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Tokuji Hayakawa opened his metalworking workshop in Tokyo on September 15, 1912, and in 1915 invented the “Ever‑Sharp” mechanical pencil that gave the company its name. In 1924 it was established in Osaka as Hayakawa Metal Works, in 1935 it became Hayakawa Electric, and in 1970 it was renamed Sharp Corporation. Its Yao factory (1959) put appliances into series production, and in air conditioning its first product was the RC‑101 of 1958, a simple water‑well‑cooled conditioner at a time when fans were just beginning to enter homes. In the sixties the cold‑heat models arrived, and by 1970 the word “cooler” gave way to “air conditioning.”

Sharp's most ingenious contribution was the AY-233FS of 1983: the first unit that had the temperature and humidity sensor inside the remote control, so it regulated the environment where people were and not next to the wall unit, an idea that the entire industry later copied.

In 1996 it launched the AY-H28FX series of efficient and “healthy” units, and in 2000 the Plasmacluster technology was born, debuted in October in the FU-L40X purifier: in 2001 the first inverter splits with Plasmacluster ions arrived (AY-M28SC) and since then it has been the hallmark of its air conditioners, with more than one hundred million products sold with that technology.

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