Furuno

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title: "Furuno" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["electronics-companies-of-japan", "defense-companies-of-japan", "global-positioning-system", "fishing-equipment-manufacturers", "avionics-companies", "marine-electronics", "navigation-system-companies", "radar-manufacturers", "health-care-companies-of-japan", "companies-listed-on-the-tokyo-stock-exchange", "companies-based-in-hyōgo-prefecture", "electronics-companies-established-in-1938", "1938-establishments-in-japan", "japanese-brands"] description: "Japanese marine electronics company" topic_path: "engineering" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furuno" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Japanese marine electronics company ::

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Field	Value
name	Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
native_name	古野電気株式会社
native_name_lang	ja
logo	Furuno company logo.svg
logo_size	250px
type	Public KK
traded_as
foundation	Nagasaki ()
founder	Kiyotaka Furuno
location	9-52 Ashihara-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture 662-8580, Japan
key_people	Yukio Furuno
(President)
industry	Electronics
products
revenue	US$ 700 million (FY 2017)
net_income	US$ 11.5 million (FY 2017)
num_employees	2,836 (consolidated, as of February 28, 2014)
homepage
footnotes
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Furuno Electric Co., Ltd. (commonly known as Furuno) is a Japanese electronics company whose main products are marine electronics, including marine radar systems, fish finders, and navigational instruments. The company also manufactures global positioning systems and medical equipment, and entered the weather radar market in 2013.

History

Furuno Electric Shokai was founded in Nagasaki, Japan in 1948. The same year, Furuno commercialized the world's first practical fish finder. Manufacturing continued to ramp up as the decade came to a close, and by the mid-1950s, Furuno was producing various Marine supplements, such as early examples of commercial Marine radars. In 1973, Furuno created an early iteration of satellite positioning receivers for vessels at sea. Later that decade, Furuno entered the United States market, establishing an HQ in the United States as Furuno USA. Following this expansion and continued growth, Furuno continued expanding their marine-based radar products. In 2009, Furuno acquired San Francisco based eRide, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company. Following this acquisition, in 2013, Furuno introduced an X-band weather radar, the smallest of its kind. In 2015, the company's GNSS Receiver Modules were used in radio controlled flying quadcopters.

In popular culture

Furuno's marine electronic devices has been featured in Licence to Kill (1989) as product placement.

Gallery

File:Miki Factory, Furuno Electric 20110919.jpg|The Furuno factory in Miki city| File:Port of Barcelona - Esence (ship, 2006) 05.JPG|Furuno control panels on a ship| File:Projekt 92-016 Michail Frunse 25.jpg|A Furuno marine radar on a ship (visible on the left)| File:Furuno sonar.jpg|An old model of sonar made by the company| File:Furuno WR2120 Radar.jpg|A Furuno Doppler Weather Radar}}

Notes

References

1. "Company Outline". Furuno.
2. "Company Snapshot". [[Bloomberg Businessweek]].
3. "Company".
4. (September 18, 2014). "Gary L. Fischer Helps eRide; Caps 8 Plus Years". [[Marketwired]].
5. "FURUNO Launches World's Smallest and Lightest Weather Radar System for Meteorological Monitoring and Analysis".
6. "Furuno's Latest Multi-GNSS Receiver Module Adopted for Use in Parrot's New Quadricopter "Bebop Drone"". Autonomous Media, LLC..
7. Scheidemann, Robert; [https://productplacementblog.com/movies/furuno-marine-electronics-in-licence-to-kill-1989/ "Furuno Marine Electronics in Licence To Kill (1989)"]

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