Abstract: Disclosed herein is a pouch-type secondary battery and a manufacturing method thereof including. The pouch-type secondary battery includes an electrode assembly; an electrode lead extending from an electrode tab of the electrode assembly; an upper pouch; and a lower pouch. The upper pouch and the lower pouch include a sealed area where the edges are sealed and an unsealed area. An average thickness of the sealed area of the upper pouch and an average thickness of the sealed area of the lower pouch are equal to each other, and the average thickness of the unsealed area of the upper pouch is smaller than the average thickness of the unsealed area of the lower pouch, so that even if the thickness of the lower pouch is reduced during the sealing process of heat-sealing, the sealed area of the upper and lower pouches are formed with little difference in thickness.

Abstract: One embodiment relates to a polymerizable composition and an optical material produced therefrom which has excellent lightfastness and minimized color defects, and more specifically, the polymerizable composition according to one embodiment includes UV absorbers having, as the main absorption wavelength, either a long-wavelength region or a short-Wavelength region Within the UV region, wherein the UV absorbers do not absorb in the Visible light region. Accordingly, the polymerizable composition may be used to provide an optical material having excellent lightfastness and minimized color defects.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode control information of a physical down-link control channel (PDCCH) received via a resource within a control resource set (CORESET) occupying a subset of a plurality of OFDM symbols within a slot. At least one of the symbols in the subset coincides with a pre-defined symbol location associated with a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) of a PDSCII. The DM-RS can be detected within the slot, the DM-RS starting at a symbol location that is shifted from the pre-defined symbol location and following the subset of symbols. Downlink data scheduled by the PDCCH and received via the PDSCH can be decoded, where the decoding is based on the detected DM-RS.

Abstract: An anode active material for a secondary battery includes a carbon-based active material, and silicon-based active material particles doped with magnesium. At least some of the silicon-based active material particles include pores, and a volume ratio of pores having a diameter of 50 nm or less among the pores is 2% or less based on a total volume of the silicon-based active material particles.

Abstract: Provided is a novel JAK-specific inhibitor compound and a method for preparing the same. The compound of the provided can exhibit therapeutic effects on a variety of diseases, for example, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, myeloproliferative diseases, and human cancers due to its ability to regulate signal transduction at the level of JAK kinases. In particular, due to its high selectivity for JAK1, the compound of the provided can exhibit better therapeutic effects on inflammatory diseases and autoimmune diseases at a low dose and with fewer side effects and can be expected to be effective in preventing and treating liver fibrosis.

Abstract: The present invention relates a safety ignition device for a high altitude dual pulse motor according to the present invention, and can prevent accidental ignition of an ignition device or a propulsion engine while efficiently using a space by installing the safety ignition device in front of a combustion pipe, increase the reliability of ignition, and maintain the air tightness of the inside of the propulsion engine and the ignition device even in a high altitude environment.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent compound, a plurality of host materials, and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By comprising the compound according to the present disclosure or by comprising a specific combination of compounds according to the present disclosure as a plurality of host materials, it is possible to produce an organic electroluminescent device having improved driving voltage, luminous efficiency, and/or lifetime properties compared to the conventional organic electroluminescent devices.

Abstract: Provided is an operating method of a storage device. The method includes providing temperature information of each of a plurality of volatile memory devices in the storage device to a host device; and receiving a setting command related to a refresh operation of the plurality of volatile memory devices from the host device, wherein the plurality of volatile memory devices are classified into groups based on temperature information, and wherein the setting command indicates a number of rows of the plurality of volatile memory devices to be refreshed differently for each of the groups based on the temperature information.

Abstract: The technology and implementations disclosed in this patent document generally relate to a lithium secondary battery including: a first unit cell including a first anode including a 1-1 anode mixture layer and a 1-2 anode mixture layer on the 1-1 anode mixture layer, and a second unit cell including a second anode including a 2-1 anode mixture layer and a 2-2 anode mixture layer on the 2-1 anode mixture layer, wherein a weight ratio of the silicon-based active material in the 1-2 anode mixture layer is greater than a weight ratio of the silicon-based active material in the 1-1 anode mixture layer, and a weight ratio of the silicon-based active material in the 2-2 anode mixture layer is less than or equal to a weight ratio of the silicon-based active material in the 2-1 anode mixture layer.

Abstract: Methods and systems for executing tracking and monitoring manufacturing data of a battery are disclosed. One method includes: receiving, by a server system, sensing data of the battery from a sensing system; generating, by the server system, mapping data based on the sensing data; generating, by the server system, identification data of the battery based on the sensing data; generating, by the server system, monitoring data of the battery based on the sensing data, the identification data, and the mapping data; and generating, by the server system, display data for displaying a simulated electrode of the battery on a graphical user interface based on the monitoring data of the battery.

Abstract: An anode for a lithium secondary battery includes an anode current collector, and an anode active material layer formed on at least one surface of the anode current collector. The anode active material layer includes a carbon-based active material, a first silicon-based active material doped with magnesium and a second silicon-based active material not doped with magnesium. A content of the first silicon-based active material is in a range from 2 wt % to 20 wt % based on a total weight of the anode active material layer.

Abstract: In some implementations, the anode includes a current collector, a first anode mixture layer formed on at least one surface of the current collector, and a second anode mixture layer formed on the first anode mixture layer. The first anode mixture layer and the second anode mixture layer include a carbon-based active material, respectively. The first anode mixture layer includes a first binder, a first silicon-based active material, and a first conductive material. The second anode mixture layer includes a second binder, a second silicon-based active material, and a second conductive material. Contents of the first conductive material and the second conductive material are different from each other with respect to the total combined weight of the first anode mixture layer and the second anode mixture layer. Types of the first silicon-based active material and the second silicon-based active material are different from each other.

Abstract: A reference signal sequence to modulate the demodulation reference signal for the Physical Broadcast Channel in New Radio standard is disclosed. Formulas are proposed for calculating the initialization value for the RS sequence generator so as to accord with the characteristics of New Radio.

Abstract: A base station transmits a random access response in response to a random access request (random access preamble) of a user equipment. The random access response includes information about a time when the random access request is transmitted and sequence number information of the random access request (random access preamble). The user equipment checks whether the received random access response is the response of the random access request transmitted by the user equipment, using the information about the time when the random access request is transmitted and the sequence number information included in the received random access response.

Abstract: A base station transmits a random access response in response to a random access request (random access preamble) of a user equipment. The random access response includes information about a time when the random access request is transmitted and sequence number information of the random access request (random access preamble). The user equipment checks whether the received random access response is the response of the random access request transmitted by the user equipment, using the information about the time when the random access request is transmitted and the sequence number information included in the received random access response.

Abstract: A photodynamic therapy apparatus for local targeting in cancer treatment capable of treating various types of cancers or tumors. An endoscope is placed in the center of an end portion of a probe used in photodynamic therapy and a plurality of optical fibers are arranged along the edge thereof, so that a lesion site is irradiated with a plurality of lights while the plurality of optical fibers of the probe receive lights from individual light sources, respectively, to perform light irradiation individually. An apparatus is disclosed, wherein unnecessary damage to normal tissues is minimized by controlling light irradiation regions, for instance, by defining light irradiation regions encompassing a lesion site from an image provided in real time through an endoscope disposed at an end portion of a probe and allowing only individual light sources irradiating the defined light irradiation regions to emit lights to achieve local light irradiation.

Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate transmission and reception of group common PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) for NR (New Radio). One example embodiment employable by a UE (User Equipment) comprises processing circuitry configured to: process higher layer signaling that configures a set of combinations for slot formats for the UE; detect, via blind decoding on at least a portion of a control resource set, a DCI (Downlink Control Information) message that indicates a combination for slot formats of the set of combinations for slot formats via a SFI (slot format indicator); and determine a slot format for one or more slots based on the indicated combination for slot formats, wherein the slot format indicates, for each symbol of the one or more slots, whether that symbol is DL (Downlink), UL (Uplink), or a flexible symbol in the slot format.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode control information of a physical down-link control channel (PDCCH) received via a resource within a control resource set (CORESET) occupying a subset of a plurality of OFDM symbols within a slot. At least one of the symbols in the subset coincides with a pre-defined symbol location associated with a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) of a PDSCH. The DM-RS can be detected within the slot, the DM-RS starting at a symbol location that is shifted from the pre-defined symbol location and following the subset of symbols. Downlink data scheduled by the PDCCH and received via the PDSCH can be decoded, where the decoding is based on the detected DM-RS.

Abstract: A method for transmitting a reference signal in a multi-antenna system is provided. The method includes: selecting at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in a subframe containing a plurality of OFDM symbols; allocating a channel quality indication reference signal (CQI RS) capable of measuring a channel state for each of a plurality of antennas to the selected at least one OFDM symbol; and transmitting the CQI RS, wherein the CQI RS is allocated to an OFDM symbol which does not overlap with an OFDM symbol to which a common reference signal to be transmitted to all user equipments in a cell or a dedicated reference signal to be transmitted to a specific user equipment in the cell is allocated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for allocating an uplink carrier for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation of M (M?1) uplink component carriers comprises: a step of receiving setup information on a primary uplink component carrier, from among said M uplink component carriers, via which one or more pieces of uplink control information are to be transmitted; a step of multiplexing said one or more pieces of uplink control information; and a step of transmitting the multiplexed uplink control information through the primary uplink component carrier.