, as well as the patent on the design pattern can be applied for, and many times the design and the new use of the design do not have such a clear boundary, often can apply for some utility model patents, can also apply for appearance patents.

Yi Yang thought about it, and when the sleeping pillow was made, he could apply for a utility model patent and an appearance patent at the same time.

Applying for this patent is not about making money from this patent.

In fact, because there is no technical threshold for such a small invention as his sleeping pillow, there are many ways to make a similar product without touching his patented method.

For example, his sleeping pillow is nothing more than not pressing his hands, his head can lie on the pillow to breathe, meet these two conditions, and use his brain a little, in fact, he can make a lot of structures with different shapes but similar functions.

The main purpose of applying for this patent is to protect oneself from being copied by others and then preemptively registering the patent.

Of course, this is not very likely. Compared with the later bad faith trademark registration, the preemptive registration of patents is still relatively rare, after all, even if it is a simple utility model patent, you have to have a physical object, which is costly.

However, of course, the sleeping pillow does not have a plastic inner mold. Next, a layer of padding is wrapped around the plastic frame and a layer of wrapping fabric is sewn.

In the next few days, Yi Yang spent the rhythm of exams, rests, exams, and rests.

Wang Sangning doesn't have any friends in Hanning City, compared to Jiang Lili, she actually prefers to mix with Yi Yang.

Yi Yang is still quite willing to bring Wang Sangning.

This girl has a comfortable characteristic, she follows you, she doesn't babble, you think of something you want to share with her, just talk about it, she will give emotional feedback, and when you don't want to talk, just walk, and it won't be embarrassing.

It's very comfortable.

Of course, more importantly, Wang Sangning's legs are really long.

Yi Yang is a boy, even if he doesn't have some ripples of Wang Sangning's emotions, going out with a girl will definitely not be an irresistible thing.

So in the next few days between exams, Wang Sangning followed Yi Yang to several upstream factories that produce latex.

Latex is not a very technical product. But if you want to buy it separately, the cost is still quite high.

However, Yiyang knows that those upstream factories that produce latex often supply downstream pillows, mattresses and other companies, which are standardized and customized. In this process, a large amount of leftovers will inevitably be generated.

Yi Yang is targeting those scraps.

In fact, as Yi Yang expected, while the latex factory produces standard products, such as some sofa crumbs and mattress strip scraps, they can only be returned to the trash can.

Yi Yang found a few companies and spent a very low price to buy all the leftovers in the past few days. Originally, a finished latex mattress may cost hundreds or thousands, but Yi Yang bought the leftovers of the corresponding weight, which were priced by kilograms, and only cost less than one-twentieth of the price.

The latex scraps are chopped and filled into the sleeping pillow, which is definitely not bad in terms of experience.

In this way, the most important filling of the sleeping pillow is also available.

Next, the fabric of the sleeping pillow is the best solution.

Yi Yang went to a fabric wholesale market in Hanning City, walked around, and finally selected a soft cotton fabric, this fabric is 100% XJ cotton, soft texture, but the price is not expensive, just because of the solid color, there is no exquisite pattern, so the price is cheap.

Anyway, there is no need for bells and whistles to sleep on the pillow.

In the end, all the materials for the sleeping pillow were ready, and the plastic molds over there were shipped faster than expected, and on the last day of the exam, Zhou Baoxiang called him to tell him that it was okay.

The original order of 1,000 plastic molds, Zhou Baoxiang because the material loss was smaller than he imagined, directly made 1,100, and the extra 100 were given to Yiyang.

This made Yi Yang feel that Zhou Baoxiang was still a very good person, and after thanking him, he sent all three things back.

After calculation, Lin Lin spent more than 9,000 yuan, and this batch of materials can make more than 1,000 sleeping pillows, of course, the cost must be more than 9 yuan each, because there are only materials now, and then you need to find someone to sew the real thing.

Yi Yang plans to wait until he goes back to do it.

Summer vacation is still a long time.

After a week in Hanning City, it also came to an end.

The results of the exams of various schools are also coming out one after another.

Because it is an admissions exam, it takes a long time for the results to be released quickly, and there are even schools that take the exam on the same day, and the results can be known on the same day. But Yi Yang still dragged it out until the last day to see the results at one time.

In fact, the act of looking at the results itself already explains some of the results...... For students with particularly good grades, basically a teacher calls them when their grades just come out.

Yi Yang never received a phone call.

Although this does not mean that his grades are completely below the cut-off score of those schools, it at least shows that he is far from being excellent in his age group.

This result was originally expected, but when the result really came out, it was still a little disappointing.

His grades are enough to go to some provincial key high schools without taking exams...... The results of the unified examination in Heyang City will be recognized by many provincial key high schools, and as the second brother of the province's education, Yiyang can also enter most of the high schools in Heyang City.

But...... He would rather come to Hanning City to study in high school!

Until this time, he still couldn't forget the sparkle in Gan Tian's eyes when he described a top high school.

So the high schools he chose this time were all very good high schools in the province and even the whole country.

It's just that if there is really no way to get in, there is no way, Yi Yang can still treat this matter calmly.

At least, I tried.

At least, life has changed dramatically compared to the previous life.

And when he went to see the results on the last day, Yi Yang didn't tell Jiang Lili in advance that he would go alone.

Outcome......

can only smile wryly.

I still overestimate myself, or underestimate my competitors.

There are only two schools that he barely goes online, and both of them are private, and with just past the line, he needs to pay 38,000 yuan a year in tuition.

And Hanning No. 1 Middle School, his score is more than 10 points worse, which is not a particularly big gap, but it is like a moat.

The mood is not particularly depressed, at least he can understand what kind of level he is in the province......

However, the mood is naturally not very good.

And Wang Sangning relied on a sprint to enter the middle school attached to the Normal Academy, and he was also a few points behind.

However, this outcome is not certain at the moment.

Because some students who are admitted to the high school attached to the Normal School may not choose the high school in the end, it is still possible to get a chance to enter through the supplementary record.

But the condition is that including room and board, you need to pay a tuition fee of tens of thousands.

In contrast, the tuition fee of students who are normally admitted is only less than 1,000 a year.

To be honest, it costs so much money to study in a high school, and Yi Yang is still a little entangled in his heart.

After telling Jiang Lili about this result, the other end of the phone was silent for a moment, and then comforted: "Oh, it's okay...... So what's next for you? ”

Yi Yang sighed, "Let's take a step at a time......"