Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for recognizing an emergency vehicle. An apparatus for recognizing an emergency vehicle is provided, including a processor; and a memory configured to store at least one instruction executed by the processor. The processor is configured to control at least one or more sensors to recognize an approach of the emergency vehicle and a road condition, to determine an first avoidance location that is a location for an first car to move away from the emergency vehicle based on the road condition, to provide a first avoidance route that is a route for the first cat to move from a current location to the first avoidance location, and to control at least one projection device to project at least one of a first symbol indicating the approaching of the emergency vehicle or the first avoidance route.

Abstract: A battery module is provided comprising a plurality of battery cells and a housing having an internal space in which the plurality of battery cells are accommodated. The housing is at least partially formed of a plate member which is connected with the internal space. The plate member forms a flame or gas path which in an event of a battery cell malfunction generating a flame or gas is configured to discharge the generated flame or gas externally of the housing.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of providing driving information of an autonomous vehicle performed by an apparatus that includes a first sensor unit, a second sensor unit, a processor, and a projection unit. The method includes: acquiring, by the first sensor unit, surroundings information of the autonomous vehicle; acquiring, by the second sensor unit, information on an occupant on board the autonomous vehicle; generating, by the processor, main driving information from the surroundings information of the autonomous vehicle acquired by the first sensor unit; determining, by the processor, the main driving information to be provided to the occupant from among the main driving information based on the information on the occupant; and providing, by the projection unit, the main driving information determined by the processor to the occupant of the autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: A computer implemented method and apparatus provide a route to postpone or delay arrival of a vehicle at a destination. The method includes: obtaining, by a processor, behavior information indicating a behavior of an occupant in the vehicle; receiving, by the processor from the occupant, time information for postponing arrival of the vehicle at the destination; and providing, by the processor, at least one recommended route according to the behavior information and the time information.

Abstract: A sterilization apparatus includes a housing; a sterilization unit for irradiating, with sterilization light, at least one region to be sterilized; and a driving unit for moving the sterilization unit into and out of the housing via an opening of the housing and rotating the sterilization unit about a rotation axis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating a bone disease, obesity or an obesity-mediated metabolic disease, cancer, or cancer metastasis, and a method of screening a drug for treating the diseases, which includes an inhibitor of transmembrane 4 L six family member 19 (TM4SF19) expression or activity.

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: 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: 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 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: The present disclosure relates to a portable printer including a main body in a portable form which is capable of accommodating a cartridge having a nozzle for delivering a printing material to a target having a soft or hard surface, a seating part which is provided to be exposed to an outside from a lower portion of the main body to face the surface of the target and at least partially surrounds the nozzle, a roller provided respectively at the front and rear of the nozzle at the lower portion of the main body with respect to a direction in which the main body moves along the surface of the target to deliver the printing material to the target, and a printing adjustment unit configured to adjust a height difference between the nozzle and the roller to adjust a height difference between the nozzle and the surface of the target.

Abstract: In some implementations, the disclosed systems and methods can detect an interaction with respect to a set of virtual objects, which can start with a particular gesture, and take an action with respect to one or more virtual objects based on a further interaction (e.g., holding the gesture for a particular amount of time, moving the gesture in a particular direction, releasing the gesture, etc.). In some implementations, the disclosed systems and methods can automatically review a 3D video to determine a depicted user or avatar movement pattern (e.g., dance moves, repair procedure, playing an instrument, etc.). In some implementations, the disclosed systems and methods can allow the gesture to included a flat hand with the user's thumb next to the palm, with the gesture toward the user's face.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first active area and a second active area slidable in a first direction, a plurality of segments spaced apart from one another in the first direction, extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and supporting a lower surface of the second active area, a panel housing having a guide rail engaged with a portion of each of the segments to guide a sliding motion of the display panel, and a first roller extending in the second direction, disposed in the panel housing, and surrounded by the lower surface of the second active area. The first roller includes a central portion having a first diameter, and a stepped portion protruding from the central portion in the second direction, forming a level difference with the central portion, and overlapping at least one of the segments to form a space.

Abstract: An optical path control member according to an embodiment comprises: a first substrate; a first electrode arranged on the upper surface of the first substrate; a second substrate arranged on top of the first substrate; a second electrode arranged on the lower surface of the second substrate; and an optical conversion unit which is arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode and which defines a first direction and a second direction, wherein the optical conversion unit comprises a partition part and an accommodation part that are alternately arranged in the first direction, the accommodation part includes a plurality of cells arranged to be spaced in the second direction, at least one of the cells includes a first inner side surface and a second inner side surface that are connected to each other, and the first inner side surface and/or the second inner side surface extends in a direction other than the first and second directions.

Abstract: Proposed is an all-solid-state battery including a self-standing sheet layer positioned on a negative electrode current collector. The all-solid-state battery may include the negative electrode current collector, the self-standing sheet layer positioned on the negative electrode current collector, a solid electrolyte layer positioned on the sheet layer, a positive electrode active material layer positioned on the solid electrolyte layer, and a positive electrode current collector positioned on the positive electrode active material layer. The sheet layer contains carbon nanotubes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing an alkali metal ion conductive chalcogenide-based solid electrolyte, a solid electrolyte prepared thereby, and an all-solid-state battery comprising the same.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for treating a substrate are provided. The apparatus includes at least one first process chamber configured to supply a developer onto the substrate; at least one second process chamber configured to treat the substrate using a supercritical fluid; a transfer chamber configured to transfer the substrate from the at least one first process chamber to the at least one second process chamber, while the developer supplied in the at least one first process chamber remains on the substrate; and a temperature and humidity control system configured to manage temperature and humidity of the transfer chamber by supplying a first gas of constant temperature and humidity into the transfer chamber.

Abstract: Disclosed are: a method for detecting a target biomolecule in a biological sample, in which the method can be rapidly and inexpensively performed on site to diagnose diseases such as infectious diseases; an FO-LSPR optical fiber sensor which can be used therein; and a disposable sensor cartridge having the sensor mounted. The disposal sensor cartridge of the present invention can he used in the rapid detection of a target biomolecule, by mounting an optical fiber sensor and then connecting FO-LSPR equipment thereto. When an FO-LSPR molecular diagnostic system using the optical fiber sensor cartridge of the present invention is combined with a CRISPR-Cas system, target biomolecules can be detected accurately and conveniently without nucleic acid amplification.

Abstract: Discussed is a battery that may include an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator wound around a winding axis, wherein the first electrode includes a first active material region coated with a first active material layer and a first uncoated region not coated with the first active material layer, and at least a part of the first uncoated region being an electrode tab; a first current collector coupled to at least a part of the first uncoated region on the electrode assembly; a battery housing to accommodate the electrode assembly and the first current collector; and an insulator interposed between at least one of the first uncoated region and the first current collector and an inner surface of the battery housing facing the at least one of the first uncoated region and the first current collector to block an electrical connection between the battery housing and the at least one of the first uncoated region and the first current collector.