Hirose Electric Co., Ltd, is a connector manufacturing company founded 70 years ago and is headquartered at Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo in Japan. It caters to diverse market segments such as computers, peripheral equipment, terminal equipment, mobile/wired/wireless communications equipment, office automation equipment, consumer equipment, control equipment, and automotive uses. Its coaxial connectors cater to markets such as microwave communication equipment, satellite  equipment, measurement systems and industrial equipment.

Hirose products can be categorized into following types

• Fiber Optics Connectors: Optical connectors and Devices
• Card Connectors: Memory cards & IC sockets
• PCB Connectors: FPC/FFC Connectors; Board-to-Board Connectors; Board-to-Wire Connectors; and Card Edge Connectors
• I/O Connectors: Circular Connectors; Rectangular Connectors; Coaxial Connectors; and Modular Connectors
• Microwave components: Couplers; Dividers/Combiners; RF Coaxial Switches; Attenuators; Terminations; Others like Bias Tee, DC block etc

  Their connectors find applications in the areas of Machine Tool-Computer Numerical Control; Machine Tool-Servomotors; Machine Tool-Servo Amplifier; Robot; Portable Medical Device; Ultrasound Equipment; Computerized Tomography Scanner;  Measurement Equipment; Camera-equipped Flip Phone Connectors; Mobile Phone Connectors; Notebook PC Connectors; LCD Television Connectors; Digital Camera Connectors; Digital Video Camera Connectors; Automotive Connectors; Copy  Machine and Laser Printer Connectors; PDA Connectors; Plasma Display Panel Connectors; DVD Recorder Connectors; and Router and LAN Switch Connectors.  

A brief introduction about selected connector category is given here.Please visit http://www.hirose-connectors.com/connectors/ for more information about their products.  

The website also offers a Connector Selector utility.  

• Coaxial Connectors: 

BNC; BWA; EFL; FL; GT13; GT16; GT5; HFL; HRM; HRM(V); HRMM; HRM-VA; MRF03; MRF 1.6/5.6; MSS; N; NFL; NF; PL71; PL75; PO21M; PO40G; PO51; PO51M; PO5G; PO6; PO73; PO82M; POB; POD; POD1; TNC; TWT2; UFL; UM;  WFL; and WFL2.  

• Optical Connectors:

HMU; HMU-PAT; HMU-PJAT; HRFC; HRFC-AT1; HRFC-AT11; HRLA; HSC; HSC-AT11; HSC-AT5; HSC-VA; MF10; MF10B; MF25; OPT-TM; and WS.  

Some of the relevant Hirose addresses are:  

Sales & Marketing Div. office

1-11, Osaki 5-chome, Shinagawa-ku, 

Tokyo 141-8586,

Japan Tel:03 (3491)9741  

Engineering center

3-13, Kikuna 7-chome, Kohoku-ku, 

Yokohama 222-8566, Japan   

Hirose Electric Co., Ltd  is a part of Hirose Electric Group. Its production activities are carried out at three subsidiary centers Tohuku, Koriyama and Ichinoseki, Japan. These manufacturing facilities are ISO 14001 certified. It has a global sales network in 23 countries with dealers in Asia, Europe, Japan, and America.  

Editor's note: Hirose offers a wide range of RF and optical connectors for a variety of applications as evident from their product portfolio. It is ISO certified company and has multiple manufacturing locations in Japan and a worldwide sales network.