Minebea

Minebea K. K. (Japaneseミネベア 株式会社, Minebea Kabushiki - gaisha; . engl Minebea Co., Ltd. ) is a Japanese company and a global corporation headquartered in Miyota, Nagano Prefecture, and a second office in Meguro, Tokyo Prefecture.

Minebea

Minebea was founded in 1951 in Tokyo and at the time was the first specialized in the production of miniature ball bearings manufacturer. Today Minebea is the largest manufacturer of miniature ball bearings Welt.Diese product range was supplemented by electro- technical products such as measuring devices, keyboards, speakers, electric motors and fans. Among other spindle motors are developed, which come in hard drives to use. Meanwhile, there is the corporate headquarters in Nagano. The company also manufactures under license weapons, such as the SIG P220 handgun the company JP Sauer & Sohn in Eckernförde

Minebea operates 30 production and development facilities in Japan, China, Germany, Great Britain, Malaysia, Singapore, Slovakia, Thailand, and the USA.

PM DM Villingen -Schwenningen

The spindle motors for computer hard disks to be developed except in Japan Karuizawa in Baden-Württemberg Villingen -Schwenningen. Based Precision Motors German Minebea GmbH ( PMDM ) there is the engine development center of Minebea. Here electronically commutated DC motors and fans are developed except spindle motors.

On 1 February 1991 PMDM was a joint venture between the companies Pope KG in Germany (at that time a leading manufacturer of spindle motor technology) and Minebea Co. Ltd.. in Japan ( leading manufacturer of miniature ball bearings ) was established to promote new developments in spindle motors for computer hard disks and to be successful with their production and sales on the world market.

In August 1993, the Minebea acquired all shares of PMDM and thus became the sole owner of the research and development center, which was still based in Spaichingen, Tuttlingen. In the following years, the company has through successful developments in spindle motor technology and manufacturing and measurement technology from Germany, combined with precision parts manufacturing and mass production know- how from Japan secure a global name in the computer industry and, strong growth in global market share for spindle motors for computer hard disks. Today, the Minebea has at its plants in South East Asia for a production capacity of more than 10 million engines per month making it the second largest supplier of spindle motors in hard disk drives worldwide.

In 2000 created Research in Villingen -Schwenningen, which was extended by an annex in 2004, today develop more than 245 scientists, engineers and technicians, covering an area of more than 11,000 m², next to spindle motors and brushless DC motors for automobiles, as well as specific industry applications.

In addition to the research of new products and the development of industry and spindle motors include the production of prototypes and samples engines to the actual core business. Parts manufacturing, assembly, analysis and qualification takes place almost entirely at Villingen- Schwenningen site. Most developed machines and devices required for the large-scale production and manufactures PMDM on its own. The range of production encompasses assembly and bonding devices, automatic precision presses, machines for storage filling in the fine vacuum gauges for determining the oil fill level, CO2 cleaning equipment, devices for measuring various mechanical and electrical motor parameters ( such as impact, imbalance, parallelism, power consumption, etc.) and Dichtheitsprüfvorrichtungen.

PMDM has worldwide since its inception 20 years ago, more than 1,000 patents on behalf of Minebea Co Ltd. account consisting of more than 500 patent families, of which so far nearly 500 patents have been granted. The focus of the patent filing activity is in the range of brushless DC motors (brushless direct current motors, BLDC motors). Inventor (Inventor) is the development center in Villingen- Schwenningen, submitted to all patents. The development center is the only one of its kind outside of Japan around the world. It is a member of mstbw.

NMB Minebea GmbH Langen

In the Hessian Langen ( 49 ° 59 ' 44 " N, 8 ° 38' 55" O49.995558.64868 ), the NMB Minebea GmbH is relocating you handles the wholesale of Minebea products, especially with " miniature ball bearings, joint - and spherical bearings, axial fans and blowers, step-by DC brush and electronically commutated DC motors, speakers, and speakers, as well as backlight inverters and " backlights for LCD TVs.