There is a complete set of gasoline engine patents, including hundreds of patents on core structures such as the four-stroke structure. If you want to develop a gasoline engine, these more than 100 patents must be authorized, otherwise you will not be able to manufacture it at all, or you are very good and have
Other solutions.
With so many patents combined together, just the basic license costs NT$100,000. This is still the basic license fee. You will have to pay for every gasoline engine you produce later, or every time you produce a spare part licensed by their patent.
I won’t talk about the subsequent patent sharing. Anyway, it will be included in the selling price and consumers will pay for it.
But the problem is, Li Yubo can’t afford the basic licensing fee of 100,000!
Otherwise, there wouldn't be only more than a dozen manufacturers currently authorized, because the basic licensing fee is expensive. If you haven't earned a dime, you have to invest 100,000 in patent fees, and then invest in building production lines and so on.
Yes, the cost combined will be very high.
Even large machinery factories with assets worth millions usually have a hard time getting around.
Currently, those involved in investing in gasoline engine-related industries are all top large-scale enterprises in the empire.
Even Zhongyuan Automobile Company and Jiangnan Heavy Machinery Company, two companies with little reputation before, were prepared by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to develop the gasoline engine industry. At that time, the gasoline engine had not yet been developed, and the company was already in preparation.
, and began to engage in pneumatic tires and other automotive supporting industries.
And what's very interesting is that before cars were developed, the supporting industries they were engaged in were doing very well and making a lot of money.
After the acquisition by Zhongyuan Automobile Company, they continued to research and develop inflatable rubber tires. As soon as they were developed, they became popular across the country and instantly became a standard feature of various luxury carriages.
The transmissions developed by Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company are very impressive...
At first, they were just trying to develop transmissions to be used in future heavy-duty trucks and engineering vehicles, but later they discovered that the transmissions they had developed could be made into various variants and used with steam engines. Finally, they produced various
Transmissions have begun to be widely used in industrial production.
Many of the spare parts they prepare for cars can actually find markets in other fields.
In this way, their business is actually developing very well, not to mention that the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises continues to invest money in them. There is no shortage of money to buy patents and build factories.
As for Hangzhou Power Machinery Company, they don't have much money, but they own some of the gasoline engine patents. According to the agreement back then, they were able to use some of the gasoline engine-related patents owned by the Royal Institute of Technology for free.
At the same time, the core four-stroke structure belongs to them, and Hangzhou Power Machinery Company can get a part of every Tang Yuan patent fee collected by the Royal Institute of Technology.
Apart from these three companies, all other companies entering the gasoline engine industry are large companies.
The four major domestic steam companies, without exception, all followed suit, including Zhaoqing Machinery Company, Naval Steam Engine Factory and several other factories that produced steam engines through reform and reorganization, Eastern Power Company, Tianjin AIA Machinery Company, and Feng's Shipping Company
.
Don't wonder why there is still a shipping company, because although Feng's Shipping Company takes shipping as its core business, their business philosophy has always been to open up the industrial chain, reduce costs, and develop vertically, so as long as there is an opportunity to get involved in the industry,
They all want to get involved.
Thanks to the sustained and rapid development of the shipping industry, their other industries are also developing very well, from coal, iron ore, steel plants, to shipyards, machinery plants, steam engine plants, to shipping companies, terminal service companies
, and even got involved in overseas trade in recent years.
Among them, the steam engine factory continues to grow bigger and stronger. They follow the path of Tianjin AIA Machinery Company. At the same time, they also use their best method to engage in price wars. Steam engines of the same specification are sold for one thousand by others.
Tang Yuan, he dared to sell it for eight hundred.
Although the quality has also been reduced a lot, compared with the reduced price, people don't care if the quality is worse.
This gradual development has allowed them to become the fourth largest steam engine manufacturer in the empire.
In addition to these four major steam manufacturers, the other companies that joined were also top companies, such as the three major weapons companies. None of them were left behind, they all joined.
Looking at the entire empire, these more than ten companies are among the top companies. Hangzhou Power Machinery Company, the worst, has fixed assets of millions, not to mention the others. All of them are not short of money.
Lord.
The basic licensing fee for a gasoline engine patent of RMB 100,000 is not a problem at all for them, and subsequent investment in building a factory is not a big problem either. The only thing that restricts them is their technical capabilities.
Not long after the gasoline engine came out, the Royal Institute of Technology was in control. They had come up with the theoretical design and laboratory products, but no matter how your company mass-produced it, the Royal Institute of Technology was already rushing to replace it.
Instead of high-power gasoline engines, research began on multi-cylinder engines such as four-cylinder and even six-cylinder engines.
At present, the one that really has the technology to carry out mass production is actually Hangzhou Power Machinery Company. They are originally members of the gasoline engine project team and have designed a new simplified version of the gasoline engine to meet industrial production.
As for other companies, they are still struggling with mass production.
Back to Li Yubo, he himself designed a simpler gasoline engine. According to his estimation, it can be mass-produced with the current technical capabilities of the empire, but he does not have a patent authorization, let alone a production line.
So he has had a huge headache in the past few days!
It doesn't matter if he doesn't have a production line. He can still go to other large manufacturers for OEM. But it won't work without a patent. He has no way to use the gasoline engine he designed for commercial use.
At most, you can just hand-build a few of them and drive them for fun, but if you want to sell them, don't expect them.
The patent system of the Tang Empire has been very perfect after more than 20 years of development. If you use it commercially without a patent, you will go bankrupt even if you sell it at a loss.
After a few days of depression, he was thinking about accepting investment from several other people, giving up part of his shares in exchange for funds to purchase patent licenses, and then looking for OEMs from other large manufacturers.
But he hasn't made a decision yet.
People from the Army just came to your door!
The person who led the team to Wuchang was Major General Yao Liang, director of the Tank Vehicles Department, because the Ordnance Department valued this two-wheeled gasoline vehicle very much, and even more valued the seemingly simple, but small and powerful gasoline engine it was equipped with.