Mitsubishi Electric Corporation is a Japanese company based in the Tokyo Building in Tokyo, manufactures electric and architectural equipment, as well as a major worldwide producer of photovoltaic panels[3]. The Corporation was established on 15 January 1921.
It is one of the Mitsubishi Group core companies. In the United States, products are manufactured and sold by Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA, Inc., headquartered in Cypress, California.
Products
- 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.
- As of 2008, the company is focusing on DLP and LCD High Definition TVs.
- The company held the record for the fastest elevator in the world, in the 70-storey Yokohama Landmark Tower, from 1993 until 2005.
- Automotive parts (Original Equipment Mfg)
- Factory Automation
- Elevators and escalators
- Air conditioners
- Eco Cute heat pump water heaters
- Dehumidifiers
- Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems
- Mobile phones 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 Mistubishi Black Diamond VCR.
- Saffron Type System, an anti-aliased text-rendering engine, developed by Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboritories (MERL)
