Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly defining a core and an outer circumference by winding a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween around a winding center, each of the first electrode and the second electrode includes a first uncoated portion and a second uncoated portion on which an active material layer is not coated along the winding direction; a battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly through an opening formed on one side thereof; a cap including a venting portion, covering the opening, and electrically connected to the battery housing and the first uncoated portion; and a battery terminal penetrating one surface of the battery housing and electrically connected to the second uncoated portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode 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. At least a part of the first uncoated portion is defined as an electrode tab by itself. The first uncoated portion includes a first portion adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly, a second portion adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly, and a third portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion or the second portion has a smaller height than the third portion in the winding axis direction.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode, the second electrode and the separator being wound around a winding axis to define a core and an outer peripheral surface. The first electrode and the second electrode include a first uncoated region and a second uncoated region along a winding direction, respectively, and an active material layer coating is absent in the first uncoated region and the second uncoated region. The battery further includes a housing receiving the electrode assembly through an opening formed at a bottom, a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and disposed within the housing, a cap covering the opening, a spacer interposed between the cap and the electrode assembly to fix the electrode assembly and seal the housing, and a terminal electrically connected to the second uncoated region.

Abstract: Provided are an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and vehicle including the same. An electrode assembly, in which a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound about an axis to define a core and an outer circumferential surface. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes, at a long side end portion, an uncoated portion exposed beyond the separator in a direction of the axis. At least a part of the uncoated portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly to define a bent surface region having overlapping layers of the uncoated portion. The bent surface region includes a welding target region having a number of the overlapping layers of the uncoated portion, and the welding target region extends along a radial direction of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first uncoated region and a second uncoated region; a battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly and electrically connected to the second uncoated region; a cap to cover an open portion on bottom of the battery housing; a first electrode terminal passing through a partially closed portion of the battery housing and being electrically isolated from the battery housing; and a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and connected to the first electrode terminal.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode wound around a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumferential surface, the first electrode including a first uncoated region in which an active material layer is not coated along a winding direction; a housing accommodating the electrode assembly through an open portion at a lower end thereof; a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and disposed in the housing; a cap to cover the open portion; and a spacer between the first current collector and the cap and having a height corresponding to a distance between the first current collector and the cap.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on an axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes an uncoated portion at a long side end thereof and exposed out of the separator along a winding axis direction of the electrode assembly. A part of the uncoated portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly to form a bending surface region that includes overlapping layers of the uncoated portion, and in a partial region of the bending surface region, the number of stacked layers of the uncoated portion is 10 or more in the winding axis direction of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A cylindrical battery cell includes a jelly-roll having a first electrode tab protruding upward and a second electrode tab protruding downward, a battery can configured to accommodate the jelly-roll through a top opening and electrically connected to the second electrode tab, a first current collecting plate coupled to the first electrode tab at an upper portion of the jelly-roll, an insulating shrink tube having a first cover portion for covering at least a part of the first current collecting plate and a second cover portion for covering a top end of an outer circumference of the jelly-roll, and a top cap electrically connected to the first current collecting plate and configured to cover the opening.

Abstract: The present specification relates to a viewing angle compensation film, a polarizing plate including the same, and a display device including the same, and the viewing angle compensation film includes: a pattern layer; and a low refractive layer, in which a difference in refractive index between the pattern layer and the low refractive layer is 0.02 to 0.

Abstract: The present specification relates to a viewing angle compensation film, a polarizing plate including the same, and a display device including the same, and the viewing angle compensation film includes: a pattern layer; and a low refractive layer, in which a difference in refractive index between the pattern layer and the low refractive layer is 0.02 to 0.

Abstract: A fluid supplying apparatus includes an inner tube having a plurality of holes for distributing a fluid supplied from a supply unit, and an outer tube arranged coaxially or non-coaxially with the inner tube to surround the inner tube and having a plurality of slots for injecting the fluid distributed therein from the holes to the outside. The outer tube substantially has the same length as the inner tube. The fluid supplying apparatus may be used for a thin film cleaning system or method.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device having a protective wiring inserted between adjacent pixel pairs so that the generation of electrical charges caused by a voltage variation in adjacent pixel pairs may be restrained, and a method for manufacturing the same. A solid-state imaging device with an additional protective wiring may be provided between pixel pairs to restrain the generation of electric charges within one of the pixel pairs caused by a voltage variation in the other pixel pair. A method for manufacturing a solid-state imaging device with an additional protective wiring which is provided between pixel pairs to restrain the generation of electric charges within one of the pixel pairs caused by a voltage variation in the other pixel pair.

Abstract: Provided is an image sensor. According to embodiments, the subject image sensor can include a photodiode for converting incident light into electrical signals, a reset transistor for resetting a voltage value of a unit pixel, a drive transistor for providing an output voltage, a select transistor for selecting the unit pixel, a storage capacitor for storing electrons leaking from the photodiode, and a switching transistor for controlling the flow of charge to and from the storage capacitor. The switching transistor can be disposed connected to a node between the photodiode and the reset transistor, and the storage capacitor can be disposed at a side of the switching transistor.

Abstract: A steering assembly according to the present invention includes connection parts that are formed in a mounting plate body and fixed to a steering wheel module. Accordingly, when the mounting plate assembly is fixed to a steering wheel module, it is possible to attach or detach the mounting plate assembly to or from the steering wheel module. As a result, it is possible to quickly assemble the mounting plate assembly and the steering wheel module.

Abstract: A capacitor may include at least one of a polysilicon layer over a semiconductor substrate; a capacitor dielectric layer over a polysilicon layer; an insulating layer over a capacitor dielectric layer; a metal layer connected to a capacitor dielectric layer through a first region of an insulating layer; an upper metal wiring layer connected to a metal layer over an insulating layer; and/or a lower metal wiring line layer connected to a polysilicon layer through a metal contact that passes through a second region of an insulating layer and a capacitor dielectric layer over the insulating layer.

Abstract: A capacitor may include at least one of a polysilicon layer over a semiconductor substrate; a capacitor dielectric layer over a polysilicon layer; an insulating layer over a capacitor dielectric layer; a metal layer connected to a capacitor dielectric layer through a first region of an insulating layer; an upper metal wiring layer connected to a metal layer over an insulating layer; and/or a lower metal wiring line layer connected to a polysilicon layer through a metal contact that passes through a second region of an insulating layer and a capacitor dielectric layer over the insulating layer.

Abstract: A capacitor may include at least one of a polysilicon layer over a semiconductor substrate; a capacitor dielectric layer over a polysilicon layer; an insulating layer over a capacitor dielectric layer; a metal layer connected to a capacitor dielectric layer through a first region of an insulating layer; an upper metal wiring layer connected to a metal layer over an insulating layer; and/or a lower metal wiring line layer connected to a polysilicon layer through a metal contact that passes through a second region of an insulating layer and a capacitor dielectric layer over the insulating layer.

Abstract: A steering assembly according to the present invention includes connection parts that are formed in a mounting plate body and fixed to a steering wheel module. Accordingly, when the mounting plate assembly is fixed to a steering wheel module, it is possible to attach or detach the mounting plate assembly to or from the steering wheel module. As a result, it is possible to quickly assemble the mounting plate assembly and the steering wheel module.

Abstract: Provided is an image sensor. According to embodiments, the subject image sensor can include a photodiode for converting incident light into electrical signals, a reset transistor for resetting a voltage value of a unit pixel, a drive transistor for providing an output voltage, a select transistor for selecting the unit pixel, a storage capacitor for storing electrons leaking from the photodiode, and a switching transistor for controlling the flow of charge to and from the storage capacitor. The switching transistor can be disposed connected to a node between the photodiode and the reset transistor, and the storage capacitor can be disposed at a side of the switching transistor.

Abstract: A method for driving a display may include sequentially supplying a first scan signal to odd numbered scan lines, and sequentially supplying a second scan signal to even numbered scan lines to display one frame of an image, wherein the first and second scan signals are offset from one another by a fraction of a frame period.