Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lithium secondary battery with improved safety during thermal runaway. The lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material, and an electrolyte, and has a nominal voltage of 3.68 V or greater, and VT represented by Equation (1) below measured after manufacturing a test module by stacking four of the lithium secondary battery fully charged by being charged to 4.35 V is 4 Ah/sec or less: Equation (1): VT=Ctotal/t.

Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a plurality of active regions delimited on a substrate. A plurality of bit line structures crossing over the plurality of the active regions may be provided. A plurality of storage node contacts may be disposed between the plurality of the bit line structures. A plug isolation pattern may be disposed between the plurality of the storage node contacts. The plug isolation pattern may include an isolation insulating layer between the plurality of the storage node contacts; and a tapered dielectric layer between the isolation insulating layer and the plurality of the storage node contacts.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a first active pattern, a first gate electrode, a second active pattern, a second gate electrode, a first connecting pattern, and a second connecting pattern. The first connecting pattern is disposed on the second active pattern and is electrically connected to the first gate electrode, and the second connecting pattern is disposed on the first connecting pattern and is electrically connected to the first connecting pattern and the second active pattern.

Abstract: An oven includes a main body, a cooking compartment provided in the main body and having a front surface thereof is opened, the cooking compartment having an opening, a camera provided above the cooking compartment and configured to capture an inside of the cooking compartment through the opening, a camera cooling fan disposed above the camera and configured to cool the camera by suctioning external air, a first glass provided at the opening of the cooking compartment so that the camera captures the inside of the cooking compartment and configured to block transmission of heat in the cooking compartment to the camera, and a second glass provided between the camera and the first glass and configured to additionally block the transmission of heat to the camera.

Abstract: A neural network operation method includes: receiving an input vector sequence including a plurality of channels; performing a first convolution operation on a first input vector of the input vector sequence; and performing a second convolution operation on a second input vector of the input vector sequence that is adjacent to the first input vector in a channel direction.

Abstract: To generate a charging path for a battery, a method includes generating simulation data for charging currents based on a battery model indicating an internal state of a battery, generating an initial look-up table (LUT) for the charging currents and preset battery voltage limits based on the simulation data, the initial LUT representing initial charging limit conditions of the battery for stages corresponding to the charging currents, generating a modified LUT by adjusting at least one of the initial charging limit conditions of the initial LUT, in response to the initial LUT failing to satisfy a threshold, determining a final LUT based on the modified LUT, in response to the modified LUT satisfying the threshold, and generating a charging path for the battery based on the final LUT.

Abstract: A personal information protection method includes a first step comprising rooting a victim's device where digital hacking has occurred to obtain administrator privileges, and installing a dedicated application software on the victim's device; a second step comprising analyzing the packet information of the malware installed on the victim's device to extract information about the attacking server; a third step comprising analyzing the actual data stored on the victim's device to continuously generate fake data (such as contacts, names, email addresses, and various images) in the same or similar format as the actual data and storing the fake data on the victim's device; a fourth step comprising ensuring that the fake data is continuously transmitted from the victim's device to the attacking server, thereby preventing the attacking server from identifying the victim's personal information.

Abstract: An automatic supply apparatus of secondary battery electrodes, which includes an electrode supply hoist 120; a supply shuttle 130 receiving electrodes in the form of reels from the electrode supply hoist 120; a first unwinder 140 and a second unwinder 150 disposed at a position the supply shuttle 130 comes forward. A notching facility 110 is disposed at a position where the supply shuttle 130 comes forward, and the first unwinder 140 is disposed in the notching facility 110, the second unwinder 150 is mounted on the notching facility 110 and disposed at a downward position of the first unwinder 140, and a tape supply device 160 is provided at a front position of the notching facility 110 so as to be disposed above the first unwinder 140.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of controlling an engine start in a hybrid vehicle. The method comprises activating a remote smart parking assist (RSPA) function when a remote smart assist signal is received, determining whether to start an engine of a hybrid vehicle based on a current state of the hybrid vehicle in which the RSPA function is activated, setting a first driving mode using an electric motor when it is determined that the engine is not able to be started, and releasing the first driving mode when a riding determination condition is satisfied in a state of the first driving mode.

Abstract: An apparatus for evaluating a lifetime of a display panel including first pixels disposed in a first display area and second pixels disposed in a second display area, includes: a controller for driving the first pixels with a first grayscale and the second pixels with a second grayscale during an aging period calculating a first current, a second current, and a third current, which are supplied to the display panel; a luminance calculator for calculating a first luminance of the first display area and calculating a second luminance of the second display area; and a corrector for calculating a first correction current and a second correction current. The controller calculates a first efficiency lifetime and a second efficiency lifetime, and evaluates the lifetime of the display panel based on the first efficiency lifetime and the second efficiency lifetime.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a back contact solar cell. The back contact solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate having a front surface and a rear surface; a first conductive type semiconductor region having a first conductive type and a second conductive type semiconductor region having a second conductive type at an interval on the rear surface of the semiconductor substrate. Furthermore, the rear surface of the semiconductor substrate has a texturing structure at the interval between the first conductive type semiconductor region and the second conductive type semiconductor region.

Abstract: The present application may provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive with excellent reliability, which is applied to a flexible device, thereby effectively responding to repeated deformation and recovery, causing no defects (for example, observation of deformation traces and the like) before and after deformation, having excellent cuttability, workability, and recoverability, and causing no lifting, delamination, and/or bubble generation. The present application may also provide a pressure-sensitive adhesive film or an optical film, and a flexible device such as a foldable device or a rollable device, comprising the pressure-sensitive adhesive.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first substrate having a first surface and a second opposite surface, a first lower interlayer insulating layer on the second surface, a first active pattern including a first lower pattern contacting the first surface, a plurality of first sheet patterns spaced apart from the first lower pattern in a second direction, a first gate structure on the first lower pattern, a first source/drain pattern on a side of the first gate structure, a second lower interlayer insulating layer including a third surface and a fourth opposite surface, a second active pattern including a second lower pattern contacting the third surface, a plurality of second sheet patterns spaced apart from the second lower pattern in the second direction, a second gate structure on the second lower pattern, wherein the first lower pattern has a first height, and the second lower pattern has a second different height.

Abstract: A prealloy powder for powder metallurgy, a sintered part using the same, and a manufacturing method thereof, which is configured to prevent deterioration of core hardness along with surface hardening while maintaining excellent tensile strength by adjusting an alloy composition so that a bainite phase is formed. The sintered part, which is manufactured by powder metallurgy, includes 1.05 to 1.55 wt % of Cr, 0.3 to 0.5 wt % of Mo, 0.5 to 0.7 wt % of C, and a remaining of Fe and other unavoidable impurities.

Abstract: Provided herein are single domain antibodies (sdAbs) having a specific affinity for a rare heparan sulfate moiety which can be used to disrupt DC-HIL function to reduce and prevent cancer progression and metastasis. Compositions and methods of use thereof are also provided for use of these sdAbs to treat cancer and cancer metastasis in a subject in need thereof.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a cart for optical coherence tomography includes a rotary catheter unit; a main body including a receiving member configured to receive the rotary catheter unit; a mobile unit coupled to a lower part of the main body and configured to move the main body on the ground; and a display unit connected to an upper part of the main body and configured to output information generated by the rotary catheter unit. Wherein the display unit is located inside at least two side surfaces of the main body.

Abstract: A glass manufacturing apparatus includes a support configured to hold a glass including a first flat portion, a second flat portion, and a curved portion connecting one side of the first flat portion and one side of the second flat portion. The support includes a first flat surface supporting the first flat portion, a second flat surface facing the first flat surface and supporting the second flat portion, and a curved surface connecting the flat surface to the second flat surface and supporting the curved portion.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a base substrate, a first organic insulating layer disposed on the base substrate, and a second conductive pattern disposed on the first organic insulating layer. The conductive pattern includes a first layer that includes a first metal and that has a first thickness. A diffusion layer that makes contact with the first layer and that includes an oxide of the first metal and has a second thickness less than the first thickness is formed at an uppermost portion of the first organic insulating layer.

Abstract: A silicone rubber composition containing 30 to 50 parts by weight of a reinforcing filler, 5 to 10 parts by weight of silicone oil, and 1 to 5 parts by weight of a hydrophobic surface modifier, based on 100 parts by weight of silicone gum, and a brake caliper piston boot manufactured by molding the same and having excellent brake fluid resistance.

Abstract: A virtual sound provision apparatus for an electric vehicle includes a driving information detector configured to detect vehicle driving information for outputting a virtual driving sound, a microphone configured to detect an actual driving sound generated from the electric vehicle, a controller configured to determine a characteristic of a target sound based on an acceleration and deceleration driving pattern of a driver from an accelerator pedal input value and a brake pedal input value of the driver, and generating and outputting a sound control signal for outputting the virtual driving sound having the characteristic of the target sound based on the determined characteristic information of the target sound and characteristic information of the actual driving sound, and a sound device configured to output a virtual engine sound that simulates an engine sound from the electric vehicle at the time of acceleration and deceleration according to the sound control signal.