Konica Minolta : Aspheric Plastic Lens and Planetarium MS-10 Registered as Essential Historical Materials for Science and Technology
September 22, 2021 at 02:42 am EDT
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The MS-10 was the first planetarium model developed for mass production by the planetarium division of Minolta Camera Co., Ltd. (present-day Konica Minolta Planetarium Co., Ltd.), which can project approximately 5,000 stars up to the sixth magnitude. A total of 58 MS-10 units were produced and the first, oldest extant unit is still working, having been installed in Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan in 1966.
The MS-10 intensifies the brightness of radiant stars using special micro lenses. In addition, the MS-10 delivers an emotionally moving experience to viewers with its ability to reproduce the twinkling of stars, which was revolutionary for the time, as well as colors. The MS-10 was registered as an Essential Historical Material as a heritage that shows the technical standard and astronomy education in those days.
Konica Minolta remains committed to further enhancing its core optical and nano-fabrication technologies, while combining its image analysis and other core technologies with digital technologies to create new value by "visualizing the invisible."
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Konica Minolta, Inc. specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of printing, photography, medical imaging and measuring equipments. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- office equipments (51.1%);
- professional printing equipment (21.4%): laser printer, consumables, multifunctional peripherals, etc.;
- electronic and optical equipments (15.3%): plastic and molded glass lenses, display components, screen, memory units, etc.;
- medical equipments (12.1%): primarily imagery and graphic equipments and measuring equipments;
- other (0.2%).
Net sales break down geographically as follows: Japan (19.5%), China (10.5%), Asia (9.4%), Europe (28.6%), the United States (25.3%) and other (6.7%).
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