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 Nichicon Building in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto | |
Native name | ニチコン株式会社 |
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| Company type | Public KK |
| TYO: 6996 OSE: 6996 | |
| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | (August 1, 1950) |
| Headquarters | Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-0845, Japan |
Key people | Ippei Takeda (Chairman and CEO) Shigeo Yoshida (President and COO) |
| Products | |
| Revenue |  JPY 107.2 billion (FY 2014)
(US$ 893.3 million) (FY 2014) |
 JPY 2.25 billion (FY 2014)
(US$ 18.7 million) (FY 2014) | |
Number of employees | 5,792 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2014) |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
Nichicon Corporation (ニチコン株式会社, Nichikon Kabushiki-gaisha) is a manufacturer of capacitors of various types, and is one of the largest manufacturers of capacitors in the world,[citation needed] headquartered in Karasuma Oike, Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. In 1950, it separated from the Nii Works Co., established itself as Kansai-Nii Works and completed its first factory by 1956. In 1961, it adopted the Nichicon name and has been using it, or a variant thereof, ever since.
In 2011 and 2012 Nichicon spun off several major factories into independent subsidiaries, and established representative branches in foreign countries, thus realigning its corporate infrastructure.[3]
From 2001 to 2004, Nichicon produced defective capacitors ("HM" and "HN" series) that were used by major computer manufacturers, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Apple.[4][5] No explanation has been given for the production runs of defective capacitors, but some sources claimed that these capacitors were either overfilled with electrolyte,[4] or were constructed using electrolyte that was prone to leaking, causing premature failure in any equipment using them.[citation needed] This issue was not related to the Taiwanese capacitor plague.[4]
In 2010 Dell settled a civil lawsuit concerning its shipment of at least 11.8 million computers from May 2003 to July 2005 that used faulty Nichicon components and were prone to major failure.[6][7]
