Industry is the ballast stone of economic development, and it is also the main battlefield for the implementation of innovation-driven and promoting transformation and upgrading. For a long time, Jinning District has adhered to the development idea of "prospering industry and focusing on industry", and has focused on the transformation and upgrading of the industrial economy. Many enterprises have deeply cultivated the fertile soil of Jinning, and through continuous independent innovation and optimization of management, a number of high-tech enterprises with strong market competitiveness have gradually emerged, further consolidating the "Made in Jinning" brand. From now on, we have selected more than 20 representative enterprises to explain the industrial transformation process in the name of "Made in Jinning", in order to help the high-quality development of Jinning's work economy.
Located in the oolong base of Jinning Industrial Park, full-wave infrared technology co., LTD. is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research and development, design and production of infrared optical parts and infrared optical lenses, and is also a specialized and new "little giant" enterprise in Yunnan Province.
The principle of infrared thermal imaging is to use photoelectric technology to detect the specific band of infrared signals emitted by the thermal radiation of objects, convert the signal into images and graphics visible to the human eye, and further calculate the temperature value. As a result, infrared thermography allows humans to transcend visual barriers and allow people to see the temperature distribution on the surface of an object. Infrared thermal imaging equipment has the advantages of good concealment, strong anti-interference, not affected by weather, and quasi-all-weather continuous real-time monitoring, which is suitable for environmental protection monitoring, building detection, industrial non-contact temperature measurement, cultural relics monitoring, epidemic prevention and body temperature screening, etc., and can also be widely used in key area security, fire warning, flammable and explosive hazardous chemicals warehouses and petroleum and petrochemical and other fire early warning fields.
SWIR has a complete infrared optical processing and production chain, and an infrared lens assembly, commissioning and testing production line. In 2018 and 2019, it won the first prize of the "Maker China" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in Yunnan Province, the first prize in the Kunming Division of the Beihang University-Beijing Institute of Technology Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the first prize of the "Maker China" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in Yunnan Province in 2020, the title of specialized and special new small and medium-sized enterprises in 2022, and the outstanding enterprise in the China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in 2023. The full-wave infrared has made outstanding contributions to the industrial development of Jinning District, and won the title of advanced collective in 2024.
Give full play to the advantages and study the advanced technology
In the scientific research and production of large-format and high-pixel infrared thermal imaging lenses, full-wave infrared is committed to high-end, systematic, integrated and serialized development, and realizes multi-level applications such as infrared night vision, AR/VR head-up display, and infrared precision guidance.
Jin Li, overseas sales director of full-wave infrared technology co., LTD., said: "infrared lens products are mainly divided into two parts, one part is used in military fields such as aerospace, weapons, ships, etc., and the other part is used in civil fields such as security monitoring, industrial temperature measurement, human body temperature measurement, infrared medical treatment, etc. ”
In recent years, through project research and development, deep cultivation of technology, delving into technology, in just a few years, it has developed from just infrared lens processing enterprises to today's comprehensive strength ranks among the top infrared optical high-tech enterprises in the country, processing production efficiency is 2 times that of the industry, and the technology is leading the same industry at home and abroad. The company has independently developed more than 200 kinds of infrared lenses, which can process 5mm-300mm infrared lenses, so that the infrared optical industry has developed from scientific research, customization, and micro-batch to industrialization, and has provided high-precision and high-stability products for military fields such as aerospace, weapons, and ships, as well as civil fields such as security monitoring, industrial temperature measurement, human body temperature measurement, and infrared medical treatment. Through technological upgrading, the production efficiency will be increased to 89% in 2023, the yield rate will be increased to 95%, and the operating income will reach 116.84 million yuan.
Independent innovation to improve core competitiveness
The most important thing is that the company has its own core R&D technology and has applied for more than 30 patents.
"From the design of the entire optical system, to the production of parts, to the process of assembly, we have been constantly exploring and innovating independently." Kim said. Among them, an "optical heatless long-wave infrared lens that can be coated with DLC film" has been widely used in missile guidance, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inspection, night vision observation and targeting, special vehicle assisted driving, etc., contributing more than 40% to the company's output value and profit, and the project won the third prize of Yunnan Provincial Patent Award in 2021.
In addition, in recent years, the company's project "Development of Infrared Thermal Imaging UAV Guidance Lens for 12 Micron Detectors" won the second prize in the enterprise growth group in the 2022 Yunnan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. This lens is composed of high-precision aspheric and diffractive surfaces, which can be used in large drones with aviation payload capacity, micro-small pods, with long optical pathlength, large zoom range, and mass production in 2023.
"The pixel size of the detector is shrinking, from 24 microns to 17 microns to 12 microns now," Kim said. For the infrared band, the long wavelength band is 8-12 microns, and now the 12-micron pixel detector has basically reached the theoretical limit, but all the lenses on the market before cannot match such an advanced and small pixel size detector. Based on the characteristics of the detector, we have developed a lens that can be adapted to 12 microns, 10 microns, and even 8 micron pixel size detectors in advance. "Through technical research, all the optical systems of SWIR have been matched to detectors with a pixel size of 12 microns. And two years in advance began to develop the technology, when the market has responded, the full-wave infrared has achieved mass production, the team's strong research and development capabilities allow the company to have the strength to predict the industry and the market in advance, so that the full-wave infrared can occupy a place in the market.
Looking to the future, let the full-wave infrared go further
According to the prediction of relevant foreign institutions, the average annual growth rate of the global infrared thermal imaging camera market in the next five years is about 20%, and the average annual growth rate of China's infrared thermal imaging camera market can reach 40%, and the market prospect is very broad.
"China's infrared knowledge and production capacity has been greatly improved, so that China has far exceeded the imagination of foreign countries on the track of infrared industry, and can even be said to achieve 'corner overtaking'," Jin Li said proudly.
At present, full-wave infrared has established extensive contacts with many domestic infrared monitoring machine manufacturers and carried out in-depth cooperation. Looking to the future, SWIR will unremittingly focus on the field of infrared lenses, adhere to independence and scientific and technological innovation, further deepen the infrared market, provide customers with the best quality and most suitable infrared lens products, and let WIR go further.
All-media reporter Shen Shihui Zhao Xian
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