Abstract: A shoe care apparatus includes an inner cabinet, an inlet, an outlet, a connection passage, a heater, a blower, and a desiccant block. The air inside the inner cabinet flows into the connection passage through the inlet, and is discharged back into the inner cabinet through the outlet after being dehumidified by the desiccant block while circulating inside the shoe care apparatus. The heater is located in the inner space of the desiccant block to recycle the desiccant of the desiccant block.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a contactless card including an actuation security structure that is actuated to provide authorization in accessing identifying information on an integrated circuit within the contactless card. In at least one embodiment, the actuation security structure includes a pair of conductive layers and a pair of electrodes. Ends of the pair of conductive layers overlap respective ones of the pair of electrodes. The ends of the pair of conductive layers are at and in a first elastically deformable region and the respective ones of the pair of electrodes are at and in a second elastically deformable region. An owner of the contactless card may provide authorization to access the identification information on the contactless card by applying force to both the first and second elastically deformable regions inward resulting in the ends of the conductive layers moving into electrical communication with the pair of electrodes.

Abstract: A shoes care device includes an inner cabinet and a module housing. A blowing part, a heating part, and a dehumidifying part are jointly accommodated in a module chamber inside a module housing, and the module housing is detachably coupled to a lower side of the inner cabinet. A shoes care device having a structure in which condensed water generated while passing through the blowing part, the heating part, and/or the dehumidifying part can be prevented from being leaked, and it is advantageous for leakage management, and the module housing and a component accommodated therein are easily managed and replaced.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of preparing an organic zinc catalyst through solid phase blending that does not require a solvent and a washing process, and a method of preparing a polyalkylene carbonate resin by using the organic zinc catalyst prepared thereby.

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: A bitline sense amplifier including: an amplifier which is connected between a first sensing bitline and a second sensing bitline, and detects and amplifies a voltage difference between a first bitline and a second bitline in response to a first control signal and a second control signal; and an equalizer which is connected between a first supply line through which the first control signal is supplied and a second supply line through which the second control signal is supplied, and pre-charges the first bitline and the second bitline with a precharge voltage in response to an equalizing control signal, wherein the equalizer includes an equalizing enable transistor in which a source terminal is connected to the first supply line and performs equalizing in response to the equalizing control signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound capable of lowering the flammability of a non-aqueous electrolyte when included in the non-aqueous electrolyte and improving the life properties of a battery by forming an electrode-electrolyte interface which is stable at high temperatures and low in resistance, and relates to a compound represented by Formula I descried herein, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution and a lithium secondary battery both including the compound, n, m, Ak, and X are described herein.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composite for forming a coacervate interfacial film. The composite for forming the coacervate interfacial film contains a cationic hectorite nanoplate-shaped particle structure containing a hectorite nanoplate-shaped particle and a cationic surfactant coupled to a surface of the hectorite nanoplate-shaped particle, and an anionic cellulose nanofibril containing an anionic functional group in at least a portion thereof, in which the composite may form the coacervate interfacial film at an interface of an oil phase and a water phase through electrostatic interaction between the cationic surfactant and the anionic functional group.

Abstract: Disclosed are a thermoplastic elastomeric composition for vehicle mounts which has improved surface energy and compression set while solving reduction in wear strength, by blending EPDM rubber, polypropylene, silicon, and poly(styrene-ethylene-butadiene-styrene) (SEBS) in appropriate amounts, and a molded article including the same.

Abstract: A method for estimating battery cell capacity may comprise deriving a discharge curve for each battery cell included in a module including a plurality of battery cells; deriving a charge curve for each battery cell included in the module; calculating an additional dischargeable capacity of a second battery cell based on a pattern of the discharge curve of a first battery cell; calculating an additional chargeable capacity of the second battery cell based on the transition of the charge curve of the first battery cell; and calculating a capacity of the second battery cell based on the additional dischargeable capacity and the additional chargeable capacity of the second battery cell.

Abstract: A data receiving device may include a dummy stage block. The dummy stage block may include m dummy stages, wherein m is a natural number greater than or equal to two. Each of the m dummy stages may be configured to remove inter-symbol interference (ISI) from a dummy input signal using dummy coefficient information to generate a dummy output signal free of the ISI. Each of the m dummy stages may be further configured to output the dummy output signal. A normal stage block may include n normal stages, wherein n is a natural number greater than or equal to two. Each of the n normal stages may be configured to remove ISI from an input signal using coefficient information to generate an output signal free of the ISI and may be further configured to output the output signal.

Abstract: In one example, a semiconductor device comprises a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, an electronic device on the bottom surface of the substrate, a leadframe on the bottom surface of the substrate, the leadframe comprising a paddle, wherein the paddle is coupled to the electronic device, and a lead electrically coupled to the electronic device. The semiconductor device further comprises a first protective material contacting the bottom surface of the substrate and a side surface of the electronic device.

Abstract: The present invention may provide a motor including a shaft, a rotor coupled to the shaft, a stator disposed to correspond to the rotor, and a busbar disposed above the stator, wherein the stator includes a stator core and coils, the busbar includes a terminal connected to the coils, the terminal includes bodies and a plurality of connection ends which extend from the bodies and are in contact with end portions of the coils, a plurality of extension parts extending from the plurality of bodies are combined to constitute any one of the plurality of connection ends, and the plurality of extension parts are in contact with the same end portion of the coil.

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: A content sharing method performed by a computer apparatus including processing circuitry, the method including providing, by the processing circuitry, an interface in response to a user input during a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) call, a user of the computer apparatus participating in the VoIP call, generating, by the processing circuitry, metadata of a VoIP call packet in response to a share request for content specified through the interface, the metadata including data corresponding to the share request, sending, by the processing circuitry, the metadata to another user participating in the VoIP call, and displaying, by the processing circuitry, a playback screen of the content with a call screen of the VoIP call, the content being shared during the VoIP call between the computer apparatus and another computer apparatus of the other user using the metadata.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a microorganism for producing putrescine and a method for producing putrescine by using same.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor light emitting device including: A semiconductor light emitting device comprising: a semiconductor light emitting device chip including a plurality of semiconductor layers, and electrodes electrically connected to the plurality of semiconductor layers, the plurality of semiconductor layers including an active layer adapted to generate light by recombination of electrons and holes; an encapsulating member of a lens shape made of a light-transmitting thermoplastic resin having at least 90% transmissivity for light of a wavelength band ranging from 100 nm to 400 nm, for surrounding the semiconductor light emitting device chip; and an external substrate including conductive layers electrically connected to the electrodes of the semiconductor light emitting device chip. The encapsulating member is formed in a way that all faces of the encapsulating member are exposed to outside, except for a portion of the lower face thereof in contact with the external substrate.

Abstract: A polyethylene glycol derivative compound is represented by Formula 1 described in the detailed description. In Formula 1, n is a natural number of 30 to 115, and R1 and R2 are C1 to C5 alkyl that are identical to or different from each other.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a polarizing plate and an optical display apparatus including the same. A polarizing plate includes: a polarizer; and a patterned portion including a first resin layer and a second resin layer stacked on at least one surface of the polarizer and having different indexes of refraction, and the first resin layer is a patterned layer including: multiple first optical patterns formed at intervals at an interface with the second resin layer; and one or more second optical patterns formed between each pair of adjacent first optical patterns, and the first optical pattern and the second optical pattern satisfy Relations 1 to 3 set forth herein.

Abstract: Disclosed is a reaction display method performed by a computer apparatus including processing circuitry, the reaction display method including displaying, by the processing circuitry, a content sharing screen with a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) call screen during a VoIP call, the content sharing screen including shared media content, and a user of the computer apparatus participating in the VoIP call, receiving, by the processing circuitry, a position at which a reaction is input from the user during the VoIP call, sending reaction information and the position to at least one other user participating in the VoIP call, the reaction information corresponding to the reaction, and displaying an indication of the reaction on the VoIP call screen or the content sharing screen based on the position.