Abstract: A lithium secondary battery with an integrated display panel may include an electrode assembly including a cathode and an anode disposed to face the cathode, and an outer case which accommodates the electrode assembly and has at least one surface provided as a display panel. By providing at least one surface of the outer case as the display panel, a secondary battery having the reduced volume may be provided when designing the secondary battery with the same capacity.

Abstract: A fluid supply device and a wafer cleaning apparatus using the same are proposed. The fluid supply device is improved to minimize occurrence of particles generated in an operational process in order to reduce contamination of a wafer. The fluid supply device includes a supply tube connected to a supply tank storing a liquid chemical and a supply valve, a drain tube connected to the supply tube by a branch tube and a drain valve, a fluid tank, a provision tube connected to the supply tube via the branch tube to provide the liquid chemical into the fluid tank, a supply valve, a tank drain tube connected to the fluid tank to drain a liquid chemical in the fluid tank, and a tank drain valve, and a controller configured to control opening and closing of each of the valves and supply of the liquid chemical supplying through the supply tube.

Abstract: Disclosed are a positive electrode additive material for a lithium secondary battery having an enhancement in atmospheric stability, a method for preparing the same, and a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery including the same. The positive electrode material includes an core including a lithium component, and a coating layer formed on a surface of the core and including a compound having a formula of LiM?O3 wherein M? is Ta or Nb.

Abstract: An electric seatback-folding device for emergency escape enables a controller to accurately recognize whether a seatback (or a seatback frame) is in a locked state or an unlocked state using a microswitch. Folding of the seatback for emergency escape is smoothly performed without malfunction or a control error by operation of a motor in response to a current control signal of the controller.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a multi-view video encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and a method for transmitting a bitstream generated by the multi-view video encoding method. The multi-view video encoding method according to the present disclosure may include generating first bitstreams for each of a plurality of quantization parameters (QPs) different from each other by encoding an atlas for a multi-view video in the quantization parameters; extracting second bitstreams for sub-regions in the atlas from the first bitstreams; and generating a third bitstream by merging, among the second bitstreams, second bitstreams with a predetermined bit rate.

Abstract: A hearing device, especially a hearing aid device, has a support frame which is enclosed by a housing. The housing has an upper housing shell and a lower housing shell, which are joined together at a circumferential edge and overlap to form a labyrinth seal. The support frame has an outwardly directed protrusion, which engages with the labyrinth seal.

Abstract: A seatback-folding device for emergency escape for vehicles is equipped with a simply structured mechanism for emergency escape. A locking operation at the time of unfolding of a seatback of a second-row seat and an unlocking operation at the time of folding of the seatback of the second-row seat are performed by ascending/descending of a shaft caused by operation of a lever, thereby not only enabling an occupant sitting on a third-row seat to quickly fold the seatback of the second-row seat and thus to easily secure an emergency escape route, but also reducing the number of components, weight, the number of assembly processes, and manufacturing cost compared to a related art.

Abstract: An image quality assessment apparatus and an image quality assessment method are provided. In the method, multiple to-be-assessed blocks are formed for an image in a video stream, these to-be-assessed blocks are inputted to a quality assessment model, and a quality of the image is determined according to an output result of the quality assessment model. The quality assessment model is trained based on a machine learning algorithm.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly including a cathode and an anode, a pouch case including an accommodating portion in which the electrode assembly is placed and a peripheral portion extending along a circumference of the accommodating portion and sealing the electrode assembly, and an anti-venting tool coupled to at least one corner portion among corner portions of the peripheral portion to fix the corner portion. The corner portion is inserted through the anti-venting tool to protrude from the anti-venting tool.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate and a transistor disposed on the substrate and including a semiconductor layer, wherein the semiconductor layer includes a mesh structure, and wherein a plurality of openings are formed in the semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes a cathode including a cathode current collector and a cathode active material layer formed on the cathode current collector, and an anode including an anode current collector and an anode active material layer formed on the anode current collector. The anode active material layer has an area larger than that of the cathode active material layer. The cathode active material layer includes a central portion and an outer portion surrounding the central portion, and the outer portion has a specific capacity less than that of the central portion.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes a cathode including a cathode current collector and a cathode active material layer formed on the cathode current collector, and an anode including an anode current collector and an anode active material layer formed on the anode current collector. The anode active material layer has an area larger than that of the cathode active material layer. The anode active material layer includes an overlapping portion overlying the cathode active material layer in a planar direction and a margin portion around the overlapping portion. The margin portion has an electrical resistance greater than that of the overlapping portion.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery includes a cathode including a cathode current collector and a cathode active material layer formed on the cathode current collector, and an anode including an anode current collector and an anode active material layer formed on the anode current collector. The anode active material layer has an area larger than that of the cathode active material layer. The cathode active material layer includes a central portion and an outer portion surrounding the central portion, and the outer portion has a specific capacity less than that of the central portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell provided on a substrate, a second memory cell provided on the substrate and spaced apart from the first memory cell, a passivation layer extending along a side surface of the first memory cell and a side surface of the second memory cell, and a gap fill layer covering the passivation layer. Each of the first memory cell and the second memory cell includes a selection pattern having ovonic threshold switching characteristics, and a storage pattern provided on the selection pattern. The passivation layer includes a lower portion filling a space between the selection pattern of the first memory cell and the selection pattern of the second memory cell, and an upper portion extending along a side surface of the storage pattern of each of the first memory cell and the second memory cell.

Abstract: Disclosed is a locking device for a walk-in seat of a vehicle capable of stably maintaining the locked state of the walk-in seat prior to a walk-in operation. An object of the present invention is to provide a locking device for a walk-in seat of a vehicle capable of stably maintaining the locked state of the walk-in seat prior to a walk-in operation (that is, the locked state of a drive plate for the walk-in operation of the seat) even if the engagement between the drive plate and a pawl is released due to deformation caused by a torsional load applied to a connection frame of the seat by additionally providing a separate component configured to prevent the drive plate from being rotated in an unlocking direction when a load is applied to a seat belt buckle.

Abstract: Proposed herein are an image detection device, a signal control system including the same, and a signal control method. The image detection device includes: a photographing unit configured to acquire an intersection image by capturing an image of an intersection; a control unit configured to generate detection information, including information about a vehicle-occupied or -unoccupied state for each of one or more detection channels set on the plane of the intersection by analyzing the intersection image acquired by the photographing unit; and a communication unit configured to transmit the detection information, generated by the control unit, to the traffic signal controller.

Abstract: Proposed is a road slope estimation method for a vehicle. The method includes: calculating, by a controller, a basic slope based on an output value of an acceleration sensor of the vehicle; calculating, by the controller, an acceleration/deceleration correction value from an acceleration/deceleration correction map; and calculating, by the controller, a turning correction value from a turning correction map. The method further includes: calculating, by the controller, a final slope based on the basic slope, the acceleration/deceleration correction value, and the turning correction value; and controlling the vehicle based on the final slope.

Abstract: A storage device is disclosed. The storage device may comprise storage for input encoded data. A controller may process read requests and write requests from a host computer on the data in the storage. An in-storage compute controller may receive a predicate from the host computer to be applied to the input encoded data. A transcoder may include an index mapper to map an input dictionary to an output dictionary, with one entry in the input dictionary mapped to an entry in the output dictionary, and another entry in the input dictionary mapped to a “don't care” entry in the output dictionary.

Abstract: A transparent display device includes a substrate on which a pixel including first, second, and third emission areas and first and second transparent areas arranged along a first direction is defined, a light-emitting diode disposed in each of the first, second, and third emission areas and including a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode, and an auxiliary electrode extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and electrically connected to the second electrode. The first emission area and the auxiliary electrode are disposed between the first transparent area and the second transparent area, and the second transparent area includes a first portion between the first emission area and the second emission area. Further, the first transparent area has a higher transmittance than the second transparent area.

Abstract: A battery module in accordance with the present disclosure includes a secondary battery including an electrode assembly and an exterior material configured to accommodate the electrode assembly, a housing member configured to accommodate the secondary battery, and a temperature control member formed inside the housing member, wherein the battery module comprises a structure in which a metal layer formed on an outermost surface of the exterior material comes in contact with the temperature control member, such that temperature deviation among a plurality of the secondary batteries in the battery module is reduced and thus an efficiency in temperature control is enhanced.