28 Facts About Kyocera

Kyocera's original product was a ceramic insulator known as a "kelcima" for use in television picture tubes.

Kyocera quickly adapted its technologies to produce an expanding range of ceramic components for electronic and structural applications.

Shortly afterward, Kyocera introduced one of the first portable, battery-powered laptop computers, sold in the U S as the Tandy Model 100, which featured an LCD screen and telephone-modem data transfer capability.

Kyocera gained optical technologies by acquiring Yashica Company, Limited in 1983, along with Yashica's prior licensing agreement with Carl Zeiss, and manufactured film and digital cameras under the Kyocera, Yashica and Contax trade names until 2005, when the company discontinued all film and digital camera production.

These featured unique elements, including Kyocera ceramic-based platforms, and are sought by collectors to the present day.

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At one time, Kyocera owned the famous KLH brand founded by Henry Kloss, though Kloss and the original Cambridge design and engineering staff had left the company by the time of the Kyocera purchase.

In 1989, Kyocera stopped production of audio components and sought a buyer for the KLH brand.

In 1989, Kyocera acquired Elco Corporation, a manufacturer of electronic connectors.

In January 2000, Kyocera acquired photocopier manufacturer Mita Industrial Company, following Mita's decline and bankruptcy in the late 1990s.

Also in 2000, Kyocera acquired the mobile phone manufacturing operations of Qualcomm Incorporated to form Kyocera Wireless Corp.

In 2008, Kyocera acquired Sanyo Mobile, the mobile phone division of Sanyo Electric Co.

In March 2010, Kyocera launched its first Smartphone since 2001, after focusing on lower cost phones.

In March, 2010, Kyocera announced the merger of its two wholly owned subsidiaries: San Diego-based Kyocera Wireless Corp.

In June 2010, Kyocera acquired part of the thin film transistor liquid crystal display (LCD) design and manufacturing business of Sony Corporation's subsidiary Sony Mobile Display Corporation.

TA Triumph-Adler GmbH currently distributes Kyocera-made printing devices and software with TA Triumph-Adler and UTAX trademarks within the EMEA region.

In February 2012, Kyocera became the total stock holder of Optrex Corporation, which was renamed Kyocera Display Corporation.

In March 2016, Kyocera acquired an international cutting tool company called SGS Tool Company for $89 million.

Kyocera innovated a product that uses phosphor to converts blue laser light to produces a broad-spectrum, incoherent, high luminance white light sources.

Kyocera printing devices are marketed under the Copystar name in Americas and under TA Triumph-Adler and Utax names in EMEA region.

Kyocera acquired the terminal business of US digital communications technology company Qualcomm in February 2000, and became a major supplier of mobile handsets.

In 2008, Kyocera took over the handset business of Sanyo, eventually forming 'Kyocera Communications, Inc '.

In May 2012, Kyocera released the world's first speaker-less smartphone, the Kyocera Urbano Progresso.

Kyocera maintains production bases for photovoltaic cells and solar modules in Japan and China.

Kyocera sells ceramic knives via its web store and retail outlets under the name Kyocera Advanced Ceramics.

Kyocera is currently the sponsor of the soccer club Kyoto Sanga F C of the J-League.

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In Japan, Kyocera holds the naming rights for the Kyocera Dome Osaka, colloquially known as Osaka Dome.

Between 2005 and 2008, Kyocera sponsored Reading F C During this period Reading won the Football League Championship with a record 106 points.

Also between 2005 and 2008, Kyocera was the sponsor of Brazilian football team Atletico Paranaense, and acquired the naming rights of their stadium.