Abstract: The proposed technology relates to an oxygen sensor for a vehicle, the oxygen sensor including a housing, a sleeve coupled to the housing, a sensor element configured to determine an oxygen concentration and provided within an inner space defined by the housing and the sleeve, a contact terminal connected to the sensor element, a contact bush including an upper bush and a lower bush, and a positioning unit coupled with the contact bush and maintaining a gap between a circumference of the contact bush and an inner side surface of the sleeve. In particular, the contact bush is coupled with the sensor element and the terminal at the center of the sleeve, and movement due to external impact is prevented.

Abstract: An apparatus for coating electrode active material slurry includes: a transfer unit continuously transferring an electrode current collector in a predetermined process direction; and a coating die which is reciprocally movable in the process direction or an opposite direction to the process direction and coats the active material slurry on a predetermined coating area of the electrode current collector transferred by the transfer unit, wherein the coating die stands by at a predetermined coating start position and, when a balcony region corresponding to a leading end of the coating area reaches the coating start position, coats the active material slurry on the balcony region while moving from the coating start position to a main coating position that is spaced apart from the coating start position by a predetermined distance in the opposite direction.

Abstract: An organic-inorganic composite anion exchange membrane for non-aqueous redox flow batteries, which contains a polyvinylidene fluoride polymer, and a method for preparing the same are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for forming a positive electrode of a secondary battery which includes a positive electrode active material, a conductive material, and a dispersing agent, in which the conductive material includes a carbon-based material having a specific surface area of 130 m2/g or more and an oil absorption number of 220 ml/100g or more at 0.1 wt % to 2 wt % with respect to the total weight of the composition for forming a positive electrode, and the dispersing agent is introduced into the conductive material to form a conductive material-dispersing agent composite, and the conductive material-dispersing agent composite has a particle size distribution D50 of 0.8 ?m to 1.2 ?m, a positive electrode for a secondary battery and a secondary battery, which are manufactured using the same.

Abstract: An apparatus for coating electrode active material slurry includes: a transfer unit continuously transferring an electrode current collector in a predetermined process direction; and a coating die which is reciprocally movable in the process direction or an opposite direction to the process direction and coats the active material slurry on a predetermined coating area of the electrode current collector transferred by the transfer unit, wherein the coating die stands by at a predetermined coating start position and, when a balcony region corresponding to a leading end of the coating area reaches the coating start position, coats the active material slurry on the balcony region while moving from the coating start position to a main coating position that is spaced apart from the coating start position by a predetermined distance in the opposite direction.

Abstract: An organic-inorganic composite anion exchange membrane for non-aqueous redox flow batteries, which contains a polyvinylidene fluoride polymer, and a method for preparing the same are disclosed.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for scanning signals of a neighboring Base Station (BS) in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. In the broadband wireless communication system, a scanning method of a serving base station includes: receiving information on a frequency use status of a neighboring base station from an upper network entity; and after determining a recommended scan frequency by using the received information, transmitting a scanning response message including the recommended scan frequency.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for preamble pseudo noise code allocation in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The method includes defining an inherent index for each FA, allocating a preamble PN index to base stations using a reference FA index, defining an inherent offset by each FA for remaining FA indexes, and shifting the preamble PN index allocated to the base stations using the reference FA index by the defined offset, and allocating the preamble PN index to base stations using the remaining FA indexes. The price of a system can thus be lowered by reducing a Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of a preamble, increase the number of FAs that a specific amplifier can amplify, and immediately allocate a preamble PN index when adding a new FA during an operation of a system.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for allocations segments in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. Sector pairs are generated with respect to all sectors existing in different cells and the generated sector pairs are sorted according to priority based on a proximity. A sector pair having a top priority among unselected sector pairs is selected. Segments are allocated to all sectors of a cell including each sector of the selected sector pair. Accordingly, segments can be allocated to sectors while minimizing downlink throughput deterioration caused by segment duplication.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting neighbor base station information in a broadband wireless communication system. In the method, the priorities of subcells included in neighbor base stations that use at least one frequency allocation are determined. Subcells are selected among the subcells according to the determined priorities, information about which is to be transmitted to mobile stations located in a coverage area. Information about the selected subcells is transmitted to the mobile stations. Thus, the amount of resource for transmission of the neighbor base station information can be reduced. Therefore, the available resource of the downlink can be increased and the amount of a scan operation of the mobile station can be reduced.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for reallocating segments in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. An average density for all cells in system and an average minimal inter-cell distance R are computed. A circle is determined having a radius kR and a center at a corresponding cell by increasing a constant k until a density of the circle becomes less than or equal to the average density. A cluster is generated for each cell, which is composed of cells included in the determined circle. Accordingly, segment allocation capability can be improved while minimizing a width of segment reallocation.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for allocating IDcells in a wireless communication system are provided, in which an initial IDcell allocation is performed by allocating entire sectors to elements of an N×M IDcell matrix, a sector pair with the highest proximity is selected for each IDcell in the initial allocation, an IDcell with a sector pair having the highest of the proximities of the selected sector pairs is determined as a target IDcell, one sector of the sector pair with the highest proximity for the target IDcell is selected as a target sector, a predetermined number of sectors are selected for each of the other IDcells except for the target IDcell, from among sectors to which the each of the other IDcells is allocated, and the IDcell of the target sector is swapped with the IDcell of a sector satisfying a first condition among the selected sectors.

Abstract: A failure recognition system is disclosed. A failure recognition system includes a learning stage (S10) learning and acquiring information related to a good product and failure; a setting stage (S100) setting reference information to determine a failure of a product; a product inspecting stage (S150) inspecting the product based on the reference set in the setting stage (S100); a product recognizing stage (S160) recognizing an item and type of the product by specifying an image of the product measured in the product inspecting stage (S150); a product quality determining stage (S170) determining whether the product is a good product or failure from the image finally recognized in the product recognizing stage (S160) based on the information acquired in the learning stage (S10); and a follow-up stage (S180) notifying the failure outside and controlling an equipment according to a control method set in the setting stage (S100) simultaneously.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for planning a wireless network is provided. An apparatus for planning a wireless network includes a parameter input unit for receiving parameter information, and outputting the parameter information, a Rise over Thermal (RoT) calculator for calculating an RoT using the parameter information, and outputting the RoT, a first uplink performance prediction index determiner for determining a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) level using the RoT, and outputting determined MCS level information, a maximum achievable Carrier to Interference and Noise Ratio (CINR) calculator for calculating a maximum achievable CINR of the determined MCS level using the determined MCS level information, and outputting a calculated maximum achievable CINR, and a second uplink performance prediction index determiner for determining at least one among a mobile station (MS) transmission power, a data rate, and an uplink CINR using the determined MCS level information.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for preamble pseudo noise code allocation in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The method includes defining an inherent index for each FA, allocating a preamble PN index to base stations using a reference FA index, defining an inherent offset by each FA for remaining FA indexes, and shifting the preamble PN index allocated to the base stations using the reference FA index by the defined offset, and allocating the preamble PN index to base stations using the remaining FA indexes. The price of a system can thus be lowered by reducing a Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of a preamble, increase the number of FAs that a specific amplifier can amplify, and immediately allocate a preamble PN index when adding a new FA during an operation of a system.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting neighbor base station information in a broadband wireless communication system. In the method, the priorities of subcells included in neighbor base stations that use at least one frequency allocation are determined. Subcells are selected among the subcells according to the determined priorities, information about which is to be transmitted to mobile stations located in a coverage area. Information about the selected subcells is transmitted to the mobile stations. Thus, the amount of resource for transmission of the neighbor base station information can be reduced. Therefore, the available resource of the downlink can be increased and the amount of a scan operation of the mobile station can be reduced.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for scanning signals of a neighboring Base Station (BS) in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. In the broadband wireless communication system, a scanning method of a serving base station includes: receiving information on a frequency use status of a neighboring base station from an upper network entity; and after determining a recommended scan frequency by using the received information, transmitting a scanning response message including the recommended scan frequency.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for optimizing a paging cost and a location update cost in a broadband wireless communication system. The apparatus includes: a generating unit for sequentially outputting possible combinations of the paging group size and the idle mode timer value; a first computing unit for computing a paging cost by using the output combinations; a second computing unit for computing a location update cost by using the output combinations according to a state transition diagram in which state transition occurs based on a movement path of a Mobile Station (MS); and a determining unit for determining the paging group size and the idle mode timer value so that the sum of the paging cost and the location update cost is minimized.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for reallocating segments in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. An average density for all cells in system and an average minimal inter-cell distance R are computed. A circle is determined having a radius kR and a center at a corresponding cell by increasing a constant k until a density of the circle becomes less than or equal to the average density. A cluster is generated for each cell, which is composed of cells included in the determined circle. Accordingly, segment allocation capability can be improved while minimizing a width of segment reallocation.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for allocations segments in a broadband wireless communication system is provided. Sector pairs are generated with respect to all sectors existing in different cells and the generated sector pairs are sorted according to priority based on a proximity. A sector pair having a top priority among unselected sector pairs is selected. Segments are allocated to all sectors of a cell including each sector of the selected sector pair. Accordingly, segments can be allocated to sectors while minimizing downlink throughput deterioration caused by segment duplication.