Abstract: Applicators for use in retrieving product (generally a liquid) from a reservoir, with an applicator for entry to the reservoir coupled to a cap. The cap is configured to be coupled to a bottle and to be selectively actuated by depressing a depressible actuator. The applicator includes a shaft and thermal tip formed from a material that stores and/or transmits thermal energy.

Abstract: A cosmetic container and applicator system for magnetic cosmetic products may include a housing defining a reservoir for containing a magnetic cosmetic product, and an applicator configured to extend into the reservoir. The applicator includes a magnet. A wiper may extend into the reservoir and have a bottom end with an opening through which the applicator extends. The wiper may be configured to remove excess product from the applicator as the applicator is withdrawn from the reservoir.

Abstract: A gas turbine includes a housing in which combustion gas flows; a rotor section rotatably installed in the housing; and a turbine blade configured to rotate the rotor section by receiving a rotational force from the combustion gas and to be cooled by a cooling fluid flowing in a cooling path, the turbine blade including a tip side provided with tip cooling holes through which a portion of the cooling fluid in the cooling path is discharged from the turbine blade. The tip cooling holes include a first tip cooling hole formed in a pressure surface of the turbine blade, and a second tip cooling hole formed in a suction surface of the turbine blade. The gas turbine can easily maintain a gap between the tip side of the turbine blade and an inner circumferential surface of the housing, preventing degradation of the turbine blade efficiency.

Abstract: A coupling frame includes a support body configured to contact at least one of the electrode tab and the electrode lead; a first perforating portion bent from one end of the support body; and a second perforating portion bent from the other end of the support body. The first and second perforating portions are inserted into the electrode tab and the electrode lead to pass through first and second points of a contact surface between the electrode tab and the electrode lead.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an electrode stack including at least one positive electrode, at least one negative electrode, and at least one separator, wherein the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator are stacked such that the separator is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, one end of each of the positive electrode and the negative electrode does not intersect the other end of each of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, a stacked surface of each of the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator includes a curved surface, and the negative electrode has an arc length equal to or greater than that of the positive electrode while the separator has an arc length greater than that of the positive electrode in a state in which the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator are curved, and a battery pack including the same.

Abstract: There are provided a method of manufacturing a jelly roll-type electrode assembly and a method of manufacturing a secondary battery using the electrode assembly. The method of manufacturing the electrode assembly includes notching a cathode and an anode, elongated in one direction, in a constant size and shape to form a plurality of electrode units, laminating the cathode and the anode with a separator disposed therebetween to form a unit cell, and winding the unit cell by bending the connection units so that the electrode units of the cathode and the anode overlap each other. In the manufacturing of the jelly roll-type electrode assembly and the polymer secondary battery, whose production process can be easily simplified, a jelly roll-type electrode assembly and a polymer secondary battery, both of which exhibit excellent design flexibility, can be manufactured.

Abstract: Disclosed is an anode active material for lithium secondary batteries that includes natural graphite particles consisting of spherical particles of agglomerated graphite sheets, outer surfaces of which are not coated with a carbon-based material, wherein the surfaces of the particles have a degree of amorphization of at least 0.3 within a range within which an R value [R=I1350/I1580] (I1350 is the intensity of Raman around 1350 cm?1 and I1580 is the intensity of Raman around 1580 cm?1) of a Raman spectrum is in the range of 0.30 to 1.0.

Abstract: Disclosed are a cathode active material for secondary batteries and a lithium secondary battery including the same. More particularly, a cathode active material for secondary batteries having an operating voltage area of 2.50 V to 4.35 V, including a lithium cobalt-based oxide and a surface-treated lithium nickel-based oxide and having high rolling density by a bimodal form in which an average diameter of the cobalt-based oxide and an average diameter of the lithium nickel-based composite oxide are different, and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a single pulse laser apparatus that includes: a resonator having a first mirror, a second mirror, a gain medium, an electro-optic modulator (EOM) configured to perform single pulse switching, and an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) configured to perform mode-locking; a photodiode configured to measure a laser beam oscillated in the resonator; a synchronizer configured to convert an electrical signal, which is generated by measuring the laser beam, into a transistor-transistor logic (TTL) signal; a delay unit configured to set a delay time for the TTL signal to synchronize the EOM and the AOM and output a trigger TTL signal according to the delay time; an AOM driver configured to input the trigger TTL signal to the AOM that performs mode-locking and drive the AOM; and an EOM driver configured to input the trigger TTL signal to the EOM that performs single pulse switching and drive the EOM.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cathode active material for secondary batteries in which a carboxymethyl cellulose derivative is coated on surfaces of particles of a lithium transition metal oxide having the formula LixMyO2 where M: NiaMnbCoc wherein 0?a?0.9, 0?b?0.9, 0?c?0.5, and 0.85?a+b+c?1.05 and x+y=2, wherein 0.95?x?1.15.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an electrode stack including at least one positive electrode, at least one negative electrode, and at least one separator, wherein the separator is laminated to one surface or opposite surfaces of at least one of the electrodes, the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator are stacked such that the separator is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a stacked surface of each of the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator includes a curved surface, and a battery cell including the same.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a single pulse laser apparatus that includes: a resonator having a first mirror, a second mirror, a gain medium, an electro-optic modulator (EOM) configured to perform single pulse switching, and an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) configured to perform mode-locking; a photodiode configured to measure a laser beam oscillated in the resonator; a synchronizer configured to convert an electrical signal, which is generated by measuring the laser beam, into a transistor-transistor logic (TTL) signal; a delay unit configured to set a delay time for the TTL signal to synchronize the EOM and the AOM and output a trigger TTL signal according to the delay time; an AOM driver configured to input the trigger TTL signal to the AOM that performs mode-locking and drive the AOM; and an EOM driver configured to input the trigger TTL signal to the EOM that performs single pulse switching and drive the EOM.

Abstract: Disclosed are an electrode assembly for secondary batteries and a lithium secondary battery including the same. More particularly, an electrode assembly including a cathode, an anode and a separator, wherein the cathode includes a lithium cobalt-based oxide, and a lithium nickel-based composite oxide forming a coating layer over a surface of the lithium nickel-based composite oxide by reacting with a fluorine-containing polymer, as a cathode active material, the anode includes carbon and a silicon oxide as an anode active material, an operating voltage is 2.50 V to 4.35 V, and the cathode active material has high rolling density by a bimodal form in which an average diameter of the cobalt-based oxide and an average diameter of the lithium nickel-based composite oxide are different, and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a lithium secondary battery that includes an anode coated with an anode mixture including an anode active material, a cathode coated with a cathode mixture including a cathode active material, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the anode mixture includes, as aqueous binders, carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) having a degree of substitution of a hydroxyl group (—OH) with a carboxymethyl group (—CH2CO2H) of 0.7 to 1.2, a molecular weight (Mn) of 500,000 to 900,000, and a pH of 6.5 to 8.0 and styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) having a particle diameter of 90 nm to 150 nm and a tensile strength of 90 kgf to 160 kgf, and the anode has an electrode coating amount of 10 to 20 mg/cm2 and that enhances electrode processability and reduces a swelling phenomenon.

Abstract: There is provided a jelly-roll type electrode assembly. In the jelly-roll type electrode assembly including a cathode including a cathode active material coating layer and an anode including an anode active material coating layer, with a separation film interposed therebetween, and formed to be rolled, the jelly-roll type electrode assembly is characterized in that the anode and the cathode include uncoated portions, the uncoated portions are overlapped and include mirror images formed on a front surface and a rear surface, and the jelly-roll type electrode assembly is flexible in the uncoated portion. A pouch-type secondary battery, a battery pack and a device including the electrode assembly are provided. A flexible jelly-roll type secondary battery may be reversibly flexible while blocking the separation of an electrode active material from a current collector surface.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an electrode stack including at least one positive electrode, at least one negative electrode, and at least one separator, wherein the separator is laminated to one surface or opposite surfaces of at least one of the electrodes, the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator are stacked such that the separator is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a stacked surface of each of the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator includes a curved surface, and a battery cell including the same.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an electrode stack including at least one positive electrode, at least one negative electrode, and at least one separator, wherein the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator are stacked such that the separator is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, one end of each of the positive electrode and the negative electrode does not intersect the other end of each of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, a stacked surface of each of the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator includes a curved surface, and the negative electrode has an arc length equal to or greater than that of the positive electrode while the separator has an arc length greater than that of the positive electrode in a state in which the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator are curved, and a battery pack including the same.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrode assembly formed by stacking a plurality of electrode units, the electrode assembly including: two or more steps formed by stacking three or more types of the electrode units having different areas, wherein an array of electrode units having a maximum area among the electrode units is positioned in the interior of the electrode assembly, and electrodes having different polarities face each other at an interface between the electrode units having different areas.

Abstract: A polarizer includes boric acid, potassium iodide, and a zinc salt. The zinc salt has a concentration gradient in which the concentration of the zinc salt gradually decreases from a surface of the polarizer to an interior thereof.