Famous Japanese Capacitor Brands and their counterfeit products

[Bat]

Around the world there are a lot of counterfeit capacitors.
It's a plague.
Major Japanese Capacitors Manufacturers just say on their web-site to buy only by official distributors of their products.
But there are a lot of their fakes capacitors around and they look all the same.
The original manufacturers do not suggest how to recognize them, only them can recognize.
The counterfeits products looks originals and works the same.
My question is: which factories produce them?
Why the Japanese company do not make anything to stop this falsification?

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Re: Famous Japanese Capacitor Brands and their counterfeit products

Because they can't do anything. The Chinese laws permit this kind of activity.

[TheLaw]

Re: Famous Japanese Capacitor Brands and their counterfeit products

Yeah pretty much, in China and other (mostly) Asian countries, there are no laws that ban the counterfeiting of other things. And I doubt Rubycon/Nichicon is going to try to mess with the Chinese government. They make plenty of money off their own sales and major electronics manufacturers will not use fake caps, and it's just not worth using fake caps in cheaper boards. Might as well just use a junk cap instead of using a junk cap AND then label it is a more expensive one.