Alps Alpine
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Native name | アルプスアルパイン株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Arupusu Arupain kabushiki-gaisha |
| Formerly | Kataoka Electric Co., Ltd. (1946-1964) Alps Electric Co., Ltd. (1964-2019) |
| Company type | Public (K.K) |
| TYO: 6770 Nikkei 225 Component | |
| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | 1 November 1948 (as Kataoka Electric Co., Ltd.) |
| Headquarters | 1-7 Yukigaya-otsuka-machi, , Japan |
Key people | Toshihiro Kuriyama, (President) Masataka Kataoka, (Chairman) |
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| Revenue | US$5.806 billion (FY 2012) (¥ 546.423 billion) (FY 2012) |
| US$75.18 million (FY 2012) (¥ -7.075 billion) (FY 2012) | |
Number of employees | 36,199 (as of the end of March 2013) |
| Subsidiaries | Alpine Electronics Cirque Corporation Alps Logistics Alps Green Devices |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
Alps Alpine Co., Ltd (Japanese: アルプスアルパイン株式会社, Hepburn: Arupusu Arupain kabushiki-gaisha), previously known as Alps Electric Co., Ltd. (Japanese: アルプス電気株式会社, Hepburn: Arupusu Denki Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese multinational corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, producing electronic devices, including switches, potentiometers, sensors, encoders and touchpads.[3]
The company was established in 1948 as Kataoka Electric Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Alps Electric Co., Ltd. in December 1964.[4] Since June 22, 2012, the President has been Toshihiro Kuriyama and Chairman is Masataka Kataoka.[1] Alps is also well known for the Alpine brand of car audio.
The Alps Electric Group has R&D, production and sales bases located in Japan and around the globe—in the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Greater China.[5] Since its founding, Alps Electric has supplied around 40,000 types of electronic components to over 2,000 manufacturers of home appliances, mobile devices, automobiles and industrial equipment worldwide.[6]
In 2014, Alps Group comprised 84 subsidiary companies, 25 through Alps Electric, 32 through Alpine Electronics and 27 through Alps Logistics.[7]
The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.[8]
After integrating its business with its previous subsidiary Alpine Electronics in January 2019, the company was renamed Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.[9] Alpine had originally been established as a joint venture with Motorola in 1967, but had been a wholly owned subsidiary of Alps since 1978.
Business divisions
[edit | edit source]Alps Automotive division focuses on provision of custom products and modules, including control panels and steering modules, for specific vehicle models, and components compatible with any vehicle.[10]
Alps Home and Mobile divisions focuses on provision of switches, potentiometers, sensors, and other components through to multi-input devices like touch panels and GlidePoint™ to home, mobile and PC markets. Alps Electric focuses on human-machine and machine-machine interfaces for home appliances, mobile devices and PCs.[10]
Alps Industry, Healthcare & Energy divisions focuses on provision of a wide variety of products, including sensors, power inductors, switches and communication modules, to industry, healthcare and energy markets.[10]
Alps touchpad hardware is developed and manufactured by the Cirque Corporation, which they acquired in 2003;[11] however, the parent company continues to write their own drivers. Their drivers are Windows certified. They are mostly found in Sony, Toshiba and Dell notebooks, as well as the OLPC XO-1. They are considered a major Japanese supplier to Apple[12] and also manufacture keyboards for Apple computers, including the original Macintosh and the first iMac.
Business integration and name change
[edit | edit source]On January 1, 2019, Alps Electric Co., Ltd. and Alpine Electronics, Inc. integrated the two businesses together under the new name of Alps Alpine Co., Ltd..[13] Alpine Electronics, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Alps in 1978 when Alps acquired all shares of Alps Motorola Inc. [14]
Gallery
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Alps Amber switch in an Apple IIc keyboard
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Alps SKBM Grey switch
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Alps SKBM Grey switch backside with old logo
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Alps SKBM Grey – upper shell with simplified mould numbering and more rounded, more heavily embossed Alps logo
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Alps SKCM Orange switch, completely disassembled
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See also
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References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Wiki collection of bibliographic works on Alps Electric
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