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 battery having an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator between the first and the second electrode, the first electrode having a first portion including an active material extending between a pair of first sides, and a second portion extending between the pair of first sides and exposed beyond the separator, and at least part of the second portion includes an electrode tab; a battery housing having a first opening at a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly; and a first current collector including a support portion on the electrode assembly, a first tab coupling portion extending from the support portion and coupled with the second portion of the first electrode and a first housing coupling portion extending from the support portion and electrically coupled onto an inner surface of the battery housing.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator between the first electrode and second electrode, a first portion including an active material extending between a pair of first sides, and a second portion extending between the pair of first sides and exposed beyond the separator, at least a part of the second portion includes an electrode tab; a battery housing having a first end with a first opening, a second end opposite the first end, and an inner surface, the battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly; a first current collector including a tab coupling portion coupled to the second portion of the first electrode and a housing coupling portion extending from the tab coupling portion and electrically coupled to the inner surface of the battery housing; and a cap covering the first opening of the battery housing.

Abstract: A thermal management system for an electric vehicle includes an interior air conditioning part including an air inflow part, an air discharge part, a cooling core, a heating core arranged between the cooling core and the air discharge part, and an adjustment door. The adjustment door is selectively adjustable to control whether air from the cooling core may flow into the heating core. A heat transfer line connects an electric part core to the heating core for transferring that heat of the electric part to the heating core, in order to allow heat dissipation of the electric part through the heating core.

Abstract: A heater assembly includes a base panel; a heating member disposed behind the base panel opposite a heating target space; a thermal conductive film having a film shape, attached to an outer surface facing the heating target space of the base panel, and transmitting heat of the heating member to the outer surface of the base panel by having an end portion extending behind the base panel and coupled to the heating member; and a shield layer preventing the thermal conductive film from being directly exposed to the heating target space by being attached to an outer surface facing the heating target space of the thermal conductive film.

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 thermal management system for a vehicle is provided. The system includes an interior air conditioning apparatus and a chiller that exchanges heat between first refrigerant and second refrigerant. A first line guides the first refrigerant to be circulated sequentially through a chiller, a high-voltage battery cooling core and a heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) core. A second line guides the second refrigerant to be circulated sequentially through a compressor, a condenser and the chiller. A controller operates the blower, a first pump and the compressor based on an exterior temperature of the vehicle and whether interior air conditioning is necessary, when cooling of the high-voltage battery is necessary.

Abstract: There are provided a semiconductor memory and an operating method thereof. The semiconductor memory includes a memory block including a plurality of pages, a peripheral circuit for performing a program operation and an erase operation on a selected page among the plurality of pages, and a control logic for controlling the peripheral circuit to perform the program operation and the erase operation. The control logic decreases threshold voltages of memory cells corresponding to an erase state among a plurality of memory cells included in the selected page in the erase operation.

Abstract: A thermal management system may include a battery line connected to a high-voltage battery core and having a first radiator, and through which cooling water flows by a first pump; an introduction line having an end connected to an upstream side of the first radiator and the other end connected to the internal air-conditioning heating core, and through which cooling water flows by a second pump; a discharge line having an end connected to an upstream side of the high-voltage battery core in the battery line and the other end connected to the internal air-conditioning heating core, and through which the cooling water introduced through the introduction line flows; a refrigerant line having an expansion valve, an internal air-conditioning cooling core, a compressor, and an air-cooling condenser and through which a refrigerant flows; and a water-cooling condenser connecting the refrigerant line and the introduction line.

Abstract: A memory device configured to perform a program operation and a backup operation together includes a memory block including a main sub block including selected memory cells in which program data is programmed among a plurality of memory cells respectively connected to a plurality of word lines, and a backup block in which page data included in the program data is backed up, a peripheral circuit configured to perform a plurality of program loops to program the program data in the selected memory cells, and control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit to back up any one of the page data while programming the selected memory cells in preset program loops among the plurality of program loops.

Abstract: A memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells connected to a plurality of word lines. The memory device also includes a peripheral circuit configured to perform a plurality of program loops to program memory cells, among the plurality of memory cells, connected to a selected word line among the plurality of word lines. The memory device further includes control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit to set a step voltage based on the number of turned off memory cells among the selected memory cells and then apply a program voltage, to which the step voltage is added, to the selected word line in a next program loop, during a verify operation of a program operation and the verify operation included in each of the plurality of program loops.

Abstract: A thermal management system includes a refrigerant line including a compressor, a water-cooled condenser, and a cooling core for indoor air conditioning connected to the water-cooled condenser such that refrigerant emerging from the water-cooled condenser is introduced into the cooling core for indoor air conditioning, and a battery line including a high-voltage battery heat exchanging module and a heater core for indoor air conditioning. The battery line is connected to the refrigerant line through the water-cooled condenser in a heat exchangeable manner such that the high-voltage battery heat exchanging module and the heater core for indoor air conditioning are connected in parallel to the water-cooled condenser via a first valve to cause cooling water heated while passing through the water-cooled condenser to be selectively introduced into the high-voltage battery heat exchanging module or the heater core for indoor air conditioning.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a semiconductor memory device and a method of operating the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory blocks, which are assigned as a plurality of normal blocks, a plurality of first replacement blocks, a plurality of second replacement blocks, a first CAM block, and a second CAM block, a peripheral circuit configured to perform an erase operation and a program operation on the plurality of memory blocks, and a control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit to perform a growing bad block check operation on a target block during the program operation on a selected target block among the normal memory blocks.

Abstract: A vehicular thermal management system includes: an indoor-air-conditioner disposed in a first vehicle body having a passenger space and including a compressor, a first condenser, an evaporator, a blower, and a refrigerant line; and a component-air-conditioner disposed in a second vehicle body combinable with the first vehicle body and including an electrical component line for cooling an electrical component of the vehicle and a first battery line for cooling a high-voltage battery including a chiller which extends toward the first vehicle body to be disposed behind the evaporator when the first vehicle body is combined with the second vehicle body.

Abstract: A cooling structure of a vehicle drive inverter includes: a switching element disposed in the vehicle drive inverter; a heat dissipation fin connected to and heat-exchangeable with the switching element; a cooling flow path in which a coolant flows and heat-exchanges with the heat dissipation fin; and an auxiliary cooling module connected to and heat-exchangeable with the switching element to be heated by a heat generation of the switching element or to be cooled together with the switching element.

Abstract: A memory device includes a common source line, a memory cell array, bit lines, and a conductive layer. The common source line is formed on a substrate. The memory cell array is formed on the common source line. The bit lines are connected to the memory cell array. The conductive layer is formed over the bit lines. In an erase operation, the memory device increases a voltage of the bit lines to an erase voltage through capacitive coupling by increasing a voltage applied to the conductive layer.

Abstract: The memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory blocks each including a plurality of strings, wherein the plurality of memory blocks are controlled to have a set temperature; a peripheral circuit for performing a read operation on a selected memory block among the plurality of memory blocks; a temperature detection circuit for detecting a temperature of the memory cell array and generating a temperature detection signal based on the temperature of the memory cell array; and a control logic for controlling the peripheral circuit during the read operation and configured to generate a heating control signal that may control the selected memory block to have the set temperature in response to the temperature detection signal,

Abstract: The present invention relates to a separator including a coating layer and a substrate, wherein phase-change peak temperatures measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at the time of a first temperature increase and at the time of a second temperature increase satisfy specific ranges, a method of producing the same, and an electrochemical device including the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a separator that has improved thermal resistance and thus may improve battery safety and implement stable movement of lithium ions and a lithium secondary battery including the same.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory block and a peripheral circuit. The memory block includes normal pages and buffer pages. Each of the normal pages includes memory cells that store the N bits of data. Each of the buffer pages includes memory cells that store one bit of data. The peripheral circuit receives a first page data and performs a single level cell (SLC) program on the first page data in a first buffer page. In addition, the peripheral circuit receives a second page data and performs the SLC program on the second page data in a second buffer page. In addition, the peripheral circuit performs a multiple-level program operation on a normal page based on the first and second page data programmed in the first and second buffer page, respectively.