For more than half a century since the dawn of research in the 1950s, under the guidance of various research institutes and universities, Hitachi has designed and manufactured important equipment such as coils, vacuum vessels, and Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) for numerous pieces of experimental equipment for research and development, based on technologies cultivated through the manufacture of generators and transformers. This equipment, which was initially little more than laboratory test equipment, has now grown to a scale where it is comparable with power plants, and the basic technologies for manufacturing electrical equipment have expanded to include superconductivity, ultra-low temperature, ultra-high voltage, ultra-high vacuum, and large-scale structural manufacturing technologies, as well as nuclear technologies. By combining system technologies with this, we have contributed to the development of this field as a electronics manufacturer.
Additionally, in cooperation with our R&D department, we are also developing our own distinctive technologies that are necessary in this field, such as design and fabrication technologies for arbitrary shapes and high-precision magnetic fields, high-current ion sources and beam transport technologies, and high-temperature superconducting wiring materials. These technologies are also being applied to healthcare business areas such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Particle Beam Therapy (PBT), which are engaged in further development as a separate business unit.
Our design workplace includes many frontline employees who specialized in plasma and fusion, particle physics, and superconductivity research as students. Since joining Hitachi, they are engaged in autonomous efforts making use of their expertise, alongside those who majored in mechanical and electrical engineering. It is also characterized by a relatively large number of doctoral graduates. To students interested in a career path in nuclear fusion and accelerator development at a manufacturing company, we also offer internship programs and encourage you to listen to Hitachi employees at exhibition booths at research conferences and other events and at company presentations.
Going forward, Hitachi will continue in these activities with the mission of contributing to the development of science and the social implementation of technologies for building a sustainable society from a manufacturing standpoint, balancing pioneering innovation in giving shape to the ideas of our customers with reliability based on deep experience.
| Hitachi Review Vol.91 No.02 238-239 | Shuichi Kido, Dr. Eng. Tomoyuki Semba, Dr. Eng. Yutaka Itou, P.E. Jp Yasuo Yamashita |
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