Abstract: An embodiment coolant management system for a mobility vehicle includes an inlet line and an outlet line configured to be connected to an external thermal management station and configured to selectively supply a cooling or heating coolant, a refrigerant circuit that circulates a refrigerant therethrough, the refrigerant circuit including a compressor, a condenser, an expander, and an evaporator, a first coolant line that circulates a coolant therethrough, wherein a battery and a first heat exchanger that exchanges heat with the evaporator of the refrigerant circuit are provided on the first coolant line, a second coolant line configured to circulate the coolant therethrough, wherein a second heat exchanger that exchanges heat with the condenser of the refrigerant circuit is provided on the second coolant line, and a controller that communicates with the external thermal management station and control respective valves to manage a temperature of the coolant.

Abstract: Provided is a method of evaluating electrode quality, which includes: providing a plurality of electrodes which include a current collector and an active material layer formed on the current collector and have not been roll-pressed; measuring a color coordinate value of the active material layer of each of the plurality of electrodes using an optical instrument and calculating an average value; and evaluating the electrodes as good products when a difference between the color coordinate value measured from the individual electrodes and the average value is no more than a predetermined value and as defective when the difference exceeds the predetermined value.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device comprising an active region on a substrate and including first and second sidewalls extending in a first direction and an epitaxial pattern on the active region, wherein the epitaxial pattern includes first and second epitaxial sidewalls extending from the first and second sidewalls, respectively, the first epitaxial sidewall includes a first epitaxial lower sidewall, a first epitaxial upper sidewall, and a first epitaxial connecting sidewall connecting the first epitaxial lower sidewall and the first epitaxial upper sidewall, the second epitaxial sidewall includes a second epitaxial lower sidewall, a second epitaxial upper sidewall, and a second epitaxial connecting sidewall connecting the second epitaxial lower sidewall and the second epitaxial upper sidewall, a distance between the first and second epitaxial upper sidewalls decreases away from the active region, and the first and second epitaxial lower sidewalls extend in parallel to a top surface of the substrate.

Abstract: An automated driving system of a vehicle includes a driver monitoring unit configured to perform at least one of monitoring a gaze of a driver and determining a position of a hand of the driver, an automated-driving-level switching unit configured to determine whether a transition of a driving control over the vehicle is required based on whether driving environment of the vehicle has changed during the vehicle being driven under control of the automated driving system, and determine an automated driving level to be switched based on a driver monitoring result obtained by the drive monitoring unit, and an automated driving control unit configured to control the vehicle according to the automated driving level.

Abstract: A vehicle cooling/heating system includes a coolant line in which coolant is circulated between a heat source component of a vehicle that provides waste heat and a chiller and a refrigerant line in which refrigerant is circulated through a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator. The refrigerant line performs indoor cooling through the evaporator. A controller controls the coolant line such that, during a drying mode in which it is necessary to dry the evaporator, the coolant in the coolant line is circulated or not circulated through the heat source component and the chiller, and such that the refrigerant in the refrigerant line flows, in order, through the compressor, the evaporator, and the chiller.

Abstract: Disclosed are an electrode slurry for a fuel cell capable of forming a multilayer structure without an interface using a first support and a second support having different mesopore fractions and densities, a multilayer electrode structure using the same, and a manufacturing method thereof. The electrode slurry for a fuel cell includes a first catalyst including a first support on which a first metal is supported, a second catalyst including a second support on which a second metal is supported, an ionomer, and a solvent, the first support and the second support having different mesopore fractions and densities.

Abstract: An atomic layer etching method using a ligand exchange reaction may include a substrate providing step of putting a substrate with a thin film formed thereon into a reaction chamber, a halogenated thin film forming step of forming a halogenated thin film on a surface of the thin film by infusing a halogenated gas into the reaction chamber, and an etching step of etching the halogenated thin film by infusing a ligand without a metal or metal precursor into the reaction chamber with the substrate with the halogenated thin film.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes channels, a gate structure, and a source/drain layer. The channels are disposed at a plurality of levels, respectively, and spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction on an upper surface of a substrate. The gate structure is disposed on the substrate, at least partially surrounds a surface of each of the channels, and extends in a first direction substantially parallel to the upper surface of the substrate. The source/drain layer is disposed at each of opposite sides of the gate structure in a second direction substantially parallel to the upper surface of the substrate and substantially perpendicular to the first direction and is connected to sidewalls of the channels. A length of the gate structure in the second direction changes along the first direction at a first height from the upper surface of the substrate in the vertical direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an E. coli hisG-derived ATP-phosphoribosyltransferase variant having a reduced feedback inhibition by histidine and a strain expressing the same. The variant may maintain its activity even at a high histidine concentration, thus increasing histidine production.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a phosphine precursor for the preparation of a quantum dot, and a quantum dot prepared therefrom. Using the phosphine precursor for the preparation of a quantum dot of the present invention, a quantum dot with improved luminous efficiency and higher luminous color purity can be provided.

Abstract: A coil component is provided. The coil component includes a body having fifth and sixth surfaces opposing each other, first and second surfaces respectively connecting the fifth and sixth surfaces of the body and opposing each other, and third and fourth surfaces respectively connecting the first and second surfaces of the body and opposing each other in one direction, a recess disposed in an edge between one of the first and second surfaces of the body and the sixth surface of the body, a coil portion disposed inside the body and exposed through the recess, and an external electrode including a connection portion disposed in the recess and connected to the coil portion, and a pad portion disposed on one surface of the body. A length of the pad portion in the one direction is greater than a length of the connection portion in the one direction.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining failure of a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a sensor configured to obtain autonomous driving information, and a controller configured to compare the autonomous driving information obtained during autonomous driving with a determination criterion set as failure sound information and to determine whether the failure occurs, based on the comparison result.

Abstract: An atomic layer etching method capable of precisely etching a metal thin film at units of atomic layer from a substrate including the metal thin film, includes forming a metal layer on a substrate, and etching at least a portion of the metal layer. The etching at least a portion of the metal layer includes at least one etching cycle. The at least one etching cycle includes supplying an active gas onto the metal layer, and supplying an etching support gas after supplying the active gas. The etching support gas is expressed by the following general formula wherein each of R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 independently includes hydrogen or a C1-C4 alkyl group, and N is nitrogen.

Abstract: A route suggestion device and a method therefor are provided. The route suggestion device includes at least one processor. The at least one processor determines whether it is possible for a vehicle to arrive at a destination based on a current drivable distance, when the destination is set, searches for at least one charging station in a route where the vehicle arrives at the destination, using a driving scheduling function of scheduling a final route to the destination, in response to that it is determined that it is impossible for the vehicle to arrive at the destination, determines a first charging station as a waypoint based on an item of interest of a passenger, in which a will of the passenger is reflected, among the at least one charging station, and generates an optimal route including the first charging station. In addition, various embodiments recognized through the specification are possible.

Abstract: Provided is a method of synthesizing 3D joint data based on a multi-view RGB-D camera. The method of synthesizing 3D joint data includes: converting joint data collected from a depth camera of each of a plurality of RGB-D cameras from a depth camera coordinate system of each of the RGB-D cameras to a color camera coordinate system of each of the RGB-D cameras; calculating a confidence level of the joint data converted to the color camera coordinate system using a 3D joint recognition algorithm based on the joint data converted to the color camera coordinate system; applying a rotation matrix and a translation vector to the joint data and converting the joint data to a predetermined reference coordinate system; and obtaining a weighted-average of the joint data converted to the reference coordinate system using a weight calculated based on the confidence level to synthesize the joint data.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a space of a vehicle includes: a communication device to receive reservation information; and a controller to determine a manner of partitioning an inner space of the vehicle based on the reservation information and control an operation of one or more partition to correspond to the manner of partitioning the inner space, thereby allowing users moving similar routes to feel comfortable.

Abstract: A method of guaranteeing game quality by using an artificial intelligence (AI) agent is provided. The method includes extracting an item list (hereinafter referred to as an inspection item list) for inspecting quality of a target game, extracting and storing log data corresponding to a test performance result for each item of the inspection item list, performing imitation learning of an AI agent model on the basis of the stored log data, performing an automatic test for inspecting quality of the target game by using the AI agent model on which the imitation learning is completed, and automatically recording a bug and an error detected by the AI agent model.

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle and a drunk driving responding method, includes an autonomous driving control apparatus including a processor that is configured to determine whether the vehicle is in an emergency situation when the alcohol is detected in the vehicle, and to move the vehicle to an operational design domain when the processor concludes that the vehicle is in the emergency situation, and a communication device that is configured to notify a government office or a rescue organization of the emergency situation.

Abstract: A vehicle data sharing apparatus and a vehicle data sharing method, may include a processor configured to subdivide a sharing range of vehicle data for each group according to a range of a subject driving a vehicle, and to obtain consent from a user for each subdivided group, to perform vehicle data sharing; and a storage configured to register consent information related to a sharing range of vehicle data acquired from the user.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an omnidirectional sensor fusion system and method and a vehicle including the same. The omnidirectional sensor fusion system includes a sensor track processing unit configured to receive recognition information from one or more sensors to generate a sensor track, a sensor track association determination unit configured to determine, based on the generated sensor track being located at an overlapping point of sensing regions of the one or more sensors, an association between a previous sensor fusion track and the sensor track, the sensor track association determination unit further configured to change sensor track information in response to the determined association and output a sensor fusion track, a sensor fusion track tracing unit configured to trace the output sensor fusion track, and a sensor fusion track maintenance unit configured to maintain the traced sensor fusion track.