Abstract: A battery module includes a module housing having a lower housing, a pair of side housings, front and rear housings, and an upper housing, for respectively covering a lower portion, both side portions, front and rear portions, and an upper portion of a cell stack. The lower housing includes a base plate configured to cover an entire lower surface of the cell stack and having a hole region forming a channel in at least one side of the base plate along a longitudinal direction; and a plurality of spacers disposed at predetermined intervals along the base plate and configured to support the cell stack apart from a surface of the base plate to form an empty space between the cell stack and the base plate. The hole region communicates with the empty space so that a cooling medium can be supplied to the empty space.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a sensor module and a method for producing the sensor module, the sensor module making it possible to improve a degree of freedom in design, to facilitate the operation, and to reduce costs by reducing the number of components. [Solving Means] A sensor module according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a first member, a second member, a third member, and a sensor element. The first member is made of a synthetic resin material that has absorptive properties with respect to first laser light. The second member is made of a synthetic resin material that has transmissive properties with respect to second laser light of a wavelength that is different from a wavelength of the first laser light.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an automated machine learning system includes a registration receiver, a verification dataset storage, a verifier, a feedback information generator, a first display controller, and an algorithm storage. The registration receiver is configured to receive registration of a machine learning algorithm. The verification dataset storage stores a verification dataset for use in operation verification on the machine learning algorithm. The verifier is configured to perform the operation verification by executing the machine learning algorithm using the verification dataset stored in the verification dataset storage. The feedback information generator is configured to generate feedback information on the bases of a result of the operation verification. The first display controller is configured to control display of the generated feedback information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, a charging device, an exposure device, a developing device, a control section, and a temperature detecting device. The developing device includes a developer carrying member having an outer circumferential surface on which a toner layer is formed, and a regulation blade that regulates a thickness of the toner layer. The control section executes speed reduction control to reduce a rotation speed of the developer carrying member at a time of warming-up. When a printing operation to be performed after the warming-up is intermittent printing and an interval of the intermittent printing is not less than a prescribed time or a temperature detected by the temperature detecting device is not more than a prescribed temperature, the control section reduces the rotation speed of the developer carrying member in the speed reduction control to a second speed lower than the first speed.

Abstract: A battery preferably improved in reliability is provided. In accordance with a preferable one aspect of a battery herein disclosed, the battery comprising: an electrode body including respective electrodes of positive and negative electrodes; a battery case including an opening, and for accommodating the electrode body; a sealing plate including a terminal mounting hole, and for sealing the opening; a collector terminal electrically joined at one end thereof with any electrode of the positive and negative electrodes inside the battery case, and inserted at another end thereof through the terminal mounting hole to be exposed to outside the sealing plate; and an insulating member for establishing an insulation between at least a part of the sealing plate and the collector terminal. A plurality of concave parts are existed at the collector terminal, and the concave part is filled with the insulating member opposed to the concave part.

Abstract: The electrode assembly of the present invention includes a protective block consisting of a first protective panel and a second protective panel extending vertically from one longitudinal side of the first protective panel at a) an edge portion in a full length direction of the electrode laminate, b) an edge portion in a full width direction, or c) at each of edge portions in the full length direction and the full width direction, thereby preventing a phenomenon in which the separator is folded.

Abstract: An electrode lead for a secondary battery includes a metal substrate, and a coating layer formed on the surface of the metal substrate, wherein at least one surface of the top surface and the bottom surface of the electrode lead has a gas release portion having a structure formed by surface-treatment with a non-adhesive material, or by removing the coating layer. A secondary battery including the electrode lead is also disclosed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, a charging device, an exposure device, a developing device, and a control section. The developing device includes a development container for containing a non-magnetic one-component developer composed only of a toner, a developer carrying member having an outer circumferential surface on which a toner layer is formed, and a regulation blade that regulates a thickness of the toner layer. The control section executes speed reduction control to reduce a rotation speed of the developer carrying member at a time of warming-up before image formation to a first speed lower than a reference speed at a time of the image formation. In the speed reduction control, the control section raises the rotation speed of the developer carrying member at a first acceleration rate until the first speed is reached from a state where rotation of the developer carrying member is stopped.

Abstract: An inkjet ink contains a quinacridone pigment, a resin, and an aqueous medium. The resin includes an adsorbed resin adsorbed to the quinacridone pigment and a non-adsorbed resin not adsorbed to the quinacridone pigment. The non-adsorbed resin has a percentage content in the resin of greater than 0% by mass and no greater than 40% by mass. The aqueous medium contains a first organic solvent with a boiling point of at least 180° C. and no greater than 280° C. On an ultraviolet-visible absorption spectrum of a 25-fold dilution of a supernatant, the absorbance at a specific peak is no greater than 0.15. The supernatant is obtained by centrifugation of the inkjet ink at 1,050,000 G for 3 hours. The specific peak is a maximum peak in a wavelength range of the ultraviolet-visible absorption spectrum of at least 400 nm and no greater than 490 nm.

Abstract: An ink set includes an inkjet ink and a pretreatment liquid. The inkjet ink contains a pigment, anionic urethane resin particles, and an aqueous medium. The pretreatment liquid contains nonionic urethane resin particles, (meth)acrylic resin particles, and polyester resin particles.

Abstract: A developing device (3a-3d) includes a development container (20); a stirring-conveying member (25); a toner detection sensor (51), and a scraper (52) that cleans a detection surface (51a) of the toner detection sensor (51). The scraper (52) includes a first member (52a) that contacts the detection surface (51a) of the toner detection sensor (51) during forward rotation of the stirring-conveying member (25), and a second member (52b) that contacts the detection surface (51a) of the toner detection sensor (51) during reverse rotation of the stirring-conveying member (25). The stirring-conveying member (25) includes a scraper holder (60) that holds the scraper (52) along inclination of a conveying blade (25b). The scraper holder (60) includes a first holding portion (61) that holds one side-end of the scraper (52) and a second holding portion (62) that holds another side-end of the scraper (52).

Abstract: Disclosed is a positive electrode material for a lithium secondary battery capable of improving the problems of resistance and lifetime deterioration of the battery by forming a thin and uniform metal oxide on the surface of the lithium nickel cobalt manganese-based positive electrode active material, and a method for preparing the same and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. The method of preparing the positive electrode material for the lithium secondary battery comprises a method of coating a metal oxide on the surface of a lithium nickel cobalt manganese-based positive electrode active material through a chemical vapor deposition. The method includes placing the lithium nickel cobalt manganese-based positive electrode active material in a deposition apparatus and supplying a metal oxide precursor and a carrier gas, and the lithium nickel cobalt manganese-based positive electrode active material is stirred during deposition.

Abstract: Disclosed is a battery cell, which includes a battery case having an accommodation portion in which an electrode assembly is configured to be mounted, and a sealing portion formed by sealing an outer periphery of the battery case; an electrode lead electrically connected to an electrode tab included in the electrode assembly and protruding out of the battery case via the sealing portion; and a lead film located at a portion corresponding to the sealing portion in at least one of a first side and a second side of the electrode lead, wherein the lead film includes a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer, and a moisture removal layer is disposed between the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer, and the moisture removal layer includes a getter material.

Abstract: A battery module according to the present disclosure includes: a cell stack including a plurality of battery cells that are stacked in one direction; and a sensing module located on a front portion or a rear portion of the cell stack for voltage sensing and electrical connection of the plurality of battery cells, wherein the sensing module includes: a main frame formed to cover a front surface or a rear surface of the cell stack and including a plurality of lead holes through which electrode leads of the plurality of battery cells are drawn out; a plurality of bus bars located on the main frame to be spaced apart from one another in one direction; and a printed circuit board formed of a rigid material, including a plurality of sensing tips detachably provided on corresponding bus bars, and attached to the main frame.

Abstract: An overdischarge preventing apparatus for preventing a battery pack provided in a vehicle from being overdischarged includes a sensor configured to measure a voltage of a main battery provided in the battery pack according to an operation mode; and a controller configured to determine an operation state of a charging and discharging relay connected to the main battery, and control the operation mode of the sensor based on at least one of the determined operation state of the charging and discharging relay, information as to whether the vehicle is stopped, and the voltage of the main battery measured by the sensor.

Abstract: A die coater shim and die coater for simultaneously coating an electrode slurry and an insulating coating liquid. The die coater shim includes: a base that extends in a width direction; first and second guides that protrude and extend from both ends of the base; an electrode slurry slit that includes a step portion that extends from the base in the width direction between the first and second guides, wherein a thickness of the step portion is smaller than a thickness of the base, and a stepped space that the step portion forms relative to one surface of the base to form an electrode slurry discharge path; and first and second insulating coating liquid slits which include a groove on a surface of each of the first and second guides, wherein one end of the groove forms an insulating coating liquid discharge path.

Abstract: A positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same, and a method of making the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a positive electrode includes a current collector, a first mixture layer, and a second mixture layer that are sequentially stacked, wherein the first mixture layer includes a first binder composed of a rubber-based resin, and wherein the second mixture layer includes a second binder composed of a fluorine-based resin derived from a fluorine (F)-containing monomer. By using a first binder exhibiting more hydrophobicity than a second binder adhesive strength between a positive electrode current collector and the mixture layer, and durability of the positive electrode, can be improved. When the first mixture layer contains a positive electrode additive, damage to the positive electrode can be minimized, and the electrical performance and lifetime of the lithium secondary battery can be improved.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a structure having N gate electrode layers G and (N?1) channel formation region layers CH (where N?3) alternately juxtaposed on an insulating material layer of a base having the insulating material layer formed on a surface of a conductive substrate. Each of the structure, the channel formation region layer CH, and the gate electrode layer G has a bottom surface, a top surface, and four side surfaces. A second surface of the nth channel formation region layer is connected to a fourth surface of the nth gate electrode layer. A fourth surface of the nth channel formation region layer is connected to a second surface of the (n+1)th gate electrode layer. One of an odd-numbered layer of the gate electrode layers and an even-numbered layer of the gate electrode layers is connected to a first contact portion and the other is connected to a second contact portion.

Abstract: A method and a device for automatically convert input typed using a multi layout physical or virtual keyboard to the correct layout. Some implementations also fix spelling mistakes and set the active layout to the desired layout. When a key such as the space bar is triggered, the implementation may feed the gestures into a machine learning model, the model then may output the estimated correct layout, and followingly cause replacing the characters, symbols or letters, corresponding to the typed keys in displayed words. Based on the estimated or detected language, the software of the implementation may check for spelling mistakes and will correct them.

Abstract: An automated package transfer system and method are provided with a concierge interface. A publically accessible locker, associated with a package transfer service, has a compartment configured to limit access to a stored package. The locker can be used to deliver or pick up packages. The locker is moved to a selected temporary stationary location and access to the locker compartment is controlled. A communications subsystem selectively connects a (local) concierge user interface (UI) with a (remote) package transfer service locker attendant UI. The locker may be attached to a portable kiosk or a vehicle and positioned at a selected location using an autonomous driverless software application. The stationary locations may be cross-referenced to weighted values, which may be related to service prices and expenses. In one aspect, the concierge UI is connected to the locker attendant UI in response to the vehicle being parked in a selected stationary location.