Abstract: Provided is a method of controlling a conveyor for item transportation and an electronic apparatus therefor, the method including acquiring information associated with a plurality of destinations, identifying a weight for each of the plurality of destinations based on the acquired information, determining, in response to an item being identified, a destination among the plurality of destinations based on the identified weight, wherein the item is placed in the determined destination, and controlling the conveyor to transport the item to the determined destination.

Abstract: An embodiment bidirectional charging system for a vehicle includes a first bridge circuit having a plurality of legs each including two first switching elements connected in series with each other between both ends of a battery, a transformer comprising a plurality of primary-side windings connected to a grid or load side and a plurality of secondary-side windings insulated from the plurality of primary-side windings, a motor including a plurality of input terminals configured to receive a plurality of phase voltages, respectively, a plurality of changeover switches configured to selectively connect connection nodes of the two first switching elements included in the plurality of legs to the plurality of secondary-side windings or to the plurality of input terminals, respectively, and a controller configured to control connection states of the plurality of changeover switches according to a pre-configured operation mode.

Abstract: A graphene manufacturing device using Joule heating includes: a chamber having a space provided therein so as to synthesize graphene; and a first roller portion and a second roller portion disposed inside the chamber to be spaced from each other such that same support a catalyst metal penetrating the interior of the chamber and are supplied with an electric current for graphene synthesis, thereby Joule-heating the catalyst metal. In order to compensate for a temperature deviation of the catalyst metal passing between the first roller portion and the second roller portion, a first area of the catalyst metal, which is close to the first roller portion, and a second area of the catalyst metal, which is close to the second roller portion, are disposed to have movement paths facing each other.

Abstract: A method of polishing a substrate having amorphous carbon layer deposited thereon removes protrusions on the ACL surface by using a soft pad with a low hardness and a polishing slurry containing non-spherical modified fumed silica with high friction force with the surface.

Abstract: A display apparatus including an oxide semiconductor is provided. A pixel driving circuit and a light-emitting device being electrically connected to the pixel driving circuit may be disposed on a pixel area. The pixel driving circuit may include at least one switching thin film transistor and a driving thin film transistor. A light-blocking pattern and an upper buffer layer covering the light-blocking pattern may be disposed between the device substrate and a driving semiconductor pattern of the driving thin film transistor. An intermediate insulating layer disposed between the device substrate and the upper buffer layer may include an opening overlapping with the light-blocking pattern and the driving semiconductor pattern. Thus, in the display apparatus, a rate of change in current according to a voltage applied to the driving gate electrode of the driving thin film transistor may be reduced, without changing the characteristics of the switching thin film transistor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aerosol-generating article used together with an aerosol-generating device including a cigarette rod having a cavity segment filled with tobacco granules; and filter rod positioned downstream of the cigarette rod, wherein the cigarette rod includes a flavoring source.

Abstract: A stator winding structure includes a stator core formed from a stack of a plurality of steel sheets, the stator core comprising a plurality of slots that are circularly arranged in multiple rows around an axis of rotation; a plurality of conductor bars positioned in the plurality of slots; a plurality of first barrier ribs electrically shielding between the plurality of conductor bars contiguous to each other in a radial direction; and a plurality of second barrier ribs electrically shielding between the plurality of conductor bars contiguous to each other in a circumferential direction; and a pair of end-turn members disposed at axial ends of the stator core and coupled to the conductor bars; wherein the plurality of conductor bars are arranged within the stator core by a casting process including die casting.

Abstract: A rotor for an induction motor is provide. The rotor includes a core built with stacks of a plurality of steel sheets and includes a plurality of rotor slots that are radially arranged. The rotor further includes a plurality of conductor bars contained in the plurality of rotor slots, respectively, and end-rings attached to both longitudinal ends of each of the plurality of conductor bars. The rotor further includes at least one slit formed inward from an outer periphery of the rotor along a perimeter of the rotor, wherein the slit has a depth deep enough to form a groove portion in at least some region of each of the plurality of conductor bars.

Abstract: An end coil cooling structure includes: a shielding member which is disposed within a motor housing, surrounds an area where an end coil is disposed, and forms an enclosed space; and a plurality of heat conducting particles disposed to fill the enclosed space and to come into contact with the end coil.

Abstract: A rotor cooling structure includes a turbine blower structure provided on first and second sides of a rotor for an induction motor; a refrigerant passage including a plurality of refrigerant passage inlet openings provided on a bottom surface of the turbine blower structure and a plurality of refrigerant passage outlet openings provided at an axial center of the rotor, which fluidically communicates with the refrigerant passage inlet openings and the refrigerant passage outlet openings and is provided along conductor bars of the rotor; and a plurality of micro groove patterns that hold the refrigerant passage outlet openings and are provided on both axial sides of the rotor on an external periphery of the rotor.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, a logistics information managing method may include identifying at least one of information on a source fulfillment center and information on a target fulfillment center, identifying transfer target candidate order information among order information allocated to the source fulfillment center, and allocating at least a portion of the transfer target candidate order information to the target fulfillment center. Through this, order information previously allocated to a fulfillment center may be reallocated to another fulfillment center, thereby preventing a non-compliance with order processing. Other embodiments are possible as well.

Abstract: An apparatus for repairing elements, includes: a bonding material transfer stamp transferring a new bonding material to a repair area on a substrate, the repair area having a defective element or a residual bonding material removed therefrom; and an element transfer stamp transferring a new element to the new bonding material, wherein the element transfer stamp comprises a load control portion for elements, the load control portion being bent and deformed upon receiving pressing force such that a zero-stiffness load smaller than a critical damage load of the new element is applied to the new element.

Abstract: Provided herein are a sidestream smoke removal device and a control method thereof. The sidestream smoke removal device according to some embodiments of the present disclosure includes a housing in which a smoking space is formed, an article insertion portion which is disposed at one end of the housing and forms an opening for insertion of a smoking article into the smoking space, an ignition portion which is configured to ignite the smoking article inserted into the smoking space, a sidestream smoke processing portion which is configured to process sidestream smoke generated from the smoking article inserted into the smoking space, and a cutting portion. The cutting portion may provide a cutting function for the smoking article inserted into the smoking space and thus ensure a convenient, safe extinguishing function.

Abstract: The present invention provides a laundry sheet wherein one or more component selected from a group consisting of a builder, an enzyme, a bleaching agent and a bleach activator is contained as a granule in a laundry film prepared using a laundry detergent component and a film-forming water-soluble polymer. The laundry sheet of the present invention completely dissolves in water and thus does not need to be removed after laundering. In addition, the laundry sheet of the present invention has superior cleaning performance, is convenient to use and has superior storage stability.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a substrate having a first conductivity type, a first charge accumulation region disposed in the substrate and having a second conductivity type, a second charge accumulation region connected with the first charge accumulation region, having the second conductivity type and extending downward from an edge of the first charge accumulation region, a pinning region disposed on the first charge accumulation region and having the first conductivity type, a floating diffusion region spaced laterally from the pinning region, a channel region disposed between the pinning region and the floating diffusion region, and a gate structure disposed on the channel region.

Abstract: A rotor for an induction motor includes a rotor core having a hollow portion on a central portion wherein a shaft is coupled to the rotor core by being inserted through the hollow portion, a plurality of slots radially formed in the rotor core around a central axis of the shaft, a plurality of conductor bars coupled to the plurality of slots, and an end ring electrically connecting the plurality of conductor bars to each other, wherein the rotor core is thermally treated above Curie temperature to form a predetermined pattern on an outer circumference of the rotor core.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a metastructure having a zero elastic modulus zone, which can experience constant stress in a predetermined strain zone, and a method for designing the same. The metastructure includes a first unit and a second unit, wherein the first unit has a structure capable of buckling and has a stress-strain relation having a zone corresponding to a negative elastic modulus, the second unit is disposed adjacent to the first unit and has a stress-strain relation having a zone corresponding to a positive elastic modulus, and the metastructure has zero elastic modulus in a predetermined target strain zone through synthesis of the negative elastic modulus of the first unit with the positive elastic modulus of the second unit.

Abstract: An embodiment method for controlling a power factor correction circuit includes detecting an AC zero voltage crossing point, detecting a current flowing through an inductor, and reducing a distortion of the current flowing through the inductor by determining a current at the AC zero voltage crossing point as a resistive current, an inductive current, or a capacitive current and controlling each of a plurality of switching elements from a time point when the AC zero voltage crossing point is detected based upon a result of determining the current.

Abstract: A hybrid motor includes an induction motor and a synchronous motor combined. The hybrid motor includes a hollow rotor that includes conductor bars configured to form an annular shape at a position spaced apart from a rotation axis by a predetermined first distance and a synchronous motor equivalent that is disposed in an annular shape at a position spaced apart from the rotation axis by a predetermined second distance, an induction stator that includes induction stator windings positioned on a first radial side of the hollow rotor, and a synchronous stator that includes synchronous stator windings positioned on a second radial side of the hollow rotor.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a nano-particle includes preparing a nano-particle dispersion including a nano-particle having a perovskite structure with a first ligand on a surface thereof and a non-polar solvent; and mixing a silane compound, a halogen compound and the nano-particle dispersion to substitute a silane ligand for the first ligand.