Abstract: A negative electrode active material that includes an active material core that allows for the intercalation and deintercalation of lithium ions. The negative electrode active material also includes a plurality of conductive materials positioned on a surface of the active material core, a plurality of organic linkers each including a hydrophobic group and a polar functional group bonded to the hydrophobic group, and an elastic unit. The elastic unit includes an elastic moiety having two or more binding sites, and a functional group bonded to a binding site of the elastic moiety. The functional group reacts with the polar functional group of the organic linker, and one or more of the plurality of organic linkers are connected to the conductive materials through the hydrophobic groups of the organic linkers.

Abstract: A battery can include an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode can have a pair of first sides and a pair of second sides extending between the pair of first sides, a first portion including an active material extending between the pair of first sides, and a second portion extending between the pair of first sides and exposed beyond the separator along a winding direction. The battery can further include a battery housing having a first opening at a first end and a second end with a second opening opposite the first end, a first current collector including a support portion positioned on the electrode assembly, and a housing cover which seals the first opening.

Abstract: A battery, includes an electrode assembly having a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator, wherein each of the first electrode and the second electrode has a first portion including an active material corresponding to the separator, and a second portion exposed beyond the separator and not coated with the active material; a battery housing having a first end with a first opening and a second end with a second opening opposite the first end, the battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly through the second opening at the second end and electrically connected to the second portion of the second electrode; a terminal electrically connected to the second portion of the first electrode and exposed out of the battery housing through the first opening of the battery housing at the first end; and a cap covering and sealing the second opening at the second end of the battery housing.

Abstract: A solid oxide cell includes a fuel electrode, an air electrode, and an electrolyte disposed between the fuel electrode and the air electrode. The fuel electrode includes a plurality of pore arrays arranged in a first direction. One of the plurality of pore arrays includes a plurality of pores arranged in a second direction. The first direction refers to a thickness direction of the electrolyte, and the second direction refers to a direction perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: A connection block facilitates connection between circular pipes with excellent fracture withstand pressure and has flow holes to allow fluid movement between pipes, a header connector connecting the connection block to a header pipe, and a condenser including of the same and a plurality of connection tubes in a plurality of rows. The connection block includes a first surface, a second surface spaced apart from the first surface, a pair of curved portions connecting ends of the first surface and ends of the second surface, and a plurality of flow holes penetrating through the curved portions, wherein the pair of curved portions have the same curvature in cross section, perpendicular to a longitudinal direction.

Abstract: An electrode assembly includes a first electrode; a second electrode; and a separator, the first electrode, the second electrode, and the separator wound about an axis defining a core and an outer circumference of the electrode assembly. The first electrode has a pair of first sides and a pair of second sides, a first portion extending between the pair of first sides, and a second portion extending between the pair of first sides, the first portion being coated with an active material, and at least a part of the second portion includes an electrode tab. The second portion includes a first part adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly, a second part adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly, and a third part between the first part and the second part. The first or second part has a smaller height than the third part.

Abstract: Provided is a heat pump system including a compressor for compressing a refrigerant the heat pump system including: an input interface configured to receive an input of an authentication code; a display configured to display the authentication code input through the input interface; and a controller to control an operation of the heat pump system according to whether a control program to control the operation is to be activated based on the authentication code input through the input interface.

Abstract: A battery can include an electrode assembly having a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator. The first electrode can include a first active material region coated with an active material layer along a winding direction and a first uncoated region not coated with the active material layer, and at least part of the first uncoated region used as an electrode tab. The battery can further include a first current collector coupled to at least part of the first uncoated region on the electrode assembly, a battery housing to accommodate the electrode assembly and the first current collector, and an insulator between an inner surface of the battery housing facing the first uncoated region or the first current collector and the first uncoated region or the first current collector to block the electrical connection between the first uncoated region and the battery housing.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a manycore system capable of asynchronous execution of a plurality of threads. The manycore system includes a device memory configured to store data associated with a job requested to be offloaded from a host device, and a plurality of clusters. Each cluster includes a plurality of cores configured to execute a plurality of threads associated with a plurality of tasks included in the job and a management module configured to control asynchronous execution of the plurality of threads by the plurality of cores. Each core includes a plurality of fetch units configured to fetch, from the program memory, instructions associated with threads executed on the cores, one or more execution units configured to execute operations associated with the threads executed on the cores, and a plurality of load and store units configured to load and store data associated with the threads executed on the cores.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oxide film reaction surface control agent, a method of forming an oxide film using the oxide film reaction surface control agent, a semiconductor substrate including the oxide film, and a semiconductor device including the semiconductor substrate. According to the present invention, by providing a compound having a predetermined structure as an oxide film reaction surface control agent, a deposition layer having a uniform thickness due to a difference in the adsorption distribution of the oxide film reaction surface control agent is formed as a shielding area on a substrate, thereby reducing thin film deposition rate and appropriately reducing thin film growth rate. Accordingly, even when a thin film is formed on a substrate having a complex structure, step coverage and the thickness uniformity of the thin film may be greatly improved, and impurities may be reduced.

Abstract: Provided are an optical member and an optical display device comprising same, the optical member comprising a support layer and an optically functional layer laminated on one surface of the support layer, wherein: the optically functional layer includes a groove having inclined surfaces; at least one convex portion extending from the flat portion of the optically functional layer is formed at each of the inclined surfaces; the convex portion is a curved surface with a radius of curvature of 1 mm or greater, and each of the inclined surfaces satisfies expression 1.

Abstract: A predictive maintenance algorithm providing method for bus maintenance priority determination according to the present invention includes operations of (a) grouping and classifying, by a data processing unit of an operational server, a plurality of buses to be monitored according to preset classification criteria, (b) receiving, by a monitoring unit of the operational server, bus monitoring information including a plurality of types of data collected by vehicle information collection devices installed on the buses for each group classified according to the operation (a), (c) performing, by the data processing unit, refinement on the bus monitoring information, (d) inputting, by the data processing unit, the bus monitoring information refined in the operation (c) as training data for an artificial intelligence machine to build an artificial intelligence model for determining bus maintenance priorities, (e) re-receiving, by the monitoring unit, the bus monitoring information collected by the vehicle informatio

Abstract: A battery insulation sheet including an aerogel layer. The aerogel layer includes: a fibrillized polymer matrix comprising a dry binder; and aerogel particles distributed in the fibrillized polymer matrix.

Abstract: A battery pack accommodates a battery cell or battery module and a battery pack is capable of efficiently discharging a venting gas generated in the battery pack to the outside of the battery pack through a venting inlet formed in the side frame and preventing the venting gas from flowing back into the battery pack by a backflow prevention unit capable of opening and closing the venting inlet in one direction.

Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method is provided. An image decoding method of the present invention may comprise restoring an intra-prediction mode of a current chroma block, deriving at least one representative value based on a neighboring sample of the current chroma block and a neighboring sample of a corresponding luma block corresponding to the current chroma block in case the intra-prediction mode is a CCLM (Cross-Component Linear Model) mode, deriving a parameter of CCLM by using the at least one representative value, and generating a prediction block of the current chroma block by using the parameter of CCLM.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a resistance change layer disposed on the substrate, a gate electrode layers disposed on the resistance change layer, and a first electrode pattern layer and a second electrode pattern layer that are disposed in the substrate and contact different portions of the resistance change layer. The resistance change layer includes movable oxygen vacancies or movable metal ions.

Abstract: A method for transferring a micro device on a curved surface according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: coating an adhesive layer on an external circumferential surface of a tube; providing a micro device pattern on one side of a substrate; positioning an external circumferential surface of the tube to contact the substrate and allow a length direction of the device pattern to cross a radius direction of the tube, and rotating the tube with respect to an axis-direction of the tube and simultaneously moving at least one of the tube and the substrate in a rectilinear way to transfer the micro device pattern on the substrate to the adhesive layer; and fixing the transferred micro device pattern to the adhesive layer by curing the adhesive layer.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on an axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes a first portion coated with an active material and a second portion at a first side and adjacent the first portion, the second portion being exposed beyond the separator along a first axial direction of the electrode assembly. A part of the second portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly forming a first surface region including stacked layers of the second portion, and in a partial region of the first surface region, a number of the stacked layers of the second portion is 10 or more in the in the first axial direction.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, second electrode, and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode including a first region coated with an active material and a second region at a first side and adjacent to the first region, the second region being exposed beyond the separator, and at least part of the second region is an electrode tab; a housing including a first end with a first opening, the housing accommodating the electrode assembly; a first current collector including an edge portion on the electrode assembly, a second region coupling portion extending from the edge portion and coupled with the second region, and a terminal coupling portion spaced apart from the second region coupling portion; and a terminal coupled with the terminal coupling portion.

Abstract: A backlight unit includes: a base substrate in which a light emitting area and a non-light emitting area are defined; a wiring layer including: a lower conductive layer disposed on the base substrate; an intermediate conductive layer disposed on the lower conductive layer; and an upper conductive layer disposed on the intermediate conductive layer; a light emitting element disposed on the wiring layer in the light emitting area; a connection member electrically connecting the light emitting element and the wiring layer, the connection member contacting the intermediate conductive layer of the wiring layer and the light emitting element; a backlight flexible substrate electrically connected to the wiring layer in the non-light emitting area; and a pad connection member electrically connecting the wiring layer and the backlight flexible substrate in the non-light emitting area, the pad connection member contacting the upper conductive layer of the wiring layer.