This slide shows the quarterly trends for Motor, Lighting & Sensing segment.
Net sales increased 2.2% quarter on quarter to total 99.1 billion yen.
Looking at the results by product, we see that sales of motors increased 2.6% quarter on quarter to reach 77.1 billion yen.
This was mainly due to strong sales of motors for HDDs and solid sales of motors for automotive applications.
Sales of electronic devices were up 3.9% from the previous quarter to total 11.4 billion yen.
Sales of sensing devices were down 0.7% from the previous quarter to total 9.1 billion yen.
Operating income came to 5.1 billion yen, and the operating margin was 5.2%.
On a quarter on quarter basis, operating income increased 42.1% and operating margin rose 1.5 percentage points.