Embraces all Fields
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has been making advanced investments focusing on products for the communications and automotive electronics markets. Murata aims to contribute to solving problems of the traffic society by strengthening the accommodation to automotive environment, safe travel, accident prevention and infotainment; and by providing values leveraging its strengths in sensing, communications, scaling down of parts, and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). In the healthcare sector, Murata contributes to the upgrading of medical care, and the improvement of quality of life (QOL), leveraging its miniaturization, communications, and sensing technologies, responding to the trends toward minimally invasive medical equipment, and the networking of medical equipment. Murata shifts management resources to the automotive market and endeavors to establish a business model in the automotive market and strengthen technological development to expand key parts. TDK Corporation has promoted growth strategies focusing on inductive devices, high-frequency components, piezoelectric materials components, heads for hard disc drives (HDDs), and rechargeable batteries as five priority businesses in the three priority markets of automotive, information and communications technology (ICT), and industrial equipment and energy. At present, the company accelerates the three strategic growth products of sensors and actuators, energy units, and next-generation electronic components, and aims to capture business opportunities in the priority markets.

The R&D activities of Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Limited (JAE) for FY2016 focuses on the development of connectors and various sensors, such as touch sensors and acceleration meters, for automobiles, mobile devices, and industrial equipment and infrastructure; fundamental technologies for manufacturing; and analysis technologies, all of which the company considers vital and relate to reliability evaluation. In doing product development, the company places importance on creating new business areas.

Nichicon Corporation promotes R&D targeting main themes of Nichicon Energy-Control System Technology (NECST) products, including aluminum electrolytic capacitors and film capacitors for automotive electronics and vehicles, industrial equipment and power electronics; home-use and public and industrial-use energy storage systems; next-generation vehicle-related devices; and accelerator power supplies for medical use.