After dinner in the evening, Gu Yu came to Room 2201 of Sanjiang Famous Courtyard again.

This week, Tang Yiqiu has gone to the Shanghai branch to prepare for new business, and has not returned to Minghai for the time being.

Shen Xiaona is also on a business trip.

In the 2201 dormitory, only Lu Yingying is left watching the most popular TV series "Huanzhu Gege".

After opening the door, Lu Yingying welcomed Gu Yu into the living room, "Gu Yu, come, sit, the bayberry you sent last time was so delicious." By the way, are you here to find Sister Yiqiu, she hasn't come back yet. ”

"Sister Yingying, I'm not here to find Sister Yiqiu. I'm here to borrow your computer for a while, can I use the Internet? ”

"Absolutely."

As she spoke, Lu Yingying moved her laptop on the coffee table to Gu Yu.

After Gu Yu turned on the computer, he used Yahoo to search for the news that "the Japanese Sanlin Group recently invented a hydrophilic membrane filter material ......", and couldn't help but pat his thigh happily: Oh go, it's great!

He suddenly found that the world after his rebirth seemed to be a little different from the world in his previous life, and this hydrophilic membrane material was actually invented by the Japanese Sanlin Group a few years in advance......

"Gu Yu, what are you doing online?" Seeing Gu Yu's excited look, Lu Yingying asked curiously.

"I'm looking up some information......

"You've worked so hard, you've already finished the exam, and you're still studying. What kind of information are you looking for? ”

"I want to find out how to apply for a patent in Tokyo, Japan......"

"What, go to Tokyo and apply for a patent?" Lu Yingying, who was staring at the TV screen intently, was taken aback by Gu Yu's words, "Gu Yu, you're not joking, are you?" ”

"It's true, I want to go to Tokyo and apply for a patent. Sister Yingying, do I have any friends who know this business, or do you know how to apply for a business visa to Tokyo, Japan? Gu Yu was serious.

Lu Yingying shook her head, "Gu Yu, I'm so big, I've never been abroad, and even BJ has only been there once, I really can't help you in this regard." ”

Then she was curious, "Gu Yu, what kind of patent are you applying for, why do you have to go to Tokyo, Japan to apply?" ”

Gu Yu asked with a smile, "Sister Yingying, do you have a water dispenser in your office now?" ”

"Yes, when it comes to drinking fountains, I'm still responsible for going to the mall to buy them. Almost every big office in our company is now equipped with a water dispenser. ”

"Sister Yingying, like this, I recently invented and designed a new type of water dispenser. Because the main filter material of this water dispenser was just developed by a company in Tokyo, Japan, I want to apply for a utility model patent before this Tokyo company......"

After listening to Gu Yu's words, Lu Yingying's jaw was about to drop: a junior high school graduate actually said that he had invented and designed a new type of drinking fountain, and vowed to go to Tokyo, Japan to apply for a patent.

Gu Yu in front of him is either crazy or paranoid......

After Gu Yu finished speaking, he continued to search for relevant water dispensers, water filtration membrane technology and patent applications in Japan on the Internet.

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As for why Gu Yu thought of going to Tokyo, Japan to apply for a utility model patent for a water dispenser, he had to start with the stock market crash in 07 in his previous life.

After Gu Yu's failure to speculate in stocks and invest in futures in 07, he returned to Cangshi Town in 2008 and partnered with Awen and Awu to open a small water dispenser factory.

In 2008, there may be at least two or three hundred factories producing water dispensers in the whole Minghai City, with a complete industrial chain and a large market share at home and abroad.

Although Gu Yu didn't start their water dispenser factory later, Gu Yu was very familiar with this industry.

Gu Yu studied electrical appliances in a technical school, and after graduating from the technical school, he was assigned to Minghai Donghai Electric Appliance Factory. When I worked in Donghai Electric Appliance Factory, I studied automation control for three years in Chengjiao College of Minghai Institute of Engineering in my spare time and got an adult college diploma.

Before his rebirth, he had repaired various brands of water dispensers, and Gu Yu knew all the latest technologies of water dispensers.

After reading the market investigation and books and materials this afternoon, according to the memory of his previous life, Gu Yu analyzed it and carefully sorted out his thoughts, and now he has two major opportunities in the water dispenser industry.

The first opportunity is: [Replace the current hot tank water dispenser technology with no hot tank technology]

Gu Yu found that more and more units and families are buying water dispensers, because people feel that it is very convenient to drink water from water dispensers, and they can drink water whenever they want, and they don't have to worry about not having hot water to drink.

But soon people will find a big pain point: because the current water dispenser will continue to work after being electrified, and it will automatically burn as long as there is no hot water.

Moreover, there are two major problems with water dispensers on the market: first, the heating speed is too slow, and a lot of time will be wasted in waiting; Second, it is easy to form "thousands of boiling water" during the heating process, which is harmful to health.

Another pain point is that the current use of water dispensers must use bottled water, when using water dispensers must use special barrels, the price is not cheap, some drinking water may not be clean in the middle of the manufacturing process, there will be many problems.

And when you change the water after using this water dispenser for a period of time, you will find that there will be a lot of dirt in the water dispenser, such as the sediment in the water, or the moss and black spots that have not been cleaned for a long time......

In Gu Yu's memory, in his previous life, in 2005, Qingyuan Group in Minghai City invented the "no hot bile water dispenser" for the first time, replacing the ordinary hot bile water dispenser on the market, and achieved great success. The non-hot tank water dispenser is a water dispenser that cancels the hot tank of the traditional water dispenser, and uses the principle of instant heat for heating, which is hot and ready to drink.

With this innovative technology, Qingyuan Group was rated as a key high-tech enterprise of the National Torch Plan that year......

This "heat-free water dispenser" was later imitated by countless manufacturers, and by the time Gu Yu was reborn, it was already a very ordinary technology.

But for the current 1998 water dispenser market, there is undoubtedly a huge opportunity......

Another huge opportunity is: [Utility model patents for water dispensers related to water filtration membranes]

Gu Yu remembered that the most advanced water dispenser with water filtration and treatment function in the previous life needed to use a core material: RO membrane.

RO is the abbreviation of Reverse Osmosis in English, Chinese means reverse osmosis, "RO membrane" is the meaning of reverse osmosis membrane.

RO membrane filtration is a membrane separation filtration technology that uses osmotic pressure difference as the driving force. When applied to the field of water purification, it is to further refine the water that has been preliminarily filtered to remove impurities such as heavy metals in the water. The advantage of this is that the water is fully pure and safe.

Since the pore size of the RO membrane is 0.0001 microns, which is one millionth of a human hair, the RO membrane has a very good filtration effect, which can filter out impurities, colloids, heavy metal ions, organic matter, bacteria and viruses in the water......

At present, domestic manufacturers of RO membrane cannot be produced, and they need to import from large companies such as Haideneng, Toray and Dow in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, and the cost is very high.

Gu Yu remembered that in the previous life around 2000, Ye Jianrong, the founder of Qingyuan Group, used the preemptive registration of utility model patents related to filter membranes to earn the first pot of gold from the Japanese for himself......

The story is said to go like this:

At that time, Ye Jianrong, the founder of Qingyuan Group, heard that a new product appeared on the market, called hydrophilic membrane, which is a polymer filter material that can filter micro- and nano-sized particles and bacteria in water.

He searched and found that there was no domestic manufacturer that could produce it, and then Ye Jianrong went to the international market to inquire and look around, and later found that the hydrophilic film sold on the market came from the Japanese Sanlin Company, developed by the Sanlin Company, and applied for a patent.

So, Ye Jianrong went to Tokyo and wanted to talk about cooperation with Sanlin Company. But after a few laps downstairs in Sanlin Company, the more I thought about it, the less confident I became. Because Sanlin is a large international company, and he founded only a small private enterprise from China, the scale is very small, and it was still unknown at that time.

He wanted to estimate that Sanlin would definitely not look down on his company, and the possibility of being willing to cooperate with him was very small; Even if Sanlin is willing to cooperate with him, he may offer a scary condition, such as a very high price, which he simply cannot accept; In addition, even if Sanlin Group is not so ruthless in asking price, it will definitely restrict him and let him only operate in China's domestic market, and it is impossible for him to go international to seize Sanlin's territory and compete with Sanlin, in that case, he may lose a large piece of profit......

Later, Ye Jianrong simply went to the patent application agency in Tokyo, Japan. An inquiry found that Sanlin Company had applied for invention patents and various forms of utility model patents for their hydrophilic membranes, but had not applied for utility model patents for the use of water purifiers.

This made Ye Jianrong's eyes shine, and he was overjoyed, and he immediately submitted an application for the utility model patent to the relevant Japanese patent agency, and it was quickly approved......

As a result, after a period of time, Sanlin Company wanted to use hydrophilic membrane technology to enter the water dispenser market, but found that this patent was preemptively applied for by a Chinese company, and the patents of several major overseas developed countries were preemptively applied for by their Chinese company.

In the end, Sanlin Company had no choice but to send someone to Minghai City to negotiate with Ye Jianrong.

As a result of the negotiations, Ye Jianrong's Qingyuan Group allowed Sanlin Company to use its own patent rights, but Sanlin Company had to pay 5 to 10 yuan for the use of each hydrophilic membrane water purifier produced by Sanlin Company.

The most important thing is that Qingyuan Group also took advantage of this cooperation to occupy the sales of Sanlin Group's hydrophilic membrane products in the domestic market......