- Source: KYB Corporation
KYB Corporation (KYB株式会社, KYB kabushiki gaisha, formerly Kayaba Kogyo kabushiki gaisha (カヤバ工業株式会社) until 1 October 2015) is a Japanese, Tokyo-based automotive company.
Among KYB's main products company are shock absorbers, air suspensions, power steering systems, hydraulic pumps, motors, cylinders, and valves. It is one of the world's largest shock absorber manufacturers and it also has the largest market share of concrete mixer trucks in Japan, with 85% of the market.
The company has 34 manufacturing plants and 62 offices in 21 countries. KYB's American aftermarket distribution of automotive shocks and struts is headquartered in Greenwood, Indiana, with additional KYB manufacturing and distribution facilities in metro Chicago, Southern California, and metro Indianapolis. KYB Americas employs more than 100 people in all facilities. Shocks and struts for vehicles are the most popular KYB products distributed in North America.
Business segments and products
= Automotive and motorcycle products
=Automotive components
Shock absorbers
Semi-active air suspensions
Adjustable shock absorbers
Power steering systems
Electric power steering units (EPS)
Four-wheel steering (4WS) electric actuator
Solenoid
Sensors
Noise resistant pressure sensors
Motorcycle components
Suspensions
Shock absorbers for ATVs
Shock absorbers for snowmobiles
= Hydraulic components
=used in construction machinery, industrial vehicles, agricultural machinery, railroad equipment, industrial machinery, building equipment, civil engineering equipment and stage equipment
Testers
High precision leak tester
Portable fatigue testers
Gate type fatigue testers
Torsional fatigue testers
Internal pressure fatigue testers
Shock absorbers testers
Noise check systems
Road simulators for automobiles
Road simulators for motorcycles
Simulators for research and training
= Aeronautical, special-purpose vehicles and marine products
=Aircraft components
Special-purpose vehicles
Marine components
= Environment, welfare and disaster prevention products
=Self-propelled waste checker conveyors
Earthquake simulator trucks
Biomixers
Chipping vehicle for pruned branches
Vehicle for shredding sensitive documents
Shock absorbers for chair skis
Solar projectors
Mobile keeper (remote monitor camera with server function)
Source
Aircraft manufacturing
= Aircraft manufacturing during and after World War II
=The company between 1939 and 1941 developed several gliders, autogyros and research aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Army. These are:
Kimura HK-1
Kayaba Ku-2
Kayaba Ku-3
Kayaba Ku-4
Kayaba Ka-Go
Kayaba Ka-1
Kayaba Ka-2
After the war, in 1954, the company built a gyrodyne, named Kayaba Heliplane. The development of this aircraft started in 1952 when Shiro Kayaba, the founder of the company, obtained the fuselage of a Cessna 170B and, over the course of two years, turned it into a convertiplane.
Scandal
In October, 2018, Kayaba Industry said it had falsified data on the quality of some of its shock absorbers which were used in over 70 government and municipal office buildings including Tokyo Sky Tree, Tokyo Station and facilities for 2020 Summer Olympics since at least 2003 in Japan. In addition, all the faulty Japanese quake absorbers were only exported to Taiwan.
See also
Shock absorber
Car suspension
Motorcycle suspension
Motorcycle fork
References
External links
Official global website (in English)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kayaba Industry
- Moriwaki Engineering
- KYB Corporation
- Minato, Tokyo
- Hamamatsuchō
- List of companies of Japan
- World Trade Center (Tokyo)
- ZALA Lancet
- UMW Holdings
- Yamaha YZ450F
- Yamaha WR450F
- TVS Motor Company
