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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: To more realistically represent the real-world, a street-level view depicts a route path and objects that occlude one or more segments of the route path. Such objects can include guardrails, buildings, or any of a variety of other objects as described herein. The street-level view can be implemented in advance to preview travel, during travel, or in other scenarios. The street-level view presents the route path from a viewpoint that can be a current location of a traveler or an arbitrary location.

Abstract: This application relates to a nickel-based superalloy suitable for additive manufacturing and a method for manufacturing a high-temperature member using the same. The nickel-based superalloy includes 13.7% to 14.3% by weight of Cr, 9.0% to 10.0% by weight of Co, 3.7% to 4.3% by weight of Mo, 2.6% to 3.4% by weight of Ti, 3.7% to 4.3% by weight of W, 2.6% to 3.4% by weight of Al, 0.15% to 0.19% by weight of C, greater than 0% by weight and not less than 0.005% by weight of B, 0.01% to 0.05% by weight of Zr, 2.0% to 2.7% by weight of Ta, 0.6% to 1.1% by weight of Hf, Ni residue, and unavoidable impurities. The nickel-based superalloy has a high fraction of strengthening phase, thereby maintaining excellent high-temperature strength. Additive manufacturing with the nick-based superalloy is much easier than existing nickel-based superalloys, thereby cost-effectively providing maximized cooling efficiency.

Abstract: A field-assembly optical connector includes an inner sleeve module, a connector frame housing the inner sleeve module, and a cable boot coupled to the inner sleeve module to protect a sheath of an optical fiber. The inner sleeve module includes a sleeve body having a sleeve, an intermediate connector fitted on the sleeve body and having protrusions, a spring fitted on a threaded portion of the sleeve body, a fixing ring screwed to the threaded portion of the sleeve body, and a ferrule stub inserted into the sleeve body through the fixing ring. A cable boot is fixed to the sleeve body and is coupled to the intermediate connector to be moveable within a predetermined range.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical connection technology, and more specifically, to a field-assembled optical connector configured to prevent bending phenomenon in which an optical fiber is bent when the optical connector is assembled by using an adapter.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a shielding member. The electronic device includes a substrate having an electric element mounted thereon; a shield can mounted on the electric element and including an opening formed at a part facing the electric element; a shielding member mounted around a part in which the opening is formed on an outer surface of the shield can, and electrically connected to the shield can; a metal plate mounted on the shielding member, with the opening covered, and electrically connected to the shielding member; and a heat conductive member mounted in the opening and interposed between the electric element and the metal plate, and in contact with the electric element and the metal plate.

Abstract: To more realistically represent the real-world, a street-level view depicts a route path and objects that occlude one or more segments of the route path. Such objects can include guardrails, buildings, or any of a variety of other objects as described herein. The street-level view can be implemented in advance to preview travel, during travel, or in other scenarios. The street-level view presents the route path from a viewpoint that can be a current location of a traveler or an arbitrary location.