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Innovation Management

In addition to constructing a cross-Group research network, we will leverage open innovation to create social value and business growth.

The Goals We Should Aim For

The Minatomirai and Keihanna research centers will be our core R&D facilities. In addition to materials, components, devices, equipment and systems, and software R&D divisions within the Group, we are constructing a global research network with regard to production process technologies. This will stimulate open innovation making active use of external collaborations, and will contribute to business growth and to the advancement of society. Going forward, we will reinforce development of new products and technologies designed to seize business opportunities in such advanced sectors as 5G, the IoT, ADAS, energy management, and digital health care. We will also move forward with research into the use of AI and robots to boost productivity.
Kyocera has inherited the DNA of our founder, Kazuo Inamori, who once said, “What we want to do next is something that people told me we would never be able to do.” We will persist in our unique manufacturing, and continue to be a pioneer that creates new value and is always at the cutting edge.

R&D

Expansion of the Regional Microgrid

To contribute to the decarbonization of society and achieve our social contribution targets, the Kyocera Group provides solar power generating systems, storage batteries, and fuel cells, actively promotes the "regional microgrid" in Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and conducts other activities based on the concept of local energy production for local consumption. The regional microgrid is an ambitious initiative envisioning a new type of energy eco-system that links extensive streamlining of energy consumption with an increase in the captive consumption of renewable energy. Kyocera is promoting local energy production for local consumption and regional decarbonization through the introduction of renewable energy resources - such as solar power with storage batteries, inverters that control the frequency in the grid, and an energy management system (EMS) that integrates and controls these devices.

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Case study in Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture

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Cloud-based solar power plant
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EV charging stations
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distributed server facilities
Storage batteries, power receiving and transforming facilities, distributed server facilities

Food Allergy Project

Kyocera launched the New Business Idea Startup Program in December 2018. This initiative solicits new business ideas from within the company and is engaged in the creation of a new Kyocera. One of the project that is in the process of commercialization through the New Business Idea Startup Program is the Food Allergy Project. Many people with food allergies are unable to eat out or face difficulties when traveling and eating school meals. This project aims to create a world in which these people can relax and enjoy eating delicious food with friends and family.

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Development of HAPTIVITY® i

Kyocera entered into a license agreement with TactoTek® for its IMSE® technology used to encapsulate circuit boards with electronic components using 3D injection molding. Following this, Kyocera developed HAPTIVITY® i, a composite technology that fuses IMSE® with HAPTIVITY®, a proprietary haptic transmission technology that reproduces a realistic, varied sense of touch for use in fields that were previously difficult to breach with HAPTIVITY® alone. There is the potential to incorporate IMSE® technology into a broad range of other Kyocera products, and we expect to launch new products in addition to HAPTIVITY® i in the future.

images: Development of HAPTIVITY® i

"HAPTIVITY" is a registered trademark of Kyocera Corporation in Japan, the United States, EU, UK and China.