Abstract: An oscillator drive circuit and a trim circuit are implemented inside an integrated circuit of a sensor. The drive circuit provides an oscillating drive signal at a resonant frequency to drive a movable mass of the sensor. The drive circuit includes a phase shift circuit having an input for receiving a first signal indicative of an oscillation of the movable mass and having an output. The phase shift circuit adds a phase shift component to the first signal and produces a second signal shifted in phase by the phase shift component. The trim circuit includes a first comparator for receiving the first signal, a second comparator for receiving the second signal, and a processing element. The processing element determines a phase lag between the first and second signals and produces trim code for use by the phase shift circuit, the trim code being configured to adjust the phase shift component.

Abstract: Integrated circuit (IC) devices and systems with backside power gates, and methods of forming the same, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit die includes a device layer with one or more transistors, a first interconnect over the device layer, a second interconnect under the device layer, and one or more power gates under the device layer.

Abstract: The present technology relates to copolymers of single ion conducting monomers and/or of neutral monomers, and relates to the methods of making them.

Abstract: A CXL memory module, a controller, a method for accessing data, and a storage system are provided, which relate to data storage technologies. The CXL memory module includes a controller and a group of memory chips connected to the controller. The controller has a KV interface based on a CXL protocol. The controller is configured to receive a KV instruction sent by an external device through the KV interface, store object-based data into a memory chip or acquire object-based data from a memory chip.

Abstract: Methods of forming devices comprise forming a dielectric layer on a substrate, the dielectric layer comprising at least one feature defining a gap including sidewalls and a bottom. A self-assembled monolayer (SAM) is formed on the bottom of the gap, and a barrier layer is formed on the SAM before selectively depositing a metal liner on the barrier layer. The SAM is removed after selectively depositing the metal liner on the barrier layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a detector substrate and a flat panel detector, the detector substrate includes a substrate base and detector pixel units on the substrate base, each detector pixel unit includes: a driver circuit; a photoelectric conversion device disposed on a side, away from the substrate base, of the driver circuit, the photoelectric conversion device including at least two photoelectric conversion structures connected in series, a bottom electrode of a first photoelectric conversion structure being electrically connected with the driver circuit, and a top electrode of an nth photoelectric conversion structure being electrically connected with a bottom electrode of an (n+1)th photoelectric conversion structure, with n being greater than or equal to 1; and a bias voltage line on a side of the photoelectric conversion device away from the substrate base, the bias voltage line being electrically connected to a top electrode of a last photoelectric conversion structure.

Abstract: Methods and systems for media trend detection and maintenance are provided herein. A set of media items each having common media characteristics is identified. A set of pose values is determined for each respective media item of the set of media items. Each pose value is associated with a particular predefined pose for objects depicted by the set of media items. A set of distance scores is calculated. Each distance score represents a distance between the respective set of pose values determined for a media item and a respective set of pose values determined for an additional media item. A coherence score is determined for the set of media items based on the calculated set of distance scores. Responsive to a determination that the coherence score satisfies one or more coherence criteria, a determination is made that the set of media items corresponds to a media trend of a platform.

Abstract: A locking device for an electric nail gun powered by a gas spring, comprising: a power box, a striker, a fixed central shaft having a notch, a rotatable locking block on the fixed central shaft, which by rotating engages or disengages from the notch to lock or unlock the striker, a tension spring, a guide pad, synchronously rotating with the fixed central shaft and located above the locking block, with the upper part of the guide pad being secured by a lock nut, a pressure plate on the power box, fixed and perpendicular to the striker, secured by a first bolt and a second bolt, a sleeve fitted over the first bolt, and an integral guide part of the guide pad, with its upper surface tightly against the underside of the pressure plate and its side surface closely adjacent to the sleeve.

Abstract: A plug connector for a board-to-board connector according to an embodiment includes: a connector main body which includes one pair of first sidewalls extended in a first direction and facing each other, and one pair of second sidewalls extended in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and facing each other; one pair of fitting nails which are over-molded in the plug connector; and a plurality of plug terminals which are over-molded on the one pair of second sidewalls, wherein each of the one pair of fitting nails includes: an upper surface contacting an upper end of the first sidewall; a central reinforcement portion which is curved downward from the upper surface to come into contact with at least a portion of an outer surface of the first sidewall; one pair of lateral reinforcement portions which are extended from the upper surface and are curved downward to come into contact with at least portions of respective outer surfaces of the one pair of second sidewalls; and one pair of arm porti

Abstract: A hard film-coated cutting tool comprises: a hard base material and a hard film formed on the hard base material, wherein: assuming that a colorimetric diffusion reflectance value is LSCER and a total reflectance value is LSCIR, the relationship of 0.65?LSCER/LSCIR?0.85 is satisfied, and when surface roughness is measured on the rake surface of the hard film within the range of 100 ?m from the edge, an arithmetic average height SaR is within the range of 0.2 ?m?SaR?0.5 ?m; and assuming that, at a flank surface of the hard film, a colorimetric diffusion reflectance value is LSCEF and a total reflectance value is LSCIF, the relationship of LSCEF/LSCIF?0.9 is satisfied, and when surface roughness is measured on the flank surface of the hard film within the range of 100 ?m from the edge, an arithmetic average height SaF is within the range of 0.15 ?m?SaF?0.4 ?m.

Abstract: Personal care compositions and personal care compositions having one or more UV filters are disclosed herein. In one aspect, provided is a personal care composition comprising a mineral UV filter; a SPF enhancer comprising at least one of butyloctyl salicylate, ethylhexyl methoxycrylene, octyldodecyl neopentanoate, or Pongamia pinnata extract; and an amino acid.

Abstract: A card reader with a protective mechanism includes an upper shell, a lower shell disposed to a bottom surface of the upper shell, a protective mechanism and a circuit board assembly disposed between the upper shell and the lower shell. The protective mechanism includes a front cover, a rear cover covered to a rear of the front cover, two rollers disposed along an up-down direction, two springs, two supporting structures and a plurality of sealing structures. The two springs elastically abut between an inner surface of a top wall of the front cover and one roller along a vertical direction. The two supporting structures are mounted around two opposite sides of the one roller, and two opposite sides of the other roller. The plurality of the sealing structures are disposed at two outer surfaces of the two supporting structures.

Abstract: The present specification discloses a method of decoding an image. The method of decoding an image according to the method includes: obtaining transform skip information of a current block from a bitstream; obtaining multiple transform selection information of the current block on the basis of the transform skip information from the bitstream; and performing inverse transform on the current block on the basis of the multiple transform selection information, wherein the multiple transform selection information is used to set each of a horizontal transform type and a vertical transform type.

Abstract: A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery includes a carbon-based negative electrode active material and a silicon-based negative electrode active material together as a negative electrode active material. The negative electrode exhibits excellent characteristics of charge and discharge capacity and energy density. Furthermore, the negative electrode has the advantage of exhibiting high charge characteristics and life characteristics during long-term charge and discharge by realizing the alignment (O.Ia) of the carbon-based negative electrode active material after activation in a predetermined range that is lower than the alignment (O.Ir) of the carbon-based negative electrode active material before activation. A lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode is also provided. Further, methods of manufacturing the negative electrode and the lithium secondary battery are also provided.

Abstract: This application relates to a protection method for battery components that include an electrode assembly and a top cap assembly. The method includes: putting the battery components into a cavity, and vacuumizing the cavity to 100 kPa or below; introducing a first reactant into the cavity until a pressure rises by 1 Pa or above, and keeping the pressure for 1 ms or above; and optionally, vacuumizing the cavity to 100 kPa or below; and introducing a second reactant into the cavity until the pressure rises by 1 Pa or above, and keeping the pressure for 1 ms or above, so that protective layers are formed on surfaces of the battery components. This application further relates to a protection device for the battery components, a secondary battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an electrical apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for culturing NK cells, comprising alloferon, which increases the yield of NK cells compared to when using a conventional NK cell medium, due to the addition made to the medium during the culture of NK cells, and can lead to the activation of NK cells.

Abstract: An ultrasound generation device includes: an ultrasound generator for irradiating the skin with ultrasound energy; and a controller for controlling the operation of the ultrasound generator. The controller controls the ultrasound generator so that the ultrasound generator applies a specific ultrasound energy corresponding to at least one of fat increase, fat reduction, of elastic fiber increase in a skin layer.

Abstract: Controlling application logging, including: identifying one or more relationships between a plurality of classes of an object oriented application; generating a tree structure comprised of a plurality of nodes and a plurality of branches, where each of the plurality of branches is comprised of at least one node from the plurality of nodes, based on the one or more identified relationships, where a first one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes correspond to one or more classes of the object-oriented application; assigning a weight to each of the plurality of branches, based at least in part on an identified relationship corresponding to each of the one or more nodes comprising each of the plurality of branches; and determining a logging level to each branch of the plurality of branches, based on the assigned weight for each branch of the plurality of branches.

Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a substrate and connection wires. At least one connection wire including a first connection end and another at least one connection wire including a second connection end, together define at least one bonding pad group. A bonding pad group is located in a region where a pair of first and second connection ends proximate to each other are located, and includes: at least one first sub-bonding pad, which is a portion of the first connection end, and at least two second sub-bonding pads, which are a portion of the second connection end. In the at least one first sub-bonding pad and the at least two second sub-bonding pads, a first sub-bonding pad is arranged adjacent to a second sub-bonding pad along a first direction, and arranged adjacent to another second sub-bonding pad along a second direction intersecting the first direction.

Abstract: Provided is a polymer comprising: a first unit represented by Chemical Formula 1; a second unit represented by Chemical Formula 1 and different from the first unit; a third unit represented by Chemical Formula 2; and an end group represented by Chemical Formula 3, and an organic light emitting device using the same, wherein all the variables are described herein.