Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multi-plunger lift control device for increasing device durability and production efficiency by synchronizing and controlling operating states of a plurality of plunger lifts sharing some production lines. The multi-plunger lift control device according to the present disclosure includes a plunger lift synchronization setting unit configured to set an operation priority of the plurality of plunger lifts so that production stages of the plurality of plunger lifts do not collide, a stage monitoring unit for each plunger lift configured to monitor current production stages of the plurality of plunger lifts, and a plunger lift logic control unit configured to synchronize and control production operations of the plurality of plunger lifts based on the operation priority set by the plunger lift synchronization setting unit and stage monitoring information received from the stage monitoring unit for each plunger lift.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display panel and a sensor disposed on the display panel and including a plurality of sensing units disposed on an active area. Each of the sensing units includes a first sensing pattern, second sensing patterns, a bridge pattern, and a plurality of patterns. Among the sensing units, the patterns of the sensing unit making contact with a first boundary portion having a curvature in the active area and a peripheral area include a plurality of outer patterns, and at least one of the outer patterns is electrically connected to the first sensing pattern or the second sensing patterns.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for an impact test, which can easily accelerate an impact body at a desired acceleration using an air pressure and an electromagnetic force. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, an apparatus for an impact test includes a clamping unit configured to fix a specimen, and an impact unit disposed to be spaced apart from the clamping unit and configured to accelerate and launch an impact body to collide with the specimen by an air pressure and an electromagnetic force.

Abstract: Disclosed are new polymeric materials that respond to a mechanical force. The novel polymeric compounds contain an isomer of aziridine, a three-membered N-heterocyclic compound. Also disclosed are methods for preparing the polymeric compounds. Mechanical force-induced cycloaddition of aziridines as mechanophores yields stereospecific products without covalent bond cleavage of aziridines. That is, a mechanical force makes the mechanochemical products stereospecific. The stereospecific products prepared from the isomeric mechanophores by a mechanical force can be widely used in various industrial fields, including new materials.

Abstract: In one example, a semiconductor device can comprise a unit substrate comprising a unit conductive structure and a unit dielectric structure, and an electronic component coupled to the unit conductive structure. The unit substrate can comprise a portion of a singulated subpanel substrate of a panel substrate. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for preventing (alleviating) hair loss or promoting hair regrowth, comprising an ingredient for promoting hair regrowth or retarding hair loss. In this regard, in-vitro experiments were conducted in the present invention to verify the effects of promoting the wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway activity, proliferating dermal papilla cells, and increasing an expression level of beta-catenin protein. Furthermore, the composition was found to have a high effect of preventing hair loss and/or promoting hair regrowth because a better result was obtained as assayed by researchers' evaluation through clinical photography and by phototrichogram after application thereof. In light of such comprehensive outcomes, the composition of the present invention has an excellent effect of preventing hair loss and/or promoting hair regrowth.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which includes a letterbox area and an image display area which displays an image and includes a boundary luminance variable area extending from the letterbox area; and a luminance control unit which controls a reduced luminance amount of the boundary luminance variable area based on the image.

Abstract: In order to increase the accuracy of status or failure diagnosis of machine tools and reduce the time and costs required for data collection and algorithm development for diagnosis, sensors are mounted on specific elements of the machine tools and measurement data is collected while operating under the specific operating conditions during a time interval between one machining operation and another machining operation to perform status or failure diagnosis of the machine tools. According to the present invention, by using data collected while operating machine tools under the predefined specific conditions using a time interval between one machining operation and another machining operation, it is possible to more accurately perform diagnosis while allowing less noise to be mixed in the data and reducing the time required for data collection for the development of diagnostic algorithm.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cryptographic processor device capable of performing the post-quantum cryptographic encryption with in a high speed with low power, allowing a change of encryption parameters, and handling various cryptographic protocols. The cryptographic processor device executing polynomial vector operations required for a post-quantum cryptography includes: a polynomial memory bank configured to store a plurality of polynomial vectors; and an arithmetic and logic operator configured to perform operation on the polynomial vectors.

Abstract: The present invention provides a concrete vacuum tube segment for a hyper-speed transportation system using ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) and a manufacturing method thereof. A concrete vacuum tube segment for a hyper-speed transportation system can be easily manufactured using UHPC, in which shrinkage and structural cracking do not occur due to mixing a binder and a short fiber to secure airtightness on the basis of a maximum fill theory, and accordingly, shrinkage of the concrete vacuum tube segment can be reduced even in a partial-vacuum state in which the magnitude of drying shrinkage is very small and quick drying occurs; when mixing the UHPC, an antifoaming agent is mixed and a circular vacuum pump is used to remove generated entrapped air to minimize the entrapped air; and a capsule-type crack healing material, which is able to repair fine cracks, is compacted to secure airtightness of the concrete vacuum tube segment.

Abstract: An apparatus for growing an ingot from a melt accommodated in a crucible of a chamber comprises a first senor and a controller. The first sensor is installed on one side of the chamber for detecting a detection signal in real time from a side portion of the ingot. The side portion of the ingot rotates via a detection area focused by the first sensor. The controller obtains a detection signal at each of a plurality of sampling points based on detection signals detected in real time, obtains a value of a central point of the ingot based on the detection signal at each of the plurality of sampling points, and determines whether or not the ingot is defective based on the value of the central point of the ingot.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid metal based fabrication method, and the method for fabricating an electrode based on a liquid metal, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: preparing a first substrate having a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on one surface thereof; and printing a liquid metal in a predetermined pattern to be in contact with the surface of the self-assembled monolayer by using a printing device including a needle from which the liquid metal is discharged, and a controller for controlling the movement of the needle, thereby forming a liquid metal electrode.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display panel and a sensor disposed on the display panel and including a plurality of sensing units disposed on an active area. Each of the sensing units includes a first sensing pattern, second sensing patterns, a bridge pattern, and a plurality of patterns. Among the sensing units, the patterns of the sensing unit making contact with a first boundary portion having a curvature in the active area and a peripheral area include a plurality of outer patterns, and at least one of the outer patterns is electrically connected to the first sensing pattern or the second sensing patterns.

Abstract: Disclosed are an interstitially mixed self-assembled monolayer (ImSAM) that can be manufactured very easily by utilizing a novel method of manufacturing supramolecular alloys called “repeated surface exchange of molecules (ReSEM)”, maintain chemical functional groups exposed to the surface of conventional thin films and selectively improve stability without interfering with performance, and a method of manufacturing the same. The interstitially mixed self-assembled monolayers (imSAMs) remarkably enhance electrical stability of molecular-scale electronic devices without deterioration in functions and reliability, withstand a high voltage, and exhibit better stability than a single SAM while maintaining the performance of the prior art, thus being useful for a variety of technical fields using SAMs, especially electronics, organic light-emitting displays (OLEDs), solar cells, sensors, heterogeneous catalysts, frictional electricity, cell growth surfaces, and heat transfer control films.

Abstract: Disclosed are a composite panel having improved vibration characteristics, and a method for manufacturing the same. The composite panel includes a hybrid layer formed at a neutral axis of the composite panel, the hybrid layer including a vibration damping layer and an intermediate material layer. The composite panel also includes structural material layers laminated on both surfaces of the hybrid layer and surface layers laminated on outer surfaces of the respective structural material layers to form outermost layers of the composite panel.

Abstract: Provided herein may be an image sensing device and a method of operating the same. The image sensing device may include an image sensor configured to acquire an image including a plurality of pixel values, a memory configured to store reference gain values of each of a plurality of block areas included in the image, and an image processor configured to calculate gain values included in each of the plurality of block areas using the reference gain values and to output a correction image in which the reference gain values and the gain values are applied to the plurality of pixel values, wherein the block areas include a first block area and a second block area having a shorter distance from a center of the image than the first block area and having a size greater than that of the first block area.

Abstract: Semiconductor light emitting devices and packages are provided. The semiconductor light emitting device includes a substrate, a luminous structure, and first and second electrodes. The substrate has a first region and a second region that is spaced apart in a first direction from the first region. The luminous structure includes a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer that are sequentially stacked on the substrate. The first electrode is on the second semiconductor layer. The second electrode is electrically coupled to the first semiconductor layer through plural first openings that penetrate the first electrode, the second semiconductor layer, and the active layer, where the first openings expose the first semiconductor layer. The first electrode is in contact with the second semiconductor layer in the first region and in the second region, and the first openings are in the first region.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a power conversion device and a control method thereof and, more specifically, to a power conversion device which may protect a switching element when performing stopping of driving, and a control method thereof. A power conversion device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller for outputting, to a gate driver, a first pulse width modulation signal for controlling a first switching element, a second pulse width modulation signal for controlling a second switching element, a third pulse width modulation signal for controlling a third switching element, and a fourth pulse width modulation signal for controlling a fourth switching element.

Abstract: Disclosed are a rubber composition for a motor mount that exhibits improved fatigue resistance and maintains desired mechanical properties using a second crosslinking agent having a first functional group and a second functional group different from each other, and a rubber for motor mounts including the same. The rubber composition includes a natural rubber, a filler, an activating agent, an antiaging agent, a dispersant, a first crosslinking agent containing sulfur, a vulcanization accelerator, and a second crosslinking agent having different first functional groups and second functional groups, wherein the first functional group is N-hydroxysuccinimide ester (NHS ester), and wherein the second functional group is maleimide.

Abstract: Proposed is a composite material with a helical structure and, more particularly, a composite material with a helical structure that has a vibration absorption property. The composite material includes a laminated structure formed by stacking a plurality of sheet layers on top of each other.