Abstract: An aerosol generating article includes a front-end plug configured to introduce external air into the aerosol generating article, a tobacco medium portion including a tobacco material in the form of granules, and a filter unit arranged at a position opposite the front-end plug across the tobacco medium portion, wherein the tobacco material has a pH value of 7 to 11.

Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes an aerosol forming substrate accommodation portion including an aerosol forming substrate and configured to generate heat by a surface plasmon resonance, and a light source configured to irradiate light toward the aerosol forming substrate accommodation portion. The light irradiated by the light source may cause the surface plasmon resonance.

Abstract: A battery can include an electrode assembly, a battery housing, a terminal and a cap. The electrode assembly can have a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode. Each of the first electrode and the second electrode can have a first portion including an active material corresponding to the separator, and a second portion exposed beyond the separator and not coated with the active material. The battery housing can have a first end with a first opening and a second end with a second opening opposite the first end. The terminal can be electrically connected to the second portion of the first electrode and exposed out of the battery housing through the first opening of the battery housing at the first end.

Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes a first cartridge configured to accommodate a first smokable material and comprising a delivery hole through which an aerosol generated from the first smokable material is delivered; a second cartridge comprising a plurality of chambers for accommodating a second smokable material through which the aerosol delivered from the first cartridge passes, and movably coupled to the first cartridge such that a position of the second cartridge with respect to the first cartridge is changeable; a magnetic body arranged in one of the second cartridge and the first cartridge; and an electromagnet arranged in the other of the second cartridge and the first cartridge to face the magnetic body, and configured to generate magnetism toward the magnetic body such that one of the plurality of chambers is aligned with the delivery hole to form a flow path to a mouthpiece.

Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes an aerosol delivering device including a first cartridge in which a first material for generating an aerosol is accommodated, and a second cartridge rotatably coupled to the first cartridge, configured to accommodate a second material, and arranged such that an aerosol generated from the first material passes through the second material, and an atomizer that is connected to the first cartridge and configured to generate the aerosol by atomizing the first material and deliver the aerosol to the second cartridge.

Abstract: A wearable device includes a housing, a biometric information obtainer that is provided on one surface of the housing and obtains biometric information of a user, a functional material cartridge that is accommodated in the housing and stores a functional material, a mouthpiece connected to the functional material cartridge and configured to discharge the functional material, and a controller that provides a recommendation on inhalation of a functional material based on the biometric information obtained by the biometric information obtainer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a specific stacked composition of a multi-layer film which is mainly used as a sealant layer of a cell pouch, has excellent adhesive performance, and simultaneously satisfies moldability in post-processing. The present invention provides a polypropylene-based multi-layer film including a skin layer including (a) a propylene-based binary copolymer, modified polyolefin, and (e) an anti-blocking agent, a core layer including (b1) an ethylene propylene block copolymer, and (c) an amorphous propylene rubber, and a seal layer including (a) a propylene-based binary copolymer, (b2) an ethylene propylene block copolymer, (d) a slip agent, and (e) an anti-blocking agent.

Abstract: A battery, includes an electrode assembly having a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator, wherein each of the first electrode and the second electrode has a first portion including an active material corresponding to the separator, and a second portion exposed beyond the separator and not coated with the active material; a battery housing having a first end with a first opening and a second end with a second opening opposite the first end, the battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly through the second opening at the second end and electrically connected to the second portion of the second electrode; a terminal electrically connected to the second portion of the first electrode and exposed out of the battery housing through the first opening of the battery housing at the first end; and a cap covering and sealing the second opening at the second end of the battery housing.

Abstract: A refrigerator for drinks may include a cabinet and a cooling guide transmitting coldness to a drink container stored in an erect state in the cabinet. Several coolers may be disposed for cooling guides and may cool the cooling guides, respectively, and dispenser nozzles may be disposed to be exposed outside the cabinet, whereby drinks may be dispensed. A surface of a cooling block facing a thermoelectric element of the cooler and a surface of the cooling block facing the cooling guide may have different areas.

Abstract: A wearable device for providing a smoking effect is provided. The wearable device includes a first stimulus member disposed in a position corresponding to a first region of a user and configured to provide electrical stimulation and a second stimulus member disposed in a position corresponding to a second region of the user and configured to provide sound stimulation, wherein the first stimulus member or the second stimulus member is configured to provide a stimulus signal that induces an alertness state capable of implementing a smoking effect.

Abstract: A method of controlling a portable device including first and second touch screens is provided. The method includes displaying first information related to a first application on the first touch screen and displaying second information related to the first application on the second touch screen; receiving a first user input moving to the first touch screen on the second touch screen; and replacing the first information and the second information with a third information and a fourth information related to the first application on the first and second touch screens, in response to receiving the first user input, wherein each of the third information and the fourth information is displayed while being slidden from the second touch screen to the first touch screen and the third information is displayed over a boundary between the first and second screens during the sliding of the third and fourth information.

Abstract: A heating structure includes a wick having a first side, a second side opposite to the first side, and an outer surface between the first side and the second side, wherein the wick may include a plurality of dimples formed on the outer surface and not penetrating through the third side, and a coil wound along the outer surface between the first side and the second side.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a reusable positive electrode active material, including the steps of: dipping a stack cell including a stacked and integrated positive electrode plate, separator and negative electrode plate, in a polar solvent to separate the positive electrode plate; heat treating the separated positive electrode plate to perform thermal decomposition of a binder and a conductive material in a positive electrode material layer of the positive electrode plate, separating a current collector from the positive electrode plate and recovering an active material from the positive electrode active material layer; washing the recovered active material with an aqueous lithium compound solution showing alkalinity in an aqueous solution state; and adding a lithium precursor to the washed active material and carrying out annealing to obtain a reusable positive electrode active material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for vitrification and thawing of oocytes of animals for somatic cell cloning. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a method for vitrification and thawing of canine oocytes, and to thus produced frozen-thawed oocytes. In a conventional approach of the vitrification-frozen oocyte production for the dog, an estrous cycle may not coincide with an experimental schedule. However, the method for vitrification and thawing of the canine oocyte according to the present disclosure and the resulting frozen-thawed oocyte allows an experimental schedule to coincide with the estrous cycle, resulting in high nuclear transfer and fertilization effects.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. 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 a first portion coated with an active material and a second portion at a first side and adjacent the first portion, the second portion being exposed beyond the separator along a first axial direction of the electrode assembly. A part of the second portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly forming a first surface region including stacked layers of the second portion, and in a partial region of the first surface region, a number of the stacked layers of the second portion is 10 or more in the in the first axial direction.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, second electrode, and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode including a first region coated with an active material and a second region at a first side and adjacent to the first region, the second region being exposed beyond the separator, and at least part of the second region is an electrode tab; a housing including a first end with a first opening, the housing accommodating the electrode assembly; a first current collector including an edge portion on the electrode assembly, a second region coupling portion extending from the edge portion and coupled with the second region, and a terminal coupling portion spaced apart from the second region coupling portion; and a terminal coupled with the terminal coupling portion.

Abstract: A shoe management device has a housing forming an exterior appearance, an inner space provided inside of a housing body of the housing, and a cover to open or close the housing body. A shoe may be provided inside of the inner space, and dust and foreign matter on the shoe may be removed by agitators and an air flow provided by an air generator. In addition, moisture and germs inside the shoe are removed by hot air, an ultraviolet ray, and plasma ions provided by a care device.

Abstract: A memory system according to the present technology may include a plurality of memory devices including a plurality of blocks configured of memory cells and a memory controller configured to control the plurality of memory devices corresponding to a plurality of zones by configuring the plurality of zones with the plurality of blocks included in each of the plurality of memory devices, wherein the memory controller is further configured to: receive a write request from a host, determine a target zone indicated by the write request among the plurality of zones, and determine a logical address of the target zone on which a write operation is to be started based on a write pointer and an offset corresponding to the target zone.

Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes a housing, a battery disposed in the housing and configured to supply power, an aerosol generator configured to receive the power from the battery and activate aerosol generation, a biometric information obtainer exposed to an outside of the housing and configured to obtain biometric information of a user, and a controller configured to perform authentication of the user based on the biometric information and activate the aerosol generator based on a result of the authentication.

Abstract: A display device may include a pixel that includes a first transistor, a second transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a first scan line, and first and second electrodes, a third transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a second scan line, and first and second electrodes, a fourth transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a third scan line, and first and second electrodes, a fifth transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a fourth scan line, and first and second electrodes, a sixth transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a fifth scan line, and first and second electrodes, and a first capacitor. The display device may be, during a first period of a frame period, to concurrently apply a turn-on level scan signal to the third scan line, and apply turn-off level scan signals to the first, second, fourth and fifth scan lines.