About Us 2

History of Company and Activities

History of Company

September 2001 HIT Research Laboratory was established to research resistive materials and
develop erase heads
September 2002 Limited Private Company HIT Devices was founded to prepare for preparation of
mass-production
January 2004 Incorporated as HIT Devices Ltd. and sales network was setup

Activities

2002 Research for various rewritable media and the suitable heating head development started.
Joint study was conducted with Afit Corporation for rewritable printer and the result was
co-presented at IMI Thermal Printing Conference
2003 Developed and started to market erase heads with unique multiple resistive element
structure for improved thermal efficiency
2004 Developed the erasing control method using the unique structure erase head and auxiliary
heater.
The result of this development was presented at IMI Thermal Printing Conference
2005 Developed and marketed the wider-format (A5 size) erase head with newly employed
methods to reduce temperature variation for improved uniformity.
Paper was presented at IMI Thermal Printing Conference
2006 Size reduction and efficiency improvement were made to the erase head. A4 size
erase head was developed and stared to be marketed
The paper was presented at European IJTP Conference, IMI Thermal Printing Conference
and IS&T NIP22 Conference
2007 Developed a high-speed 8-inch wide erase head and the result was presented at
IS&T NIP23 Conference
2008 Erase head for RFID Kanban card was presented at IMI Thermal Printing Conference and
IS&T NIP24 Conference
2009 Segmented mufti-digit thermal printhead (co-developed product) was presented at
IMI Thermal Printing Conference and co-presented at IS&T NIP25 Conference
with Lathem Time

President's Career Summary

1959 Quality Kaizen of carbon-film resistors
1963 Launching metal-film resistor manufacturing line
1967 Launching silicon wafer fab
1968 Development/mass-production of transistors/diodes/photo-transistors
1972 Launching LED GaAsP wafer fab
1973 Development/mass-production of 8-segment LED display for hand-held calculator
1974 Development/mass-production of thermal printhead with thick-film and thin-film technologies
1977 Launching mass-production of thick-film thermal printhead for facsimile application
1978 Development/mass-production of thermal printhead with partial glaze layer
1979 Development/implementation of dedicated driver IC on thermal printhead substrate
1987 Development and launching LED printhead mass-production
History while he was with Rohm Co. Ltd.
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2001 Established HIT Research Laboratory
2002 Founded Limited Private Company HIT Devices
Development of 2-inch erase head for rewritable media
2003 Obtained Japanese patent on erase head for reversible direct thermal printing media
2004 Company incorporated as HIT Devices Ltd.
Development of 4-inch head with auxiliary heater for erasing and thermal transfer
application
2005 Development of 6-inch erase head
   Obtained US patent on erase head for thermal reversible printing media
2006 Obtained Japanese patent on erase head for thermal reversible printing media
2007 Development of new type 8-inch erase head
  Obtained US patent on erase head for thermal reversible printing media
2008 Obtained Japanese patent on erase head for thermal reversible printing
2009 Obtained on erase head for thermal reversible printing from Germany, France and England
  Obtained 2 Japanese patents on erase head for thermal reversible printing