Components Business

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Contributing to the development of a variety of fields, from manufacturing processes to space exploration

Nikon contributes to the evolution of science technology, industry and society via diversified businesses that range from optical materials, optical components and encoders used for robotics to the development of the latest technologies for space exploration and photomask substrate production for FPDs.

Digital Solutions Business

Providing, vision systems and solutions related to robotics.

Nikon offers a wide range of one-stop solutions covering every stage from design and prototyping to integration and mass production of components or modules for light sources, illumination systems, projection lenses and precision components.
Also, it provides solutions that effectively meet a diverse range of market and customer needs by utilizing its core "opto-electronics" and "precision" technologies, including encoders that are used as sensors in the joints of individual robots and machine tools to measure the rotation amount or rotation angle.

Optical components and optical materials

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Encoders and intelligent actuator units

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Customized Products Business

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State-of-the-art technologies for space

Nikon's Customized Products Business capitalizes on the company's state-of-the-art technologies to meet unique, advanced needs. Nikon handles everything from design to manufacture, providing inspection equipment for the food industry, optical products which require ultra-high precision such as those for the space and astronomical fields, including the Venus Climate Orbiter AKATSUKI and the observation systems for the Subaru large-scale optical-infrared telescope. We utilize our core technologies to the utmost to turn customers' demands into reality.

Optical systems for Akatsuki

Nikon designed and manufactured the IR1 and IR2 infrared cameras, ultraviolet imager (UVI) and lightning and airglow camera (LAC).

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Glass Business

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Integrated production of photomask substrates for FPD

Nikon manufactures FPD photomask substrates, which are the original patterns for electronic circuits employed in products such as LCDs, in an integrated production system that covers every step from materials to applying final processing.

Photomask substrates for FPD

Nikon uses highly transparent, highly pure materials that have superior internal qualities, such as no bubbles or inclusions. Then we produce large FPD photomask substrates as large as 2,000 mm square by utilizing precision polishing, cleaning and measurement technologies.