Japanese Technology Creates Some of the bigger, stronger products and also smaller
Japanese industrial products are recognized by most people as the most accurate in the world, as well as offering the highest quality. There are other superlatives you can use to describe some of them - the biggest, the smallest, most powerful. In these pages we'll take a look at some of the Japanese high-tech products as the technology itself, which is astounding worldwide.
The world's strongest fiber
Toyobo Co., Ltd.
Zylon® the strongest fiber in the world contradicts almost everything we know about fibers and fabrics. Preparing Zylon is achieved by mixing a polymer called PBO (polyphenylene benzobisoxazole to), forcing it through a rotary machine. The PBO has a chemical structure that is difficult to process, but one of the major manufacturers of fibers, Toyobo Co., Ltd., has succeeded in producing the "super fiber." The strength of Zylon is about ten times greater than that of steel - Zylon thread only 1 mm thick can hold an object 450 kg. of weight. Zylon has excellent flame resistance, withstanding temperatures up to 650 degrees Celsius and is more impact resistant than steel and coal themselves.
The extraordinary properties of Zylon have made it ideal for protective clothing such as firefighters' uniforms, heat-resistant clothing and bulletproof vests. Zylon is also used as industrial material resistant to heat as well as in the manufacture of fiber optic cables. In 2001, the National Administration for the Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States, used as a reinforcing material in space observation balloons.
Saito Masakazu of Toyobo, says: "The principles on which Zylon is based were discovered in the United States over 20 years ago, but it is not easy to market the products that use it. We only were able to get by applying Japanese techniques of fiber technology and manufacturing. "
The Integrated Circuit Chip world's smallest
Hitachi, Ltd.
If you think of some tiny and precision industrial products, you probably think of Japan. One sector in which Japanese companies enjoy a considerable lead is the miniaturization of semiconductors for tiny integrated circuits. His most recent technologies have attracted considerable interest.
For example, the "Mu-chip" Hitachi is the chip IC (integrated circuit) world smaller - measuring just 0.4 mm. tiny squares and has a thickness of 0.06 mm. That means it has the same size and only a tiny grain of sand. Even despite this, the chip contains 128 bits of ID information stored in ROM (Read Only Memory), an analog circuit for wireless communication and a tiny antenna.
When I went to the Department of Hitachi RP, I discovered that the company developed its mu-chip in order to create a new way to detect counterfeit money. Hitachi built small enough to be inserted in banknotes chip, and powerful enough to contain data that could be transmitted by wireless technology and recognized by an electronic reader. The chip can be made even smaller in the case of a wireless transmission circuit is not needed.
As soon as they are read data are transmitted to a computer that will tell you if the bill is counterfeit or not. No one can rewrite information stored on a chip, and it would be extremely difficult to make counterfeit money, counterfeit or any other object, because each tiny chip is embedded in the real things.
Those skilled in Japan are exceeded in areas that are already excellent, constantly redefining the word.