electric motors assistive technology founded 1918 headquarters ueda nagano japan key people motoaki kaneko products bldc stepper motor assistive technology revenue 500 000 000 website www.shinanokenshi.com shinano kenshi co. ltd. shinano kenshi kabushiki gaisha was founded in 1918 to manufacture spun silk yarn which at the time was one of the most high tech industries in the world . at that time the company name was shinano spun silk spinning co. ltd. as the years passed the company embarked on other industrial markets that would grow more progressively while maintaining its proud history in the silk industry . in 1962 the company established an electrical department and in 1971 the company introduced a fan motor for air conditioning machines . the company started the production of tape decks in 1972 and in 1973 the company introduced a gear motor for copying machines and changed the company name to shinano kenshi co. ltd. in 1985 hanaoka hosei co. ltd. which is a subsidiary of shinano kenshi changed its name to texel corporation which led to the present plextor brand in 1993 . products edit precision electric motor industrial system equipment image high speed camera printer audio welfare & life assist equipment spun silk yarn external links edit english shinano kenshi english plexlogger this article about a japanese corporation or company related topic is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title shinano kenshi & oldid 677197165 categories electronics companies of japancompanies based in nagano prefecturecompanies established in 1918electric motorsjapanese brandsjapanese company stubshidden categories articles containing japanese language textall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 21 august 2015 at 19 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view