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  • Chip-type Ceramic Rechargeable Battery “EnerCera” Battery Series NGK Commences Collaboration with Renesas on Promoting Widespread Adoption of Maintenance-Free IoT Devices

    Chip-type Ceramic Rechargeable Battery “EnerCera” Battery Series NGK Commences Collaboration with Renesas on Promoting Widespread Adoption of Maintenance-Free IoT Devices

    NGK INSULATORS, LTD. (hereinafter “NGK”) based in Nagoya, Japan, announced that it has commenced collaboration with Renesas Electronics Corporation (hereinafter “Renesas”), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, on promoting the widespread adoption of maintenance-free IoT devices. As the first phase of collaboration, NGK and Renesas jointly-developed a reference design for a wireless air quality sensing s

  • NGK wins order for NAS batteries to be installed at JAXA Tanegashima Space Center

    NGK wins order for NAS batteries to be installed at JAXA Tanegashima Space Center

    Contributing to stable electric power and energy conservation

    NGK INSULATORS, LTD. (hereinafter “NGK”) based in Nagoya, Japan, announced that it has won an order for NAS batteries for storing electrical energy for the Tanegashima Space Center of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (hereinafter, “JAXA”). The order was received from Kyudenko Corporation, which is headquartered in Fukuoka,

  • CES 2021 Report: The future of IoT is maintenance-free

    CES 2021 Report: The future of IoT is maintenance-free

    At CES 2021, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (NGK) exhibited maintenance-free solutions for IoT devices utilizing its flagship EnerCera® battery series together with various wireless power transfer (WPT) and energy harvesting technologies to break the bottleneck of power sources.
    EnerCera battery is a series of Li-ion rechargeable battery products that are defined by its crystal oriented ceramic positive

  • New metal mesh (c) Taiyo Wire Cloth/ Artist image of deployable reflector using metal mesh. (c) JAXA

    JAXA, Taiyo Wire, NGK, Technosolver, and Koyo Materica develop a metal mesh for onboard deployable reflectors


    Taiyo Wire Cloth Co., LtdNGK Insulators, Ltd.Technosolver CorporationKoyo Materica CorporationJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

    Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Taiyo Wire Cloth Co., Ltd, NGK Insulators, Ltd., Technosolver Corporation, and Koyo Materica Corporation have jointly developed a metal mesh for onboard deployable reflectors that has achieved a dramatic cut in