Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells; a housing accommodating the plurality of battery cells; a plurality of bus bars electrically connecting the plurality of battery cells; and a first welding portion for coupling a first electrode terminal provided in each of the plurality of battery cells to the bus bar and a second welding portion for coupling a second electrode terminal provided in each of the plurality of battery cells to the bus bar. At least one of the first welding portion and the second welding portion includes a region in which a laser welding line formed on the bus bar proceeds in a direction opposite to an extension direction of the welding portion.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a gate driver. The gate driver includes an N-th stage (where N is a natural number) configured to output an N-th scan gate signal and output an N-th sensing gate signal. The N-th stage includes a compensator, a sixth transistor including a control electrode connected to a first node, and a ninth transistor including a control electrode connected to the first node. In a variable frequency mode, the compensator outputs a second signal to the first node in response to a first signal, and the sixth transistor does not output the N-th scan gate signal when the ninth transistor outputs the N-th sensing gate signal based on the sensing clock signal, the voltage of the first node, and the voltage of the second node.

Abstract: The present invention provides a battery monitoring method, which is performed by a battery monitoring device, including: measuring a first voltage drop across both ends of a first shunt resistor of a bus bar electrically connected to a battery and a second voltage drop across both ends of a second shunt resistor, which is in parallel or serial connection with the first shunt resistor; calculating a first current and a second current flowing, respectively, through the first shunt resistor and the second shunt resistor using a first voltage drop value and a second voltage drop value; and determining a state of the battery using a difference between a first current value and a second current value. According to the present invention, it is possible to increase the reliability of monitoring information related to the battery's state by utilizing current values that have undergone linearity compensation and temperature compensation.

Abstract: Proposed are an ice maker and a refrigerator including the ice maker. The ice maker includes a drive motor arranged inside a casing and configured to rotate an ice-making tray or an ejector pin, a gear set operating in unison with the drive motor, an in-unison operating lever provided to operate in unison with the gear set, a magnet being provided on one side of the in-unison operating lever, and a printed circuit board arranged to one side of the in-unison operating lever, a position detection sensor being provided on the printed circuit board in such a manner that an electric contact point is established according to trajectory followed by the moving magnet.

Abstract: The battery pack includes a battery module; a processing unit which is electrically connected to the battery module and configured to control charge/discharge of the battery module, wherein at least one of the battery module or the processing unit is configured to allow another battery module or another processing unit to be coupled to two or more sides thereof.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for evaluating thermal conductance of an interface on the basis of how much the phases of acoustic phonons, which are produced in a semiconductor, change on a semiconductor interface. The apparatus for evaluating thermal conductance of a semiconductor interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a spectrometer exciting acoustic phonons in a semiconductor by irradiating a laser beam to the semiconductor; and a processor evaluating thermal conductance of an interface of the semiconductor in accordance with a phase difference of a ascending acoustic phonon propagating toward the interface and reflecting from the interface and a descending acoustic phonon propagating in an opposite direction to the interface.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens having a convex object-side surface, a fifth lens having a concave image-side surface, and a sixth lens, wherein the first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side to an imaging plane. An F-number of the optical imaging system is 1.7 or less.

Abstract: Disclosed is fucosyllactose having antiviral activity and inhibitory activity against viral infection, and a method for preventing or treating a viral infection by administering a composition including fucosyllactose as an active ingredient to a subject in need thereof. It was found that 2?-fucosyllactose and 3-fucosyllactose, which are human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), have antiviral activity, and in particular, 3-fucosyllactose in vitro and in vivo exhibits much higher antiviral activity and inhibitory activity against viral infection compared to 2?-fucosyllactose and is thus useful as an antiviral agent.

Abstract: A display device prevents cracks from spreading to an active area. The display device includes a substrate including an active area and a non-active area having a bending area, a thin-film transistor disposed in the active area, a light-emitting element disposed in the active area and connected to the thin-film transistor, an encapsulation layer disposed on the light-emitting element, a touch sensor disposed on the encapsulation layer, a touch pad disposed in the non-active area, a first routing line connecting the touch sensor to the touch pad via a second routing line in the bending area, and a crack prevention layer disposed on the second routing line in the bending area. Thus, the crack prevention layer is capable of preventing the occurrence of cracks in the bending area BA, thus preventing cracks from spreading to the active area AA.

Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels including alignment electrodes and light emitting elements disposed between the alignment electrodes, and the alignment electrodes including outer alignment electrodes and center alignment electrodes disposed between the outer alignment electrodes. A distance between the center alignment electrodes is different from a distance between the center alignment electrodes and the outer alignment electrodes.

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle may include a display device configured to display a driving path of the autonomous vehicle; and an autonomous driving control apparatus including a processor that displays a situation in which driving of the driving path is impossible on the display device in augmented reality when the situation in which the driving of the driving path is impossible occurs due to an external environment during autonomous driving of the autonomous vehicle, transmits information related to a misrecognized obstacle to a control system when receiving a request for deleting the misrecognized obstacle, and receives a driving path in which the misrecognized obstacle is deleted from the control system and controls and follows the received driving path.

Abstract: A window module includes a window, a first protective film disposed on a first surface of the window, and a second protective film disposed on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the window. A first release force of the first protective film with respect to the window is greater than a second release force of the second protective film with respect to the window.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasonic wave transmission structure which is provided on a path of ultrasonic waves to amplify incident ultrasonic waves. The ultrasonic wave transmission structure includes: multiple rings each provided with a body portion having a different radius from other body portions and spaced apart from another body portion adjacent thereto and a slit disposed between adjacent body portions; and a membrane disposed in the multiple rings, wherein the mass of the membrane is adjusted to vary a resonant frequency in multiple sub-membrane regions.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor having a rotating shaft, first and second bearings each having an outer ring, balls, and an inner ring, and spaced apart axially from each other, a preload washer including a shaft section having a preset fixed length in the axial direction, and an elastically-deformable portion extending from one end portion of the shaft section to be elastically deformable, the preload washer applying a preset intensity of preload to the inner ring of the first or second bearing, and a coupling member screwed into an end portion of the rotating shaft and elastically deforming the preload washer in the axial direction. This structure may result in preventing an excessive preload from being applied to the bearing and allowing a preset preload to be stably maintained when thrust is applied.

Abstract: A camera module includes a housing, a lens holder configured to move in the housing in an optical axis direction, and a lens barrel coupled to the lens holder, wherein the lens holder includes a first support structure extending from one side surface in the optical axis direction and a second support structure located on a side surface opposite to the first support structure and extending in the optical axis direction, and the first support structure includes an extension protruding beyond the second support structure in the optical axis direction.

Abstract: A display device comprises first and second pixels, a light-emitting layer, color conversion layers, and color filter layers, the light-emitting layer comprising first and second light-emitting elements in the first and second pixels, wherein the color conversion layers comprise first and second color conversion layers in the first and second pixels, the color filter layers comprise first and second color filter layers in the first and second pixels, the first and second light-emitting elements emit first light having a central wavelength range of a first wavelength, the first and second color conversion layers contain color conversion particles converting the first light into second light having a central wavelength range of a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength, the first color filter layer transmits the first light and blocks the second light, and the second color filter layer transmits the second light and blocks transmission of the first light.

Abstract: An electrification apparatus for dust collection includes an electrification module configured to generate an ion emitted to air and comprising: at least one discharge tip configured to emit the ion in a direction opposite to a flow direction of the air, at least one tip holder supporting the discharge tip, a conductive plate generating a potential difference with the discharge tip, and a frame defining an appearance of the electrification module and supporting the tip holder and the conductive plate. The frame comprises an upper frame disposed at an upper side of the conductive plate and a lower frame disposed at a lower side of the conductive plate, the tip holder is disposed between the upper frame and the lower frame, and an upper surface of the tip holder is coupled to the upper frame and a lower surface of the tip holder is coupled to the lower frame.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, it is possible to predict a success or a failure of a clinical trial by reflecting the effect of a drug on a cell population and a human gene. Therefore, it is possible to solve the problems caused by excessive clinical trials, such as excessive use of the drug.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an operating method of a speech synthesis system, which includes, inputting a first text and a first speech for the first text, and a second text and a second speech for the second text; generating a speech synthesis model trained by applying the first and second texts and the first and second speeches to curriculum learning; and outputting a target synthesis speech corresponding to a target text based on the speech synthesis model when inputting the target text for speech output, and the generating of the speech synthesis model includes generating a concatenation text in which the first and second texts are concatenated and a concatenation speech in which the first and second speeches are concatenated, and adding the concatenation text and the concatenation speech to the speech synthesis model when an error rate is smaller than a set reference rate when learning-concatenating the concatenation text and the concatenation speech.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for processing a substrate can reduce the concentration of process by-products in a chemical solution.