Abstract: An anthropomorphic test device includes a spine assembly, a pair of clavicle assemblies coupled to the spine assembly, a pair of arms with a respective one arm coupled to a respective one clavicle assembly, and at least one pad assembly having a clavicle portion mounted to a respective one of the clavicle assemblies and positioned onto a respective one arm. Each pad assembly includes a clavicle portion, which includes an arm portion and a clavicle base region, and a neck portion, which includes a raised neck region and a neck base region. The neck portion and clavicle portion are each formed from materials with the neck portion being stiffer than the clavicle portion. The pad assembly is configured to provide a human-like response while reducing or eliminating entrapment of a shoulder belt during a crash test.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing a unit cell is provided. The apparatus includes a center electrode reel from which a center electrode sheet is unwound, wherein the center electrode sheet is configured to form a plurality of center electrodes, separator reels from which separator sheets to be stacked with the center electrodes are unwound, a laminator configured to laminate a stack which is formed by stacking the plurality of center electrodes with the separator sheets while the plurality of center electrodes are spaced apart from each other and disposed in a row in a longitudinal direction of the separator sheets, a first nozzle configured to apply an adhesive to an upper surface of the separator sheet disposed on an uppermost layer of the laminated stack, and an upper electrode reel from which an upper electrode sheet is unwound.

Abstract: A superconducting coil includes: a winding member 12 that has a side surface 18 along a coil radial direction and is formed by laminating a superconducting tape wire 20 in the coil radial direction by winding; and a bypass 19 that is provided on the side surface 18 of the winding member 12 and electrically connects the superconducting tape wire 20 in the coil radial direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for unstowing an electrical supply cable from a storage chamber disposed within an underground service pit. The cable is configured to electrically connect to an electrical power supply at a first end and to connect to an external power socket of an aircraft at a second end for supplying electrical power to the aircraft. The device includes a cable guiding wheel that is disposed at ground level above the underground service pit and configured to receive the cable. The device also includes a motor coupled to the cable guiding wheel that is configured to drive the cable guiding wheel. Upon activation, the motor rotates the cable guiding wheel to generate a pulling force on the cable to at least partially lift the cable out of the storage chamber.

Abstract: A soldering iron head includes a bottom surface, a first side surface, a second side surface opposite to the first side surface, and a positioning slot formed on the bottom surface and extending between the first side surface and the second side surface. The positioning slot is adapted to accommodate and position an exposed end conductor of a cable. The cross section of the positioning slot is trapezoidal in shape, absent a lower bottom. An upper bottom facing side of the trapezoidal cross section of the positioning slot gradually increases in width from the first side surface to the second side surface.

Abstract: A battery diagnosis apparatus according to the present disclosure is directed to providing a battery diagnosis apparatus, a battery pack, an electric vehicle and a battery diagnosis method for diagnosing anomalies in a single battery cell or each of a plurality of battery cells connected in series using time-dependent changes in cell voltage of each battery cell without a process of comparing the cell voltage of each battery cell with the cell voltage of other battery cell(s).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a dry electrode for energy storage device, which can form a uniform insulating film on the edge part of the dry electrode and thus enables formation of a dry electrode having excellent physical properties, a dry electrode formed by this method and a secondary battery comprising the same.

Abstract: A pouch bag that can be opened and closed during the degassing process and a pouch type secondary battery comprising the same, which has an economical effect because the pouch bag surplus portion to be discarded after the degassing process does not occur. This results in a reduction of waste material in the manufacturing process.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material, a method of making the same, and a lithium-ion secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. A lithium-ion secondary battery including the positive electrode active material can have excellent cycle characteristics at high temperature. In some embodiments, a positive electrode active material a lithium transition metal oxide, and an iodine-containing material at least partially covering the lithium transition metal oxide, where the iodine-containing material contains iodine having an oxidation number of +3 to +7.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode including a multilayer structured electrode active material layer having two or more stacked sub-layers. The electrode is characterized in that the content of repeating unit (c) derived from a vinyl cyanide compound and repeating unit (d) derived from a (meth)acrylate compound in the lower layer is smaller than the content in the upper layer. It is possible to improve the binding force and resistance characteristics of the multilayer structured electrode by using a different composition of binder at the bottommost portion that is in contact with the current collector and at the topmost portion that is in contact with the separator. When using the multilayer structured electrode obtained by controlling the binder composition of the topmost portion and that of the bottommost portion to have a suitable composition of ingredients, it is possible to further improve battery performance, including capacity, life, output, or the like.

Abstract: A data transmission device includes a transmission processing unit that transmits sensing data of a detection target in response to occurrence of an event that satisfies a condition specified as an event related to the detection target, in which the sensing data is data including type information indicating a type of sensing data, in a case where whether or not the type of sensing data is a specific type is determined, and as a result, the type of sensing data is an unspecific type, the transmission processing unit performs processing of storing unspecific type information indicating that the type of sensing data is an unspecific type in the type information, and generating and transmitting the sensing data including text data in which detection result information indicating a detection result of the detection target by text and type information indicating a data type of the detection result information are stored.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery pack diagnosing apparatus and method, and more particularly, to a battery pack diagnosing apparatus and method capable of diagnosing a state of a battery pack. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the battery pack diagnosing apparatus has an advantage of diagnosing the state of the battery pack in consideration of the arrangement information of the plurality of battery modules, without simply diagnosing the state of the battery pack based on the temperature of each battery module provided in the battery pack.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a radiation therapy device includes an acquirer, a projection position calculator, an element projection image generator, and an element projection image synthesizer. The acquirer acquires a condition of X-ray imaging in a treatment stage and a three-dimensional image of a patient imaged before the treatment stage. The projection position calculator calculates a projection position when each of pixels included in the three-dimensional image is projected onto a two-dimensional X-ray fluoroscopic image generated in the X-ray imaging on the basis of the condition of the X-ray imaging. The element projection image generator generates an element projection image for each pixel when each of the pixels included in the three-dimensional image is projected onto the X-ray fluoroscopic image. The element projection image synthesizer performs a synthesis process for the element projection image for each pixel on the basis of the projection position to generate a reconstructed image.

Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a secondary battery lamination device, and more particularly, the secondary battery lamination device includes an infrared LED heat source portion including a plurality of individually controllable infrared LED lamps and a pressurizing portion, thereby manufacturing a battery with improved uniformity of adhesive strength and air permeability between the positive electrode, the separator, and the negative electrode.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a camera that shoots a user's hand raised up in the air, a HDD containing a plurality of hand gestures including actions of the specific finger making contact with another finger, and commands respectively associated with the plurality of hand gestures, a hand gesture recognizer that recognizes the hand gesture, from a plurality of shot images sequentially acquired from the camera, a command acquirer that acquires the command associated with the hand gesture recognized by the hand gesture recognizer, from the HDD, and a controller that performs an operation according to the command acquired by the command acquirer, on the position of a cursor on a screen of a display device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a surgical drape to be used in conjunction with a surgical procedure, and more specifically to a surgical drape that includes one or more of the following: (1) a patient drape for use with a standalone non-draped image acquisition device; (2) a patient drape for use with a standalone non-draped image acquisition device with image guidance navigation technology; (3) the means to provide temporary sterile coverage of an underlying sterile field; (4) the means to provide sterile separation of at least a portion, if not the entire temporary sterile coverage; and (5) the means to provide covering of the undersurface of the operating surface and enclosing any suspended medical devices, wires, cables, tubes, etc.

Abstract: An arrayed waveguide grating device includes an input coupler configured to receive a light signal and split the light signal into a plurality of output light signals. The device also includes a plurality of waveguides optically connected to the input coupler, each waveguide having a plurality of waveguide portions having respective sensitivities to variance in one or more parameters associated with operating of the optical arrayed grating device. Lengths of the respective portions are determined such that each waveguide applies a respective phase shift to the output light signal that propagates through the waveguide and the plurality of waveguides have at least substantially same change in phase shift with respective changes in the one or more parameters associated with operation of the device. An output coupler is optically connected to the plurality of waveguides to map respective light signals output from the plurality of waveguides to respective focal positions.

Abstract: A highly functional photoelectric conversion element is provided. The photoelectric conversion element includes: a first photoelectric converter that detects light in a first wavelength range and photoelectrically converts the light; a second photoelectric converter that detects light in a second wavelength range and photoelectrically converts the light to obtain distance information of a subject; and an optical filter that is disposed between the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter, and allows the light in the second wavelength range to pass therethrough more easily than the light in the first wavelength range. The first photoelectric converter includes a stacked structure and an electric charge accumulation electrode.

Abstract: This is a method, as well as a client apparatus and a server apparatus to provide call continuity and a better user experience for voice over IP calling including notification of all client devices in event of call disruption to a single client device as well as support for voice over IP calling in multi-device scenarios.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an equalizer training unit for deriving equalization parameters for compensating data-dependent distortion in received samples by use of a training sequence including a sequence p>1 times and cyclically comprising N sub-sequences of respective combinations of L time-domain symbols of a modulation scheme, wherein the N sub-sequences are cyclically arranged in a selected order and such that L?1 symbols of a respective sub-sequence overlap with symbols in the preceding and following sub-sequences. The present disclosure further relates to a training sequence generator unit for generative the training sequence and an equalizer employing the equalizer training unit.