Abstract: A secondary battery is provided. The secondary battery includes an electrode assembly that is sealed in a receiving portion of a pouch-type battery case together with an electrolyte. The pouch-type battery case is formed from a laminate sheet having an exterior coating layer, a metal layer and an interior adhesive layer. Additionally, electrolyte holding portion for replenishing an electrolyte that is depleted during the manufacturing process or the use of the secondary battery is disposed in the laminate sheet, without contacting the electrolyte disposed in the receiving portion of the pouch-type battery case.

Abstract: A following apparatus which follows a target object while photographing the target object includes a driving apparatus configured to move a main body, a photographing portion configured to continuously photograph the target object, and a controller configured to obtain an area value of the target object in a live-view motion picture from the photographing portion, obtain a distance value according to the obtained area value, and control the driving apparatus to maintain a distance between the photographing portion and the target object at a reference distance value according to the obtained distance value.

Abstract: Provided are a smoothness improving additive for a calendering process and a polyvinylchloride-based composition including the same. More particularly, a smoothness improving additive allowing, even in the case of using a plasticizer in a smaller amount than the conventional amount used, excellent productivity and excellent processability in a calendering process to accelerate a production speed, excellent mechanical physical properties such as glass transition temperature and tensile strength of a molded body, and manufacture of a molded body having better smoothness is provided.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a polishing pad includes producing an urethane prepolymer having a viscosity of 20,000 cps (at 25° C.) to 40,000 cps (at 25° C.) by mixing a plurality of polymers, mixing the urethane prepolymer with an inert gas and a low-boiling blowing agent having a boiling point of 60° C. to 150° C., and manufacturing a polishing layer including porous pores by causing a mixture produced at the mixing to be subjected to gelation and curing in a predetermined cast.

Abstract: A power supply apparatus with soft-start function is suitable to a load including a voltage stabilizing unit and a load unit coupled in parallel. The power supply apparatus includes a power unit, a soft-start adjusting unit, a current detecting unit and a controlling unit. The power unit generates a power voltage. The soft-start adjusting unit receives the power voltage, a first controlling signal and a second controlling signal, and transforms the power voltage to a soft-start current accordingly to output the soft-start current to the voltage stabilizing unit or output the power voltage to the voltage stabilizing unit. The current detecting unit measures a current of a loop formed between the power unit and the voltage stabilizing unit to generate a current detecting signal. The controlling unit receives the current detecting signal to generate the first controlling signal and second controlling signal.

Abstract: An outdoor unit of an air conditioner includes a cabinet including a first plate and a second plate, a blower disposed inside the cabinet, and a blower cover covering the blower and an upper side of the cabinet. The first plate includes a contact area in contact with the blower cover in an outward direction of the cabinet, and the second plate includes a first non-contact area that is not in contact with the blower cover in the outward direction of the cabinet. The blower cover is disposed on one of four plates of the cabinet to reduce the noise generated due to the vibration of the cabinet by reducing the vibration transmitted from the blower cover to the cabinet.

Abstract: Provided is a tray capable of receiving batteries having various sizes. The tray includes a housing provided with a receiving portion for receiving a secondary battery. It also includes a blocking portion coupled to the housing to cross the receiving portion for adjusting the size of the receiving portion.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an air conditioner in which flow noise of a refrigerant is reduced. An air conditioner includes a compressor configured to compress a refrigerant, an outdoor heat exchanger in which the refrigerant exchanges heat with outside air, an expansion device configured to expand the refrigerant, an indoor heat exchanger in which the refrigerant exchanges heat with indoor air, and a muffler configured to reduce flow noise of the refrigerant flowing into the indoor heat exchanger, wherein the muffler includes a shell including a refrigerant inlet and a refrigerant outlet, a first baffle disposed at one side of an inner part of the shell and including a plurality of first holes, a plurality of pipes inserted into the plurality of first holes and serving as passages through which the refrigerant moves, and a second baffle disposed at the other side of the inner part of the shell and including a plurality of second holes through which the refrigerant passing through the pipe passes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a jelly-roll type electrode assembly comprising: a sheet-like positive electrode; a sheet-like negative electrode; and a separator which is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and which includes a first adhesive coating part and a second adhesive coating part formed on a first surface of a sheet-like porous substrate, and a third adhesive coating part formed on a second surface which is the opposite surface to the first surface, wherein the first adhesive coating part and the second adhesive coating part have different tack strength from each other.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a detection area setting method for detecting passing vehicles, and a traffic signal control method using the same and, more particularly, to a detection area setting method for detecting passing vehicles, and a traffic signal control method using the same, the detection area setting method being capable of enabling smooth traffic operation at a crossroad, for example preventing a spillback phenomenon, minimizing green time (green light display time) during which there are no passing vehicles, and extending the green time, if needed, by setting one or a plurality of detection areas at a crossroad so as to detect the traffic volume in respective moving directions of vehicles at a signalized intersection, determining the traffic state in the moving directions of the vehicles according to vehicle information in respective detection areas, and automatically controlling the crossroad signals accordingly.

Abstract: A power supply apparatus with soft-start function is suitable to a load including a voltage stabilizing unit and a load unit coupled in parallel. The power supply apparatus includes a power unit, a soft-start adjusting unit, a current detecting unit and a controlling unit. The power unit generates a power voltage. The soft-start adjusting unit receives the power voltage, a first controlling signal and a second controlling signal, and transforms the power voltage to a soft-start current accordingly to output the soft-start current to the voltage stabilizing unit or output the power voltage to the voltage stabilizing unit. The current detecting unit measures a current of a loop formed between the power unit and the voltage stabilizing unit to generate a current detecting signal. The controlling unit receives the current detecting signal to generate the first controlling signal and second controlling signal.

Abstract: A non-limiting example method includes receiving a request to publish content that is stored on a user storage server in a personal data store. The method includes preparing the content for publication and moving the prepared content to a content repository to generate published content. The method includes receiving a request to make a personal copy of the published content and making a copy of the published content in a personal data store in a user storage server. The copy is independently editable of the published content. A non-limiting example system includes an application programming interface that includes a publish command to generate a published copy of a specified first content stored in a first personal data store in a content repository, and a retrieve command that generates a personal copy of a specified second content stored in the content repository in a second personal data store.

Abstract: An ultra-low temperature freezer comprising an interior and a housing surrounding the interior and having an outer door. The interior comprises several cooling compartments in a stacked arrangement, each cooling compartment having an inner door. At least one upper cooling compartment has a supplementary seal for sealing its inner door compared to at least one lower cooling compartment.

Abstract: A laser interference lithography system with flat-top intensity profile comprises a laser source for emitting a coherent laser beam, a first beam expander for adjusting the coherent laser beam size, a refractive beam shaper for converting a Gaussian intensity profile inherent to the coherent laser beam into a flat-top one and outputting a first collimated laser beam, a second beam expander for receiving the first collimated laser beam and outputting a second collimated laser beam, a sample holder for holding a substrate, and at least one reflector for reflecting the second collimated laser beam to generate a third collimated laser beam. The second and third collimated laser beams are transmitted to the substrate at a predetermined angle to create an interference pattern exposed onto the substrate.

Abstract: An oral spray formulation using an Ixeris dentata Nakai extract as an active ingredient of a composition for preventing and treating xerostomia occurring as a diabetic complication, particularly an oral spray formulation capable of administering a drug through a simple and rapidly absorbable route is provided. The secretion of saliva is reduced as cells from a submandibular gland tissue of a diabetes model animal are destroyed. However, when the Ixeris dentata Nakai extract of the present invention is sublingually sprayed into a sublingual region of the diabetes model animal, expression levels of ?-amylase, AQP5 and NHE1 can significantly increase, resulting in an increased secretion quantity and rate of saliva.

Abstract: The invention relates to a two-spindle screw pump of single-flow construction, comprising a pump housing, which has a pump portion, a bearing portion and a gear portion with a gear chamber, wherein the bearing portion and the pump portion are realized separately from each other characterized in that the gearwheel and the fastening element (and thus the shaft) are mutually rotatable, so that a spacing of the flanks of the feed screws (the flank clearance of the feed screws) is adjustable, that an opening is provided on the gear portion of the pump housing, that the opening is provided with a detachable cover, that the opening is arranged such that the cover is detachable in the mounted state of the screw pump, and that the gear chamber, for the adjustment of the flank clearance of the feed screws, can be reached with the tool necessary for this purpose.

Abstract: Provides are a system of controlling a diameter of a single crystal ingot and a single crystal ingot growing apparatus including the same. The system of controlling a diameter of a single crystal ingot includes: a diameter measuring sensor measuring a diameter of a single crystal ingot; a Low-Pass Filter (LPF) removing short period noise from measured data from the diameter measuring sensor; and an Automatic Diameter Control (ADC) sensor controlling the diameter of the single crystal ingot through controlling of a pull speed by using data having the noise removed as current data.

Abstract: An ultra-low temperature freezer comprising an interior and a housing surrounding the interior and having an outer door. The interior comprises several cooling compartments in a stacked arrangement, each cooling compartment having an inner door. At least one upper cooling compartment has a supplementary seal for sealing its inner door compared to at least one lower cooling compartment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image sensor for a capsule endoscope which enables a dual mode operation, and more particularly, to an image sensor for a capsule endoscope wherein two image sensors identically designed and manufactured for photographing the inside of a human body are used and set as a master and a slave, respectively so as to enable a dual mode operation in which two chips are linkage-operated.

Abstract: A dual-spindle screw pump having a pump housing (11) for a medium to be conveyed, in particular a foodstuff, which has a pump section (12), at least one bearing section (16) and at least one gear section (17), wherein the at least one bearing section (16) and the pump section (12) are constructed separately from one another, wherein the pump section is a product chamber (26) through which the medium is conveyed, having a conveyor housing part (13) as a constituent part of the pump section (12) in which two conveying screws (20, 21) that are arranged on shafts (18, 19) are provided, having at least one feed section (22) and at least one removal section (23) as constituent parts of the pump section (12), preferably each having a connection flange (24, 25), wherein the product chamber (26) has at least one parting line (28) having a connection to the surrounding atmosphere (29), which is provided with a vapor barrier (30) having a groove (31) as the vapor channel (38), characterized in that there is provided in