is a Japanese company developing and manufacturing car audio,

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and control systems. The headquarters is located in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As its name shows, Denso Ten belongs to the Denso group led by Denso Corp., which is the second-largest auto parts supplier in the world. Originally the company was established as , a subsidiary company of Denso Ltd. which is one of the leading electronics companies in Japan. The parent company was changed from Fujitsu to Denso on November 1, 2017. The major products of Denso Ten are the ''Eclipse'' brand car audio and navigation systems. It is also a supplier of

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products to major automobile companies in Japan and the U.S. DENSO TEN AMERICA Limited, the U.S. headquarters, is located in Novi, Michigan is a subsidiary of Denso Ten that supplies products to the U.S. market and industry.

Name

The Ten in the company's name does not refer to the number 10, but rather comes from the Chinese character Ten (天), meaning heaven in Chinese and Japanese.

History

Fujitsu Ten was created in 1972 when it was spun out by

Fujitsu Limited is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Tokyo. Fujitsu is the world's sixth-largest IT services provider by annual revenue, and the la ...

. It took with it the automotive and radio electronics departments. The intention was that creating a separate company would give more focus to these areas. The automotive and radio departments were themselves the result of a merger between Fujitsu Limited and Kobe Industries Corp. in 1968. In September 2016, Denso agreed with Fujitsu to purchase the stock of Fujitsu Ten. The deal was made on November 1, 2017, and its name was changed to Denso Ten.

Notable staff

A Nobel prize winner,

Leo Esaki Reona Esaki (江崎玲於奈 ''Esaki Reona'', born March 12, 1925), also known as Leo Esaki, is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his work in electron tunneling i ...

(江崎玲於奈 ''Esaki Reona''), worked at Kobe Kogyo (神戸工業 ''Kōbe Kōgyō''), which is the preceding company of Fujitsu Ten before it changed its name to Fujitsu Ten.

Eclipse

Eclipse is the brand name for its GPS car navigation and audio system products.

TMC

Eclipse AVN726EE, AVN726EA and AVN440 include TMC.

References

External links

Denso Ten Ltd.

Eclipse

Fujitsu Ten España
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