Stanley Electric
Stanley K. K. Denki (Japaneseスタンレー 電気 株式会社, Denki Kabushiki - Sutanrē gaisha, Eng. Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.. ) is a Japanese company that manufactures electrical and electronic bulbs. With 36 consolidated subsidiaries, three associated companies, 23 factories in eight countries, branches in 17 countries and over 12,000 employees, Stanley is a Japanese large enterprises.
Main customers for the core business ( automotive lighting ) are Honda and Nissan, besides also Toyota, Mazda, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Ford, and Chrysler are supplied. Stanley Electric 's shares are traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange TOPIX of.
History
The company was founded in 1920 by Takaharu Kitano, of the company after Henry Morton Stanley, a British-American explorer named. According to the company, he was impressed by the vision, the courage and pioneering spirit of the researcher. At that time there were in Japan only about 8,000 vehicles that had all been imported.
Products
The product range includes conventional headlamps ( HID) lamps, especially LED-based light sources. So Stanley developed the world's first LED-based brake light.
Also manufactures and develops Stanley all vehicle lighting, LED backlight for displays, mobile phone and camera flash light displays for the vehicle interior, sensors, as well as general space and street lighting (eg in Shanghai and Tokyo ).
Stanley Denki concentrates from 2013 even more on LED headlights and wants to raise their share of the total turnover of 1% in 2017 to 20%.
Research & Development
Stanley operates five research centers in Japan, where new light sources as well as optimized current light sources and new products are developed. One of the centers is to, inter alia, in Tsukuba. Besides working on Pikoprojektoren with MEMS and research in biotechnology. Research results are regularly published in professional journals (eg SemiConductor Today, Optics Express).
Raybrig & Motorsport
Under " Raybrig " Stanley sells his lamps, also directly to consumers and is active in motorsports with the brand as the main sponsor of Team Kunimitsu in Super GT.
Social Commitment
Stanley founder Kitano Kitano also founded the Foundation for lifelong education, which provides for the granting of scholarships for economically weak people to the goal. The Foundation is, inter alia, active in India.
Trivia
Stanley participates selectively in lighting events. Thus, during the celebrations of 150 years of German -Japanese relations, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin was illuminated by LED headlamps. In Tokyo, also the theater Kabuki -za in Ginza is illuminated every evening from Stanley LEDs. Both illuminations in collaboration with Makoto Ishii.