/ Aswen Tong/August 02, 2022 Guangzhou -- The State Intellectual Property Office announced the Decision on the 23rd China Patent Awards on July 26. Fotel, a leading kitchen electric technology brand, won the 23rd China Patent Excellence Award and the 23rd China Appearance Design Excellence Award respectively for its patent of "An Open Water Pump and its Application" and its patent of "Range Hood (X1-0)".
The "China Patent Award" is jointly sponsored by the State Intellectual Property Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization. It is awarded once a year and is recognized by the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). After Fotile sink dishwasher Q6 won the 20th "China Design Gold Medal", Fotile won two Chinese Patent Excellence Awards again this time, which is a high affirmation of its leading innovation and technological strength.
Technology breakthrough and application effect, patent strength industry leader
The evaluation criteria of "China Patent Award" not only emphasizes the patent technology level and innovation height of the project, but also pays attention to its application in the process of market transformation. The two patents awarded by Fontai are outstanding in technological breakthrough and application results.
Among them, the utility model patent "an open water pump and its application" focuses on the technical difficulties of kitchen electric cleaning, tackles the key technical problems, and can ensure the cleaning effect when applied to the sink cleaning machine. The application and transformation of this patent successfully won the favor of the market. According to the Report of 2022 Science and Technology Revitalizing Life, the sales volume of Fangtai sink dishwasher on Jingdong single platform exceeded 10,000 in 2021, taking 94.6% of the sales volume of the whole industry.
Another appearance design patent "range hood (X1-0)" has a novel and unique design concept, its ultra-thin three-dimensional mirror appearance and cabinet perfect match, obsidian black color conveys a rigorous sense of senior, simple and intuitive interaction design with stage lighting, creating a Chinese, European, near suction outside the fourth kind of new appearance. The sales volume of this patented appearance product exceeds 100,000 units in one and a half years after its launch, and it has won several awards such as the 2021 IF Design Award.
It is worth mentioning that these two winning patents are only the "tip of the iceberg" in Fangtai's high-quality patent pool. As the leader of patent research and development in the kitchen electricity industry, Fangtai currently owns more than 8,500 domestic authorized patents, including nearly 2,100 invention patents. Fangtai continues to release the practical value brought by innovation and technology for consumers, and helps the high-quality development of the kitchen electricity industry.
Promote the in-depth development of basic scientific research, leading the wave of kitchen electricity technology
Behind Fangtai's huge number of authorized patents and rich achievements in scientific and technological transformation, is its investment in research and innovation and persistence. Over the past 26 years, Fotai has always adhered to the principle that "innovation is the first driving force for enterprise development", continuously promoted the in-depth development of basic scientific research around the three core technologies of air, water and cooking, and led the wave of kitchen electricity technology.
It is understood that Fontai invests more than 5% of its sales revenue in research and development every year, has a research and development talent team of nearly 1,000 people, and has established enterprise technology center recognized by the state and laboratories recognized by China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment. Meanwhile, it has set up research institutes in Germany, Japan and other places. In 2013, it was named one of the first batch of intellectual property demonstration enterprises by the State Intellectual Property Office.
In addition to the continuous investment in research and development, Fotai's intrinsic cultural value drive also provides a clear direction for it to build profound innovation and technology strength. Under the value guidance of the innovative technology concept of "benevolence as the body, rationality as the degree, happiness as the foundation", Fangtai has always adhered to the "user needs" as the orientation, devoted itself to independent research and development, and created innovative scientific and technological achievements that can truly solve users' pain points. It took 5 years to develop the world's first 3-in-1 sink dishwasher, which effectively eliminated Chinese users' concerns about the installation and use of dishwasher. After years of research and development, Fotai Integrated Cooking Center has been launched. Through the idea of solving kitchen problems through integration, it distinguishes itself from other integrated kitchen electricity products in the market and leads the future of integrated kitchen electricity. After 8 years, the company broke through foreign technical barriers and invented NSP selective filtering technology to truly "remove harm and retain benefit" and launched Fontai maternal and child water purifier. Each iteration of innovation reflects the innovation paradigm of Fontai with "benevolence" as the source. < /p>"China Patent Award" has always been an important symbol to reflect the independent innovation ability and the efficiency of scientific and technological achievements transformation. The two China Patent Excellence awards this time means that Fangtai's innovation and technological strength has been recognized again. From this series of authoritative recognition, it is not difficult to see that Fotai has successfully walked out of its own unique road of innovative technology, and will continue to lead the innovation and upgrading of kitchen electricity industry, revitalizing thousands of home kitchen experience.
