Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a discharge pressure of a fluid includes: a pump configured to suck the fluid through an inlet or to discharge the sucked fluid through an outlet; a distributor connected to the pump and to an injection nozzle provided by a sensor and configured to distribute the fluid discharged from the pump to the sensor; and a controller. The controller is configured to control the pump to operate selectively in accordance with detection of contamination of the sensor and to control operation of the distributor to be forcibly delayed during operation of the pump such that the fluid distributed to the sensor, when detected as being contaminated, is controlled to reach a selected required discharge pressure of different required discharge pressures selected in accordance with water amount information and a degree of contamination of the sensor.

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: A positive electrode active material including a first lithium composite oxide particle including a secondary particle formed by aggregation of one or more primary particles, and a coating oxide occupying at least a part of at least one of surfaces of the secondary particle, grain boundaries between the primary particles, or surfaces of the primary particles, the positive electrode active material satisfying an equation of 1.3?a/b?3.0, wherein a represents a max peak intensity at 2theta=44.75° to 44.80° and b represents a max peak intensity at 2theta=45.3° to 45.6° in X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis using Cu K? radiation.

Abstract: A substrate supporting plate that may prevent deposition on a rear surface of a substrate and may easily unload the substrate. The substrate supporting plate may include a substrate mounting portion and a peripheral portion surrounding the substrate mounting portion. An edge portion of a top surface of the substrate mounting portion may be anodized. A central portion of the top surface of the substrate mounting portion may not be anodized.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes channel layers on a substrate, the channel layers being spaced apart from each other, and having first side surfaces and second side surfaces opposing each other in a first direction, a gate electrode surrounding the channel layers and having a first end portion and a second end portion, opposing each other in the first direction, and a source/drain layer on a first side of the gate electrode and in contact with the channel layers, a portion of the source/drain layer protruding further than the first end portion of the gate electrode in the first direction, wherein a first distance from the first end portion of the gate electrode to the first side surfaces of the channel layers is shorter than a second distance from the second end portion of the gate electrode to the second side surfaces of the channel layers.

Abstract: An extended reality-based fire training method includes: (a) acquiring each object in a real space acquired through a stereo camera and depth information on each object; (b) reconstructing each object into a 3D mesh object based on each object and the depth information on each object; (c) simulating a virtual fire suppression training augmented reality environment after generating a virtual fire in at least one of the reconstructed 3D mesh objects, and transmitting the simulated virtual fire suppression training augmented reality environment to a head-mounted display device; and (d) operating a virtual fire extinguisher object in a virtual fire suppression training augmented reality environment according to a user manipulation of a real fire extinguisher, and extinguishing a virtual fire object by firing a virtual powder object toward the virtual fire object according to the operation of the virtual fire extinguisher object.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor device, comprising: a bit line structure including a bit line contact plug, a bit line, and a bit line hard mask that are sequentially stacked over a substrate; a storage node contact plug that is spaced apart from the bit line structure; a conformal spacer that is positioned between the bit line and the storage node contact plug and includes a low-k material; and a seed liner that is positioned between the conformal spacer and the bit line and thinner than the conformal spacer.

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: A method for forming a semiconductor die, includes forming an interlayer dielectric layer on a substrate having a semiconductor die region, a seal-ring region, and a scribe line region, forming a metal pad and a test pad on the interlayer dielectric layer, forming a passivation dielectric layer on the interlayer dielectric layer, the metal pad, and the test pad, first etching the passivation dielectric layer and the interlayer dielectric layer existing between the seal-ring region and the scribe line region to a predetermined depth using a plasma etching process, second etching the passivation dielectric layer to expose the metal pad and the test pad, forming a bump on the metal pad, and dicing the substrate while removing the scribe line region by mechanical sawing.

Abstract: Provided is an overlay mark. The overlay mark comprises a substrate, a lower overlay in the substrate, a pattern layer on the substrate, and an upper overlay defining an opening on the pattern layer. The lower overlay does not overlap the upper overlay in a thickness direction of the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for providing language learning services. The method of providing language learning services, according to the present invention, the method may include: activating, in response to receiving an input for acquiring a learning target image through a user terminal, a camera of the user terminal; specifying at least a portion of an image taken by the camera as the learning target image; receiving language learning information for the learning target image from a server; providing the language learning information to the user terminal; and storing, based on a request for storing of the language learning information, the language learning information in association with the learning target image, such that the learning target image is used in conjunction with learning of the language learning information.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for reusing wastewater. The method for reusing wastewater disclosed herein includes: generating a mixed wastewater by mixing multiple types of wastewater (S20); performing a first purification by passing the mixed wastewater through a flocculation-sedimentation unit (S40); performing a second purification by passing an effluent of the flocculation-sedimentation unit through a membrane bioreactor (MBR) (S60); performing a third purification by passing an effluent of the MBR through a reverse-osmosis membrane unit (S80); and reusing an effluent of the reverse-osmosis membrane unit as cooling water or industrial water (S100).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrolyte solution and a secondary battery including the same. According to the present invention, the present invention has an effect of providing a secondary battery having improved charging efficiency and output due to low discharge resistance and having a long lifespan and excellent high-temperature capacity retention by suppressing gas generation and increase in thickness.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of printing a nanostructure including: preparing a template substrate on which a pattern is formed; forming a replica pattern having an inverse phase of the pattern by coating a polymer thin film on an upper portion of the template substrate, adhering a thermal release tape to an upper portion of the polymer thin film, and separating the polymer thin film from the template substrate; forming a nanostructure by depositing a functional material on the replica pattern; and printing the nanostructure deposited on the replica pattern to a substrate by positioning the nanostructure on the substrate, applying heat and pressure to the nanostructure, and weakening an adhesive force between the thermal release tape and the replica pattern by the heat.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrolyte solution and a secondary battery including the same. According to the present invention, the present invention has an effect of providing a secondary battery having improved charging efficiency and output due to low discharge resistance and having a long lifespan and excellent high-temperature capacity retention by suppressing gas generation and increase in thickness.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of depositing a transition metal single-atom catalyst including preparing a carbon carrier, and depositing a transition metal single-atom catalyst on the carbon carrier, in which the carbon carrier is surface-treated by an oxidation process, and wherein the deposition is carried out by an arc plasma process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrolyte solution and a secondary battery including the same. According to the present invention, the present invention has an effect of providing a secondary battery having improved charging efficiency and output due to low discharge resistance and having a long lifespan and excellent high-temperature capacity retention by suppressing gas generation and increase in thickness.

Abstract: Provided is a method performed in a terminal for processing an interest message. The method includes receiving a message from a message server after a login event for a user of the terminal occurs, wherein the login event is related to a message service provided by the message server; storing, in response to determining that the received message corresponds to an interest message of the user, the received message in a local storage of the terminal; receiving a search request for the interest message of the user; and searching and providing the interest message of the user through the local storage of the terminal in response to the search request.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrolyte solution and a secondary battery including the same. According to the present invention, the present invention has an effect of providing a secondary battery having improved charging efficiency and output due to low discharge resistance and having a long lifespan and excellent high-temperature capacity retention by suppressing gas generation and increase in thickness.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an adaptive scheme is applied to an image encoding apparatus that includes an inter-predictor, an intra-predictor, a transformer, a quantizer, an inverse quantizer, and an inverse transformer, wherein input images are classified into two or more different categories, and two or more modules from among the inter-predictor, the intra-predictor, the transformer, the quantizer, and the inverse quantizer are implemented to perform respective operations in different schemes according to the category to which an input image belongs. Thus, the invention has the advantage of efficiently encoding an image without the loss of important information as compared to a conventional image encoding apparatus which adopts a packaged scheme.