Abstract: The disclosure provides a semiconductor storage device and a reading method, which may achieve high-speed processing time for error detection and correction and achieve miniaturization. The flash memory of the disclosure has a NAND chip and an ECC chip. The NAND chip has: a memory array; a page buffer/sensing circuit, including latches L1 and L2; and dedicated input and output terminals, which may be used for data transmission with ECC chip. The latch L1 contains cache C0 and cache C1, and the latch L2 only contains the cache C1. The data in the cache C0 of the latch L1 and the data in the cache C1 of the latch L2 are transmitted to the ECC chip. In response to outputting data at the initial address from the ECC chip, the next page is read from the memory array, and the read data is held in the latch L1.

Abstract: A charging control device (1A) according to the present invention includes a determination part that determines whether or not an abnormality in input power occurs on the basis of input power information on the input power and a predetermined determination threshold value. The determination part makes the determination on the basis of the input power information when a predetermined time has passed after an input of the input power.

Abstract: There is provided an air cleaner configured to be disposed inside a vehicle body frame, the air cleaner including: an air cleaner case in which an intake chamber is formed; an intake air temperature sensor configured to detect an intake air temperature in the intake chamber; an inlet tube configured to take in air to the intake chamber; and an outlet tube configured to send out air from the intake chamber. The outlet tube has an upstream portion protruding into the intake chamber, and the upstream portion of the outlet tube has a peripheral wall formed with a through hole.

Abstract: A game table is provided in which a dealer can suppress an unauthorized use of a chip without taking time and effort to confirm a validity of a chip. The game table includes a plurality of betting areas for placing chips, a reading device that reads identification information that specifies the chip placed on the betting area, and a computer device that updates management information including a validity of the chip based on the identification information read from the chip, in which the computer device executes a functions of managing a progress of a game and updating the management information so as to validate a status of the chip placed on the betting area that won the game, invalidating a status of the other chips during a dividend period in which a dividend amount according to a result of the game is paid.

Abstract: There is provided an air cleaner configured to be disposed inside a vehicle body frame, the air cleaner including: an air cleaner case in which an intake chamber is formed; an intake air temperature sensor configured to detect an intake air temperature in the intake chamber; an inlet tube configured to take in air to the intake chamber; and an outlet tube configured to send out air from the intake chamber. The outlet tube has an upstream portion protruding into the intake chamber, and the upstream portion of the outlet tube has a peripheral wall formed with a through hole.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet-like material in which a plant-derived raw material of low environmental impact is used. The invention also provides a sheet-like material that ideally has a uniform and refined nap and a sheet-like material that is strong, has excellent shape stability, is lightweight and is very pliable. This sheet-like material is characterized in being made of nonwoven fabric that is made of polyester microfiber containing a 1,2-propanediol-derived component in an amount prescribed in the present application and a polyurethane elastomer resin containing structural monomers prescribed in the present application.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, the X-ray diagnosis apparatus includes an X-ray detector, X-ray diaphragm apparatus, and processing circuitry controlling the X-ray diaphragm apparatus to shield the X-rays from passing through a X-ray filter outside an aperture region or a partial region during a transition from first fluoroscopy employing an X-ray filter to second fluoroscopy employing diaphragm blades, generating a first and second fluoroscopic image during the first and second fluoroscopy respectively, generating a composite image during the second fluoroscopy by combining a non-ROI image of the first fluoroscopic image and a ROI image of the second fluoroscopic image, and displaying the first fluoroscopic image and the composite image on the display during the first and second fluoroscopy respectively.

Abstract: The present invention provides a game table with which the correctness of a placement sum can be recognized intuitively. The game table includes a reading device for reading a placement sum from information on chips placed in a betting area, a light emitting unit provided in the betting area, and a computer device for managing the progress of a game. The computer device is caused to execute a function for managing the progress of the game, a function for calculating a payout sum corresponding to the outcome of the game, and a function for controlling light emission by the light emitting unit in accordance with the result of a comparison between the payout sum and the placement sum.

Abstract: In an evaporative fuel treatment device, a differential pressure specifying unit specifies a differential pressure between a pressure in a diagnosis target system and the atmosphere, and a pressure target setting unit sets a pressure target value so that the differential pressure attains a predetermined differential pressure value. A pump pressurizes or depressurizes the pressure in the diagnosis target system to the pressure target value, and a leakage diagnosis unit performs a leakage diagnosis based on a pressure change relation value related to the pressure change in the diagnosis target system and the leakage diagnosis threshold value. The fuel partial pressure estimation unit estimates a first partial pressure of fuel vapor in the fuel tank from a tank inside concentration and a tank absolute pressure of a specific component.

Abstract: A pyroelectric infrared sensor device comprising: a pyroelectric infrared sensor part (2); and a cover member (3). The pyroelectric infrared sensor part comprises: a pyroelectric element (21); a housing (24) that the pyroelectric element is placed inside of and comprises an opening at a position facing a light receiving surface of the pyroelectric element; and an infrared transmission filter (25) that is located to cover the opening of the housing. The cover member covers at least a top surface of the pyroelectric infrared sensor part. The infrared transmission filter transmits light equal to or greater than a wavelength of 1 ?m. The cover member has a property that a transmittance of infrared light having a wavelength of from 3 ?m to 5.5 ?m is equal to or greater than 10% and has a uniform material quality in an area corresponding to the top surface of the pyroelectric infrared sensor part.

Abstract: A sheet material has good mechanical properties, flexibility, lightweight properties, and quality, and also relates to a production method therefor. The sheet material includes, as constitutional components, an elastic polymer and nonwoven fabric composed mainly of ultrafine hollow fiber with an average monofilament diameter in the range of 0.05 to 10 ?m, the ultrafine hollow fiber containing 2 to 60 hollows.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for detecting a vehicle type and a traveling direction of a vehicle by an electromagnetic induction sensor. A sensor unit (10), which is an electromagnetic induction sensor, includes a transmission coil (TX1), a first reception coil (RX1), and a second reception coil (RX2). A magnetic field of a vehicle (90) made of steel attracts a magnetic field emitted from the transmission coil (TX1) (S1). As the vehicle (90) approaches, a state 1 indicated by the broken line changes to a state 2 indicated by the dash-dot line (S2). A reduction in induced voltage and a phase change occur with respect to the induced voltage when the first reception coil (RX1) is in the magnetic field of state 1 (when the vehicle is not detected) (S3). The differential output signals of the second reception coil RX2 and the first reception coil RX1 change according to the advancement of the vehicle and according to the unevenness of the vehicle bottom portion 92 and the metal species (S4).

Abstract: In an evaporative fuel treatment device, a differential pressure specifying unit specifies a differential pressure between a pressure in a diagnosis target system and the atmosphere, and a pressure target setting unit sets a pressure target value so that the differential pressure attains a predetermined differential pressure value. A pump pressurizes or depressurizes the pressure in the diagnosis target system to the pressure target value, and a leakage diagnosis unit performs a leakage diagnosis based on a pressure change relation value related to the pressure change in the diagnosis target system and the leakage diagnosis threshold value. The fuel partial pressure estimation unit estimates a first partial pressure of fuel vapor in the fuel tank from a tank inside concentration and a tank absolute pressure of a specific component.

Abstract: Means which enables preparation of a thick cell aggregate by a simple process without an operation of detaching and stacking of cells is disclosed. The method for preparing a three-dimensional cell aggregate by the present invention comprises: a cell encasing step of placing a cell suspension in a cell container; and a pressure application step of applying pressure to cells in the container. The cell encasing step and the pressure application step may be carried out a plurality of times. By the present invention, a thick, robust cell aggregate can be obtained by a simple operation of applying pressure to a cell suspension or a medium containing cells. Since the method does not require an operation of stacking a plurality of cell sheets, the cells are hardly damaged, and the conditions of the cells can be favorably maintained, so that the cells can be advantageously used as a tissue piece for transplantation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet-like material in which a plant-derived raw material of low environmental impact is used. The invention also provides a sheet-like material that ideally has a uniform and refined nap and a sheet-like material that is strong, has excellent shape stability, is lightweight and is very pliable. This sheet-like material is characterized in being made of nonwoven fabric that is made of polyester microfiber containing a 1,2-propanediol-derived component in an amount prescribed in the present application and a polyurethane elastomer resin containing structural monomers prescribed in the present application.

Abstract: An X-ray diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment acquires a first X-ray image and a second X-ray image by using mutually-different radiation doses; acquires a third X-ray image based on X-rays radiated onto a region of interest of the subject and onto a region other than the region of interest in mutually-different radiation doses; obtains position information of the region of interest; and on a basis of the position information, generates a subtraction image by calculating a difference between the region of interest in the third X-ray image and a region corresponding to the region of interest in the first X-ray image and calculating a difference between the region other than the region of interest in the third X-ray image and a region corresponding to the region other than the region of interest in the second X-ray image.

Abstract: An evaporation leakage checking system includes a pump, a pump passage unit, a tank passage unit, a specified passage unit, an atmosphere passage unit, a flow-passage area changing unit, an atmosphere valve unit, a pressure sensing unit, and a control unit. The control unit includes a calculating unit that calculates a leakage threshold, based on a first pressure, a first area, an Nth pressure, an Nth area, and a reference area that is predetermined, and a leakage checking unit that activates the pump, closes the atmosphere passage unit by changing the flow-passage area of the atmosphere passage unit by using the atmosphere valve unit, and checks the existence of the evaporation leakage based on the leakage threshold and a checking pressure that is the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor in a case where a communication between the tank passage unit and the pump passage unit is allowed.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus includes a pressure sensor, a reference orifice, a pump, and a switching valve. The reference orifice is disposed in a first communication passage communicating a pressure passage receiving the pressure sensor, with a tank passage communicating with a fuel tank. The pump depressurizing or pressurizing the pressure passage includes an intake port and a discharge port, and one of which communicates with an atmospheric passage communicating with the atmosphere and the other one communicates with the pressure passage. The switching valve and switches between a state shutting off a communication of a second communication passage that leads to the pressure passage and passages other than the pressure passage and communicating the atmospheric passage with the tank passage and a state shutting off a communication of the atmospheric passage and passages other than the pump and the atmosphere and communicating the second communication passage with the tank passage.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, the X-ray diagnosis apparatus includes an X-ray detector, X-ray diaphragm apparatus, and processing circuitry controlling the X-ray diaphragm apparatus to shield the X-rays from passing through a X-ray filter outside an aperture region or a partial region during a transition from first fluoroscopy employing an X-ray filter to second fluoroscopy employing diaphragm blades, generating a first and second fluoroscopic image during the first and second fluoroscopy respectively, generating a composite image during the second fluoroscopy by combining a non-ROI image of the first fluoroscopic image and a ROI image of the second fluoroscopic image, and displaying the first fluoroscopic image and the composite image on the display during the first and second fluoroscopy respectively.

Abstract: Provided is a means for evaluating the wetting characteristic of an object such as a cell sheet and a culture dish in a non-contact fashion. The wetting characteristic of an object is evaluated by a method comprising the steps of: (1) removing a liquid by jetting a gas at a surface of the object covered with the liquid, (2) measuring a dimension of a region in which the liquid is removed after the completion of the gas jetting and (3) evaluating the wetting characteristic of the object using the measured dimension as an index.