Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wearable device that includes a housing, battery terminal connector, conductive traces, and an insulator for recording signals. The device may include a housing enclosing a circuit board and a battery. The device may include two conductive traces electrically connected to terminals of the battery and an insulator separating the conductive traces. The battery terminal connector can present both the conductive traces to the outer surface for coupling to a circuit board. The device can assess the physiological signals to infer a likelihood of arrhythmia of a user.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wearable device that includes a housing, battery terminal connector, conductive traces, and an insulator for recording signals. The device may include a housing enclosing a circuit board and a battery. The device may include two conductive traces electrically connected to terminals of the battery and an insulator separating the conductive traces. The battery terminal connector can present both the conductive traces to the outer surface for coupling to a circuit board. The device can assess the physiological signals to infer a likelihood of arrhythmia of a user.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device configured to be adhered to the surface of a mammal for recording physiological signals. The device may include a housing enclosing a circuit board and a flexible wing extending from the housing. The device may include an electrode coupled to the flexible wing and an electrical trace for transmitting an electrical signal between the electrode and the circuit board. The electrical trace may have an insulator with a conductive material and resistors printed on the surface of the insulator. The trace layer may include conductive vias for transmitting the signal from a bottom of the trace layer to a top of the trace layer. The housing may include a battery having a battery terminal connector configured to provide electrical access to both terminals on a single side of the battery. The housing may include a floating trigger button.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wearable device with a bridge portion and systems/methods relating to the device. Preferred embodiments may include two flexible wings and a bridge connecting the two wings. In some embodiments, the upper surface of the bridge can be non-adhesive and uncoupled to the flexible wing such that the flexible wing can be decoupled from the bridge when the adhesive is adhered to the surface of a user. The bridge can be narrower in some portions, and extend around the housing of the monitor. The bridge can extend beneath the housing and bisect the two flexible wings.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cardiac monitoring device and systems/methods relating to same. Preferred embodiments may include adhesive layers having channels for transpiring moisture to promote long term adhesion of the device to a subject. The adhesive layer may be surrounded by a non-adhesive lining to inhibit substrate layers from folding under the adhesive. In some embodiments, the adhesive layer may be replaceable. In some embodiments, the adhesive layer may extend beneath a substrate coupled to a housing but not be adhered to the overlying substrate layers. The angles of the edges of the adhesive layer may be configured to minimize peeling forces. Substrate layers above the adhesive layer may be perforated to promote transpiration of moisture and/or provide conformability to the substrate. The perforations may promote anisotropic resistance to compression and/or extension of the substrate.

Abstract: A plasma electrode module, an underwater plasma discharge device including the plasma electrode module, and a water treatment system are provided. The plasma electrode module includes a conductive substrate including a plurality of holes, a ceramic layer surrounding a portion of the outer surface of the conductive substrate, and a plasma electrode disposed in each of the plurality of holes, wherein the plasma electrode has a multilayer structure in which a cylindrical ground portion, a fixed portion, and a discharge portion are sequentially stacked, the ground portion is in contact with the conductive substrate and plasma is generated on the discharge portion, and each of the plurality of holes has a diameter in a range of 1 mm to 10 mm.

Abstract: A membrane separation pretreatment apparatus including a membrane separation unit and a first underwater plasma discharge unit disposed in front of the membrane separation unit is provided. The membrane separation pretreatment apparatus includes a membrane separation unit configured to remove particulate matter contained in raw water, and a first underwater plasma discharge unit disposed in front of the membrane separation unit and configured to cause a portion of the raw water to be introduced into the membrane separation unit to perform underwater plasma discharging.

Abstract: A reverse osmosis apparatus for a seawater desalination system is provided.

Abstract: A reverse osmosis apparatus for a seawater desalination system is provided. The reverse osmosis apparatus includes a barrel in which a plurality of vessels receiving reverse osmosis membrane units are arranged, a feed tank provided in an intermediate portion of the barrel and connected to a seawater inlet, a first water tank provided inside a first end portion of the barrel and connected to a plurality of first vessels connected to a first side of the feed tank, and a second water tank provided inside a second end portion of the barrel and connected to a plurality of second vessels connected to a second side of the feed tank.

Abstract: A reverse osmosis system for a seawater desalination system is provided.

Abstract: An electronic device for long-term adhesion to a mammal includes a housing with an electronic component. The electronic device may include a first wing and a second wing, each being integrally formed with the housing. An electrode is positioned on a bottom surface of each of the wings, the electrodes electrically connected to the electronic component. An adhesive layer is provided for adhesion to a surface of the mammal. The adhesive layer may cover a portion of the bottom surfaces of the wings but generally does not cover the electrode or a bottom surface of the housing. A method of applying an electronic device to a mammal includes removing first and second adhesive covers from first and second wings of the electronic device to expose an electrode and an adhesive coated on a bottom surface of each wing.

Abstract: An electronic device for long-term adhesion to a mammal includes a housing with an electronic component. The electronic device may include a first wing and a second wing, each being integrally formed with the housing. An electrode is positioned on a bottom surface of each of the wings, the electrodes electrically connected to the electronic component. An adhesive layer is provided for adhesion to a surface of the mammal. The adhesive layer may cover a portion of the bottom surfaces of the wings but generally does not cover the electrode or a bottom surface of the housing. A method of applying an electronic device to a mammal includes removing first and second adhesive covers from first and second wings of the electronic device to expose an electrode and an adhesive coated on a bottom surface of each wing.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery cell monitoring unit having a fault injection terminal and a battery management system using the same. The battery management system includes: a microcontroller unit transmitting and receiving communications information through a communications input/output terminal; a fault generator unit generating fault information and transmitting the fault information through a fault information output terminal; and a battery cell monitoring unit coupled to the communications input/output terminal and the fault information output terminal, and configured to diagnose an operation of internal function based on the fault information transmitted from the fault generator unit and to output an internal diagnosis result value to the microcontroller unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wearable monitor device and methods and systems for using such a device. In certain embodiments, the wearable monitor records cardiac data from a mammal and extracts particular features of interest. These features are then transmitted and used to provide health-related information about the mammal.

Abstract: The prevent invention relates to a biodegradable polymer resin composition which can realize excellent mechanical properties together with biodegradability and has improved molding processability, and a molded article thereof. The biodegradable polymer resin composition may include a polycarbonate-polyester copolymer including a branched repeating unit containing a mediating functional group including a central element and five to ten alkylene or heteroalkylene functional groups bonded to the mediating functional group, an aliphatic polycarbonate repeating unit having a chain structure, and an aromatic polyester repeating unit, and a biodegradable polyester resin having a melt index (measured at 190° C., 2.16 kg) of 3 g/10 min to 20 g/10 min.

Abstract: Disclosed are a water treatment apparatus using underwater plasma discharge and a water treatment system using the same. The apparatus includes a reactor having an inlet through which raw water flows in and an outlet through which purified water flows out, a ground electrode provided at a first side of the reactor, and a plasma electrode module provided at a second side of the reactor and configured to generate plasma. With plasma generated through underwater discharge, it is possible to decompose or remove organic substances and microorganisms present in raw water.

Abstract: A water treatment apparatus including an underwater plasma discharge module is provided. The water treatment apparatus includes a dissolved air flotation device configured to remove foreign matter contained in water and an underwater plasma discharge module disposed at a preceding stage of the dissolved air flotation device and configured to cause a portion of the water to be introduced into the dissolved air flotation device to perform underwater plasma discharging, wherein the dissolved air flotation device comprises a mixing and coagulation basin configured to coagulate or flocculate the foreign matter contained in the water to form and grow flocs of the foreign matter, and a flotation basin configured to raise and remove the flocs by supplying microbubbles to the water passing through the mixing and coagulation basin.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wearable monitor device and methods and systems for using such a device. In certain embodiments, the wearable monitor records cardiac data from a mammal and extracts particular features of interest. These features are then transmitted and used to provide health-related information about the mammal.

Abstract: Provided is an aliphatic polycarbonate macropolyol including —OAO— and Z(O—)a as repeating units. In the aliphatic polycarbonate macropolyol, the repeating units —OAO— and Z(O—)a are linked to each other via carbonyl (—C(O)—) linkers or are bonded to hydrogen to form terminal —OH groups. The number of moles of the terminal —OH groups is from aZ to aZ+0.2Z (where Z represents the number of moles of the repeating unit Z(O—)a). Further provided is an aliphatic polycarbonate-co-aromatic polyester macropolyol including —OAO— and Z(O—)a as repeating units. In the aliphatic polycarbonate-co-aromatic polyester macropolyol, the repeating units —OAO— and Z(O—)a are linked via carbonyl (—C(O)—) and —C(O)YC(O)— as linkers or are bonded to hydrogen to form terminal —OH groups.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wearable monitor device and methods and systems for using such a device. In certain embodiments, the wearable monitor records cardiac data from a mammal and extracts particular features of interest. These features are then transmitted and used to provide health-related information about the mammal.