Nichicon

Nichicon Corporation
	Nichicon Building in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto
Native name	ニチコン株式会社
Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 6996; OSE: 6996
Industry	Electronics
Founded	(August 1, 1950; 73 years ago)
Headquarters	Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-0845, Japan
Key people	Ippei Takeda; (Chairman and CEO); Shigeo Yoshida; (President and COO)
Products	Capacitors; Hybrid integrated circuits; Thermistors;
Revenue	JPY 107.2 billion (FY 2014) (US$ 893.3 million) (FY 2014)
Net income	JPY 2.25 billion (FY 2014) (US$ 18.7 million) (FY 2014)
Number of employees	5,792 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2014)
Website	Official website
	Footnotes / references;

Nichicon Corporation (ニチコン株式会社, Nichikon Kabushiki-gaisha) is a manufacturer of capacitors of various types, and is one of the largest manufacturers of capacitors in the world,^{[citation needed]} headquartered in Karasuma Oike, Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. In 1950, it separated from the Nii Works Co., established itself as Kansai-Nii Works and completed its first factory by 1956. In 1961, it adopted the Nichicon name and has been using it, or a variant thereof, ever since.

In 2011 and 2012 Nichicon spun off several major factories into independent subsidiaries, and established representative branches in foreign countries, thus realigning its corporate infrastructure.^[3]

Early 2000s capacitor issues

From 2001 to 2004, Nichicon produced defective capacitors ("HM" and "HN" series) that were used by major computer manufacturers, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Apple.^[4]^[5] No explanation has been given for the production runs of defective capacitors, but some sources claimed that these capacitors were either overfilled with electrolyte,^[4] or were constructed using electrolyte that was prone to leaking, causing premature failure in any equipment using them.^{[citation needed]} This issue was not related to the Taiwanese capacitor plague.^[4]

In 2010 Dell settled a civil lawsuit concerning its shipment of at least 11.8 million computers from May 2003 to July 2005 that used faulty Nichicon components and were prone to major failure.^[6]^[7]

References

^ "Company Profile". Nichicon. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
^ "Company Financials". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
^ "Corporate History". Nichicon. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Singer, Michael (November 10, 2005). "PCs plagued by bad capacitors". CNET. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
^ Menchaca, Lionel (July 1, 2010). "Dell on the Nichicon Capacitor Issue". blog.dell.com. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
^ Ashlee Vance (June 28, 2010). "Suit Over Faulty Computers Highlights Dell's Decline". The New York Times. Retrieved June 12, 2015.
^ "Dell Settles Capacitor Lawsuit". LegalZoom. Archived from the original on January 25, 2013.

External links

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[1] "Company Profile". Nichicon. Retrieved September 23, 2021.

[2] "Company Financials". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved September 23, 2021.

[3] "Corporate History". Nichicon. Retrieved September 23, 2021.

[CNET-4] Singer, Michael (November 10, 2005). "PCs plagued by bad capacitors". CNET. Retrieved September 23, 2021.

[DELL-5] Menchaca, Lionel (July 1, 2010). "Dell on the Nichicon Capacitor Issue". blog.dell.com. Retrieved September 23, 2021.

[6] Ashlee Vance (June 28, 2010). "Suit Over Faulty Computers Highlights Dell's Decline". The New York Times. Retrieved June 12, 2015.

[7] "Dell Settles Capacitor Lawsuit". LegalZoom. Archived from the original on January 25, 2013.

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