Alps Alpine Co., Ltd. was formed in January 2019 with the business integration of Alps Electric and Alpine Electronics. We look to innovate new value, harnessing and combining advantages in core devices, system design and software development established over many years. Alps Alpine delivers products, systems and services that customers demand in a wide range of fields spanning domains where we wield extensive experience and know-how – automobiles, home appliances and mobile tools like smartphones – to new areas such as IoT and drones.
Alps Alpine uses a range of sensing techniques, including magnetic, radio wave, resistive and capacitive methods. Sensors play a growing role in our lives – for example, to monitor equipment status, capture environmental data and keep an eye on our bodies – and Alps Alpine not only provides individual sensors suited to particular applications, but also responds to customer needs by putting forward solutions as packages, combining sensors with algorithm design and ...
Alps Alpine switches come in many different varieties catering to diverse needs, from power circuit switching to detecting the position of objects. As illustrated by the rotary switches we have been supplying ever since our founding, original contact and precision processing technology is used to realize high durability and quality even with smaller, thinner designs. Our detector switch and push switch lineups even include numerous varieties suited to the particular conditions of...
Alps Alpine has expanded the scope of applications for its encoders from audio equipment to automotive products and household appliances, catering to customer needs with a broad lineup that includes long-life metal shaft types with minimal shaft play; insulated shaft types providing excellent cost performance; ring types with extensive inner and outer diameter variations; and compact, surface mount through shaft types...
Otherwise referred to as "variable resistors," these products are used for such applications as volume or air-conditioning control. Alps Alpine has incorporated extensive know-how about comfort and ease of use into its lineup of potentiometers with or without a shaft, ring type potentiometers and slide potentiometers. Alps Alpine products have an established track record in pro audio and automotive domains, where the very feel of a component can influence the quality and...
Alps Alpine's spring contacts have the industry's smallest mounting area at 1.4mm2 and a low profile, achieved using the company's own precision processing technology. They have an original double-spiral spring floating structure for resilience to vibrations and impacts, ensuring high contact reliability. Alps Alpine has also developed a spring contact with insulation coating. Insulation coating allows securing of a stable signal path by avoiding continuity between springs...
The CASE trends – connected cars, autonomous driving, sharing and services, and electric vehicles – are vital to the evolution of next-generation automobiles. Essential to the connectivity element will be wireless communication technology. Drawing on its many years of RF expertise and past experience supporting bands in the several MHz to millimeter wave ranges, Alps Alpine is contributing through the commercialization of products, from a wireless LAN/Bluetooth® module...
Multi Control Devices providing comfort with multi-direction operation. Alps Alpine offers two types for different uses. For the switch type, we employed our own contact technology to combine in a single device multiple switches, such as push switches and four- or eight-way control switches. The potentiometer type ThumbPointer™ is an analog device using resistor technology to achieve continuous omnidirectional variable output. All models provide an excellent operating feel and are highly...
Strengthening of optical communication network infrastructure is underway around the world as data traffic grows. With more than 20 years of experience in the aspherical lens market, Alps Alpine achieves high coupling characteristics to ensure high-quality communication over long distances, supporting use in intercontinental cable repeaters and intercity communications infrastructure through to base stations and household applications. The lineup has been bolstered to support...
Power inductors employing Liqualloy™, the Alps Alpine-developed low core loss material with excellent soft magnetic properties. A metal composite structure in which winding wire is integrally molded with the magnetic material realizes both compact size and compatibility with high currents. The GLU Series, for which DC resistance was lowered further through optimization of magnetic material and coil design, is now joined in the lineup by the GLW Series, a model achievining...
There is growing demand for mobile phone and smartphone autofocus camera mechanisms that save space and ensure high-quality images. Alps Alpine' VCM actuators come with exterior designs to match individual needs for compact size and low profile. Mounting of large-diameter lenses is also supported. Proprietary mechanical design and design simulation technologies have been used to satisfy contradicting requirements— compatibility with lenses with larger...
A HAPTIC™ Reactor is a uniquely structured electromagnetic vibration actuator bringing together Alps Alpine expertise in fields including mechanical structure design, magnetic circuit design and precision processing. These products help to improve operability and enhance immersive experience through tactile sensations produced using vibrations, such as a clicking feel. Alps Alpine also strives to deliver vibration-based tactile sensations that best meet the needs of each market...
Touch input is now widely used in many different situations in our daily lives. Alps Alpine carries out product development to expand the possibilities of touch input to diverse applications, including mobile devices, game consoles and wearable computers. Capacitive devices are one example. Alps Alpine provides a wide variety of thin and lightweight capacitive touch input devices with excellent layout flexibility that contribute to set design improvements. Comfortable, reliable and...
