Chapter 1942 The era of internal combustion engines opened by gas engines
In Hangzhou, Qian Mu returned to the company with excitement on his face, and couldn't wait to announce a huge piece of good news to his colleagues in the company.
Their gas engine was recognized, and the Navy decided to continue funding their research on gas engines.
But this is not the point. The point is that Lin Hui, the vice president of the Royal Institute of Technology, invited Qian Mu to study internal combustion engines together. Naturally, this invitation cannot be made by Qian Mu himself, but will be a cooperation between the two institutions.
That is the cooperation between the Internal Combustion Engine Research Laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology and Hangzhou Machinery Company.
As for Qian Mu, it would be useless for him to run there by himself. Although Lin Hui values the talent of Qian Mu, he values the four-stroke structure even more!
Lin Hui feels that this four-stroke structure will be a great tool for developing his own gasoline engines.
However, if you want to use this four-stroke structure, you must first cooperate with Hangzhou Machinery Company, because this four-stroke structure is the collective wisdom product of Hangzhou Machinery Company, and the company has a patent.
Qian Mu personally does not own this patent.
As the largest institution in the empire with various patents, the Royal Institute of Technology is also the institution most dedicated to protecting patent rights in the empire.
Even though the Royal Institute of Technology is just a scientific and educational institution, it has maintained a team of dozens of first-class patent lawyers all year round. Over the years, many companies that have tried to steal the patents of the Royal Institute of Technology have been sued and went bankrupt.
Therefore, if Lin Hui wants to apply the four-stroke structure to gasoline engines, he must first solve this patent issue.
The simplest thing is to directly bring Hangzhou Machinery Company to the same front.
And Qian Mu himself is a shareholder of Hangzhou Machinery Company, and he is also the largest individual shareholder holding 20% of the shares. He can earn more when the company benefits.
The benefits of this cooperation to Hangzhou Machinery Company are obvious. First, their researchers will be able to obtain huge scientific research support from the Royal Institute of Technology and learn from it. This will greatly enhance the scientific research strength of Hangzhou Machinery Company.
Not to mention how huge the benefits will be once a gasoline engine is developed.
Anyone who knows a little bit about power knows how huge an impact it will have once a lightweight, small, and powerful gasoline engine oil is developed.
Hangzhou Machinery Company quickly led the R&D team to Jinling City with Qian Mu as the core, joined the Internal Combustion Engine Research Laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology, and began to study gasoline engines.
But gasoline engines have great prospects, but they only represent the future, and now, for Hangzhou Machinery Company, a medium-sized machinery company with assets of only more than 100,000 yuan, it is just a medium-sized machinery company.
There is still more pragmatic work to be done, which is to continue to improve gas machines and withdraw them from the market!
Perhaps due to the effect of the gas engine's display in front of Emperor Sheng, Hangzhou Machinery Company's four-stroke structure and many other patents for the gas engine, such as carburetor, battery ignition structure and other patents were quickly approved.
Once the patent is obtained, they no longer need to worry.
In March of the 38th year of Xuanping Dynasty, after technical improvements, Hangzhou Machinery Company officially launched a practical gas machine to the market and exhibited it at the Shanghai Machinery Exhibition. When their gas machine successfully operated on the booth
, caused a sensation.
The next day, the Songjiang Business News reported this almost epoch-making dynamic in the form of a second-class headline!
It is called another masterpiece in the field of power after the steam engine!
The gas engine of Hangzhou Machinery Company will completely usher in the era of internal combustion engines!
The gas engine launched by Hangzhou Machinery Company uses a reciprocating piston, horizontal lever, and four strokes. Its rotation speed reaches 160 rpm, and its thermal efficiency can reach 14%.
Depending on the model, its power ranges from five to ten to twenty.
They have even launched customized services. If customers have needs, they can produce gas engines with higher power, reaching 30 or even 50 horsepower, but customized products are extremely expensive.
This concept is basically the same as that of a steam engine. Steam engine factories generally provide many fixed-power models, which are produced in a streamlined industrial manner and are cheap.
But if customers have needs, they can also provide steam engines with higher power, such as the Navy's steam unit, a steam unit with a power of 10,000 to 20,000 horsepower. Apart from the Navy's battleship needs, there are no other customers, so special customization is required.
, the price is also more expensive.
As soon as this kind of gas machine was withdrawn from the market, it exploded in an instant!
Everyone is not stupid. Just take a look at the data and you will know whether this thing is good or not.
Compared with steam engines that are bulky and have low thermal efficiency, this kind of gas engine has the characteristics of light weight, small size and high thermal efficiency, so it has great application possibilities in many special fields.
Soon, Hangzhou Machinery Company got its first order!
And just this batch of orders scared the people of Hangzhou Machinery Company out of their wits!
They predicted that such an epoch-making product as a gas machine would cause a certain market response, but they did not expect that the market response would be so big.
The first batch of orders was placed by Zhaoqing Machinery Company. The purchasing representative of Zhaoqing Machinery Company was at the booth and directly placed an order for 100 gas machines.
Among them are ten custom-made gas engines with a power of 50 HP. Zhaoqing Machinery Company plans to use these gas engines for industrial production power and replace bulky steam engines in some fields, but most of them are to replace labor.
In many fields of industrial production, steam engines cannot be used because they are too bulky, and traditional manpower can only be used. This is unacceptable to a leading domestic machinery company like Zhaoqing Machinery Company.
Just these 100 gas machines from Zhaoqing Machinery Company surprised Hangzhou Machinery Company, but the many orders that came in made them completely stunned.
When the Shanghai Machinery Exhibition ended, no one at Hangzhou Machinery Company knew how to deal with so many orders!
In total, they received orders for more than 1,500 gas generators!
However, they do not have such a huge production capacity at all. Their previous factory could only produce dozens of units per month at most.
At the same time, apply for a loan for factory expansion!
They want to increase the production of gas machines to more than 1,000 units per year within one year, and in the next three years, they want to increase the production of gas machines to more than 5,000 units per year.
In order to meet the huge demand.
At the same time, Hangzhou Machinery Company also realized that its own gas engine might also give its own steam engine tractor business a facelift and give it new life, that is, it would withdraw from gas tractors.