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What type of product is this?

MLCCs help store electricity temporarily, maintain stable voltage, and eliminate noise in electronic components installed all types of electronic devices found everywhere. TAIYO YUDEN offers a wide-ranging lineup of compact, thin and highly reliable MLCCs that feature high-capacitance owing to its material-based development capabilities.

What is the market environment like?

Electronic devices are progressively becoming more compact and high functioning. Accordingly, installed MLCCs need to be smaller and have higher-capacitance, while the number of MLCCs per electronic device is increasing.

For example, smartphones are becoming thinner and more functional, which in turn is creating a particularly strong need for even smaller components. Electrostatic capacitance and rated voltage decrease as the MLCC size becomes smaller, so improving these features have enabled more compact MLCCs.

In addition, the computerization of automobiles has progressed in recent years, requiring MLCCs installed in these electronic circuits to have more compact designs/higher-capacitance as well as be highly reliable.

What type of product is this?

Inductors are mainly used to stabilize voltage and align electric signals in electronic circuits. The structure of inductors consists of wire-wound and multilayer types, with the latter facilitating smaller and thinner designs. In addition, the use of metal materials enables inductors to accommodate even larger current. Combining these features, we provide inductors that meet market needs in terms of smaller sizes and larger currents.

What is the market environment like?

IoT-related devices require highly efficient power circuits as they are being operated for long time periods whenever possible. Such devices include smartphones, wearable terminals and sensor networks, all of which have become increasingly high performance and multifunctional. These types of compact/thin devices require small/thin power inductors able to accommodate large current.

What type of product is this?

Multilayer ceramic filters are components used to select required frequencies (filtering) across a range from low to high bands based on a structure that combines MLCCs and multilayer inductors.

What is the market environment like?

5G (5th generation mobile communication system) has three characteristics: high speed/capacity, low latency, and numerous simultaneous connections. Accordingly, 5G will be used in even more frequency bands. Multilayer ceramic filters show promise as indispensable components for 5G-compatible smartphones.

What type of product is this?

Multilayer piezoelectric actuators use piezoelectric materials with vibrating properties when added voltage to realize the sensation of pressing buttons on panels along with realizing slick and rough tactile sensations.

What is the market environment like?

Multilayer piezoelectric actuators are installed in onboard vehicle touch panels etc. With the greater use of switch-type flat panels and touch sensors in automobiles recently, tactile impression is required when manipulating switches to ensure safety while driving.

What type of product is this?

All solid-state batteries developed by TAIYO YUDEN use oxide-based solid electrolytes. The use of solid electrolytes provides superior safety, in principle eliminating concerns over ignition and rupturing. They feature a structure that uses multilayer technology as well as thinner/multilayer electrodes and electrolytes that enable greater electricity capacity, while greater thinness and capacity are both possible.

What is the market environment like?

Batteries with larger capacity are required for IoT, wearable and other mobile devices—all of which look poised to gain in popularity—given the progressive shift to smaller and thinner designs while performance and use duration increase. At the same time, greater safety is needed for wearable devices in terms of preventing battery ignition or aberrant heating. To this end, development has picked up for all solid-state batteries installed in such devices that are required to be compact, have large capacity and feature greater safety.