Abstract: A battery pack includes a sub-pack including a plurality of battery modules that are located adjacent to one another; a duct coupled to a side of the sub-pack in a width direction of the sub-pack; and a duct cover covering a duct opening portion formed on a side of the duct in a longitudinal direction of the duct, the duct cover including a filter having a mesh structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for encoding and decoding an image by skip encoding. The image-encoding method by skip encoding, which performs intra-prediction, comprises: performing a filtering operation on the signal which is reconstructed prior to an encoding object signal in an encoding object image; using the filtered reconstructed signal to generate a prediction signal for the encoding object signal; setting the generated prediction signal as a reconstruction signal for the encoding object signal; and not encoding the residual signal which can be generated on the basis of the difference between the encoding object signal and the prediction signal, thereby performing skip encoding on the encoding object signal.

Abstract: A battery module ac includes a cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are vertically stacked; a module housing including a base plate supporting the cell stack, and a pair of side plates covering both side portions of the cell stack and each including a spark direction changing portion formed by bending an end portion of the side plate in a longitudinal direction of the side plate toward the cell stack; and a bus bar frame assembly covering an opening portion formed on a side of the module housing in a longitudinal direction of the module housing, the bus bar frame assembly including a bus bar frame coupled to a side of the cells tack in a longitudinal direction of the cell stack and a bus bar located on the bus bar frame and coupled to an electrode lead of the battery cell.

Abstract: An organic-inorganic composite catalyst wherein the organic-inorganic composite catalyst includes a porous carbonaceous particle, a first compound; and a metal oxide particle, wherein the first compound and the metal oxide particle are supported on the porous carbonaceous particle, the first compound contains a polar functional group, an anion, or a combination thereof, the metal oxide is represented by the formula MaOb, wherein 0<a?4, 0<b?5, and M is a metal of Groups 2 to 16 of the Periodic Table of Elements, or a combination thereof, and the organic-inorganic composite catalyst is configured to remove a second compound from an unpurified air flow including the second compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a sulfide-based solid electrolyte, a sulfide-based solid electrolyte prepared by the method, and an all-solid-state lithium secondary battery including the sulfide-based solid electrolyte. The method of the present invention includes a) mixing Li2S with P2S5 to prepare a mixed powder, b) placing the mixed powder, an ether, and stirring balls in a container, sealing the container, followed by stirring to prepare a suspension, and c) stirring the suspension under high-temperature and high-pressure conditions to prepare sulfide-based solid particles.

Abstract: A surface light source module includes a substrate, a plurality of light-emitting elements mounted on the substrate, a first optical layer disposed on the light-emitting elements to cover the light-emitting elements and configured to disperse light emitted from the light-emitting elements, and a second optical layer disposed on the first optical layer and configured to absorb the light emitted from the light-emitting elements and emit light of a different wavelength band from a wavelength of the absorbed light, wherein a distance from an upper surface of the first optical layer to an upper surface of the second optical layer has a value less than a distance from an upper surface of the substrate to the upper surface of the first optical layer.

Abstract: A duty correction device includes a clock generation circuit, first and second correction pulse generation circuits, and a duty correction circuit. The clock generation circuit generates first to third divided clock signals, each having a phase offset from a reference clock signal. The first correction pulse generation circuit generates a first correction pulse by detecting a phase difference between a delayed clock signal and the first and second divided clock signals. The second correction pulse generation circuit generates a second correction pulse by detecting a phase difference between the second and third divided clock signals. The duty correction circuit checks whether the first and second correction pulses are generated at a preset logic level of the reference clock signal, and reflects the first or second correction pulses in a duty correction operation for the reference clock signal according to a result of the check.

Abstract: A light modulating device is disclosed herein. The light modulating device is applied to a sunroof and/or glass of an automobile. In some embodiments, a light modulating device configured to be disposed in a sunroof of an automobile includes a light modulation film layer, wherein the light modulation film layer includes a first anisotropic substrate, a second anisotropic substrate, and a liquid crystal layer, wherein each of the first and second anisotropic substrates has a first surface, wherein the first surfaces of the first and second anisotropic substrates face each other, wherein the liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first surfaces of the first and second anisotropic substrates, and wherein a slow axis of the first or second anisotropic substrate is disposed parallel to a width direction of the automobile.

Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a graphene plasmon resonator that includes a planar patterned layer having a collection of electrically conductive segments, and a collection of dielectric segments, each dielectric segment defined between a corresponding pair of the electrically conductive segments, a graphene layer substantially parallel to the planar patterned layer and overlapping the collection of electrically conductive segments, and a planar dielectric layer between the planar patterned layer and the graphene layer.

Abstract: A wireless circuit including an electrode array with a nanoscale dielectric disposed between two electrodes allows for wirelessly powered manipulation of particles in a liquid solution, air, or gaseous media via dielectrophoretic forces. The electrode array includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a nanoscale dielectric layer between the first and second electrode. An inductive coupler is operatively coupled to the electrode array and configured to receive wireless power or wireless signals.

Abstract: A power management integrated circuit includes a buck converter that includes a first metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) having a first conductivity type and a second MOSFET having a second conductivity type. The first MOSFET includes transistor sets that are two-dimensionally arranged. Each transistor set includes source regions, drain regions, and gate electrodes between the source regions and the drain regions. Each source region and each drain region includes an impurity region having the first conductivity type, and each source region further includes segment regions having the second conductivity type. A first source region is spaced apart from a second source region in a first direction, and a number of the segment regions in the first source region is different from a number of the segment regions in the second source region.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a driver interface. The method of providing a driver interface may include, based on a state of a vehicle, determining a main interface configured to display information regarding a vehicle operation service, and generating the determined main interface, wherein the generating of the main interface may include determining a before-starting-work interface as the main interface, in response to the state of the vehicle being switched to a moving-to-workplace state, determining a moving-to-workplace interface as the main interface, and in response to the state of the vehicle being switched to a standby-for-dispatch state, determining a standby-for-dispatch interface as the main interface.

Abstract: An optical device is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a optical device includes a liquid crystal element having a top surface, a bottom surface, and sides separating the top surface and the bottom surface, and an outer layer surrounding the sides of the liquid crystal element, wherein the liquid crystal element comprises a first base layer, a second base layer, a liquid crystal layer positioned between the first base layer and the second base layer, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer positioned between the first base layer and the liquid crystal layer, and a spacer to maintain a gap between the first base layer and the second base layer, wherein the optical device satisfies Equation 1: ?T2×0.4?T1?T2?T2×0.4??[Equation 1] wherein, T1 is a thickness of the outer layer, and T2 is a thickness of the liquid crystal element.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel having a folding area, a first non-folding area on a side of the folding area, and a second non-folding area on another side of the folding area; a support member on a surface of the display panel and having a plurality of slits in the folding area and a plurality of bars between the slits; and a base resin on the support member and inside the support member. A height of a first one of the bars at an edge of the folding area is higher than a height of a second one of the bars in a central area of the folding area, and a width of a first one of the slits at the edge of the folding area is smaller than a width of a second one of the slits in the central area of the folding area.

Abstract: A loudness normalization method includes receiving data for playback of content from a server in response to a user's request to play back the content; normalizing the loudness of the content by adjusting the volume output level of a player using volume level metadata of the content included in the received data; and providing the content by playing audio of the content based on the adjusted volume output level of the player.

Abstract: An optical device is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an optical device includes a first outer substrate, a second outer substrate, a liquid crystal element positioned between the first outer substrate and the second outer substrate, a first intermediate layer between the first outer substrate and the liquid crystal element, and a second intermediate layer between the second outer substrate and the liquid crystal element, wherein a sum of total thicknesses of the first and second intermediate layers is 800 ?m or more, and wherein the liquid crystal element includes a first base layer, a second base layer, a liquid crystal layer between the first base layer and the second base layer, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer between the first base layer and the liquid crystal layer, and a spacer to maintain a gap between the first and second base layers.

Abstract: A signal transmitting method suitable for a MU-MIMO environment and achieving a high performance with low complexity is provided. The signal transmitting method includes: splitting each message stream into a common message stream and a private message stream; combining a plurality of common message streams for the plurality of receivers to generate a common stream; encoding the common stream and private message streams for the plurality of receivers to generate an encoded common stream and encoded private message streams; precoding the encoded common stream and the encoded private message streams to adjust amplitudes and phases of symbols such that power is distributed between the encoded common stream and the encoded private message streams and generate precoded signals; and converting the precoded signals into a plurality of RF signals, adjusting phases of the plurality of RF signals, and outputting the phase-adjusted RF signals through a plurality of MIMO antennas.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mouse model for bio-imaging of inflammation, a preparation method therefor and a use thereof. Particularly, by using the mouse model, which is made by crossing a mouse model with a mouse expressing Cre recombinase specifically in certain tissues and cells, certain tissue- and cell-specific inflammatory signals desired by a researcher can be evaluated in vitro and the progress of inflammatory changes over time without the autopsy of living animals can be identified, and thus the present invention can be used throughout the field of life science research including experimental animal science, molecular biology and the like, and can also be used as a model for efficacy evaluation of anti-inflammatory candidates in the industrial area such as new drug or health functional food development and the like.

Abstract: A light modulating device is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a light modulating device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a light modulation layer, and a retardation film, wherein each of the first and second substrates has a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first and second surfaces are disposed opposite to each other, wherein the first surfaces of the first and second substrates face each other, wherein the light modulation layer is disposed between the first and second substrates, wherein the retardation film is formed on the second surface of the first substrate or the second substrate, and wherein the retardation film has an in-plane phase difference in a range of 100 nm to 300 nm for light having a wavelength of 550 nm. The light modulating device can be control omnidirectional light leakage in a black mode while having excellent optical properties and mechanical properties.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive and a liquid crystal cell including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a pressure-sensitive adhesive having a storage elastic modulus of 700 kPa or more at a temperature of 25° C. and a frequency of 6 rad/sec, and a gel fraction of 35% or more, wherein the gel fraction is defined by Equation 1: B/A×100??[Equation 1] wherein, A is an initial mass (g) of the pressure-sensitive adhesive, B is a mass (g) of an insoluble content after the pressure-sensitive adhesive is immersed in a solvent at 60° C. for 24 hours and then dried at 150° C. for 30 minutes. The press-sensitive adhesive is advantageous for implementation into a flexible element between upper and lower substrates of a liquid crystal cell, and providing excellent electro-optical properties and appearance uniformity by minimizing defects.