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Denso (電装)

Denso (電装)
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A manufacturer of electrical systems & parts for automobiles founded 16 December 1949.

History

The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Denso page on 23 April 2019, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

DENSO Corporation (株式会社デンソー Kabushiki-Gaisha Densō) is a global automotive components manufacturer headquartered in the city of Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

After becoming independent from Toyota Motors, it was founded as Nippon Denso Co. Ltd. (日本電装株式会社 Nippon Densō Kabushiki-Gaisha) in 1949. About 25% of the company is owned by Toyota Motor. Despite being a part of the Toyota Group of companies, as of the year ending March 2016, sales to the Toyota Group accounted for less than 50% of the total revenue (44% of the revenue originated from other car manufacturers in Japan, Germany, the U.S. and China). Currently, Denso ranks the second largest auto parts supplier in the world.

As of 2016, Denso Corporation consisted of 189 subsidiaries (63 in Japan, 34 in the Americas, 34 in Europe and 58 in Asia/Oceania) with a total of 151,775 employees. The company is further escalating its global production structure by establishing manufacturing complexes in India, Mexico and Indonesia in order to accommodate further global demand for their products. In 2013 Denso was listed at #242 on the Fortune Global 500 list with a total revenue of $43.1 billion.

The word Denso 電装 (Den-So) is derived from the two Japanese words Den-Ki (Electric) and So-Chi (Device).

Article Index

Date	Article	Author/Source
26 April 2012	DENSO Corporation Executive Agrees to Plead Guilty to Automobile Parts Price Fixing and Bid Rigging Conspiracy	FBI Detroit Division
30 January 2012	Two Japanese Companies, Four Execs Guilty in Automobile Parts Bid-Rigging and Price-Fixing Conspiracies	Federal Bureau of Investigation
30 January 2012	Yazaki Corp., Denso Corp., and Four Yazaki Executives Agree to Plead Guilty to Automobile Parts Price-Fixing and Bid-Rigging Conspiracies	U.S. Department of Justice
26 March 2012	DENSO Corporation Executive Agrees to Plead Guilty to Price Fixing and Bid Rigging on Auto Parts Installed in U.S. Cars	U.S. Department of Justice
21 May 2013	Two DENSO Corporation Executives Agree to Plead Guilty for Price Fixing and Bid Rigging on Auto Parts Installed in U.S. Cars	U.S. Department of Justice
6 January 2014	DENSO To Showcase Connected Car and Connected Home Technology at 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show	DENSO International America Inc.
7 January 2014	DENSO 2014 North American International Auto Show News Conference	DENSO International America Inc.
20 February 2014	Former Denso Corp. Executive Agrees to Plead Guilty to Obstructing Automotive Parts Investigation	U.S. Department of Justice
30 June 2014	Denso Corp. Executive Agrees to Plead Guilty to Price Fixing on Automobile Parts Installed in U.S. Cars	U.S. Department of Justice
25 September 2019	Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 43--Battle Creek, Michigan; Notification of Proposed Production Activity; DENSO Manufacturing Michigan, Inc. (Automotive HVAC and Engine Cooling Products), Battle Creek, Michigan	Federal Register: DoC (Andrew McGilvray)
14 January 2020	Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 43--Battle Creek, Michigan; Authorization of Production Activity; DENSO Manufacturing Michigan, Inc. (Automotive HVAC and Engine Cooling Products); Battle Creek, Michigan	Federal Register: DoC (Andrew McGilvray)
6 May 2020	Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993--CHEDE-8	Federal Register: DoJ (Suzanne Morris)
30 November 2020	Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993--Cooperative Research Group on AC\2\AT-II	Federal Register: DoJ (Suzanne Morris)

Documents

Date	Document Name & Details	Documents
3 January 2012	Permanent Magnet Type Generator United States Patent US RE43,055 Norikazu Takeuchi for Denso Corporation and Denso Trim Co., Ltd.	PDF - 751KB - 16 pages
3 July 2012	Oscillating Angular Speed Sensor United States Patent US 8,210,040 B2 Hirofumi Higuchi, Akitoshi Yamanaka, and Tetsuo Fujii for Denso Corporation	PDF - 1.2MB - 13 pages
6 August 2013	Catalyst Material United States Patent US 8,501,662 Yasushi Hayashi for Denso Corporation	PDF - 2.1MB - 36 pages