Abstract: A method of detecting a user touch on a capacitive touch screen may include generating drive signals for drive lines of the capacitive touch screen. The drive signals are encoded by codes that respectively specify polarities of the drive signals at different times. The codes may include a background code that specifies the same polarity for the drive signals, and the remaining codes are orthogonal to the background code and specify that half of the drive signals have a first polarity and half of the drive signals have a second opposite polarity. The method includes measuring output signals at sensing lines of the capacitive touch screen, which include values corresponding to the codes for the drive signals, and decoding the output signals to determine a touch has occurred based on the values of the output signals, by excluding values corresponding to the background code.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte including an additive represented by Formula 1 is described: wherein in Formula 1, R may be any one selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkynyl group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, and a cycloalkenyl group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, R1 and R2 may each independently be any one selected from the group consisting of hydrogen (H), an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkynyl group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, and a cycloalkenyl group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, and A may be an alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms.

Abstract: An image formation system includes a state measuring device that measures a plurality of state quantities of an image forming device, a learning processor that generates a self-organizing map, and a state estimator that estimates a state of the image forming device. The learning processor uses a first learning data set acquired chronologically previously and a second learning data set acquired chronologically subsequently, performs acquisition of first hit counts and generation of a first self-organizing map, and performs acquisition of second hit counts and update of the first self-organizing map to generate a second self-organizing map. In the update, an amount of the update is adjusted based on a product of a Euclidean distance between the first self-organizing map and a self-organizing map to be updated and the first hit count and a product of a Euclidean distance between the second learning data set and the self-organizing map to be updated and the second hit count.

Abstract: A stage-stacking lift according to the present invention includes a lift unit and a stage-stacking unit mounted in the lift unit. The stage-stacking unit stacks a tray, in which accommodation targets are accommodated, in multiple stages, and the lift unit elevates the tray stacked in multiple stages.

Abstract: A subsea foundation for installation on a sea floor. The subsea foundation includes a receptacle which receives a wellhead housing, and a conductor pipe which is arranged to extend from the receptacle and which receives a well pipe therethrough. The conductor pipe has a first section and a second section. The first section of the conductor pipe has a first end and a second end. The first section is connected to the receptacle at the first end and is pivotably connected to the second section at the second end so that the conductor pipe has a compact configuration, in which the conductor pipe comprises a bend therein, and an extended configuration, in which the conductor pipe is substantially straight.

Abstract: A battery module includes a housing that houses a battery cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked and includes a pair of holes formed through a first end plate and a second end plate disposed opposite each other; and a discharge guide member that forms a gas flow path partially through the housing, the discharge guide member configured to cover any one of the pair of holes.

Abstract: A negative electrode, a method of manufacturing a negative electrode, a negative electrode slurry, and a secondary battery including the negative electrode are disclosed. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer on a surface of the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode active material layer includes a silicon-containing active material. The silicon-containing active material comprises silicon-containing particles including SiOx, wherein 0<x<2, and Li. The negative electrode includes 0.05 part by weight or more and 1.5 parts by weight or less of one or more element selected from the group consisting of aluminum, boron, zinc and zirconium, based on 100 parts by weight of a total weight of the negative electrode active material layer. The negative electrode includes a structure where one or more element selected from the group consisting of aluminum, boron, zinc and zirconium are bound to oxygen.

Abstract: Parallels between pregnancy and cancer have been historically made, however, the ability to leverage abortogenic immunity against neoplasia has not been widely examined. The current invention provides means of suppressing tumor associated immune inhibition through administration of progesterone and/or glucocorticoid receptor antagonists such as RU-486. In one embodiment the invention provides the concurrent utilization RI-486 and anti-angiogenic immunotherapy. In another embodiment, abortogenic inhibitors of immunity such as indolamine 2,3 dioxygenase are administered together with RU-486 and/or anti-angiogenic immunotherapy. Various antiangiogenic agents can be utilized in the practice of the invention including the ValloVax immunotherapy and/or the StemVacs-V therapy.

Abstract: A roller including a magnet among the rollers driving the conveyor line suppresses the phenomenon of binder migration during the drying process, thereby improving the adhesion between the active material layer and the electrode current collector, and improving the ionic conductivity of lithium ion.

Abstract: Provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having excellent output characteristics while using a positive electrode active material with a small BET specific surface area. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery disclosed here includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material includes a lithium nickel cobalt manganese composite oxide. The positive electrode active material has a BET specific surface area of 1.8 m2/g to 2.8 m2/g. A ratio of the BET specific surface area to an average particle size (D50) of the positive electrode active material is 0.62 or more. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains a nonaqueous solvent and an electrolyte salt. The nonaqueous solvent contains methyl acetate.

Abstract: Discussed is a battery including battery cells having electrode leads protruding in at least one direction, and at least one bus bar disposed at one side of the battery cells, each of the at least one bus bar includes a bus bar body having a top planar surface parallel to a stacked direction of the battery cells, a pair of first surfaces connected to opposite sides of the top planar surface, respectively, and extending away from the top planar surface, the pair of first surfaces having a first slope relative to the top planar surface. The pair of first surfaces are inclined, and a pair of second surfaces directly connected to the pair of first surfaces, respectively, and extending away from the pair of first surfaces, the pair of second surfaces having a second slope relative to the top planar surface that is different from the first slope.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pouch-shaped battery cell including a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) having a circuit layer disposed at one surface or each of opposite surfaces thereof, wherein a plating portion having plating formed thereon is added to the outermost surface of the part of the flexible printed circuit board that abuts a sealed portion at which a pouch-shaped battery case is sealed. It is possible to secure the strength of sealing of the flexible printed circuit board to the sealed portion of the pouch-shaped battery case as the result of formation of the plating portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a separator suitable for an electrochemical device a porous including polymer substrate and an organic/inorganic composite porous coating layer on at least one side of the porous polymer substrate. The organic/inorganic composite porous coating layer includes particulate binder polymers and first inorganic particles, the particulate binder polymers include (a) hybrid polymer particles of a fluorine-containing polymer and an acrylic-containing polymer and (b) acrylic-containing polymer particles, the average particle diameter D50 of the acrylic-containing polymer particles “a” is in a range of 1 ?m to 7.5 ?m, the average particle diameter D50 of the inorganic particles “b” is in a range of 200 nm to 800 nm, a/b is in a range of 2 to 15, and the average particle diameter D50 of the hybrid polymer particles is smaller than the average particle diameter D50 of the acrylic-containing polymer particles.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lithium metal negative electrode comprising a lithium metal layer, and an oxide layer on at least one surface of the lithium metal layer, wherein the oxide layer has a cracked region and a non-cracked region, and a method for manufacturing the same, and since the oxide layer on at least one surface of the lithium metal layer has the cracked region, it is possible to improve the battery life.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte contains a lithium salt including LiPF6; an organic solvent; and an additive represented by Formula 1 wherein, R may be any one selected from the group consisting of a halogen element and a haloalkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a vehicle-mounted camera capable of successfully absorbing stress applied to a flexible board that connects a main board and an imaging device board to each other. [Solving Means] The vehicle-mounted camera includes an imaging device board, a main board, and a flexible board. The imaging device board includes a first terminal. The main board includes a second terminal. The flexible board includes a first connection portion to be connected to the first terminal, a second connection portion to be connected to the second terminal, and a first bending portion and a second bending portion that are located between the first connection portion and the second connection portion and are bent along a first bending axis and a second bending axis intersecting with each other in a developed state of the flexible board. The vehicle-mounted camera is capable of absorbing stress in any direction applied to the flexible board.

Abstract: A pumping top may include a left panel and a right panel, each of the left panel and the right panel having a bottom edge and being configured to cover a side of a wearer's torso and cover and support a breast of the wearer. Each of the left panel and the right panel may include (i) an expandable bladder configured to contact and partially surround a corresponding breast of the wearer, (ii) a supply line coupled at one end to the bladder and at an opposite end to a connector disposed proximate the bottom edge, and (iii) a return line coupled at one end to the bladder and at an opposite end to the connector. The connector may be configured to couple to a circulating pump that is separate and distinct from the pumping top, which circulates warmed liquid through the pumping top.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery and a positive electrode active material prepared thereby, wherein the preparation method includes a first step of preparing a lithium transition metal oxide by mixing a lithium raw material and a transition metal precursor containing 70 mol % or more of nickel based on the total number of moles of transition metals and sintering the mixture; and a second step of washing the lithium transition metal oxide with hot water of more than 90° C., wherein, after the second step, a result of EELS analysis of a particle surface of the lithium transition metal oxide satisfies Equation 1.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. The first electrode of the electrode assembly includes a first active material portion coated with an active material layer and a first uncoated portion not coated with an active material layer along a winding direction, the first uncoated portion includes a plurality of segments independently bendable along the winding direction and exposed beyond a the separator of the electrode assembly, the plurality of segments are aligned along a radial direction of the electrode assembly to define a plurality of segment alignments spaced apart in a circumferential direction of the electrode assembly, and an electrolyte impregnation portion in which an end of the first active material portion is exposed between winding turns of the separator is included between adjacent segment alignments of the first uncoated portion in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: The present invention includes an electrode assembly support roller, and a laser irradiation device. The electrode assembly support roller includes two or more cylindrical roller segments, the two or more cylindrical roller segments are coupled to one shaft for fixation in a spaced-apart manner with a adjacent roller segment, and the laser irradiation device is located to be able to irradiate a separated space formed between the cylindrical roller segments with a laser beam.