Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a motor of a vehicle includes: a current controller generating a voltage instruction for driving the motor; a signal generator generating a magnetic pole discrimination reference signal that is combined with the voltage instruction; an inverter driving the motor on the basis of a corrected voltage instruction obtained by comparing the voltage instruction and the magnetic pole discrimination reference signal; and a processor including a control logic for deriving a response component to the magnetic pole discrimination reference signal from a driving current transferred to the motor from the inverter, and for determining a polarity of the rotor of the motor on the basis of the response component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to nanostructured materials for use in rechargeable energy storage devices such as lithium batteries, particularly rechargeable secondary lithium batteries, or lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). The present invention includes materials, components, and devices, including nanostructured materials for use as battery active materials, and lithium ion battery (LIB) electrodes comprising such nanostructured materials, as well as manufacturing methods related thereto. Exemplary nanostructured materials include silicon-based nanostructures such as silicon nanowires and coated silicon nanowires, nanostructures disposed on substrates comprising active materials or current collectors such as silicon nanowires disposed on graphite particles or copper electrode plates, and LIB anode composites comprising high-capacity active material nanostructures formed on a porous copper and/or graphite powder substrate.

Abstract: A method for driving a hybrid vehicle includes determining, by a transmission controller, whether the hybrid vehicle is driven in a sensorless control mode or not, wherein in a sensorless control mode in which an estimated rotor position value determined based on electric current and voltage of a drive motor is used to control the drive motor, without using information detected by a stator position sensor provided in the drive motor of the hybrid vehicle, a transmission is used to enable the drive motor to operate in an area in which the precision of a sensorless control is high.

Abstract: A dual inverter control method is capable of improving power efficiency of an inverter and a motor by controlling a dual inverter through 6-step control to apply a voltage to the motor in a motor driving system using the dual inverter. The dual inverter control method for controlling first and second inverters having output terminals commonly connected to a motor includes comparing all voltage commands for driving the motor with the magnitude of a DC voltage commonly applied to the first and second inverters; and generating a first voltage command with respect to an output of the first inverter and a second voltage command with respect to an output of the second inverter by selectively applying high gain over voltage modulation (HOVM) depending on a comparison result.

Abstract: The present application relates to a distillation device. The distillation device of the present application can minimize energy loss occurring in a purification process of the olefin monomer, the solvent, and the raw material including, for example, 1-octene, iso-octene, and n-hexane, used in a polymerization process of the polyolefin elastomer, and can increase economic efficiency by isolating a high-purity product.

Abstract: Provided is an overloaded keypad layout which is efficient, ergonomic, unambiguous, intuitive to operate, and also familiar to the average user in its letter arrangement. More particularly, the overloaded keypad layout comprises four rows, and a space-key is positioned in the third row from bottom, and is QWERTY-like its letter arrangement. Further, the multitap input method or selector (select-the-next-letter key) input method may be employed to disambiguate the overloaded keypad layout.

Abstract: A charging system for a vehicle includes: a power transmitter transmitting power for charging a battery of a vehicle; a charger including a three-phase motor and inverter, and receiving the power from the power transmitter; an input voltage calculating processor selecting any one of a plurality of predetermined duty ratios and calculating a value of an input voltage supplied to the charger based on the selected duty ratio and a voltage value of the battery of the vehicle; an input current calculating processor calculating a value of an input current based on the calculated value of the input voltage and a value of the power transmitted by the power transmitter; a power transmission controller instructing the calculated input current to be input to the charger; and a charging controller instructing the battery of the vehicle to be charged.

Abstract: A source driver integrated circuit (IC) for driving a flat panel display is provided. The source driver IC includes a first control logic circuit configured to generate first output signals for driving first source lines arranged in a first region of the flat panel display and a second control logic circuit configured to generate second output signals for driving second source lines arranged in a second region of the flat panel display. A first output delay between two adjacent output signals among the first output signals is different from a second output delay between two adjacent output signals among the second output signals.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes an ultrasonic welding apparatus, which improves the welding strength of an electrode tab and an electrode lead included in a secondary battery, and a secondary battery with an enhanced electrode structure strength by using the ultrasonic welding apparatus. The secondary battery includes an electrode assembly in which a cathode plate provided with a cathode tab, an anode plate provided with an anode tab, and a separator are stacked in turn; a pouch for receiving the electrode assembly; a cathode lead electrically coupled to the cathode tab by welding; and an anode lead electrically coupled to the anode tab by welding, wherein the density of welding points, formed at a welding surface between the anode lead and the anode tab, is higher than that of welding points, formed at a welding surface between the cathode lead and the cathode tab.

Abstract: The present invention relates to nanostructured materials for use in rechargeable energy storage devices such as lithium batteries, particularly rechargeable secondary lithium batteries, or lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). The present invention includes materials, components, and devices, including nanostructured materials for use as battery active materials, and lithium ion battery (LIB) electrodes comprising such nanostructured materials, as well as manufacturing methods related thereto. Exemplary nanostructured materials include silicon-based nanostructures such as silicon nanowires and coated silicon nanowires, nanostructures disposed on substrates comprising active materials or current collectors such as silicon nanowires disposed on graphite particles or copper electrode plates, and LIB anode composites comprising high-capacity active material nanostructures formed on a porous copper and/or graphite powder substrate.

Abstract: Provided is an overloaded keypad layout which is efficient, ergonomic, unambiguous, intuitive to operate, and also familiar to the average user in its letter arrangement. More particularly, the overloaded keypad layout comprises four rows, and a space-key is positioned in the third row from bottom, and is QWERTY-like its letter arrangement. Further, the multitap input method or selector (select-the-next-letter key) input method may be employed to disambiguate the overloaded keypad layout.

Abstract: A method of synthesizing multi-shell structure nanoparticles includes uniformly distributing core nanoparticles to a first porous fuel membrane, coating the core nanoparticles fixed to the first porous fuel membrane with a fuel, and combusting the fuel coated on the core nanoparticles and the first porous fuel membrane to coat a first carbon film on surfaces of the core nanoparticles.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a metal oxide film includes sequentially laminating a carbon film and a metal oxide film including nano-sized metal oxide nanoparticles on a porous fuel membrane to form a preliminary composite structure and reducing the metal oxide film to form a composite structure by combusting the porous fuel membrane while applying a voltage to the preliminary composite structure.

Abstract: Technology is disclosed herein that enhances user interfaces. In one implementation, an application renders a user interface that comprises a navigation element. The navigation element visually links at least one screen to one other screen. The application surfaces a control in the navigation element with which to load data items, and when a data item loaded in the navigation element is active, presents content associated with the data item in the one screen and presents other content associated with the data item in the one other screen.

Abstract: A method and a system for controlling a motor for a vehicle are provided. The vehicle is capable of being continuously driven by controlling the motor based on position information of a rotor derived using a sensorless estimation algorithm in the event of a failure of a position sensor of a motor rotor while the vehicle is being driven.

Abstract: A charging system for improving a power factor and a current quality in a grid stage is provided. The charging system includes a rectifying circuit that is configured to rectify a grid power and a converter that is configured to receive a voltage-current rectified by the rectifying circuit and convert the voltage-current into a charge voltage-current to be provided to a battery. A capacitor is connected across a connection end of the rectifying circuit and the converter. The converter includes a first high frequency switching circuit, a transformer, and a second high frequency switching circuit.

Abstract: An apparatus for compensating for a position error of a resolver has a controller which is configured to: receive position information of a rotor of a motor, which is detected by the resolver, to measure a first position error, convert the first position error to a second position error at an electrical angular velocity of 0, and to store the second position error; receive a current electrical angular velocity and the second position error, convert the second position error to a third position error at the current electrical angular velocity, and compensate for the third position error; and perform determination of false position error compensation when a magnitude of a ripple at an electrical angular velocity, which is measured after the third position error has been compensated for, is equal to or greater than a reference magnitude.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a charging system using a wound rotor synchronous motor, capable of increasing a battery charging capacity while reducing the volume, weight, and/or cost of a vehicle increased due to an on-vehicle charging circuit. The charging system includes an inverter converting a DC output of a battery into a plurality of AC signals having different phases, a wound rotor synchronous motor having a plurality of stator coils, to which the AC signals having different phases are respectively input, and a field coil forming a mutual inductance with the stator coils, the field coil being installed in a rotor to form a magnetic flux using the DC output of the battery, and a controller allowing the battery and the field coil to be insulated from each other in a charge mode in which electricity from a grid is applied to the field coil of the wound rotor synchronous motor.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a charging system using a wound rotor synchronous motor (WRSM), capable of reducing volume, weight, and cost of a vehicle increased due to an on-board charging circuit and increasing a battery charge capacity. The charging system using a wound rotor synchronous motor (WRSM) includes an inverter converting power of a battery into alternating current (AC) powers having a plurality of different phases, a WRSM having a plurality of stator coils each receiving AC power of a different phase and a field coil forming mutual inductance with the plurality of stator coils and installed in a rotor to form a magnetic flux using power of the battery, and a controller controlling the battery side and the field coil side are insulated from each other in a charge mode in which grid power is applied to the field coil side of the WRSM.

Abstract: An apparatus for compensating for a position error of a resolver has a controller which is configured to: receive position information of a rotor of a motor, which is detected by the resolver, to measure a first position error, convert the first position error to a second position error at an electrical angular velocity of 0, and to store the second position error; receive a current electrical angular velocity and the second position error, convert the second position error to a third position error at the current electrical angular velocity, and compensate for the third position error; and perform determination of false position error compensation when a magnitude of a ripple at an electrical angular velocity, which is measured after the third position error has been compensated for, is equal to or greater than a reference magnitude.