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: 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 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: 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 foil tab forming apparatus forms at least one foil tab of a positive electrode foil tab and a negative electrode foil tab respectively provided at a top portion and a bottom portion of an electrode assembly. The foil tab forming apparatus includes a pre-forming jig configured to bend the foil tab by pressing the foil tab, while moving in a direction from an outer circumferential portion of the electrode assembly to a winding center portion of the electrode assembly and a forming jig configured to press the foil tab that has been primarily bent by the pre-forming jig, by moving along a direction parallel to a winding axis of the electrode assembly.

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 wound around a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumferential surface, the first electrode including a first uncoated region in which an active material layer is not coated along a winding direction; a housing accommodating the electrode assembly through an open portion at a lower end thereof; a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and disposed in the housing; a cap to cover the open portion; and a spacer between the first current collector and the cap and having a height corresponding to a distance between the first current collector and the cap.

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 vehicular air conditioning system includes: an intake part including an intake door configured to open an outdoor air inlet to introduce an outdoor air in an outdoor air mode, open an indoor air inlet to introduce an indoor air in an indoor air mode, and control an opening degree of the outdoor air inlet or the indoor air inlet, and a blower configured to suck the indoor air or the outdoor air through the indoor air inlet or the outdoor air inlet and blow the indoor air or the outdoor air into a vehicle interior; and a control part configured to control a rotational speed of the blower according to an air flow rate level of the air conditioning system.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for forming a magnetic pigment pattern on an article. The apparatus includes: a magnetic pattern mold having nonmagnetic pattern grooves engraved in a predetermined pattern and providing predetermined magnetic field lines on a pattern-forming object surface of an article by generating magnetism in areas outside the nonmagnetic pattern grooves; and a spray unit spraying an adhesive resin composite containing a ferromagnetic pigment onto the pattern-forming object surface of the article. A predetermined magnetic pigment pattern is formed while the magnetic pigment of the adhesive resin composite that is applied to the pattern-forming object surface of the article is rearranged along magnetic field lines generated by the magnetic pattern mold.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an encoding apparatus using a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) scanning, which includes a mode selection means for selecting an optimal mode for intra prediction; an intra prediction means for performing intra prediction onto video inputted based on the mode selected in the mode selection means; a DCT and quantization means for performing DCT and quantization onto residual coefficients of a block outputted from the intra prediction means; and an entropy encoding means for performing entropy encoding onto DCT coefficients acquired from the DCT and quantization by using a scanning mode decided based on pixel similarity of the residual coefficients.

Abstract: A pouch film laminate according to the present disclosure may include a base material layer, a gas barrier layer, and a sealant layer. The gas barrier layer may be disposed between the base material layer and the sealant layer. The gas barrier layer may include stainless steel. The pouch film laminate may have a tensile rupture strength of about 130% to about 250% of a tensile rupture strength of the gas barrier layer.

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: The present invention relates to a multi-component host material and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By comprising a specific combination of the multi-component host compounds, the organic electroluminescent device according to the present invention can provide high luminous efficiency and excellent lifespan characteristics.

Abstract: An atomic layer etching method using a ligand exchange reaction may include a substrate providing step of putting a substrate with a thin film formed thereon into a reaction chamber, a halogenated thin film forming step of forming a halogenated thin film on a surface of the thin film by infusing a halogenated gas into the reaction chamber, and an etching step of etching the halogenated thin film by infusing a ligand without a metal or metal precursor into the reaction chamber with the substrate with the halogenated thin film.

Abstract: A cylindrical secondary battery, a battery pack, and a vehicle are provided. The cylindrical secondary battery includes an electrode assembly having a first electrode tab at a first end of the electrode assembly a battery can configured to accommodate the electrode assembly through an opening portion formed at one side of the battery can, a current collecting plate including three or more tab coupling portions electrically connected to the first electrode tab, and a can coupling portion extending from ends of the tab coupling portions toward the opening portion of the battery can and having a continuous outer peripheral surface electrically connected to an inner surface of the battery can, and a top cap configured to cover the opening portion of the battery can.

Abstract: Disclosed are a compound with near-infrared fluorescence that selectively binds to tau aggregates, a method for preparing the same, a tau-targeting near-infrared fluorescent probe including the compound, a composition for detecting a tau fiber protein containing the near-infrared fluorescent probe as an active ingredient, and the use of the composition for the diagnosis of tauopathy. In particular, the compound does not bind to an amyloid beta protein and has high selectivity to a tau aggregate, specifically reported as an etiology of the initial state of tauopathy, thus being useful as a near-infrared fluorescent detector for detecting a tau fiber protein for early diagnosis of a tauopathy including Alzheimer's disease.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a timing belt cover assembly for a vehicle capable of being mounted in a compact structure at a front side of an engine. The timing belt cover assembly includes: a timing belt cover installed at a front side of an engine and having an opening formed in a portion of a front surface thereof; and a support bracket installed to close the opening of the timing belt cover.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a timing belt cover assembly for a vehicle capable of being mounted in a compact structure at a front side of an engine. The timing belt cover assembly includes: a timing belt cover installed at a front side of an engine and having an opening formed in a portion of a front surface thereof; and a support bracket installed to close the opening of the timing belt cover.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sprocket structure of an engine including a crank sprocket provided in a cylinder block of an engine and driven by a crank shaft, a high pressure pump sprocket configured to receive rotational force from the crank sprocket through a timing belt, and a cam sprocket having an interior installed on a camshaft and an exterior rotatably coupled to the timing belt so as to be driven. Since a tensioner is fixed in a state in which tension is applied to the timing belt through jigs of the crank sprocket and the high pressure pump sprocket and the cam sprocket having a dual-structure, loss of tension is reduced, thus minimizing occurrence of an error of the timing belt to enhance quality of a product.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an N-(pyrazolylmethyl)arylsulfonamide derivative useful as a calcium ion channel blocker, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and the medicinal use thereof as a therapeutic agent using its calcium ion channel blocking effect.