Hirose Electric Group

Hirose Electric Co., Ltd. (ヒロセ電機株式会社, Hirose Denki kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese company specializing in the manufacturing of electric connectors. The company was founded in 1937 as Hirose Manufacturing, changed its name to Hirose Electric in August 1963 and started selling internationally in 1968.^[2]

Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.

Native name	ヒロセ電機株式会社
Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 6806
Industry	Electronics
Founded	Tokyo (August 15, 1937; 88 years ago (1937-08-15))
Headquarters	Nakagawa Chuoh, Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama 224-8540, Japan
Key people	Kazunori Ishii (President and CEO)
Products	Connectors Switches Printed circuits
Revenue	JPY 165.5 billion (FY 2023) (US$ 1.1 billion) (FY 2023)
Net income	JPY 26.5 billion (FY 2023) (US$ 176.4 million) (FY 2023)
Number of employees	4,654 (as of March 31, 2024)
Website	Official website
Footnotes / references [1][2][3]

Hirose also manufactures flexible printed circuits for smartphones and gets about 70 percent of revenue from outside Japan.^[4]

Connectors

Hirose is mainly known for its ".FL" series of surface-mount connectors, the best-known being Hirose U.FL used in Wi-Fi equipment. They include:^[5]

Name	Length	Width	Height (Typ. / Max.)
H.FL	4.5	5	3
E.FL	3.4	3.4	3
U.FL	3.1	3.0	2.4 / 2.5
U.FL(V)	3.1	3.0	1.9 / 2.0
W.FL(G)	2.0	2.0	1.65 / 1.85
W.FL	2.0	2.0	1.4 / 1.55
All units are in millimeters.

Product gallery

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  A Hirose 3560-16S used for RS-232 on a Tatung TWN-5213 CU tablet computer
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  Hirose TM21 modular plug

See also

• Japan portal
• Electronics portal
• Engineering portal
• Companies portal

• Hirose U.FL connector, used in Wi-Fi equipment
• Hirose W.FL connector