Mitsubishi Electric

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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
三菱電機株式会社

Type	Public company
Traded as	TYO: 6503 LSE: MEL
Industry	Electrical equipment Electronics
Founded	Tokyo, Japan January 15, 1921
Headquarters	Tokyo Building, 2-7-3,Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Setsuhiro Shimomura, ChairmanKenichiro Yamanishi (President & CEO)
Products	Energy and electric systems, Electronic devices, Industrial automation systems, Home appliances, Information and communication systems
Revenue	¥3.639 trillion (2012)^{[* 1]}
Operating income	¥225.44 billion (2012)^{[* 1]}
Net income	¥112.06 billion (2012)^{[* 1]}
Total assets	¥3.391 trillion (2012)^{[* 1]}
Total equity	¥1.191 trillion (2012)^{[* 1]}
Employees	114,443 (2011)^[1]
Parent	Mitsubishi Group
Website	www.mitsubishielectric.com
References: ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Mitsubishi Electric Announces Consolidated ans Non-consolidated Financial Results for Fiscal 2012". Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. April 27, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2012.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki-gaisha^?) is a Japanesemultinational electronics and electrical equipmentsmanufacturing company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group.

Mitsubishi Electric manufactures electric and architectural equipment, as well as a major worldwide producer of photovoltaic panels.^[2] The Corporation was established on 15 January 1921.

In the United States, products are manufactured and sold by Mitsubishi Electric US Holdings, Inc. headquartered in Cypress, California.^[3]

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[edit]Locations

The Tokyo Building, the headquarters building of Mitsubishi Electric in Tokyo.

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Mitsubishi Electric Global [1]
- Mitsubishi Electric - North America
  - Canada [2]
  - Mitsubishi Electric United States [3]
- Mitsubishi Electric Asia-Pacific [4]
  - Australia / New Zealand
  - China
  - Hong Kong
  - Taiwan
  - Vietnam
  - Japan [5]
    There are 11 facilities and 2 laboratories, for example, Kobe, Amagasaki andKamakura.
  - Korea [6]
  - Malaysia
  - Singapore
  - Thailand
  - Mitsubishi Electric Saudi Ltd. (MELSA) -Saudi Arabia [7]

- Mitsubishi Electric Europe [8]
  - Benelux
  - France
  - Germany
  - Ireland
  - Italy
  - Portugal
  - Russia
  - Spain
  - Sweden / Denmark
  - Finland / Norway
  - United Kingdom

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The Mitsubishi Electric-owned Solae Test Tower in Inazawa City, Japan is the world's tallest elevator testing tower.

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Building Systems
- Air Conditioning Systems
- Elevators & Escalators
- High-speed Hand dryer (marketed as Mitsubishi Jet Towel^[6])

Communication Systems
- Communication Systems
- Information Security
- Space Systems

Industrial Automation
- Automation Systems
- Industrial Automation Machinery

Medical Systems
- Particle Beam Treatment System

Power Systems
- Solar Power

Semiconductors & Devices
- Contact Image Sensors
- Electronic Devices
- TFT-LCDs

Transportation
- Automotive Equipment
- Intelligent Transport Systems
- Transportation Systems

Visual Information Systems
- High definition Televisions^[7]
- Large-Scale LED Displays
- Multimedia Projectors

Nihon Kentetsu^{[citation needed]}

[edit]Products

An antenna manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array.

The company makes Active Electronically Scanned Array radar systems for the Mitsubishi F-2 fighter.
Televisions
- The company's most notable products in the United States come from the large-screen HDTV division. Competitors in this market are Sony, Pioneer,Panasonic, JVC, Samsung (Akai), Daewoo, LG (Zenith), and Apex Digital.
- The company manufactured direct-view CRT televisions until 2001. The last notable size in this field was a 40" (diagonal) tube size.
- Mitsubishi manufactured LCD TVs until 2008.
- As of 2011, the company is focusing on DLP High Definition TVs.
Automotive parts (Original Equipment Mfg)
Factory Automation
Elevators and escalators [9]
- The company held the record for the fastest elevator in the world, in the 70-story Yokohama Landmark Tower, from 1993 until 2005.
Air conditioners
EcoCute heat pump water heaters
Dehumidifiers
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems
Mobile phones, from 1999 to 2004. Created for NTT DoCoMo
Photovoltaic panels
SCOPO. The Corporation claims (as cited in "References") to have achieved the world's first transmission at 10 Gbit/s between relay equipment boards set at a distance of 500 mm apart.
Mitsubishi also previously made Video Cassette Recorders known as the Mitsubishi Black Diamond VCR.
Saffron Type System, an anti-aliased text-rendering engine, developed by Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)

[edit]Slogan

With you today and tomorrow (今日もあなたと共に^?, 1962–1968, in Japan only)
Advanced and ever Advancing Mitsubishi Electric (未来を開発する三菱電機^?, 1968–1985 in Japan, 1968–2001 outside Japan)
SOCIO-TECH: enhancing lifestyles through technology (技術がつくる高度なふれあい SOCIO-TECH^?, 1985–2001 in Japan. The "Blue MITSUBISHI" logo was introduced for use in Japan.)
Changes for the Better (since 2001)^[8]