Abstract: Disclosed is an electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery. The electrolyte includes a non-aqueous solvent and a sulfone based organic compound represented by the following Formulae (I), (II), or (III), or a mixture thereof: where R and R? are independently selected from the group consisting of primary alkyl groups, secondary alkyl groups, tertiary alkyl groups, alkenyl groups, aryl groups; halogen substituted primary alkyl groups, halogen substituted secondary alkyl groups, halogen substituted tertiary alkyl groups, halogen substituted alkenyl groups, and halogen substituted aryl groups, and n is from 0 to 3.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an illuminating apparatus which is received at the back of an outer surface and which includes: a lighting part having a front surface, through which the light is irradiated, and a rear surface, which is the back side of the front surface; an electric connector electrically connected to the lighting part and coupled to a power supply at the back of the outer surface; and a length-adjustable shaft provided between the lighting part and the electric connector and bringing the rear surface of the lighting part into contact with the outer surface.

Abstract: The present design is related to stuffed toys formed in the shapes of various dolls or animals by using a bead-shaped super absorbent polymer as filler instead of cotton or packing in the stuffed toys, with the stuffed toys having variable states of contraction and expansion according to liquid absorption amount, without the leakage of the super absorbent polymer itself. The stuffed toy is characterized by having been stitched in the shape according to the stuffed toy with a water absorbent inner fabric on the inside of water absorbent outer fabric. The shape is formed by the bead-shaped super absorbent polymer that expands when water is absorbed to fill the inner space. The outer fabric and the inner fabric are water absorbent with the inner fabric being made of bead-proof material such that the stitching is made up of fine density that does not allow leakage of the beads.

Abstract: Disclosed therein is an unvulcanized adhesive waterproof material using reclaimed rubber and a preparation method thereof, and more particularly, an unvulcanized adhesive waterproof material using reclaimed rubber and a preparation method thereof, where reclaimed rubber is added to a softener, a tackifier, a filler, an SBS resin, a PVA pressure sensitive adhesive, etc. and subjected to mechanically forced mixing to form a highly adhesive material, which is then applied on asphalt sheets, HDPE sheets, nonwoven fabric, PE foam, or the like according to the intended use purpose to form a waterproof sheet.

Abstract: According to example embodiments, a printing apparatus includes a wafer delivery unit configured to move and support a wafer, an optical microscope configured to inspect the wafer, a pattern transfer unit configured to display a position of a defect on the wafer detected using the optical microscope.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a power supply unit (PSU) is provided. The method includes providing at least one PSU supplying a dimming signal to at least one light source, performing a first test for electrical characteristics of the at least one PSU, detecting light emitted from the at least one light source, measuring a flicker of the at least one light source, and performing a second test for a state of the at least one PSU based on a flicker measurement result, and packing a PSU determined to be in a normal state among the at least one PSU, as a result of the first test and the second test.

Abstract: A test apparatus for a power supply unit is provided, which includes a body unit configured to define a space to receive a light emitting diode (LED) and to provide a test environment to test a supply state of power applied to the LED; and a test unit mounted in the body unit to face the LED and configured to detect flicker of the LED occurring when a power supply is abnormal. According to the foregoing structure, power supply with respect to the LED may be regularly detected and analyzed, thereby increasing quality of power supply with respect to the LED.

Abstract: A semiconductor fabrication apparatus and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device using the same performs semiconductor etching and deposition processes at an edge of a semiconductor substrate after disposing the semiconductor substrate at a predetermined place in the semiconductor fabrication apparatus. The semiconductor fabrication apparatus has lower, middle and upper electrodes sequentially stacked. The semiconductor substrate is disposed on the middle electrode. Semiconductor etching and deposition processes are performed on the semiconductor substrate in the semiconductor fabrication apparatus. The semiconductor fabrication apparatus forms electrical fields along an edge of the middle electrode during performance of the semiconductor etching and deposition processes.

Abstract: In a plasma display device, one frame is divided into a plurality of subfields having respective luminance weights, and a first line load ratio is measured from a plurality of video signals corresponding to a first row electrode among a plurality of row electrodes during the respective subfields. A first output estimation weight of each subfield is set based on the first line load ratio of each subfield in the first row electrode. The plurality of video signals corresponding to the first row electrode are converted into a plurality of first subfield data based on the first output estimation weight, and a driving signal is applied to the first row electrode and the plurality of column electrodes according to the plurality of first subfield data.

Abstract: An LCD device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The LCD device includes a data driver, a detection unit, and a power mode control option generation unit. The data driver controls a consumption power of an output buffer which outputs an image data signal to a liquid crystal display panel. The detection unit detects a low power driving mode interval for driving the data driver at a first consumption power. The power mode control option generation unit transfers a second power mode control option to the data driver during an interval other than the low power driving mode interval, and transfers a first power mode control option to the data driver during the low power driving mode interval.

Abstract: A supporting device to a display apparatus to prevent a wire from separating from a wire hanger. The supporting device to fix the display apparatus to a wall includes a wire part coupled to the display apparatus, a wire hanger mounted to the wall, the wire hanger to hang the wire part on the wall, and a separation protector provided at the wire hanger, the separation protector serving to prevent the wire part from separating from the wire hanger.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a power factor correction circuit and a method of driving the power factor correction circuit. The power factor correction circuit according to the present invention includes a power transfer element configured to receive an input voltage, an input current corresponding to the input voltage flowing through the power transfer element, and a switch connected to the power transfer element and configured to control an output voltage generated by the current flowing through the power transfer element.

Abstract: Disclosed are a switch controller, a switch control method, and a converter based thereon. The switch controller generates an input sensing voltage corresponding to the input voltage of the converter, and compares the input sensing voltage with a predetermined first reference value. The switch controller generates a zero cross detection signal with a first level or a second level depending upon the comparison result, and generates a reference clock signal varying in frequency in accordance with one cycle of the zero cross detection signal. The switch controller generates digital signals by using the reference clock signal and the zero cross detection signal. The digital signals synchronize with the zero cross detection signal, and increase in accordance with the reference clock signal during a half of one cycle of the zero cross detection signal, while decreasing in accordance with the reference clock signal during the other half cycle of the zero cross detection signal.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting in a multi-user multi-antenna system are provided. The apparatus includes a precoder for orthogonalizing a channel by removing a channel element of a corresponding terminal with respect to multiple terminals, for determining an effective channel of each terminal by decomposing the orthogonalized channel using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), for determining a precoding matrix using the effective channel, and for mapping data streams of the multiple terminals to a plurality of transmit antennas using the precoding matrix, and the plurality of the transmit antennas for transmitting the data streams of the multiple terminals. Hence, it is possible to obtain an iteration algorithm performance requiring considerable computation while avoiding complexity and reducing computation.

Abstract: A gel electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a gel polymer including a repeating unit derived from a first monomer represented by A-L-E, a non-aqueous organic solvent, a lithium salt, and an additive. A rechargeable lithium battery includes the gel electrolyte. The additive includes a compound selected from compounds represented by compounds represented by derivatives thereof, and combinations thereof.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to lithium batteries including negative electrodes containing lithium titanate negative active materials, and methods of manufacturing the lithium batteries.

Abstract: A supporting device of a display apparatus to prevent a wire from separating from a wire hanger. The supporting device to fix the display apparatus to a wall includes a wire part coupled to the display apparatus, a wire hanger mounted to the wall, the wire hanger to hang the wire part on the wall, and a separation protector provided at the wire hanger, the separation protector serving to prevent the wire part from separating from the wire hanger.

Abstract: An electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery including a non-aqueous organic solvent, a lithium salt, and an electrolyte additive including a compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery. In Chemical Formula 1, Ar1 and Ar2 are the same or different and are independently aromatic organic groups, and X is a halogen.

Abstract: A supporting device of a display apparatus to prevent a wire from separating from a wire hanger. The supporting device to fix the display apparatus to a wall includes a wire part coupled to the display apparatus, a wire hanger mounted to the wall, the wire hanger to hang the wire part on the wall, and a separation protector provided at the wire hanger, the separation protector serving to prevent the wire part from separating from the wire hanger.

Abstract: A lithium polymer battery includes a polymer electrolyte or a gel polymer electrolyte having a nonaqueous organic solvent, a lithium salt, an ion-conducting polymer and a fluorinated benzene; a positive electrode; and a negative electrode.