Abstract: Provided is a cleaner including: a housing having a suction port configured to take in foreign substances; a motor configured to generate a rotational force; and a drum brush inside the housing and configured to rotate by the rotational force, the drum brush including: a drum body having: a collecting portion having an opening, a tapered portion having a diameter that decreases along an axial direction of the drum body toward the collecting portion so that, when the drum brush rotates, the taken in foreign substances move toward the collecting portion and then through the opening, and a hollow, a core shaft in the hollow, and a cutting member in the hollow and on the core shaft at a position corresponding to the opening so that the foreign substances moved through the opening are cut by the cutting member.

Abstract: A compound has a central structural unit of an arylene skeleton wherein a perfluoropolyether group is bonded to one end and a multifunctional (meth)acryloyl group is bonded to the other end via urethane bonds. The compound can impart good initial contact angle and wear resistance while being soluble in commonly used solvents. Thus, the compound may be useful in a coating agent as an additive for securing initial contact angle and wear resistance.

Abstract: A pattern correction method includes acquiring, from a database, full shot data including full shot data coordinates and a misalignment value, calculating a deformation coefficient of the full shot data based on a cantilever beam analysis method with respect to the full shot data, extracting first-coordinate data along a first axis in a bit line direction and second-coordinate data along a second axis in a word line direction based on the full shot data, classifying the full shot data based on the first-coordinate data and the second-coordinate data, removing outliers from the full shot data.

Abstract: A bonding method includes a substrate holding step of holding substrates (W1, W2), a first contact step of bringing central portions of the substrates (W1, W2) into contact with each other, a second contact step of, enlarging a contact area between the substrates (W1, W2) from central portions toward peripheral portions of the substrates (W1, W2), and a bonding step of, bonding the substrates (W1, W2) to each other by pressing only a peripheral portion of the substrate (W1) against a peripheral portion of the substrate (W2) while the substrates (W1, W2) are in contact with each other over entire bonding surfaces.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor chip including first and second main surfaces; and an element isolation portion partitioning a device region at the first main surface. The element isolation portion includes: a first isolation trench formed at the first main surface; an isolation insulating film at an inner wall of the first isolation trench; and an isolation conductor buried in the first isolation trench via the isolation insulating film. The isolation conductor includes: a first isolation conductor formed at a central portion of the first isolation trench; and a second isolation conductor formed at a side of the first isolation conductor with an inner insulating film interposed therebetween. The second isolation conductor includes an inner wall in contact with the inner insulating film and an outer wall, wherein a top of the second isolation conductor includes an inclined wall inclined downward from the outer wall toward the inner wall.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for fabricating a semiconductor device having an first stack of alternating insulating layers and sacrificial word line layers arranged over a substrate, the first stack including a core region and a staircase region. The method can include forming a first dielectric trench in the core region of the first stack, forming a second dielectric trench that is adjacent to and connected with the first dielectric trench in the staircase region of the first stack, and forming dummy channel structures extending through the first stack where the dummy channel structures are spaced apart from the second dielectric trench.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method to form silicon germanium (SiGe) source/drain epitaxial stacks with a boron doping profile and a germanium concentration that can induce external stress to a fully strained SiGe channel. The method includes forming one or more gate structures over a fin, where the fin includes a fin height, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall. The method also includes forming a first spacer on the first sidewall of the fin and a second spacer on the second sidewall of the fin; etching the fin to reduce the fin height between the one or more gate structures; and etching the first spacer and the second spacer between the one or more gate structures so that the etched first spacer is shorter than the etched second spacer and the first and second etched spacers are shorter than the etched fin. The method further includes forming an epitaxial stack on the etched fin between the one or more gate structures.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device includes positioning a display panel in an accommodating space of a stage, positioning a black matrix unit on an upper surface of a wall of the stage surrounding the accommodating space, and coating a window to cover the black matrix unit and the display panel. The black matrix unit and the window protrude beyond the display panel.

Abstract: A high-voltage bus bar for electrically contacting an electrical, optionally insulated, line with two mutually adjacent, distal end portions of a ring conductor. The high-voltage bus bar includes, in the region of its first distal end, a terminal for connection to the electrical line, and its second distal end bifurcates into at least two prongs in such way that each of the at least two fork prongs forms a separate contact face which is provided to be integrally bonded to one of the distal end portions of the ring conductor.

Abstract: Disclosed are a receiver and a zero-IF transceiver. The receiver includes a frequency mixer circuit including two mixers in parallel and weighted feedback circuits respectively corresponding to the mixers, each mixer having an output end connected to an input end of the corresponding weighted feedback circuit, and each weighted feedback circuit having an output end connected to an input end of the other weighted feedback circuit. Each mixer is configured to receive a baseband signal, mix the baseband signal, and input the resulting mixed signal to the corresponding weighted feedback circuit; and each weighted feedback circuit is configured to receive the mixed signal from the corresponding mixer, and adjust the received mixed signal using complex impedance-based feedback to compensate for an asymmetric frequency response in a wideband zero-IF receiver.

Abstract: A lighting control method and apparatus for color picking based on an environment, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining an environment image in a current environment in real time; determining an effective color picking range in response to a user operation, and obtaining coordinate point data of the effective color picking range; and obtaining red, green and blue (RGB) data within the effective color picking range, and controlling a color of a corresponding lighting device in the environment based on the RGB data. Through the method and apparatus, the effective color picking range can be determined by a user through manual painting, thereby eliminating interference factors in a screen image, and solving the problem of a poor lighting control effect caused by the interference factors in the screen image.

Abstract: A circuit board includes: an insulating layer, a solder resist layer disposed on the insulating layer and having first and second openings; first and second connection pads respectively disposed within the first and second openings on the insulating layer; and first and second conductive layers respectively disposed on the first and second connection pads, and configured to protrude more than an upper surface of the solder resist layer and to have different thicknesses. Each of the first and second conductive layers includes a lower conductive layer disposed on a corresponding one of the first and second connection pads and an upper conductive layer disposed on an upper surface of the lower conductive layer.

Abstract: A multilayered capacitor includes a capacitor body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode, and an external electrode outside the capacitor body, wherein the dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric crystal grains, the dielectric crystal grains include barium titanate as a main component, a mole ratio of barium to titanium (Ba/Ti mole ratio) at a center of the dielectric crystal grains is about 0.9797 to about 0.9943, and a coefficient of variation (standard deviation of size/D50) of the dielectric crystal grain size is about 30% and about 43%.

Abstract: A fluid passage/stop body, component, housing and apparatus, a ventilation treatment device, and an oxygen supply control method. The fluid passage/stop body comprises a sliding plate and a flexible connecting member; the flexible connecting member is connected to the sliding plate; the flexible connecting member is used for connecting to a first channel wall of a first fluid channel of a fluid passage/stop apparatus; and the sliding plate is used for moving, driven by the pressure of a fluid in the first fluid channel, to drive the flexible connecting member to flexibly deform. The fluid passage/stop body is simple in structure, can drive, in actual use, a passage/stop member to safely and reliably achieve the passage/stop of a fluid, and can significantly improve, in a ventilation treatment device, the safety of oxygen supply of the ventilation treatment device.

Abstract: A measurement unit includes: a ground portion forming a part of a line configured to provide continuity for grounding electric potential, the ground portion including a surface forming a plane at one end of the ground portion; a signal portion forming a part of a line configured to provide continuity for a signal for measurement, the signal portion including an end portion configured to come out in a plane that is same as the plane of the ground portion; an insulative dielectric portion provided between the ground portion and the signal portion; an electrically conductive first contact probe configured to expand and contract along a longitudinal axis, the first contact probe coming into contact with the signal portion; and an electrically conductive second contact probe configured to expand and contract along a longitudinal axis, the second contact probe coming into contact with the ground portion.

Abstract: A positioning signal sending method and apparatus are provided. A first signal is generated, where duration of a first rising edge of the first signal is less than duration of a first falling edge, the duration of the first rising edge is duration of a rising edge of a main lobe waveform of the first signal, and the duration of the first falling edge is duration of a falling edge of the main lobe waveform of the first signal; and the first signal is sent. In embodiments of this application, rising time of a main lobe waveform of a signal generated is short, and shorter rising time of the main lobe waveform is more conducive to distinguishing two adjacent paths or identifying a first arrival path of a received signal.

Abstract: A method includes: sensing a first container on an electric range by using at least one loop coil; sensing removal of the first container by using at least one of working coils; sensing a second container on the electric range by using at least one of loop coils; and determining an identity of the first container and the second container. The determining the identity is on the basis of at least one of: a first similarity determined based on damping vibration in each of at least one loop coil having sensed the first container and damping vibration in each of at least one loop coil having sensed the second container; and a second similarity determined based on the number of loop coils having sensed the first container and the number of loop coils having sensed the second container.

Abstract: A signal processing module is provided. The signal processing module includes a function weight table that stores weights for each first sensor for an autonomous driving mode and an ADAS driving mode and selects and outputs only the weight for each first sensor, a first weight applying device that generates a function weight application signal by applying the weight for each first sensor to sensing information of sensors for sensing an object, a road environment determining device that determines a road environment based on the sensing information of the sensors for sensing the object, a road environment weight table that stores weights for each second sensor for a road environment and selects and outputs an weight for each second sensor, and a second weight applying device that outputs a dataset by applying the weight for each second sensor to the function weight application signal.

Abstract: A system-on-chip includes a clock generation circuit configured to generate a reference clock of a first phase; a transmission circuit comprising a serializer configured to serialize data according to the reference clock of the first phase; a reception circuit comprising a clock data recovery (CDR) circuit configured to receive the serialized data and generate a first recovery clock and recovery data; and a Built In Self Test (BIST) circuit including a CDR performance monitoring circuit configured to generate a control signal provided to a delay controller configured to delay a clock signal by a preset phase difference, and the delay controller configured to delay the clock signal in response to the control signal by the preset phase difference and provide the delayed clock signal to the transmission circuit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a series of novel benzoimidazole derivatives and their use.