Native name 光洋電器株式会社 Founded 1955 (1955) in Tokyo | Romanized name Kōyō Denki, K.K. Products Portable radios | |
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Subsidiaries Koyo Electronics Industry | ||
Koyo Electronics (Kōyō Denki) and its subsidiary Koyo Electronics Industry (Kōyō Denshi Kōgyō), often collectively referred to as just Koyo, are Japanese electronics companies based in Kodaira, Tokyo that manufactured radios since 1955 until 1973, and now its subsidiary manufactures industrial electronics devices and factory automation control systems.
Their first product was a vacuum tube radio released in 1955, and their first transistor radio was the KR-6TS-1 radio released in the spring of 1957 at the price of 14,000 yen. Through the 1960s, Koyo had manufactured and sold millions of portable transistor radios, particularly, their best-selling model KTR-624 had been shipped over one million units in ten years since its release in 1961. Their several models had been sold under other brands, and also supplied to other manufacturers including Philco, Grundig, etc.
However, in the August 1973, they ceased manufacture of audio products including radio receivers and record players.