Abstract: An unattended retail device includes a cabinet for storing items, a door configured to open or close an area inside the cabinet, and a vision system positioned within an interior space of the door. The vision system includes a movement system coupled to the door, a housing moveably mounted to the movement system, the housing including an imaging sensor configured to capture images or video frames, and at least one processor operably coupled to the imaging sensor and the movement system. The at least one processor is configured to control the movement system to move the housing within the interior space of the door, receive one or more images or video frames captured by the imaging sensor at one or more locations within the interior space of the door, and instruct an action based on the one or more images or video frames.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel having a display area including a plurality of subpixels. At least one of the plurality of subpixels may include: a driving transistor having a first electrode connected to a first power line configured to receive a first power voltage; a first switching transistor connected to a data line and having a gate electrode configured to receive a first scan signal; a second switching transistor connected between a gate electrode and a second electrode of the driving transistor and having a gate electrode configured to receive a second scan signal; and a third switching transistor connected with the gate electrode of the driving transistor and having a gate electrode configured to receive an emission control signal.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material includes nickel contained as a transition metal in a ratio of 70 mol % or more of the total transition metal; and polycrystalline particles and monocrystalline particles, in which a B/A value calculated from a lithium hydroxide content A (mass %) of the polycrystalline particles and a lithium hydroxide content B (mass %) of the monocrystalline particles is 1.03 to 1.9.

Abstract: Disclosed are electrolytes for rechargeable lithium batteries and rechargeable lithium batteries including the same. The electrolyte includes a non-aqueous organic solvent, a lithium salt, a first additive that includes a borate-based lithium salt having a double bond between carbon atoms, and a second additive that includes a disultone-based compound.

Abstract: A battery pack includes at least one electrochemical cell, a main housing, at least one projection, and a lock member. The main housing defines a longitudinal axis extending between front and rear surfaces, a transverse axis orthogonal to the longitudinal axis and extending between pair of lateral surfaces, a height axis extending between upper and lower surfaces and orthogonal to each of the longitudinal axis and the transverse axis, and a longitudinal plane of symmetry extending between the front surface and the rear surface and disposed parallel to each of the longitudinal axis and the height axis. The at least one projection is asymmetrically positioned with respect to the longitudinal plane of symmetry of the main housing. The lock member defines a lock slot therein extending along the transverse axis, such that the lock slot is asymmetrically positioned with respect to the longitudinal plane of symmetry of the main housing.

Abstract: An electrode assembly has a one or more first electrode plates, separators, and second electrode plates are stacked, wherein the first electrode plate include a first electrode tab portion, to which a first active material is not applied, on one side thereof in a width direction, and the first electrode tab portion extends further outward in the width direction from one side end portion of the electrode assembly in the width direction than the separator, and an insulating coating is formed on a slit surface of the second electrode plate, which is disposed adjacent to the first electrode tab portion with the separator interposed therebetween, at one side end portion of the electrode assembly. The insulating coating is formed after coating and slitting a second active material on the second electrode plate and before stacking the first electrode plate, the second electrode plate, and the separator.

Abstract: A surface-emitting, single mode laser includes a gain medium and a photonic structure. The gain medium is configured to emit an electromagnetic wave. The photonic structure is electromagnetically coupled to the gain medium and has a cavity mode-dependent scaling of losses so that higher order modes are coupled to more lossy bands and a fundamental mode, at a high symmetry point, is coupled to a less lossy band of the photonic structure.

Abstract: A power supply unit for a local consumer load comprises an electrical power generating device (10) configured to generate power from the environment and to provide first electrical power; an electrical energy storage (20) configured to store electrical energy and to provide second electrical power; an electric buffer (30) configured to receive and to buffer said first and said second electric power, and to provide a buffer output power; and an output power regulator (40) configured to provide an output power at a nominal output voltage from said buffer output power, and to adjust said nominal output voltage based on an amount of energy stored by said electrical energy storage (20).

Abstract: A ranging method and an apparatus are provided. The ranging method is applied to a first communication apparatus, and the first communication apparatus includes a first ultra-wideband system and a first narrowband system. The ranging method includes: The first ultra-wideband system receives ranging configuration information from the first narrowband system, where the ranging configuration information is determined by the first narrowband system and a second narrowband system of a second communication apparatus through negotiation (S310); and the first ultra-wideband system generates a first ranging frame based on the ranging configuration information, where the first ranging frame is used to measure a distance between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus (S320). This can implement a process of ranging between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus in a more secure manner.

Abstract: The invention relates to a housing for an electric or electronic device. The housing includes a housing lower part, which is made of metal and is designed as a heat sink for dissipating heat generated by the device. At least two rivet pins are formed in one piece with the housing lower part. The housing includes at least one circuit board on which the device is formed in the form of electric and/or electronic components and conductor tracks. The circuit board is mounted in the housing lower part. The housing also includes a shielding plate for shielding against electromagnetic radiation and a housing upper part for closing the housing. The housing lower part, the circuit board, the shielding plate, and the housing upper part are sealingly connected to one another by forming rivet heads on the rivet pins.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a Si substrate; a back electrode provided below the Si substrate; a SiC layer provided above the Si substrate; a nitride semiconductor layer provided above the SiC layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode provided above the nitride semiconductor layer; a gate electrode in contact with the nitride semiconductor layer; an intermediate layer provided in an opening that creates an opening in the SiC layer and the nitride semiconductor layer; a metal layer provided above the opening so as to cover the intermediate layer; and a conductor that is provided inside a through via that penetrates the intermediate layer and the Si substrate and is electrically connected with the back electrode and the metal layer. The intermediate layer is a metal nitride layer or a silicon oxide layer.

Abstract: A circuit capable of high-speed operation and a pixel are integrally formed over the same substrate. A first metal oxide film, a first metal film, and an island-shaped first resist mask are formed over a first insulating layer. An island-shaped first metal layer and an island-shaped first oxide semiconductor layer are formed and a part of a top surface of the first insulating layer is exposed; then, the first resist mask is removed. A second metal oxide film, a second metal film, and an island-shaped second resist mask are formed over the first metal layer and the first insulating layer. An island-shaped second metal layer and an island-shaped second oxide semiconductor layer are formed; then, the second resist mask is removed. The first metal layer and the second metal layer are removed.

Abstract: Embodiments of present invention provide a semiconductor structure. The structure includes a first group of field-effect-transistors (FETs); a second group of FETs on top of the first group of FETs; a first half-single-diffusion-break (H-SDB) underneath and being separated from one of the FETs of the second group by a middle-dielectric-insulator (MDI) layer; and a second H-SDB on top of and being separated from one of the FETs of the first group by the MDI layer, where the first H-SDB insulates a source/drain (S/D) region of a first FET of the first group of FETs from a S/D region of a second FET of the first group of FETs, and the second H-SDB insulates a S/D region of a first FET of the second group of FETs from a S/D region of a second FET of the second group of FETs. A method of forming the same is also provided.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a transistor provided on a main surface of a substrate having the main surface, and including a first electrode including an ohmic electrode, a MIM capacitor formed above the transistor and including a second electrode, a first electrically insulating layer provided on the second electrode, and a third electrode provided on the first electrically insulating layer, a second electrically insulating layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a plurality of vias penetrating the second electrically insulating layer and electrically connecting the first electrode and the second electrode to each other.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first gate isolation structure. A second gate isolation structure is spaced apart from the first gate isolation structure in a first direction. A first active pattern is disposed between the first and second gate isolation structures. The first active pattern extends longitudinally in a second direction crossing the first direction. A second active pattern is disposed between the first and second gate isolation structures. The second active pattern extends longitudinally in the second direction and is spaced apart from the first active pattern in the first direction. Gate structures are disposed between the first and second gate isolation structures. The gate structures directly contact the first and second gate isolation structures. A length of the first gate isolation structure in the second direction is greater than a length of the second gate isolation structure in the second direction.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a medical infusion device having a reservoir for holding a liquid medicament, a cannula assembly, a fluid line, a drive mechanism, a dispensing member for dispensing medicament from reservoir through the fluid line and the cannula assembly, and a leakage determining module. For a more convenient determination of leakage of liquid medicament, the leakage determining module includes an electronic probe for receiving odor molecules and/or flavor molecules of the liquid medicament and the leakage determining module has evaluation electronics to determine presence of odor and/or flavor of the liquid medicament based on readings of the electronic probe.

Abstract: A filament outlet device for installing on a filament storage device is provided, which includes a first outlet for a first filament having a first diameter; and a first outlet cover, configured to open or close the first outlet; the first outlet cover includes a second outlet for a second filament having a second diameter.

Abstract: A current sensor device for measuring a current in a conductor comprising: current sensing means comprising a magnetic sensing element for contactlessly measuring the current; amplification means arranged to act in a first and second state, said amplification means in said first and second state being arranged for amplifying a first and second signal, respectively, from said current sensing means with an adjustable first gain and a second gain and a first and second bandwidth to yield a first and second amplified signal, respectively, wherein said first gain is higher than the second gain, wherein the first gain and the second gain are larger than 1; processing means for controlling at least said first gain, for detecting an event based on at least said second amplified signal and for producing a signal indicative of said event; an output terminal arranged for outputting a signal indicative of said current based on said first amplified signal; and an output terminal arranged for outputting said signal indicat

Abstract: An X-ray measurement system with high signal resolution is provided. The X-ray measurement system includes an X-ray generator, an X-ray optical element group, a multi-dimensional X-ray detector and a processing device. The X-ray generator is configured to generate an incident X-ray beam. X-ray optics are used to guide the incident X-ray beam to a to-be-tested sample. The multi-dimensional X-ray detector is used to receive the measurement X-ray generated by irradiating the incident X-ray beam on the to-be-tested sample. The multi-dimensional X-ray detector includes an insulation layer, a plurality of first electrode layers, a photodiode layer, an X-ray conversion material layer made of amorphous selenium, and a second electrode layer. The processing device is configured to collect a to-be-tested X-ray signal and generate a plurality of measurement results that include a plurality of mode signals of different orders.

Abstract: A translucent resin composition comprises a transparent resin, and a natural fiber having a birefringence ?n of 0.013 to 0.15 and an average particle size of 2 to 100 ?m. The translucent resin composition contains 1 to 20 parts by mass of natural fiber with respect to 100 parts by mass of transparent resin. The translucent resin composition is used for depolarization. The natural fiber is an animal fiber.