RESEARCH HUB FUNCTION

In collaboration with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), one of the largest national research institutes in Japan, Toyota Motor Corporation and we are promoting joint research to accelerate the development and practical application of advanced technologies in the energy and environmental research fields. To achieve carbon neutrality, we are working on the “construction of energy scenarios,” “construction of city energy networks that are both carbon neutral and economically rational,” and “development of elemental technologies for making, transporting, and using hydrogen.”

FC-Cubic is a technical research association, in which multiple companies, universities, and other organizations participate. To promote shared fundamental research supporting fuel cell systems development, FC-Cubic involves bridging the gap between academia and industry, developing evaluation and analysis technologies, and providing evaluation support. Together with FC-Cubic, we aim to contribute to the emergence of fuel cell technology in Japan, particularly by creating a roadmap for developing Japanese fuel cell technology.

QUP is an international research center at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) that has been selected as a World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI), organized by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Our researcher is participating in this project as a principal investigator and is researching novel control theory for the force produced by quantum fields (Casimir force). We aim to apply this theory to particle measurement technologies and to industrial applications of quantum effects.

We established a joint industry–academia collaborative chair at Nagoya University, where our researchers serve as specially appointed professors and engage in research. We are accelerating the research and development of next-generation semiconductor devices such as GaN through collaboration between the Toyota Group and Nagoya University.

J-PARC comprises a group of proton accelerators and experimental facilities for conducting cutting-edge research in various research fields. In cooperation with the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and the Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society (CROSS), we are working to advance nondestructive analysis techniques using high-intensity neutron beams.

As a large synchrotron radiation facility capable of producing the world’s most powerful synchrotron radiation, SPring-8 built a beamline dedicated to our company in 2009. In cooperation with RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), we are working to develop original technologies to measure and visualize the internal state of materials.