'Mutant' and patent patent

Phan Dinh Phuong's father and son and a model of automatic fire fighting

That 'transverse' scientist is the author of more than 30 inventions that benefit the state hundreds of billions of dong. But accompanying a remarkable scientific record is a 'loan history' that is equally thick .

The invention is like . writing poetry

Graduating from Hanoi Polytechnic University in 1972, Phan Dinh Phuong enlisted in the footsteps of tens of thousands of young people at the time, " cutting along Truong Son to save the country ".

In the green of soldier's uniform, in 1975 Phuong and Quach Thuy Mon comrades used gasoline that we had replaced American gasoline for the HU - 1H aircraft specially captured by us from Da Lat to the North, again can take off to participate in the campaign to liberate the South.

As a debt, from then on, after leaving the army, Phuong came back to the petroleum industry and began to step into the path of invention, though no one was assigned.

This seemingly " half-time " job has produced dozens of products that surprised colleagues by its professionalism and utility.

Phan Dinh Phuong often started his machine inventions like a poem. Observe, imagine, dream .

On one occasion when the gas fluttering, it was on the ground, Phuong suddenly came up with the idea to 'catch' it. If you let the gas vapor wandering, it will be very wasteful and dangerous because it can cause fires. But it is difficult to recover gas vapor like wind, so far no one has been able to do it. The 8-hour working day at the agency, the rest of Phuong's time almost only tried to " overcome " the gas.

To focus more, this ' transverse ' science researcher has ' eaten the machine, sleeping like that' for 8 years to pursue a seemingly illusory job. But one day the gas was caught.

' The project tells the story a few decades ,' Phan Dinh Phuong said in a poem: ' Gathering gas in the middle of indefinite space; As unimaginable as a foolish foolishness; Just like a pious lamb; Follow what science beliefs '.

And ' Day 2 of January 92 stirred; A sunny lunch was surprised: gasoline condensed into a flowing stream; From nothingness filled containers; So happy that tears don't know '.

The machine invented by Phan Dinh Phuong recovered a quantity of gasoline that would normally dissipate into the air as natural. If applied all over the country, this machine will save tens of billions of dong because Vietnam consumes about 3-4 million tons of gasoline each year and a large number of them evaporate into the sky.

The sound of the rumors was far away, the director of the Quang Ngai sugar factory had personally come to Phan Dinh Phuong's house to invite him to recover CO2, a job also tinged with nothingness.

But this time, after only a few days, Phuong had ' caught ' CO2 gas to get into the bottle. This gas will be compressed into a bottle of carbonated mineral water and with the ' catch ' it saves the plant a large amount of money. But that did not make Phuong happy when he heard the workers say: ' When your machine is not running, CO2 gas makes us very tired, not eating well .'

Working at Petrol Company, obsessed with fires, Phuong often looked at the fire, imagining a fire machine of his own. And then led by the imagination, he embarked on the invention again.

Shortly after that, the multi-purpose automatic repair machine was born with outstanding features that the world has never had before. The current fire extinguishers use an explosive or electric pump to push water into the fire so it is very slow, from receiving the fire signal to spraying the water up to 180s and still meeting international standards!

Meanwhile the flame speed can reach tens of m / s, meaning that the fire has spread out of control of the sprinklers. Phan Dinh Phuong's fire extinguisher has the ability to immediately spray water when receiving a fire alarm signal, and select the appropriate fire extinguisher to spray each object .

This invention has entered the ' blue eye ' of professionals and it was quickly volunteered by the Police Department of Fire Prevention and Fighting , University of Firefighting , Da Nang Police Department and Danang Science and Technology Association. Military. In 2003, this machine attended the international FPFF exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City. HCM with over 70 professional fire fighting companies and companies in the world.

This machine has made viewers and professionals ' mindful and attentive ' to the ability to quickly extinguish gasoline fires and wood fires by using CO2 gas to push water, push foam, and push powder for fire fighting. . This invention is a 5-letter 'A' absolute score by the World Intellectual Property Agency (WIPO) and evaluates to ' achieve the novelty of the world '.

In 2005, the US Patent Inventory Agency agreed to grant a Patent for an automatic fire extinguisher. That patent is numbered 00001. Phan Dinh Phuong became the first Vietnamese to receive this honor.

An Sinh's garbage collector

Right from the beginning of school, the image of ' she worked on a winter night sweeping garbage ' in the poem ' Tieng broom bamboo ' by poet To Huu haunted Phan Dinh Phuong forever. How does the laborer no longer have to brandish bamboo brooms? The poem ' English broom bamboo ' has ' hinted ' and urged him to find the answer. Then the automatic vacuum cleaner was born.

This machine uses aerodynamic principle to create garbage when the car glides to, so the higher the speed, the higher the wind intensity and cleanliness. That's what no machine can achieve. The machine can be made in small sizes, easily pushed by hand when cleaning streets, markets, and light houses such as pushing a baby carriage to take a stroll.

Machine can collect versatile moving materials such as collecting paddy, coffee, sweet potato . With the advent of this type of machine, probably in a near future, the image of " bamboo broom roll" The body of tamarind 'will no longer exist.

30 patents are still ' billionaires without money '

Thinking that the father of 30 inventions would become a billionaire as a matter of course, during the time of scientific research, Phuong was always a " billionaire without money ".

Not only that, he also regularly owes money to banks and senior customers of pawn shops.

When a patent idea arises, he always lacks money to implement them. So there is no waiting for ' support ', bringing the red book of the small house of the family to mortgage at the bank. Someone thought that his nerves were not normal, when he mortgaged the red book to invent a machine from . imagination? Who ordered you? What about failure?

Phuong smiled and heard my question: ' Life orders me. Someone said that if life needs it will promote the development of science over 10 universities. Still failed? I have not done anything but know it failed. Failure is only in imagination. When I started inventing something, I eliminated all the causes of failure to make sure I was successful . '

It seems that more and more inventions are successful, the red book of your house is more likely to stay in the bank for many days !? There is a motorbike for traveling, but sometimes it must be in a pawnshop. The sense of debt is so constant that in his scientific record there is an article about mortgage that Phuong cut out to ' research '.

Sometimes, he had to borrow hundreds of millions of dong, he could not pay for his appointment, was reprimanded by the creditors and apologized and continued to . owe to try to earn money to pay. More than 30 inventions are still poor. Poor but still passionate about invention. Passion for invention becomes a debtor, that vicious cycle never ends?

Come back to work for me

Recently, Phan Dinh Phuong has a decision that few people understand when applying for resigning from the position of Deputy Technical Director of Petrolimex Da Nang Gas Company to be a " soldier " to be an employee of An Sinh Company . .

He explained that decision: 'I do it for many people. I want more time for patent research. An Sinh Company with the goal of environmental safety - that is the pursuing goal of my whole life '.

Newly in grade 9, Phan Trong Nghia - Director of An Sinh Company now - joined his father in the first scientific research project, collecting CO2 on the production line of Quang Ngai sugar factory.

Since then, scientific research has become a passion that makes him irresistible. Even when I chose the path of studying Law and being a lawyer, Nghia still gave up to go into the invention, application and An Sinh Company.

The director, the father and the employee, on the job assignment board, I call my father ' uncle ', and go home to argue with each other during the meal.

I was rushing back to Danang to run the storm No. 7, but Nghia still tried to linger with me: ' Since I founded the company, I was born with insomnia because I had to think hard. There are white nights that go out and come in and meet my father who is going in and out. So the two children argued and discussed with a single topic: how to develop An Sinh. An Sinh Company is doing business well, being interested in Da Nang city, but because of its small capital and low human resources, it is still very difficult . '.

I eat bush rice on a sidewalk at Tran Quy Cap station - Hanoi with Phan Dinh Phuong. Sitting and eating, he did not talk to the machine that only read poetry and looked out on the street. His eyes seemed to be dreaming, so then some idea of ​​a patent could be born. And then go to borrow, then pawn again? I was surprised and sad for the vicious circle that he was still following. It's also strange that with over 30 patents, until retired Phan Dinh Phuong never received a certificate of merit !?

Phung Nguyen