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On December 25th, 2018, the list of the winners of the 20th China Patent Awards was released on the award ceremony jointly sponsored by State Intellectual Property Office of China and World Intellectual Property Organization. CASCI 306 Institute under CASIC Third Research Institute won the gold prize of China Patent Awards with “a high-performance thermal insulating material and its preparation method” (patent number: ZL201010294784.5). This is the first gold prize ever won by CASIC.
Gold prize of China Patent Awards is the only award granted by the government for patented inventions to celebrate the patentees and the inventors for their remarkable contribution to the technological innovation and the social and economic development. It is the most valuable award in this field. It is also acknowledged by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Catering to the material demand in aerospace equipment manufacturing industry of China, CASIC spares no effort to research on and develop new materials and preparation technologies. It has already harvested fruitful results of self-owned and controllable patented technology. As to high-performance thermal insulating materials, 306 Institute worked hard on the micro-structure of materials and the rules of preparation, and finally figured out the engineering application technology of aerogel composite material. After a decade of unremitting pursuing, a critical breakthrough in aerogel material technology has been made on the basis of abundant accumulation. A series of aerogel material products have been developed, which put CASIC to the domestic leading position in the field. The technology involved has been awarded the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award.
The “high-performance thermal insulating material and its preparation method” awarded the gold prize is a brand new idea proposed based on an innovative perspective of controlling the micro-structure and reducing the surface energy. The aerogel material prepared with this method can withstand high temperature and insulate thermal energy effectively. It is cheap, environmental friendly and technologically practicable. Due to the greatly improved thermal endurance, the material successfully replaces the conventional thermal insulating materials and is widely used in aviation, aerospace, energy, metallurgy and other fields, particularly on Long March 5 carrier rocket and Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft. It solves the formidable problem of thermal protection on the aircrafts and provides critical technical safeguard for the development of space technology in China.
Besides the gold prize, CASIC won another 8 excellence prizes of China Patent Awards this time. Encouraged by the prizes, CASIC keeps pursuing technological innovations and improving patent management skills for better comprehensive patent achievements in quantity, quality and benefit. It strives to build a power with strong aerospace force, booming manufacturing industry and independent intellectual properties. (Reported by Liu Chen, Wu Zhigang and Li Wenjing)
