Development of World’s Fastest Thermal Printhead by KYOCERA
The demand for ID cards as well as credit cards having a high resolution photos has grown with the same pace as the need for ensuring their security. Compact card printers with capability of quick printing on site are in common use particularly in companies and retail locations, where they use the photo ID cards for employee and customer management, making printers with compact form factor capable of high resolution printing a must have for such organizations. One company that has been holding the top market share in the printhead industry is Kyocera, when recently they have expanded their product line-up with new KLE Series thermal printhead for desktop card printers used for printing onto rigid materials such as ID cards and credit cards. The newly developed printhead is capable of printing in 300-dpi, full-color, high-resolution at 50mm per second, making it the industry’s highest speed for this class of printhead. Read more
KYOCERA to Showcase the Industry’s First LTE Micro Base Station
Kyocera made an announcement on development of industry’s first Long Term Evolution (LTE) micro base station. The company claims the new micro base station is the world’s lightest and smallest and the most efficient LTE base station, where its unique compact and all-in-one design makes it ideal for network operators to complement their existing networks through expanding coverage or adding incremental capacity in high use area. The micro base station weighs less than 12kg with 8 watts of transmit power, a fraction in comparison to typical macro base stations. Read more
Release of Low Profile Back Flip Lock Type FPC Connector by KYOCERA
Kyocera Elco made an announcement on release of a low profile and space saving FPC connector with the dimension of 1.1mm high and 3.85mm deep, designed for consumer electronics such as Notebook PCs, DSCs, DVCs as well as game consoles. The new Series 6843 is a 0.3mm pitch, right angled, back-flip locking ZIF type connector which is best suited for the internal connection in electronic equipment requiring a small area for the FPC to be laid. Read more
KYOCERA Unveils the World’s Thinnest Sliding-Face Mobile phone with One-Seg capability
I don’t know why, but I always get a feeling as Japanese manufacturer is looking for the tiniest feature in a product to make it the world’s first, of course with much research done before jumping to that conclusion. Anyhow, this time the thinness and One-Seq compatibility is the feature that makes Kyocera’s new mobile phone the world’s first. The newly designed SA001 is a sliding face type mobile phone with capability of receiving one-Seg signal built for Japanese domestic mobile service provider “au”. Read more
Introduction of Children’s Mobile Phone by KYOCERA
Japan being a relatively safe country to live in, currently has been hit with number of unsolved and gruesome child murder cases which shocked the whole nation. In the country where children can walk freely and safely from school to home in absence of school bus services, these type of crime has alerted many parents to take every measures in insuring the safety of their loved ones. One such measure is the introduction of location base tracking technology which can be embedded in child school bag for easy tracking of their activity and whereabouts. 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 World’s Smallest Slim type Board-to-Board Connector
Kyocera Elco today made an announcement of development of world’s smallest slim type board-to-board connector targeted to be used in cell phones and digital AV equipment, etc. The Series5804 is a 0.4mm pitch and ultra low profile board to board connector with 0.9mm in mating height and 2.4mm in width shortest in the industry resulting in a great deal of space saving. The Series5804 features a double sided contact structure to enhance the resistance to vibration of drop shock. The Series5804 has been developed based on company’s Twin-rib structure resulting in elimination of foreign obstacles such as splash of the flux, chips of boards separation and so on as well ensuring the high contact reliability. 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
Development of World’s fastest Drop-on-Demand Inkjet Printing by Kyocera
In recent years “ON Demand anything” is on the rise from video /audio, Movie, as well as some services in order to accommodate some individuals with their personalized taste and specialized needs. On demand printing is no exception in the business world in order to full file a larger variety of printing in smaller order volumes to meet specialized customer needs in the commercial high speed printing market where inkjet is becoming increasingly popular in full filling this need due to its flexibility on a page by page basis which contributes to productivity and its cost performance. But keeping up with this demand equipment manufacturers seek an inkjet print head capable of higher speeds, resolution and reliability. Read more
Roll out of Japanese WiMAX Notebook PCs
With shipment of mini notebook/ Netbook to increase in Pacific region in 2009 which has been growing since 2008 due mainly to falling price of mobile broadband services and increase coverage of third generation mobile technology, introduction of WiMAX services a viable wireless technology couldn’t have come at a better time. It all started with announcement of WiMAX wireless data services by UQ Communication today which states collaboration between UQ Communications Inc. and Intel in promoting and expanding “UQ WiMAX,” the commercially available WiMAX service from UQ Communications in Japan scheduled to be released on July 1st 2009. The new service with a flat fee structure will cost the user 4,480 yen per month. UQ Communication shareholders are KDDI CORPORATION, Intel Capital Corporation, East Japan Railway Company, KYOCERA Corporation, Daiwa Securities Group Inc., The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. Read more
