Hirschmann Car Communication
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 2007 |
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Neckartenzlingen , Germany
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| Number of employees | 1,020 |
| sales | 153 million euros |
| Branch | Antenna technology , automotive supplier |
| Website | www.hirschmann-car.com |
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The Hirschmann Car Communication GmbH with headquarters in Neckartenzlingen ( Baden-Wuerttemberg ) is a provider of transmission and reception systems for automotive communications and TV tuners in vehicles. The company emerged from the former Richard Hirschmann GmbH and was founded as an independent company in 2007 through a management buy-out by Ludwig Geis, Joachim Brandes, Viktor Schicker and Reinhard Sitzmann (†).
The company employs more than 1000 people worldwide, 370 of them in Germany. Sales in the 2017 financial year (03/2016 - 02/2017) amounted to 153 million euros. The company's locations are Neckartenzlingen, Nuremberg , Beckum and Fulda in Germany , Békéscsaba ( Hungary ), Detroit ( USA ), Santiago de Querétaro ( Mexico ), Paris ( France ) and Shanghai ( China ). Components from Hirschmann Car Communication are used both in original equipment and in the aftermarket . The company is divided into two business areas, Automotive and Solutions. The automotive sector focuses on the automotive industry and supplies OEMs and automotive suppliers. In the Solutions division, the focus is on the aftermarket as well as the transportation and M2M markets.
In February 2012 the company was taken over by the US company VOXX International , a provider of in-car entertainment and consumer electronics.
In June 2017, Hirschmann Car Communication announced the takeover of the company by TE Connectivity Ltd. known.
Antenna systems
Hirschmann Car Communication is a provider of antenna systems in vehicles. This includes antenna systems for analog and digital radio, mobile radio, navigation, CB radio and telematics services, as well as convenience components such as remote keyless entry or keyless go systems.
In 2009, Hirschmann Car Communication introduced a patented film antenna concept that has been used by many automobile manufacturers since then. The film antenna is based on a conductive silver paste that is applied to the film material using a screen printing process. With this additive process, widely branched or scattered antenna structures can be realized on a film. The film antennas are usually attached to the plastic attachment with the aid of clips or self-adhesive. In 2015 an antenna was presented that combines transceiver , tuner and antenna in one unit.
TV tuner
The company develops and produces TV tuners that provide television reception in the vehicle. A distinction is made between analog, digital or hybrid TV tuners that are used to receive terrestrial analog TV broadcasts as well as digital programs - for example the standards DVB-T , DVB-T2 , ISDB-T , DTMB , T-DMB or SBTVD - are designed.
Solutions
As a further mainstay, the company founded the Solutions division in January 2012 in order to meet the increasing demand from the telematics and M2M industry for communication technology . The solutions range from remote monitoring of a wide variety of work processes, tracking of the position of mobile objects via GPS , communication between industrial machines via WLAN , to smart metering , the automatic reading of gas, water and electricity meters.
Car radio
At the IAA 2011 , the company presented its first self-developed car radio . The radio is to be equipped with a contactless control: sensors on the control panel recognize hand movements directly in front of the display and convert them into control commands.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b http://www.hirschmann-car.com/Deutsch/Unternehmen/Untern Firmenprofil/index.phtml
- ↑ Hirschmann Car Communication announces the sale to VOXX International Corporation , February 10, 2012
- ↑ http://www.hirschmann-car.com/ : TE Connectivity buys Hirschmann Car Communication. Retrieved August 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Patent DE102009010411 : Use of film antennas. Registered on February 26, 2009 , applicant: Hirschmann Car Communication GmbH, inventor: Jörg Alber, Jörg Müller.