Free Web NovelChapter 1482: Chapter 702 Flying Car_2
Up until now, the market had already assimilated the impact of anti-gravity technology.
In fact, the development of anti-gravity technology had not had as strong an impact on the civilian aviation market as one might have imagined, at least not as significant as expected.
For instance, commercial aircraft had hardly been affected at all.
Anti-gravity flying vehicles were extremely large, and the consumption for each flight was also very high. Moreover, the main reason was that anti-gravity flying vehicles were more adept at vertical takeoff and landing; their horizontal flying speed was not fast and could not possibly catch up with the various turbine-powered aircraft specifically designed for aerodynamics, because the main obstacle to an aircraft’s horizontal speed was air resistance, not gravity.
Now that we are able to greatly scale down the anti-gravity device, we can adopt anti-gravity designs in commercial airplanes, which can counter the force of gravity that hinders the airplane, thereby reducing some of the resistance created by designs intended for ascension.
For example, biplanes.
The biplanes in commercial aircraft are primarily used to harness air to achieve lift.
If there is an anti-gravity system providing gravity isolation, the plane could rise unimpeded, and there would be no need for designing horizontal wings at all.
And so on.
Without the consideration of ascent, many flexible designs can be implemented, ensuring the airplane’s speed, agility, and greatly enhancing its carrying capacity.
Zhao Yi pondered and asked a question, "If Yixing Technology wants to use this technology, how should we proceed with collaboration?"
This involved patent licensing. freeωebnovēl.c૦m
Lou Sheng immediately smiled. Their purpose for doing research and development was, on one hand, to elevate their own technical level and product performance, and on the other, to hope for profits.
Without a doubt, patent licensing could bring direct profits.
Yixing was an aerospace technology company with quite advanced technology, and it would definitely use many photoelectric technologies, naturally making New Hui Photoelectric Technology their main customer and even a super customer.
This aspect required careful discussion.
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Zhao Yi would not personally attend to discuss patent fees; he just had a few words with Lou Sheng, learned a bit more about the technology, and then let the team from Yixing Technology come over to discuss patent licensing issues.
As an aerospace technology company, they had to use anti-gravity, space linking, and other technologies, having a direct need for optical conduit. The highest-end nano-level optical conduit embedding technology was definitely to be used.
However, whether it’s needed now or later, discussing the patents directly was certainly correct.
After Zhao Yi returned to the capital, he continued to work in Yixing’s technology department. He did not participate in other work but began designing automobiles.
He wanted to design a ’flying car’.
When the anti-gravity system could be reduced to a diameter of two meters, not designing an airplane car was indeed regrettable; he treated it as a work of interest, mainly because since childhood, he had dreamed of one day riding in a car that could fly directly.
Now the dream was about to come true.
Zhao Yi’s design was based on the Unlimited Power Automobile, aiming to craft a ’Unlimited Power Flying Car,’ which meant integrating additional components into the original design.
For example, fan-style propellers.
The reason for using fan-style propulsion rather than jet propulsion was mainly due to civil considerations; designs for jet propulsion clearly could not be arbitrarily taken on the road as they would directly affect the vehicles behind or beneath them.
However, fan-style propulsion had a problem with insufficient power, meaning that the car, even with the anti-gravity system enabling it to fly, could not possibly achieve very high flying speeds.
This was a big problem.
Li Jianhua came over, looked at the design on the computer, and asked with curiosity, "What sort of car is this? Why does it have a disk at the bottom? And it’s equipped with a ducted fan? It looks odd."
"Flying car."
Zhao Yi looked up at Li Jianhua and asked, "Apart from fans and jets, what other propulsion methods do airplanes have?"
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Li Jianhua thought hard for quite a while but couldn’t think of a third method, as historically, airplanes have only featured fan and jet propulsion methods.
The first airplane made by the Wright brothers had a fan propeller at the front, moving the air to create a forward pulling force.
Latter aircraft seeking speed had to use jet or turbojet propulsion.
Looking at the design on the computer, Li Jianhua suddenly asked, "Is this disk at the bottom the anti-gravity system?"
"Yes."
"So, you’re saying your designed flying car can float effortlessly, right?"
"Is that so?"
Li Jianhua smiled and said, "I think you can refer to the design of ships. When there’s no need to consider gravity, isn’t it just like swimming in the air?"
Zhao Yi, having heard this, suddenly realized, "That makes sense! It’s just like a ship in the air!"
Immediately, many ideas came to him.
However, Zhao Yi didn’t continue with the design, as Li Jianhua brought up the matter of Yixing’s split.
This was the biggest issue.
Yixing was discontinuing and separating Yixing Unlimited Power Company to let Unlimited Power Company go public independently. The division of Yixing Unlimited Power Company was a complex process, mainly involving numerous technology patents and financial issues.
For Yixing, Yixing Technology was the parent technology company, while Unlimited Power Company was the subsidiary that used the parent company’s technology to achieve substantial profits independently.
The subsidiary needed to operate independently in the future, which certainly required a clear division of technology patents and funds.
This was not merely a matter of "dividing the family assets" but also included issues related to future development.
The Unlimited Power Automobile used solar energy transmission technology, which was owned by Yixing Technology.
Moreover, the Energy-Gathering Satellite also belonged to Yixing Technology.
These two parts were the major assets.
After the split of Unlimited Power Company, it would have to continue paying technology patent fees, which was an ongoing internal discussion at Yixing.
There were two payment methods: one was a fixed payment, and the other was based on sales revenue sharing.
Most people favored the latter.
Because sales revenue sharing directly tied to the performance of Unlimited Power Company, and it wouldn’t burden the company’s development with hefty patent fees.
The advantage of this payment method was that more sales meant more fees, and fewer sales meant fewer fees.
Another focal point was the issue of using the Energy-Gathering Satellite.
There was not much controversy over this aspect.
With the split of Yixing Unlimited Power already determined, a team was formed internally specifically to negotiate with Yixing Technology, dividing the use of the solar energy transmission power into two parts.
One part was the use of existing satellites, for which the fee was roughly two hundred thousand kilowatts of transformed energy transmission, paying one hundred million RMB each year.
Subsequent contracts would be renegotiated, with prices doubling or more, costing roughly two hundred million RMB per Energy-Gathering Satellite each year.
This price would allow Yixing Technology to recover the cost of launching an Energy-Gathering Satellite in about seven years and also grant Yixing Technology the independent operational rights for the satellites it launched.
For example, the newly launched Energy-Gathering Satellites could lease their transmitted solar energy to Yixing Unlimited Power or even to other companies.
As a result, Yixing Unlimited Power would become a fully independently operated company rather than one reliant on Yixing Technology for its operations.
Only a company operating independently would be able to go public, and take on future development and responsibilities on its own.
Wait a minute.
The division of Unlimited Power Company was still very complex, and the company had been continuously working on this matter, but the split was definite because Yixing Technology mainly focused on research and development, while Unlimited Power Company was primarily about car sales.
The two were already heading in different directions.
If they continued to be mixed together, many internal issues would arise.
For instance, the technology department.
They needed to conduct research and development for Unlimited Power Automobiles without understanding what significance similar work held for them, as the development of Unlimited Power Automobiles was not directly related to them.
Zhao Yi was only briefly concerned about the division work of Unlimited Power Company. In reality, other professionals were doing the work; he was only responsible for reviewing the final outcome.
The split and going public of Unlimited Power Company would bring many benefits.
The most direct benefit was that both Yixing Technology and Unlimited Power Company would receive a large sum of funds that could be directly invested in research and development or expansion.
That was the most direct benefit.
Additionally, operation as a listed company would be subject to market supervision, making the management much more formal and less chaotic than the current situation.
