393: Chapter 392 Breakthrough

Lines were sketched out one after another, and blueprints took shape rapidly, only to be quickly erased by Wang Shuo and redrawn.

With each redrawing, the blueprint changed slightly; with each change, it meant that Wang Shuo was unsatisfied with the previous modification idea.

In the blink of an eye, over a dozen modification ideas had been erased by Wang Shuo, yet that faint feeling in his mind grew increasingly distinct, as if something was about to break out of its shell.

What is going on?

Wang Shuo frowned and temporarily stopped his modifications, carefully examining the blueprints on the desktop, scrutinizing every line, every design, every turn of the circuits, and every pattern of the inscriptions.

Not enough, still not enough.

Wang Shuo said softly, "Zero, open all the blueprints I just designed and arrange them in order."

Although the blueprints had been discarded, Wang Shuo had not deleted them directly, but instead had Zero store them in the database.

Now, they were all opened, filling the screen.

Wang Shuo scanned them one by one: the prototype of the Magnetic Power Joint, the first revision, the second revision, the third revision...

The changes from each revision were intuitively reflected in his mind through the blueprints, his brain spinning rapidly as he calculated better possibilities over and over again.

The prototype was the first Magnetic Power Joint Wang Shuo had created, completely modeled after the relevant designs of the Humanoid Race, and used as a prototype to manufacture thousands of units, all of which were used to build engineering power armor and crawler robots.

Its features were high precision, good reliability, and relatively high torque, capable of maintaining continuous torque output while performing dynamic adjustments. More importantly, its manufacturing process was simple, perfectly meeting Wang Shuo's needs at the time.

But this type of thing was not suitable for high-speed movement and could not operate under overload for long periods.

Therefore, it was not completely compatible with the Night Crow.

If he hadn't really had no other available joints on hand at the time, Wang Shuo would never have thought of installing engineering joints onto the Night Crow.

Of course, Wang Shuo was not foolish enough to force a direct adaptation.

At the time, he had also adjusted this joint, but the feeling back then was very sluggish, leading Wang Shuo to only optimize the joint's theoretical maximum rotational speed, with extremely limited adjustments to its physical design and other performance aspects.

Unlike this time, where it seemed like an endless stream of inspiration was bubbling up from his brain.

Each of these dozen or so versions of the joint possessed better performance than the last, but Wang Shuo kept feeling that he still had an even better idea; if he just thought a little deeper, he could reach out and touch it.

This feeling was so clear, so clear that it forced Wang Shuo to temporarily stop further optimization.

Observing in silence, these dozen or so blueprints were like the evolutionary history of the prototype, laying out the line of thought before him step by step.

It wasn't until he saw the blueprint he had most recently optimized that a structure suddenly caught his attention.

It was a structure he had never paid attention to before.

The key power source of the Magnetic Power Joint consisted of two superconducting magnets made of superconductors. To transmit power from the rapidly rotating superconducting rotor, Wang Shuo had borrowed from modern clutch structures, using two friction plates and an exquisite transmission structure to form the power transmission system.

This brought about a problem—heat generation.

The reason the Night Crow's previous Magnetic Power Joint had been scrapped was that, during continuous overload operation, the friction plates generated excessive heat, and the heat dissipation was not timely, causing the superconductors to lose their normal operating temperature and subsequently quench.

This process was irreversible; even for Wang Shuo, it was impossible to restore a superconductor that had already quenched back to a superconducting state.

Wang Shuo had already solved this problem in previous optimizations.

He replaced the transmission structure with magnets made of superconductors, using magnetic force fields to transmit power.

The non-contact structure greatly reduced the heat generated by friction. To further reduce heat, Wang Shuo had even manufactured a precise chamber for it and performed an evacuation process.

Without air as a medium, the heat generation of this structure could be controlled to a minimal state.

But now, when Wang Shuo looked at this structure, a thought he hadn't considered before suddenly occurred to him—a thought transferred over from the Magnetic Energy Engine, a thought that would only have occurred to him after the Magnetic Energy Engine had been successfully created.

Why couldn't he... apply the force field compression principle from the Magnetic Energy Engine to the magnetic joint?

Unlike the Magnetic Energy Engine, this compression force field could be shrunk to an extreme range, and it didn't have the chaotic, complex properties of the Earth's force field, which changed thousands of times per second. It only needed to compress a specific magnetic field and increase the magnetic field strength, which would allow him to dispense with complex induction control units.

This was like changing a transmission structure that originally could only transmit power through liquid into a solid transmission; the enhancement of the magnetic field compression force would cause the transmission efficiency to increase rapidly!

Furthermore, he could adapt force field compression to the power portion of the magnetic joint, increasing the efficiency of the magnetic energy rotor. When both the joint's power and transmission efficiency were improved, what would its performance be like?

Just thinking about it made Wang Shuo's eyes sparkle; it seemed as if something in his mind had broken, and something that had been brewing for a long time gushed out!

As threads of thought emerged, Wang Shuo's hands moved rapidly.

Proposing the idea was simple, but executing it was very difficult.

The principles involved in force field compression were too profound. At the current stage, Wang Shuo didn't have a very good method for this, so he could only copy the design blueprints of the Magnetic Energy Engine's peripheral compression ring, apply them directly to the magnetic joint, and then, step by step, reduce the requirements, decrease the structural components, and adjust the specific design.

A focused Wang Shuo was terrifying.

Chen Xin and people like Liu Yemei from the Frontier Technology Company knew this very well; when Wang Shuo got serious, he could even go two or three days without resting at all, and apart from eating and drinking, he wouldn't leave his computer desk for a single step.

With the Magnetic Energy Engine as a precedent, this time Wang Shuo didn't spend too much time. Two hours later, a brand-new set of magnetic joint design blueprints appeared on the screen.

Compared to the Magnetic Power Joint prototype, this design was significantly more complex. Most noticeably, two nested rings had been added outside the main body of the magnetic joint, slowly rotating. The metal stripes inlaid on the rings revealed a hint of mystery, as if they contained immense energy.

"Zero."

Wang Shuo suppressed the excitement in his heart and said, "Can you calculate the compression parameters of this compression ring according to the model?"

"Yes, sir."

Zero's voice was gentle: "According to the model of the Magnetic Energy Engine, the compression ratio of this device is approximately 1:1.68, which can increase efficiency by 108.95%."

Wang Shuo let out a soft sigh of relief.

A compression ratio of 1.68 was actually not high, but applied to a magnetic joint, it was a huge success. This meant that Wang Shuo had taken a solid step in a brand-new direction.

This time, he hadn't borrowed from the existing technical accumulation and blueprints of the Humanoid Race, but had completed the integration of the two technologies entirely on his own.

Leaning back gently against the chair, Wang Shuo's gaze gradually grew firm.

"Zero, start arranging manufacturing immediately; I need a prototype for testing!"