Denso
34.997163137.00816Koordinaten: 34 ° 59 ' 50 "N, 137 ° 0' 29" O
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- Nobuaki Katō, President and CEO
- Koichi Fukaya, Vice Chairman
DENSO Corporation (株式会社 デンソーjap, Kabushiki - gaisha Denso ) is a company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol 6902 global automotive supplier, especially for automobile electronics and automotive mechatronics. The company is located in the city of Kariya, Aichi Prefecture in Japan.
The company was founded on 16 December 1949 as Nippondenso Co. Ltd.. founded. DENSO is part of the Toyota Group.
Originally DENSO was the area for the production of electrical components of the Toyota Motor Co., Ltd.. and separated from after the Second World War, when the Japanese " war machine " was settled. DENSO in Japanese means about " electric elements " or just electrics, if you write with the Japanese kanji characters. Because DENSO but not only manufactures electrical components, it was decided in 1996 to write the script in " DENSO Corporation " with the modern katakana characters.
On 31 March 2007, DENSO Corporation had 188 subsidiaries (68 in Japan, 38 in America, 33 in Europe and 49 in Asia and Oceania) with a total of 112 262 employees. The consolidated turnover amounted for the fiscal year 2006/ 07 3609.7 billion yen ( 30.6 billion USD), the profit before tax 303.1 billion yen ( 2.6 billion USD). The seat of the German subsidiary, DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Germany GmbH ( dnde ), located since 1994 (founded in January 1984) in Eching near Munich.
The subsidiary DENSO WAVE represents the business unit for automatic identification and data capture ( Auto-ID ), industrial robots and special electronics for automation in manufacturing dar. DENSO WAVE has also invented the two-dimensional QR code next to the CCD scanning technology for 1D scanner. DENSO holds a 75 % majority of DENSO WAVE. The devices are manufactured by DENSO ELECS again, another DENSO subsidiary with its own factory in Agui far from Kariya.
DENSO was a sponsor of the Toyota Formula 1 team.
2006/ 07, the global sales of DENSO were divided as follows:
- Thermal Systems 31.5%
- Power transmission control systems 23.0%
- Electronic Systems 8.6%
- Electrical Systems 9.2%
- Small motors 6.9%
- Industrial systems, consumer goods 1.8%
- Other 1.5%
- Other automotive parts 1.3%