Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display panel includes preparing a work substrate that includes a mother substrate that has a plurality of cell areas, a light emitting element layer formed in each of the cell areas, and an encapsulation layer formed on each cell area, disposing a plurality of protective films in the cell areas, respectively, that cover the light emitting element layer and the encapsulation layer, cutting the work substrate along cutting lines at an outer side of the protective films of each cell area to form a preliminary display panel, grinding side surfaces of the preliminary display panel, and removing the protective films from each ground preliminary display panel to form the display panel.

Abstract: The disclosure provides recombinant polypeptides for treating or preventing viral infection comprising an immunoglobulin Fc fragment and at least one viral receptor or fragment thereof. Also provided are RNA molecules, therapeutic compositions, and expression systems comprising such recombinant polypeptides, along with methods of preventing or treating a viral infection in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering such recombinant polypeptides to a subject or patient.

Abstract: A display panel includes a base layer, a circuit layer disposed on the base layer, a light emitting element layer disposed on the circuit layer, and an encapsulation layer disposed on the light emitting element layer. The encapsulation layer includes a first inorganic layer that includes a lower layer and an upper layer disposed on the lower layer, and a second inorganic layer disposed on the first inorganic layer. The lower layer includes a barrier layer that includes a silicon oxide, and the upper layer includes a silicon oxycarbide.

Abstract: A method for picking first breaks on a synthetic seismic dataset for a full wavefield travel-time inversion is provided. This method includes obtaining a synthetic seismic dataset and for each synthetic trace, determining a plurality of synthetic trace amplitude maxima and minima, determining a modified energy ratio trace, and forming a trace mask based at least in part, on an amplitude of the synthetic trace and on an amplitude of the modified energy ratio trace. The method further includes determining for each synthetic trace, a positive estimated first break based on the plurality of synthetic trace amplitude maxima and the trace mask and a negative estimated first bread based on the plurality of synthetic trace amplitude minima and the trace mask. The method concludes with determining a predicted first break for each synthetic trace from the positive estimate first break and the negative estimate first break.

Abstract: A lift assist work belt device for facilitating manual transport of a load includes a work belt, which comprises a back portion and a front portion. The back portion and the front portion are selectively mutually engageable to secure the work belt around a waist of a user. A pad, which is attached to an inner surface of the back portion, cushions a back of the user and enhances support to the back that is provided by the work belt. A pair of prongs is attached to the front portion and protrudes outwardly from the work belt upon donning of the work belt by the user. The prongs engage a lower surface of a load carried by the user to shift a center of gravity of the load toward the user.

Abstract: A pouch sealing apparatus configured to seal a pouch for batteries includes an upper pouch and a lower pouch, the pouch being configured to receive an electrode assembly and an electrolytic solution. The pouch sealing apparatus includes a mounting unit configured to allow a pouch receiving portion to be seated thereon, a press roller configured to move the electrolytic solution into the pouch receiving portion while rolling from open ends of the upper pouch and the lower pouch toward the pouch receiving portion, and a sealing tool configured to seal parts of the upper pouch and the lower pouch to be sealed, wherein the press roller fuses the upper pouch and the lower pouch in contact with each other while being heated by a heating portion added to a part of the roller and rolling.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a battery module inspection apparatus including a coupling portion configured to be connected to a battery module connector, a stage having the coupling portion mounted to a lower part thereof, the stage being configured to move the coupling portion in a horizontal direction, a driving portion configured to move the stage in an upward-downward direction, a pair of guide portions disposed respectively at opposite sides of the coupling portion, the guide portions being configured to adjust the position of the coupling portion, and a shaft configured to serve as a reference axis along which the stage is moved in the upward-downward direction, wherein the coupling portion of the battery module inspection apparatus may be stably coupled to the battery module connector irrespective of position deviation of the battery module connector.

Abstract: A needle-free injector based on underwater discharge using a shock wave according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a pressure chamber in which a driving fluid is stored; a medicine chamber communicating with the pressure chamber to store medicine; a pressure transmitting unit interposed between the pressure chamber and the medicine chamber to apply propulsion pressure to the medicine stored in the medicine chamber, when a volume of the pressure chamber is expanded; an injecting unit provided at one side of the medicine chamber to discharge the medicine; and an electrode unit to expand the volume of the pressure chamber, by generating bubbles in the driving fluid stored in the pressure chamber and causing break down.

Abstract: Provided is a display device including a first substrate including an active region and a peripheral region, a circuit element layer on the first substrate and including insulating layers and a transistor, a display element layer on the circuit element layer and including a pixel-defining layer having an opening defined therein, a light-emitting element including a first electrode exposed by the opening, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer disposed between the first and second electrodes, and a partition wall overlapping the peripheral region, a second substrate disposed on the display element layer, a sealing member overlapping the peripheral region and defining an inner space, and a filling member disposed in the inner space, wherein a recessed portion overlapping the peripheral region is defined in a rear surface of the second substrate facing the display element layer, and a part of the filling member is disposed in the recessed portion.

Abstract: The disclosure provides methods for treating or preventing coronavirus infection comprising administration of a therapeutically effective amount of lactoferrin or a therapeutically effective amount of a protein fusion comprising recombinant lactoferrin fused to the receptor binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Also provided are methods for treating or preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection comprising co-administration of a therapeutically effective amount of lactoferrin and a second drug treatment, such as ivermectin. Also provided are methods for treating or preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection comprising co-administration of a therapeutically effective amount of lactoferrin and a second drug treatment, such as ivermectin.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel that has a first area and a second area; a polarizer including a polarizer layer that has a polarization area and a transmission area, a protection layer disposed under the polarizer layer, and a plurality of retarders disposed under the protection layer for retarding a phase of light incident thereon.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating the substrate includes a process chamber with a treating space therein, a support member located in the treating space to support the substrate, and a gas supply unit supplying a surface-modifying gas to the treating space. The gas supply unit includes a bubbler tank provided with an accommodating space for storing a liquid alkyne-based chemical, the bubbler tanks bubbling the liquid alkyne-based chemical by supplying an inert gas to the accommodating space to generate the surface-modifying gas, a heater heating the liquid alkyne-based chemical stored in the bubbler tank at a first temperature, and a gas supply line coupled between the process chamber and the bubbler tank to supply the surface modified gas to the treating space and provided with a first valve.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of treating waste plastic pyrolysis oil. The method includes a first step of washing waste plastic pyrolysis oil with water and then removing moisture; a second step of mixing the waste plastic pyrolysis oil from which the moisture is removed and a sulfur source to prepare a mixed oil; a third step of hydrotreating the mixed oil with hydrogen gas in the presence of a hydrotreating catalyst; a fourth step of separating the hydrotreated mixed oil into a liquid stream and a gas stream to obtain liquid pyrolysis oil; and a fifth step of recovering hydrogen gas from the separated gas stream and recycling the recovered hydrogen gas to the third step.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of treating waste plastic pyrolysis oil. The method includes a first step of washing waste plastic pyrolysis oil with water and then removing moisture; a second step of mixing the waste plastic pyrolysis oil from which the moisture is removed and a sulfur source to prepare a mixed oil; a third step of hydrotreating the mixed oil with hydrogen gas in the presence of a hydrotreating catalyst; a fourth step of separating the hydrotreated mixed oil into a liquid stream and a gas stream to obtain liquid pyrolysis oil; and a fifth step of recovering hydrogen gas from the separated gas stream and recycling the recovered hydrogen gas to the third step.

Abstract: A memory system includes a memory device including plural memory blocks and a controller configured to perform garbage collection on a victim block among the plural memory blocks. The controller is further configured to stop the garbage collection in response to an interrupt and invalidate a valid data item, which is copied from the victim block to a target block during the garbage collection.

Abstract: A display device includes a first area, a second area, and a bending area; a first substrate that is disposed at least in the first area where a display layer is disposed, and is formed of a glass material; a second substrate that is disposed on the first substrate, is disposed at least in the bending area and the second area, and is bendable; an organic material layer that is disposed at least in the bending area and the second area; an encapsulation layer that is disposed on the display layer; and a signal line that extends from the display layer and is disposed in the bending area and the second area, wherein the first substrate is spaced apart from the second area.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a display panel includes forming pixels in a display area of a substrate, and forming a metal wiring and a dam portion in a non-display area of the substrate, forming an encapsulation layer using an inorganic insulating material and an organic insulating material to cover the display area of the substrate and inspecting presence or absence of a remaining layer including the organic insulating material, which is formed in a remaining area of the encapsulation layer except for the display area, using a filter having a predetermined wavelength range.

Abstract: A heat fusion-type horticultural binder includes: an operation sensor detecting a binding operation in which the handle frame and the arm are pressed; and the power supply device controlled to supply power for a heating wire to the fusion heating wire during the binding operation detected by the operation sensor wherein the power supply device includes a power conversion unit generating power for a heating wire to be supplied to the fusion heating wire from a battery, a heating wire driving unit controlled to supply the generated power for a heating wire to the fusion heating wire or cut off the power supply and a controller controlling the heating wire driving unit to supply power for a heating wire to the fusion heating wire for a predetermined fusion time during the binding operation.

Abstract: Disclosed is a needle-free injector. The needle-free injector includes a first current applying unit that applies a first current, a first coil that receives the first current from the first current applying unit, a second coil that moves to apply pressure to a drug, a housing of which the outside is surrounded by the first coil and in which the second coil is positioned, a drug chamber which is connected to the housing and in which the drug is positioned, and an injection nozzle positioned in the drug chamber to inject the drug.

Abstract: A separator including a porous polymer substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a porous coating layer on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate; and a conductive coating layer on a surface of the porous coating layer opposite the surface of the porous coating layer facing the first surface of the porous polymer substrate. The porous coating layer includes a plurality of inorganic particles and a first binder polymer totally or partially on the surfaces of the inorganic particles to interconnect and fix the inorganic particles. The conductive coating layer includes single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and a second binder polymer.