Technology History | Murata — Titanium Capacitors from a 150-Square-Metre Kyoto Shop
· 1944-10
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Technology History | Murata — Titanium Capacitors from a 150-Square-Metre Kyoto Shop
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People treat Murata as the Nagaokakyo campus beside JR Nagaokakyo station.
The first shop was a 150-square-metre works in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto.
In October 1944 Akira Murata, then twenty-three, opened Murata Manufacturing as a personal venture and began making titanium-oxide ceramic capacitors for heterodyne radios.
The company's own history describes tubular parts of about 500 picofarads, with electrode paste brushed onto the ceramic.
Kyoto already had pottery in the family. Murata's father ran a ceramics shop near Sennyu-ji in Higashiyama. The son turned kiln knowledge into a radio part.
In December 1950 the venture was reorganized as Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., with paid-in capital of 1 million yen.
The head office and plant moved to Yamashina in 1952, then to the present Nagaokakyo site in February 1961. The registered address is now 10-1 Higashikotari 1-chome, a one-minute walk from the east exit of JR Nagaokakyo.
Nominatim resolves the works to the Garasha-dori frontage in Higashikotari. That is the public pin. The 1944 Nakagyo rooms do not survive as a marked factory.
The mechanism is materials before brands. A ceramic body that holds a stable capacitance let radios keep tune as they warmed. Murata later took the same ceramics into filters, sensors, and the multilayer capacitors inside almost every phone.
The listing is Tokyo 6981, a Nikkei 225 name. The pilgrimage stop is not a Tokyo tower. It is a Kyoto suburban station and a ceramics shop that learned to print electrodes.
Photo: Murata head office frontage, Nagaokakyo, Wikimedia Commons.
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