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 |  $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
- Visual Information 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)
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- Achievements
- Book Site of former employee who wrote a book about working as a foreigner in the company.
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