If you want to purchase LED strips, LED lights, and other electronic products from China, you will find a lot of potential suppliers.
Usually, when they introduce themselves, they will say that they offer high-quality products.
So, the question is, how to tell if a factory focuses on quality?
There are a lot of tips and professional procedures.
However, today I want to talk about an easy-to-use tip.
You can do it without leaving home, even by novice, and it is free.
That is: check their patent files.
The patent search method is simple.
Just go to a search engine to check it.
Or use a mobile APP to search.
Through this simple and free information, we can get some very important information about this factory.
1. Check their patents, and you can verify whether the factory really has the ability to design and develop molds.
Many factories will tell buyers that we have R&D capabilities.
We have many engineers and invest a lot of money in mold development for new products every year.
But these words may not be true, and even false.
Therefore, we can check the patents of this factory to see if they have really invested in research and development.
New products and new technologies as they advertise.
Because all these inputs leave traces in the form of patents.
2. By reading the factory’s patent files, we can know whether the products they develop are similar to the products we intend to purchase.
For example, suppose you want to purchase lithium battery packs.
You can check whether the factory has patents related to lithium battery packs.
If they have relevant patents, that’s the best.
If his patents have nothing to do with the products we want to purchase.
Then it means that they are probably just doing trade and do not have their own products.
Or in this product, they are also new players, waiting for the guinea pig to practice.
Remarks: We will be more detailed in the actual operation.
For example, we know that for LED strips, some manufacturers focus on high-voltage LED strips (110V, 220V).
And some manufacturers focus on low-voltage LED strips (5V – 48V).
So, when evaluating their patents, we not only look at whether their patents are related to light strips.
But also, whether the voltage of those light strips is what we need.
3. By checking the patent application record, we can verify whether the factory has been developing the products we are interested in for many years.
Because it is not easy for any factory to make a good product.
To make a good product, the factory needs to manage the supply chain.
And continuously improve the product, and gain experience.
And all of these require one thing, and that is: time.
Suppose you want to purchase LED low voltage strips from China.
And the potential factory has patents related to LED low voltage strips in the last 3 years.
That would be the best.
4. By querying the factory’s patent records, we can verify whether the product we want to purchase is the main product of this factory?
Because if it is a main product, it means that the delivery will be smoother, the cost will be lower.
And the product has been proven in the market.
And the chance of quality problems is low.
How to evaluate it?
If we want to purchase LED low-voltage light strips, the factory has a total of 30 patents.
Of which more than 40% of the patents are related to LED low-voltage light strips, then this is a very good signal.