Set sail1992

Chapter 660 Unwilling, tangled

In Nobuhiko Kawamoto's office, Hiroyuki Yoshino sized Nobuhiko Kawamoto's eyes, and said with some concern: "Senior, you don't seem to be in a very good mood, what's the matter? Has the company encountered any problems again?"

Hiroyuki Yoshino called Nobuhiko Kawamoto "senior" because to a certain extent, both of them are the second-generation heads of Honda Motor: Hoshi Kawashima was promoted one after another, and Nobuhiko Kawamoto has always regarded Hoshima Kawashima as a "senior". Hiroyuki Yoshino is respected as a master, and Hiroyuki Yoshino is the same. From this point of view, the two are still brothers. Nobuhiko Kawamoto also recognizes this relationship very much. In addition, Hiroyuki Yoshino is the Nobuhiko Kawamoto who Kawashima likes to train for Honda. In private, Nobuhiko Kawamoto insisted that Yoshino Hiroyuki call him senior... Friends who are not familiar with Dongying's addressing habits may not know that in Dongying's address, this "senior" is not for the elders It is not a respectful title, but a very common title. Generally speaking, middle school students in the first year of junior high school call the middle school students in the second year of junior high school "senior".

Although Nobuhiko Kawamoto's expression is not obvious at the moment, Yoshino Hiroyuki still understands why his senior called him, probably encountered some problems, and wants to discuss with himself?
"It can't be said that it is a problem," Kawamoto Nobuhiko sighed, and said, "It's just that there are some things that are difficult to decide."

"Oh?" Yoshino Hiroyuki's expression became serious: "What is the problem that makes it difficult for seniors to decide?"

Kawamoto Nobuhiko called Yoshino Hiroyuki here, which meant to discuss with him, and naturally he would not hide it: "That's right, Yoshino-kun, you know that we are going to acquire a design patent for an automatic transmission from Huaxia, right? "

"Yes, I know about it," Yoshino Hiroyuki said immediately, "You're talking about the design of the parallel-shaft automatic transmission that was launched before our Honda Technical Research?"

Speaking of Huaxia's patent for the design of the parallel-shaft automatic transmission, Yoshino Hiroyuki also hated it!
Originally, Honda and Yoshino Hiroyuki had full confidence in the design of the parallel-shaft automatic transmission led by Honda Giken, and believed that this design would definitely allow Honda to get rid of Aisin Seiki from now on. However, when Honda completed most of the design and was about to apply for a patent, the staff of the International Patent Organization told them that you could not apply for it, and that this design had already been applied for by others.

Thunderbolt!
If it hadn't been repeatedly confirmed that the applicant from China applied for this patent before Honda Giken started designing this gearbox, Honda Giken and Yoshino Hiroyuki would have suspected that there was a major leak in Honda, but now, in Again and again, it wasn't after his own internal leak, whether it was Hiroyuki Yoshino, Nobuhiko Kawamoto, who paid a lot of attention to this, and the old president Kawashima Hoshi, they could only attribute this incident to a coincidence.

Highly coincidental.

Exactly the same design idea, and the other party also thought of many problems in front of Honda.

This also led to Honda Motor having to consider acquiring this patent from the Huaxia people, but now the meaning of his predecessors is that this patent acquisition case has encountered problems again. Is it so bad for Honda?

But while lamenting, Yoshino Hiroyuki couldn't help being curious: Didn't the discussion last time be good?

Yoshino Hiroyuki forgot, and what he thought was "good negotiation" was the good negotiation within Honda, not the good negotiation with Zhang Qihang.

"That's right, it's him," Nobuhiko Kawamoto nodded, "After our internal discussion last time, we arranged for Yamada-kun to communicate with the other party, but faced with the kindness offered by Honda, the other party directly refused."

"Did you directly reject it?"

Yoshino Hiroyuki was dumbfounded, this situation was beyond his expectation.

"Yes, I directly refused," Kawamoto Nobuhiko was very annoyed: "They thought they had stuck Honda's neck, dismissed our Honda's A-series engines, and insisted on the technical information of the F-series engines..."

Speaking of this, Nobuhiko Kawamoto finally explained the reason why he called Yoshino Hiroyuki: "Yoshino-kun, I want to know, in the field of automatic transmissions, in addition to this parallel shaft automatic transmission, whether we Are there other options?"

"It's hard," Hiroyuki Yoshino shook his head without hesitation when he heard the words: "Not to mention that the patents of the highly mature planetary gear type have been registered, even if it is the dual-clutch type and AMT type, our European counterparts We also started research very early, not to mention the difficulty of research and development of these two automatic transmissions, just from the perspective of implementation, we have to find a way to buy relevant patents from Audi, Magneti Marelli, ZF, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz.

In fact, I actually evaluated the research and development costs of AMT and dual-clutch gearboxes before this, and the final result was not optimistic. The conclusion of the Technical Research Institute is that the acquisition of patents alone requires at least tens of billions of yen. , and counting the cost of research and development, there is no one that can't afford hundreds or even hundreds of billions of yen. "

Nobuhiko Kawamoto immediately frowned: "Is that so..."

The current exchange rate between the Japanese yen and the US dollar is about 120:1, that is, only 120 yen can be exchanged for 1 US dollar. The research and development costs of hundreds or even hundreds of billions of yen mean that Honda will probably need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in research and development costs to produce Able to see AMT or dual clutch, which can only be used for the civilian use of automatic transmissions on racing cars, and if the technical patent of the F-series engine is handed over to that hateful Chinese, it means that Honda has nothing practical expenditure.

Of course, the most important thing is that before Nobuhiko Kawamoto fully took over Honda, he was also sitting in the current seat of Hiroyuki Yoshino, so he is not only familiar with technology, but also a master. The overall manufacturing cost of the parallel-shaft automatic transmission developed directly from the current civilian manual transmission is actually lower, and the overall is more reliable, whether it is from the perspective of technical realization or from the perspective of From the perspective of cost control, compared with AMT and dual-clutch, parallel shaft automatic transmission seems to be the best choice.

It's just that he is not reconciled: "Could it be that we can only agree to that bastard's blackmail?"

"That's not necessary," Yoshino Hiroyuki looked at it quite openly, waved his hand and said, "Maybe this is a game of who blinks first?"

(End of this chapter)