TIM Group Work Tech Innovation of Mitsubishi Electric, 2000 - 2013 Author: Nikolay Kostadinov

1. 01
TIM Group Work
Products and Technologies of Mitsubishi Electric 2000 - 2013
With the following slide
show our Group is
attending to give a brief
view of the technological
innovations of Mitsubishi
Electric from 2000 until
now

2. • Successfully tested Japan's first quantum
cryptographic communications system.
• Developed the world's first photoresist stripping unit
for LCD fabrication that uses highly concentrated
ozone.
• Began licensing Kasumi, an international standard
encryption method for W-CDMA.
Year 2000

4. Year 2002
• KASUMI selected as the standard encryption code
for GSM mobile telephones.
• In cooperation with NHK, developed the world's first
digital watermarking equipment.
• First in the world to successfully prove second-
generation X-ray lithography technology.
• Developed the world's highest output red LED for
DVD read and read/write applications.
• Developed the world's first 40Gbps semiconductor
light modulator and module.

5. Year 2003
• Successfully launched "OPTUS-1," the first overseas commercial
satellite for which Mitsubishi Electric was a prime contractor.
• Jointly developed a revolutionary coating technology that uses
electrical discharges (Micro Spark Coating) with Ishikawajima-
Harima Heavy Industries.
• Developed the world's widest "Diamond Vision" display for
operation at the Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong.
• Developed the world's first 50-ampre-compliant large-capacity
DIP-IPM.
• Developed the world's first "finger composition characteristics
detection" optical fingerprint sensor.
• Achieved the world's first transmission at 10Gbps between
relay equipment boards set at a distance of 500mm apart.
• Achieved the world's first interconnection between GMPLS that
realizes next-generation photonic networks and MPLS that
offers highly advanced IP services.

6. Year 2004
• Released the world's first refrigerator that
"increases vitamin C content."
• Developed the world's first LCD module, "Reversible
LCD," capable of being viewed from both sides.
• Developed Japan's first variable-speed elevator
system, shortening wait times by up to 15%.
• Constructed a system for producing 5 million red
semiconductor lasers per month for use with
recordable DVDs.

7. Year 2005
• The Mitsubishi Diamond Vision screen at the Turner
Field baseball stadium in the U.S.A. is recognized as
the world's largest outdoor HDTV video screen.
• The "Camellia" next-generation encryption
algorithm jointly developed with NTT is adopted as
the next-generation encryption standard for the
Internet.
• Started development of the "Uni & Eco" brand
concept for household appliances with the aim of
making products that are easy to use and which
have low environmental impact.
• Released the Mitsubishi Finger Identification Device
by Penetrated Light, the world's first non-contact
fingerprint recognition device.
• Produced the 40 millionth ventilation fan at the
Nakatsugawa Works.
• Became the first company in the world to receive
approval to manufacture particle-beam treatment
devices that use carbon ions.

8. Year 2006
• Successfully launched the MTSAT-2 multifunctional
transport satellite.
• Installed the Multi-screen Turf Vision (Aurora
Vision), the world's largest display, at the JRA Tokyo
Racetrack.
• Successfully launched , a solar observatory satellite
for which Mitsubishi Electric was a prime contractor.

9. Year 2007
• Succeeded in verification experiments on the
world's longest 80km key distribution with a
cryptography system using a single photon source,
jointly with Hokkaido University and other
institutions.
• Achieved the world's highest photoelectric
conversion efficiency of 18.0% in practical-use
multi-crystalline solar cells.
• Completed construction of the world's tallest
elevator testing tower, measuring 173m, at Inazawa
Works.
• Delivered Japan's largest security system, which
monitors document access using IC tags, to the Bank
of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.

10. Year 2008
• Became the first Japanese manufacturer to enter
the commercial communications satellite market
outside of Japan with the introduction of an original
satellite bus, and has received an order from
Singapore and Taiwan to build the ST-2 as their next
communications satellite.
• Succeeded in launching Superbird-C2 (7), the first
domestic commercial communications satellite
made in Japan for Space Communications
Corporation, and completed the handover of the
satellite to Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation on October
17, after completion of in-orbit performance
testing.
• Achieved the world's highest energy conversion rate
of 18.6% in a polycrystalline silicon photovoltaic cell.
• Installed Asia's longest Aurora Ribbon, a very long
LEDerAd ribbon board display, at the Chiba Marines
baseball stadium in Japan.

11. Year 2009
• Diamond Vision screen installed at the Dallas
Cowboys Stadium is recognized by Guinness World
Records as the world's largest high-definition
display. The recognized screen measures 22m high
by 48m wide.
• Developed the world's first hybrid nano coating that
can be applied to materials ranging from metals to
plastics for protection against dust, oil and other
substances.
• Delivered Major League Baseball's first full 1080 x
1920 high-definition LED, 16mm pixel pitch
Diamond Vision Screen to Yankee Stadium in New
York.
• Released the NJ-XS10J, the world's first* steamless
IH (induction heater) rice cooker with no steam
port.

12. Year 2010
• Launched "RakuRaku-UD," a set of assistance
features on home appliance products that make it
easier to use the products' various advanced
functions.
• Began Japan's first large-scale, high-purity plastic
recycling, using technology that automatically
separates at high purity the three main plastics out
of shredded mixed plastic recovered from end-of-
life home appliances. These activities were started
at Green Cycle Systems Corporation, a Mitsubishi
Electric subsidiary.
• Developed an elevator energy conservation
management system that can reduce overall
elevator power consumption by up to 10 percent.
• Sojitz Corporation and Mitsubishi Electric
Corporation install the world's largest and longest
(107.52m wide x 10.88m high) Diamond Vision
screen at Dubai's Meydan Racecourse. Screen area:
1,169.8m².

13. Year 2011 • Received a contract from the TAT-14 CN Purchasing
Consortium to upgrade the consortium's submarine
optical cable system, TAT-14 Cable Network, to
40Gbps. The upgrade of a transatlantic cable to 40
Gbps is the world's first.
• Delivered OLED panels that can display images with
ten times higher resolution than conventional LED
panels, to the 6-meter-diameter Geo-Cosmos Globe
displayed at the National Museum of Emerging
Science and Innovation as its symbol exhibit.
• Commenced full-scale operations of the Smart Grid
and Smart Community demonstration facilities in
Amagasaki and Wakayama.
• Developed the industry's smallest EV motor system
with built-in SiC inverter, in which all power chips in
the motor's inverter are SiC-based.

14. Year 2012 (1)
• Developed a plastic recycling technology that can
instantaneously separate plastic waste that has
been sorted and recovered from recycled home
appliances at a high material purity of over 99%, in a
joint effort with Shimadzu Corporation.
• Developed automatic dismantling equipment to
recover rare earth magnets from used room air
conditioners, and commenced rare earth magnet
recovery operations at Green Cycle Systems
Corporation.
• Installed a PV-EV Linked Inverter for linked control
of high-capacity power storage batteries for
applications such as photovoltaic power generation
(PV) and electric vehicles (EV) in the Ofuna Smart
House (in the Information Technology R&D Center),
creating the industry's first PV-EV Linked HEMS

15. Year 2012 (2)
• Completed construction and commenced operation
of a video monitoring system production facility at
the Koriyama Factory (Koriyama, Fukushima
Prefecture), Communication Networks Center,
which had been damaged in the Great East Japan
Earthquake
• Delivered Japan's largest digital signage system,
comprising 100 display units featuring a total of 336
display screens, including a large-screen organic EL
"Panorama Vision" screen, to Narita International
Airport Corporation

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