Construction of World’s Tallest Elevator Research Tower by HITACHI
Hitachi made an announcement that it will complete the construction of “G1TOWER”, a research elevator tower that is currently under construction at an elevator R&D and manufacturing base in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture. The new tower measuring 213 meters will be the tallest elevator research facility in the world. The tower is designed to be used for verification tests on the world’s fastest elevator, with a speed of 1,080m/min, as well as product development targeting the world’s largest, high speed, high capacity elevator capable of carrying a five tone load with a speed of 600 m/min. Furthermore, the new tower will be used for development of vibration suppression control devices as well as internal air pressure adjustment devices to improve riding comfort during high-speed operations. Read more
Development of Li-ion Batteries for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles by HITACHI
On expanding the battery system business with an aim toward its industrial applications, Hitachi and Hitachi Vehicle Energy Ltd made an announcement on development of lithium-ion batteries for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have two running modes, namely an EV (Electric Vehicle) mode where the vehicle runs solely on a motor and an HEV (Hybrid Electric Vehicle) mode where the vehicle is operated by both the engine and the motor offering a dramatic improvement on gas mileage and reduction on exhaust emission. Read more
Development of Multi-Modal Finger Vein and Fingerprint Device
From Fujitsu’s Palm Secure and Sony’s biometric finger scanner to Toppan’s Biometric and Dynamic Authentication contact IC, here comes yet another new approach in the ever competitive credit and personal authentication market where by Sagem Sécurité and Hitachi will unveil the first ever multi-modal finger vein and fingerprint device at Biometrics 2009 in London, Finger VP. The newly developed device is combining Hitachi’s Finger Vein Imaging (VeinID) technology capable of detecting the pattern of blood vessels under the skin plus Sagem’s fingerprint identification technology by the name of Morpho. Read more
Development of Industry’s first 7200 RPM 2TB Enterprise level hard drives by HITACHI
With growing needs for such application as data warehousing, disk-to-disk backup, cloud computing as well as huge scale-out storage implementation has contributed in importance of some critical attributes such as storage density, GB-per-watt and cost-per-GB. At the same time enterprises are faced with the growing volume of digital content, maximum storage rack-density and floor tile space and they need to reduce the overall energy consumption, forcing the data centers to push the boundaries to make storage more efficient through implementation of such technology as virtualization, thin provisioning and de-duplication. To respond to these needs, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies made an announcement on development of and shipping of industry’s first enterprise class 7200 RPM 2TB Hard Drives. The new Ultrastar A7K2000 has been designed, manufactured and tested in ensuring enterprise-class mean-time-between-failure (MTBF) of 1.2 million hours for demanding 24×7 nearline applications making it an ideal solution for such application as data warehousing, disk-to-disk backup, cloud computing and massive scale-out storage implementations. Read more
Development of new Heat-dissipating sheet by Hitachi
Today’s electronic components require heat dissipating materials or otherwise know as Thermal Interface Material (TIM) capable of transferring generated heat by high-tech devices to cooling modules. Normally, the high thermal conductive materials are usually difficult to work with due to their increasing hardness. At the same time more flexible materials offering a good adhesion feature a low thermal conductivity leading researches to seek for a new material that offer a good balance between thermal conductivity and flexibility. Read more
Hitachi Maxell brand new “iV” recorder with a built-in Digital Tuner
Hitachi Maxell unveiled their new iV recorder “VDR-R1000” with built-in digital tuner.
“iV recorder” is suitable for use with any TV for recording/playing a program, and the same time it has benefit of increasing the storage capacity by just adding a removable media “iV”. The newly developed “VDR-R1000” has a compact body of 230mm in width X 41mm in height X 170mm in depth which is smaller than B5 size. The “VDR-R1000” will support “acTVila” from fall of 2009, even for TVs which do not have capability of accessing “acTVila” site, allowing them to view contents from “acTVila”. Read more
Development of new sound source separation technology by Hitachi
Hitachi has developed a new sound source separation technology which is capable of recognizing a specific voice even in the noisy environment. This new sound source separation technology has the noise control processing that uses multiple microphones to predict and remove the noise which is caused by reflection from wall or t ceiling in a room. Further to this the system is capable of revising a distortion from the extracted sound. Read more
The world’s most powerful Lithium-Ion battery for vehicle by Hitachi
Hitachi Ltd and Hitachi Vehicle Energy Ltd developed the world’s most powerful Lithium-Ion battery for a car with output power density of 4,500 W/kg, a 1.7 times higher in power density in comparison to their current car Lithium-Ion battery. Hitachi managed to reduce the internal resistance in this newly developed battery by employing a new Manganese anode for its electrode plus the use of Hitachi’s original battery structure for thinning of the electrode and power collection method resulting in world’s highest output for this type of battery.
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au’s new mobile phones
KDDI and Okinawa cellular will start to sell five new models of mobile phones on February 6. They are “Walkman Phone, Premier3″ by Sony Ericsson, “Wooo mobile phone H001″ by Hitachi, “CA001″ by Casio, “SH001″by Sharp and “NS01” by Kyocera.
The “Walkman Phone, Premier3″ which is more focused on music functionality side of things equipped with SONY’s Walkman Technology such as “Quality Audio Technology”, “Clear Stereo” “Clear Base” and “DESS”. Even when the mobile phone is closed the user is able to play and forward music. It comes in gold, pink and black. Read more
Is ruggedness an answer for future mobile devices?
As a consumer we always take the durability of our mobile devices for granted being a mobile phone that gets bang here and there and dropped in too many occasions or the mobile PC that is put in an already over crowed hand bag or even our digital handy cam that has that very special Ms. drools signature on it. In all these situations or similar ones we never for one second think whether these sensitive equipments will sustain such over exerted tortures until we face the moment…. yes that moment that everything goes blank and we are all freshen out from all those irrecoverable important personal and impersonal data that was stored on them. After all we are living in a ubiquities era and portability and usability at any where and anytime is turning to becoming a commodity or at least that is what we are being told. Read more
