NHK Spring Co., Ltd. (日本発条株式会社, Nippon Hatsujō Kabushiki-gaisha?) (TYO: 5991), commonly called as NHK Nippatsu (NHKニッパツ?), is regarded as one of the world's leading spring manufacturers in Yokohama, Japan. NHK also makes seats for automobiles, and suspension systems for disk read-and-write heads for hard-disk drives. The company shares its initials, NHK, with the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, although it registered its trademark before the establishment of the latter organization.
In Japan, another naming of spring in kanji is 発条 (hatsujō) or 発條 (hatsujō) and many company who produce the spring and/or hairspring is naming with 発条 or 発條 in official company name in Kanji.
Famous quotes containing the words spring and/or company:
“sullen fun
Savage as childhood’s thin harmonious tear:
O fountain, bosom source undying-dead
Replenish me the spring of love and fear”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)