Abstract: Disclosed is a railway wireless sensor network system. The railway wireless sensor network system includes a plurality of sensors which are included in a railway vehicle and measure an operation state of the railway vehicle in real time, a plurality of routers which receive information on the measured operation state through a dedicated channel with each sensor, and a gateway which receives information on the operation state through a dedicated channel between the routers, and periodically transmits information on the received operation state to a railway vehicle control center.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery including an electrode assembly including a first electrode and a second electrode; a case in which the electrode assembly is accommodated, the case including an opening; a first terminal electrically coupled to the first electrode; a second terminal electrically coupled to the second electrode; a cap plate coupled to the opening, the cap plate including a short-circuit hole and being electrically coupled to the first electrode; a short-circuit member in the short-circuit hole, the short-circuit member electrically coupling the cap plate and the second terminal when deformed; and an upper cover including a first barrier wall covering the short-circuit hole, the first barrier wall protruding toward the short-circuit member, the first barrier wall including a first exhaust hole, and a top surface of the upper cover including an external hole connected to the first exhaust hole.

Abstract: A lock structure includes a case, a first latch, a second latch, a transmission member, a transmission module, a swaying plate and a driving plate, wherein the transmission module is rotated to drive the swaying plate and the transmission member to perform swing action for making the swaying plate driving the first latch being hidden into the case. In addition, the driving plate moves upwardly by swing action of the transmission member, and the driving plate drives the second latch in operation for making the second latch being hidden into the case.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes a contact portion on a bottom retainer that contacts a bottom of a case, thus performing a tension function. The secondary battery includes an electrode assembly having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator between the first and second electrodes; a case accommodating the electrode assembly therein, having a top and a bottom and an opening in the top of the case; a cap plate closing the opening of the case; a bottom retainer on an upper surface of the bottom of the case, the bottom retainer including a support portion supporting the electrode assembly and at least one contact portion contacting the bottom of the case. As such, the contact portion may absorb external shocks, thus increasing durability and enhancing safety of the secondary battery.

Abstract: A fuel sender device for a vehicle may include a resistance substrate having a conductor part, a contact plate having a contact point contacting the conductor part, and a float unit moving up and down according to a variation of an oil surface and angularly rotating the contact plate, wherein the fuel sender device includes a variable contact point that allows the contact plate to variably contact the conductor part while moving up and down and rotating according to the variation of the oil surface.

Abstract: Techniques for autonomously establishing, maintaining, and repairing of a wireless communication network among multiple autonomous mobile nodes (AMN) are provided. The multiple AMNs are flown towards a first node. A tentacle is established with the first node and extended to cover a second node over a distance, thereby establishing a wireless communication network between the first node and the second node via the multiple AMNs. Any damage to the established wireless communication network or tentacle may be autonomously detected and repaired by using spare AMNs. Further, the communication network may be used to enable autonomous detection, tracking of the second node, as well as autonomous detection of a contamination area, based on data received from one or more sensors onboard the AMNs deployed in the air.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a preparation method for an electromagnetic wave shield composite material and the electromagnetic wave shield composite material prepared by the method. The present invention uses a highly conductive carbon fiber prepared by electroless and electrolytic continuous processes, and thus is suitable for an EMI shield due to having an excellent conductivity and low surface resistance, and is capable of providing the electromagnetic wave shield composite material having an excellent productivity and economic value. Furthermore, the electromagnetic wave shield composite material of the present invention can be used for blocking electromagnetic waves by being inserted into a cell phone cover and a cell phone pouch, and can also be applied to a bracket for protecting an LCD of a portable display product.

Abstract: A Continuous Variable Valve Timing (CVVT) apparatus for an engine may include a housing, a rotor disposed to be rotatable relative to the housing, a locking pin passing through a facing relatively rotating surface between the housing and the rotor by elastic force so as to restrict rotation of the rotor relative to the housing by linear movement, and an oil control valve disposed such that oil is supplied to an advance chamber and a delay chamber provided between the rotor and the housing, in which, when a control duty value applied to the oil control valve is “0”, the oil control valve is fixed in a state in which the oil is supplied to the advance chamber.

Abstract: Novel processes for the preparation of a compound of Formula I-2 substantially free of the 5,6-trans isomer: wherein R2, R3 and R4 are as defined in the specification are provided. Novel intermediates for the preparations of isomer free Prostaglandins and derivatives thereof are also provided.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus having an internal security paper detection unit and an image-forming method related to the apparatus. The image-forming apparatus controls a paper feed unit so as to feed a single sheet of paper from a paper stack unit when a command for forming an image on RF tag paper is input, controls a paper transfer unit so as to provide the paper fed from a security paper cassette unit to an image-forming unit along a transfer path, and controls the image-forming unit so as to normally form a desired image on the moving RF tag paper when an RF tag detection signal is input from an RF tag, paper detection unit, whereby the image is formed only on the security paper in which an RF tag is inserted and thus illegal leakage of documents may be prevented.

Abstract: A driver includes a semiconductor chip, a bridge rectifier, and a current driver. The semiconductor chip includes a rectifying diode and a constant current source formed thereon. The bridge rectifier includes the rectifying diode. The current driver includes the first constant current source to provide a constant current.

Abstract: A coil unit for a thin film inductor includes an insulating material having double insulating layers of a first and a second insulating layers; and a plurality of coil patterns formed to be embedded in the insulating material. At least one coil pattern among the coil patterns has a thickness different from a thickness of rest of the coil patterns.

Abstract: A gap-fill polymer for filling fine pattern gaps, which has a low dielectric constant (low-k) and excellent gap filling properties, may consist of a compound formed by condensation polymerization of a first oligomer represented by the formula 1 and a second oligomer represented by the formula 2.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide an aggregation frame design method and apparatus, the method includes: selecting, by a transmit end from N different hash function groups, one group that has a same sequence number as that of each receive end, mapping a MAC address of each receive end into a number X, and denoting the number X; obtaining M first sequences of each receive end, and performing a bitwise OR operation on the M first sequences to obtain an identification sequence of each receive end; obtaining N identification sequences of N receive ends, performing a bitwise OR operation on the N identification sequences to obtain a Bloom sequence, and encoding and modulating the Bloom sequence to map the Bloom sequence onto an OFDM symbol; and forming an aggregation frame by using a pilot signal, the OFDM symbol, the N identification sequences, and data of the N receive ends.

Abstract: A wearable device wearable on a body and a method and an apparatus for providing information by using the wearable device are provided. The wearable device includes at least two sensing units configured to sense detect biometric information of a wearer of the wearable device, and a connector electrically connecting the at least two sensing units to each other and having elasticity.

Abstract: Disclosed are universal influenza A vaccines capable of providing broader crossprotection. The vaccine contains a fusion protein comprising tandem repeats of heterologous M2e epitope sequences that have been molecularly and genetically designed to provide broad cross-protection. The fusion protein may be incorporated into virus-like particles (VLPs) or a replicating live attenuated influenza virus vaccine, and administered alone or in combination with other influenza vaccines.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for efficiently controlling a handover process and a Radio Link Failure (RLF) process. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, an operating method of a User Equipment (UE) includes starting a first timer while a second timer regarding a radio link failure (RLF) is running, and if one of the first timer and the second timer expires, performing a radio resource control (RRC) connection re-establishment. When the handover and the RLF concurrently occur in the mobile communication system, the embodiments of the present disclosure can minimize the service interruption time by conducting the handover instead of the Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection re-establishment due to the RLF.

Abstract: A probe connector includes a probe body, a flexible sleeve body, a slit and a conductive fluid. The flexible sleeve body is connected to the probe body. The conductive fluid is received in the flexible sleeve body and electrically connected to the slit and the probe body. The slit is formed on one end of the flexible sleeve body opposite to the probe body, so as to define petal portions which are configured to be tightly closed together. When the slit is pressed to separate the petal portions, a portion of the conductive fluid seeps up from the flexible sleeve body via the slit.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: an anode and a cathode facing each other; a quantum dot emission layer disposed between the anode and the cathode and including a plurality of quantum dots; and a light emitting source, wherein the quantum dot emission layer is configured to receive electrical energy from the anode and the cathode and to emit light having a first wavelength, wherein the quantum dot emission layer and the light emitting source are configured so that the light emitting source provides the quantum emission layer with light having a second wavelength, and the plurality of quantum dots are excited by the light having the second wavelength and emit light having a third wavelength, wherein the anode, the cathode, or a combination thereof is a light transmitting electrode, and the light of the first wavelength and the light of the third wavelength are emitted through the light transmitting electrode.