1980	Licensed lithium battery technology to Duracell Co., Ltd. (U.S.A.). Technology exchange agreement reached with Energy Research Corp. (U.S.A.) for phosphoric acid fuel cells. New Tokyo Office building (current Tokyo building) completed. Home solar system featuring heat pipe technology launched. World's first calculator equipped with built-in Amorton, CX-1, introduced.

1981	Amorton heat pipe collector developed. Blue light-emitting diode (LED) and world's first full-color LED lamp developed.

1982	Operation of amorphous solar cell production plant commenced. Licensed lithium battery technology to Renata SA (Switzerland).

1983	Head Office Annex (current Head Office Building No. 2) completed. Applied Technology Laboratory established in Moriguchi City, Osaka. Amorton roof tile developed. Industry's first refrigerator with chilling compartment ("Osashimi compartment"), SR-430VH, launched. Production of OS-CON line of aluminum solid capacitors with organic semiconductive electrolyte commenced.

1984	Conceptual design of air-cooled phosphoric acid fuel battery power generation system with 10,000 kW output commenced jointly with Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. Home electronic appliance series for singles "it's" introduced. Industry's first refrigerated showcase (flat open type) introduced.

1986	SANYO Electric and Tokyo SANYO Electric merged. New wordmark adopted. Test run of phosphoric acid fuel cell with 50 kW output, developed and commenced jointly with Tokyo Electric Power.

1987	See-through Amorton developed.

1988	Japan's first nickel-cadmium batteries for artificial satellite developed and supplied to National Space Development Agency of Japan. SANYO All-Star Series held, first professional baseball games bearing sponsoring company's name. MBA training course established in cooperation with School of Management, Boston University. ROBO series launched.

1989	New corporate slogan "We care for people and the earth" established. Consolidated subsidiaries increased to reinforce consolidated accounting system. Industry's first mid-mount Hi-Fi video recorder, VZ-CS1, introduced. Industry's first 3-way multi-air conditioning system that can provide cooling and heating simultaneously introduced.