Meet Eletan – The Official Mascot of Kyocera’s Electronic Components Division | Electronic Components & Devices

Eletan's Profile

Name：Eletan
The origin of the name: “Ele” in “Eletan” comes from “Electronic.” The suffix “-tan” is a cute way to refer to children or lovable characters in Japanese.
Habitat: Eletan can be found somewhere on the Kyocera’s Electronic Components website.
Hobbies/Special skills: Electronics projects, including soldering electronic components with a personal soldering iron.

Eletan FAQ

Question 1: What is Eletan’s hat?
Answer 1: It is a polymer tantalum capacitor. The hat is designed to look like a top hat, and the white vertical stripe is a stylish accent.

Question 2: What is the meaning of the letters and numbers on Eletan’s hat?
Answer 2: “ele” stands for “Eletan,” and “2205” represents May 2022, which is the month and year when Eletan was created.

Question 3: What is Eletan’s face?
Answer 3: It’s a capacitor. A capacitor stores electricity, while Eletan stores knowledge. At Kyocera, we handle not only MLCCs, but also a variety of other capacitors such as SuperCapacitors and polymer capacitors.

Question 4: What is Eletan's body made of?
Answer 4: It is a power semiconductor device(discrete). The legs are also part of the discrete component, but actual discrete components do not have arms attached.

Question 5: What is Eletan's brooch?
Answer 5: It is a crystal device. It is modeled after a platform-structured crystal oscillator. At Kyocera, in addition to crystal devices, we also handle SAW devices as high-frequency devices.

Question 6: What is Eletan's pocket?
Answer 6: It is a connector. You can think of it as a board-to-board connector. In addition, we offer a variety of connectors, not only FPC/FFC connectors and wire to wire / board connectors, but also products developed with KYOCERA AVX's proprietary technology, such as Poke-Home (wire catch) connectors and IDC connectors (pressure welding connectors).

Question 7: What does Eletan like?
Answer 7: Eletan loves that “I get it!” moment when figuring out the meaning of a new word, so Eletan is always looking things up.

Question 8: What is Eletan usually doing?
Answer 8: Eletan is usually looking up and explaining terms and fun facts about electronic components. Since Eletan is good at electronics, Eletan also helps out with assembling electronic components.

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