Taiyō Yūden

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Taiyō Yūden

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legal form Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company)
ISIN JP3452000007
founding 1950 in Tokyo
Seat JapanJapan Kyōbashi , Chūō , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan
management Shoichi Tosaka
Number of employees 18,753 ( 2017 )
sales 230.716 billion yen ( 2016, € 1.722 billion )
Branch electronics
Website www.yuden.co.jp

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Taiyō Yūden KK ( Japanese. 太陽 誘 電 株式会社 , Taiyō Yūden Kabushiki kaisha , in German about "sun dielectric", English Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. ) is a Japanese electronics company with headquarters in Chūō , Tokyo Prefecture . While the company is mainly known to end users for its optical storage media ( JVC , That's), the company's main business area is the manufacture of passive electronic components such as B. capacitors (47% of sales), coils , filters , surface acoustic wave filters (SAW filters) and finished assembly modules such as radio modules for Bluetooth or WiFi and voltage converters (DC / DC converters).

President is Shoichi Tosaka . Taiyo Yuden has factories in Japan , Korea , the People's Republic of China , Philippines , and Malaysia .

history

Taiyo Yuden was founded on March 23, 1950 by Hikohachi Sato in Tokyo . The product range consisted of electronic components (ceramic capacitors and inductors). Over time, some “industry first” products have been developed, such as B. 1976 axially wired ceramic capacitors and 1984 multilayer ceramic capacitors with Ni electrodes.

That's Type II compact cassette
Brand logo of the storage media

That's audio cassettes , which have been sold in Japan since 1982 , were introduced in Europe in the mid-1980s with an extensive advertising campaign, but failed to gain acceptance and disappeared from the German market in the 1990s. These audio cassettes were sold under the brand name "Triad" in North America.

Since 1985, Taiyo Yuden has published Needs & Seeds (Taiyo Yuden Technical Report, ISSN  0911-5439 ) annually .

The first CD-R was produced in 1988 and presented to the public as That's CD-R in October 1988 , but development on this product began in the summer of 1985.

In 2000, Taiyo Yuden introduced the That's Double Density CD-R with 1.3 GB capacity, but the DDCD format did not catch on. The production of CD-Rs, DVD-Rs and BD-Rs was stopped at the end of 2015 due to price wars and a dwindling sales market.

On March 31, 2010, the surface acoustic wave filter division was taken over by Fujitsu .

Products

That's CD-R made by Taiyo Yuden

Storage media

Taiyo Yuden manufactured blank CDs, DVDs and BDs for Fujifilm , Maxell , Panasonic , Plextor , TDK and Verbatim (Pastel Disc) and also sold them under its own house brand That’s in Japan , Hong Kong and South Korea . In Korea, it was also sold under the Fusion brand and in Spain under the Miflop brand.

Since April 2009, Taiyo Yuden's storage media division has been operating under the name Victor Advanced Media in North America and Europe. Following the acquisition of JVC's storage media business, Taiyo Yuden media began to be commercially available in June 2009 under the JVC brand. At the end of 2015, the production and trading of storage media was discontinued.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Taiyō Yūden and Subsidiaries, Financial and Non-financial Highlights 2013–2017 (PDF, 68 kB), available on May 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Annual Report 2013 (English) ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.yuden.co.jp
  3. ↑ ceramni.jpn.org
  4. ↑ pc.watch.impress.co.jp
  5. ↑ Blank manufacturer Taiyo Yuden ends production of optical data storage media , heise.de, message from June 12, 2015.
  6. ↑ yuden.co.jp, June 11, 2015, Withdrawal from the Recording Media Business ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

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