Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for electronic receipt management using a user terminal which includes an electronic wallet where payment information is stored, an electronic receipt application storing and managing an electronic receipt, an installation number generated to determine what number of application is installed when the electronic receipt application is installed, a dongle including a payment request relay unit requesting an installation number and payment information to the user terminal to transfer received installation number, payment information, and the amount of requested payment to a payment server, a payment unit making a payment using the payment information and the amount of requested payment received from the payment request relay unit and an electronic receipt issuing unit issuing an electronic receipt when the payment unit makes a payment and transferring the issued electronic receipt and the installation number received from the payment request relay unit to an electronic receipt se

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first base substrate, a touch sensing part provided on the first base substrate, an electronic device provided on the first base substrate, a black matrix provided on the first base substrate, a signal line provided on the black matrix to apply a driving signal to the electronic device, a second base substrate facing the first base substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first base substrate and the second base substrate.

Abstract: A heat dissipation substrate including a metal substrate, a metal layer, an insulating material layer and a patterned conductive layer is provided. The metal layer is disposed on the metal substrate and entirely covers the metal substrate. The metal layer has a first metal block and a second metal block surrounding the first metal block. A thickness of the first metal block is greater than a thickness of the second metal block. The insulating material layer is disposed on the second metal block. The patterned conductive layer is disposed on the insulating material layer and on the first metal block.

Abstract: A control device (200) calculates, on the basis of the transition of the expected amount of power generation of a power generation unit (160), the transition of the expected amount of power supply of a power supply unit (110), and the current amount of stored electrical power of a storage battery (120), a transition of the expected amount of the stored electrical power of the storage battery (120) in a case where electrical power continues to be supplied from a power distribution network (300) to the storage battery (120).

Abstract: A convertible tandem stroller with a double seat transfer mechanism includes a wheeled rack, a pair of extension arms and a pair of chairs The stroller is featured with the wheeled rack having a swivel mount, the pair of extension arms being connected to the swivel mount, and the pair of chairs being swivelly mounted on the pair of extension aims. The extension arms are capable of swiveling relative to the wheeled rack and positioning on a longitudinally oriented position and a transversely oriented position so as to convert the stroller from a tandem style to a side-by-side double seat style, and vice versa.

Abstract: A transistor includes oxide semiconductor stacked layers between a first gate electrode layer and a second gate electrode layer through an insulating layer interposed between the first gate electrode layer and the oxide semiconductor stacked layers and an insulating layer interposed between the second gate electrode layer and the oxide semiconductor stacked layers. The thickness of a channel formation region is smaller than the other regions in the oxide semiconductor stacked layers. Further in this transistor, one of the gate electrode layers is provided as what is called a back gate for controlling the threshold voltage. Controlling the potential applied to the back gate enables control of the threshold voltage of the transistor, which makes it easy to maintain the normally-off characteristics of the transistor.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-shrinkable polyester film having a heat shrinkage initiation temperature of 60° C. or lower, a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 77° C. or lower and a heat shrinkage rate of 2% or more at 60° C. which has relatively low glass transition temperature and heat shrinkage initiation temperature, and thus can be useful as a label for a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) container and the like.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing blister copper directly from copper concentrate, comprising: a) adding copper concentrate, copper matte, slagging material, oxygen enriched air, endothermic material to a upper segment of the reaction furnace; b) adding reducing agent to the lower segment space of the reaction furnace; c) directing the produced hot coke and liquid slag into an electric furnace, and adding copper concentrate into the electric furnace to generate an electric furnace slag and copper matte; d) the copper matte being granulated and finely ground, then re-fed into the reaction furnace. The addition of reducing agent in the lower segment will not increase the heat load of the reaction furnace since the reducing agent does not burn.

Abstract: It is intended to prevent degradation of battery cells (cells). A battery control apparatus obtains a cell voltage value of each of the cells (201) (S1), calculates a cell SOC at each of the cells based on the measured cell voltage value (S2), calculates an integrated current value (Ah) by integrating current values of a battery pack (2) configured with a plurality of the cells (201), calculates a cell capacity value of each of the cells (201) based on the integrated current value and the cell SOC (S3), calculates a dischargeable cell capacity value from the cell capacity value and the cell SOC (S4), and controls charging/discharging of the battery pack (2) based on the dischargeable cell capacity value (S5).

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor is used for a channel formation region and which has a positive threshold voltage to serve as a normally-off switching element, and the like are provided. Stable electrical characteristics are given to the semiconductor device including the transistor in which an oxide semiconductor film is used for the channel formation region, and thus the semiconductor device has high reliability. In a semiconductor device including a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor film including a channel formation region, source and drain electrode layers, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode layer are stacked in this order over an oxide insulating film, a conductive layer overlapping with the gate electrode layer with the channel formation region provided therebetween and controlling the electrical characteristics of the transistor is provided in the oxide insulating film including an oxygen excess region.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an imidazole compound represented by a formula (1) below includes reacting 1-arylimidazole with a halogen-atom substituted compound. For performing this reaction, in a reaction system, a mole number Nf(2) [mol] of the halogen-atom substituted compound and a total volume Vsol [liter] of an ether solvent having at most 5 carbon atoms satisfy a relationship of Vsol/Nf(2)?3. In the formula (1): R1 and R4 represent a substituent and the like; Z1 represents a group of atoms necessary for forming a hydrocarbon cyclic group and the like; R2 and R3 represent a bond, a hydrogen atom or an aromatic hydrocarbon group; Z2 represents a group of atoms necessary for forming a five-membered hydrocarbon ring and the like together with C—C; and m represents an integer of 1 to 5.

Abstract: A glow plug wherein a combustion gas prevention wall (67) extends radially outward on the outer circumferential surface of heater (10) such that when the heater (10) is viewed rearward from its forward end (10a) along the axial direction, the combustion gas prevention wall (67) closes an annular gap K1 at a position forward of annular membrane portion (63) of seal member (60). The combustion gas prevention wall (67) has an outer diameter D2 greater than the inner diameter D1 of forward end (136) of the housing.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly including a positive electrode and a negative electrode, a case having a space accommodating the electrode assembly and including a support at a corner inside the case, and a cap plate coupled to an opening of the case and supported by the support.

Abstract: A call management method, an associated mobile terminal, and a mobile terminal control method using a call status, and a related apparatus. A first status change information is created when a call connection for a first call is requested through a first call application. A second status change information is created when a second call connection for a new call is requested through a second call application on the condition that the first call being pre-established through the first call application is connected. After guide information created using the first status change information and the second status change information is outputted, an input of selection information regarding the guide information is received. At least one of the first and second call applications is a call application that performs a service for a packet switched (PS) call.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a handwriting pen and a main body. A gyroscope senses movement information of the handwriting pen and outputs the movement information to a controller. The controller converts the movement information into electrical signals and outputs the electrical signals to the main body through a signal transmitting module. A processor receives the electrical signals through a signal receiving module and the signal transmitting module, converts the electrical signals into movement information, and outputs the movement information to a character identification module. The character identification module converts the movement information into a corresponding character, and controls the display unit to display the character.

Abstract: An auxiliary valve actuating mechanism of an engine includes a first valve actuating mechanism and an auxiliary valve actuating mechanism. The auxiliary valve actuating mechanism comprises an auxiliary cam, an auxiliary rocker-arm shaft, an auxiliary rocker arm, an eccentric rocker arm bushing and a bushing actuation device. One end of the auxiliary rocker arm constitutes a motion pair with the auxiliary cam and the other end is above the valve. The bushing actuation device actuates the eccentric rocker arm bushing to rotate between an operating position and a non-operating position.

Abstract: A wireless communicating electronic device includes a wireless communication unit, a shell receiving the wireless communicating unit therein, a touch sensing unit, and a processing unit. The touch sensing unit includes an antenna, a regulating circuit, and an analog-digital (AD) converting module. A given portion spatially corresponding to the antenna defined on the shell. The antenna generates an alternating current (AC) signal in response to a finger touch on the given portion. The regulating circuit regulates the AC signal. The AD converting module converts the AC signal into a digital signal. The processing unit executes an instruction in response to the digital signal.

Abstract: A color contrast enhancing sunglass lens includes a lens body and a multi-layer coating disposed on the lens body. The multi-layer coating includes a set of alternating layers formed of materials having different refractive indices and confines the transmission of visible light to a predetermined spectral profile having at least three high transmission bands that include blue, green and red bands and that have a maximum of spectral transmittance no less than 60%, three low transmission bands that include purple, cyan and yellow bands and that have a minimum of spectral transmittance no greater than 40%, and no spectral transmittance being less than 15% between 475 and 650 nm.

Abstract: Chunks that commonly occur in each content type are aggregated in a first container. To be more specific, a storage device used for content backup is configured with: (1) a memory device that provides a memory region for one or a plurality of first containers used to store first chunks that commonly occur in each content type among chunks extracted from the contents of writing targets, and for one or a plurality of second containers used to store other chunks than the first chunks; and (2) a backup unit that decides whether each of the chunks extracted from the contents of the writing targets is a first duplication chunk duplicating a chunk stored in the first container, and further decides, for only a chunk that is decided not to be the first duplication chunk, whether each of the chunks is a second duplication chunk duplicating a chunk stored in the second container, and then stores only a chunk that is decided not to be the second duplication chunk in the second container.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for measuring blood pressures of both arms, in which an examine simultaneously measures the blood pressures of both arms without getting the arms out of cuffs in the stable and safely posture. The apparatus includes a body (100) mounted on a mounting table such as a desk, a left cuff unit (110) placed at a left upper portion of the body (100), and a right cuff unit (210) placed at a right upper portion of the body (100). The left and right cuff units have the symmetric structure so that the blood pressure is measured at identical blood pressure measurement portions of the left and right arms of the examinee which are placed at internal space parts of the left and right cuff units.