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CHIN-X: The Citrus Wizard & QQ Food |
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Fatty Liver Therapeutic Apparatus & Z-shaped colonoscope
Zhang Wengui (Dongcheng, Beijing)
Zhang Wengui, born in 1950, is an engineer with college education. He began his research on medical device in 1983. Once in 1997, Zhang read a report entitled, “White-collar workers, pay attention to your health” which said that the incidence of fatty liver among white-collar workers had reached a high level. He read this report again and again for several days and then took the newspaper to The First People’s Hospital of Yancheng to consult Li Guohua (a chief physician) about the tendency, therapeutic drug and treatment of fatty liver. According to Li, there was no effective medicine or medical apparatus to treat this disease. Later, Zhang went to Shanghai First People’s Hospital to ask Fan Jiangao (a chief physician of digestive department) for more information. With the help of these two experts, Zhang began to develop fatty liver therapeutic equipment. He read medical books like “Practical Internal Medicine”, “Compendium of Materia Medica”, “Bioinformatics”, etc. in his free time. After three years of study, he finally mastered the principle of the clinical application of magnet therapy. Besides, he also consulted Zhou Wansong, authoritative expert on magnetics in China. In 1998, Zhang made three model equipments. At that time, his two colleagues happened to be diagnosed with mild fatty liver. They tried to use these equipments under the guidance of Zhang. One month later, their conditions improved significantly. Even the doctor doubted that they had taken some special effective medicine. The curative effect of Zhang’s fatty liver therapeutic equipment was proved. But he was not anxious to publicize his invention. Instead, he went on to find materials to improve the qualification of his invention. He did not make samples until August 2004. His invention was proved clinically by Jiangsu Province Hospital and General Hospital of Nanjing Military Command. In April, 2006, it was approved by relative provincial departments to register and come into the market. Besides, this invention also obtained the special prize of National S&T Invention Award and the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Achievements Award.
The fatty liver therapeutic equipment invented by Zhang Wengui, mainly comprised a casing, an electric machine, a rotary table, a magnetic column, and a movable brush. It is important to mention that the casing is provided with a massaging head made of natural jade material. The magnetic column, movable brush, the rotary table and the center of rotation of the rotary table are eccentrically arranged, so that the massaging head can generate the function of vibration massage when the rotary table rotates. It has the advantage that under the double action of microelement and magnetic therapy, the various microelements of zinc, copper, germanium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, selenium, etc. contained in the natural jade are utilized, and get into the human body under the action of the magnetic field, having unforeseen special efficacy for the treatment and prevention of fatty liver by reducing fat and decomposing fat in the fatty liver. The fatty
liver therapeutic equipment has
small volume, light weight, simple structure, convenient production, and low cost.
Health Care Massage Machine: a user-centric led innovation
WangFanlin (Nanping, Fujian)
Wang Fanlin, a farmer of Xiji Village (Fangdao Town, Jianou City) had suffered lumbar disc hernia for several years, causing much inconvenience to him. He could not even work in the field. So he was eager to invent a simple massage machine to treat his disease. Although with simple materials, he invented a massage machine in about two months. The treatment effect was good. So he lent his invented machine to other villagers. They proposed modification to Wang who then improved his invention on and on. And its effectiveness improved over time. In June, 2006, Wang applied for a patent and began to look for a partner to mass produce his invention. Zhang Mingsheng, the manager of a bamboo processing company, knew Wang’s invention through one of his friend. He brought this invention to the investment symposium held in Xiamen in 1998. It was favored by a lot of merchants. On realizing that this was a good business opportunity, Zhang signed a contract with Wang on the spot and invited Wang to work in his company as a R & D product engineer. In order to cater to the market demand, Wang made further improvement in his massage machine again. After half a year’s research and development, Wang’s invention began to be mass produced. And this common farmer transformed his life through his own invention.
This comfortable health-care massaging bed includes a bed body and a channel arranged inside the bed body. The bed has a reciprocating-massage roller mechanism positioned in the channel; a grid cover plate is arranged above the channel and in level with the surface of the bed; and rollers of the reciprocating-massage roller mechanism protrude from the empty spaces of the grid-shaped cover plate. It has the advantages of simple structure, low manufacturing cost, comfortable and convenient use, and is quite popular.
This innovation could massage human body parts, like lumbar vertebra and cervical vertebra, by imitating manual massage. It could adjust force-bearing points automatically to do rolling massage on fixed points or within long, middle and short distance according to the curve of human lumbar backbone. It has a wide variation range of massage strength. Being different from other massage beds, the bed surface of this innovation would not get sunken when a person lies on it.
Electronic lightening protector
Chen Dahui (Zhangzhou, Fujian)
Chen Dahui, a young farmer from Meixi village (Shiliu Town, Fujian) was very fond of electronic technology since his childhood. Seeing that household electrical equipments of his villagers were often struck by lightning causing considerable loss of property, Chen decided to invent a practical automatic electronic lightening arrester or insulator to protect their household appliances. After five years of research and development, he finally invented his first electronic protector in 2006.
This innovation comprises of an arrester/protector body, a voltmeter, an indicating lamp, a power supply on-and-off switch, a vibroswitch, a power supply input joint, a power supply output joint, an antenna input joint, an antenna output joint, and an electronic circuit arranged in the protector’s body. After a power supply enters a safety fuse, the utility model has three synchronous steps so as to have the functions of three protections. Firstly, the power supply enters a rectifier tube, lightning staves the rectifier tube, the safety fuse is disconnected and the switches automatically trip. Secondly, after the power supply enters in the safety fuse, and synchronously enters a vibrator, using vibration and the switches automatically trip. Thirdly, the power supply synchronously enters power supply of a winding coil, the lightning prompts the winding coil to forwardly strike fire, the safety fuse is disconnected and the switches automatically trip. Then, after the power supply enters a trip switch, it enters a transformer again so as to automatically trip by an electronic element switch. After lightening enters through antenna input into an apolar capacitor, it enters the trip switch. Thus when lightning strike, the apolar capacitor can stop the power supply to pass through, so that the output antenna can obtain protection.
Flick-drip Planter, Weeding Machine with Gears, Long Distance and Multi-function Pesticide Sprayer
Zhao Yunlong (Dongcheng, Beijing)
Zhao Yunlong, a farmer from Dongcheng District, has transformed the traditional rotary type peanut planter into a flick-drip type. The rotary peanut planter available in the market at times crushes and damages the seeds rendering them useless. He invented a kind of flick-drip peanut planter, which would first flick out the seed before falling into the soil. Hence, the seeds are not squashed or damaged. Besides, this planter can sow ten Mu field in a day, which is eight Mu more than sown by the rotary peanut planter.
Zhao has also made a weeding machine with gears and a multifunction pesticide sprayer. Weeding machines available in the market could not dig up roots. However, Zhao’s machine is installed with gears, enabling the weeding machine to penetrate into the soil upto three to five centimeters depth and pull out weeds from the roots. The pesticide sprayer developed by him has a long pipe connecting the spout and the pesticide chest, thus, it can be used to spray in 200 m area without moving the main body of the sprayer. By using this machine, one person could spray fifty Mu fruit trees in two days.
Zhao, born in 1966, has studied up to middle school. He maintains about 70 pigs, has over 50 Mu woodlands having more than 2,000 walnut trees and over 200 peach trees. When the farmers of the nearby villages came to know about his inventions, they asked him to lend the machines for use in their fields. Meanwhile, the inventor could also find partners to mass produce his inventions.
Small Agricultural multi-purpose Machinery
Geng Xiaolin (Shunyi, Beijing)
Geng Xiaolin, Shunyi, Beijing, has added a sowing basket to a sweet potato ridger to transform it into a sowing / seeding machine. This machine can also act as a plastic film mulcher (kind of laminator) and a grass separator. After sowing the seeds, the film laminator put plastic over soil nearby to keep it sufficiently warm and facilitate early germination. The grass-separating machine is used to pull the wheat root stubble out after the harvesting the crop.
Several years ago, Geng bought a sweet potato ridger for 3000 yuan, to earn money by custom hiring or ridging sweet potato fields for other farmers. However, over the years, farmers have been losing interest in cultivation of sweet potato.
In 2008, Geng thought of putting his outdated machine into some au courant or up-to-date farming practices. Therefore, he disassembled the original machine and installed sowing bucket, plastic film laminator/mulcher and grass-separating instrument on the machine, which turned it into a very useful, portable multi-purpose machine to be used for small scale farming activities, where the traditional machines could not be used. By using his invention, Geng could sow over 500 Mu fields in a season and earned over 30,000 Yuan.
He regretted that lately the farmers use the facilities of Agriculture Device Station; hence, there was little market for his original ridger. And he needed more money to improve his devices.
Link:http://nc.mofcom.gov.cn/news/8156271.html
“Happy QQ” Food & sucking smoke
Huang Jinkun (Zhangzhou, Fujian)
Huang Jinkun, a farmer from Zhaoshan village( Xiandu Town, Huaan County) has invented “Happy QQ food” on the lines of instant noodles, though they claim to be different in the nutrient content. The inspiration for “Happy QQ” food came from instant noodles. In 2007, he went to a shop to buy instant noodles. When he was waiting in queue to paymoney, the advertisement “No Preservative Added” attracted him. The quality guarantee period was one year. He thought that if Instant noodles without preservative taste better than others and are healthier; why not use this technology to make other foods healthier too. Two years later, after dozens of experiments, he finally developed “Happy QQ” food based on wheat, corn, peanuts. It not only tastes well but looks appetizing and is rich in nutrients. It does not contain any preservatives and can be kept for more than one year. He developed it but could not pursue his entrepreneurial dreams in the absence of requisite investors.
Huang has also made an exhaust fan which sucks smoke from a distance of upto three meters and is suitable for using in public transport vehicles. Moreover, it can treat smoke innocuously based on principles of chemistry. Regular water cleaning is enough for this low cost, portable device. A passenger bus would need four such devices. He was inspired to make this invention in January 2008, when he went to Hangzhou with his brother-in-law by bus. He saw distressed smokers who were not allowed to smoke in the bus. “How to solve this problem?” he thought. One day, at a fast food restaurant, he observed that the cooking oil fumes were sucked by an exhaust fan, which got him thinking and acted as a trigger for this invention!
Besides, he has also made a teacup sterilizer and a tea set for which he has applied for a patent. Interestingly, Huang also wants to make a plane. In the recent years, he considered transferring or licensing his inventions to others who may want to make business out of them. He said he preferred to be an inventor rather than a businessman. He looks forward to the investments and investors who are interested in his inventions.
(This is very typical situation in India too where most innovators either do not want to be an entrepreneur or are not always a very good one at that: Ed).
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Honey Bee 22(1) & 22(2) 26-27, 2011 |
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