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: 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 supporting device capable of being easily assembled and commonly supporting a washing machine, a dryer, and the like having different leg sizes and a laundry treating apparatus having the same. The laundry treating apparatus includes a laundry treating apparatus main body, a supporting device main body configured to support the laundry treating apparatus main body, a leg coupled to a bottom of the laundry treating apparatus main body, and a supporter installed in the supporting device main body, wherein the supporter includes a guide member configured to accommodate the leg and including an insertion groove, and a fixing member including a fixing protrusion to be inserted into the insertion groove, the fixing member being coupled to the guide member to fix the leg.

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 purpose of the present invention is to provide a terahertz detector using a field-effect transistor capable of implementing high sensitivity by exhibiting an asymmetric characteristic only with a form of a source/drain and a gate. To this end, the present invention relates to the terahertz detector using a field-effect transistor comprising: a source formed by being doped on a portion of a silicon base; a channel formed so as to encompass the source on a plane; a drain formed outside the channel; a dielectric layer formed on an upper end of the source, the channel and the drain; and a gate located at an upper end of the dielectric layer, wherein when terahertz electromagnetic waves are applied through the gate, the intensity of the electromagnetic waves is detected using a current/voltage outputted from the source and the drain.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a terahertz detector using a field-effect transistor capable of implementing high sensitivity by exhibiting an asymmetric characteristic only with a form of a source/drain and a gate. To this end, the present invention relates to the terahertz detector using a field-effect transistor comprising: a source formed by being doped on a portion of a silicon base; a channel formed so as to encompass the source on a plane; a drain formed outside the channel; a dielectric layer formed on an upper end of the source, the channel and the drain; and a gate located at an upper end of the dielectric layer, wherein when terahertz electromagnetic waves are applied through the gate, the intensity of the electromagnetic waves is detected using a current/voltage outputted from the source and the drain.

Abstract: An apparatus for and a method of generating a .pi./n-shifted n-DPSK modulation signal in a digital transfer system. Such apparatus and method are capable of determining both quadrature-phase and in-phase modulation signals from a single output value determination table. An output phase index is first determined from an output phase determination table, based on an index associated with a variation in phase occurring when serial binary data is converted into parallel data, along with a previous phase index. Based on the output phase index, a selected one of the quadrature-phase and in-phase modulation signals is determined from the output value determination table. After adjusting the output phase index, the remaining modulation signal is determined from the output value determination table. Accordingly, it is unnecessary to carry out complex calculations, such as sine function, cosine function and multiplication. In this regard, it is possible to more rapidly derive reliable modulated output signals.

Abstract: A smart card capable of adjusting voltages supplied from an external device. In the smart card, a voltage detector detects levels of the voltages supplied from the external device and generates enable signals, if the detected levels are lower than a predetermined level. A voltage controller converts levels of the voltages supplied from the external device into levels of operating voltages of the smart card, in response to the enable signals. A logic level converter converts logic levels of signals received from the external device into logic levels of the smart card, based on a voltage difference between the voltages from the external device and the converted operating voltages.

Abstract: Disclosed is a signal compression recording and reproducing method for cases wherein signals of similar frequency ranges occur sequentially. The method compresses a signal to record it without conversion into digital data, and then to reproduce the thus-compressed signal. The signal compression recording method determines a predetermined range, and detects an amplitude of a signal at a starting point, and a continuous period that the amplitude variation quantity from the starting point lasts within the upper and lower deviation limits, thereby recording the amplitude of the signal at the point and the continuous period. The signal reproducing method obtains the amplitude of the next signal and the current signal according to the state value, and reproduces the signal by the equation, ##EQU1## where m=1, 2, 3 . . . , a.sub.m .epsilon.{a.sub.1, a.sub.2, a.sub.3 . . . } (amplitude of the reproduced signal); n.sub.m .epsilon.{n.sub.1, n.sub.2, n.sub.3 . . . } (continuous period of the reproduced signal); N=1, 2 .