Word: matsushita
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...documentaries, in corporate magazine ads and in novel electronic gadgets ranging from computer-controlled air conditioners to golf-swing analyzers. The concept of fuzziness has struck a cultural chord in a society whose religions and philosophies are attuned to ambiguity and contradiction. Says Noboru Wakami, a senior researcher at Matsushita: "It's like soy sauce and sushi -- a perfect match...
Japanese researchers are pursuing more than 100 new applications for fuzzy logic. Nissan has patented fuzzy auto transmission and antiskid braking , systems. Yamaichi Securities has introduced a fuzzy stock-market investment program for signaling shifts in market sentiment. Canon is working on a fuzzy auto-focus camera. Matsushita has delivered a fuzzy automobile-traffic controller, and is about to unveil a fuzzy shower system that adjusts to changes in water temperature to prevent morning scaldings. And in the strongest endorsement of the technology to date, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry opened the Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering Research...
Scully said members of the foundation distributing the prize include the executive director of Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, which owns Panasonic, and a former chief justice of Japan's supreme court...
...representatives allegedly resorted to classic pressure tactics to shore up profits that had been eroded by price wars. Panasonic threatened to cut off deliveries to retailers that discounted Panasonic goods. Among the targets: K mart, Montgomery Ward and Circuit City. Last week Panasonic, a division of Japan's Matsushita, settled charges of price fixing with the New York State attorney general's office. While Panasonic admitted no wrongdoing, the company agreed to refund as much as $16 million to an estimated 748,000 U.S. consumers who were overcharged. The refunds, on such products as videocassette recorders, camcorders and answering machines...
...Tandy, the deal is recognition that its IBM-compatible machines, which command an estimated 23% of the American market for PCs, are considered among the industry's most reliable and user-friendly. And the arrangement will provide a regained U.S. foothold for Matsushita, which had pulled its made-in- Japan computers from the American market in April 1987 because Washington had imposed tariffs on some kinds of imported PCs. Matsushita hopes eventually to market Tandy's computers overseas as well...