Mabuchi engine
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | JP3870000001 |
| founding | 1954 |
| Seat | Matsudo , Japan |
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| Number of employees | 29,058 (2012) |
| sales | 710 million euros (2012) |
| Branch | Electrical engineering |
| Website | www.mabuchi-motor.co.jp |
Mabuchi Motor KK ( Japanese マ ブ チ モ ー タ ー 株式会社 , Mabuchi Mōtā Kabushiki kaisha ) is a Japanese company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and one of the world's most important manufacturers of small electric motors .
The company was founded in 1954 by Ken'ichi Mabuchi ( 馬 渕 健 一 , Mabuse Ken'ichi ) and has produced electric motors for toys and technical instruments from the start. The company has developed a special anchor winding machine producing the part very small anchor simplified.
From 1963 Mabuchi built the FT and RS engines, which represented the economic breakthrough and are still produced today in an improved form. FT motors have found wide application in all kinds of toys, e.g. B. in slot cars (car racing tracks) and locomotives of model railways. Motors from Lego , Fischertechnik and similar kits are also Mabuchi motors.
The RS motors are larger and were installed in all kinds of home devices (e.g. tape recorders and record players), but also in remote-controlled model cars and boats. The motors are still in use today in the field of remote-controlled cars, boats and aircraft.
Since the 1980s, Mabuchi motors have also been used in video recorders and battery-operated power tools such as cordless screwdrivers, opening up new markets. Among other things, it was possible to directly participate economically in the video boom.
Today the motors are used practically everywhere where small electric motors are needed:
- Household appliances such as electric toothbrushes, hair dryers, razors, and smaller vacuum cleaners
- Tools such as cordless screwdrivers, drills and circular saws
- any kind of electrically powered toys and models
- in automotive engineering as a window regulator drive, in electric seat adjustment, central locking or exterior mirror adjustment
- in consumer electronics such as CD players , cameras, DVD recorders, and game consoles
- in the IT industry in printers, CD / DVD burners and photocopiers
The company currently (end of 2012) employs around 29,000 people in the entire group of companies and in 2012 generated annual sales of around 85 billion yen , i.e. around 710 million euros.
Web links
- Company website (Japanese, English, Chinese)