FUKOKU boasts the No. 1 production volume of wiper blade rubbers worldwide. While rolling out products with large shares in the field of auto parts, we are applying the bonding, surface modification, and molding technologies we have developed with rubber raw materials to expand our products in a variety of industrial fields. Here we introduce the FUKOKU products and technologies that play an important role in people’s lives.
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Providing safe, secure, and comfortable transport to support people’s lives.
We develop and manufacture the rubbers attached to automobile wiper blades as well as a variety of components that support vehicle safety and comfort.
Components used in disk brakes that both keep the driver safe and affect brake performance. We are fastidious about our internally developed rubber materials and even invisible details such as surface characteristics. This has led to our 17% global share in these products and our annual production volume of 75 million units.
CVJ boots are dust covers for constant velocity joints, which transmit power of the engines to the wheels.
We were the first manufacturer in Japan to mass-produce Plastic CVJ boots, and we use the design development technology we have been accumulating since then to develop boots that are durable, while lightweight and compact.
The diaphragms that we manufacture are mainly used in brake boosters.
Thanks to rubber compounding technology, they use rubber materials with a superior property balance that are suitable for a variety of environments and have high durability.
Boots are installed on equipment that is sensitive to the entry of water or foreign objects, where they serve as a cover to protect the internal parts. Our boots have high durability to repeated deformation and are available in a variety of diverse types, including integrated jig-type boots with high release and high reliability.
The photo shows a window regulator coupling. These are the components that absorb the impact of power windows arriving at the top or bottom of their range. We also produce and sell a variety of other coupling products.
Components installed at the tip of the engine crankshaft to reduce vibration and noise. They are used not only in automobiles but in ships and construction machinery as well. We use high-performance rubber and other cutting-edge technologies to provide products with high added value.
A high-functional component composed of a crankshaft damper with an added function to decrease the rotational fluctuation transferred to the belt system during low- speed operation.
Wiper blade rubbers are FUKOKU’s core product and we boast the No. 1 production volume worldwide. That makes up a 50% global share for automobile applications. We use our original rubber compound technologies to develop products that can be used more cleanly, more quietly, and for longer.
We make a variety of components that are used in railway cars, including cushioning rubbers for linking railcars while mitigating forward and backward movement. We use our original rubber compounding technologies to design for the necessary anti-vibration characteristics of rubber and contribute to the safety and comfort of railways.
These products are laid beneath railway tracks (both the tracks and the gravel roads) to reduce vibration and noise for a more comfortable ride.
We have a track record of delivering monuts for gyroscopes for satellites and space station equipment. FUKOKU’s rubber even plays a role in outer space.
Suppressing the noise and vibration of construction and agricultural machinery to reduce the fatigue of the people working on site.
Our components that utilize the soundproofing and anti-vibration performance of rubber are adopted. Viscous mounts are products that are installed underneath the cabin of construction machinery (where workers ride) to reduce the vibration and noise transmitted to the operator.
Ultrasonic motors are employed in their moving parts of the total stations (surveying instruments) used for surveying of construction sites and topography, which require accurate and detailed operation. Their direct drive allows them contribute to high accuracy, downsizing, and weight reduction.
FUKOKU’s technologies support the functions that achieve precise printing and feeding performance in OA devices.
Our products are used in the pressurizing components and the rollers of laser printers to fix toner powder (coloring powder) onto paper. Our originally developed sponge rubber and low-friction coating technologies play a role in high-speed printing with lower power consumption.
Our precision seal components are widely used in transferring ink to print heads. We have applied our unique compounding technologies in developing acclaimed materials to help maintain ink quality.
Our products are used in the rubber rollers that feed paper. They are distinct for their high durability and their high-precision paper feeding capability.
FUKOKU’s products contribute to the evolution of industrial machinery in terms of space-saving and high durability.
Our urethane rollers are used in the wire saw equipment that slices semiconductor ingots into wafers. We boast the top global share in the urethane roller field.
Beyond automobile applications, we also manufacture solenoid air valves, dustproof seals for linear systems for industrial facilities, and more. Using our originally developed technology, we are developing products with functions such as low sliding and low viscosity.
We produce high-performance O-rings, made of a composite material of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and rubber, for use in oil exploration equipment. They are highly resistant to pressure, heat, and chemicals, and it is expected that they can expand possible oil reserves in the future.
FUKOKU’s products are selected for their high reliability and safety, and they bring comfort and operability to familiar products.
Ultrasonic motors are installed in replacement lenses for digital cameras. They are ring-shaped and silent, and they feature highly responsive control, making them perfect for the autofocus function.
FUKOKU’s ultrasonic atomizers are installed in the humidifiers and air sterilization atomizers you encounter in your daily life. For the oscillators that atomize liquids, we offer integrated production of everything from the piezoelectric ceramics to the rubber gaskets, including assembly. With our foundational rubber technologies, we also produce rubber gaskets suitable for the special coatings needed for sterilized water and hypochlorous acid water.
We support healthy living in everything from cosmetics to the increasingly high-precision field of cutting-edge medicine.
MRI machines are testing equipment that use a strong magnetic force to take images of the organs and blood vessels inside the human body. Ultrasonic motors are based on the operating principle of ultrasonic vibration, and they generate very little electromagnetism, which causes noise. Also, they are not impacted by strong magnetic fields, so they are installed in biomonitoring devices and other peripheral equipment used in the MRI environment.
We offer cell culture bags for use in regenerative medicine settings. We can also provide bags with different films and tubes with gas permeability or gas barrier properties as well as customizable port specifications.
Our cell culture media for use in regenerative medicine settings have earned high praise for their proliferative response.
Products packaged in the culture bags produced in our integrated manufacturing process have a reduced risk of contamination and infection.
While conventional bacterial infection testing kits may take 18 hours or more to get results, involve testing in large and expensive facilities, or require a certain level of skill for operation, RaST-TAS uses a small microchannel chip and dedicated peripheral equipment to save time (only three hours), space, and cost, and make it simpler.
β-Lactamases hydrolyze and inactivate β-lactam antibiotics, making producers problem-atic drug-resistant bacteria in chemotherapy.
These microfluidic chips can detect producibil-ity of β-lactamases in various Enterobacteri-aceae in less than three hours.
The β-lactamases that can be detected are as follows.
*These products are reagents for research use and should not be used for purposes other than research.