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- Gon'emon Kurihara, President
- Hideaki Hirano, vice president
The Nihon Denshi K. K. (Japanese日本 电子 株式会社, Nihon Denshi kabushiki - gaisha, .. engl JEOL Ltd. ) is one of the world's largest manufacturer of electro-optical devices. In addition, the company develops and manufactures systems for semiconductor technology, molecular analysis (NMR, ESR, mass spectrometers ) and medical (blood and amino acid analyzers ). Another mainstay of the group is the development and manufacture of high-performance batteries and capacitors.
The name is an acronym for Japan Electron Optics Laboratory.
Fields of activity
JEOL is primarily manufactures electron-optical devices. These include electron microscopes (SEM / TEM ), energie-/wellenlängendispersive elemental analyzers (EDX / WDX ), electron microprobe ( EPMA ), scanning Auger probes, X-ray fluorescence spectrometer ( XRF), scanning probe microscopes (SPM / STM / AFM ), " Focused Ion Beam" systems (in short: FIB ) and sample preparation systems for SEM and TEM. Moreover, a combined light and scanning electron microscope under the name Clair Scope is produced.
In the division Analytical Instruments nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer offered (NMR ), electron spin spectrometer ( ESR) and mass spectrometers. Also, a flow cell for in situ reaction monitoring in NMR ( MICCS = MIcro Channeled Cell for Synthesis monitoring).
The units of the two areas are equally used in scientific and industrial applications.
Two other divisions are equipment systems for the semiconductor industry and research as well as medical technology. Therefore, include electron beam lithography systems and equipment for wafer and mask inspection as to the range of products, such as clinical diagnostic systems and automated blood and amino acid analyzers.
The instruments by JEOL belong to the category of capital goods. Therefore, services such as training and maintenance of key components of the activity spectrum.
Against the background of ecological aspirations a substitute for CFC-containing industrial washing solutions was developed by JEOL. This "super -reducing water " is produced under the name Rumic for the Japanese market. It is there also available for private use.
Since 2008, JEOL is also represented in the field of high-value capacitors with the product Premlis.
Foundation
In 1969, the company foundation, the Kazato Research Foundation was founded. For the scientific education of children and youth the " Science Camp " is available since 2004 and since 2007, there is also the "Science Class Support" at several Japanese elementary schools.
Certifications
Early 1980 certification more than 2.5 million accident-free man-hours was granted. Since 1995, JEOL is certified under the quality management system according to ISO 9001 since 2002 in the context of environmental management according to ISO 14001.
History
The company was founded in 1949 as K. K. Nihon Denshi Kogaku Kenkyujo (株式会社 日本 电子 光学 研究所) in Mitaka, Tokyo Prefecture (Japan ) was founded. She wore back then as an English translation Japan Electron Optics Laboratory Co. Ltd.. 1961 in JEOL Ltd.. was changed. A year later, the transition to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The JEOL (USA) INC. - By the time the first foreign subsidiary was established. Others were founded in France and 1968 in the UK and in Australia in 1964. Today JEOL is represented with many branches and 23 subsidiaries worldwide, eight of them in Japan and fifteen other countries.
Even before the foundation built a prototype of the JEOL transmission electron microscope DA -1. This was completed in 1947 and delivered to Mitsubishi Chemical Industry. In 1949, production and sales of commercial electron microscope began under the name of JEM -1. The first delivery of a JEM model outside Japan was in 1956 at the Research Institute of the French Commissariat for Atomic Energy (CEA ) in Saclay.
In the same year, the German inventor of the electron microscope and later Nobel Prize winner, Ernst Ruska, JEOL visited in Japan. Also in 1956 was the first Japanese NMR spectrometer at JEOL. In the following period other devices, inter alia for the electron probe microanalysis (1962), Mass Spectrometry ( 1963), e-beam lithography (1967), Fully automated analysis of amino acids ( 1969) and Biochemical Analysis ( 1972) have been developed. Two years later the grid Auger probe was added. 1980 Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling visited the two and Alexander Prokhorov the company. Eight years later, they followed the Swedish winners Kai Siegbahn.
JEOL 1990 applied to a system for inspection of wafers on the market. This was a custom made and for the rapidly evolving semiconductor industry. It consisted then mainly chip manufacturers and is now a complex market in which the solar industry plays a significant role.
Subsidiaries
Besides JEOL Technics LTD. there are in Japan eleven branches and seven subsidiaries. In addition, Corporate subsidiaries in 15 countries: USA, France, England (UK ), Australia, Netherlands / Belgium, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Canada, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, China. The five European agencies form a European network for sales, training, application and service. Their territorial jurisdiction is divided as follows:
- JEOL (Europe) BV - Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
- JEOL (Germany) GmbH - Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein
- JEOL (Europe) SAS - France, Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Morocco, Romania, Tunisia; as well as an alternate contact for Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey
- JEOL ( U.K.) LTD. - United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta; as well as an alternate contact for Israel and South Africa
- JEOL ( SKANDINAVISKA ) A. B. - Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway
The youngest of these daughters is the JEOL (Germany) GmbH. It was founded in 1997 and dissolved the company Kontron Elektronik as a representation by JEOL in the region D / CH / FL from. Since fiscal year 2010, the Scandinavian JEOL AB a subsidiary of the German branch.
Trivia
A mass spectrometer system JEOL DART (direct analysis in real time) was already in the television series CSI: New York to see.