Abstract: The present invention provides fibrous copper microparticles suppressed in the occurrence of irregularities on the surface thereof and the aggregates of the fibrous copper microparticles having an average crystallite diameter controlled so as to fall within a specific range. In the fibrous copper microparticles of the present invention, the number of fibrous copper microparticles each including one or more irregularities each having a dimensional difference of 0.02 ?m or more, in a range of 1 ?m in the lengthwise direction of a fibrous body, between the maximum diameter portion of the fibrous body and the minimum diameter portion of the fibrous body falling in a diameter dimension range of 0.01 to 0.5 ?m, and each having a length of 1 ?m or more is 10 or less per 100 of the fibrous copper microparticles.

Abstract: Fibrous copper microparticles having a minor axis of 1 ?m or less and an aspect ratio of 10 or more, wherein the content of the copper particles having a minor axis of 0.3 ?m or more and an aspect ratio of 1.5 or less is 0.1 or less copper particle per one fibrous copper microparticle.

Abstract: The present invention provides coated fibrous copper microparticles, wherein the coated fibrous copper microparticles are fibrous copper microparticles each at least partially coated with a metal other than copper, and the length and the aspect ratio of the fibrous copper microparticles are 1 ?m or more and 10 or more, respectively.

Abstract: A production method for producing an electrode plate that can hold well the active material and producing a battery using the electrode plate. A production method for an electrode plate of a battery includes the steps of: forming at least one electrode plate prototype by forming a layer filled with an active material on a main surface of a plate-shaped core body; and infiltrating a liquid containing a resin and an organic solvent into at least part of a circumference of the layer filled with the active material. The applied liquid infiltrates into the circumferential region of the active material filling area, namely an outer edge of the layer and an area in its vicinity including the outer edge. The resin contained in the liquid enhances the bonding force between the conductive core body and the active material particles and between the active material particles.

Abstract: A normally operable decoder circuit is obtained without entailing a delay in decoding operation, an increase in circuit area, and an increase in circuit design cost. An NMOS transistor in a high-voltage circuit portion is inserted between the output of a NAND gate and a node, and receives an input signal at the gate electrode thereof. A load current generating portion in the high-voltage circuit portion includes PMOS transistors coupled in series between a high power supply voltage and the node. One of the PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. The other PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. An inverter receives a signal obtained from the node as an input signal, and outputs the inverted signal thereof as an output signal.

Abstract: A normally operable decoder circuit is obtained without entailing a delay in decoding operation, an increase in circuit area, and an increase in circuit design cost. An NMOS transistor in a high-voltage circuit portion is inserted between the output of a NAND gate and a node, and receives an input signal at the gate electrode thereof. A load current generating portion in the high-voltage circuit portion includes PMOS transistors coupled in series between a high power supply voltage and the node. One of the PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. The other PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. An inverter receives a signal obtained from the node as an input signal, and outputs the inverted signal thereof as an output signal.

Abstract: A normally operable decoder circuit is obtained without entailing a delay in decoding operation, an increase in circuit area, and an increase in circuit design cost. An NMOS transistor in a high-voltage circuit portion is inserted between the output of a NAND gate and a node, and receives an input signal at the gate electrode thereof. A load current generating portion in the high-voltage circuit portion includes PMOS transistors coupled in series between a high power supply voltage and the node. One of the PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. The other PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. An inverter receives a signal obtained from the node as an input signal, and outputs the inverted signal thereof as an output signal.

Abstract: Each of a pair of signal terminals (TC+ and TC?) includes a signal terminal link portion (uCON) that links a first signal terminal end portion (u1) and a second signal terminal end portion (u2). A ground terminal (TGC) includes a ground terminal link portion (tCON) that links a first ground terminal end portion (t1) and a second ground terminal end portion (t2). The ground terminal link portion (tCON) is wired between the signal terminal link portion (uCON) and a mounting surface (11A) from the opposite side of the mounting surface (11A) relative to the signal terminal link portion (uCON).

Abstract: A normally operable decoder circuit is obtained without entailing a delay in decoding operation, an increase in circuit area, and an increase in circuit design cost. An NMOS transistor in a high-voltage circuit portion is inserted between the output of a NAND gate and a node, and receives an input signal at the gate electrode thereof. A load current generating portion in the high-voltage circuit portion includes PMOS transistors coupled in series between a high power supply voltage and the node. One of the PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. The other PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. An inverter receives a signal obtained from the node as an input signal, and outputs the inverted signal thereof as an output signal.

Abstract: A normally operable decoder circuit is obtained without entailing a delay in decoding operation, an increase in circuit area, and an increase in circuit design cost. An NMOS transistor in a high-voltage circuit portion is inserted between the output of a NAND gate and a node, and receives an input signal at the gate electrode thereof. A load current generating portion in the high-voltage circuit portion includes PMOS transistors coupled in series between a high power supply voltage and the node. One of the PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. The other PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. An inverter receives a signal obtained from the node as an input signal, and outputs the inverted signal thereof as an output signal.

Abstract: A normally operable decoder circuit is obtained without entailing a delay in decoding operation, an increase in circuit area, and an increase in circuit design cost. An NMOS transistor in a high-voltage circuit portion is inserted between the output of a NAND gate and a node, and receives an input signal at the gate electrode thereof. A load current generating portion in the high-voltage circuit portion includes PMOS transistors coupled in series between a high power supply voltage and the node. One of the PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. The other PMOS transistor receives a control signal at the gate electrode thereof. An inverter receives a signal obtained from the node as an input signal, and outputs the inverted signal thereof as an output signal.

Abstract: The aim is to provide a sealed secondary battery with an electrode body that is larger in volume and thus incapacity, without affecting the operability of a valve member and the battery hermeticity. To achieve the aim, the sealed secondary battery includes an electrode body, an external casing, a closure plate, and a valve member. The external casing is of a tubular shape having a bottom and an opening. The closure plate has a hole formed through a central portion thereof and is secured at a peripheral portion to the edge of the opening of the external casing. The valve member has a resilient portion and a plate portion. The plate portion is biased by the resilient portion against the closure plate to close off the hole. The closure plate is smaller in average thickness at portions opposite a main surface of the plate portion than at other portions.

Abstract: A method for producing a cadmium negative electrode for alkaline batteries according to the present invention comprises a step of obtaining a cadmium active-substance impregnated electrode plate by impregnating said electrode substrate with a cadmium active substance; and a step of adding polyethylene glycol for forming a polyethylene glycol coating on the surface of said cadmium negative electrode or on the surface of said active substance by coating or impregnating said active-substance impregnated electrode with polyethylene glycol.

Abstract: A production method for producing an electrode plate that can hold well the active material and producing a battery using the electrode plate. A production method for an electrode plate of a battery includes the steps of: forming at least one electrode plate prototype by forming a layer filled with an active material on a main surface of a plate-shaped core body; and infiltrating a liquid containing a resin and an organic solvent into at least part of a circumference of the layer filled with the active material. The applied liquid infiltrates into the circumferential region of the active material filling area, namely an outer edge of the layer and an area in its vicinity including the outer edge. The resin contained in the liquid enhances the bonding force between the conductive core body and the active material particles and between the active material particles.

Abstract: An antibacterial polyamide filament which comprises a polyamide resin containing 0.1 to 5.0 mass % of fine zinc oxide particles and exhibits a color difference caused by the treatment with an alkaline solution of 2.5 or less; and a method for producing the antibacterial polyamide filament which comprises adjusting the moisture content of a polyamide resin chip to 0.05 to 2.0 mass %, followed by melt spinning. Preferably, the antibacterial polyamide filament has a bacteriostatic activity after 50 washings of 2.2 or more, which filament can be produced by melt-spinning the polyamide resin to melt spinning and solidifying the resin at a position 400 mm or less from the face of a spinning nozzle.

Abstract: A combination seal ring with an encoder for use to close off the opening of the space between a fixed ring and a rotational ring and to detect a rotational speed of the rotational ring, comprising a seal ring secured to the fixed ring, a metal slinger secured to the rotational ring, and an encoder of a rubber magnet secured to the slinger, the seal ring comprising a metal core secured to the fixed ring, and a fixed ring portion bent toward the rotational ring from the fixed cylindrical portion; and a resilient member bonded all around the metal core, the slinger comprising a rotational cylindrical portion secured to the rotational ring, and a rotational ring portion bent toward the fixed ring from the rotational cylindrical portion, the encoder bonded on the rotational circular ring portion, opposite to the seal lips by a molding process, the end rim of the encoder being short at least 0.2 mm of the end rim of the rotational circular ring portion.

Abstract: By using a single semiconductor laser device, laser beams in infrared and red regions are generated at a distance between close light emitting spots. A semiconductor laser resonator having an oscillation wavelength in an infrared region and a semiconductor laser resonator having an oscillation wavelength in a red region are formed in parallel on the same semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A combination seal ring with an encoder for use to close off the opening of the space between a fixed ring and a rotational ring and to detect a rotational speed of the rotational ring, comprising a seal ring secured to the fixed ring, a metal slinger secured to the rotational ring, and an encoder of a rubber magnet secured to the slinger, the seal ring comprising a metal core secured to the fixed ring, and a fixed ring portion bent toward the rotational ring from the fixed cylindrical portion; and a resilient member bonded all around the metal core, the slinger comprising a rotational cylindrical portion secured to the rotational ring, and a rotational ring portion bent toward the fixed ring from the rotational cylindrical portion, the encoder bonded on the rotational circular ring portion, opposite to the seal lips by a molding process, the end rim of the encoder being short at least 0.2 mm of the end rim of the rotational circular ring portion.

Abstract: A combination seal ring with an encoder for use to close off the opening of the space between a fixed ring and a rotational ring and to detect a rotational speed of the rotational ring, comprising a seal ring secured to the fixed ring, a metal slinger secured to the rotational ring, and an encoder of a rubber magnet secured to the slinger, the seal ring comprising a metal core secured to the fixed ring, and a fixed ring portion bent toward the rotational ring from the fixed cylindrical portion; and a resilient member bonded all around the metal core, the slinger comprising a rotational cylindrical portion secured to the rotational ring, and a rotational ring portion bent toward the fixed ring from the rotational cylindrical portion, the encoder bonded on the rotational circular ring portion, opposite to the seal lips by a molding process, the end rim of the encoder being short at least 0.2 mm of the end rim of the rotational circular ring portion.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a sintered cadmium negative electrode for use in an alkaline storage battery having a porous sintered nickel substrate and an active material containing cadmium hydroxide, the active material impregnated in the porous sintered nickel substrate, sintered cadmium negative electrode in which a groove 3 having a depth of 0.1 to 20 &mgr;m is provided on a surface of the substrate so that a projected region and a depressed region are formed on the surface of the substrate. An alkaline storage battery employing the sintered cadmium negative electrode of the invention achieves, as well as a high capacity, an improved large current charge-discharge characteristic by increasing an oxygen gas absorbing performance.