Abstract: A method for manufacturing a flexible printed circuit board includes preliminarily thermally deforming s substrate through heating, forming a circuit pattern with a conductive paste on the preliminarily thermally deformed substrate, and firing the circuit pattern. A flexible printed circuit board includes a substrate, and a circuit pattern formed by firing a conductive paste on a first surface of the substrate. The substrate is preliminarily thermally deformed and, thus, a shrinkage variation thereof before and after firing the conductive paste is zero. Dimensional stability when firing the circuit pattern printed with the conductive paste can be ensured, deterioration of adhesion between the circuit pattern and the substrate attributable to film deformation upon firing can be prevented, and stable adhesion of the circuit pattern can be maintained even after firing.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical sensor includes forming a reflective metal layer on a substrate, forming an insulator layer on the reflective metal layer, inducing self-assembly of a metal nanostructure layer on the insulator layer, and selectively etching the insulator layer through a reactive ion etching process to form a plurality of pillars and a plurality of spaces defined by the plurality of pillars. The method for manufacturing a plasmonic optical sensor according to this embodiment facilitates the formation of nanostructures difficult to pattern and form on the large scale at a low cost, and provides a plasmonic optical sensor with repeatability.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel pump for vehicle supplying power to a commutator and an armature through a brush to prevent the brush from shake, which comprises the brush, a spring mounted on a top of the brush, the commutator contacted to a bottom of the brush, a brush holder surrounding the brush and the spring, and a first hole formed for fuel flow at a front side of the brush holder in a rotational direction of the commutator based on the brush.

Abstract: A method, performed by an electronic apparatus, of executing an application, based on a voice input of a user, and the electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes performing voice recognition on the voice command for executing the application, determining a target page among a plurality of pages displayable when the application is executed, based on a result of the voice recognition, generating a virtual input sequence for displaying a second screen corresponding to the target page, instead of a first screen currently displayed, and executing the application in response to the virtual input sequence.

Abstract: A metal plate to be used in the manufacture of a deposition mask comprises: a base metal plate; and a surface layer disposed on the base metal plate, wherein the surface layer includes elements different from those of the base metal plate, or has a composition ratio different from that of the base metal plate, and an etching rate of the base metal plate is greater than the etching rate of the surface layer. An embodiment includes a manufacturing method for a deposition mask having an etching factor greater than or equal to 2.5. The deposition mask of the embodiment includes a deposition pattern region and a non-deposition region, the deposition pattern region includes a plurality of through-holes, the deposition pattern region is divided into an effective region, a peripheral region, and a non-effective region, and through-holes can be formed in the effective region and the peripheral region.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention comprises: a smart donation-fundraising server for saving information on in-kind donation, which refers to goods donated by a corporation, as in-kind donation information, generating and saving in-kind donation advertisement content which refers to advertisement content for the in-kind donation, and reporting as the amount corresponding to the in-kind donation as cash donation by the corporation that has provided the in-kind donation; a kiosk for receiving, from the smart donation-fundraising server, the in-kind donation advertisement content and displaying same, and printing and providing an exchange coupon allowing free exchange of the in-kind donation or a discount coupon allowing purchase of the in-kind donation at a discounted price, when a cash donation payment has been made to purchase the in-kind donation; and a cable/wireless communication network for providing cable communication or wireless communication between the smart donation-fundraising server and the ki

Abstract: In order to maximize spatial utilization and to minimize the volume of a thermotherapy bed so that the thermotherapy bed can be easily stored or moved, the thermotherapy bed includes: a bed body having a thermotherapy device placed therein; side frames connected to both side surfaces of the bed body, respectively; and bed legs configured to support the bed body and connected to the side frames, respectively, wherein the thermotherapy device is placed in a center of the bed body and forms a protrusion on a bottom surface of the bed body, and the bed legs are folded to face an inside of the bed body and are accommodated in spaces formed at both sides of the thermotherapy device.

Abstract: A method and an electronic device for translating a speech signal between a first language and a second language with minimized translation delay by translating fewer than all words of the speech signal according to a level of understanding of the second language by a user that receives the translation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cathode containing a solid superacid to improve the electrochemical properties and lifetime properties of the cathode using sulfur as an active material, and to a lithium-sulfur secondary battery including the cathode. According to an embodiment, a cathode for a lithium-sulfur secondary battery contains sulfur and a solid superacid. Since the solid superacid in the cathode does not affect the electrochemical properties of the cathode containing sulfur, it is possible to utilize sulfur itself as the cathode active material without technical processing. As a result, it is possible to minimize a reduction in the energy density of the lithium-sulfur secondary battery. In addition, the solid superacid in the cathode can improve the long-term lifetime properties of the lithium-sulfur secondary battery by controlling the polysulfide which is an intermediate product of the charging and discharging reactions of lithium and sulfur.

Abstract: According to an aspect of inventive concepts, there is provided a memory controller configured to control a memory device including a plurality of memory pages, the memory controller including an error correction code (ECC) region manager configured to manage the plurality of memory pages by dividing the plurality of memory pages into ECC enable regions and ECC disable regions, and an ECC engine configured to perform an ECC operation on data included in the ECC enable regions.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical sensor includes forming a reflective metal layer on a substrate, forming an insulator layer on the reflective metal layer, inducing self-assembly of a metal nanostructure layer on the insulator layer, and selectively etching the insulator layer through a reactive ion etching process to form a plurality of pillars and a plurality of spaces defined by the plurality of pillars. The method for manufacturing a plasmonic optical sensor according to this embodiment facilitates the formation of nanostructures difficult to pattern and form on the large scale at a low cost, and provides a plasmonic optical sensor with repeatability.

Abstract: A multi-stage fuel pump includes a casing having a fuel intake formed on one side thereof and a fuel discharge port formed on the other side thereof, and a plurality of impellers provided within the casing, having a plurality of blades disposed on a circumferential surface in an outward direction of the circumferential surface and having blade chambers formed between the blades and penetrating through upper and lower surfaces of the impellers to allow fuel to be discharged and introduced to and from upper and lower sides of the blades, and formed in multiple stages, wherein fuel intaken through the fuel intake according to rotation of the impellers is discharged to the fuel discharge port through the blade chambers of the impellers, and the numbers of the blades of each of the impellers are different, thereby reducing blade passage frequency (BPF) noise generated according to rotation of the impellers.

Abstract: A server, a user terminal, and a method for controlling the server and the user terminal are provided. The server controlling method includes receiving a text from a user terminal, translating the received text to generate a translated text, extracting at least one core word from the translated text, obtaining image information corresponding to the at least one core word with respect to each of the at least one core word, and transmitting the translated text and the extracted image information to the user terminal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical transceiver. The optical transceiver includes a decoder for decoding an 8B10B line-coded signal, a data mapper for separating the decoded signal into block units and securing extra memory capacity by mapping a data code and a block information code onto each of the separated blocks, and an FEC encoding unit for creating Forward Error Correction (FEC) data and mapping the FEC data onto the extra memory capacity.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lamp for a vehicle and a method of controlling the same. The vehicle lamp intuitively informs a traveling direction of the vehicle and minimizes deterioration of visibility when a failure occurs and a method of controlling the same. A lamp for a vehicle includes a light source unit having a plurality of light source groups and an operation state detection unit configured to detect an operation state of at least one light source included in each of the plurality of light source groups. A lighting mode determination unit is configured to determine a lighting mode of the light source unit based on the detected operation state. A control unit is configured to operate the light source unit in any one of a first lighting mode and a second lighting mode based on the determined lighting mode.

Abstract: Provided is a DC motor for a fuel pump for a vehicle. The DC motor for a fuel pump for a vehicle includes: a housing whose inside is hollow; a stator coupled to the inside of the housing and having a first permanent magnet whose N pole is disposed inwardly in a radial direction and a second permanent magnet whose S pole is disposed inwardly in a radial direction, the first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet being spaced apart from each other to face each other; and a rotor disposed on an inside of the stator while being spaced apart from the stator, in which a first gap g1 between the first permanent magnet and the rotor is different from a second gap g2 between the second permanent magnet and the rotor, whereby a torque ripple that is a fluctuation width of a cogging torque is reduced.

Abstract: A speech recognition method and apparatus for performing speech recognition in response to an activation word determined based on a situation are provided. The speech recognition method and apparatus include an artificial intelligence (AI) system and its application, which simulates functions such as recognition and judgment of a human brain using a machine learning algorithm such as deep learning.