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According to Bishop & Associates data, the global connector market will be approximately US$77.99 billion in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 24.3%. Among them, China's connector market reached 24.978 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 23.8%, becoming the world's largest connector sales country. Phoenix Contact, which is deeply involved in the field of electrical connection and electronic interface and industrial automation, not only occupies a place in the global connector market, but also achieves rapid growth in its business in China. The data shows that in 2021, Phoenix Contact's sales in China will be 3 billion yuan, and its leading product terminal blocks will rank first in the market share of the domestic terminal market. At the same time, Phoenix Contact has insight into the changes in market and technology trends, actively explores the market, sets its sights on the new energy track, and established Phoenix Contact New Energy Vehicle Co., Ltd. Relying on its strong technical background, Phoenix Contact quickly entered the field of new energy vehicle charging, developed high-power charging technology and actively participated in the establishment of industry standards. At the same time, relying on intellectual property rights to empower R&D and innovation, Phoenix Contact establishes technological innovation advantages, and then empowers business development. The future is promising. Intellectual property rights continue to empower R&D innovation As a century-old German company, Phoenix Contact attaches great importance to R&D and intellectual property. Wisdom Buds data shows that from the perspective of global layout, Phoenix has deployed more than 10,000 patents in nearly 30 countries/regions around the world . Among them, Germany is its largest patent layout market, followed by China, and the United States ranks third. Phoenix Contact attaches great importance to the Chinese market. It has not only established a research and development institution, but also deployed a mature intellectual property team. Chinese companies invest more than 70 million yuan a year in research and development. According to Wisdom Bud data, Phoenix Contact has applied for more than 1,700 patents in the Chinese market. Among them, invention patents accounted for more than 66%, showing a high level of technological innovation. In terms of technical topics, Phoenix Contact's current patent layout in China mainly focuses on technical application fields such as circuit devices, control/regulation systems, measuring devices, transmission systems, vehicle components, electrical equipment structural parts, and sustainable transportation. It is worth mentioning that Phoenix Contact emphasizes the strong combination of intellectual property rights and technology research and development, and controls the patent layout of Chinese companies in various markets at home and abroad at a macro level, and builds the company's core technology with intellectual property rights through active protection of innovative technologies moat.
Figure: Phoenix Contact's global patent layout (source: Wisdom Bud) At the same time, in order to ensure the continuous output of the company's R&D results, the Phoenix Contact China Intellectual Property Team has formulated an intellectual property management system with the characteristics of the independent company. On the one hand, the company has a sound management mechanism in terms of intellectual property protection, and has formulated the "Enterprise Intellectual Property Management Manual" to enhance the awareness of intellectual property protection from top to bottom, laying the foundation for all kinds of intellectual property work to be implemented from paper to practice. On the other hand, Phoenix Contact focuses on building a collaboration mechanism between intellectual property and R&D, participates in the entire life cycle of R&D projects, and empowers enterprises to innovate in R&D with intellectual property. It is reported that its intellectual property team cooperates closely with the R&D team and the marketing team, participates in the R&D process of each product project, and does a good job in risk prevention and patent layout. For example, before applying for a patent for a certain technical plan, the intellectual property engineer will jointly evaluate the patent value with the R&D personnel and the person in charge of marketing, so as to realize the patent layout in the global market and escort the company's expansion in the global market. Enter the field of new energy vehicle charging and quickly establish technical advantages The continuous increase in the number of new energy vehicles has led to an increase in the number of charging facilities. According to data from the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance, as of October this year, the cumulative number of charging infrastructure nationwide was 4.704 million units, a year-on-year increase of 108.8%. Against the backdrop of the ever-expanding new energy vehicle charging market, Phoenix Contact quickly entered the new energy vehicle track based on its accumulated technical advantages in the past. The person in charge of the Intellectual Property Department of Phoenix Contact said, "From the perspective of industry development trends, the field of high-current fast charging is not only a hot spot for current industry exploration, but also an inevitable trend of technological development. More new patents will continue to be generated in the future. At the same time, In the field of charging and swapping technology, it will also be possible to form a new patent growth point." In recent years, in the layout of the field of new energy vehicles, Phoenix Contact has focused on the above two areas, and has taken them as the focus of enterprise layout and competition, and has formed certain technical advantages. One of the most noteworthy is the high-power charging (HPC) technology developed by Phoenix Contact for the field of electric vehicles, which is currently used in fast charging stations for electric vehicles. Relying on this technology, electric vehicles only need to be charged for three minutes to have a range of 100km, which significantly alleviates the "range anxiety" of electric vehicle owners.
Figure: High-power charging technology shortens the charging time of electric vehicles (source: Phoenix Contact official website) From a technical point of view, during the high-power charging process, the charging gun and its cables are required to withstand a high current of 400-600A and need to achieve rapid heat dissipation. Facing this problem of thermal management balance, Phoenix Contact's intelligent high-power charging products adopt an active liquid cooling system that can make the charging power reach 500 kW to ensure the safe and stable operation of the charging system. In addition, the core components of the fast charging gun developed by it use special high-performance materials, assisted by precise processing technology, to achieve good reliability and excellent cooling performance during the charging process.
Figure: The cooling system can ensure that the charging cable and the cable do not exceed the specified upper limit of temperature rise ΔTmax (source: Phoenix Contact official website) With its breakthrough technological achievements, Phoenix Contact has gradually become a leader in the electric vehicle and electric vehicle fast charging industry, and has participated in the establishment of electric vehicle industry standards on the basis of technological innovation. Phoenix Contact has participated in the creation of the CharIN (Charging Interface Initiative) organization in cooperation with leading German car manufacturers and the TÜV Süd certification body. The organization's goal is to develop the Combined Charging System (CCS) into a global standard for charging electric vehicles. At the same time, in the Chinese market, the local team of Phoenix Electric Vehicles actively participates in the formulation of national standards for high-power charging and battery replacement, hoping to bring the German headquarters' deep technical accumulation and rich field application experience in the field of connection to the Chinese market and promote relevant standards. Land as soon as possible to promote the healthy and orderly development of the market. Phoenix Contact, which has been established for nearly a century, has always attached importance to R&D investment and intellectual property protection, and has continuously explored and established technological advantages in various industries such as process industry, production, equipment and system manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, and electric vehicles. Technological innovation service provider Wisdom Bud has joined hands with Phoenix Contact to empower R&D and innovation through intellectual property rights, and continuously inject energy into the company's development. Top Company Profiles on Discovery |
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