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Eiji Mutoh Excellent Design Award



1. Introduction
 From year 2006, JSDE has given Eiji Mutoh Excellent Design Award for companies or individuals who designed outstanding products or research apparatuses. This award has been established based on the fund donated by Mr. Eiji Mutoh, ex-senior executive director of Mutoh Industries Ltd., and has been given to outstanding designers that contribute the progress of design engineering. in order to support the global spreading of research and educational outcomes and to attend to Mr. Mutoh's will. The brief of this award is as follows.
(a) This award is given to companies or individuals who designed outstanding products or research apparatus, in order to honor their achievements.
(b) The number of awarding is limited up to five, in each year.
(c) Anyone who wish to be awarded can nominate oneself by using VP award nomination form which can be downloaded from the following link. The appliation period is from August to October in each year.
(d) "Eiji Mutoh Excellent Design Award Inquiry Committee" evaluates the followings, based on the evaluation rule:
(1) Originality
(2) Significant idea imprementations in the design
(3) Ripple effect to the society
(4) Obtaining of pattents and certifications of practical new design
(e) The announcement of the winners and award ceremony are held at general meeting in the next year. Testimonial and prize medal are given to winners.
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2. Eiji Mutoh Excellent Design Award Call for Nominations
 This year's nomination for Eiji Excellent Design Award is offered as follows:
Application due date: December 31, 2015
Application form: One original set of Design Award nomination form and incidental materials such as drawings, and Five set of hardcopies.
Application address: Director of general affairs and finance board, 2-22-17 Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0073

Download link of Excellent Design Award nomination form
(MS-WORD) (PDF)

Contact: jimukyoku@jsde.or.jp
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3. List of Honors
2016 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award
2015 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award
2014 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award
2013 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award
2012 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award
2011 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award
2010 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award
2009 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award
2008 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award
2007 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award
2006 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award
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2016 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2017 Spring Annual Conference
Ko MASUDA (NHK SPRING Co.,Ltd.),Motohiro FUSHIKIDA (NHK SPRING Co.,Ltd.),Yoshiyuki MATSUOKA (Keio University)
Development of thin suspension seat for automobiles
Hidenori HIRAI (Chikusui Canycom Inc.),Tsukasa OHKAWA (Chikusui Canycom Inc.),Keiji SONODA (HSU)
Development of hydraulic motor integrated type eccentric planetary gear reducer for small crawler type transportation

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2015 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2016 Spring Annual Conference
Keiichi WATANUKI(Saitama University),Jun OHSHIMO(Tsubakimoto Chain Co.),Kazunori KAEDE(Saitama University)
Development of Mericlone System

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2014 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2015 Spring Annual Conference
Hiromu HASHIMOTO (Tokai Univ.), Yasumasa TOMINAGA (Fuji Kikai Kogyo Co. Ltd.), Takahiro NISHIMURA (Fuji Kikai Kogyo Co. Ltd.), Ryo MORIKAWA (Fuji Kikai Kogyo Co. Ltd.)
Development of intelligent functional plastic film winding machine, "WindStar"

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2013 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2014 Spring Annual Conference
Manabu SWADA (Nakamura-Tome Precision Industry)
Development of turret-type super multitasking machine NTJ-100
Eita GOFUKU (Yanmar Co, Ltd.), Masayoshi MURAKI (Shonan Inst, of Tech.)
Development of a multiple vane type compressor with high efficiency and reliablity

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2012 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2013 Spring Annual Conference
Hagino FUJITA(Toyo Seikan Co., Ltd.), Hiromu HASHIMOTO (Tokai University)
Cooking pot having fire defence usable on IH cooking equipments

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2011 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2012 Spring Annual Conference
Masaharu KOMORI(Kyoto University), Jungchul KANG(Kyoto University), Fumi TAKEOKA(Kyoto University)
Uninterruputed ratio variable system for low fuel consumption and high acceleration to realize zero driving force loss, acceleration, and precise rotation transmission during ratio variation process

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2010 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2011 Spring Annual Conference
Yoshiki YOSHIDA(Kikuchiseisakusyo Co., Ltd.), Ken ICHIRYU (Kikuchiseisakusyo Co., Ltd.), Kazuya HIROSE(Kikuchiseisakusyo Co., Ltd.), Yukio TAKEDA(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
High Precision Stage For Vacuum Environment Using Parallel Mechanism With Double Ball Joints

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2009 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2010 Spring Annual Conference
Hideaki YAMATO (Future Robotics Techology Center, Chiba Institute of Technology), Yu OKUMURA (Future Robotics Techology Center, Chiba Institute of Technology) and Takayuki FURUTA (Future Robotics Techology Center, Chiba Institute of Technology)
Leg/wheel Mobile Mode Variable Vehicle Robot : Halluc II

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2008 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2009 Spring Annual Conference
Nobuyuki KUME (Saiken Graphics Inc.), Mikio TADA (Saiken Graphics Inc.) and Hidetoshi ARAKI (Araki System)
Numerically Controlled Electric Upsetter

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2007 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2008 Spring Annual Conference
Mineo HIGUCHI (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.), Michio MURAI (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.) and Masaki HARUNA (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.)
To designing of "Human symbiotic assist arm: PAS-Arm"

Satoshi MATSUMOTO (Technoeight Co. Ltd.) and Shigeo HIRANO (Musashi Institute of Technology)
Ultrasonic tube sealing device

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2006 Eiji Mutoh Award Excellent Design Award given at 2007 Spring Annual Conference
Tohachi ODA (Kanazawa University), Shinobu SAKAI (Kanazawa University) and Saburo HORIKAWA (KINKI CRESCO, Inc.)
Intelligent pitching machine and its controller

Keiichi WATANUKI (Saitama University)
Cyber-assist meister robot with annotation display and force-feedback device in virtual environment (CAMRobot)

Shoji NOUCHI (Tokyo University of Science), Toru KANADA (Kanto Gakuin University) and Shunji TAJIMA (NSK Inc.)
Pivot bearing with multiple degrees of freedom

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