Mitsumi Electric

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Mitsumi Denki
engl. "Mitsumi Electric"

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legal form Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company)
founding 1954
Seat Tama-shi , Tokyo
management Itsuo Moribe and Shigeru Moribe
Number of employees 36,417
Branch Electrical engineering
Website http://www.mitsumi.com/
Status: 2015

Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd. ( English for Mitsumi Denki KK , Japanese ミ ツ ミ 電機 株式会社 , Mitsumi Denki kabushiki-gaisha ) was a Japanese manufacturer of components for  entertainment electronics founded in 1954  .

On the Tokyo Stock Exchange  , the company's shares were  stock index  Nikkei 225 listed. Mitsumi offered its products through subsidiaries in Asia, Europe and North America. In January 2017 the merger with Minebea (NMB) to MinebeaMitsumi ( ミ ネ ベ ア ミ ツ ミ 株式会社 , ~ KK , English "~ Inc.") took place.

Products

A key product area of ​​the company was the control panels for  video game consoles . Mitsumi had made the official controllers for the following consoles:

Further products
Mitsumi CD interface. The HCCS Ultimate A5000 Mitsumi CD interface is an  interface for CD-ROM used earlier at  Acorn Computer .
CDROM drive with twice the speed and an interface specially developed by Mitsumi including ISA controller plug-in card from 1994
  • The circuit board of the Wi-Fi module of the  Nintendo DS  family of systems (according to the FCC ID on the bottom of each system) and makes at least some Nintendo DS Lite consoles for Nintendo.
  • Remote controls for many brands of home electronics, as well as keyboards and mice for personal computers, as well as the keyboard of the Apple Pro and the Mighty Mouse.
  • Floppy and CD and DVD drives for  laptop computers, desktops , servers and the Famicom Disk System . In the 1980s Mitsumi introduced the mechanics of various floppy disk drives for  home computers . The various manufacturers of these home computers donated a purchased Mitsumi drive to its own housing and control electronics so that the Mitsumi name was not visible on the outside. Mitsumi's own floppy disk drives for personal computers were sold under both the Mitsumi and Newtronics names.
  • Mitsumi was certain also to the manufacturer hardware of  Nintendo Wii U .
  • For Commodore International the keyboards of various home computers such as B. the  VIC-20 but also other components such as the video interface card of the CDTV  at Mitsumi.
  •  Mitsumi  built the keyboards of the  TI-99/4 and 4 / A for  Texas Instruments .
  • Mitsumi was involved in the development or production of some of the components of the  XM Satellite Radio .

Web links

Commons : Mitsumi Electric  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Emma Boyes: Wii Remote maker profits soar . In: GameSpot . CBS Interactive . February 8, 2007. Retrieved February 8, 2007.
  2. Components: Nikkei Stock Average . Nikkei Inc. . Retrieved June 16, 2015.
  3. MegaChips and Mitsumi Simplify IP Camera Deployment . PR Newswire . June 8, 2015. Accessed June 15, 2015.
  4. https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Japan-Update/Bearing-maker-MinebeaMitsumi-seen-beating-full-year-profit-forecast