Mitsubishi Monitor 0210 NEWS& PRODUCTS

	Mitsubishi Pajero to go into production in China
	Mitsubishi Corporation develops new kind of networking technology
	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Corporation provide parts for Chinese power plants
	Nikon helps identify faces
	Nippon Oil goes golfing
	Asahi Glass keeps infrared rays out of car

Mitsubishi Motors and a Chinese partner are preparing to begin producing the Mitsubishi Pajero Sport in China. The vehicle, a cousin of the Montero, will go into production in the first quarter of 2003 at a Beijing Jeep Corporation plant in Beijing. It will be the first vehicle manufactured under the Mitsubishi name in China.


	It's getting a Chinese passport.

Under an agreement signed earlier this year, Mitsubishi Motors is providing Beijing Jeep with technology for manufacturing the Pajero Sport. Beijing Jeep is a joint venture between DaimlerChrysler, Mitsubishi Motors' largest shareholder, and Beijing Automotive Industry (Group) Company.
The decision on Pajero production in Beijing followed an agreement by DaimlerChrysler and Beijing Automotive to extend the joint venture contract 30 years, pending Chinese government approval. Established in 1983, Beijing Jeep is China's oldest international joint venture for producing automobiles.


Mitsubishi Corporation's MOTERAN technology will let users create their own networks.

Mitsubishi Corporation is preparing to set up a company to commercialize an innovative relay technology that lets users create their own voice and data networks. It created the technology by outsourcing the development work to Detecon, an engineering and consulting subsidiary of Deutsche Telecom. Detecon holds a 10% stake in the new company.
The new technology, called Mobile Telecommunications Radio and Relay Network (MOTERAN), is installable in such terminals as laptop computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and cellular phones. It allows those devices to form self-organizing, decentralized networks for voice and data communications. That opens up a wealth of exciting new possibilities in 2nd- and 3rd-generation cellular phone networks and in other kinds of local and extended networks.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, in cooperation with Mitsubishi Corporation, has inked a deal to provide important components to a Chinese maker of steam turbines for electric power plants. The purchaser is Harbin Turbine Co., Ltd., based in Heilongjiang Province. This transaction pertains to high-temperature "supercritical" turbines. Harbin Turbine will supply those turbines for a coal-fired power plant being built in Henan Province.
Also in China, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries contracted this year to collaborate in large gas turbines with Dongfang Steam Turbine Works, of Sichuan Province. The collaborative agreement with Dongfang earned Mitsubishi Heavy Industries the right to participate in a huge tender under way in China. China's government is taking bids for gas turbines to be installed at 10 sites in China.


It never forgets a face.

Nikon technology is helping law enforcement officials identify criminals. The company has developed surveillance systems for identifying facial data automatically. A video camera at an airport, for example, can capture the image of each incoming passenger. Then, a computer can check the facial data instantly against a database of photos of criminals and other unwelcome individuals. Japanese authorities adopted Nikon's technology to help identify known hooligans during the recent World Cup soccer tournament.

Nippon Oil (formerly Nippon Mitsubishi Oil) is famous for supplying fuel for drivers. Now, it has begun supplying drivers. The company has developed clubs whose carbon fiber shafts minimize the twisting of the head. Nippon Oil began selling the clubs in Japan in July.

Asahi Glass, a Mitsubishi company and a world leader in glass products, is making people's time in the car more pleasant. The company began supplying automakers with a new kind of laminated glass this year that blocks infrared rays. That reduces skin irritation caused by exposure to the sun while seated in an automobile.
  Leading automakers have adopted Asahi Glass's new product, called Cool Verre, in the windshields of two minivan models. Other automakers also have expressed an active interest in the glass.
  The popularity of sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) means that unprecedented amounts of sunlight are flooding into vehicles. That's because of the big, bulging windows that are common on those vehicles. Evidencing the problem is a growing stream of complaints about skin irritation from drivers and front-seat passengers in SUVs.
  Glass manufacturers previously have used a transparent metallic coating to block infrared rays. That coating interferes, however, with cellular telephone and other kinds of mobile telecommunications. Asahi Glass's Cool Verre lets electromagnetic waves pass through freely even as it absorbs infrared rays. And unlike tinted glass, Coole Verre is perfectly clear.