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: The present disclosure relates to a cover window for a flexible display device including a polymer substrate including a polyamide resin; and a hard coating layer formed on at least one surface of the polymer substrate, wherein a yellow index of the polymer substrate measured in accordance with STM E 313 is 4.00 or less, and an elastic modulus of the polymer substrate measured at a strain rate of 12.5 mm/min in accordance with ISO 527-3 is 4 to 9 GPa.

Abstract: Electrolytes and electrolyte additives for energy storage devices comprising phosphorus based compounds are disclosed. The energy storage device comprises a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a Si-based electrode, a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, an electrolyte comprising at least two electrolyte co-solvents, wherein at least one electrolyte co-solvent comprises a phosphorus based compound.

Abstract: A data processing circuit according to an embodiment may include a reception circuit configured to receive image data including grayscale values associated with pixels disposed in a display panel. The data processing circuit may include a compensation circuit configured to calculate a final compensation value by multiplying a representative compensation value of each area and a global gain, and to produce converted image data. The data processing circuit may include a memory storing a representative compensation value associated with a grayscale value of each area of the display panel, and may include a transmission circuit configured to transmit the converted image data to a data driving circuit.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first sheet pattern on the substrate, a gate electrode on the substrate and surrounding the first sheet pattern, a first source/drain pattern and a second source/drain pattern respectively connected to a first end and a second end of the first sheet pattern, a contact blocking pattern on a lower side of the second source/drain pattern, a first source/drain contact extending in a first direction and connected to the first source/drain pattern, and a second source/drain contact connected to the second source/drain pattern and extending in the first direction to contact an upper surface of the contact blocking pattern. A depth from an upper surface of the gate electrode to a lowermost portion of the first source/drain contact may be greater than a depth from the upper surface of the gate electrode to the upper surface of the contact blocking pattern.

Abstract: A battery cell cartridge in which a battery cell is accommodated, includes first, second, third and fourth frames formed in a quadrangular shape, wherein the first frame and the second frame extend along a horizontal direction and are spaced from each other at a predetermined interval therebetween, the first frame is positioned on an upper side and the second frame is positioned on a lower side, the third frame and the fourth frame extend along a vertical direction and are spaced from each other at a predetermined interval therebetween, and the third frame is positioned on a first side and the third frame is positioned on a second side opposite to the second frame.

Abstract: A sensing block includes a block body having a plurality of slots through which electrode leads of battery cells pass, a plurality of sensing terminals installed between the plurality of slots on a front surface of the block body, a circuit board installed on the front surface of the block body, and a connector installed on the circuit board.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for preparing a vinyl chloride-based polymer, the method including a step of injecting an ionizable normal salt and polymerizing a vinyl chloride monomer in the presence of one or more emulsifiers and a polymerization initiator, wherein the ionizable normal salt includes a carbonate metal salt or a sulfite metal salt, and the ionizable normal salt is continuously injected in an amount of 70 to 1200 ppm based on the total weight of the vinyl chloride monomer when a polymerization conversion rate is in a range of 0% to 20%. The method capable of preparing a vinyl chloride-based polymer suitable as an eco-friendly material, while not affecting the rate of polymerization reaction and decreasing the generation amount of total volatile organic compounds by controlling the injection time, injection amount and kind of the ionizable normal salt, is provided.

Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate including a pixel area and a transmissive area; a thin-film transistor on the first substrate; a planarization layer on the thin-film transistor; a first light emitting electrode on the planarization layer; a bank covering a part of the first light emitting electrode; a light emitting layer on the first light emitting electrode; and a second light emitting electrode on the light emitting layer and the bank. The transmissive area includes a transmissive hole penetrating the bank and the planarization layer.

Abstract: A method of activating a secondary battery includes an operation of deriving a reduction reaction voltage according to an electrolyte additive, a pre-charging operation of pre-charging the secondary battery into which an electrolyte containing the electrolyte additive is injected, and a pre-aging operation of wetting an electrode assembly accommodated in the secondary battery with the injected electrolyte and aging the electrode assembly. A charging termination voltage in the pre-charging operation is less than the reduction reaction voltage.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composition for preparing a vinyl chloride-based polymer and a method of preparing a vinyl chloride-based polymer using the same, and provides the composition giving excellent productivity for preparing a vinyl chloride-based polymer includes while maintaining excellent foaming and viscosity properties of a plastisol including the prepared vinyl chloride-based polymer, by including a pH regulator composed of a carbonate-based metal salt, and a transition metal catalyst in the composition, and controlling an amount of the transition metal catalyst, and controlling an amount of a reducing agent such that a trace amount or none of the reducing agent is included, and the method of preparing a vinyl chloride-based polymer using the same.

Abstract: Electrolytes and electrolyte additives for energy storage devices comprising cyanate based compounds are disclosed. The energy storage device comprises a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a Si-based electrode, a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, an electrolyte comprising at least two electrolyte co-solvents, wherein at least one electrolyte co-solvent comprises a cyanate based compound.

Abstract: The button structure including a front panel configured to define a body and having a mounting hole formed in a front surface of the front panel directed toward an interior of an occupant compartment, a button unit accommodated in the mounting hole and configured to selectively control various types of AV systems of a vehicle, a detection unit accommodated in the front panel and configured to detect a user's hand, a switch unit configured to operate various types of AV systems of the vehicle under the control of the button unit, and a lighting unit accommodated in a housing and configured to emit light to the button unit in response to a detection signal of the detection unit, in which the detection unit is disposed rearward of the button unit and positioned from the button unit in a direction opposite to the direction toward the interior of the occupant compartment.

Abstract: A solenoid valve includes a plunger configured to be movable in two opposite directions, a damper member inserted into the plunger and having at least a part protruding outward from the plunger, and a pilot member disposed in a lower region of the plunger and having a pilot flow path formed therein, in which the damper member comes into close contact with the pilot member and closes the pilot flow path when the plunger moves downward by a predetermined distance toward the pilot member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for chlorinating an aromatic compound and, more specifically, to a method for chlorinating an aromatic compound to prevent the phenomenon of decreased responsiveness due to foam generation, and to prevent counterflow of a fluid. By means of the method for chlorinating an aromatic compound according to the present invention, a plurality of column-type reactors are connected in series so that reaction products produced in a former reactor are inserted to a latter reactor, and chlorine gas is inserted in equal measure at the bottom of each reactor. Accordingly, a chlorination reaction occurs in each of the reactors, and hydrogen chloride gas generated in each of the reactors is exhausted from each of the reactors.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, a lateral side meeting the first surface, and an inclined surface between the lateral side and the second surface, a light-emitting element layer above the first surface of the substrate, dams surrounding the light-emitting element layer in plan view, an encapsulating layer covering the light-emitting element layer and the dams, and an organic planarization layer above the encapsulating layer, covering the encapsulating layer and the dams, extending to be adjacent to an edge of the substrate, and having a lateral side that forms an inclination, and that is spaced inwardly from the lateral side of the substrate, wherein a distance between the lateral side of the organic planarization layer and the lateral side of the substrate is less than a planar width of the inclined surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Methods and systems for executing tracking and monitoring manufacturing data of a battery are disclosed. One method includes: receiving, by a server system, sensing data of the battery from a sensing system; generating, by the server system, mapping data based on the sensing data; generating, by the server system, identification data of the battery based on the sensing data; generating, by the server system, monitoring data of the battery based on the sensing data, the identification data, and the mapping data; and generating, by the server system, display data for displaying a simulated electrode of the battery on a graphical user interface based on the monitoring data of the battery.

Abstract: An electronic vaporizer for generating an aerosol includes a housing to be installed to an electronic device by being coupled to the electronic device through a connecting interface of the electronic device, and including: a connecting interface that receives power from a battery included in the electronic device when coupled to the connecting interface of the electronic device, a liquid storage for storing a liquid aerosol generating material and supplying the liquid aerosol generating material to a wick when the housing is disposed in a predetermined posture, an atomizer that includes a wick and a heater for generating an aerosol by heating the liquid aerosol generating material supplied to the wick, and a control circuit that controls heating of the heater for generating the aerosol, based on the power supplied from the battery.

Abstract: A precursor for a positive electrode active material and a method of making the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments a method includes forming precursor seeds for a positive electrode active material by a co-precipitation reaction while supplying a transition metal aqueous solution, an ammonium cationic complexing agent, and a basic compound to a reaction solution, and growing precursor particles for a positive electrode active material by a co-precipitation reaction while supplying a transition metal aqueous solution, an ammonium cationic complexing agent, and a basic compound to the reaction solution containing the precursor seeds, wherein the co-precipitation reaction to grow the precursor particles proceeds while continuously increasing feed rates of the transition metal aqueous solution and the ammonium cationic complexing agent.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing an electrode for a lithium secondary battery having encapsulated active material using energy application, and the method helps to minimize the volume change of an electrode or negative side effects, such as high internal stress, a fracture, pulverization, delamination, electronic isolation from a conductive agent, the formation of an unstable solid-electrolyte interphase, and a loss of energy capacity of the batteries.