Abstract: Provided is a porous metal body containing at least nickel, tin, and chromium. An example of a method of producing such a porous metal body is a method including a conductive-coating-layer formation step of forming a conductive coating layer containing chromium on a surface of a porous base formed of a resin material; a metal-layer formation step of forming a nickel layer and a tin layer in any order on a surface of the conductive coating layer; a removal step of removing the porous base; and a diffusion step of, by a heat treatment, causing interdiffusion of metal atoms between the nickel layer and the tin layer and diffusing chromium contained in the conductive coating layer into the nickel layer and the tin layer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an interface includes first to third input circuits, delay and selection circuits. The first input circuit outputs an active first internal signal in response to an active first control signal received by a memory device. The second input circuit outputs an active second internal signal in response to an active second control signal received by the device while the device is receiving the active first control signal. The delay circuit outputs a selection signal in first or second states after the elapse of a first period from inactivation or activation of the first control signal. The selection circuit outputs the first and second internal signals as an enable signal while receiving the selection signal of the first and second states. The third input circuit outputs an input signal received from the outside from the interface to inside the device while receiving the active enable signal.

Abstract: A porous metallic body has a three-dimensional network structure composed of an alloy containing at least Ni and Cr, the porous metallic body having a skeleton formed of a hollow core and a shell, in which when a cross section of the shell is evenly divided in the thickness direction into three portions, i.e., an outer portion, a central portion, and an inner portion, and when concentrations in percent by weight of Cr in the outer portion, the central portion, and the inner portions are defined as a, b, and c, a, b, and c satisfy the relation given by expression (1): |(a+c)/2?b|/(a+b+c)/3<0.

Abstract: Provided are a porous metal body that is excellent in terms of corrosion resistance and that is suitable for a collector for batteries such as lithium-ion batteries, capacitors, or fuel cells; and methods for producing the porous metal body. A production method includes a step of coating a porous nickel body with an alloy containing at least nickel and tungsten or a metal containing at least tin; and a subsequent step of a heat treatment. Another production method includes a step of forming a nickel-plated layer on a porous base and then continuously forming an alloy-plated layer containing at least nickel and tungsten or tin, a step of removing the porous base, and a step of reducing metal. Such a method can provide a porous metal body in which tungsten or tin is diffused in a porous nickel body or a nickel-plated layer.

Abstract: A driving device of an electrophoretic display panel having a common electrode and a plurality of divided electrodes disposed opposite to the common electrode includes: a first driving circuit that outputs a plurality of voltages corresponding to a plurality of voltage data supplied as a series of data and supplies the plurality of voltages to the plurality of divided electrodes; and a second driving circuit that outputs a voltage corresponding to supplied data and supplies the voltage to the common electrode.

Abstract: Provided is a voltage selection circuit for outputting a potential selected from a plurality of input potentials, the voltage selection circuit capable of selectively outputting a first high-level potential being a highest potential, a second high-level potential, or a third high-level potential being a lowest potential from an output terminal thereof. The voltage selection circuit includes a first switching circuit that supplies the first high-level potential to the output terminal, a second switching circuit that supplies the second high-level potential to the output terminal, and a third switching circuit that supplies the third high-level potential to the output terminal. The first switching circuit includes a high-voltage transistor and a level shifter connected to a gate terminal of the high-voltage transistor.

Abstract: A porous metal member composed of an alloy at least containing nickel and tungsten is provided. The alloy may contain 50 to 80 wt % of nickel and 20 to 50 wt % of tungsten and may further contain 10 wt % or less of phosphorus and/or 10 wt % or less of boron. Such a porous metal member can be produced by, for example, making a porous base such as a urethane foam be electrically conductive, forming an alloy film containing nickel and tungsten, then removing the porous base from the alloy film, and subsequently reducing the alloy.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an interface includes first to third input circuits, delay and selection circuits. The first input circuit outputs an active first internal signal in response to an active first control signal received by a memory device. The second input circuit outputs an active second internal signal in response to an active second control signal received by the device while the device is receiving the active first control signal. The delay circuit outputs a selection signal in first or second states after the elapse of a first period from inactivation or activation of the first control signal. The selection circuit outputs the first and second internal signals as an enable signal while receiving the selection signal of the first and second states. The third input circuit outputs an input signal received from the outside from the interface to inside the device while receiving the active enable signal.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory including an array of memory cells. A buffer comprises latches to hold data from the memory cells. The latches constitute latch groups. The latches of each latch group are connected to corresponding one common line through a transfer circuit. An error corrector is connected to the common lines and detects an error bit in received data. A data transfer controller causes the buffer to read out data from memory cells to be verified, repeats reading out of all data in the latches in one latch group to corresponding one of common lines as to-be-verified data segment for different latch groups, and transfers the to-be-verified data segments to the error corrector. A verify controller causes the error corrector to determine whether an error bit is included in to-be-verified data includes the to-be-verified data segments.

Abstract: In an electrophoretic device including a display including pixels with electrophoretic particles between pixel and common electrodes, a pixel-switching element, a memory holding an image signal from the pixel-switching element, and a switch connecting one of first and second control lines to the pixel electrode according to a signal output according to the image signal from the memory, a driving circuit includes a holding voltage unit supplying a holding voltage holding the image signal in the memory, a pixel potential unit supplying a first pixel potential to the first control line and a different second pixel potential to the second control line, a common potential unit supplying a common potential to the common electrode, and a control unit controlling the holding potential unit, the common potential unit, and the pixel potential unit to stop the holding potential after the first and second pixel potentials and common potential are stopped.

Abstract: A porous metal member composed of an alloy at least containing nickel and tungsten is provided. The alloy may contain 50 to 80 wt % of nickel and 20 to 50 wt % of tungsten and may further contain 10 wt % or less of phosphorus and/or 10 wt % or less of boron. Such a porous metal member can be produced by, for example, making a porous base such as a urethane foam be electrically conductive, forming an alloy film containing nickel and tungsten, then removing the porous base from the alloy film, and subsequently reducing the alloy.

Abstract: A battery electrode substrate includes a metallic porous body. The metallic porous body has a structure in which a surface of a plastic fiber in a woven or unwoven fabric is coated with a nickel film. The nickel film coats the surface with an average coverage ratio of not less than 85%.

Abstract: A method for driving an electrophoretic display device that includes a display unit having a plurality of pixels and an electrophoretic element provided between a pair of substrates is provided. The method includes displaying on the display unit a third image that includes an image component of a first image and an image component of a second image before changing the first image displayed on the display unit to the second image.

Abstract: An apparatus for driving an electrophoretic display unit includes: a current detector that detects a driving current supplied to or flowing out from the electrophoretic display unit and outputs a detection value corresponding to the driving current; a conversion unit that converts the detection value into a corresponding temperature equivalent value; and a driver that generates a driving control signal of the electrophoretic display unit based on the temperature equivalent value.

Abstract: A test interface receives a test command designating execution of a test for a memory cell. The test storage circuit stores test information necessary to execute the test. The test storage circuit includes an erasable programmable storage unit. The decoder decodes the test command input to the test interface, and selects the test information stored in the test storage circuit. The sense amplifier reads out, from the test storage circuit, the test information selected by the decoder. The holding circuit holds the test information read out by the sense amplifier. The control circuit controls a test operation of checking whether the memory cell normally operates, on the basis of the test information held in the holding circuit. The defect storage circuit is formed for the memory cell, and stores fail information indicating that the memory cell is defective if the memory cell does not normally operate in the test operation.

Abstract: A driving device of an electrophoretic display panel having a common electrode and a plurality of divided electrodes disposed opposite to the common electrode includes: a first driving circuit that outputs a plurality of voltages corresponding to a plurality of voltage data supplied as a series of data and supplies the plurality of voltages to the plurality of divided electrodes; and a second driving circuit that outputs a voltage corresponding to supplied data and supplies the voltage to the common electrode.

Abstract: A driving device of an electrophoretic display panel having a common electrode and a plurality of divided electrodes disposed opposite to the common electrode includes: a first driving circuit that outputs a plurality of voltages corresponding to a plurality of voltage data supplied as a series of data and supplies the plurality of voltages to the plurality of divided electrodes; and a second driving circuit that outputs a voltage corresponding to supplied data and supplies the voltage to the common electrode.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a nonvolatile memory functioning as a main memory unit, a volatile memory functioning as a buffer unit of the nonvolatile memory, a controller, an ECC buffer, a parity syndrome circuit, an ECC control circuit, a multiplexer, and an ECC error position decoder.

Abstract: In an electrophoretic device including a display including pixels with electrophoretic particles between pixel and common electrodes, a pixel-switching element, a memory holding an image signal from the pixel-switching element, and a switch connecting one of first and second control lines to the pixel electrode according to a signal output according to the image signal from the memory, a driving circuit includes a holding voltage unit supplying a holding voltage holding the image signal in the memory, a pixel potential unit supplying a first pixel potential to the first control line and a different second pixel potential to the second control line, a common potential unit supplying a common potential to the common electrode, and a control unit controlling the holding potential unit, the common potential unit, and the pixel potential unit to stop the holding potential after the first and second pixel potentials and common potential are stopped.

Abstract: An endoscope capable of being autoclaved in accordance with the present invention includes an insertion unit, an internal endoscope space, and contents. The insertion unit has a soft member, which is made of a soft polymeric material, as at least part of a casing thereof. The internal endoscope space includes the internal space of the insertion unit that is formed at a first sealing level at which the internal space is sealed in a watertight manner relative to an outside. The contents include at least one hermetically sealed unit composed of a plurality of airtight partition members and formed at a second sealing level higher than the first sealing level by joining the meeting portions of the airtight partition members using an airtight joining material. All or part of the airtight partition members is stowed in the internal endoscope space.