Editing Rubycon Corporation (section)

{{Short description|Japanese electronics company}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2015}}
{{Infobox company 
|name = Rubycon Corporation
|native_name = ルビコン株式会社
|native_name_lang = ja
|logo = Rubycon Corporation company logo.svg
|logo_size = 230px
|type = [[Privately held company|Private]] [[Kabushiki gaisha|KK]]
|foundation = ({{Start date and age|1952|04|28}})
|location = Nishi-Minowa, [[Ina, Nagano|Ina City]], [[Nagano Prefecture]] 399-4593, Japan
|key_people = Hiroaki Akahane<br><small>([[President (corporate title)|President]] and [[CEO]])</small>
|industry = [[Electronics]]
|products = {{ubl|[[Capacitor]]s|[[Switched-mode power supply|Switching power supply unit]]s|}}
|revenue = {{increase}} [[Japanese yen|JPY]] 44.27 billion ([[Fiscal year|FY]] 2020)
|num_employees = 2,734 (consolidated)
|homepage = {{URL|https://www.rubycon.co.jp/en/index.html|www.rubycon.co.jp}}
|footnotes = <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rubycon.co.jp/en/profile/company.html |title=Corporate Overview |publisher=Rubycon |access-date=June 13, 2015}}</ref><ref name="BB">{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/RUBYCZ:JP |title=Company Snapshot |publisher=[[Bloomberg Businessweek]] |access-date=September 23, 2021}}</ref>
}}
{{Nihongo|'''Rubycon Corporation'''|ルビコン株式会社|Rubikon Kabushiki-gaisha}} is a [[Economy of Japan|Japanese]] [[Electronics industry|electronics]] company, whose main products are [[electrolytic capacitor]]s, [[film capacitor]]s and [[Power supply|power supply unit]]s<ref name="BB"/> with a wide range of applications including consumer, industrial, power, lighting and automotive.

Founded in 1952 as Nihon Denkai Seisakusho (有限会社日本電解製作所), it changed its name to Shin-Ei Electronics Inc. (信英電子株式会社) in 1960.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rubycon.co.jp/en/profile/history.html|title=About Rubycon : History/Hybrid, Capacitor, Power Supply Units RUBYCON CORPORATION}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rubycon.co.jp/profile/history.html|title=ルビコンについて：会社沿革／ハイブリッド、コンデンサ、キャパシタのルビコン株式会社}} {{In lang|ja}}</ref>
The company was formerly known as Seibu Shin-Ei Inc. and changed its name to Rubycon Corporation in December 1990.<ref name="BB"/>

Rubycon holds a significant world market share in the capacitor market,<ref>{{cite web | title=Electronic Component Distributor - Rubycon | website=AO-Electronics | url=https://www.aoelectronics.com/en/manufacturers-detail.php?tnid=231 | access-date=February 18, 2024}}</ref> and has 11 production sites {{endash}} 10 in Japan and one in [[Indonesia]]. Rubycon appointed [[Supreme Components International]], a Singapore-based electronics distributor, as their franchised distributor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://supremecomponents.com/news-posts/rubycon-appoints-sci-singapore-authorized-distributor/ |title=Rubycon appoints SCI, Singapore as their authorized distributor |publisher=Supreme Components International (SCI) |date=May 24, 2010 |access-date=September 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410171047if_/http://supremecomponents.com/news-posts/rubycon-appoints-sci-singapore-authorized-distributor/|archive-date=10 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
{{Gallery
|width=200 |height=170
|align=center
|File:Cpupow03b.jpg
 |Four Rubycon capacitors on a [[motherboard]]
|File:Canon Digital IXUS 70 - flash unit-5398.jpg
 |A Rubycon made [[Photoflash capacitor|capacitor for a photo flash]]|title=}}