Abstract: A particle sensor is provided. The particle sensor includes a light projector that projects light to a detection area. A light receiver receives scattered light. The scattered light is light from the light projector that has been scattered by particles in the detection area. A first support supports the light receiver. A second support supports the light projector and has a linear expansion coefficient different from a linear expansion coefficient of the first support. The first support includes a first placement region in which the light receiver is disposed and a second placement region in which the second support is disposed. The first placement region and the second placement region are located at different distances from at least one of an optical axis of the light projector and an optical axis of the light receiver.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for controlling a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) transmission rate of a physical layer in a first terminal are provided. The method includes: obtaining a media access control protocol data unit (MPDU) retransmission frequency of the first terminal in a first period, where the first terminal is a station or an access point in a wireless network; if the MPDU retransmission frequency is less than a frequency threshold, promoting the PPDU transmission rate in a second period; and else, suppressing the PPDU transmission rate in the second period, where the second period is following and adjacent to the first period along a time axis. The PPDU transmission rate may be adjusted adaptively according to a channel's practical transmission state, the physical layer rate may be prevented from decreasing continuously in noisy channel environment, and a throughput rate may be improved in real time.

Abstract: A method and a device for communication mode switching are provided in embodiment of the present disclosure. The method includes: acquiring at least one candidate communication mode for switching according to a preset channel quality condition, where the channel quality condition is met under the candidate communication mode for switching; evaluating each of the at least one candidate communication mode for switching according to a switch criterion and acquiring an evaluation value of each of the at least one candidate communication mode for switching; and ranking the evaluation value of the at least one candidate communication mode for switching in an ascending order or a descending order and switching a communication system from a current communication mode to a candidate communication mode for switching corresponding to an evaluation value ranked as the first.

Abstract: A deformable display device is provided. The deformable display device includes a deformable display, a sensor which senses a deformation located in a first area of the deformable display and a second area of the deformable display and a controller which receives deformation information corresponding to the deformation, determines whether to identify one of only the first area and only the second area as a deformation area of the deformation based on the deformation information, and identifies i) only the first area as the deformation area if it is determined to identify only the first area and ii) only the second area as the deformation area if it is determined to identify only the second area.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a standing bag type container and aims to increase a visibility of the residual liquid volume in accordance with the progress of infusion process. The standing bag type container includes a bag 10 made of soft resin films and forming at its one end a base member 20 and an outlet port 18 at the other end of the bag. A suspension of the bag 10 is done in a manner that the base member 20 is located at the top. Marks for indication of residual liquid volume are printed on the surface of the bag. An infusion liquid is charged to the bag while an air gap 109? is left, so that a residual liquid volume is verified from the liquid level. Under the suspended condition, the base member 20 has a value of width which is unchanged from the when the bag is under upright condition. The base member 20 is not collapsed and maintains its width even when the residual liquid volume is zero.

Abstract: An extract from inflamed skins of rabbits inoculated with vaccinia virus is provided where the quality of the extract is more stabilized. A preparation, etc. containing said extract as an active ingredient is also provided. When the amount of sulfated tyrosine contained in an extract from inflamed skins of rabbits inoculated with vaccinia virus and also contained in a preparation containing said extract as an active ingredient is used as an index, the quality of the extract and the preparation among the manufacturing lots can be warranted as a more stabilized one. In the extract from inflamed skins of rabbits inoculated with vaccinia virus and the preparation containing said extract where the quality thereof is more stabilized by such a method, the efficacy and the safety thereof are now guaranteed more strictly resulting in very high usefulness.

Abstract: A compound may be represented by Chemical Formula 1, an organic photoelectronic device may include a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other with an active layer that includes the compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an image sensor may include the organic photoelectronic device.

Abstract: Provided is a production method which can attain exfoliating treatment of graphite and a process of grafting a polymer onto exfoliated graphite simultaneously and thus makes it possible to easily obtain an exfoliated graphite-polymer composite material in a short time. A method for producing an exfoliated graphite-polymer composite material includes a step of mixing graphite or primary exfoliated graphite, a depolymerizable monomer of which the polymer is decomposed by heating to generate radicals and also to form a monomer or an oligomer, or the polymer A of the monomer, or a polymer B which forms radicals at a temperature close to its decomposition temperature to obtain a mixture; and a heating step of putting the mixture in a non-open container to heat the mixture to a first temperature range from the ceiling temperature or higher to the onset decomposition temperature or lower, or to a temperature higher than the first temperature range.

Abstract: A capacitive type touch sensor, includes a plurality of driving electrodes, a plurality of sensing electrodes disposed to overlap the driving electrodes, the sensing electrodes and the driving electrodes being spaced apart from each other, a driving unit configured to supply driving signals to the respective driving electrodes, and a sensing unit configured to detect sensing signals from the sensing electrodes, wherein the driving signals supplied by the driving unit include at least one of a first driving signal having a first frequency and a second driving signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency.

Abstract: A method of distributing freight between an intermodal shipping container and the freight containers of one or more surface-road transports, comprising the steps of: providing a freight container of at least a first surface-road transport; providing a first intermodal shipping container containing freight having a collective weight in excess of the maximum weight that can be lawfully carried in the freight container of each surface-road transport; providing a selectively moveable cross-dock having a body defining an interior storage area and at least first and second openings in the body through which freight may be moved into and out of the interior storage area; positioning a loading/unloading opening of the first intermodal shipping container proximate one of the openings in the cross-dock; positioning a loading/unloading opening of the freight container proximate the other opening in the cross-dock; and distributing freight between the intermodal shipping container and the freight container via cross-dock

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device is provided. The method includes forming a display element interposed between a first substrate and a second substrate and peeling the second substrate from the first substrate so that an electrode, which is located between the first and second substrates and to be connected to an external electrode, is exposed simultaneously with the peeling of the second substrate.

Abstract: Provided are an ORF7 deficient varicella virus, an vaccine comprising the virus and use thereof, as well as a method for the production the virus.

Abstract: A clothes dryer with a filter unit and a filter cover having a coupling structure corresponding to each other. The clothes dryer includes a body, a drum installed inside the body, a drying unit configured to dry air passed through the drum, a filter unit disposed on the drying unit and detachably installed on the body, a filter cover fixed by provided with one side thereof being installed on the body and the other side thereof being coupled to the filter unit. When the filter unit is not assembled, a user may notice the filter unit not being assembled due to the filter unit and the filter cover, both of which are provided with a coupling structure corresponding to each other.

Abstract: A lock determination device for variable valve timing mechanism includes means for detecting an operating position of a variable valve timing mechanism having a function of locking a valve timing of an internal combustion engine in an intermediate position between a most retarded position where the valve timing is most retarded and a most advanced position where the valve timing is most advanced in stopping operation of the internal combustion engine, means for starting a timer when the operating position of the variable valve timing mechanism enters an intermediate region, the intermediate region being a predetermined region including the intermediate position, means for determining whether or not the operating position of the variable valve timing mechanism is in a determination holding region wider on a retardation side than the intermediate region after the timer is started, means for incrementing a value of the timer if the operating position of the variable valve timing mechanism is in the determination

Abstract: Embodiments of amplifiers and electrodes for capacitive styluses are disclosed. The amplifiers detect an input signal from a capacitive touch sensor, such as a touchscreen or touchpad, amplify and invert the signal, and emit the amplified and inverted signal to cause the capacitive touch sensor to detect a touch. The electrode sets, or tips, pair a sensing electrode and an emitting electrode, shielded from each other to limit interference, in a fine-point non-deforming configuration that improves usability over existing stylus tips.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic layer including an emission layer. The emission layer includes a first host represented by Formula 1 and a second host represented by Formula 2. A volume ratio of the first host to the second host is in a range of about 94:3 to about 77:20: where R11 to R14, R21, R23 to R26, L11, L21, L23, X21, a11, a21, a23, b11 to b14, b21, and b23 to b26 are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A solid state drive includes a nonvolatile memory, a random access memory, and a memory controller. The nonvolatile memory contains a plurality of nonvolatile memories chips and a buffer chip. The memory controller is formed of an internal bus, a host interface, a memory interface, a buffer control circuit, and a processor.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a light emitting device capable of obtaining a certain luminance without influence by the temperature change, and a driving method thereof. A current mirror circuit formed by using a transistor is provided for each pixel. The first transistor and the second transistor of the current mirror circuit are connected such that the drain currents thereof are maintained at proportional values regardless of the load resistance value. Thereby, a light emitting device capable of controlling the OLED driving current and the luminance of the OLED by controlling the drain current of the first transistor at a value corresponding to a video signal in a driving circuit, and supplying the drain current of the second transistor to the OLED, is provided.

Abstract: A method for minimizing power consumption of a terminal during a power saving mode operation in a wireless communication system includes acquiring synchronization using a frequency used in a first paging listen interval or a frequency selected in a first paging listen interval; measuring a signal quality based on the acquired synchronization; and according to the measured signal quality, determining a length of a wake-up interval for a second paging listen interval. Thus, the terminal operating in the idle mode can minimize the power consumption of the terminal through the efficient control of the synchronization acquisition overhead interval and the frequency reselection algorithm carried out based on and the channel change.

Abstract: The invention relates to a capacitive MEMS microphone and a method for manufacturing the same. The microphone includes: a substrate; a first dielectric supporting layer on the substrate; a movable sensitive layer formed on the first dielectric supporting layer and having a movable diaphragm extending within the air; a backplate disposed over the movable sensitive layer and spaced from the movable diaphragm; a chamber recessed from and extending through the substrate and the first dielectric supporting layer; and an impact resisting device connecting to the movable diaphragm. The impact resisting device is exposed downwardly and disposed above the chamber. The movable sensitive layer has a number of anchors formed around the movable diaphragm, a number of flexible beams each of which is employed to connect one of the anchors to the movable diaphragm, and a bonding portion connecting to the anchor.