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: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first uncoated region and a second uncoated region; a battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly and electrically connected to the second uncoated region; a cap to cover an open portion on bottom of the battery housing; a first electrode terminal passing through a partially closed portion of the battery housing and being electrically isolated from the battery housing; and a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and connected to the first electrode terminal.

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: A foil tab forming apparatus forms at least one foil tab of a positive electrode foil tab and a negative electrode foil tab respectively provided at a top portion and a bottom portion of an electrode assembly. The foil tab forming apparatus includes a pre-forming jig configured to bend the foil tab by pressing the foil tab, while moving in a direction from an outer circumferential portion of the electrode assembly to a winding center portion of the electrode assembly and a forming jig configured to press the foil tab that has been primarily bent by the pre-forming jig, by moving along a direction parallel to a winding axis of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A software package, a gateway for transmitting the same, and a software update method using the same are provided. A software package includes a binary file, a configuration file, and a hash file. The binary file includes read-only memory (ROM) data of a target controller. A management server generates the configuration file by combining a hash value obtained by hashing the binary file with meta information indicating an update procedure between a gateway and the target controller. The management server generates the hash file by hashing the configuration file. The gateway receives the software package and extract the binary file and the configuration file. The gateway transmits the binary file to the target controller according to the update procedure indicated by the meta information.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. In the electrode assembly, the uncoated portion of an electrode includes a segment region divided into a plurality of segments, and the segment region includes a plurality of segment groups separated by a group separation pitch along a winding direction. One end of the electrode assembly includes a plurality of segment alignments. In winding turns corresponding to the plurality of segment alignments, group separation pitches of segment groups disposed in a same winding turn are substantially identical, and separation pitches of the segment groups is greater in a winding turn of a region adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly than in a winding turn of a region adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A vehicular software update system for remotely performing a software update of a vehicle and a method thereof are provided. The vehicular software update system includes a management controller installed in a vehicle and a server that performs a remote software update in cooperation with the management controller. The management controller controls the vehicle to start in response to receiving a request for the remote software update from the server, downloads software for update from the server after controlling the vehicle to start, transmits the downloaded software for update to a performance controller in the background, determines whether the transmission of the software for update in the background is completed based on the vehicle being turned off, and performs a software update of the performance controller using the software for update based on the transmission of the software for update in the background being completed.

Abstract: Provided are a QT heat treated high carbon hot rolled steel sheet, a high carbon cold rolled steel sheet, a QT heat treated high carbon cold rolled steel sheet, and manufacturing methods thereof, wherein the QT heat treated high carbon hot rolled steel sheet comprises, in weight %, C: 1.0-1.4%, Si: 0.1-0.4%, Mn: 0.1-0.8%, Cr: 0.3-11%, W: 0.05-2.5%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.03% or less, Al: 0.02% or less, and the balance being Fe and other inevitable impurities, the average size of carbides being 0.1-20 ?m.

Abstract: A cylindrical secondary battery, a battery pack, and a vehicle are provided. The cylindrical secondary battery includes an electrode assembly having a first electrode tab at a first end of the electrode assembly a battery can configured to accommodate the electrode assembly through an opening portion formed at one side of the battery can, a current collecting plate including three or more tab coupling portions electrically connected to the first electrode tab, and a can coupling portion extending from ends of the tab coupling portions toward the opening portion of the battery can and having a continuous outer peripheral surface electrically connected to an inner surface of the battery can, and a top cap configured to cover the opening portion of the battery can.

Abstract: A vehicular software update system includes a management controller coupled to a vehicle and at least one performance controller that receives software for over-the-air (OTA) update in the background from the management controller. The management controller determines a network load of the vehicle and adjusts a transmission speed of the software for OTA update, the software being transmitted to the at least one performance controller, based on a driving state of the vehicle and the network load of the vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel allulose epimerase variant in which an amino acid residue present at a specific position of an amino acid sequence of wild-type D-allulose 3-epimerase derived from Flavonifractor plautii is substituted with another amino acid residue, and various uses thereof. The novel allulose epimerase variant according to the present invention has a higher conversion activity of fructose to allulose than that of the wild-type D-allulose 3-epimerase derived from Flavonifractor plautii or a D-allulose epimerase variant W29K/G216S/M234I, and has excellent thermal stability especially under high temperature conditions of 60° C. or higher, thereby preventing contamination during an industrial-scale enzymatic conversion reaction for the mass production of allulose, shortening the production time, and reducing the production costs.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a hot-rolled steel sheet and a manufacturing method for same may be provided, wherein the hot-rolled steel sheet has excellent yield strength, vibration damping ratio, electrical resistivity, and low-temperature toughness, and thus has properties suitable for use in a hyper train tube.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides: a high toughness high carbon cold rolled steel sheet having excellent formability comprising, by weight %, C: 0.80% to 1.25%, Mn: 0.2% to 0.6%, Si: 0.01% to 0.4%, P: 0.005% to 0.02%, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.01% to 0.1%, Cr: 0.01% to 1.0%, Sn: 0.05% to 0.5%, the remainder being Fe and other unavoidable impurities, in which a microstructure includes, by area %, retained austenite: 1% to 10%, martensite: 1% to 10%, ferrite: 5% or less (including 0%), the remainder being bainite, and has an average grain size of 3 ?m to 20 ?m, and an internal oxide layer formed directly below the surface has a thickness of 10 ?m or less; and a method for manufacturing same.

Abstract: Provided are a hot rolled steel having small compressive strength loss after being processed into a steel pipe, and a manufacturing method therefor. The hot rolled steel of the present invention comprises, by wt %, 0.15% or less of carbon (C), 2.5% or less of silicon (Si), 2.0% or less of manganese (Mn), 0.05% or less of aluminum (Al), nitrogen (N) and boron (B) in a sum of 0.002 to 0.008%, and a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein 250<450C+95Si+70Mn is satisfied, a microstructure is a mixed structure of ferrite and pearlite, the average grain size of the ferrite is 8 to 25 ?m, and a value defined by relation 1 is less than 20%.

Abstract: The invention relates to method for simulating wind fields in a web browser using the computing power of a graphics card, the method comprising: obtaining wind field data, uploading the wind field data, freeing up a memory space, saving a first position of a particle, determining a second position of the particle, updating the position of the particle and visualizing a wind flow marker.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a novel allulose epimerase variant in which an amino acid residue present at a specific position of an amino acid sequence of a wild-type D-allulose 3-epimerase derived from Flavonifractor plautii is substituted with another amino acid residue; and various uses of the novel allulose epimerase variant. The novel allulose epimerase variant according to the present invention has a higher conversion rate of fructose to allulose compared to that of the wild-type D-allulose 3-epimerase derived from Flavonifractor plautii, and has excellent thermal stability especially under high temperature conditions of 60° C. or higher, and thus can prevent contamination during an industrial-scale enzymatic conversion reaction for the mass production of allulose, shorten production time, and reduce production costs.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus for operating an over-the-air (OTA) update for a vehicle including a generation device generating starting control information of the vehicle based on information about an OTA update of the vehicle and a transmission device transmitting the generated starting control information.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a novel allulose epimerase variant in which an amino acid residue present at a specific position of an amino acid sequence of a wild-type D-allulose 3-epimerase derived from Flavonifractor plautii is substituted with another amino acid residue; and various uses of the novel allulose epimerase variant. The novel allulose epimerase variant according to the present invention has a higher conversion rate of fructose to allulose compared to that of the wild-type D-allulose 3-epimerase derived from Flavonifractor plautii, and has excellent thermal stability especially under high temperature conditions of 60° C. or higher, and thus can prevent contamination during an industrial-scale enzymatic conversion reaction for the mass production of allulose, shorten production time, and reduce production costs.