Abstract: An electrode assembly for a secondary battery includes positive and negative electrode plates and a separator therebetween. Each of the electrode plates includes: an electrode current collector plate and having an electrode active material layer on a surface of the electrode current collector plate and at least one uncoated portion at where no electrode active material is applied; and a plurality of electrode tabs electrically attached and coupled to the uncoated portions. The positive electrode tabs protrude upwardly from an upper portion of the electrode assembly, and the negative electrode tabs protrude downwardly from a lower portion of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first region and a second region, first active fins that extend in a first direction in the first region, second active fins that extend in the first direction in the second region, a first field insulating layer between the first active fins and that extend in a second direction, a second field insulating layer between the second active fins and extending in the second direction, a gate line that extends in the second direction on the second field insulating layer, the gate line linearly along with the first field insulating layer, a gate isolation layer between the first field insulating layer and the gate line, and gate spacers that extend in the second direction, the gate spacers in contact with both sidewalls of each of the first field insulating layer, the gate line, and the gate isolation layer.

Abstract: An electrode assembly for a battery includes: a positive electrode plate including a positive electrode current collector plate, a positive electrode active material layer on a surface of the plate, at least one uncoated portion at which no positive electrode active material is applied, and at least one positive electrode tab electrically attached and coupled to the uncoated portion, and protruding upwardly from an upper portion of the electrode assembly; a negative electrode plate including a negative electrode current collector plate, a negative electrode active material layer on a surface of the plate, at least one uncoated portion in which no negative electrode active material is applied, at least one negative electrode tab electrically attached and coupled to the uncoated portion, and protruding downwardly from a lower portion of the electrode assembly; and a separator between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate.

Abstract: A coil component includes a body having a first surface and a first end surface and a second end surface each connected to the first surface and opposing each other, a support substrate disposed in the body, a coil unit including a first coil pattern, a first lead pattern and a second lead pattern respectively disposed on a first surface of the support substrate opposing the first surface of the body, first and second slit portions respectively disposed in edge portions between the first end surface and the second end surface of the body and exposing the first and second lead patterns, and first and second external electrodes arranged in the first and second slit portions and connected to the coil unit, wherein a ratio of a line width of any one of the first and second lead patterns to a line width of any one turn of the first coil pattern satisfies 1 to 1.5.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for processing a multichannel audio signal. A multichannel audio signal processing method may include: generating an N-channel audio signal of N channels by down-mixing an M-channel audio signal of M channels; and generating a stereo audio signal by performing binaural rendering of the N-channel audio signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydroxylphenyl-terminated polysiloxane, a polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer comprising the same as repeating unit, and a method for preparing the copolymer, and more specifically, a polysiloxane of a specific structure having terminal silane unit comprising optionally substituted hydroxylphenyl group, and a polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer which comprises the polysiloxane and a polycarbonate block as repeating units, and thereby shows the same or more excellent transparency and significantly further improved flame retardancy as compared with the level of conventional polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer, and a method for preparing the same.

Abstract: Disclosed are a composition and a method for diagnosing breast cancer using extracellular vesicle-miRNA. The composition for diagnosing the breast cancer according includes an agent that measures an expression level of at least one miRNA selected from a group consisting of miR-9, MiR-16, MiR-21, and MiR-429. Furthermore, the method for diagnosing breast cancer includes measuring an expression level of at least one miRNA selected from a group consisting of MiR-9, MiR-16, MiR-21, and MiR-429 from a sample, and diagnosing the breast cancer based on the measurement result.

Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention includes, in wt %, Si: 1.5 to 4.0%, Al: 0.1 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.5%, Sn: 0.015 to 0.1%, P: 0.005 to 0.05%, Ga: 0.001 to 0.004%, and Bi: 0.0005 to 0.003%, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities. An area fraction of texture in a {118}//ND orientation is higher than that of texture in a {111}//ND orientation.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a stack body including a recess target layer over a lower structure; forming sacrificial isolation openings in the stack body; forming sacrificial isolation layers including blocking layers in the sacrificial isolation openings; forming sacrificial vertical openings in the stack body between the sacrificial isolation layers; forming a preliminary horizontal layer by recessing the recess target layer of the stack body through the sacrificial vertical openings; forming a first dielectric layer that covers the preliminary horizontal layer; forming a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer; forming cell isolation openings by removing the sacrificial isolation layers; and trimming the first dielectric layer through the cell isolation openings.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a graphene thin film for a pellicle material using ozone gas includes a graphene forming step of forming graphene on an upper surface of a substrate, an ozone treatment step of exposing the graphene layer formed in the graphene forming step to ozone, and an etching step of heat-treating and etching the ozone-treated graphene layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing the pellicle includes the steps of forming upper and lower silicon nitride layers on opposite surfaces of a wafer substrate, forming a metal layer on the lower silicon nitride layer, etching the upper silicon nitride layer to a preset thickness after the forming of the metal layer, etching and removing the metal layer after the etching of the upper silicon nitride layer, forming a graphene thin film on the upper silicon nitride layer, forming a pattern on the lower silicon nitride layer, etching the lower silicon nitride layer according to the formed pattern, and etching the wafer substrate along the lower silicon nitride layer etched according to the pattern.

Abstract: A coil component includes a body having one surface and the other surface, opposing each other, both lateral surfaces respectively connecting the one surface and the other surface and opposing each other, and both end surfaces respectively connecting the both lateral surfaces and opposing each other; a coil unit disposed in the body; a first external electrode and a second external electrode, respectively connected to the coil unit and disposed to be spaced apart from each other on the one surface of the body; and a first insulating layer covering the other surface of the body, the both lateral surfaces of the body, and the both end surfaces of the body.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a pouch-type secondary battery. According to embodiment of the present invention, the pouch-type secondary battery includes: an case configured to house an electrode assembly from which electrode tab are drawn out; sealing parts formed by adhering the case along outer peripheries of the electrode assembly; and folding parts formed by folding the sealing parts of surfaces on which the electrode tab drawn to an outside of the case is not formed, wherein a length of the folding part has a relationship with a thickness of the electrode assembly as the following equation: H?T/2 (wherein, H is the height of the folded folding part, T is the thickness of the electrode assembly, based on a cross-section perpendicular to a direction in which the electrode tabs of the electrode assembly are drawn out).

Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: in wt %, C at 0.004 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %), Si at 2.5 to 4.0 wt %, P at 0.1 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %), Al at 0.3 to 2.0 wt %, N at 0.003 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %), S at 0.003 wt % or less (excluding 0 wt %), Mn at 0.15 to 2.5 wt %, Cr at 0.5 wt % (excluding 0 wt %), and the balance including Fe and other impurities unavoidably added thereto; satisfies the following Equation 1; and has an average grain size of 20 ?m or less. [Mn]?1450×[S]?0.8??[Equation 1] (In Equation 1, [Mn] and [S] represent a content (wt %) of Mn and S, respectively.).

Abstract: A printing device consumable item assembly includes a housing containing a consumable item that any compatible printing device uses to print, and a single-use authentication code on the housing. The single-use authentication code authorizes reloading or replacement of any consumable item of a same type as the consumable item within any compatible printing device.

Abstract: According to examples, a toner refill apparatus may include a chamber to house a toner, in which the chamber may include an insertion section, the insertion section to be inserted into a refill port of a toner cartridge and including a discharge opening, the refill port including an electrical circuit component. The apparatus may also include a valve mechanism positioned at the discharge opening to control output of the toner from the chamber through the discharge opening, in which an actuator may engage the valve mechanism and may controllably open the valve mechanism. The apparatus may further include an electronic chip to be in electrical communication the electrical circuit component, in which a controller may activate the actuator based on a detection that the electronic chip is in contact with the electrical circuit component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a microfluidic mixer and a microfluidic device including the same, and in the microfluidic mixer according to the present invention, a disk-shaped mixing unit with double U-shaped protruding portions formed therein can be continuously provided along a microchannel, thereby increasing collisions of samples to improve the binding efficiency thereof and shorten the binding time. Furthermore, the microfluidic device according to the present invention can detect a target material at high speed even at a high flow rate by including the microfluidic mixer, and thus can be usefully utilized for early diagnosis and prognosis diagnosis of a disease such as cancer.

Abstract: A toner refill cartridge includes a body to contain toner and having a toner discharge port provided at a first end portion of the body, a memory unit including an external electric contact which faces away from the body, a piston disposed in the body to be movable in a longitudinal direction of the body from a top dead position adjacent to a second end portion of the body to a bottom dead position adjacent to the first end portion to push the toner to the toner discharge port, and a plunger to push the piston in the longitudinal direction and movable to a folded position in which the plunger is parallel with the body and covers the external electric contact and to an extended position in which the plunger is aligned with the piston in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for analyzing a grain boundary of a polycrystalline two-dimensional material including transferring a polycrystalline two-dimensional material onto a substrate for analysis including a single crystalline two-dimensional material formed on a substrate; analyzing the polycrystalline two-dimensional material; depositing a metal thin film on the polycrystalline two-dimensional material; and exfoliating the polycrystalline two-dimensional material.

Abstract: A prefabricated post assembly is proposed. The prefabricated post assembly includes a vertical post having at least one assembly surface and a horizontal post having an assembly module mounted at an end thereof to be coupled to the assembly surface, in which at least one upper insertion hole is formed at an upper portion of the assembly surface and at least one lower insertion hole is formed at a lower portion of the assembly surface.