Thursday 16 June 2016

Mitsubishi Electric

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki-
gaisha?) is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment manufacturing company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the core companies of Mitsubishi.

Mitsubishi Electric manufactures electric and architectural equipment, as well as a major worldwide producer of photovoltaic panels. The Corporation was established on 15 January 1921.

In the United States, products are manufactured and sold by Mitsubishi Electric United States headquartered in Cypress, California.

The company makes Active Electronically Scanned Array radar systems for the Mitsubishi F-2 fighter.
Televisions
The company's most notable products in the United States come from the large-screen HDTV division. Competitors in this market are Sony, Pioneer, Panasonic, JVC, Samsung (Akai), Daewoo, LG (Zenith), and Apex Digital.
The company manufactured direct-view CRT televisions until 2001. The last notable size in this field was a 40" (diagonal) tube size.
Mitsubishi manufactured LCD TVs until 2008.
Mitsubishi manufactured DLP High Definition TVs until December, 2012. The company is now focusing on professional and home theater DLP projection applications, and is no longer manufacturing televisions for the consumer market.
Automotive parts (Original Equipment Mfg)
Factory automation equipment
Robots
Elevators and escalators
The company held the record for the fastest elevator in the world, in the 70-story Yokohama Landmark Tower, from 1993 until 2005.
Air conditioners
EcoCute heat pump water heaters
Dehumidifiers
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems
Mobile phones, from 1999 to 2008. Created for NTT DoCoMo. Mitsubishi quit the mobile phone business in Apr 2008 after decrease in shipments. They estimated a temporary loss of 17 billion Yen in income before income taxes.
Photovoltaic panels
SCOPO. The Corporation claims (as cited in "References") to have achieved the world's first transmission at 10 Gbit/s between relay equipment boards set at a distance of 500 mm apart.
Mitsubishi also previously made Video Cassette Recorders known as the Mitsubishi Black Diamond VCR.
Saffron Type System, an anti-aliased text-rendering engine, developed by Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)

With you today and tomorrow (今日もあなたと共に?, 1962–1968, in Japan only)
Advanced and ever advancing Mitsubishi Electric (未来を開発する三菱電機?, 1968–1985 in Japan, 1968–2001 outside Japan)
SOCIO-TECH: enhancing lifestyles through technology (技術がつくる高度なふれあい SOCIO-TECH?, 1985–2001 in Japan. The "Blue MITSUBISHI" logo was introduced for use in Japan.)
Changes for the Better (since 2001)


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