Oops, I got Matsushita mixed up with Mitsubishi, although I did know that Panasonic is a division (or brand name) of Matsushita.
So my question should be, doesn't Mitsubishi also make NiMH battery packs for Toyota?
I doubt it. I believe Toyota's NiMH battery pack suppliers are Panasonic EV and Denso (Toyota holds equity in both companies). Mitsubishi supplies inverters for Toyota hybrids.
Thanks, Ray. The reason I ask is that Mitsubishi was involved in the ECD/Ovonic/Texaco lawsuit on NiMH patent infringement.
Looks like Sanyo manufactures the NiMH battery pack in the Ford Escape. I don't know why Mitsubishi paid $10 million, or a share thereof, to Cobasys.
Panasonic's parent company, Matsushita, makes a LOT of things you don't know about! Almost all floppy disk drives are driven by 'Panasonic' motors, ditto for CD drives. If you look at a lot of things, and see something that looks like a triangle with arrows at the ends, that part was made by Matsushita. Also, an "N" with a lightning bolt through it symbolizes Nation, which is Panasonic in the rest of the world. A lot of parts in video cameras, no matter who made it were made by Matsushita.
I don't think I knew him...I left in '79 and came back in '97. I think he may have been an assistant at one time, IIRC...
He was the service manager when I was assigned to the district in '83, I think he was there for a year or two before Jim took the service dept himself.
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