Hosiden
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Products: MOST Connectors, Memory card connectors, LCD displays (Square and Rounded), micro switches and connectors (control switches, multi function switches with center push (Analog and digital)), Mini and Micro-USB, HDMI and mini-HDMI, VESA Display Port technology, touch sensor technology, Bluetooth, Remote controls, popple domes with EL technology, acoustic products (speakers, receivers and microphones).
This Japanese manufacturing company is headquartered in Yao, Japan.
For its application in S-Video
S-Video
Separate Video, more commonly known as S-Video and Y/C, is often referred to by JVC as both an S-VHS connector and as Super Video. It is an analog video transmission scheme, in which video information is encoded on two channels: luma and chroma...
, the 4-pin mini-DIN connector is sometimes called the Hosiden connector.
Hosiden Besson Limited was established in 1957, trading as A P Besson and Partner Limited in the UK, manufacturing earpieces for the National Health Service
National Health Service
The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...
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It was sold to Crystalate Electronics in 1971 to form the Besson division, and as part of a manufacturing group it assimilated injection mouldings and designed and manufactured printed circuit boards.
On 2nd March 1990 Hosiden Corporation, acquired the company. It's capabilities now include: Acoustic, Electronic, Research and Development, fire products, transmission products, Manufacture and Assembly, Injection Molding
Injection molding
Injection molding is a manufacturing process for producing parts from both thermoplastic and thermosetting plastic materials. Material is fed into a heated barrel, mixed, and forced into a mold cavity where it cools and hardens to the configuration of the cavity...
and Distribution.