Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. 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 and a first uncoated portion not coated with an active material layer along a winding direction. At least a part of the first uncoated portion is defined as an electrode tab by itself. The first uncoated portion includes a first portion adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly, a second portion adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly, and a third portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion or the second portion has a smaller height than the third portion in the winding axis direction.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode, the second electrode and the separator being wound around a winding axis to define a core and an outer peripheral surface. The first electrode and the second electrode include a first uncoated region and a second uncoated region along a winding direction, respectively, and an active material layer coating is absent in the first uncoated region and the second uncoated region. The battery further includes a housing receiving the electrode assembly through an opening formed at a bottom, a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and disposed within the housing, a cap covering the opening, a spacer interposed between the cap and the electrode assembly to fix the electrode assembly and seal the housing, and a terminal electrically connected to the second uncoated region.

Abstract: Provided are an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and vehicle including the same. An electrode assembly, in which a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound about an axis to define a core and an outer circumferential surface. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes, at a long side end portion, an uncoated portion exposed beyond the separator in a direction of the axis. At least a part of the uncoated portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly to define a bent surface region having overlapping layers of the uncoated portion. The bent surface region includes a welding target region having a number of the overlapping layers of the uncoated portion, and the welding target region extends along a radial direction of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first uncoated region and a second uncoated region; a battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly and electrically connected to the second uncoated region; a cap to cover an open portion on bottom of the battery housing; a first electrode terminal passing through a partially closed portion of the battery housing and being electrically isolated from the battery housing; and a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and connected to the first electrode terminal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. 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 an uncoated portion at a long side end thereof and exposed out of the separator along a winding axis direction of the electrode assembly. A part of the uncoated portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly to form a bending surface region that includes overlapping layers of the uncoated portion, and in a partial region of the bending surface region, the number of stacked layers of the uncoated portion is 10 or more in the winding axis direction of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a first conductive layer on the substrate, the first conductive layer including a data signal line, a first insulating layer on the first conductive layer, a semiconductor layer on the first insulating layer, the semiconductor layer including a first semiconductor pattern, a second insulating layer on the semiconductor layer, and a second conductive layer on the second insulating layer, the second conductive layer including a gate electrode disposed to overlap the first semiconductor pattern, a transistor first electrode disposed to overlap a part of the first semiconductor pattern, wherein the transistor first electrode is electrically connected to the data signal line through a contact hole that penetrates the first and second insulating layers, and a transistor second electrode disposed to overlap another part of the first semiconductor pattern.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for processing wire which prevents the z-axis bending of the wire, and more particularly, to an apparatus for processing wire which is capable of further maximizing the effect of preventing the z-axis bending of the wire by minimizing wire exposure out of the apparatus.

Abstract: A wire feeding unit includes a driving motor; a driving roller which rotates by a driving force of the driving motor; a plurality of driven rollers arranged such that outer circumferential surfaces thereof are positioned on a same line; a belt which interlocks the driving roller and the plurality of driven rollers and is brought into contact with a wire, which is drawn into a side of the driven rollers, on a side of the plurality of driven rollers; and a plurality of idlers which support the wire on a side in which the wire and the belt are in contact with each other and assist feeding of the wire along a feeding direction of the belt in a free-rotation state.

Abstract: A door lock apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is mounted in a door and moves a deadbolt to a locked position or a released position as a motor is driven. The door lock apparatus may include a main gear rotated by the motor, a damping clutch part engaged and rotated by rotation of the main gear, a shaft which is engaged and rotated by rotation of the damping clutch part and moves the deadbolt as the shaft is rotated, and a knob which is manually operable by a user and is connected to the shaft. An emergency rotation operation of the shaft may be enabled by disengaging the main gear and the damping clutch part through the knob.

Abstract: A method for generating a bending path of an orthodontic wire according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes generating scan data for a plurality of teeth in an oral cavity of a target patient by using a three-dimensional (3D) scanner, generating a virtual 3D tooth model through the generated scan data, determining one of a maxillary and a mandible for the virtual 3D tooth model, generating an occlusal plane for the virtual 3D tooth model and a virtual plane parallel to the occlusal plane, generating an occlusal surface where the virtual plane and the virtual 3D tooth model meet, generating a virtual point along the occlusal surface to generate a bending path of a wire, and outputting the bending path of the wire.

Abstract: A door lock apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is mounted in a door and moves a deadbolt to a locked position or a released position as a motor is driven. The door lock apparatus may include a main gear rotated by the motor, a damping clutch part engaged and rotated by rotation of the main gear, a shaft which is engaged and rotated by rotation of the damping clutch part and moves the deadbolt as the shaft is rotated, and a knob which is manually operable by a user and is connected to the shaft. An emergency rotation operation of the shaft may be enabled by disengaging the main gear and the damping clutch part through the knob.

Abstract: A wire bending apparatus includes a base portion, a supplying portion configured to move the orthodontic wire along a length direction of the orthodontic wire, a bushing holding portion configured to hold at least a portion of a distal end of the supplied orthodontic wire to restrict the orthodontic wire from moving in a width direction of the orthodontic wire, and a bending portion which is positioned on the base portion so as to be rotatable about a rotation center axis and bends the portion of the distal end of the orthodontic wire held by the bushing holding portion to a predetermined angle with respect to a supply direction of the orthodontic wire as the bending portion is rotated.

Abstract: A wire feeding unit includes a pair of wire feeding portions, wherein each of the wire feeding portions includes a driving roller which is driven by rotation power, a belt which is connected to the driving roller to rotate and is brought into contact with a wire while being rotated, at least one driven rollers which are rotated by being coupled with the driving roller by the belt, and a guide portion which is placed to pressurize the belt to one side and guides a position of the belt such that the wire is moved by the belt, wherein the pair of wire feeding portions are symmetrically disposed and one of the guide portions is disposed to face the one side of the other.

Abstract: A bending angle control means of a wire bending apparatus that includes a holding portion configured to hold at least a part of a dental wire and a bending portion configured to bend a predetermined portion of the dental wire held by the holding portion includes a storage unit in which data on a required bending angle in accordance with a position of the dental wire is stored, a bending angle calculator configured to calculate an applicable bending angle by adding an additional bending angle to the required bending angle in accordance with the position of the dental wire in consideration of a resilient restoring force, a measurer configured to measure an actual bending angle of the dental wire bent by the applicable bending angle, an error calculator configured to calculate an error between the actual bending angle and the required bend angle, and an additional bending angle corrector configured to correct the additional bending angle by applying the error.

Abstract: A wire feeding unit includes a driving motor; a driving roller which rotates by a driving force of the driving motor; a plurality of driven rollers arranged such that outer circumferential surfaces thereof are positioned on a same line; a belt which interlocks the driving roller and the plurality of driven rollers and is brought into contact with a wire, which is drawn into a side of the driven rollers, on a side of the plurality of driven rollers; and a plurality of idlers which support the wire on a side in which the wire and the belt are in contact with each other and assist feeding of the wire along a feeding direction of the belt in a free-rotation state.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a rotor and a method of manufacturing the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor assembly including magnets and rotor cores, and a molding unit including a first molding unit disposed by being firstly injection molded to support the rotor assembly before the magnets are magnetized and a second molding unit disposed by being secondly injection molded to support the rotor assembly after the magnets are magnetized.

Abstract: Disclosed is a motor comprising a stator and a rotor, wherein the rotor comprises a plurality of rotor cores and a plurality of magnets, and wherein the magnet is configured to have a face facing the center of rotation of the rotor exposed. Accordingly, a motor may minimize a non-magnetization area and enable a magnet to be fully magnetized, when it comes to post magnetization of the magnet.

Abstract: Disclosed is a race car track for allowing non-powered driving by using gravity, the track comprising: a first lane including a first curved track; and a second lane including a second curved track located adjacently to the first curved track, wherein the first curved track has a first super elevation such that the first lane has a predetermined first difficulty level, and the second curved track has a second super elevation such that the second lane has a predetermined second difficulty level.

Abstract: Disclosed is a race car for performing non-powered driving by using gravity and momentary acceleration by using a power unit, the race car comprising: a first power device for supplying power to the race car during momentary acceleration; two one-way clutches connected to the first power device; and two wheels respectively connected to the two one-way clutches, wherein the two one-way clutches can respectively rotate at different speeds, and the power supplied from one first power device is simultaneously received during momentary acceleration through the one-way clutches respectively connected to the two wheels.

Abstract: The present invention provides a motor and a washing machine including the same. The motor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a hall sensor which is positioned on the upper surface of a rotor and detects the position of a magnet provided in the rotor by using the leakage magnetic flux of the magnet, and thereby can accurately detect the position of the rotor by the hall sensor.