ANSLists - Technologies from Japan

Optics

Ace Optical Co., Ltd.:
Ace Optical manufactures optical lenses as the “eyes” of more advanced and higher-quality instruments in digital information and imaging technology fields. The company, headquartered in Kanagawa, was founded in 1961.

Advanced Photonics, Inc. (APi):
APi, a venture company spun out of the University of Tokyo, specializes in development of opto-electronic components. In June 2009, APi announced its newly developed technology to interconnect large scale integrated circuits (LSIs) placed on the board by optical signal at 240 Gbps. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 2006.

Alnair Laboratories Corporation:
Alnair Labs was established with the aim to provide ultra-short pulse laser systems and solutions based on its unique carbon-nanotubes photonic technology. Its products include polarization-maintaining femto-second fiber lasers (1.55 micron), femto-second Ytterbium mode-locked fiber lasers (1.03 micron), high sensitivity alignment-free auto-correlators, short-pulse optical amplifiers, tunable dispersion compensators, tunable FBG filters and carbon-nanotube saturable absorbers.The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 2001.

Allied Lasers, Inc.:
Allied Lasers is developing lasers and laser oriented new technologies in four major fields, i.e., MEMS for micro processing, NANO-BIO for living cell microscope and micro-TAS(Total Analysis System), ENERGY for efficient and regenerative energy cycle, and ECO for ecological field monitoring.The company, headquartered in Kyoto, was founded in 2001.

ALT Inc.:
ALT specializes in optical-electronics and laser technologies together with supplying hardware and software of electronic and optical measuring equipment, laser scanners for varieties of applications. ALT Inc., headquartered in Nerima-ku, Tokyo, was founded in 1992.

ARTRAY CO., LTD.:
Artray specializes in vision systems and interface, providing a wide range of products such as LVDS-USB converter, USB2.0 camera application, Serial-ATA camera and device driver development. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1995.

Asahi Spectra Co., Ltd.:
Asahi Spectra supplies high-end optical filters and instruments for biomedical, fluorescence, solar cells, FPD inspection, lithography and astronomy.

ASAHI ROENTGEN IND. CO., LTD.:
ASAHI ROENTGEN specializes in development, manufacture and sales of a variety of X-ray equipment and related software for industrial use and dental applications. The company, headquartered in Kyoto, was founded in 1956.

ASYCK Co., Ltd:
ASYCK manufactures and supplies electronic device and circuits including LED that runs longer time and saves energy than a electric bulb, so LED will certainly contribute to restrain the greenhouse effect as a new source of light. ASYCK, headquartered in Uji-City, Kyoto, was founded in 1992. For details, please click "English" tab at the top of the right hand side when getting the top page of the company's web-site from here.

Audio-Technica Corporation:
Audio-Technica designs and manufactures a wide range of products, including high-performance microphones, headphones, noise-cancelling headphones, wireless microphone systems, mixers and electronic products for home and professional use worldwide. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1962.

CCS Inc.:
CCS, a leading company of LED technologies, offers optimal lighting in various industrial applications with its unique technology and know-how of illumination. CCS, headquartered in Kyoto, was founded in 1992.

CHUO PRECISION INDSUTRIAL CO., LTD.:
CHUO PRECISION INDUSTRIAL’s main products are ranging from mechanical stage systems, nano-position systems holographic interferometers, tool scopes, tool projectors, laser autocollimators, optical measuring systems and so on. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1955.

Claro, Inc.:
Clano is a pioneer of virtual microscopy which provides high quality images with high resolution objective lenses. Clano is at the forefront of medical and digital imaging. The company, headquartered in Aomori, was founded in 2000.

Cyber Laser Inc.:
Cyber Laser makes full use of its world's top class laser light-source technologies, develops and produces unprecedentedly high-added-value laser equipment, and provides new solutions to customers' businesses.The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 2000.

DEVELO Inc.:
Develo specializes in design and development of software, development of laser and optical devices, plan/study/development of information technology, development of movie content including computer graphics, and survey/design/management of construction and architecture. The company, headquartered in Osaka, was founded in 2001. One of major products of DEVELO is LISA, a revolutionary 3D measuring device (click here to see a video demonstration at DigInfo TV site)

E-Globaledge Corporation:
E-Globaledge provides solutions based on state-of-the-art technologies mainly in areas ranging from the ubiquitous network, optoelectronics & semiconductors to electronics fields, contributing to the spread of IT and to the development of society. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1990.

Five Lab Co., Ltd.:
Five Lab designs, manufactures and sells optical apparatus, optical devices, and electronic optical measuring equipment. The company, headquartered in Kanagawa, was founded in 1988.

FLOVEL Co., Ltd.:
FLOVEL has been contributing to the field of video and image, developing and manufacturing the products with cutting-edge technology. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1980.

Frontier Laboratories Ltd.:
Frontier Laboratories specializes in research, development and manufacture of analytical equipment, such as pyrolyzers and peripheral devices, metal capillary separation columns. The company, headquartered in Fukushima, was founded in 1991.

HATAKEN CO., LTD.:
Hataken specializes in producing key components of optical communications, such as V-grooves, fiber arrays enhancing its original core technologies of fine processing and grinding various materials. The company, headquartered in Nagano, was founded in 1979.

HAYASHI GROUP:
Hayashi Group is fully determined and ready to make rapid strides into high-technology fields including the most advanced high-technology-oriented industries. New product development will be emphasized in the fields of optical fibers and electronic devices. HAYASHI WATCH-WORKS Co., LTD, the group center company, was founded in 1930, and headquartered in Tokyo.

Hirox Co., Ltd.:
Hirox is the pioneer of the 3D digital video microscope system, and digital microscope, optical zoom lenses. The company, world-headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1978.

Hokuyo Automatic Co., Ltd:
Hokuyo has been specialized in supplying key components required for various control equipment as well as a variety of automated systems. The company, headquartered in Osaka, is founded in 1946.

Hosobuchi Electric Lamp Co., Ltd:
Hosobuchi Electric develops, manufactures and supply high quality, very reliable and custom-made lamp bulbs. Hosobuchi Electric, headquartered in Arakawa-ku, Tokyo, was founded in 1938. For details, please find and click "English" tab at the top of the right hand side when getting the company's web-site from here.

Howa Sangyo Corporation:
Howa Sangyo provides precision optical components to various industrial fields by using our excellent system of integrated production, from selection of materials to cutting, polishing and vapor deposition. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1972.

Ikeda Lens Co., Ltd
Ikeda Lens manufactures and supplies glass lens, plastic lens, magnifier, microscope. Ikeda Lens, headquartered in Ikuno-ku, Osaka, was founded in 1923. (Please find and click "English" tab at the top of the right hand side when getting the top page of the company's web-site from here.)

Inter Action Corporation:
Inter Action is a company focusing on the development and manufacturing of illuminators and optical testing devices for CCD, C-MOS, and other optical semiconductor devices used in digital cameras and related products. The company, headquartered in 1992.

International Test & Engineering Services Co., Ltd. (ITES):
ITES has been providing global customers with engineering services and manufacturing equipment for semiconductors, displays, OLED, Solar cell, and electrical components. The company, headquartered in Shiga, was founded in 1993.

Isaka Optical Laboratory:
Isaka Optical Laboratory is uniquely specialized in manufact-uring Newton gauges only. The company, based in Ohta-ku, Tokyo, was founded in 1980.

ISUZU GLASS Co., Ltd.:
Isuzu Glass is a leading manufacturer of optical filter glasses and molded optics, which include a series of optical filter glass, infrared absorbing filter glass, UV cut filters, color correction filters, as well as optical components used for video projectors and LED products, medical equipment, security equipment, and many other applications. The company, headquartered in Kyoto, was founded in 1905.

Japan Cell Co., Ltd:
Japan Cell provides precision optical products through proprietary optical contact (direct fusion glass-to-glass bonding) techniques. Japan Cell, headquartered in Machida City, Tokyo, was founded in 1982. (Please find and click "English" tab at the top of the right hand side when getting the top page of the company's web-site from here.)

Japan Laser Corporation:
Japan Laser Corporation (JLC), a key trading company specializing in lasers, has served the needs of researchers, developers, and manufacturers since 1968. JLC has built a “Global Communications” network primarily to provide information on laser technologies, and also maintains its own technical department for planning, designing, and development. These resources enable JLC to provide the quickest response with various solutions offering for a variety of needs. JLC develops and manufactures its own optical disk mastering system. The company is headquartered in Tokyo.

Kataoka Corporation:
Kataoka Corporation provides various solutions in the fields of information technology and environment-related business with the world's highest standards of Laser Technology. n particular, for comprehensive total system laser processing systems including laser oscillators, processing machines, and control boards, it designs, manufactures, and delivers optimum NC, processing tables and oscillators which flexibly correspond to customer needs as the single most suitable system.The company, headquartered in Kyoto, was founded in 1968.

Kenko Co., Ltd.:
Kenko specializes in development and marketing of photographic supplies, optical products and security-related products, including cameras, lenses filters, batteries, surveillance cameras, etc. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1957.

Kodenshi Corporation:
Kodenshi manufactures and supplies optical semiconductors, optical component and modules, including photo IC/LSI's. Kodenshi, headquartered in Uji City, Kyoto, was founded in 1972. For details, please find and click "English" tab at the right hand side of the company's top page when getting there from here.

KOGAKUGIKEN Co., Ltd.:
KOGAKUGIKEN specializes in operation design and manufacture of various optical devices, and in development and manufacture of optical crystal devices. The company, headquartered in Kanagawa, was founded in 1978.

KOHA Co., Ltd.:
KOHA is a leading optoelectronics engineering company that develops optoelectronic products incorporating LEDs which are deployed in many fields, including the chip LED lamps used in cellular phones and various types of OA equipment, and numerous types of traffic displays used in railway and road safety. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1985.

Kohoku Kogyo Co., Ltd.:
Kohoku Kogyo is the recognized market leader in lead terminals for aluminum electrolytic capacitors and holds over 50% of the world’s market share. Its products are now ranging from the capacitors to fiber optic components as well as customized micro quartz capillaries and micro-hole array. The company, headquartered in Shiga, was founded in 1959.

KYORITSU ELECTRIC CO., LTD.:
Kyoritsu Electric Co., Ltd specialized in its original technology rerating to light sources, optical measurement and optical control on the theme of light and electricity. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1965.

Kyosemi Corporation:
Kyosemi specializes in research & development, manufacturing and sales of semiconductor devices including semiconductor elements and sensors, optical communication-use devices, spherical solar cell, and othersemiconductor-related products. Kyosemi, headquartered in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, was founded in 1980. For details, please find and click "English" tab at the top of the right hand side when getting the top page of the company's web-site. A DVD movie on Kyosemi's Sphelar- Spherical Solar Cell" is available in the English section.

Kyoto Denkiki Co., Ltd:
Power electronics and Optoelectronics, and digital control technology that links the two main pillars of our businesses - these would not provide such powerful and smooth synergy as the company currently enjoys without their employees' fullcommitment to improvement and proposal activities. Kyoto Denkiki, headquartered in Uji, Kyoto, was founded in 1955.
For details, please click "English" tab at the top of the right hand side when getting the top page of the company's web-site from here.

Lambda Precision
Lambda Precision is specialized in supplying optical equipment, optical component and communications equipment as well. Lambda Precision, headquartered in Isehara, Kanagawa, was founded in 1998.

Lasertec Corporation:
Lasertec specializes in development, manufacturing, sales and services of LSI photomask/reticle inspection systems, LCD inspection and repair systems, PV cell measurement systems and confocal scanning laser microscopes. The company, headquartered in Kanagawa, was founded in 1960.

LEMI CO., LTD.:
LEMI specializes in R&D, manufacture, and sale of processing machinery using lasers, light, and associated technologies, and of laser oscillators used in those applications, as well as eyeglasses, optical instruments, and similar equipment. The company, headquartered in Kanagawa, was founded in 2002.

Light Optical Works, ltd.
Light Optical Works is a leading manufacturer of binoculars, spotting scope and rifle scopes which are well known by top shooters in the world as highly accurate products. The company, headquartered in Nagano, was founded in 1951.

Lumiotec Inc.:
Lumiotec is specialized in developing and supplying the OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) Panels. OLED Panel, which is thin, light and free of ultraviolet rays, can create a new and human-friendly living environment in residential houses, offices, stores and transporting vehicles, such as cars, trains, and aircraft The company, headquartered in Yamagata, was founded in 2008.

Matsunami Glass Ind., Ltd.:
Matsunami is a leading manufacturer of fine-glass in the field of life science and optical-electronics industries. The company, headquartered in Osaka, was founded in 1844.

Megaopto Co., Ltd.:
Megaopto specializes in coherent light source. combining modern technologies of laser and peripheral techniques, Megaopto supplies state-of-the-art, elegant products. The company, headquartered in Saitama, was founded in 1996.

Micro Square Co., Ltd.:
Micro Square specializes in R&D, design, manufacturing and sale of microscopes, various imaging software and other precision equipment and devices. The company, headquartered in Kanagawa, was founded in 1999.

Microtec Co., Ltd.:
Microtec specializes in manufacturing laboratory equipment including bio-laboratory automation systems, particle measurement systems, photometry-related products, and biochemical luminescence measurement systems, while now developing an electrochemiluminescence-based DNA chip reader. The company, headquartered in Chiba, was founded in 1989.

Mitaka Kohki Co., Ltd.:
Mitaka Kohki is a leading and award winning supplier of astronomical telescopes, space observation devices, industrial equipment and medical equipment. Mitaka Kohki Co., Ltd, headquartered in Mitaka City, Tokyo in1966.

Mitsui Optical Manufacturing Co., Ltd.:
Mitsui Optical Manufacturing has been manufacturing optical prisms for over half a century and is constantly striving to improve prism precision and technology even further. It specializes in polishing, coating, mounting and assembly of various optic prisms. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1951.

MoMoAlliance Co., Ltd.:
MoMoAlliance is specialized in designing and developing light source, electronics device, web applications and database. The company, headquartered in Okayama, was founded in 1989.

Murakami Color Research Laboratory:
Murakami Color Research Laboratory manufactures and sells measuring instruments (such as colorimeter, glossmeter, etc) which electronics and optical technologies are used for and color votes. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1956.

Myutron Inc..:
Myutron is specialized in manufacturing and supplying optical lenses for machine vision. Products include telecentric, macro zoom, CCTV, and line scan lenses. Myutron is headquartered in Edogawa, Tokyo. (Please find and click "English" tab at the top of the right hand side when getting the top page of the company's web-site from here.)

Nalux Co., Ltd.:
Nalux has constantly taken on research and development of plastic optics, and has made a number of technical advancements, thoroughly studied the true nature of optics, and realized ultra-fine processing in nano-meters. It continues to push the limits of optics and precision to develop new technologies and products for the market and our customers. The company, headquartered in Osaka, was founded in 1909.

Nano-Optonics Energy, Inc.:
Nano-Optonics Energy specializes in (a) manufacture of precision equipment, machining equipment and optical instruments and the sale thereof, (b) superconducting and sustainable energy and (c) research on global environmental conservation by astronomical observations. The company, headquartered in Kyoto, was founded in 2005.

NEOARK Corporation:
NEOARK is a leading supplier of laser light source, laser measurement systems, laser inspecting system, laser applied system, opto-magnetic measurement. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1976.

Natsume Optical Corporation:
Natsume Optical is specialized in manufacturing and supplying high-precision optical devices used for a variety of applications, such as illumination systems of semiconductor manufacturing machines, LCD exposure devices, laser annealing devices, telecommunications systems, and medical systems as well . The company, headquartered in Nagano, was founded in 1947.

Neuralimage Co., Ltd.:
Neuralimage specilalizes in developing revolutionary vision system which emulates image processing features of the vertebrate retina, with an aim to contribute to the security and welfare of the people by providing innovative electronics vision products to the world market. The company, headquartered in Osaka, was founded in 2005.

NIDEK CO., Ltd.:
NIDEK specializes in three business fields of medical, optometry & finishing, and coating. In addition, it is challenging itself to create artificial visual prosthesis. The company, headquartered in Aichi, was founded in 1971.

Nissin Industries Ltd.:
Nissin is a leading manufacturer of electronic flash units, supplying high quality lighting to the global photographic community. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1959.

Nitride Semiconductors Co., Ltd:
Nitride Semiconductors produces UV LED wafer and supplies UV LED chip (die), and packaged lamp. The company also developed and started to supply UV LED SMD (surface mounted device) type and High Power Module. Nitride Semiconductors, headquartered in Naruto-shi, Tokushima, was founded in 2000. For details, please find and click "English" tab at the top of the right hand side when getting the top page of the company's web-site from here.

Nittoh Kogaku K.K.:
Nitto Kogaku develops and manufactures optics related products, including lens modules for digital still cameras, lens modules for projectors, optical elements, molds for plastic lenses, etc. The company, headquartered in Nagano, was founded in 1943.

Okamoto Glass Co., Ltd.:
Okamoto Glass specializes in development and manufacture of a variety of optical technology products ranging from lighting devices components to multilayer thin film filters for optical communications systems and industrial robots for glass manufacturing as well. The company, headquartered in Chiba, was founded in 1928.

OPTART CO., LTD.:
OPTART specializes in optical lenses technology to manufacture and supply telecentric lenses, zoom lenses, line sensor lenses, cctv lenses fish-eye lenses, etc. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1987.

OPTNICS PRECISION CO., LTD.:
OPTNICS PRECISION focuses on electroforming process that is a shape-defined electro-plating. The company, headquartered in Tochigi, was founded in 1986.

OPTOQUEST CO., LTD:
Optoquest was established in 2001 by a group of scientists and engineers who had been involved in optical device research and development since early 1980s. Optoquest is headquartered in Saitama.

Opto-Hightech Co., Ltd.:
Opto-Hightech mainly produces deals the optical instruments and parts using its highest technologies, while designing aspheric lens, marking trial products and mass production. The company, headquartered in Saitama, was founded in 1997.

Opto-System Co., Ltd
Opto-Sysem is an inspection equipment supplier specialized in optical-semiconductors and electronic display systems. The company, headquartered in Kyoto, was founded in 1976.

Oxide Corporation:
Oxide offers high quality crystal materials and optical devices in which they are integrated, notably PPLN and PPLT, as its core technologies to the global Opt-Electronics industry. The company, headquartered in Yamanashi, was founded in 2000.

Photo Production Laboratory, Ltd.:
Photo Production Laboratory manufactures and supplies the smallest synchrotron, MIRRORCLE, in the world.The MIRRORCLE series of tabletop synchrotrons heralds a new age in the availability of high output X-rays. Photo Production Lab, headquartered in Ohmihachiman-city,
Shiga, was incorporated in 1997. For details, please find and click "English" tab at the top page of the company's web-site.

Photron Limited:
Photron offers photo optics and electronic technologies to manufacturing industries, the medical field, film laboratories, major movie and television studios, as well as to the military worldwide. One of Photron's leading edge products is a high speed camera which provides mega pixel resolution (1K by 1K pixels) up to 5,400 frames per second (fps). Photron, headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, was founded in 1974. For details, please find and click "Photron USA" tab at the top of the right hand side when getting the top page of the company's web site from here.

Pi Photonics, Inc.
Pi Photonics specializes in development, marketing and sales of optical equipment, primarily focusing on hologram technology. The company, headquartered in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, was founded in 2006.

PRECISE GAUGES Co., Ltd.:
PRECISE GAUGES, with its strength of a photo-electron applied technology, specializes in researching, developing, manufacturing and selling the products. The company, headquartered in Kanagawa, was founded in 1999.

Pulstec Industrial Co., Ltd.:
Pulstec is a leading manufacturer in electronic equipment production specializing in nano-technology, 3D measurement technology, wavefront measurement technology, optical media producti0n technology, electronics as well as custom designing and software engineering capabilities. The company, headquartered in Sizuoka, was founded in 1969.

Q.I Incorporated:
Q.I Inc. is a leading company in design and development of industrial TV camera system. The company, headquartered in Kanagawa, was founded in 1971.

Research Institute for Organic Electronics
Research Institute for Organic Electronics focuses on developing the world-leading technology to put the Organic EL lighting into practical use.The institute was established in Yonezawa-city, Yamagata pref. on November 10, 2003, and is supervised by the Yamagata Promotional Organization for Industrial.

Rigaku Corporation:
Rigaku is dedicated to developing and supplying universities, industry, and government labs with the ultimate in customer-focused integrated solutions across a wide variety of disciplines, including structural proteomics, nanoengineering research, general purpose X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy, materials analysis and quality assurance. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1951

SAN-EI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.:
SAN-EI is a specialist of optical technologies, supplying industrial light source equipment, solar simulator, optical heating equipment, and outdoor lighting equipment. The company, headquartered in Osaka, was founded in 1964

Sankyo Optics Industry Co., Ltd.:
Sankyo Optics Industry manufactures varieties of optical lenses, including X rays lenses, Endoscope lenses, lenses for semiconductor production devices, etc. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1929.

SANTEC CORPORATION:
SANTEC, with its core technologies, is a leading supplier of innovative optical components and instruments for telecommunications, test & measurement and bio-photonics fields. The company, headquartered in Aichi, was founded in 1979.

SEIWA GIKEN INC.:
SEIWA GIKEN is a leading supplier of key devices and technologies of optical information & communications network systems. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1991.

SEIWA OPTICAL CO., LTD.:
SEIWA OPTICAL designs, manufactures and sells optical equipment and systems, including microscopes, machine visions, FPD equipment (Equipment related to LCD products), exposure equipment (PDP production equipment), laser systems, etc. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1964.

Senengineering Co., Ltd.:
Senengineering specializes in UV and excimer lamp technologies, while LANTECHNICAL SERVICE CO., LTD., one of Senengineering Group companies, manufactures and markets organic EL sealing systems, vacuum bonding systems and vacuum coating equipment. Both of the group companies are headquartered in Tokyo. Seningengineering was founded in 1987.

Senko Sangyo Co., Ltd.:
Senko Sangyo is a leading manufacturer of optical communications system tools while selling automotive parts, and wire harness and related parts. The company, headquartered in Mie, was founded in 1983.

SERIC Ltd.:
SERIC, with its proprietary technology of SOLAX, offers companies around the globe, the first truly complete spectrum of industrial business lighting. The robust technology is matured and proven by many of the world great industrial organizations. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1984.

Shibakawa Manufacturing Co., Ltd.:
Shibakawa specializes in electrical and mechanical instruments and components, including vacuum evaporation, molding of plastics, precision sheet metal stamping, camera accessories (flash units) and others. The company, headquartered in Kanagawa, was founded in 1967.

SHINKOSHA Co., Ltd:
SHINKOSHA specializes in manufacturing and supplying optical communication devices (including optical isolators and rutile prisms), optical isolators for fiber lasers and optical fiber sensors and in precision processing of oxide single crystals as well. The company, headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa, was founded in 1947. For details, please find and click "English" tab located right in the middle of the company's top page when getting the web-site from here.

SPI ENGINEERING Co., Ltd.:
SPI (Simple Precision Innovation) specializes in CCD camera and image processing technologies and is a comprehensive manufacturer. SPI is making waves in visual inspection technology. The company, headquartered in Nagano, was founded in 2006

Sumita Optical Glass, Inc.:
Sumita Optical Glass specializes in R&D and manufacture of optical glass for various areas of high-tech products ranging from industrial microscopes, fiberscopes, special engineering glass to cameras, hard disk data storage devices through laser optical disc players and recorders, while working to develop the next generation of optical glass, fiber optics and functional glass materials. The company, headquartered in Saitama, was founded in 1953.

SURUGA SEIKI CO., LTD.:
SURUGA SEIKI specializes in technologies of precision die tools and optical equipment & components. The company, headquartered in Shizuoka, was founded in 1964.

Takenaka Electronic Industrial Co., Ltd.:
Takenaka Electronic Industrial is specialized in supplying photo sensors and sensor systems. The company, headquartered in Kyoto was founded in 1959.

TANAKA ENGINEERING INC.:
TANAKA ENGINEERING is specialized in manufacturing optical and electric componet with skill sets of high accuracy and precision material processing of optical glass, optical crystal, ceramic, and ferrite porcelain etc. IR cut filters for cellular phones with a built in camera and optical picking up mirror for DVD are mass produced among the top class in the world. The company, headquartered in Saitama, was founded in 1977.

TDC Corporation:
TDC specializes in high precision technologies of precision lapping, precision polishing, precision grinding, and other precision machining. The technologies are put to use in diverse fields of electronics, energy, semiconductor, aerospace, medical and optical industries through nanotech industry.The company, headquartered in Miyagi, was founded in 1989.

Toa Optical Technologies, Ltd.:
Toa Optical Technologies is specialized in research and development of highly advanced optical components and devices. Toa Optical Technologies, headquartered in Hachioji, Tokyo, was founded in 1960.

TOHOKU ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIAL Co., Ltd.:
TOHOKU ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIAL Company’s Chemiluminescence Anayalzer (CLA), which is one of the highest sensitive detectors, detects the ultra-weak light emission from various chemical reactions including those involving, oxidation, thermo-degradation, enzyme immune assay, etc. The company offers a variety of products relating to electronics, electromagnetic and laser/light technologies. The company, headquartered in Miyagi, was founded in 1968.

Tokina Co., Ltd.:
Tokina is a leading manufacturer of a variety of optical lenses and related products, including interchangeable lenses, fiber optics illuminators conversion senses, surveillance camera accessories, and optical filters. The company, headquartered in Saitama, was founded in 1990

Tokiwa Optical Corporation
Tokiwa Optical manufactures and supplies high quality of optical lenses. It also strives hard to keep in step with the remarkable developments in Optronics, improving the technological expertise from the design stage, though prototyping, to mass production and assembly of optical parts. Tokiwa Optical, headquartered in Itabashi, Tokyo, was founded in 1956. For details, please find and click "English" tab at the bottom of the left hand side when
getting the top page of the company's web-site from here.

Tokyo Instruments, Inc.:
Tokyo Instruments specializes in developing, manufacturing and selling opto-electronics products and systems, while importing and reselling opto-scientific instruments and measuring systems. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1981.

Tosei Electrobeam Company Limited:
Tosei Electrobeam Company, with the world's largest job shop possessing facilities and the highest level of processing know-how, specializes in entrusted processing by electron beams, lasers, discharge for precise holes, and water jets. Using the state-of the-art technologies, the company also provides engineering services of nondestructive testing, machine processing, designing and manufacturing tools. Tosei Ecelctrobeam, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1977.

Tsubosaka Electric Co., Ltd.:
Tsubosaka Electric is a leading manufacturer of measuring instruments, optical measurements, and measuring instruments for cameras. It has developed measuring instruments with using light and an electron, manufactured and sold them for many years. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, was founded in 1971.

Vixen Co., Ltd.:
Vixen specializes in astronomical telescopes, binoculars, microscopes, fieldscopes, magnifiers, and CCD cameras. The company, headquartered in Saitama, was founded in 1949.

VS Technology Corporation:
VS Technology Corp., VST, supports the machine vision market with sophisticated optical know-how and meets customers' various but even low-volume requirements. VST, headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, was founded in 1998. For details, please find and click "English" tab at the bottom of the left hand side when getting the top page of the company's web-site from here.

Watec Co., Ltd.:
Watec is a leading manufacturer of compact, light weight CCD cameras for use in surveillance, image processing and FA systems, and is the leader in miniaturization, currently producing the smallest CCD cameras in the industry. The company, headquartered in Yamagata, was founded in 1987.