Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus includes a furnace body, a roller inside the furnace body, a heater inside the furnace body, an upper and lower discharge pipes on the furnace body, and a lower supply pipe on the lower part of the furnace body. The furnace body includes areas having the upper and lower discharge pipes, the areas including a first area to an Nth area disposed sequentially along a second direction being a transport direction of each of the materials, a length of the first area in the second direction is shorter than lengths of the second area to the Nth area in the second direction, and in each of the first area to the Nth area, the upper discharge pipe and the lower supply pipe are not arranged in a straight line in a third direction being a height direction to be misaligned from each other.

Abstract: A computing resource management system using software modularization in a cluster computing environment in which computing devices are connected, including an application process running on each computing device and an algorithm processing process configured to run independently of the application process and perform task processing on the application process, the computing resource management system including: a task managing system configured to receive a task request message from an application process requiring a task from each computing device; a process managing system configured to confirm an algorithm processing process of computing devices connected to the cluster computing environment, and determine whether there is an algorithm processing process in an idle state to which the application process requested for a task will be assigned; and a performed managing system configured to confirm a result of an application process whose task is performed by the algorithm processing process.

Abstract: The inventive concept provides a teaching method for teaching a transfer position of a transfer robot. The teaching method includes: searching for an object on which a target object to be transferred by the transfer robot is placed, based on a 3D position information acquired by a first sensor; and acquiring coordinates of a second direction and coordinates of a third direction of the object based on a data acquired from a second sensor which is a different type from the first sensor.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for controlling step charging of a secondary battery. A charging control unit determines a SOC, an OCV and a polarization voltage of the secondary battery, determines an OCV deviation corresponding to a difference between the OCV and a predefined minimum OCV value, determines a correction factor corresponding to the polarization voltage and the OCV deviation, determines a look-up SOC by correcting the SOC according to the correction factor, determines the magnitude of a charging current corresponding to the look-up SOC, and provides the determined charging current to a charging device.

Abstract: A bitline sense amplifier including: an amplifier which is connected between a first sensing bitline and a second sensing bitline, and detects and amplifies a voltage difference between a first bitline and a second bitline in response to a first control signal and a second control signal; and an equalizer which is connected between a first supply line through which the first control signal is supplied and a second supply line through which the second control signal is supplied, and pre-charges the first bitline and the second bitline with a precharge voltage in response to an equalizing control signal, wherein the equalizer includes an equalizing enable transistor in which a source terminal is connected to the first supply line and performs equalizing in response to the equalizing control signal.

Abstract: Proposed is an all-solid-state battery including a self-standing sheet layer positioned on a negative electrode current collector. The all-solid-state battery may include the negative electrode current collector, the self-standing sheet layer positioned on the negative electrode current collector, a solid electrolyte layer positioned on the sheet layer, a positive electrode active material layer positioned on the solid electrolyte layer, and a positive electrode current collector positioned on the positive electrode active material layer. The sheet layer contains carbon nanotubes.

Abstract: A low-noise amplifier in a receiver supporting a beam forming function may selectively change a phase shift for beam steering. The low-noise amplifier may include first and second transistors and a variable capacitance circuit connected to a gate of the second transistor. The variable capacitance circuit may selectively change capacitance thereof based on a capacitance control signal applied thereto according to beam-forming information, where the changed capacitance correspondingly causes a phase change in an output signal of the low-noise amplifier. A similar scheme may be employed for amplifiers in transmit signal paths to steer a transmit beam.

Abstract: Disclosed is an anodeless all-solid-state battery which may effectively control local volume expansion due to lithium deposited during charging of the battery. The all-solid-state battery includes an anode current collector, an intermediate layer located on the anode current collector, a solid electrolyte layer located on the intermediate layer, a cathode active material layer located on the solid electrolyte layer and including a cathode active material, and a cathode current collector located on the cathode active material layer. The intermediate layer includes carbon particles and metal particles alloyable with lithium, and the carbon particles include a first carbon material, e.g., as a spherical carbon material, and a second carbon material, e.g., a linear carbon material.

Abstract: An implementation relates to a polyester-based film having low hygroscopicity, a manufacturing method therefor, and a membrane electrode assembly comprising same, and the polyester-based film has excellent flexibility, adhesion and durability and has a moisture absorption represented by formula 1, which meets 0.25% or less, and thus has excellent hydrolysis resistance so as to be applied as a film for a fuel cell sub-gasket and exhibit excellent characteristics.

Abstract: An additive, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution including the same, and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt, a non-aqueous solvent including a propyl propionate, and a compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-aqueous electrolyte solution additive capable of improving lifespan characteristics of a lithium secondary battery by forming a solid-electrolyte interphase that is stable even at a high temperature and has low resistance when applied to a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, and relates to a non-aqueous electrolyte solution additive including a sultone-based compound represented by Formula I, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution including the same, and a lithium secondary battery.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. The non-aqueous electrolyte may be used in a high-voltage battery to achieve excellent life characteristics. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte includes an organic solvent, a lithium salt, a compound represented by Formula 1, and a compound represented by Formula 2, wherein, when an amount of the compound represented by Formula 1 is X wt% and an amount of the compound represented by Formula 2 is Y wt % based on a total weight of the non-aqueous electrolyte, X and Y satisfy X+Y ? 5 and X ? Y, R1 is an unsaturated hydrocarbon group n is an integer of 1 or 2, and R2 is hydrogen, an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, or an unsubstituted or substituted alkoxy group.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an electrolyte solution, wherein the positive electrode includes a current collector and a positive electrode active material layer disposed on the current collector, the positive electrode active material layer includes a positive electrode active material and carbon nanotubes, and the electrolyte solution includes a non-aqueous solvent, a lithium salt, and tetravinylsilane.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide salt, including a step of dissolving bis(chlorosulfonyl)imide in an organic solvent in a non-glass vessel to prepare a first reaction solution; a step of injecting lithium fluoride (LiF) to the first reaction solution in the non-glass vessel and refluxing while heating to prepare a second reaction solution; a step of separating a product including a lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide salt and the organic solvent from the second reaction solution; and a step of obtaining the lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide salt in a solid phase from the product, wherein the organic solvent is at least one or more selected from the group consisting of ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, chloroform, dichloromethane, dichloroethane, benzene, xylene and acetonitrile.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt at a concentration of 1.5 M to 2.0 M, an organic solvent containing ethylene carbonate and ethyl propionate, and a first additive represented by Formula 1, wherein the ethylene carbonate and the ethyl propionate are present in a volume ratio of 1:9 to 1.5:8.5: NC—R—CH?CH—R1—CN ??[Formula 1] In Formula 1, R and R1 are each independently a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery includes a lithium salt, an organic solvent containing a carbonate compound and a propionate compound, a first additive containing a compound represented by the following Formula 1, and a second additive containing 1,3,6-hexanetricarbonitrile, wherein the first additive and the second additive are present in a weight ratio of 1:1.1 to 1:5.5, NC—R—CH?CH—R—CN??[Formula 1] wherein, in Formula 1, R is an unsubstituted or substituted alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution comprises a lithium salt, an organic solvent containing a carbonate compound and a propionate compound, and an additive containing 1,4-dicyano-2-butene and 1,3,5-cyclohexanetricarbonitrile, wherein a volume ratio of the carbonate compound to the propionate compound is 10:90 to 40:60, and wherein a weight ratio of the 1,4-dicyano-2-butene to the 1,3,5-cyclohexanetricarbonitrile is 1:1.5 to 1:3.7.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt, an organic solvent, and a compound represented by Formula 1 as an additive. A lithium secondary battery including the non-aqueous electrolyte solution has improved high-rate charge and discharge characteristics at high temperature.

Abstract: An additive, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution including the same, and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt, a non-aqueous solvent including a propyl propionate, and a compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lithium secondary battery which includes a non-aqueous electrolyte solution including lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) and a fluorobiphenyl compound, a positive electrode including a lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt-based oxide as a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode, and a separator.