Material Empire

"We can sign an agreement with you right now, guaranteeing to give you a newest thermal spraying machine." Qin Hai said solemnly, and at the same time gave Ruttenberg a look. The meaning in the look translated into Chinese is: You know.

Ruttenberg's IQ is quite high, and his EQ is higher than his IQ. He understood what Qin Hai meant when he heard Qin Hai's words. He said, "If this is the case, I can now represent the board of directors to award Professor Li the title of lifelong honorary professor." Professor He Yue, as for Mr. Qin...if you don't mind, we can grant you an honorary doctorate."

"That's enough..." Qin Hai quickly waved his hands. He is just a technical school student. If he gets an honorary doctorate from abroad, he doesn't know whether he will be recognized in China. He firmly grasped the topic and said to Ruttenberg: " Mr. Ruttenberg, you have seen that we will hold an academic report soon, and I plan to invite Professor Li and Professor Yue to introduce the development of thermal spraying technology to manufacturers around the world. If the honorary professor can be announced now, I think it will have a good influence on the two professors and your school."

"You're very right, I'll do it right away." Rutenberg nodded firmly and agreed.

In fact, Ruttenberg has already communicated with the members of the board of directors in private about awarding Li Linguang and Yue Kun the titles of lifelong honorary professors. Everyone in the circle understands the value of the thermal spraying process. Li Linguang and Yue Kun, as experts who have made breakthroughs in this technology, are fully qualified to receive this honor from the University of Sao Paulo. Ruttenberg kept this matter under wraps and refused to speak out. The purpose was to blackmail Li Linguang and the others for a thermal spraying machine. Now that Qin Hai agreed to donate the machine, Ruttenberg would of course reciprocate. things announced.

The time for the planned report came. As Cui Hongchun, Qin Hai and others walked up to the podium and sat down on the guest seats, the audience gradually became quiet. Brownlee announced the start of the report meeting on behalf of the organizing committee. Qin Hai sat on the stage and gestured to Qin Shan who was in the audience. Qin Shan clicked on the slide projector beside her knowingly, and a beam of light was projected to the side of the podium. On the large screen, the theme of the speech was clearly displayed:

Innovation and application of thermal spraying process;

Speakers: Li Linguang, Yue Kun (Anhe Institute of Technology, China).

Seeing the content on the slide, everyone in the audience began to whisper, and the most talked about was the identity of the speaker:

"Anhe Institute of Technology, what kind of institute is this?"

"Li Linguang, Yue Kun...have you read their papers?"

"How did two unknown people come to report, are they the original creators of the technology?"

"..."

Amidst the discussions, Qin Hai whispered a few words to Cui Hongchun. Cui Hongchun stood up with a smile, walked to the speaking seat, and said to everyone: "Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I am Cui Hongchun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture of China. My colleagues and I welcome everyone to come and listen to the technical report made by the China Agricultural Machinery Delegation. Because this report is mainly academic, I would like to invite Lu Professor Thunberg will be the moderator of the report, and now Mr. Ruttenberg is invited."

There was a small commotion on the court at the hearing of Ruttenberg's name. Those who are interested in listening to this report are all people who deal with materials, or are technical personnel from enterprises, or are scholars from colleges and universities. They have never heard of the names of Li Linguang and Yue Kun, but they are not familiar with Ruttenberg. no stranger.

Amid the applause of everyone, Ruttenberg walked to the speaking seat with a smile, shook hands with Cui Hongchun who was giving up his seat, then watched Cui Hongchun go back to his seat and sat down, and then said to the audience:

"Everyone, I am Ruttenberg. It is a great honor to be invited by Mr. Minister to be the host of this report. I think you are very clear about the development of spraying technology, but as of yesterday, the spraying technology It is still in the field of high-end equipment manufacturing and cannot be applied to the manufacture of general equipment. However, this regret has now been solved by my Chinese colleagues Mr. Li Lin Guang and Mr. Yue Kun. The agricultural tools processed by the thermal spraying machine designed by them, I believe everyone has seen it.

Now, I would like to invite Mr. Li Linguang, a lifelong honorary professor of the University of Sao Paulo and a professor of Anhe Institute of Technology in China, to introduce to us how such a magical metal surface treatment process was proposed and how to apply it. I believe that after listening to it, everyone will feel like I have experienced before. Similarly, I have sincere respect for Mr. Li's genius conception. "

"Wow..." The applause on the field sounded like a rising tide, from weak to strong, and quickly turned into thunder.

Amid the applause, Li Linguang stood up with a smile and walked towards Ruttenberg. Qin Hai noticed that Li Linguang's footsteps were a little stiff, and it seemed that the old gentleman was somewhat nervous. Regardless of the countless lectures he has given in school in the past, it was the first time for him to speak on such an international platform.

"It's a great honor to report to you some of the achievements I have made with Professor Yue Kun in thermal spraying technology..." Li Linguang started his speech. He didn't speak English very fluently, but the content he said was very professional of.

Qin Shan and Ning Mo, who were arranged by Qin Hai to be in charge of showing the slides, listened to what Li Linguang said with high tension, making sure to switch the slides at the right time to be consistent with Li Linguang's narration. They have studied the content on these slides a dozen times before, just to ensure that there will be no mistakes at this time.

"This Qin Hai, it's really disgusting to entrust us with such a difficult task." Tranquility nagged Qin Shan while inserting the slideshow.

"My brother is on stage, so he can't come down and help us put on the slide." Qin Shan defended her brother.

"He has nothing to do, what are you doing sitting on the stage?" Tranquility said.

Qin Shan said: "It's not that you don't know that the techniques that Professor Li talked about were first proposed by my brother. He was sitting on the stage, probably because he was afraid that Professor Li would make mistakes."

"Your brother is too capable, right? Professor Li is not as capable as him, and I don't know how his brain is." Tranquility looked at Qin Hai who was sitting on the stage with a calm face, feeling inexplicably move.

The two little girls only knew that there were many foreigners who came to this report, and it looked very grand, but they didn't know much about how amazing the technology Li Linguang introduced was. The other people sitting in the audience were different. From the very beginning of Li Linguang’s introduction, everyone realized that it was worthwhile to travel all the way here. What Li Linguang said was vaguely related to some issues they had thought about. From these narrations, they saw the light of solving problems, and they couldn't help but feel a sense of enlightenment.

"In the process of thermal spraying, there are two ways of heat exchange between the hot air flow or the flame flow and the sprayed particles carried. The first way is convection. We can look at the formula for heat transfer in convection... This symbol represents the Nusselt number, which is the thermal conductivity of the flame flow..." Li Linguang pointed to the formula on the big screen, and gradually found the chic feeling during the lecture.

Everyone in the audience took notebooks and memorized the formulas and essentials, as if they were listening to a lecture in a university classroom. Many scholars, who were originally somewhat contemptuous, also became serious. As the saying goes, an expert stretches out his hand to know if it is there. Professionals can understand the value of Li Linguang's content as soon as he hears it, and at the same time, he has a feeling of respect for this unattractive Chinese professor on the stage.

"Mr. Li, may I ask, do you own the patent for the supersonic nozzle you mentioned just now?" Someone couldn't help but raised their hands to ask. They can hear that this technology is one of the key technologies that make the thermal spraying process normal. If the Chinese have the expertise in this technology, other manufacturers who want to engage in thermal spraying will have to pay patent fees to the Chinese. Conversely, if the Chinese do not have its patent yet, then everyone has to go back and organize manual research, and grab this patent in their own hands before their colleagues.

"Well, we haven't obtained a patent yet." Li Linguang said leisurely.

As soon as this remark came out, more than a dozen people stood up at the venue, making a gesture to go out. These were the people who planned to grab the patent. Before they could take a step forward, Li Linguang said the last sentence: "However, we are already applying for a patent, and this technology is under the patent protection period..."

At the same time, Qin Shan and Tranquility changed a slide in time, and the big screen displayed the name, application time, serial number and other information of the patent being applied for. Seeing this information, those who stood up all sat down at the same time, and there is no point in going back now.

Cui Hongchun, who was sitting on the stage, saw this scene offstage, and his heart jumped several times. He did not expect that foreigners would be so sensitive to patents, and would appear to be so eager to grab patents. He turned his head and asked Qin Hai next to him in a low voice: "Xiao Qin, have you applied for patents for these technologies? If there are any that haven't had time to apply, please don't let Professor Li disclose them."

Qin Hai smiled and said: "Minister Cui, don't worry, we have always paid great attention to patent matters. All the technologies we have researched have applied for patent protection in the first place. For this, the cost we paid is not high. It’s small. You need to pay foreign exchange to apply for a patent abroad, and you know how difficult it is to get some foreign exchange now.”

"No matter how difficult it is, we have to do it, and the cost is worth it." Cui Hongchun said, "We didn't pay much attention to patents in the past. In the past two years, there have been many cases of foreign countries suing us for patent infringement, which made many of our factories very nervous. It’s embarrassing. The technology of the thermal spraying machine you have is so advanced that it must be protected by a patent. As for the matter of foreign exchange...you just have to find a way to solve it yourself.”