Abstract: The present technology relates to an electrode manufacturing method, an electrode manufactured by the method, and a secondary battery comprising same, the electrode manufacturing method comprising a cleaning step performed by laser irradiation, in lines corresponding to each other in a direction perpendicular to an electrode current collector, onto a top-coated electrode mixture layer and a back-coated electrode mixture layer of the electrode current collector, and may prevent a mismatch of the electrode mixture layers and may significantly reduce the degree of sliding occurrence at the boundary region.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication device includes a communication unit, a transfer unit, an error detection unit, and a transfer disablement control unit. The communication unit receives a frame. The transfer unit transfers the frame to a frame storage unit of a transfer destination. The error detection unit detects an error in the frame. The transfer disablement control unit disables transfer by the transfer unit when an error is detected by the error detection unit.

Abstract: A system and method for automating and improving tabular and list-based data extraction from a variety of document types is disclosed. The system and method detect and sort which documents include tables or lists, and performs row and column segmentation. In addition, the system and method apply Conditional Random Fields models to localize each table and semantic data understanding to map and export the extracted data to the desired format and arrangement.

Abstract: A disclosed switching apparatus, such as a circuit breaker, includes a transistor switch circuit connected between a power input terminal and a load terminal, and, connected to the power input terminal and bypassing the transistor switch circuit, a switchable bypass leg that is optically switched by a series-connected photoconductive semiconductor switch (PCSS). The transistor switch circuit includes at least one cascade of three or more series-connected transistors, and at least one resistor network configured to divide a voltage from a voltage source across a cascade of series-connected transistors. Operating the switch apparatus includes detecting whether a sensed electric current is in a fault condition, opening the transistor switch circuit upon detecting a fault condition, and then closing the PCSS so that the electric current is diverted onto a switchable bypass path. The opening of the transistor switch circuit comprises turning OFF a normally-ON transistor switch circuit.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication system includes a first communication control apparatus connected between a network connection apparatus and a first client apparatus, a second communication control apparatus connected between the network connection apparatus and a second client apparatus, and a communication control management apparatus that is connected to the network connection apparatus and manages communication by the first communication control apparatus and second communication control apparatus.

Abstract: An electrode assembly manufacturing method includes the steps of: assembling an electrode stack; performing a primary heat press operation on the electrode stack while engaging the electrode stack with a gripper; and then performing a secondary heat press operation on the electrode stack while the gripper is disengaged from the electrode stack. The secondary heat press operation may include applying heat and pressure to the electrode stack for a time period from 5 seconds to 60 seconds under a temperature condition from 50° C. to 90° C. and under a pressure condition from 1 Mpa to 6 Mpa. The step of assembling the electrode stack may include alternately stacking first and second electrodes on an elongated separator sheet, and sequentially folding the separator sheet over a previously-stacked one of the electrodes before a subsequent electrode is stacked. An apparatus for performing the manufacturing method is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for separating a mixture in an installation comprising a first system comprising a plurality of chromatography columns, a second system downstream of the first system and a tank fed by an outlet line of the first system and feeding the second system with a continuous stream, the method successively comprising, in a cyclical manner, in a given part of the first system, steps of collecting a raffinate, injecting the mixture to be separated, collecting an extract and injecting a mobile phase; wherein the method further comprises the measurement of the purity and/or yield of at least one collected fraction, comprising: the determination of the concentration of at least two species of the mixture to be separated in the fraction collected in the tank; and the determination of the purity and/or yield of at least one species of the fraction collected in the tank.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an embedded magnet rotor comprises: a rotor shaft, a rotor core having permanent magnet housing spaces; and flat plate-shaped permanent magnets. Permanent magnet housing spaces each extend more radially outward than a position where the permanent magnet is held by a magnet holding outer projection and each have a communication opening communicating with a gap space. A radial thickness of each of the two chips sandwiching the communication opening and a circumferential width of the communication opening are in such a dimensional relation as to prevent a fragment produced by break of the permanent magnet from protruding from the communication opening and coming into contact with the stator.

Abstract: An apparatus for communicating across an isolation barrier includes a differential pair of input terminals. The apparatus includes a bandpass filter circuit configured to receive a received signal on the differential pair of input terminals and to provide a received differential signal on a differential pair of nodes. The apparatus includes a demodulator directly coupled to the bandpass filter circuit and configured to directly demodulate the received differential signal on the differential pair of nodes to provide a demodulated received signal.

Abstract: A method of making an acoustic sensor (e.g., a piezoelectric sensor for a piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems microphone) includes forming or depositing one or more piezoelectric layers to define a beam extending between a proximal portion and a distal tip (e.g., unsupported free end), the beam having a width in plan view that is greater at a location distal of the proximal portion than at the proximal portion. The method also comprises attaching the beam to a substrate in cantilever form so that the proximal portion of the beam is anchored to the substrate and the distal tip is a free unsupported end of the beam. One or more electrodes are disposed on or in the proximal portion of the beam.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for per-channel MER calibration and determination on a multi-channel receiver.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing an olfaction training program by an online service executing on a server. A first object and an aroma of the first object is transmitted to the client device of a user that presents the first object in a virtual reality environment and disperses the first aroma. In response, the user interacts with the vital reality environment. The user response is transmitted back to the online service. The user response is stored in a database along with the first data and the first aroma. The online service determines a second object and an aroma of the second object based on the user response. The second object and the aroma of the second object is transmitted to the client device.

Abstract: A planetary roller mill for processing a feed material includes a vessel with a grinding ring having an opening and a first area. The grinding ring is in sealing engagement with an inside surface of the vessel. At least two non-circular support plates are secured to a rotatable shaft. Each plate has an axially facing surface. A plurality of rollers are rotatably mounted to and positioned between the two support plates. Each of the plurality of rollers are in grinding communication with the grinding surface. The planetary roller mill includes an air supply system having an outlet in communication with the opening in the grinding ring. Areas of the two support plates are of magnitudes configuring a flow area through the opening of at least 30 percent of the first area to provide a predetermined quantity of heated air to remove moisture from the feed material in the mill.

Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery comprising: an electrode assembly; a battery case which accommodates the electrode assembly; a first electrolyte which is accommodated in the battery case and primarily impregnates the electrode assembly; and a reinforcement electrolyte member which comprises a packaging material and a second electrolyte, wherein the packaging material is accommodated in the battery case and provided with an oxidation part which is oxidized and decomposed at a set voltage, and the second electrolyte is stored in the packaging material, released to the outside of the packaging material due to the decomposition of the oxidation part, and secondarily impregnates the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A toner container includes a container body, a cap, bosses and a cover. The container body has a toner filling port. The cap is detachable and closes the filling port. The bosses are provided on the container body. The cover is detachably attached to the container body so as to cover the filling port and the bosses, and has a through hole through which each of the bosses penetrates. The boss has a tip end portion protruding from the cover through the through-hole. The tip end portion is provided so as to regulate detachment of the cover by being worked into a head portion having a cross-sectional area larger than the through-hole, and to permit the detachment of the cover by cutting off the head portion. The container body, the cap and the cover can be reused maximum by the number of times corresponding to the number of the bosses.

Abstract: An optical detector device may receive a spectroscopic measurement from a multispectral sensor. The optical detector device may determine, based on the spectroscopic measurement, a particulate size of a particulate. The optical detector device may determine, based on the spectroscopic measurement, an identification of the particulate. The optical detector device may determine, based on the particulate size and the identification of the particulate, that an alert condition is satisfied. The optical detector device may trigger an alert based on determining that the alert condition is satisfied.

Abstract: An antenna alignment apparatus may include magnetic field sensors as an alternative to or in addition to GNSS sensors. The magnetic field sensors may measure the earth's magnetic fields at corresponding locations, and a processor may use the measurements to calculate at least one of a roll, tilt, or azimuth of an antenna. For an optical alignment, the antenna alignment apparatus may, additionally or alternately, include a reference object (e.g., a printed mark or a physical stud) located within a field of view of a camera. A location of the reference object may indicate the alignment of the antenna vis-à-vis the structures within the field of view.

Abstract: A video signal processor is provided, having an inverse quantizer, an inverse transform processor, an in-loop filter; and a decoded picture buffer. The video signal processor is configured to receive a video signal including a picture comprising quantized pixels, wherein the picture includes a first region and a second region. The first region comprising a first plurality of blocks and having a first quantization parameter based on a first average measure of spatial activity information of the first plurality of blocks; and a second region comprising a second plurality of blocks and having a second quantization parameter based on a second average measure of information of the second plurality of blocks. The inverse quantizer being configured to inverse quantize the pixels of the blocks comprising the first region using the first quantization parameter and inverse quantize the pixels of the blocks comprising the second region using the second quantization parameter.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotary electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. In a stator iron core of the stator, tips of the teeth defining openings of the slots through which the armature windings of different phases pass include a pair of chamfers. A rotor iron core of the rotor includes a plurality of grooves the outer peripheral surface of which is concave along a central axis line. Each of the grooves forms a wave shape, and includes a first groove portion disposed in a leading side of the rotation direction and a second groove portion disposed in a trailing side of the rotation direction. The first groove portion and the second groove portion are asymmetric with respect to d-axis.

Abstract: A single exposure high dynamic range (HDR) analog front-end (AFE) for complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors. In one embodiment, a single exposure HDR AFE includes input signal circuitry, gain stage circuitry, a continuous-time filter, comparator circuitry, and counter circuitry. The input signal circuitry is configured to generate an input signal. The gain stage circuitry including two gain stages and one gain stage is configured to generate a high gain output signal based on the input signal. The continuous-time filter is configured to generate a filtered high gain output signal by filtering the high gain output signal. The comparator circuitry is configured to generate a high gain comparison signal by comparing the filtered high gain output signal to the ramp voltage. The counter circuitry is configured to generate a high gain digital output signal based on the high gain comparison signal and using the clock signal.