On April 17th, the State Intellectual Property Office announced the evaluation results of the 24th China Patent Award, in which GAC Group's AION Y automobile design patent won the China Appearance Patent Gold Award, and the invention patent of "Shift Control System for Automatic Transmission" won the China Patent Excellence Award. This is the third time for GAC to win this honor after GE3 and AION S won the Gold Medal of China Appearance Design!
China Patent Award is selected by the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)***, aiming at encouraging and recognizing patentees and inventors (designers) who have made outstanding contributions to technological (design) innovation and economic and social development.
Value and content go hand in hand to create a "versatile and trendy" car
Under the dual role of national policy guidelines and surging user demand, the new energy automobile industry has entered a stage of rapid development on a large scale, and GAC Research Institute has responded to the policy requirements and market demand quickly, creating and delivering the new energy vehicles to the market. In response to the policy requirements and market demand, GAC Research Institute has launched a series of new energy products under the brand names of AION and HOPPER. Among them, AION Y is a car specially designed for young people who pursue new trends and dare to be innovative.
AION Y automobile design patent won the 24th China Appearance Design Gold Medal
AION Y automobile design patent certificate (Patent No.: ZL202030621088.5)
AION Y utilizes the semantics of "City in the Sky" to build a new generation of intellectual aesthetics. The "Angel Wings" headlights, "Star Track" taillights, and "Moonlight Mansion" customized wheels are all more dynamic and interesting in detail, and it is as if you are driving in the city of the sky. The car is a great example of a car that has been designed to be used in a city in the sky.
AION Y exterior design
The exclusive color of the AION Y is the high brightness, low saturation "Azure", which is as transparent and pure as the sky. The secondary color is bright orange, which is light and agile, but also has unlimited heat and vitality.
The interior of AION Y uses the exclusive fresh and quiet macaroon color, with bright orange 3D sports fabrics, always highlighting the youthful vitality. Through CMF innovation and the design of exquisite craftsmanship and natural and environmentally friendly materials, it is able to defeat boredom with fun, reconfigure aesthetics with art, and complete evolution with technology.
AION Y interior styling design
As a trendy item with both value and content, AION Y not only meets the needs of young consumers for a "third living space", but also becomes a good partner for the young Z-generation on the road to "fun life" in a trendy and personalized manner. AION Y not only meets the needs of young consumers for a "third living space", but also becomes a good partner for the young Z-generation "fun life" with its trendy personality.
Since its launch in April 2021, AION Y has been favored by many consumers. As of March this year, the cumulative sales of AION Y series models exceeded 180,000 units, ranking first in the 150,000-grade pure electric SUV market, and driving the sales of GAC AION 2022 exceeded 271,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 126%, creating a new record of sales growth.
AION Y is favored by young consumers for its trendy personality
The market performance of GAC's own brand is constantly strong, representing the rise of China's automotive design power. Over the years, the design team of GAC Research Institute has adhered to the strategy of "design-driven" to create a globalized design and innovation system layout with Milan, Los Angeles, Shanghai and Guangzhou as the "three countries and four places", forming a full chain of independent design and innovation capabilities, and continuously producing innovative results with international first-class level. The company has set up a globalized design and innovation system in Milan, Los Angeles, Shanghai and Guangzhou, forming a whole chain of independent design and innovation capabilities, and producing a steady stream of international first-class innovations, setting a benchmark for Chinese brands and enhancing the status of Chinese design in the world automotive industry.
Breaking through the foreign technology blockade and mastering the core technology of electro-hydraulic control system
In addition to the Gold Medal of China Appearance Design Award, GAC Group's patent for "Shift Control System for Automatic Transmission" has also won the 24th China Patent Award of Excellence.
For a long time, automobile electro-hydraulic control system technology has been monopolized and blocked by foreign companies, and the electro-hydraulic control system including power transmission and chassis can only be purchased. In order to fundamentally solve the electro-hydraulic control system "neck" problem, in the development of 7WDCT automatic transmission (7-speed wet dual-clutch automatic transmission) process, GAC Research Institute decided to completely independent development of transmission electro-hydraulic control system.
After layers of research and continuous innovation, GAC Research Institute completed the electro-hydraulic control system from outsourcing matching to the independent development of the "reverse" road, developed a high-precision, fast-response energy-saving electro-hydraulic control system, mastered the development of automotive electro-hydraulic control system technology, and set up a complete system of electro-hydraulic control system from design, simulation to validation, and established a complete system of electro-hydraulic control system from design, simulation to validation, which is the most effective way of control system development in China. The company has also established a complete system from design, simulation to verification of electro-hydraulic control system, realizing a breakthrough in core technology. This award-winning patent is the patent for the electro-hydraulic control system of the automatic transmission.
"Shift Control System for Automatic Transmission" Patent won the 24th China Patent Award of Excellence
"Shift Control System for Automatic Transmission" Patent Certificate (Patent No.: ZL201410657662, ZL201410657662, ZL201410657662, ZL201410657662, ZL201410657662, ZL201410657662) ZL201410657662.6)
In the development of automatic transmissions, GAC Research Institute took the lead in proposing an efficient oil supply system program using mechanical pumps and electronic pumps for the electro-hydraulic control system, which reduces hydraulic energy consumption by more than 33%; and in the gearshift control, it proposes a dual-phase gearshift "pressure + flow" control program, which improves gearshift response and smoothness by more than 33%. In terms of gear shift control, it proposes a dual-phase control program of gear shift "pressure + flow", which improves gear shift response and smoothness by more than 25%; in terms of preventing oil contamination, it adopts the close-end structure of solenoid valve, which makes the system both energy-saving and reliable; and creatively proposes the program of interlocking gears to prevent errors, which improves the safety and redundancy of the system. The 7WDCT automatic transmission with this electro-hydraulic control system has reached the international leading level, with a comprehensive efficiency of 95.6%, and has been honored as one of the world's top ten transmissions.
Advanced Electro-hydraulic Control Module for Transmission Developed by Guangzhou Automobile Works Corporation (GAC)
At present, the 7WDCT automatic transmission with this patented electro-hydraulic control system has been equipped in GAC GS4, GS8, M6, and Shadow Leopard models, which have been sold in the market with excellent market performances, and have achieved good social and economic benefits. At the same time, this technology fills the blank of GAC's independent research and development of electro-hydraulic control system, breaks through the technical barriers of foreign companies, and further strengthens the core competitiveness of the independent brand, and further applies to the hybrid transmission and other power, chassis-related fields, to provide stronger support for the independent research and development of GAC.
Continuously strengthen the layout of innovation and intellectual property rights to help high-quality development
Accelerating the realization of a high level of scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, is to promote high-quality development of the road. At present, the world's unprecedented big change accelerated evolution, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change in-depth development, science and technology innovation has become the main battlefield of the international strategic game.
In order to firmly grasp the initiative of development in the fierce competition and promote high-quality development, GAC Group has put scientific and technological innovation in the core position, vigorously implemented the innovation-driven development strategy and intellectual property rights strategy, and accelerated the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement. Since the establishment of GAC Research Institute in 2006, GAC Group has invested more than RMB 39.5 billion in R&D expenses and built a global R&D network with GAC Research Institute as the core, supported by GAC R&D Center in the US, GAC R&D Center in Europe, and GAC Research Institute's Shanghai Prospective Design Workshop, and created an international R&D talent team from more than ten countries including Germany, Italy, the United States, Japan, and South Korea with more than 5,000 R&D personnel. There are more than 5,000 R&D personnel.
Continuous investment in R&D has enabled GAC to master a number of industry-leading independent technologies and intellectual property rights. In the past three years, GAC has applied for more than 1,500 new patents annually, and the proportion of invention patents in the past three years is about 55%, and the cumulative proportion of invention patents is about 46%, which is more than the industry average, and the patent authorization rate is about 90%.
As of March this year, the total number of intellectual property rights of GAC Group exceeded 20,000, of which more than 15,000 are valid patent applications, 4,000 are trademarks, and 1,000 are software copyrights. As for patents, the total number of Chinese patent applications is 15,342, of which 5,768 are invention patents.
While realizing the double growth of patent quantity and quality, GAC focuses on cultivating more than 4,500 high-value patents in the fields of energy-saving and new-energy vehicles and intelligent Internet technology, and the invention patents in this technology field accounted for 70% of the total number of patents, which is far more than the proportion of invention patents in the automobile industry.
In the future, GAC will base on independent research and development, actively play the role of intellectual property rights in leading and promoting the development of innovation, accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, unswervingly promote high-quality development, independently master the key core technologies, and make greater contributions to the construction of automotive power.
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