This slide shows the quarterly trends for Motor, Lighting & Sensing segment.
Net sales increased 7.3% quarter on quarter to total 106.4 billion yen.
Looking at the results by product, we see that sales of motors increased 9.0% quarter on quarter to reach 84.1 billion yen.
This was mainly due to strong sales of motors for HDDs and solid sales of motors for non-automotive applications.
Sales of electronic devices were down 1.4% from the previous quarter to total 11.2 billion yen.
Sales of sensing devices were up 4.8% from the previous quarter to total 9.6 billion yen.
Operating income came to 6.8 billion yen, and the operating margin was 6.4%.
On a quarter on quarter basis, operating income increased 33.1% and operating margin rose 1.2 percentage points.