He is 62 years old this year, a rural mechanical repairman in the former Kashgar Municipal Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Machinery Administration, and he always likes to pound all kinds of machinery in his spare time. With the continuous accumulation of repair experience and intensive research, in 2002, he had his first invention - "engine lubrication protection device", and obtained the utility model patent certificate issued by the State Intellectual Property Office. Since then, he has been out of control and has gone farther and farther on the road of "invention"...
He was Maimaiti Tursun, an ordinary but very "hardcore" Kashgar!
The "hardcore" old man was determined on the road to invention
Recently, a farmer inventor Mai Maiti Tursun went viral on the Internet, and his earthquake prediction device won the national new utility patent certificate in 2019, which makes people wonder: An old man in the countryside who has passed the age of flower armor has such a skill? Invention and creation is a "tall" job in the eyes of many people, which seems to be something that only scientific researchers can do, but The 62-year-old Maimaiti Tursun, who is not highly educated and has been 62 years old, has insisted on more than 30 years, silently sowing the seeds of science with research results.
When the reporter was also amazed by his invention, he was once again stunned, and it was difficult to imagine that a white-haired rural old man had 4 inventions won the national new utility patent.
Maimaiti Tursun is a native of Shamal Bagh Village, Shamal Bagh Town, Kashgar City, he had a lot of fantastic ideas when he was young, he began to conceive and invent in 1988, and in more than 30 years, he invented engine lubrication protection devices, power line ice and snow cleaning devices, earthquake forecasting devices, and suction aids that won the national new utility patent certificate.
Maimaiti Tursun presents the patent certificate
Persistence in inventing stems from a love of life
It was a very happy thing to make a hobby into a lifelong career, and he never stopped on the road to invention. When I met him, this cheerful and wise old man was still full of enthusiasm for science, and continued his different old age life with the spirit of craftsmanship.
In 1988, the 24-year-old Maimaiti Tursun worked in the commune of Shamalbagh Town, mainly responsible for repairing tractors, "At that time, the agricultural machinery used by people only had tractors, but everyone would not maintain them, so it was bad very quickly, almost every day the problems in various villages were lined up, and at the end of the day, my hands and clothes were full of black motor oil, fortunately I had a wife who loved to be clean, always washed my clothes overnight, and every morning I was the cleanest guy in the commune!" The old man smiled and recalled the past.
When Maimaiti Turson found that the cost of repairing the machine, especially the engine, was a considerable expense for the peasants who could only goug in the field at that time, he wondered: "Can we invent a lubrication device to reduce the wear and tear of the engine?" After germinating this idea, he returned home from his busy day's life every day, and then buried his head in front of his desk, checking the information and asking the master.
"It is difficult to think of simple practice, although I am a repairman, but the repair knowledge is accumulated by experience, and do not understand the working principle of the engine, which means that everything still has to start from scratch" Maimaiti Tursun said, in countless days and nights, he collected the originals, polished, assembled, day after day, improved, innovated, after experiencing countless failures, finally successfully invented the engine lubrication protection device in 2002, and obtained the utility model patent certificate issued by the State Intellectual Property Office.
Referring to the experience of going to Beijing to receive a certificate, the old man Maimaiti Tursun excitedly waved his arm to describe his own observations for us: "Beijing is really big, Tiananmen is particularly majestic, I have also been on CCTV, not only do I feel supremely glorious, since then, my wife who did not approve of my invention has also wholeheartedly supported me!" ”
Maimaiti demonstrates the operation method of the earthquake prediction device
Persistence in invention stems from a sense of responsibility to society
In early 2008, when Maimaiti Tursun watched on television news of the cold rain in the South, thick ice on high-voltage power lines, and maintenance workers struggling to clear the snow, he felt sick for a long time. In those days, the always cheerful man became reticent, and he always sat at his desk and thought: If you can make a power line ice and snow cleaning device, cleaning up the snow on the line can greatly save manpower, let alone danger. When Kashgar could not buy parts, he went to Urumqi to find it, "In urumqi's building materials market, it took 4 days to buy parts, although in order to save money, those 4 days of cold water will be steamed, but when I buy parts, my heart is as sweet as eating honey." After more than 9 months of hard work, Mai MaiTi finally completed his second invention - the power line ice and snow cleaning device, and donated it to the enterprise free of charge that year.
At the same time, another invention of Maimaiti, the earthquake prediction device, is also continuing, "The Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, I remember too deeply, if there is a sophisticated earthquake prediction device in advance, human beings will not suffer such a big disaster." Inventing an earthquake prediction device is so difficult, countless failures have not made Mai Maiti give up, "when you choose to do something, it is not all smooth, there are encouragements, there are blows, as long as you feel that it is right, stick to it, you will succeed", he always cheered himself up. Finally, in 2019, after 11 years, Mai Maiti's invention: earthquake prediction device, passed the test of the State Intellectual Property Office and obtained a utility model patent certificate.
MaiMaiti introduced his respirator
Insisting on invention stems from an obsessive belief in science
In a remote rural area, the persistence of a farmer with no scientific research experience is undoubtedly ridiculous to those around him. "In the countryside in the 1980s and 1990s, the popularization rate of scientific knowledge was low, people's thinking was still relatively feudal, and their behavior of dealing with a bunch of parts and components after work every day caused people around them to be puzzled and even talked about it, but I never wavered because it was my love," McMatti Tursun said firmly. In his heart, there was an iron wall against gossip, which stemmed from his persistent belief in science.
"The invention of the suction aid was very accidental, one day I went out with an old man walking side by side on the road, his breathing was unusually short and difficult, and the people who listened were inexplicably anxious and uncomfortable. So I thought, if I can have a small suction aid that can be carried on the body, so that the elderly and patients will be convenient and safer to go out. But when he told the old man what he thought, the old man just smiled and shook his head.
The old man's negative smile has strengthened his idea of inventing the "suction aid", and he wants to use practical actions to prove to the people around him that he is not "joking", and he must let everyone believe in the power of science. So he began to understand the human respiratory mechanism, consult a large number of relevant materials, go to the hospital to understand the field, accumulate experience in one failure after another, and finally invented the suction aid in 2012 and obtained the utility model patent certificate issued by the State Intellectual Property Office.
"When you have a thorough understanding of an event and study it tirelessly, ordinary people can become inventors!" Maimaiti Tursun often said this to young people. When all the efforts were recognized, people cast a positive look, and he also proved the importance of science and technology to the people around him with his own practical actions, and let more people begin to believe in science and love science.
Although he is now over the age of flower nails, there are also problems with hypertension and diabetes, but when it comes to future life, his optimistic thinking is extremely clear: "First transform the respirator, use electrolytes to make oxygen, the appearance should be smaller and lighter, easy to carry." After studying a seismic decomposer, using this device to resist the vibrations and protect the house from damage, so that the people's property will not be damaged..." When it comes to the topic of invention, Maimaiti Turson always has endless words.
Partial certificate of Mai Mai Ti
Love to study the invention of Mai Mai Ti
From 2002 to the present
Four utility model patent certificates have been obtained
This old man who has passed the age of flower armor
In my free time, I always like to put on reading glasses and sit at the table to study things
He always said
As long as I can think and do
I won't stop inventing
I firmly believe that no matter what kind of difficulties are encountered
As long as we believe in science
Work hard in a scientific way
There is nothing that cannot be solved