Abstract: An inspection apparatus for inspecting at least one secondary cell includes a fixed support part; a movable part; and pressing parts that are installed between the support part and the movable part. The pressing parts are freely movable along the main axis, two adjacent pressing parts defining a space (120) for accommodating a secondary cell. Each pressing part that is in contact with the at least one secondary cell has a temperature sensor, the temperature sensor being intended to measure the temperature of the at least one secondary cell which is subjected to a pressure between the pressing parts. An inspection method for inspecting at least one secondary cell is related to the inspection apparatus.

Abstract: A heat pump system for a vehicle includes a condenser, a heat-exchanger, an expansion valve, an evaporator, and a gas injection device and is capable of improving the cooling and heating performance. The gas injection device includes a gas-liquid separator, a first valve module, and a second valve module and is configured to selectively operate in a selected air conditioning mode of a vehicle interior.

Abstract: Method for inspecting semiconductor manufacturing equipment using wafer is provided. The method comprising introducing the wafer into the semiconductor manufacturing equipment, passing the wafer through at least one wafer processing step inside the semiconductor manufacturing equipment, wherein particles generated by the at least one wafer processing step are collected on the wafer, and inspecting the particles collected on the wafer with an atomic force microscope (AFM), wherein the inspecting of the particles collected on the wafer with the AFM includes irradiating infrared light to the particles collected on the wafer using an infrared ray (IR) source to identify the particles.

Abstract: A battery assembly of the present disclosure includes a plurality of battery cells arranged in a predetermined stacking direction, an accommodation case accommodating the plurality of battery cells, and an insertion member located in an insertion space formed between the accommodation case and the plurality of battery cells in the predetermined stacking direction, wherein the insertion member includes a body portion having a pillar shape, and an expansion portion covering at least a portion of the body portion and expanding when reaching a predetermined allowable temperature.

Abstract: A chemical filter includes a chemical filter media, and a resin layer formed on an outer surface of the chemical filter media and having a tensile strength of 20 kgf/cm2 to 90 kgf/cm2. The chemical filter may have improved durability and impact resistance, and improved filter performance. In a method of manufacturing a chemical filter, a chemical filter media is prepared, the chemical filter media is bent in a zigzag shape, and a hot-melt resin is applied to the outer surface of the chemical filter media to form a resin layer.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery comprising a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 is introduced. Li1+mNi1-w-x-y-zCowMnxM1yM2zO2-pXp??[Chemical Formula 1] (In the Chemical Formula 1, M1 and M2 are different from each other, and any one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Mg, Zr, Sn, Ca, Ge, Ti, Cr, Fe, Zn, Y, Ba, La, Ce, Sm, Gd, Yb, Sr, Cu and Ga respectively, X is any one element selected from the group consisting of F, N, S, and P, w, x, y, z, p and m are respectively 0.125<w<0.202, 0.153<x<0.225, 0?y?0.1, 0?z?0.1, 0.34?w+x?0.36, 0?p?0.1, and ?0.1?m?0.2.

Abstract: A resin coated copper according to an embodiment includes: an insulating layer including a resin and a filler dispersed in the resin; and a copper foil layer disposed on the insulating layer, wherein the insulating layer has a plurality of pores formed on a surface in contact with the copper foil layer, and the plurality of pores have a width of 200 nm to 350 nm.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a polymer electrolyte membrane including: a porous substrate including a first part including a first polyolefin modified with a halogen-based compound, and a second part including a second polyolefin; and a halogen-based polymer electrolyte impregnated in pores of the porous substrate, wherein in the porous substrate, the first part and the second part constitute a discontinuous phase and a continuous phase, respectively, and a content of the halogen-based compound in the porous substrate is 0.5 to 10 wt %, and a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include semiconductor devices and methods of forming such devices. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a first transistor over the substrate, where the first transistor comprises a vertical stack of first semiconductor channels, and a first gate dielectric surrounding each of the first semiconductor channels. The first gate dielectric has a first thickness. In an embodiment, the semiconductor device further comprises a second transistor over the substrate, where the second transistor comprises a second semiconductor channel. The second semiconductor channel comprises pair of sidewalls and a top surface. In an embodiment, a second gate dielectric is over the pair of sidewalls and the top surface of the fin, where the second gate dielectric has a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness.

Abstract: A display apparatus may comprise a substrate, a base circuit layer on the substrate, the base circuit layer including a gate driving circuit, a pixel layer on the base circuit layer, the pixel layer including a plurality of subpixels, a first shielding layer between the base circuit layer and the pixel layer, and a second shielding layer between the substrate and the base circuit layer.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a chamber, a chamber door, an outer chamber, and a locking mechanism, in which the chamber door includes a first flange on which a substrate loader or a lower heater accommodating the substrate is placed, a rotating flange rotatably connected to the first flange, and a second flange disposed below the first flange and rotatably connected to the rotating flange.

Abstract: A thinner composition includes a multifunctional carboxylic acid compound, a first organic solvent having a dielectric constant of 35 or more, and a second organic solvent having a dielectric constant of less than 35. When including organic solvents having different dielectric constants together and the multifunctional carboxylic acid compound, an amount of the photoresist used may be reduced and thickness uniformity of the photosensitive film may be implemented.

Abstract: A method for playback of an audio signal at an individual seat-based sound (ISS) system in a coherent listening environment having a plurality of ISS systems and a plurality of listening modes. Each ISS system has a single transducer. A listening mode and a set of playback preferences are selected. A crosstalk cancellation algorithm for the ISS system of interest is generated using impulse response measurements of the audio signal, taken only in an acoustical domain, of a transfer function between the audio signal directly after the single transducer in the ISS system of interest and the audio signal at the head of the listener in the ISS system of interest. The crosstalk cancellation algorithm for the selected listening mode is applied to the audio signal, and the audio signal is played back at the single transducer of the ISS system of interest.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for channel bonding-based multi-antenna signal transmission in a broadcasting system. An apparatus for channel bonding-based multi-antenna signal transmission includes an input formatting unit for converting input data into a Physical Layer Pipe (PLP), a stream partitioning unit for partitioning the PLP into pieces of data to be transmitted to two or more channels, respectively, and two or more transmission units for transmitting the pieces of data resulting from partitioning to corresponding channels through multiple antennas.

Abstract: A display device includes a glass substrate including a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a side surface between the first and second surfaces, an outermost structure disposed on the first surface and adjacent to an edge of the glass substrate, and a display area including a plurality of emission areas spaced apart from the edge on the first surface of the glass substrate. The side surface has a curved shape with the edge protruding to an outermost side of the glass substrate, the side surface includes a first side surface between the edge and the first surface, and a second side surface between the edge and the second surface and having a different curvature from the first side surface, and the glass substrate includes an edge area on the first surface, adjacent to the edge, and, in which processing traces are left.

Abstract: A steering apparatus for a vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a housing, an input shaft part rotatably mounted in the housing, a conversion guide part mounted on the input shaft part and configured to guide the input shaft part so that the input shaft part rectilinearly moves in the housing, and a reaction force part configured to adjust a steering reaction force of the input shaft part while providing an elastic force to the input shaft part.

Abstract: Cathodes and secondary batteries including the cathodes are disclosed. In an embodiment, a cathode includes: a cathode current collector, a first cathode active material disposed on at least one surface of the cathode current collector, and including a first cathode active material; and a second cathode active material layer disposed on the first cathode active material layer, and including a second cathode active material different from the first cathode active material, wherein a Raman peak intensity ratio of the first cathode active material layer is smaller than a Raman peak intensity ratio of the second cathode active material layer.

Abstract: A display device including: a pixel unit including first pixel rows connected to first emission lines and second pixel rows connected to second emission lines; an emission driver including first emission stages connected to first emission lines and second emission stages connected to second emission lines; and a scan driver including first scan stages and second scan stages connected to first and second pixel rows, respectively, wherein one first emission stage is connected to a first emission start line, one second emission stage is connected to a second emission start line, each first emission stage, except the first emission stage connected to the first emission start line, is connected to a first emission line of a previous first emission stage, and each second emission stage, except the second emission stage connected to the second emission start line, is connected to a second emission line of a previous second emission stage.

Abstract: An anode for a lithium secondary battery includes an anode current collector, and an anode active material layer formed on at least one surface of the anode current collector. The anode active material layer includes an anode active material and an anode binder. The anode active material includes a plurality of composite particles, each of the composite particles include a silicon-based active material particle, and a solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer formed on at least a portion of a surface of the silicon-based active material particle. A relative standard deviation of thickness values of the SEI layer of the composite particles, which are measured by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) from 9 different composite particles among the plurality of composite particles after repeating 100 cycles of charging and discharging is 20% or less.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for culturing Hibiscus hamabo's adventitious root, which includes a first culturing step of inoculating Hibiscus hamabo's adventitious root to a culture medium and culturing Hibiscus hamabo's adventitious root cells; and a second culturing step of sequentially treating the cultured Hibiscus hamabo's adventitious root with methyl jasmonate as an elicitor and culturing the same, and a method for preparing a Hibiscus hamabo's adventitious root using the same.