"Tire Innovation Competition: 2024 Enterprise Patent TOP List"

Nowadays, whether it is for a company, an industry, or a country, the competition of hard power has already risen to the level of science and technology. With the emphasis of Chinese companies on independent innovation in science and technology, the invention patents obtained by related companies have also increased year by year. The same is true for the tire industry. The invention patents of companies have become a manifestation of the hard power of companies!

What exactly is a patent?

Today we are going to compare the number of patents of major tire companies, so what exactly is a patent?

Patents are an intangible asset. Having huge commercial value is an important means to enhance the competitiveness of enterprises; the quality and quantity of patents are the embodiment of the core competitiveness of the company's innovation ability and a symbol of the company's status in the industry; companies can obtain a long-term benefit return through patents.

Tire company patent rankings
If tire companies want to develop in the long run, the development and protection of intellectual property rights has become a must for tire companies to upgrade their technology. So which of the major tire companies has the most patents? Tire Business has compiled the patent rankings of domestic tire companies. The above data comes from the State Intellectual Property Office, and the applicants searched by different tire companies have also been indicated in the table!

Among them, different patents such as invention patents, utility model patents, and appearance patents have different gold content for enterprises, but in any case, the products of tire companies with more patents must have more gold content.

The following table counts the common tire brands in the domestic tire market. Among them, Bridgestone and Sumitomo Rubber have the most patents, followed by Michelin. Among domestic tire companies, Linglong Tire has the most patents.

Foreign tire brands, the number of patents is far ahead
According to the tire business data center, the patents of the Chinese Patent Office on tires are basically from foreign tire companies, and the number of patents of domestic tire companies is really pitiful compared with first-tier foreign brands. The patents of Bridgestone, Michelin, Sumitomo and Goodyear alone exceed the total number of patents of domestic tire companies.

We know that the competitiveness of tire companies usually comes from three major parts: R&D technology, manufacturing capabilities and marketing strategies, and R&D and manufacturing are extremely critical competitive factors. The patented technology can also very effectively prove its product R&D and manufacturing capabilities. Patent literally means exclusive interests and rights.

Foreign brands Yaoyao lead the way, but domestic tire companies are also paying more and more attention to the research and development of patent intellectual property rights.

Domestic companies with the most patents--Linglong Tire
Among domestic tire companies, Linglong Tire ranks first in the number of patents! In recent years, the development of Linglong Tire can be described as "rapid progress", and Linglong Tire has always attached great importance to talent training and scientific and technological research and development. The company has established research and development institutions in Zhaoyuan headquarters, Yantai, Shanghai, Beijing, Germany, and the United States, and established test and inspection offices in Europe to establish a global research and development system.

Linglong also has a national industrial design center, a national recognized enterprise technology center, and a national recognized laboratory. It has built a noise laboratory and a rolling resistance laboratory. The rolling resistance laboratory has the ability to independently test rolling resistance and has been recognized by the European Union. It focuses on implementing the innovation-driven development strategy, planning ahead and deploying ahead of time, further strengthening the research and development of new materials, new technologies, and new formulas, focusing on key technology research, bottleneck technology breakthroughs, and cutting-edge black technology breakthroughs, and comprehensively improving independent innovation capabilities. Linglong Tire strives to reach the level of a world-class tire company by 2030, become a leader in important scientific and technological fields, and become a pioneer in emerging frontier cross-fields.

Sailun Group--Practical patents cannot be ignored
Since its establishment, Sailun Group has established R&D centers in North America, Europe, Vietnam and other places. The R&D center covers an area of ​​more than 70 acres and has more than 500 core R&D personnel. The company actively participates in the formulation and revision of tire-related standards. Since its establishment, it has presided over/participated in the formulation and revision of 148 international, national, and industry standards, making technology patented, patent standardized, and standards internationalized, further winning the company's voice in the market.

And the utility model patent is leading in China, and liquid gold is creating a myth in the industry.

Not only that, Chinese independent tire brands Zhongce, Triangle, Double Coin and other companies are representatives of companies that improve their scientific research and innovation capabilities in the domestic tire industry! We also hope that more Chinese tire companies will continue to develop, continuously improve scientific research and product comprehensive performance, and occupy a leading position in the global tire industry as soon as possible!

Foreign brands are ahead in more than patents
In the early days, Chinese tire companies paid more attention to speed. Now, some excellent companies in the Chinese tire industry are ahead in the global tire industry, and some Shandong companies have developed rapidly and successfully transformed. More tire companies pay more attention to the influence of tire brands, the scientific research capabilities of enterprises, and the comprehensive performance of products. Now Chinese tire companies have established more R&D centers, produced high-performance and ultra-high-performance tires, and matched more original equipment markets. These are the efforts of Chinese tire companies.

However, people who understand the tire industry know that domestic tire companies still have a long way to go in these aspects, such as R&D capabilities, brand prices, channel construction, original equipment, etc. Although domestic tire companies have developed rapidly, they are still far behind foreign first-tier tire brands.