Abstract: In an embodiment, an autonomous vehicle includes a sensor unit configured to detect surrounding environment of the vehicle, generate surrounding environment information, monitor a state of the vehicle, and generate vehicle state information. A processor is configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle based on one or both of the surrounding environment information and the vehicle state information, detect whether a failure occurs in a function required for autonomous driving of the vehicle based on the vehicle state information, determine one or both of a movable time and a movable distance, for indicating a fail-operational capability (FOC) of the vehicle, based on one or both of the vehicle state information and the surrounding environment information, and control the vehicle to be emergency stopped by performing a minimal risk maneuver based on one or both of the movable time and the movable distance.

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 a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes a first active material portion coated with an active material layer and a first uncoated portion not coated with an active material layer along a winding direction. At least a part of the first uncoated portion is defined as an electrode tab by itself. The first uncoated portion includes a first portion adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly, a second portion adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly, and a third portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion or the second portion has a smaller height than the third portion in the winding axis direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an integrated connector and a heat exchanger including the same, in which a connector main body is formed by pressing one pipe, a cap is press-fitted into the connector main body, such that the integrated connector is formed so that an interior of the connector main body is blocked by the cap. Therefore, the number of components used to manufacture a connector, which connects and securely couples a header tank and a gas-liquid separator, may be reduced, the integrated connector may be easily manufactured, and a brazing defect may be reduced at portions where the integrated connector is joined to the header tank and the gas-liquid separator of the heat exchanger.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially arranged in numerical order from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system and each having a refractive power, wherein an entire field of view of the optical imaging system is 50° or greater, and TTL/f<1.0, where TTL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, and f is an overall focal length of the optical imaging system.

Abstract: An air compressor according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: a housing; a rotating shaft which is disposed in the housing; a compression unit which is connected to the rotating shaft to compress and discharge inlet air; a motor unit which drives the rotating shaft; a control board which controls the motor unit; and a filter unit which filters out noise from external power and supplies the external power to the control board, wherein the housing includes a first cooling flow channel for cooling the motor unit and a second cooling flow channel for cooling the filter unit, and the first cooling flow channel communicates with the second cooling flow channel.

Abstract: A light emitting element may include a first semiconductor layer, an emission layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer disposed on the emission layer, an insulating film, and an electrode layer. The insulating film may enclose a side surface of the first semiconductor layer, a side surface of the emission layer, and a side surface of the second semiconductor layer. The electrode layer may be disposed on the second semiconductor layer and the insulating film. The insulating film may not enclose the electrode layer.

Abstract: A fuel cell system and a method of controlling the system are provided. The fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell having a plurality of cells to generate power through a reaction between hydrogen supplied to an anode space and oxygen supplied to a cathode space; a power storage device to be charged with power generated by the fuel cell or discharged to supply power; and a controller. The controller recirculates hydrogen, diffused from the anode space to the cathode space, into the anode space by supplying power charged in the power storage device to the fuel cell when the power generation of the fuel cell is stopped. The controller is configured to control whether to supply the power to the fuel cell based on a pressure measured in the anode space and voltages of the cells that constitute the fuel cell.

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: In some example embodiments, a back side illumination (BSI) image sensor may include a pixel configured to generate electrical signals in response to light incident on a back side of a substrate. In some example embodiments, the pixel includes, a photodiode, a device isolation film adjacent to the photodiode, a dark current suppression layer above the photodiode, a light shield grid above the photodiode and including an opening area of 1 to 15% of an area of the pixel, a light shielding filter layer above the light shield grid, a planarization layer above the light shielding filter layer, a lens above the planarization layer, and/or an anti-reflective film between the photodiode and the lens.

Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a plurality of battery cells arranged in a first direction such that long side surfaces of adjacent ones of the battery cells face one another; a plurality of insulation spacers, at least one of the insulation spacers being between each adjacent pair of the battery cells, each of the insulation spacers including a heat-insulating first sheet and a plurality of flame-retardant second sheets respectively adhered to opposite surfaces of the first sheet by an adhesion member; a cover member including an internal receiving space configured to accommodate the battery cells and the insulation spacers; a top plate coupled to the cover member, the top plate including ducts respectively corresponding to vents of the battery cells and having fire extinguishing agent openings respectively corresponding to the insulation spacers; a top cover coupled to the top plate and having discharge openings respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet between the top cover and

Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes a main body and a cartridge detachably coupled to the main body. The main body includes a controller, a battery, and a first wireless communication unit. The cartridge includes a second wireless communication unit. The controller controls output power of the battery to apply a power pattern to the cartridge, and the first wireless communication unit establishes a wireless connection with the second wireless communication unit when power supplied from the battery to the cartridge matches a preset power pattern.

Abstract: An automated gas supply system includes a gas cylinder transfer unit configured to transfer a cradle in which one or more gas cylinders storing a gas therein are stored; a gas cylinder inspection unit configured to check properties of the gas stored in the gas cylinder transferred from the gas cylinder transfer unit and check whether the gas leaks from the gas cylinder; a storage queue configured to receive the gas cylinder from the gas cylinder inspection unit by a mobile robot and configured to classify and store the transferred gas cylinders according to the properties of the gas stored in the gas cylinder; and a gas cabinet configured to receive the gas cylinder from the storage queue by the mobile robot and fasten a gas pipe, which is connected to a semiconductor manufacturing process line, to a gas spray nozzle, which is disposed at one side of the received gas cylinder, to supply the gas stored in the gas cylinder to the semiconductor manufacturing process line, wherein the gas cabinet includes a resid

Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a cover member accommodating a plurality of battery cells in an internal receiving space, each of the battery cells including a vent; a top plate coupled to a top of the cover member and including a duct corresponding to the vent of at least one of the battery cells; a top cover coupled to a top of the top plate and having an exhaust area corresponding to the duct, the exhaust area having a plurality of discharge openings, the top cover including a protrusion protruding from a bottom surface of the top cover, the protrusion extending around a periphery of the exhaust area and around a distal end of the duct; and an extinguisher sheet between the top cover and the top plate, the extinguisher sheet being configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a reference temperature.

Abstract: A vehicle includes at least one sensor, a controller configured to control operations of the vehicle; and a processor configured to be electrically connected to the at least one sensor and the controller, the processor configured to detect, based on surrounding environment information and vehicle state information collected from the at least one sensor, an event associated with a stop, identify, by the at least one sensor and based on the detected event, an area for the vehicle to stop, determine, based on a size of the identified area, a stop type, and cause, by the controller and based on the determined stop type, the vehicle to stop in the identified area.

Abstract: An aerosol generating device may include a heater configured to heat an aerosol generating material, a battery configured to supply power to the heater, and a controller. In addition, the aerosol generating device may further include a user input detection sensor configured to receive a user's input and a pressure detection sensor configured to sense pressure. The controller may, in response to the user's input being sensed by using the user input detection sensor, obtain an initial pressure sensing value by using the pressure detection sensor. In addition, the controller may determine a reference pressure value based on the initial pressure sensing value and determine whether a puff of the aerosol generating device has occurred based on the reference pressure value.

Abstract: A sound control device in a vehicle and control method thereof may include obtaining energy per unit time of an audio signal corresponding to a preset low frequency band, calculating an allowable reference value based on a difference between a magnitude of energy per unit time of the audio signal and a magnitude of a preset maximum allowable input of a speaker, monitoring whether a magnitude of energy per unit time of a noise control signal for eliminating noise in the vehicle exceeds the allowable reference value, and adjusting a magnitude of the noise control signal when the magnitude of energy per unit time of the noise control signal exceeds the allowable reference value.

Abstract: An electrocardiogram measurement system includes a patch-type electrocardiogram measurement apparatus, a first device connected to the electrocardiogram measurement apparatus by means of a first communication and configured to store electrocardiogram data measured by the electrocardiogram measurement apparatus, and a second device connected to the electrocardiogram measurement apparatus by means of the first communication and configured to store electrocardiogram data measured by the electrocardiogram measurement apparatus. The electrocardiogram data measured by the electrocardiogram measurement apparatus include measured time information. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A vehicle for autonomous driving is capable of performing a minimum risk maneuver. The vehicle includes: at least one sensor, a processor and a controller, where the processor may detect whether a minimum risk maneuver (MRM) is required based on at least one of surrounding environment information and vehicle state information during autonomous driving of the vehicle, determine an MRM type based on a possibility of colliding with a neighboring vehicle when the MRM is required, and control to stop the vehicle based on the determined MRM type.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. In the electrode assembly, the uncoated portion of an electrode includes a segment region divided into a plurality of segments, and the segment region includes a plurality of segment groups separated by a group separation pitch along a winding direction. One end of the electrode assembly includes a plurality of segment alignments. In winding turns corresponding to the plurality of segment alignments, group separation pitches of segment groups disposed in a same winding turn are substantially identical, and separation pitches of the segment groups is greater in a winding turn of a region adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly than in a winding turn of a region adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: The inventive concept provides a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a housing having a treating space; a support unit positioned within the treating space and configured to apply a power and to support a substrate; and a plasma control unit configured to change a characteristic of a plasma formed in the treating space, and wherein the plasma control unit includes: a gap control plate positioned above the support unit; and a plate driver changing a position of the gap control plate, and the plate driver maintains a gap between a bottom surface of the gap control plate and a top surface of the support plate while changing a characteristic of the plasma by changing the position of the gap control plate.