Environmentally Friendly and Contributing Products 2018

While contributing to global environmental conservation and reduction of environmental impact through our products and its applications, we have promoted development of new technologies and sales of products to reduce such impact from the products themselves based on our guidelines for "Environmentally Friendly and Contributing Products" as follows.  

Every year, we develop new environmentally friendly and contributing products. Here are some typical examples from the current fiscal year.

Environmentally Friendly Products

Products that are designed to have less impact on the environment, such as by reducing the amount of waste or designing products that are easy to recycle, and that have improved one or more of the following compared to conventional products.

  • Smaller, thinner and lighter
  • Power saving
  • Longer service life
  • Products with reduced or eliminated hazardous substances (hazardous substances: RoHS 10 substances, the environment-related substances to be controlled set by us, etc.)
  • Reusability (reuse)
  • Recyclability (recycling)
  • Ease of disposal (ease of disassembly in case of equipment)

Environmentally Contributing Products

The products themselves or the final products using them that contributes to and are used for applications such as the conservation of the global environment.

  • Prevention of global warming, diffusion of new and renewable energy sources
  • Prevention of ozone depletion, air pollution, water pollution, and soil contamination; analysis of pollutants
  • Analysis of chemical substances contained in products, evaluation of toxicity of chemical substances
  • Reduction, separation and disposal of waste

Case Studies

While contributing to global environmental conservation and reduction of environmental impact through our products and its applications, we have promoted development of new technologies and sales of products to reduce such impact from the products themselves based on our guidelines for "Environmentally Friendly and Contributing Products" as follows.  

●InGaAs PIN Photodiode

G14448-003L and L14096-0085GL are compact near-infrared detectors and infrared LEDs suitable for installation in handheld devices and mobile equipment. The surface-mounted COB package with lens realizes a narrow directivity and a high photocurrent in spite of its small size.

 

●Si PIN Photodiode

S14016-01DT is a Si PIN photodiode for visible to near-infrared region. It uses a small surface-mount plastic package. By making the package smaller and thinner and reviewing the molding die, the volume has been reduced and the amount of molding resin used per product has been reduced.

●Mini-Spectrometer

C14486GA is a polychromator (polychromator) that combines an optical element, image sensor, and drive circuit in a compact and thin housing. By employing TF-type optics and a compact image sensor, the C14486GA achieves miniaturization and low current consumption without major changes in characteristics compared to conventional products.

 

●Photonic Multichannel Analyzer

C14631 is a compact spectrophotometer integrating a spectrometer and a photodetector. The adoption of an electronically cooled back-illuminated CCD linear image sensor and improvements in the drive circuit have enabled the C14631 to be smaller and consume less power than its predecessor.

Photonic Multichannel Analyzer for LED sorter

●Pulsed Laser Diode

L14829 surface-mount pulsed laser diode is used in various applications such as automotive collision prevention, distance measurement, and security. The use of a resin package has made it compact and lightweight.

 

●Photodiode Array with Amplifier

S13885/S13886 series of photodiode arrays with amplifier used in the detection section of X-ray food particle inspection systems has achieved a fourfold increase in sensitivity compared to conventional products. This has made it possible to extend the life of the X-ray source filament and the phosphor in the photodiode array by a factor of four, thereby reducing the amount of component waste.

Amplified photodiode array