Abstract: An electronic device and a method for charging a battery of the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a housing; a battery disposed within the housing; a first interface electrically or electromagnetically connected to a first external power source; a second interface electrically or electromagnetically connected to a second external power source; and a circuit electrically connected to the battery, the first interface, and the second interface, wherein the circuit changes a first voltage output from the first interface based on a second voltage output from the second interface, changes a first current output from the first interface based on a second current output from the second interface, and charges the battery based on the changed first current and second current.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a coil loading board includes following steps: providing a first plate configured single-side adhesive and double-side adhesive on both sides thereof; defining a first slot, a first through hole, a first connection hole and a groove through both sides of the first plate; providing a second plate configured double-die adhesive on a side thereof; forming a second slot, a second through hole and a second connection hole through both sides of the second plate; fixing the first plate and the second plate together; removing the single-side adhesive of the first plate.

Abstract: Provided are a clustering method using broadcast content and broadcast related data and a user terminal to perform the method, the clustering method including creating a story graph with respect to each of a plurality of scenes associated with broadcast content based on the broadcast content and broadcast related data, and creating a cluster of a scene based on the created story graph.

Abstract: Provided are an airborne microbial measurement apparatus and a method of measuring the same. The airborne microbial measurement apparatus includes a particle separation device including a main body having a flow space in which airborne microorganism flows and a collection unit separably coupled to one side of the main body to collect the airborne microorganism, a reagent container in which a lysis reagent reacting with the airborne microorganism collected in the collection unit and a luminous material are stored, and a luminescence measurement device for measuring intensity of light emitted after the airborne microorganism reacts with the lysis reagent and the luminous material.

Abstract: A home security system may infer a mode of operation based on indications it receives regarding a user's behavior. The disclosed implementations provide for a vacation mode of operation that defines a response for a security event that differs from the response that would be provided by the home security system for the same security event if it operated in another mode such as an away mode.

Abstract: A screen position sensing method in a multi display system, a content configuring method, a watermark image generating method for sensing a screen position, a server, and a display terminal are provided. A screen position sensing method in a multi display system performed by a sensing server may include receiving identification information of display terminals from a display server, receiving an image output by each of the display terminals from a camera, and determining a screen position of each of the display terminals based on a watermark included in the image of the display terminals and the received identification information.

Abstract: A weld nut is provided and is welded to a base material through a nut insertion aperture formed within the base material. The weld nut includes a nut body that forms an appearance of a weld nut, and an insertion component that is formed to integrally protrude from the first surface of the nut body and inserted into the nut insertion aperture. Additionally, a bolt fastening aperture is formed to penetrate through the center of the nut body together with the insertion component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cell for felt electrode characterization which analyzes a characteristic of a felt electrode used in a redox flow battery. According to the present invention, the cell for felt electrode characterization can accurately analyze an electrical characteristic of the felt electrode by adjusting contact strength applied to the working electrode to be constant by adjusting the thickness of the first support that supports one side of the working electrode.

Abstract: A plasmonic device having a transparent conducting oxide (TCO) waveguide and a tunable voltage applied across the TCO and a metal layer for modulating an input optical signal.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including drivers is disclosed, which can maximize driving ability of a plurality of drivers installed in a given region when the plurality of drivers is arranged in an array shape. The semiconductor device includes: a first active region; a second active region spaced apart from the first active region a predetermined distance in a first direction; a first gate finger group located in the first active region, and configured to include an odd number of gate fingers; and a second gate finger group located in the second active region, and configured to include an even number of gate fingers electrically coupled to the gate fingers of the first gate finger group.

Abstract: A Sustained Thermal Power Envelope may be generated by monitoring a circuitry-level temperature in a portable computing device, monitoring a skin temperature of the portable computing device, monitoring an ambient temperature, operating the portable computing device during multiple time periods during which a circuitry-level temperature remains substantially constant, determining an average skin temperature during each time period, adjusting the skin temperature data by subtracting the ambient temperature, and generating data pairs of adjusted skin temperature and the power consumed during the time period.

Abstract: Provided is an interfacial polymerization process for preparation of a thin film composite membrane, which can be used for nanofiltration, forward osmosis, or reverse osmosis, particularly for use with brackish water or seawater. The process includes contacting a porous support membrane with an aqueous phase containing a polyamine to form a coated support membrane, and applying an organic phase containing a polyfunctional acyl halide to the coated support membrane to interfacially polymerize the polyamine and the polyfunctional acyl halide to form a discrimination layer of a thin film composite membrane, where during formation of the membrane, the polyfunctional acyl halide is purified in situ by removal of hydrolyzed acyl halide through addition of a salt rejection-enhancing additive that includes a biguanide compound, dicarbonate compound, pentathiodicarbonate compound, or salt thereof. Also provided are the membranes prepared by the methods and reverse osmosis modules containing the membranes.

Abstract: There is provided a manufacturing method of an electrode assembly, the method including blanking a first electrode from a first base including a first coated region and a first uncoated region, blanking a second electrode from a second base including a second coated region and a second uncoated region, laminating a separator on the second electrode, cutting the laminated second electrode with the separator, and stacking the laminated second electrode and the first electrode.

Abstract: In some aspects, mutant or variant Fc domains are provided that can exhibit increased affinity or selectivity for Fc?RIIB. The variant Fc domain may be a mutant IgG1 Fc domain. In some embodiments, a mutant or variant Fc domain may be present in a therapeutic antibody such as, e.g., an agonistic antibody. Additional methods for using and identifying mutant Fc domains are also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure concerns embodiments of an implantable device that are used to treat an insufficient heart valve that has been previously treated by implantation of a fixation device or an Alfieri stitch that is secured to opposing portions of the native leaflets. In one representative embodiment, an implantable device for remodeling a native mitral valve having two native leaflets and a fixation device or an Alfieri stitch secured to respective free edges of the leaflets is configured to be coupled to the fixation device or Alfieri stitch and apply a remodeling force to the native mitral valve that draws the native leaflets toward each other to promote coaptation of the leaflets.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a lower structure including a lower conductor, an upper structure having an opening exposing the lower conductor on the lower structure, and a connection structure filling the opening and connected to the lower conductor. The connection structure includes a first tungsten layer covering an inner surface of the opening and defining a recess region in the opening, and a second tungsten layer filling the recess region on the first tungsten layer. A grain size of the second tungsten layer in an upper portion of the connection structure is greater than a grain size of the second tungsten layer in a lower portion of the connection structure.

Abstract: Radio devices for wireless transmission including an integrated adjustable mount allowing mounting to a pole or stand and adjustment of the angle of the device (e.g., the altitude). The device may include a compact array antenna having a high gain configured to operate in, for example, the 5.15 to 5.85 GHz band and/or the 2.40-2.48 GHz band. The antenna emitters may be arranged in a separate plane from a plane containing the antenna feed connecting the emitting elements and also from a ground plane. The antenna array may be contained within a protective weatherproof housing along with the radio control circuitry.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical fiber laser device including a seed unit for providing at least two seed lights having different wavelengths; and an amplifying unit for amplifying the at least two seed lights. The amplifying unit includes: a preamplifying unit for amplifying the at least two seed lights by using excitation light of which the wavelength is shorter than the wavelengths of the seed lights; and a final amplifying unit to which no separate excitation light source is provided. The final amplifying unit amplifies the seed light having the longest wavelength by using the other seed light as excitation light with respect to the seed light having the longest wavelength among the at least two seed light.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing metal oxide-grown carbon fibers including immersing carbon fibers in a solution for forming a metal oxide seed layer and electrodepositing a metal oxide seed on the surfaces of carbon fibers, or irradiating microwave thereto to form a metal oxide seed layer, and irradiating microwave to the metal oxide seed layer-formed carbon fibers to grow metal oxide. The method for manufacturing metal oxide-grown carbon fibers can reduce process time, and improve process energy efficiency and production efficiency. The method for manufacturing metal oxide-grown carbon fibers can offer metal oxide-grown carbon fibers with improved interfacial shear stress.

Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, a plurality of organic light emitting elements on the substrate, an encapsulation substrate covering the organic light emitting elements, and a scattering layer including a resin, and a plurality of scattering particles distributed in the resin, and including a variety of particle sizes in a first range from about 500 nm to about 800 nm, wherein ones of the scattering particles having a first particle size include a highest concentration of the scattering particles, and wherein a concentration of other ones of the scattering particles is inversely proportional to a magnitude of a difference in particle size between the other ones of the scattering particles and the ones of the scattering particles having the first particle size.