Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes a first active material portion coated with an active material layer and a first uncoated portion not coated with an active material layer along a winding direction. At least a part of the first uncoated portion is defined as an electrode tab by itself. The first uncoated portion includes a first portion adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly, a second portion adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly, and a third portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion or the second portion has a smaller height than the third portion in the winding axis direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. 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 an uncoated portion at a long side end thereof and exposed out of the separator along a winding axis direction of the electrode assembly. A part of the uncoated portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly to form a bending surface region that includes overlapping layers of the uncoated portion, and in a partial region of the bending surface region, the number of stacked layers of the uncoated portion is 10 or more in the winding axis direction of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a first electrode above the first substrate, a pixel-defining film above the first electrode, and defining an emission area, a light-emitting layer above the first electrode and the pixel-defining film, a second electrode above the light-emitting layer, a thin-film encapsulation structure above the second electrode, and including an organic film defining an opening, and a color control layer above the thin-film encapsulation structure in the opening.

Abstract: Provided are a hollow fiber composite membrane for water vapor separation, comprising a hollow fiber membrane including two or more pores and a coating layer in which an interfacial polymer obtained from interfacial polymerization of water-soluble monomer and an organic monomer is coated on a surface of the hollow fiber membrane, and a chemical resistant substance is introduced in the interfacial polymer, and a method for manufacturing the same.

Abstract: A fault diagnostic apparatus for a fuel cell electric vehicle and a method therefor are provided. The apparatus includes: a main relay connected to a fuel cell stack; a power converter connected to the main relay; a heater relay connected to the fuel cell stack and the main relay at one end and connected to a cathode oxygen depletion (COD) heater at the other end; and a fuel cell control unit (FCU) connected with the main relay, the power converter, and the heater relay. The FCU diagnoses a fault of the main relay based on an amount of change in stack voltage according to control to turn off and on the heater relay and a power of the power converter according to variable control of a voltage of the power converter, when the vehicle enters a shutdown sequence, and outputs the diagnosed result.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an art for eliminating the dependency of the optical modulator on the polarization degree by using an orthogonal mode light which is a mixture of two lights that are perpendicular to each other in polarization direction as a light source. An optical communication system of the present invention comprises: a first optical generator and a second optical generator for generating a first single mode light and a second single mode light, respectively, wherein the first single mode light and the second single mode light are orthogonal and non-interfering with each other, and have the same wavelength; a mixing means for mixing the first single mode light and the second single mode light to output an orthogonal mode light; and an optical modulator for amplifying and modulating the orthogonal mode light after receiving the orthogonal mode light through an optical fiber so as to produce a constantly amplified optical signal regardless of a deflection degree of the orthogonal mode light.

Abstract: A method for preparing a high-heat-resistant-epoxy-resin composition which comprises adding, as catalytic curing agent, a pyrazinium salt having a benzyl group to difunctional and multifunctional epoxy resin and thermoset resin having a similar structure. The epoxy-resin composition obtained by the present invention is excellent in its impregnating property, processability, impact resistance, drug resistance, electric-insulating property, and adhesiveness.