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:
“A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I blessed them unaware:”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“Yet, hermit and stoic as he was, he was really fond of sympathy, and threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people whom he loved, and whom he delighted to entertain, as he only could, with the varied and endless anecdotes of his experiences by field and river: and he was always ready to lead a huckleberry-party or a search for chestnuts and grapes.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)