Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for differentiating hair follicle cells into germline stem cells, germline stem cells differentiated by the method, and use of the same germline stem cells. A method of differentiating hair follicle cells into germline stem cells according to the present invention can differentiate hair follicle cells into germline stem cells using culture conditions only, without genetic modification. Capable of inducing differentiation of cells of specific individual types, such as hair follicle cells, into cells of different types such as germline cells, the present invention is therefore expected to be usefully used for the understanding of reproductive biology and the clinical application thereof.

Abstract: An embodiment heat pump system for a vehicle includes a first circuit including a radiator and a first valve in a first line, a second circuit including a first water pump, a second valve, and a third valve provided in a second line, a third circuit including electrical equipment provided in a third line, a fourth circuit including second water pump and a fourth valve provided in a fourth line, a fifth circuit including a battery module provided in a fifth line, a sixth circuit including a third water pump and a cooler provided in a sixth line, a seventh circuit including a fourth water pump and a heater provided in a seventh line, and a centralized energy module including a condenser, a chiller, and an evaporator.

Abstract: A pixel circuit and a display panel including the same are disclosed. The display panel includes: an individual switch element configured to supply a pixel driving voltage to a first sub-pixel in response to a gate signal; and a shared switch element configured to supply the pixel driving voltage to second and third sub-pixels in response to the gate signal. Each of the individual switch element and the shared switch element is a transistor having a channel width. The channel width of the shared switch element is larger than the channel width of the individual switch element.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a separator for a rechargeable lithium battery, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the separator. The separator includes a porous substrate, and a coating layer located on at least one surface of the porous substrate. The coating layer includes a cross-linked product of a binder and a cross-linking agent, a filler, and an adhesive binder that includes a (meth)acryl-based binder containing a first structural unit and a second structural unit, the cross-linking agent includes an aziridine-based cross-linking agent, the filler has a particle diameter D100 of 1.0 ?m or less, and the adhesive binder includes a first structural unit derived from a vinyl aromatic-based monomer, a second structural unit derived from an alkyl (meth)acrylate, and a third structural unit derived from a phosphonate-based monomer.

Abstract: An apparatus for transporting an object including a barcode, the apparatus including: a first line along which the object is transported; a branch line that branches off from the first line to the side of the first line; a control unit for determining whether or not to allow the object to turn off the first line to the branch line; and a second line to which the object is transferred from the branch line, and along which the transferred object moves back to the first line, wherein the first line includes a sorter for allowing the object to turn off the first line to the branch line, and the control unit rotates the object by controlling a rotation unit provided on the branch line.

Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure relate to a separator for a rechargeable lithium battery, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the separator. The separator for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a porous substrate, and a coating layer located on at least one surface of the porous substrate. The coating layer includes a cross-linked product of a composition containing a binder and a cross-linking agent and a filler, the binder includes a (meth)acryl-based binder containing a first structural unit derived from (meth)acrylamide, and a second structural unit including at least one of a structural unit derived from (meth)acrylic acid, (meth)acrylate, and a structural unit derived from (meth)acrylamido sulfonic acid. The cross-linking agent includes an aziridine-based cross-linking agent in an amount ranging from about 5 wt % to about 50 wt % with respect to the (meth)acryl-based binder, and the filler has a particle diameter D100 of about 0.7 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided is an ear correction apparatus capable of effectively correcting the shape of an ear.

Abstract: An adhesive film has an average slope of about ?9.9 to about 0, as measured over a temperature range of about ?20° C. to about 80° C. in a graph depicting a temperature-dependent storage modulus distribution of the adhesive film where the x-axis represents temperature (° C.) and the y-axis represents storage modulus (kPa). The adhesive film also has a storage modulus at about 80° C. of about 10 kPa to about 1,000 kPa.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a capacitor module including: a capacitor; a first housing having a hexahedron shape and having an inner space in which the capacitor is disposed, the first housing including a pair of cooling parts recessed inwards from a pair of parallel surfaces among outer side surfaces thereof such that a refrigerant flows, a pair of cooling channels disposed inside opposite side surfaces perpendicular to the surfaces of the pair of cooling parts such that the pair of cooling parts communicate with each other, and a through-hole configured to connect each of the cooling channels to the outside such that the refrigerant is introduced or discharged therethrough; and a cooling plate coupled to the first housing so as to seal the cooling parts.

Abstract: Disclosed is a thermoelectric composite with high-entropy alloy dispersed including a thermoelectric material TE having a composition in a formula TE(x %)+M(y %), and high-entropy alloy particles M having a composition in the formula and dispersed in the thermoelectric material. In the formula, a volume ratio or a molar ratio x of the thermoelectric material to the thermoelectric composite is smaller than 100, and a volume ratio or a molar ratio y of the high-entropy alloy particles to the thermoelectric composite is greater than 0 and smaller than 20.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting the location of a foreign material of a low-voltage battery cell includes a first and second measurement electrodes respectively on a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the battery cell to measure a leakage current; a current measuring device to measure a leakage current; and a data processor to process a measured leakage current data. The first and second measurement electrodes each have a structure in which a plurality of unit electrodes to which coordinate information is assigned are collected. The current measuring device measures a leakage current flowing through the unit electrode of the first measurement electrode and the unit electrode of the second measurement electrode that have the same coordinate information. The data processing part checks the location of a foreign material from a leakage current data through a coordinate information of a unit electrode having a large leakage current.

Abstract: A jelly-roll type electrode assembly including a negative electrode, a first separator, a positive electrode, and a second separator that are wound together is provided. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material on a surface of a negative electrode collector and which has, on a first end thereof, a first negative electrode collector-exposed portion that is not coated with the negative electrode active material to expose the surface of the negative electrode collector. The negative electrode is wound together with the first separator such that the first negative electrode collector-exposed portion is disposed in a central region where the winding starts, and a negative electrode tab is coupled to the first negative electrode collector-exposed portion.

Abstract: In a method of controlling a display device, the display device including a display panel in which a display area is defined and including a plurality of pixels and a plurality of sensors, and an input sensing layer on the display panel and sensing an external input, the method includes allowing a first pixel of a first sensing area to emit a light, sensing first biometric information, matching the first biometric information with stored first authentication information, allowing a second pixel of a second sensing area to emit a light, sensing second d biometric information, matching the second biometric information with stored second authentication information, and driving the display panel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a clamping apparatus for a support pole of a radio unit (RU) and, particularly, to a clamping apparatus s for a support pole of an RU comprising: a pole-side clamp, which is fixed to the support pole and has a locking hole recessed downward from the top thereof; and an RU-side clamp having the front end fixed to the RU, and having, at the rear end thereof, a locking pad inserted from the top toward the bottom into the locking hole of the pole-side clamp to be fixed therein, wherein the locking hole and the locking pad are inclined such that the front-to-back width gradually narrows in the direction of gravity, and thus the RU is easily attached to the support pole and each antenna device is easily oriented.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gas injection nozzle for drying an electrode plate including a nozzle body having a flow space through which drying gas flows, the flow space being formed between a first plate and a second plate spaced apart from the first plate in a first direction; at least one inlet hole formed in the first plate and configured to allow the drying gas to flow into the flow space from the outside of the nozzle body; and a plurality of injection holes formed in the second plate and configured to inject the drying gas from inside of the flow space to the outside, wherein the at least one inlet hole has a slit shape crossing the first plate in a second direction.

Abstract: A composite material laminate, replaceable with a metal panel for an exterior material, comprises a fiber-reinforced composite material including a sheet-shaped composite material in which a thermoplastic resin is impregnated in a reinforcing fiber which is continuous and oriented in one direction; a weather-resistant coating layer disposed on one surface of the fiber-reinforced composite material; and a non-woven fabric layer disposed on the other surface of the fiber-reinforced composite material, which is present invention disclosure has light, high strength, low surface roughness to have excellent aesthetics, and excellent durability and weatherability.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a gas injection nozzle for drying an electrode plate including: a nozzle body including a first plate, a second plate, and a partition plate, wherein the partition plate divides a flow space formed between the first plate and the second plate into a first flow space opposing the first plate and a second flow space opposing the second plate; at least one inlet hole formed in the first plate and configured to allow drying gas to flow into the first flow space; at least one communication hole formed in the partition plate and configured to allow the first flow space and the second flow space to communicate with each other; and a plurality of injection holes formed in the second plate and configured to inject drying gas from the second flow space to the outside.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a cell array region and a peripheral circuit region, capacitors on the cell array region of the substrate, peripheral transistors on the peripheral circuit region of the substrate, a first upper interlayer insulating layer on the capacitors and the peripheral transistors, a first upper contact electrically connected to at least one of the peripheral transistors, the first upper contact penetrating the first upper interlayer insulating layer, a first upper interconnection line provided on the first upper interlayer insulating layer and electrically connected to the first upper contact, a second upper interlayer insulating layer covering the first upper interconnection line, and a first blocking layer between the first upper interlayer insulating layer and the second upper interlayer insulating layer. The first blocking layer is absent between the first upper interconnection line and the first upper interlayer insulating layer.

Abstract: Provided is a high-durability coloring metal member. The high-durability coloring metal member includes a metal substrate, a dielectric layer provided on the metal substrate, and an oxynitride compound layer provided on the dielectric layer. The metal member is capable of expressing vivid and various colors with a color protection layer applied on the surface of the metal member.

Abstract: A light-emitting element extending in one direction includes: a semiconductor core including a main body extending in the one direction, a first end connected to one side of the main body and having an inclined side surface, and a second end connected to an other side of the main body and having a width less than that of the main body; and an insulation film around at least a portion of the outer surface of the semiconductor core, wherein the insulation film includes a first insulation film around the first end of the semiconductor core; and a second insulation film around the second end of the semiconductor core, wherein the diameter of an outer surface of the first insulation film is the same as a diameter of an outer surface of the second insulation film.