Sanken Electric Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of power semiconductor devices and power supply equipment. The company offers its products in Asia, North America, and Europe, to provide power supply system solutions, including in such peripheral areas as telecommunications, control, diagnosis, detection, protection and display.
The company conducts its business in three segments: semiconductor business segment, switching power supply business segment, and power supply equipment bu...
Sanken Electric Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of power semiconductor devices and power supply equipment. The company offers its products in Asia, North America, and Europe, to provide power supply system solutions, including in such peripheral areas as telecommunications, control, diagnosis, detection, protection and display.
The company conducts its business in three segments: semiconductor business segment, switching power supply business segment, and power supply equipment business segment.
Semiconductor Business Segment
The company’s semiconductor business segment offers ICs, diodes, transistors, and other semiconductor products. Its optoelectronic devices, performed well, benefiting from ramping-up demand for CCFLs for use in LCD televisions, as well as a significant increase in demand for use in notebook PCs.
The company also offers light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in domestic and overseas demand for outdoor displays. It also offers Allegro Microsystems, whose principal markets are North America and Europe, which are offered in the automotive market, together with mobile phones and office automation equipment markets. The company offers through its semiconductor business ‘partial resonance converters’, which incorporate original Sanken circuit element technologies related to switching power supplies. These converters—used in items, such as LCD televisions, PDP-TVs and multifunctional printers—feature a power IC and transformer with multiple functions.
Switching Power Supply Business Segment
The switching power supply business segment provides AC adapters for notebook PCs. It also offers products, such as power supplies for LCD televisions and invertors for CCFLs, as well as power supplies for PDP-TVs. The company also offers power supply control ICs specifically for AC adapters.
The company offers switching power supplies for use in printers, PDP-TVs, and AC adapters for notebook PCs. The company offers its switching power supply business segment products in the office automation (OA) market.
Power Supply Equipment Business Segment
The company offers its power supplies for the telecommunications sector, especially base stations for third-generation (3G) mobile phone networks, sales of custom-made power supply equipment languished, owing to curtailment of public works spending. Furthermore, sales of general-purpose power supply equipment for uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) and inverters for motor control.
Significant Events
In October 2020, Sanken Electric Co., Ltd. and STMicroelectronics had announced a strategic partnership to develop intelligent power modules for high-voltage industrial and automotive products.
History
Sanken Electric Co., Ltd. was founded in 1946 under the name Toho Sanken Electric Co., Ltd. The company changed its name to Sanken Electric Co., Ltd. in 1962.