Optical technology makes our future

It has been Kodenshi’s motto for all those years – to “improve techniques,””develop products prior to other companies,””make customers smile,””be useful for the world.”

Kodenshi developed the productive process of non antirelection film couching for the first time in Japan and completed the industrial silicon photoelectron conversion elements, so-called the solar cell.

And Kodenshi established an original manufacturing process using “Silk screen method,”which was the processing technology of Yuzen-printed kimono, and developed the calculator silicon single-crystal solar cell.

Thus, our earnest effort to obtain the hint of the product development from other fields is the mainspring that supports our growth.

At present, Kodenshi is developing a solid processing of silicon, emitters and detectors, and by combining these elements, Kodenshi is commercializing various optical sensors such as photointerrupters, optical encoders, photo ICs, infrared receiver modules, and so on.

Recently, Kodenshi has released unique products such as the thinnest “Optical encoder,”the smallest chip “Ifrared receiver modules,”and “Photointerrupters,”which have the widest gap in the industry.

Toward the next generation, Kodenshi is making research over a wide range of wavelength band in the field of photo electronics.

Kodenshi will keep challenging the possibilities in the field of optical semiconductors in the future.

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