Abstract: In the electrode assembly, the first uncoated portion provided at a long side end of a first electrode includes a segment region divided into a plurality of independently bendable segments by a plurality of cut grooves provided along a winding direction. The segment region includes a plurality of segment groups disposed with a group separation pitch along the winding direction. The plurality of segment groups constitute at least one segment alignment on one side of the electrode assembly. At least some of central points of winding turn arcs where the p number of segment groups are located are not located on a predetermined alignment line extending in the radial direction from the center of the core.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes first and second sub-seatbacks also provided as first and second seat cushions mounted on a main seatback to be rotatable in forward-rearward directions. A forward facing position in which an occupant is accommodated while viewing forward and a rearward facing position in which the occupant is accommodated while viewing rearward is easily realized, in response to forward and rearward rotation of the first sub-seatback and the second sub-seatback also provided as first and second seat cushions. Furthermore, a full-bed mode in which the seat is horizontally spread like a bed, a cushion tip-up mode in which the entirety of the seat is positioned upright for ensuring freight loading and an occupant entering and exiting passage, and the like are realized.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fixing structure of an electrode terminal, and a battery, a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. The fixing structure of an electrode terminal includes a battery housing configured to be opened at one side and have a bottom at the other side in which a perforation hole is formed; an electrode terminal installed through the perforation hole not to contact an inner wall of the perforation hole; and a terminal gasket interposed between the electrode terminal and the perforation hole, and the electrode terminal includes a body portion inserted into the perforation hole; an outer flange portion configured to extend along an outer surface of the bottom of the battery housing from a first side of the body portion; an inner flange portion configured to extend toward an inner surface of the bottom of the battery housing from a second side of the body portion; and a flat portion provided to an inner side of the inner flange portion.

Abstract: A fingerprint sensor device and a method of making a fingerprint sensor device. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide various fingerprint sensor devices, and methods of manufacturing thereof, that comprise an interconnection structure, for example a bond wire, at least a portion of which extends into a dielectric layer utilized to mount a plate, and/or that comprise an interconnection structure that extends upward from the semiconductor die at a location that is laterally offset from the plate.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device that includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area including at least one trench area. The display device includes plural sub-pixels disposed in the display area, a driving circuit and a power line disposed in the non-display area, at least one transistor disposed in the plural sub-pixels, an overcoat layer disposed on the at least one transistor and a light emitting diode. The light emitting diode includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on the first electrode. The light emitting diode is disposed on the overcoat layer and linked electrically to the at least one transistor. The overcoat layer and the second electrode extends to the non-display area. The second electrode is linked to a portion of an auxiliary electrode in the at least one trench area.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. In the electrode assembly, the uncoated portion of an electrode includes a segment region divided into a plurality of segments, and the segment region includes a plurality of segment groups separated by a group separation pitch along a winding direction. One end of the electrode assembly includes a plurality of segment alignments. In winding turns corresponding to the plurality of segment alignments, group separation pitches of segment groups disposed in a same winding turn are substantially identical, and separation pitches of the segment groups is greater in a winding turn of a region adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly than in a winding turn of a region adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: This application relates to a method and system for cutting a brittle body. In one aspect, the method includes preparing a brittle body having a rotary shaft. The method may also include forming a scribing line by irradiating laser on the brittle body along a preset route by using a laser irradiation unit. The method may further include cutting the brittle body by bringing a vibration unit that vibrates at a preset frequency in contact with a first region of the brittle body, which is spaced apart from the scribing line.

Abstract: Discussed is a battery including an electrode assembly having a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator wound about an axis, and 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 housing having a first end with a first opening and a second end with a second opening opposite the first end, the housing accommodating the electrode assembly, a terminal electrically connected to the second portion of the first electrode and exposed out of the housing through the first opening of the housing at the first end, a cap at the second end of the housing, and an insulating gasket having an extended shape to cover the outer circumferential surface of the terminal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to: acid-resistant yeast to which lactic acid productivity is imparted, and in which the conversion of pyruvate into acetaldehyde is inhibited and, consequently, the ethanol production pathway is inhibited; and a method for producing lactic acid by using same.

Abstract: A multilayer electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode disposed alternately with the dielectric layer in a first direction, and an external electrode disposed on the outside of the body and connected to the internal electrode. The dielectric layer includes a first layer and a second layer stacked in the first direction, and each of the first layer and the second layer includes Ba, Ti, and Si. 1.5?S2/S1?3.0 is satisfied, when a molar ratio of Si to Ti included in the first layer is referred to as Si and a molar ratio of Si to Ti included in the second layer is referred to as S2.

Abstract: Disclosed are an analysis method and computational system which have been developed so that the particle tracking analysis method can derive correct results under conditions with different photographing conditions for each frame when analyzing the various characteristics of individual particles through the particle tracking analysis method from consecutive images in which particles are photographed.

Abstract: An article transfer system includes a plurality of stage modules respectively provided at a plurality of layers, an interlayer transfer apparatus configured to transfer an article to each of the plurality of stage modules, and a plurality of loading and unloading apparatus respectively provided on each stage module of the plurality of stage modules, the plurality of loading and unloading apparatus configured to load an article onto respective stage modules of the plurality of stage modules. The interlayer transfer apparatus includes a mast frame extending so as to intersect each stage module of the plurality of stage modules, and a plurality of carriage units configured to move along a length direction of the mast frame, transfer articles, and move in a parallel manner with each other.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. The first electrode of the electrode assembly includes a first active material portion coated with an active material layer and a first uncoated portion not coated with an active material layer along a winding direction, the first uncoated portion includes a plurality of segments independently bendable along the winding direction and exposed beyond a the separator of the electrode assembly, the plurality of segments are aligned along a radial direction of the electrode assembly to define a plurality of segment alignments spaced apart in a circumferential direction of the electrode assembly, and an electrolyte impregnation portion in which an end of the first active material portion is exposed between winding turns of the separator is included between adjacent segment alignments of the first uncoated portion in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: Provided are a marine concrete composition using dechlorination microorganisms capable of easily removing chlorine generated by seawater through an electrical method by allowing electrons emitted from electricity-generating microorganisms to flow through steel fibers incorporated into ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) or high-performance fiber reinforced concrete (HPFRCC) through a dechlorination microbial capsule carrier and capable of self-healing concrete crack sites through a self-healing microbial capsule carrier and is also capable of fundamentally solving the problem of reduced durability against salt damage of ultra-high-performance concrete or high-performance fiber reinforced concrete for application in marine construction environments through a dechlorination microbial capsule carrier, and a method for constructing a marine concrete structure using the same.

Abstract: A lens module in an embodiment includes a first plate having therein a first cavity; a second plate overlapping the first plate in a vertical direction, the second plate having therein a second cavity; a first liquid disposed in the first cavity; and a second liquid disposed in the second cavity, wherein a cross-section obtained by cutting the first cavity in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the vertical direction has a polygonal shape, and wherein a cross-section obtained by cutting the second cavity in the horizontal direction has a circular shape.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. One end of the electrode assembly includes a plurality of segment alignments in which the plurality of segment groups are aligned along a radial direction, and an electrolyte impregnation portion provided between segment alignments adjacent in a circumferential direction, wherein an end of the first active material portion is exposed between winding turns of the separator. The segments included in the segment alignment are bent toward the core to form a bending surface region. An end of the separator is spaced apart from a criterion line extending in a winding axis direction along a location corresponding to the plurality of cut grooves by 30% or less of a minimum height of the segments forming the bending surface region.

Abstract: Discussed is a battery including an electrode assembly having a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, 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 and electrically connected to the second electrode to have a second polarity, a terminal electrically connected to the first electrode to have a first polarity, the terminal being 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. The cap overlaps the battery housing at the second end and has no polarity.

Abstract: An air heating apparatus includes an expansion tank that stores water, a water heating device that receives heat from combustion gas generated by a combustion reaction and heats the water, a heating heat exchanger that receives the water heated by the water heating device and conducts heat exchange between air to be released for heating and the water, a fan that supplies the air to the heating heat exchanger, and a case in which the water heating device, the expansion tank, the heating heat exchanger, and the fan are disposed. The case includes an outer box, a first partition wall that is coupled to the outer box and that extends in a reference direction to divide the inside of the outer box into a first partition space and a second partition space, a second partition wall disposed in the first partition space, and a third partition wall.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display device and a driving method of the display device. The display device includes a display panel for displaying an image, a driver for driving the display panel, a controller for controlling the driver, and a duty cycle controller for defining an unknown area in which vertical resolution information is not known and a known area in which the vertical resolution information is known within one frame when a driving frequency of the display panel is changed, and varying a duty cycle for driving the known area.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, a battery pack and a vehicle are provided. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumference, the first electrode includes a first active material portion coated with an active material layer along a winding direction and a first uncoated portion not coated with an active material layer, the first uncoated portion includes a plurality of independently bendable segments, a cut groove is interposed between adjacent segments along the winding direction, and a lower portion of the cut groove has a round portion.