Mitsubishi Electric

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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
三菱電機株式会社
Type Corporation TYO: 6503
Founded Tokyo, Japan (1921)
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan
Key people Setsuhiro Shimomura, President & CEO
Industry Electronics
Products Energy and electric systems, Electronic devices, Industrial automation systems, Home appliances, Information and communication systems
Revenue Green Arrow Up.svg $32.6 billion USD or 3,855 billion Yen (Consolidated, as of June 28, 2007)[1]
Employees 102,835 (Consolidated, as of Dec 2007)[2]
Website Mitsubishi Electric Global

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki-gaisha?) (TYO: 6503) is a Japanese company based in the Tokyo Building in Tokyo, manufactures electric and architectural equipment, as well as a major worldwide producer of photovoltaic panels[3]. The Corporation was established on 15 January 1921.

It is one of the Mitsubishi Group core companies. In the United States, products are manufactured and sold by Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA, Inc., headquartered in Cypress, California.

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  • Communication Systems
    • Communication Systems
    • Information Security
    • Space Systems
  • Industrial Automation
    • Automation Systems
    • Industrial Automation Machinery
  • Semiconductors & Devices
    • Contact Image Sensors
    • Electronic Devices
    • TFT-LCDs
  • Transportation
    • Automotive Equipment
    • Intelligent Transport Systems
    • Transportation Systems

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  • 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.
    • As of 2008, the company is focusing on DLP and LCD High Definition TVs.
    • The company held the record for the fastest elevator in the world, in the 70-storey Yokohama Landmark Tower, from 1993 until 2005.
  • Automotive parts (Original Equipment Mfg)
  • Factory Automation
  • Elevators and escalators [6]
  • Air conditioners
  • Eco Cute heat pump water heaters
  • Dehumidifiers
  • Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems
  • Mobile phones for NTT DoCoMo
  • 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 Mistubishi Black Diamond VCR.
  • Saffron Type System, an anti-aliased text-rendering engine, developed by Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboritories (MERL)

[edit] References

  • Achievements
  • Book Site of former employee who wrote a book about working as a foreigner in the company.

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