How to Identify Japanese Electrolytic Capacitors
By Gabriel Torres on July 31, 2008 Page 3 of 4

List of Japanese Capacitors

We compiled below a short table listing the most common Japanese electrolytic capacitor manufacturers that you will find on motherboard and power supplies. We also included their typical markings (as some of them don’t print their names on the capacitors) and also pictures with examples of Japanese capacitors from these brands.

Marking

Manufacturer

Empty Rectangle (See Figure 3)

Chemi-Con

KZE, KZJ, KZG

Chemi-Con

Logo shown on Figure 2

Hitachi

[M]

Panasonic (Matsushita)

Rubycon

Rubycon

Sanyo

Sanyo

TK

Toshin Kogyo

Chemi-con Capacitor
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Figure 3: Typical capacitor from Chemi-Con (empty rectangle logo).

Toshin Kogyo TK capacitor
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Figure 4: Capacitors from Toshin Kogyo (TK marking).

Panasonic Matsushita Capacitors
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Figure 5: Capacitors from Panasonic ([M] logo, which means Matsushita).

Sanyo Capacitors
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Figure 6: Capacitors from Sanyo.

Rubycon Capacitors
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Figure 7: Capacitors from Rubycon.


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