is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment manufacturing company headquartered in

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, Japan. The company was established in 1921 as a spin-off from the electrical machinery manufacturing division of Mitsubishi Shipbuilding (

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. MHI is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group and its automobile division is the prede ...

) at the Kobe Shipyard. A member of the

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, Mitsubishi Electric produces

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s and

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s, high-end

home appliance A home appliance, also referred to as a domestic appliance, an electric appliance or a household appliance, is a machine which assists in household functions such as cooking, cleaning and food preservation. The domestic application attached to ...

air conditioning Air conditioning, often abbreviated as A/C (US) or air con (UK), is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space to achieve a more comfortable interior temperature, and in some cases, also controlling the humidity of internal air. Air c ...

, factory automation systems, train systems,

electric motor An electric motor is a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. Most electric motors operate through the interaction between the motor's magnetic field and electric current in a electromagnetic coil, wire winding to gene ...

pump A pump is a device that moves fluids (liquids or gases), or sometimes Slurry, slurries, by mechanical action, typically converted from electrical energy into hydraulic or pneumatic energy. Mechanical pumps serve in a wide range of application ...

semiconductors A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity between that of a conductor and an insulator. Its conductivity can be modified by adding impurities (" doping") to its crystal structure. When two regions with different doping levels ...

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, and

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History

Mitsubishi Electric was established as a spin-off from the Mitsubishi Group's other core company

, then Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, as the latter divested a marine electric motor factory in

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. It has since diversified to become the major electronics company. Mitsubishi Electric held the record for the fastest elevator in the world, in the 70-story Yokohama Landmark Tower, from 1993 to 2005. The company acquired Nihon Kentetsu, a Japanese home appliance manufacturer, in 2005. In 2015 the company acquired DeLclima, an Italian company that designs and produces HVAC and HPAC units, renamed Mitsubishi Electric Hydronics & IT Cooling Systems SpA in 2017. In early 2020, Mitsubishi Electric was identified as a victim of the year-long cyberattacks perpetrated by the Chinese hackers. In 2023, Mitsubishi Electric announced its plans to spend 100 billion yen to build a new semiconductor factory in

Kumamoto Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 1,748,134 () and has a geographic area of . Kumamoto Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the north, Ōita Prefecture t ...

, with a target date of April 2026 to begin production.

Products

In 2023, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)’s Annual PCT Review ranked Mitsubishi Electric's number of patent applications published under the PCT System as 4th in the world, with 2,152

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s being published during 2023. Some product lines of Mitsubishi Electric, such as air conditioners, overlap with the products from

partly because the companies share the same root. * Air conditioning systems ** Room air conditioners (marketed as Mitsubishi Mr. Slim Room Air Conditioner and Mitsubishi Kirigamine) ** Package air conditioners (Marketed as Mitsubishi Mr. Slim Packaged Air Conditioner) ** Variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems (marketed as Mitsubishi CITY MULTI) ** EcoCute (marketed as Ecodan or DIAHOT) ** Ventilators ** Air curtains ** Air conducting fan * Home appliances ** Refrigerators and freezers ** Air purifiers, dehumidifiers ** Vacuum cleaners, electric fans ** Rice cookers, toasters * Building systems ** Elevators, escalators ** Moving walks ** High-speed hand dryers (marketed as Mitsubishi Jet Towel) * Information and communications systems ** Data transmission system solutions *** SCOPO, the world's first transmission at 10 Gbit/s between relay equipment boards set at a distance of apart ** Saffron Type System, an

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text-rendering engine, developed by Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) ** Optical access systems ** Satellite communications * Factory automation systems ** Programmable controllers ** AC servo systems, inverters ** Industrial and collaborative robots, processing machines * Energy systems ** Power generation systems ***

ITER ITER (initially the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, ''iter'' meaning "the way" or "the path" in Latin) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject aimed at creating energy through a fusion process s ...

nuclear fusion reactor *** Photovoltaic panels ** Transmission and distribution systems ** Medium & low-voltage switchgear and systems ** Power information & communication technology * Semiconductors and devices ** Power modules, high-power devices ** Driver ICs ** Sensors ( Contact image sensors, etc.) ** High-frequency devices ** optical devices ** TFT-LCD modules * Transportation systems ** Rolling stock systems ** Power supply and electrification systems ** Transportation planning and control systems ** Communication systems * Automotive equipment ** Charging and starting products ** Electrification products (Electric power steering system products, safety and driving assistance system products, etc.) ** Car multimedia products * Visual information systems ** Large-scale LED displays *** Diamond Vision, large-scale video displays for sports venues and commercial applications ** Multimedia projectors ** Printers * Space systems ** Satellite programs, platforms, and components ** Optical and radio telescopes ** Mobile Mapping System, a high-precision GPS mobile measurement system * Public systems ** Applied superconductor systems ** Doppler lidar, radar systems ***

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radar Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance ('' ranging''), direction ( azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It is a radiodetermination method used to detect and track ...

systems for the Mitsubishi F-2 fighter **

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** Water treatment systems, water pumps

Discontinued products

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s, from 1999 to 2008. Created for NTT Docomo. Mitsubishi Electric quit the mobile phone business in Apr 2008 after decrease in shipments. They estimated a temporary loss of 17 billion Yen in income before income taxes. * Video Cassette Recorders known as the Mitsubishi Black Diamond VCR. * Televisions ** Large-screen HDTVs. Competitors in the U.S. market were

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, Pioneer,

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, JVC,

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(

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, LG (

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), and Apex Digital. ** Direct-view

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televisions and monitors, including Diamond Views and Diamondtrons, from 1953 until 2001. The last notable size in this field was a 40" (diagonal) tube size. **

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TVs, until 2008. ** DLP High Definition TVs, until December, 2012. Mitsubishi Electric then focused on professional and home theater DLP projection applications, and is no longer manufacturing televisions for the consumer market. *

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. Business unit spun off to be part of Elpida Memory. * Computers, including Mitsubishi ElectricM mainframe computers,

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(, ) and

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home computers. * System LSIs. Business unit spun off to be part of Renesas Technology. *

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. Mitsubishi Electric previously marketed popular music via

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Nippon Crown is a Japanese record label established as Crown Records on 6 September 1963. It is a spin-off of Nippon Columbia and is owned by karaoke maker Daiichikosho. The record label singles which topped the Oricon Singles Chart are Kaze's "22-Sai no ...

, which had been spun off from then- Nissan Group-owned

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on September 15, 1963. it was sold to

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in July, 2001. * Particle Beam Treatment System, until 2017. Business sold to

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Global operations

Mitsubishi Elevator of SOLAE Test Tower 2010-2-27

Mitsubishi Electric's business network around the world were the following: *Mitsubishi Electric Global **Mitsubishi Electric - North America ***

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- Mitsubishi Electric United States **Mitsubishi Electric Asia-Pacific ***

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and

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Slogans

* * * *Changes for the Better (since 2001)

Sports

Until September 2016, the company had a corporate team which is now known as the Nagoya Diamond Dolphins. Mitsubishi continues to sponsor the team. Mitsubishi Electric signed a title sponsorship deal with the

AFF Championship The ASEAN Championship (formerly known as the AFF Championship or AFF Cup), currently known as the ASEAN Hyundai Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the biennial football tournament organized by the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) for men's natio ...

(renaming the competition as the AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup) from the 2022 edition onwards.

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