Abstract: An implantable lead having adjustable electrode locations and a system for controlling the same. The implantable lead may include a plurality of first electrodes exposed and formed at an upper part of a main body at given intervals, a plurality of second electrodes coupled to a stepped lower part of the main body and configured to deliver a stimulus signal to a core area into which the lead is inserted, and a plurality of signal lines embedded in the main body and configured to connect the first electrodes and the second electrodes in a one-to-one manner. In this case, a slot for coupling and up and down movement of the second electrodes may be formed in the lower part. As the second electrodes are individually moved along the slot by an external force acting on the signal lines, locations of the second electrodes in the lower part may be adjusted.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method for preparing amino acid granules from a fermentation broth, wherein the prepared amino acid granules contain no cells.

Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a chuck configured to receive a carrier thereon, a carrier contact device configured to contact the carrier on the chuck, and a bonding head configured to transfer a semiconductor die to the carrier and configured to attach the semiconductor die on the carrier. The chuck includes a chuck reference key positioned at an edge portion thereof. The carrier contact device includes a contact position recognition key. The semiconductor manufacturing apparatus also includes a camera configured to obtaining images of the chuck reference key and the contact position recognition key.

Abstract: There is provided a method for collecting and reusing an active material from positive electrode scrap. The positive electrode active material reuse method of the present disclosure includes (a) thermally treating positive electrode scrap comprising an active material layer on a current collector in air for thermal decomposition of a binder and a conductive material in the active material layer, to separate the current collector from the active material layer, and collecting an active material in the active material layer, (b) washing the collected active material using a lithium precursor aqueous solution which is basic in an aqueous solution and drying, and (c) annealing the washed active material to obtain a reusable active material.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a recycled positive electrode active material, a method of producing the recycled positive electrode active material, and a secondary battery including the same. The recycled positive electrode active material, including: 60 mol % or more of Ni; and crystalline LiF, or 0.24% by weight or less of residual Li2CO3, where the recycled positive electrode active material is one or more selected from the group consisting of a lithium nickel oxide (LNO)-based positive electrode active material, a nickel·cobalt·manganese (NCM)-based positive electrode active material, a nickel·cobalt·aluminum (NCA)-based positive electrode active material, and a nickel·cobalt·manganese·aluminum (NCMA)-based positive electrode active material.

Abstract: A method of detecting a heart rate using a photoplethysmography (PPG) signal with a removed motion artifact includes receiving, by a heart rate measurement device, a PPG signal and an acceleration signal; converting, by the heart rate measurement device, the PPG signal and the acceleration signal into signals in a frequency domain; calculating, by the heart rate measurement device, a difference between the PPG signal and the acceleration signal in the frequency domain and obtaining a PPG signal with a removed motion artifact; and estimating, by the heart rate measurement device, a heart rate based on the PPG signal with the removed motion artifact.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a recycled cathode active material, a method of producing the same, and a secondary battery including the same. Specifically, the method of producing a recycled cathode active material according to the present disclosure includes: step (a) of separating a current collector from a cathode active material layer and recovering a cathode active material in the cathode active material layer by thermally decomposing a binder and a conductive material in the cathode active material layer by heat-treating a waste cathode including the current collector and the cathode active material layer formed on the current collector; and step (b) of adding a lithium precursor and a cobalt-containing coating agent to the recovered cathode active material and performing annealing.

Abstract: A muscular strength assisting apparatus includes a muscular strength assisting portion that assists a user's muscular strength and a first connecting link including one side connected to one side of the muscular strength assisting portion and an opposite side rotatable relative to a shoulder of the user about a first rotation axis. The muscular strength assisting portion includes an upper arm module that assists muscular strength of an upper arm of the user and a link assembly including one side connected to one side of the upper arm module to be rotatable about a second rotation axis non-parallel to the first rotation axis and an opposite side disposed adjacent to a portion of a body of the user to be supported on the user.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an isolated anti-FcRN antibody, which is an antibody binding to FcRN (stands for neonatal Fc receptor, also called FcRP, FcRB or Brambell receptor) that is a receptor with a high affinity for IgG or a fragment thereof, a method of preparing thereof, a composition for treating autoimmune disease, which comprises the antibody, and a method of treating and diagnosing autoimmunre diseases using the antibody. The FcRn-specific antibody according to the present disclosure binds to FcRn non-competitively with IgG to reduce serum pathogenic auto-antibody levels, and thus can be used for the treatment of autoimmune diseases.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a recycled positive electrode active material, a method of producing the recycled positive electrode active material, and a secondary battery including the same. The recycled positive electrode active material, including: 60 mol % or more of Ni, 250 mg/kg or less of fluorine (F), and having a crystallite size of 122 nm or less, where the recycled positive electrode active material is one or more selected from the group consisting of a lithium nickel oxide (LNO)-based positive electrode active material, a nickel·cobalt·manganese (NCM)-based positive electrode active material, a nickel·cobalt·aluminum (NCA)-based positive electrode active material, and a nickel·cobalt·manganese·aluminum (NCMA)-based positive electrode active material.

Abstract: Provided are a composite separator including a coating layer including inorganic particles and a binder formed on a porous substrate, which has improved coatability and improved thermal shrinkage, and a lithium secondary battery using the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cured product having excellent stain resistance and low gloss, a method of manufacturing the same, and an interior material including the cured product. The cured product according to the present invention includes, along with an acrylic oligomer, an oligomer having a functional group containing silicon (Si) and an oligomer having a functional group containing fluorine (F), and thus, has excellent stain resistance and can implement a micro-folded structure on a surface thereof through extreme ultraviolet rays to be used during curing, thereby being capable of realizing low gloss without a matting agent.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a substrate; a lower structure including a sealing layer on the substrate and a support layer on the sealing layer, the sealing layer and the support layer both including a semiconductor material; a mold structure on the lower structure and having an interlayer insulating film and a conductive film alternately stacked therein; a channel hole penetrating the mold structure; a channel structure extending along sidewalls of the channel hole; an isolation trench penetrating the mold structure and extending into the lower structure; and a poly liner extending along sidewalls of the isolation trench, the poly liner being connected to the lower structure and including the semiconductor material.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composite electrolyte membrane and a method of manufacturing the same. A catalyst composite layer in the composite electrolyte membrane uniformly includes a catalyst and an antioxidant, whereby it is possible to inhibit generation of hydrogen peroxide by side reaction. In addition, the catalyst composite layer is formed as a separate layer, whereby the catalyst composite layer is instead degraded, greatly inhibiting membrane degradation even in the case in which radicals attack an ionomer due to small side reaction. Furthermore, it is possible to control the position of the catalyst composite layer including the catalyst and the antioxidant by adjusting the thicknesses of a second ion exchange layer and the catalyst composite layer, whereby it is possible to protect a specific degradation position, and therefore it is possible to efficiently improve membrane durability.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a pixel that includes sub-pixels for emitting light in respective colors, and a driver configured to adjust a current amount flowing through the sub-pixels and to adjust an emission duty of the sub-pixels, drive one sub-pixel among the sub-pixels having a luminance with a first current amount and with a first emission duty when a color coordinate of an image expressed by the pixel is within a reference color space, and drive the one sub-pixel having the luminance with a second current amount that is greater than the first current amount and with a second emission duty that is less than the first emission duty when the color coordinate is outside of the reference color space.

Abstract: An image sensor includes; a substrate including a first surface and a second surface; a first pixel region; a second pixel region; a third pixel region; a first lens on the first pixel region; a second lens on the second pixel region and the third pixel region; an element separation film in the substrate and being interposed between the first pixel region and the second pixel region; a first color filter to transmit light focused by the second lens to the second pixel region and the third pixel region; a color filter grid forming a region in which the first color filter is provided. The color filter grid includes a metal layer; and a protective film on the color filter grid and in contact with the first lens and the second lens. The first lens is on the second surface.

Abstract: A negative electrode including: a current collector; a first negative electrode active material layer positioned on at least one surface of the current collector for a negative electrode and containing a first carbonaceous active material; and a second negative electrode active material layer positioned on a surface of the first negative electrode active material layer and containing a silicon-based active material and carbon nanotubes. A lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode is also disclosed.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; and a panel driver that drives the display panel at a target refresh rate different from a previous refresh rate. The panel driver includes: a comparator which compares a difference value between the previous refresh rate and the target refresh rate with a reference value generated by multiplying the previous refresh rate by a predetermined reference percentage; and a determiner which determines a final count of at least one compensation frame to be inserted between a previous driving frame operating at the previous refresh rate and a target driving frame operating at the target refresh rate when the difference value is not less than the reference value, where the final count is a total number of the at least one compensation frame, and a natural number.

Abstract: Disclosed are an electrolyte membrane of a membrane-electrode assembly including an electronic insulation layer, which greatly improves the durability of the electrolyte membrane, and a method of preparing the same. The electrolyte membrane includes an ion exchange layer and an electronic insulation layer provided on the ion exchange layer, and the electronic insulation layer includes one or more catalyst complexes, and a second ionomer. Particularly, each of the one or more catalyst complex includes a catalyst particle and a first ionomer coated on the entirety or a portion of the surface of the catalyst particle, and the one or more catalyst complexes are dispersed the second ionomer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a three-dimensional (3D) printing system for manufacturing an artificial blood vessel and a method for manufacturing an artificial blood vessel using the same, wherein a cylindrical support having a hollow 3D porous structure including a thermoplastic polymer is manufactured and vertically fixed, and a hydrogel divided into at least two sections is discharged into the support, thereby maintaining the structure and shape constantly even after printing and manufacturing an artificial blood vessel having a hollow multilayered structure.