Abstract: An aerosol generating article and an aerosol generating system, which include a composite heat source, are provided. An aerosol generating article includes: a first portion including a composite heat source; a second portion adjacent to the first portion and including at least one of an aerosol generating material and a tobacco material; a third portion including a cooling material; and a fourth portion including a filter material, wherein the first portion, the second portion, the third portion, and the fourth portion are sequentially arranged along a longitudinal direction of the aerosol generating article.

Abstract: Disclosed is an aerosol generating system including a cigarette and an aerosol generating device. The cigarette includes a first substrate section and a second substrate section which include a non-tobacco material sheet containing an aerosol generating material, and the aerosol generating device includes a single heater disposed so that a heating area of the first substrate section is different from a heating area of the second substrate section.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, a manufacturing method, an ultrasonic cutting device, a cylindrical battery including the electrode assembly, a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. In the electrode assembly, two electrodes and a separator interposed therebetween are wound about an axis, at least one of the electrodes includes an uncoated portion provided at a long side end, a winding turn region of the uncoated portion is provided at one end of the electrode assembly, the winding turn region includes a cut portion and a bent portion alternately disposed along a circumferential direction of the electrode assembly, an axial height of the cut portion is smaller than an axial height of the bent portion, the bent portion includes a plurality of uncoated portion flags, and the plurality of uncoated portion flags overlap along and axial direction to define a bending surface region.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an electrode according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a pattern formation mechanism configured to form a pattern groove in an electrode, the electrode including an electrode collector and a coating part made of an electrode active material applied on at least one surface of the electrode collector. The pattern formation mechanism presses a surface of the coating part to form the pattern groove, the pattern groove being an intaglio pattern in the coating part. Related methods for manufacturing the electrode and the electrode manufactured thereby are provided.

Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generating device including a battery, a first cartridge including a first material containing nicotine and a pH adjuster and a first heater configured to heat the first material, and a controller configured to control power supplied to the first heater from the battery.

Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a substrate including a cell array region and a connection region, a stack including electrodes, which are vertically stacked on the substrate, and which have a staircase structure in the connection region, channel regions provided on the cell array region that vertically extend through the stack, and a planarization insulating layer that covers the stack in the connection region. The planarization insulating layer may include a first insulating layer in contact with the stack and a second insulating layer that covers the first insulating layer. The first insulating layer may include high-density plasma (HDP) oxide, which is doped with first dopants, and the second insulating layer may include tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) oxide, which is doped with second dopants.

Abstract: There is a stack visualization method using a stack visualization apparatus including a deposition head. The method comprises collecting a moving speed of the deposition head; collecting laser power information of the deposition head by which a laser is irradiated to a stack; selecting a virtual stack corresponding to the moving speed of the deposition head and the laser power information among a plurality of previously stored virtual stacks based on the moving speed of the deposition head and the laser power information; and visualizing the selected virtual stack through a digital twin model.

Abstract: A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device is disclosed. The device may include a substrate including a cell array region and a connection region provided at an end portion of the cell array region, an electrode structure extending from the cell array region to the connection region, the electrode structure including electrodes sequentially stacked on the substrate, an upper insulating layer provided on the electrode structure, a first horizontal insulating layer provided in the upper insulating layer and extending along the electrodes, and first contact plugs provided on the connection region to penetrate the upper insulating layer and the first horizontal insulating layer. The first horizontal insulating layer may include a material having a better etch-resistive property than the upper insulating layer.

Abstract: A surface light source slim module mounted to a vehicle includes: a substrate; a plurality of packages; a first reflective layer formed on top of the substrate and having a plurality of holes; a molding member, which is formed on top of the first reflective layer, covers the plurality of packages and the first reflective layer, and includes a front portion through which light is output and a rear portion facing the front portion; and a second reflective layer formed on top of the molding member.

Abstract: A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device is disclosed. The device may include a substrate including a cell array region and a connection region provided at an end portion of the cell array region, an electrode structure extending from the cell array region to the connection region, the electrode structure including electrodes sequentially stacked on the substrate, an upper insulating layer provided on the electrode structure, a first horizontal insulating layer provided in the upper insulating layer and extending along the electrodes, and first contact plugs provided on the connection region to penetrate the upper insulating layer and the first horizontal insulating layer. The first horizontal insulating layer may include a material having a better etch-resistive property than the upper insulating layer.

Abstract: A touch sensing apparatus may include a noise removing unit removing noise components from digital signals generated based on changes in capacitance; an edge extracting unit extracting edges of the digital signals; a calculating unit calculating an output signal of the noise removing unit and the edges output from the edge extracting unit; and a touch determining unit determining a touch based on an output signal of the calculating unit.

Abstract: A touchscreen apparatus may include: a panel unit including a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes intersecting with the plurality of first electrodes, and a calculating unit obtaining a plurality of pieces of digital data generated from capacitance of node capacitors formed in intersections between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes. The calculating unit calculates a noise reference level of a current frame using a plurality of pieces of digital data of the current frame and a plurality of pieces of digital data of a previous frame.

Abstract: Disclosed is a whitening composition for external skin application. Containing one or more of Oldenlandia diffusa Willd extract, Rheum undulatum extract and Broussonetia kazinoki extract as an effective ingredient, the whitening composition for external skin application exhibits superior melanogenesis inhibition and skin whitening effect. Accordingly, it may be used in various skin whitening cosmetics.

Abstract: There are provided a promoter containing ginsenoside compound K for the production of hyaluronic acid, and more particularly, a new efficacy of 20-O-?-D-glucopyranosyl-20(S)-protopanaxadiol (compound K), a chief metabolite of ginseng saponin, to increase the expression of hyaluronic acid synthase gene in human cell and thereby to promote the production of hyaluronic acid, and an anti-aging agent containing the promoter for the production of hyaluronic acid as an effective ingredient.

Abstract: Disclosed is a whitening composition for external skin application. Containing one or more of Oldenlandia diffusa Willd extract, Rheum undulatum extract and Broussonetia kazinoki extract as an effective ingredient, the whitening composition for external skin application exhibits superior melanogenesis inhibition and skin whitening effect. Accordingly, it may be used in various skin whitening cosmetics.

Abstract: A connecting block includes a housing having a plurality of slots extending from an upper surface thereof to an inside thereof with intervals, a plurality of terminal pins installed in the slots, a dielectric cover made of an insulating resin and coupled to the housing to cover a side of the housing, and a coupling pin electrically contacted with a terminal pin of any one pair among terminal pins belonging to different terminal pin pairs and extending opposite to a terminal pin of the other pair. The coupling pin is molded in a body of the dielectric cover such that the insulating resin is interposed between the coupling pin and the terminal pin opposite to the coupling pin.

Abstract: A connecting block includes a housing having a plurality of slots extending from an upper surface thereof to an inside thereof with intervals, a plurality of terminal pins installed in the slots, a dielectric cover made of an insulating resin and coupled to the housing to cover a side of the housing, and a coupling pin electrically contacted with a terminal pin of any one pair among terminal pins belonging to different terminal pin pairs and extending opposite to a terminal pin of the other pair. The coupling pin is molded in a body of the dielectric cover such that the insulating resin is interposed between the coupling pin and the terminal pin opposite to the coupling pin.

Abstract: There are provided a promoter containing ginsenoside compound K for the production of hyaluronic acid, and more particularly, a new efficacy of 20-O-?-D-glucopyranosyl-20(S)-protopanaxadiol (compound K), a chief metabolite of ginseng saponin, to increase the expression of hyaluronic acid synthase gene in human cell and thereby to promote the production of hyaluronic acid, and an anti-aging agent containing the promoter for the production of hyaluronic acid as an effective ingredient.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition containing genistein that accelerates the expression of the Carnitine Palmitoyl Transferase-1 (CPT-1) for improving or treating obesity. More particularly, the composition of the present invention comprises genistein that accelerates the expression of the CPT-1, an important enzyme for the lipolysis of fatty acid, and comprises carnitine that transports fatty acid into mitochondria and accelerates oxidation of fat in the oxidation process of fatty acid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an inhibitor for the biosynthesis of gelatinase comprising ginsenoside F1 (20-O-?-D-glucopyranosyl-20(S)-protopanaxatriol) or compound K (20-0-?-D-glucopyranosyl-20(S)-protopanaxadiol), which is a chief metabolite of ginseng saponin, as an active ingredient; and a cosmetic/medical composition for the prevention of skin-aging comprising the same which is superior in inhibiting the decomposition of epidermal-dermal junction and also in accelerating the generation thereof.