Mabuchi Motor
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- Shinji Kamei
- Hiroo Okoshi
Mabuchi Motor KK (Japaneseマブチ モーター 株式会社, Mabuchi Mota Kabushiki - gaisha ) is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Japanese company and one of the world's leading manufacturer of small electric motors.
The company was founded by Ken'ichi Mabuchi (马 渕 健 一, Mabuse Ken'ichi ) in 1954 and produced from the beginning electric motors for toys and technical instruments. The company grew to a special armature winding machine, which simplified the anchor producing the sometimes very small anchor.
From 1963 Mabuchi built the engines of the type FT and RS, which represented the economic breakthrough and are produced in an improved form today. FT engines have been widely used, eg in Slot Cars ( car racing ) and locomotives of model trains in all kinds of toys. Also engines from Lego or Fischer Technik and similar kits are Mabuchi motors.
The RS motors are larger and have been in home appliances of all kinds but installed (for example, tape recorders and record players ) in radio-controlled model cars and boats. In the world of radio- controlled cars, boats and aircraft engines are still in use today.
Since the 80s Mabuchimotoren also be used in video recorders and battery-operated power tools such as cordless drills, which entered new markets. Among other things, could economically be directly participates in the video boom.
Today, the motors are used virtually anywhere where small electric motors are required:
- Household appliances such as electric toothbrushes, Haartrocker, razors and small vacuum cleaner
- Tools such as cordless screwdrivers, drills and circular saws
- Any type of electrically driven toys and models
- In the automotive industry as a window lift drive in the electric seat adjustment, central locking or for exterior mirrors
- In consumer electronics such as CD players, cameras, DVD recorders and game consoles
- In the IT industry in printers, CD / DVD burners and photocopiers
The company currently employs ( end of 2012) in the whole group of companies around 29,000 people and generated 2012 annual sales of about 85 billion yen, or about 710 million euros.