History of Ise Electronics Corporation Year History Technologies and Products 1966 Company Established(Capital: 20 Million Yen) Development and Research of VFDs 1967 Ueno plant built.Manufacturing sales started.Licensed to NEC. Single Digit VFDs 1968 The Best Ten Invention of the Year Awardby Nikkan Industry News 1969 Ohmiya Plant built.Licensed to Futaba. 1970 Science and Technical Bureau Minister AwardSmall and Med. Firm Reserch Center Award Metal Envelope Multi-Digit VFDs 1971 Kiho plant (Kiho Electronics) built.Nantou plant (Nansei Electronnics) built. Glass Envelope Multi-Digit VFDs 1972 VFD basic patent registerd. 1974 Partnership with Noritake Flat Glass Envelope VFDs 1975 5x7dot Character VFDs 1976 Tsumura plant built. 1978 Ohkouchi Memorial Production Prize Award Full Dot Matrix VFDsMulti Colored Custom Design VFDs 1979 VFD module production started. VFD Modules 1984 Nansei plant (Nansei Electronics) built. CIG Technology 1986 Ohuchiyama plant (Noritake Ohuchiyama) built. 1987 Picture Element Tube production startedAID Special Recognition Award Picture element Tubes 1989 Graphic VFD Modules 1991 SID Brown Award 1996 ISO9001 RegisteredCLVFDs and BDVFDs production started. CLVFDs and BDVFDs 1997 PET production line expanded Graphic BDVFDs 1998 BD production line expanded Pager Info-Display Sys 1999 Ohmiya plant expanded "i-ÉeÉbÉN" Gray Scalable BD-VFDs 2000 Research of Carbon Nanotube FED Elements Network Display

Since about 1974 "Ise Electronics Corporation" is a subsidiray of "Noritake Itron Corporation" (see there).