Abstract: A battery pack includes a cell module assembly including a battery cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked and each battery cell is erected in a vertical direction; a plate-shaped blocking member disposed between adjacent battery cells and erected in a vertical direction; a pack case configured so as to house the cell module assembly and opened at its upper surface; and a fire-fighting tank located above the cell module assembly and covering an upper surface of the pack case. The blocking member includes a plurality of openings at its upper end, and an inside of the blocking member includes an empty space connected to the plurality of openings.

Abstract: An operation method of a medical imaging apparatus for capturing an X-ray medical image is provided. The method includes receiving identification information of a user, receiving photographing mode selection information, determining that a photographing mode is an X-ray photographing mode for checking a health condition of an object on the basis of at least one of the identification information of the user and the photographing mode selection information, obtaining identification information of the object, determining an initial photographing position from among a plurality of predetermined photographing positions, and determining a photographing sequence of the plurality of predetermined photographing positions on the basis of the initial photographing position.

Abstract: An electrode assembly includes a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and an electrolyte layer between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein the electrolyte layer comprises: a polymer in the form of a network including a polyethylene oxide-based copolymer with cross-linkable functional groups, at least some of which form cross-links; a ceramic compound; and a polar compound, wherein the polar compound is contained in the network, and wherein the positive electrode comprises a positive electrode active material and a binder comprising the polymer including the polyethylene oxide-based copolymer having the cross-linkable functional groups.

Abstract: An image sensing device capable of detecting a distance to a target object according to a time-of-flight (TOF) method is disclosed. The image sensing device includes a plurality of light receiving elements each configured to generate a sensing voltage corresponding to a current pulse based on a photon reflected from a target object; a plurality of quenching circuits corresponding to the respective light receiving elements and each configured to output a pixel signal by controlling the sensing voltage from a corresponding light receiving element of the light receiving elements, and a readout circuit shared by the plurality of quenching circuits and configured to generate a readout signal by controlling a delay time of the pixel signal.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a scan driver, and a timing controller. The display panel includes pixels connected to scan lines and initialization lines. The scan driver includes first stages configured to supply enable scan signals to the scan lines during an active period of one frame, and second stages configured to supply enable initialization signals to the initialization lines during the active period and a blank period of the one frame. The timing controller is configured to supply scan clock signals and initialization clock signals to the scan driver. When the enable initialization signals are supplied in an overlapping manner to two of the initialization lines during the active period of a current frame, the enable scan signals having different widths are supplied to respective areas of the display panel.

Abstract: An electrolyte includes: a polymer in the form of a network structure formed of a polyethylene oxide-based copolymer containing cross-linkable functional groups and a cross-linking agent; a ceramic compound; and a polar compound, wherein at least a portion of the cross-linkable functional groups form cross-links with the cross-linking agent, wherein the polar compound is contained in the network structure, and wherein the cross-linking agent is included at a weight ratio of the cross-linking agent to the polyethylene oxide-based copolymer expressed as: f XL = W XL W P , wherein WXL is the weight of the cross-linking agent, WP is the weight of the polyethylene oxide-based copolymer, and fXL is 0.07 to 0.19.

Abstract: A display device can include at least one subpixel connected to a data line and a gate line; a first gate driving circuit connected to a first end of the gate line; a second gate driving circuit connected to a second end of the gate line, the second end being opposite to the first end. Also, the first and second gate driving circuits are configured to double feed gate pulses to the first and second ends of the gate line based on a first condition being satisfied, and single feed the gate pulse to only one of the first and second ends of the gate line based on a second condition being satisfied.

Abstract: A display device comprises a first electrode, a first insulating layer disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the first insulating layer, at least a part of the second electrode facing the first electrode in a first direction, one or more first light-emitting elements disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the one or more first light-emitting elements extending in a direction, wherein the first insulating layer partially encompasses the outer surface of the one or more first light-emitting element, and the extending direction of at least one of the one or more first light-emitting element is parallel to the first direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aerosol generating device used for payment of tobacco articles for aerosol generating devices, and a payment system using the same. An aerosol generating device according to an embodiment includes a heater, a battery configured to supply power to the heater, a communication unit configured to communicate with a seller terminal, and a controller configured to receive payment target tobacco article information from the communication unit, determine whether a payment target tobacco article is genuine based on the payment target tobacco article information, and transmit payment information to the seller terminal through the communication unit based on the payment target tobacco article being determined to be genuine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle NFC parking card equipped with an NFC chip and an NFC parking card application system for contacting a driver by tagging NFC, and a method by which a caller contacts a driver by using an NFC parking card equipped with an NFC chip, which is installed in a vehicle, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: when the caller tags the NFC parking card and accesses an NFC parking card application, sharing a unique identification number of the NFC parking card with the NFC parking card application so that driver information matching the tagged NFC parking card can be retrieved from a DB; searching the DB for a license plate number by using the shared unique identification number as a DB search value; retrieving the license plate number; sharing the retrieved license plate number with the caller; confirming, by the caller, the shared license plate number; transmitting a connection request to the driver; if the driver confirms and accepts the connection r

Abstract: Disclosed are a photo-acoustic sensor device and a photo-acoustic sensing method of the same. The sensing method includes providing a source light in a subject and receiving an ultrasonic wave generated in the subject by the source light. The source light may have a wavelength of 1400 nm to 2500 nm in a near-infrared band.

Abstract: The present disclosure in some embodiments provides an artificial intelligence or AI-based document classification apparatus and method for providing, based on a hierarchical attention network (HAN) and a semantic analysis technique, an evaluation of a document, and an explainable basis or supporting data for the evaluation, thereby generating an evaluation index for the document.

Abstract: Provided are both a superabsorbent polymer capable of continuously and safely exhibiting an improved bacterial growth inhibitory property and a deodorant property without deterioration in the physical properties of the superabsorbent polymer, such as water retention capacity, absorption under pressure, etc., as well as a preparation method for the superabsorbent polymer.

Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes a first cartridge including a first material and a delivery hole, a second cartridge including chambers for accommodating a second material through which an aerosol passes, a position of the second cartridge with respect to the first cartridge being changeable, a remaining amount sensor configured to detect a remaining amount of the first material, and a controller configured to determine a consumption amount at which the first material is consumed with respect to a usage chamber that currently passes the aerosol based on the detected remaining amount of the first material and to compare the consumption amount of the first material with a pre-set reference consumption amount of the first material with respect to the usage chamber, thereby determining a position changing time at which changing of a position of the second cartridge is required.

Abstract: A shoe care apparatus includes a main body, a moving body, and a blower. The moving body includes transparent windows including a first window, a second window, and a third window. The air in an accommodation space inside the shoe care apparatus can be controlled by the operation of the blower. Shoes are visible through the first window, the second window, and the third window, and are also visible, without obstruction, through a connection part of the first window and the second window and a connection part between the first window and the third window.

Abstract: To provide an additional image to a user, an electronic device receives data on a smoking event from an external device, generates image data including at least one graphic object corresponding to the smoking event based on data on the received smoking event, and provides an additional image to a user by outputting the image data on a display, wherein the additional image and a real scene corresponding to a field of view of the user are simultaneously observed by the user through the display.

Abstract: An insulator for a rechargeable battery is disclosed. The insulator may include: a first insulator including a plurality of first through holes; and a second insulator including a plurality of second through holes. A connection portion between a first one of the plurality of second through holes and an adjacent second one of the plurality of second through holes overlaps the first through hole.

Abstract: The aerosol generating device may include a heating structure configured to generate heat by surface plasmon resonance, and a concentrator configured to focus light on the heating structure.

Abstract: A shoes care device includes a connection path forming a flow path through which air in the accommodation space is introduced, and then discharged to the accommodation space again; a blowing part disposed in the connection path and blowing air; a dehumidifying part disposed in the connection path and dehumidifying air; a heating part disposed in the connection path and heating air; a regeneration path configured to move the air heated by the heating part therein, and being a flow path branched from the connection path; and a controller controlling a drying stroke in which the air is moved and humidified along the connection path to dry the accommodation space, and a regeneration stroke in which the air is moved and humidified along the regeneration path to regenerate the dehumidifying part to be selectively performed, and the controller controls the regeneration stroke to be performed earlier than the drying stroke.

Abstract: A vehicle body assembly includes a cross member configured to connect side members disposed at two opposite sides of a chassis frame of a vehicle. A battery is fastened to the cross member and the battery is fastened to a reinforcement member provided on a floor panel of a vehicle body and fastened to the cross member of the chassis frame. The battery may be installed in and removed from the vehicle in accordance with a user's needs that change even after the vehicle is manufactured, the battery of the vehicle may be replaced even after the vehicle is manufactured, and structural durability may be realized.