Abstract: A battery pack includes a pair of battery modules having at least one pair of first grip grooves and at least one connector formed at a top thereof, a supporting plate coupled to a bottom of the pair of battery modules and fixed to the ground and a BMS assembly having a guide protrusion inserted into the first grip groove and coupled to the pair of battery modules in a plug-in type by means of the connector.

Abstract: A display driving circuit is provided. The display driving circuit includes a timing controller configured to output image data and a source control signal, a first source driver circuit configured to output first source data of the image data by activating a plurality of first data lines in accordance with the source control signal, the first data lines having a first output spreading time, a second source driver circuit configured to output second source data of the image data by activating a plurality of second data lines in accordance with the source control signal, the second data lines having a second output spreading time, and a third source driver circuit configured to output third source data of the image data by activating a plurality of third data lines in accordance with the source control signal, the third data lines having a third output spreading time, wherein the first output spreading time, the second output spreading time and the third output spreading time do not overlap.

Abstract: Discloses is an unpowered transparent antenna that can be installed to reduce or remove a radio wave shadow area such as an interior even without power. In order to achieve the objectives, an unpowered transparent antenna includes: a first conductive layer having a mesh structure; and a second conductive layer having a mesh structure and positioned on the bottom of the first conductive layer, in which an aperture ratio of the first and second conductive layers is 50% or more.

Abstract: To program in a nonvolatile memory device including a cell region including first metal pads and a peripheral region including second metal pads and vertically connected to the cell region by the first metal pads and the second metal pads, a memory block is provided with a plurality of sub blocks disposed in a vertical direction where the memory block includes a plurality of cell strings each including a plurality of memory cells connected in series and disposed in the vertical direction. A plurality of intermediate switching transistors are disposed in a boundary portion between two adjacent sub blocks in the vertical direction. Each of the plurality of intermediate switching transistors is selectively activated based on a program address during a program operation. The selectively activating each of the plurality of intermediate switching transistors includes selectively turning on one or more intermediate switching transistors in a selected cell string based on the program address.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a particle transfer system and a particle transfer method which allow preciously-weighed particles to smoothly pass through a vertically-provided vertical pipe of a transfer line when powder-type particles are transferred along the transfer line, and which prevent the particles from remaining or stagnating in the vertical pipe.

Abstract: Provided is a high pressure processing apparatus including: a first chamber accommodating an object to be processed; a second chamber surrounding the first chamber and heating the first chamber; a third chamber including a 3-1-th chamber surrounding a portion of the second chamber and a 3-2-th chamber surrounding another portion of the second chamber; and a supply module supplying a process gas for processing the object in the first chamber at a first pressure, supplying a protection gas to a space between the second chamber and the first chamber at a second pressure set in relation to the first pressure, and supplying a defense gas to a space between each of the 3-1-th chamber and the 3-2-th chamber and the second chamber at a third pressure lower than the first pressure and the second pressure and higher than an external pressure of the third chamber to block external air from being introduced into the third chamber.

Abstract: Optical lenses and associated luminaire are described herein. In one aspect, a lens comprises a light receiving side comprising grooves for receiving light emitting diodes, the grooves defined by a central refractive region and walls comprising total internal reflection faces; and a light extraction side opposite the light receiving side, the light extraction side comprising refractive extraction surfaces, total internal reflection extraction surfaces, or combinations thereof. In some embodiments, luminaire comprises an array of light emitting diodes; and the lens positioned over the array of light emitting diodes.

Abstract: There is provided a pressure sensing device and related methods, the pressure sensing device comprising, a plurality of chambers for storing one or more visual indicators, wherein the plurality of chambers are configured to release the one or more visual indicators when a pressure exerted on the plurality of chambers exceeds one or more pressure thresholds. The plurality of chambers can be microchambers. The device may be used in conjunction with a bandaging system to indicate the pressure applied onto a site of treatment.

Abstract: Lighting devices having optical waveguides for controlled light distribution are provided. A lighting device includes a housing, a light emitter disposed in the housing, and a waveguide at least partially disposed in an opening of the housing. The waveguide includes a light input surface defining coupling features, wherein the light emitter is disposed adjacent the light input surface and emits light into the coupling features. The waveguide further includes a light transmission portion disposed between the light input surface and a light extraction portion, wherein light from the light emitter received at the light input surface propagates through the light transmission portion toward the light extraction portion. The waveguide further includes the light extraction portion, which comprises at least one light redirection feature and at least one light extraction feature that cooperate to generate a controlled light pattern exiting the lighting device.

Abstract: A lighting fixture with reduced glare is provided. Lighting fixtures described herein use a lens assembly to redirect light away from a housing in order to reduce a unified glaring ratio (UGR) (e.g., when viewed crosswise or endwise). The lens assembly may further provide diffusive properties which result in a more pleasing and soft light over traditional lighting fixtures. In aspects described herein, the UGR of troffer-style lighting fixtures can be improved (e.g., reduced) through lens assemblies having one or more light redirection features configured to particularly redirect light emitted at high v-angles (e.g., light emitted sideways relative to the housing at v-angles greater than 70 degrees). For example, the lens assembly may include an inner prismatic surface of a lens, an inner lens, a louver assembly (e.g., over or under a lens), or a reflector to achieve this light redirection.

Abstract: A micro LED chip transfer method includes: determining the transfer object size for a transfer, by using a block-by-block LED chip map in which the use state information of an LED chip is stored for each block of the wafer; determining a mask size that can minimize a scrap block of the wafer that is not used for transfer, by using the transfer object size; determining a starting point position of the wafer transfer object region for transfer; and positioning a mask having the mask size at the starting point position of the wafer transfer object region and irradiating a laser, such that the LED chip formed in the wafer transfer object region is transferred.

Abstract: A lighting fixture with reduced glare is provided. Lighting fixtures described herein use a lens assembly to redirect light away from a housing in order to reduce a unified glaring ratio (UGR) (e.g., when viewed crosswise or endwise). The lens assembly may further provide diffusive properties which result in a more pleasing and soft light over traditional lighting fixtures. In aspects described herein, the UGR of troffer-style lighting fixtures can be improved (e.g., reduced) through lens assemblies having one or more light redirection features configured to particularly redirect light emitted at high v-angles (e.g., light emitted sideways relative to the housing at v-angles greater than 70 degrees). For example, the lens assembly may include an inner prismatic surface of a lens, an inner lens, a louver assembly (e.g., over or under a lens), or a reflector to achieve this light redirection.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to light fixtures and luminaires configured to emit light. According to one aspect, an optical waveguide includes a first waveguide portion and a second waveguide portion adjacent to and separate from the first waveguide portion. The waveguide portions include light coupling portions that are at least partially aligned and adapted to receive light developed by a light source. The first waveguide portion further has a first major surface with light direction features and a second major surface opposite the first major surface. The second waveguide portion further has a third major surface proximate the second major surface with an air gap disposed therebetween and a fourth major surface opposite the third major surface wherein the fourth major surface includes a cavity extending therein.

Abstract: Substrate processing apparatuses and methods of manufacturing a semiconductor device using the same may be provided. A substrate processing apparatus includes a heater in a support plate and comprising a first unit configured to heat a first portion of a substrate and a second unit configured to heat a second portion of a substrate, and processing circuitry configured to heat the heater in a transient section such that the first unit heats the first portion of the substrate to a first heating temperature, and the second unit heats the second portion of the substrate to a second heating temperature different from the first heating temperature, the transient section being a section before a temperature of the substrate reaches a steady state, a steady section being a section after the temperature of the substrate reaches the steady state.

Abstract: Lighting devices having optical waveguides for controlled light distribution are provided. A lighting device includes a housing, a light emitter disposed in the housing, and a waveguide at least partially disposed in an opening of the housing. The waveguide includes a light input surface defining coupling features, wherein the light emitter is disposed adjacent the light input surface and emits light into the coupling features. The waveguide further includes a light transmission portion disposed between the light input surface and a light extraction portion, wherein light from the light emitter received at the light input surface propagates through the light transmission portion toward the light extraction portion. The waveguide further includes the light extraction portion, which comprises at least one light redirection feature and at least one light extraction feature that cooperate to generate a controlled light pattern exiting the lighting device.

Abstract: An optical oscillator includes a first reflection part configured to reflect light of a first wavelength, a laser medium excited by excitation light of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength and configured to emit light of the first wavelength, a second reflection part configured to form an unstable resonator together with the first reflection part, the unstable resonator being configured to output annular laser light of the first wavelength, and a saturable absorption part disposed between the laser medium and the second reflection part and of which a transmittance increases with absorption of light of the first wavelength. When a power of the excitation light is indicated by Pp (kW), and an inner diameter of the annular laser light is indicated by di, and an outer diameter is indicated by do, and do/di is a magnification m, the magnification m satisfies a0+a1 Log(Pp)?m?b0+b1Pp+b2Pp2.

Abstract: A method (and system, apparatus, and computer product) for reporting traffic data includes, in an onboard unit installed in a vehicle, generating a traffic data report packet including information identifying a location of the vehicle in a traffic network and storing the generated traffic data report packet in a transmission queue. The onboard unit stores and maintains the generated traffic data report packet in the transmission queue with other traffic data report packets in a sequence in accordance with potential transmission times associated with each traffic data report packet. At least a portion of the traffic data report packets stored in the transmission queue is selectively transmitted, as a batch transmission to a traffic center server via a communication link.

Abstract: Compositions comprising a reverse-temperature sensitive hydrogel comprising a biopolymer such as a polysaccharide and a synthetic polymer, and a compound in an amount that reversibly inhibits respiratory enzyme complex I, and methods of using the composition, are provided.