Development of Industry’s First 0.9V Drive MOSFETs for Mobile Devices by ROHM
Rohm made an announcement on development of industry’s first 0.9V type MOSFETs as part of expanding company’s ECOMOS series of low voltage drive. The newly developed drive is targeted for mobile devices such as portable audio, IC recorders, electronic dictionaries, portable radios as well as electronic toys to name a few. Rohm through development of this MOSFET has succeeded to control current leakage by optimizing the MOSFET gate layer and the channel profile making the 0.9V drive with a stable OFF state, enabling operation using only a single dry-cell (1.2V, termination voltage 0.9V) without requiring a step-up circuit, resulting in smaller, lighter sets with fewer external parts. Read more
Development of Industry’s First flexible Electronic Paper by Bridgestone
The new manufacturing technology can literally give the same flexibility to the E-paper as regular paper. Well, may be not yet but Bridgestone’s newly developed flexible E-paper take this idea few step closer to reality. The size of the device is 10.7 inch with a thickness of only 5.8mm. All parts of this super thin all flexible electronic paper device such as electronic paper, touch panel, circuit board are flexible. Read more
Development of Industry’s first Crystal Etalon Filter by KYOCERA
Kyocera Corporation today made an announcement of development of industry’s first crystal etalon filter which is used in tunable laser modules for WDM application to contribute in increasing the volume of data transmission in such system. The newly developed crystal etalon filter makes it possible in selection of a wavelength temperature coefficient with in the range of 5.4 to 15.7pm /?C. The new filter was developed by wholly owned subsidiary of Kyocera, Kyocera Kinseki involved in development of and manufacturing of crystal devices. Read more
Development of Industry’s First Wavelength Selective Crystal 1/2 Wave Plate by KYOCERA
Kyocera Corporation made an announcement earlier this month on development of industry’s first wavelength-selective crystal 1.2 wave plate enabling the multi-use and simultaneous use of three wavelengths. The newly developed 1/2 wave plate is the core component in laser equipment ensuring the required accurate processing through adjustment of irradiation power as well as process flexibility by adjusting the irradiation angle all through rotation of the laser polarization plane to achieve optimal micro fabrication suiting the pieces to be processed. Read more
Industry’s first 2 Terabyte 7200 RPM Desktop Hard Disk Drive by Hitachi GST
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) made an announcement on development of industry’s first 2TB, 7200 RPM HDD targeted at heavy personal PC users. The newly developed Deskstar 7k2000 combines a mixture of high performance and capacity along with low power consumption and other ecological friendly features. Based on company’s power saving technology like Hitachi Voltage Efficiency Regulator (HiVERT™), the Deskstar 7K2000 and 7K1000.C features an outstanding power management and thermal emission to assist computer and storage based manufacturers to meet their energy compliance requirements. The new Deskstar 7K2000 offers 10 percent idle power savings over previous generations, and on a watt-per-GB basis, idle power has improved more than 120 percent. 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
The industry’s first Digital Broadcasting Transmission System using millimeter-wave by SHARP
Sharp Corporation made an announcement on development of millimeter-wave modules targeted for outdoor use capable of wirelessly transmitting BS / CS / digital terrestrial broadcasting. The new system is capable of wirelessly receiving BS / CS / digital terrestrial broadcasting from the antenna installed on the roofs of a buildings and apartments. Using the newly developed systems eliminates any needs for having a complicated and large scale repair/ wiring work , just install a receiver on the balcony or roof. Sharp has developed this new system based on the company’s know how on developing high frequency devices such as (Low Noise Block) converter radio transmissions devices for Satellite broadcasting and tuner modules for digital broadcasting.
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Industry’s first ultra thin, ultra long Flexible Printed Circuit
FPC is used to enable the thin wiring possessing to its thin, light, highly flexible and highly dense characteristics. But due to unavailability of thin FPCs, thin cables have been used instead as a wiring material for narrow and long places. The conventional thin wire has inherent issues namely that the thinner the cable the more complex harness-making process becomes which increases the chances for incorrect wiring. Based on this OKI Electric Cable has announced the development of an ultra thin, ultra long flexible printed circuit (FPC). The new FPC has achieved a narrow width of 2mm and a length of up to 3 meter which was so far difficult to make. Read more
Development of industry’s first water resistant surge suppressor by OKI
Micro-surge a phenomenon which occurs due to impedance mismatch of motor cable and the motor increases as the speed of inverter switching becomes faster and application of voltage increases to improve power efficiency. This can cause malfunctions in the motors. Such effects include insulation deterioration in motor coils, which damages the motor.
A conventional remedy to over come this issue is the insertion of LC filter circuits between the inverter and motor to slow down the surge rise on drive signal waveforms and dissipate the surge energy as heat. However, as the motor power increased it becomes necessary to use expensive and large-sized high-power-rated capacitors and coils resulting in a larger space requirement and increase in both price and power consumption. Read more
