BS resin   Display panel: Example of plastic plating and vacuum deposition Display panel: Company profile OEM customers: Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Daihatsu 2 production sites (one in Osaka, one in Malaysia)   Decorative display (Toppan)   On October 1, 2023, Toppan Printing shifted to a holding company structure and became Toppan Holdings Inc.   The exhibited products are decorative displays. The surface is usua...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/14

mary Toppan: Transparent decorative film and liquid crystal light control film DNP: Functional decorative film, light control film, mono-material PP decoration film FIM-SlimLIGHT project (BöLa, MacDermid Alpha and Kunststoff-Institut Lüdenscheid) MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions: XtraForm™ 3D Matt Stahl: Stay Clean® and Stay Silent® Kunststoff-Institut Lüdenscheid: Sustainability of decorated parts   The Automotive Interiors Expo Eur...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/01/22

al installations, encouraging the development of sustainable energy.   3.2.2 Tesla drive motor technology and products According to data from the Tesla Motors Club, there are five types of drive motors developed in-house by Tesla for its mass-production vehicle models. These five motor models are: 3D1, 3D3, 3D5, 3D6, and 3D7, and are compatible with a wide range of vehicle types. The maximum power range of these drive motors is 137kW to 220kW. S...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/11/28

rther combining this with capacitive switches to create switches, has developed rapidly in recent years, and various proposals have already been made. This year, TOPPAN Inc. (TOPPAN), Toray Industries Inc. (Toray), Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd. (Nippon Seiki), Tokai Rika Co., Ltd. (Tokai Rika), Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (Dai Nippon Printing), and others presented examples of the integration of HMI with interior design, including meter-like informati...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/07/22

d developments in the field of automotive interior design, HMI, vehicle occupant safety and comfort. The exhibition was mainly attended by Tier 1 suppliers and interior design specialists from OEMs.   The visitors could not only discover latest developments in coatings, surfaces, materials, screen-printing, lighting and haptic technologies across the exhibition area, but they were also offered the opportunity to attend a total of 10 interior tre...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/01/17

ted to automotive engineering?   Very often, the term optical technologies has been used as a synonym for photonics. In the widest context, optical technologies cover the generation, manipulation, and transmission of light. Applications that are relevant to vehicles are found in body design, 3-D printing, optosensors, as well as optical data communication and data processing. One of the latest research areas in photonics are quantum technologi...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/01/15

e made inconspicuous. One approach is to use decorative parts such as wood grain as display and operative parts. To this end, a number of decorative panels combining light transmittance technology to display text and pictures transparently were exhibited (Tatsuta Chemical Co., Ltd., DNP (Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.), Tokai Rika Co., Ltd.). Seamless curved operation display areas are also often required. Anti-reflection covers (Kaneka Corporatio...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/06/27

lity to scale up. Despite this limitation, Sandy Munro noted several promising solid-state battery solutions. One solution is a semi-solid-state battery developed by Quantum Scape, capable of operating at room temperature. Another solution is developed by Sakuu, which uses additive manufacturing to 3D-print solid-state batteries. Sakuu’s battery manufacturing process takes place on additive manufacturing cells, which are capable of a multi-mate...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/05/22

lopments in the field of automotive interior design and HMI. The exhibition was mainly attended by Tier 1 suppliers and interior design specialists from OEMs. The total number of visitors was 3,400.   The visitors could not only discover latest developments in coatings, surfaces, materials, screen-printing, lighting and haptic technologies across the exhibition area, but they were also offered the opportunity to attend more than 30 product prese...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/12/28

on on traffic conditions using SNS.     Significant progress has been made in the development of 2-D displays with higher image quality and larger screens. Next, one of the functions expected of display devices is the display of three-dimensional stereoscopic images. The method of wearing special 3D glasses to view 3D images was widely promoted for home-use TVs at one time, but it did not take root due to the troublesomeness of wearing 3D glass...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/11/28

Additive Manufacturing on the Threshold of Mass Production Potential of 3D Printing: New Materials, Automated Process Chains, Decentralized Production Summary NOT A REVOLUTION IN AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTION THE AIM IS GREATER AUTOMATION COMPLEX MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT MANUFACTURERS AND SUPPLIERS INCREASE THEIR EXPERTISE   This report contains a Spotlight article from Springer's automotive technical magazine "ATZ" www.atz-magazine.com. and "MTZ" www.mtz-m...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/01/19

Electric)   Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Inc., Alps Alpine Electronics, Inc. and others showed off touch panels that can be operated before a finger touches the touch sensor.   Mitsubishi Electric's "touch panel monitor with touchless function" employs 3D sensing technology for the projected capacitive touch panel, and detects capacitance changes while switching the number of electrodes in the touch ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/12/17

2021 UKi Media & Events, a division of UKIP Media & Events Ltd; pictures: ©Marklines Europe GmbH)    Large curved Dragontrail™ cover glass for car-mounted displays   This hot-bended 1.1 ~ 2 mm thin glass has been enhanced with chemical reinforcement treatment, optical thin coating, decorative printing, and curved shaping. It is used as protective surface glass for the industry's first curved P-OLED (Plastic OLED) display supplied by LG Elec...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/12/09

kuriku Light Metal Industry, Nippon Parkerizing, NOK) Battery pack components (Valeo Japan, Teijin, MinebeaMitsumi, Estoh) Thermal conductive sheets, sensors, etc. (Dexerials, Kitagawa Industries, Mitsubishi Materials, Isabellenhütte) Fuses, coils, etc. (SOC, Joyson, Nagano Japan Radio, Dai Nippon Printing)   MarkLines, Co., Ltd. has been holding an online exhibition on its Information Platform starting mid-June 2021.   This report introduces ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/09/24

presentations referred to in this report are as follows. (All speakers belong to Toyota Motor Corporation.) 20215124 “Development of the High-Performance Fuel Cell Electrode for New FCV, Establishment of High Performance and Durability”, Kenji Tsubosaka20215125 “Fuel Cell Channel Design using 3D Numerical Model”, Daisuke Hayashi20215126 “Design of Fuel Cell that Enable High-Speed Production for New FCV”, Taiki Kuwahara20215127 “Stru...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/09/01

acquired U.S. subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho) Kyocera * Components that combine laser light sources (made U.S. startup a subsidiary) Koito Manufacturing * Development of lamps for ADAS and autonomous driving (invested in a U.S.-based LiDAR venture company) Sumitomo Corporation * Powder for metal 3D printing (invested in U.S. startup Elementum 3D) Denso * Next-generation LiDAR (co-developed with Aeva, a U.S. start-up company) * Next-generatio...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/04/16

olytes)Yodogawa Hu-Tech Co., Ltd. (*Production line for gaskets for lithium-ion batteries) Anhui Province TPR Co., Ltd. (Expansion of production line for commercial vehicle diesel engine cylinder liners)  Plant expansion Jiangsu Province AGC Inc. (*New plant expansion for cover glass for large 3D and complex-shaped onboard displays) Envision AESC Japan Co., Ltd. (*Establishment of prototype production line, new plant, and Shanghai developmen...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2020/09/15

injection ebm-papst St. Georgen: Orbital pump for AdBlue (urea) MANN+HUMMEL: Application of filter technologies for clean city air Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft: Car roof with invisible solar cells / smart door with printed wires RAAL: Large size battery cooling plates EDAG Engineering: StaVari - Metal 3D printing with tailor-made steel alloy for car body   The IAA 2019 ("Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung") at Frankfurt/Main, Germany, was open f...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2019/09/27

da joint venture plant * (Establishment of new joint venture company) - Toyoda Iron Works Co., Ltd., - Y-Tec Corporation, - Keylex Corporation Press parts and welded components for Toyota-Mazda joint venture plant * (Establishment of new joint venture company) Nagase & Co., Ltd. Materials for 3D printing * (Establishment of joint venture company with American start-up) Nippon Steel Corporation Steel wire for cold heading (New plant operat...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2019/09/19

Metals Thailand: Asahi Kasei, Kuraray, Sanyo Chemical, ShinMaywa, Sekisui Plastics, Topy, Nippon Steel, Zeon, Mitsui Chemicals, UACJ, etc. Indonesia; NTN, Cataler, Sumitomo Metal Mining, Tatsumi, Hanwa, Topre, Toyoda Gosei, Nippon Piston Ring, Mitsubishi Chemical, etc. Vietnam：NOK, Kyosha, Takeda Printing, Toray, Nihon Plast, Honda Tsushin, Sumitomo Wiring, Tanoi, Furukawa Electric, Yokowo, etc. Philippines: EM Devices,Furukawa Automotive Syste...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2019/08/20