Abstract: A stator for a drive motor includes: a segmented stator core including a plurality of mounting portions; a bobbin equipped on each mounting portion of the plurality of the mounting portions and having a coil wound thereon; a first casing and a second casing coupled to the bobbin, respectively, at opposite sides of the bobbin with respect to the segmented stator core, and configured to enclose the coil; a passage formed in one of the first casing or the second casing, and configured to allow fluid communication with the inside of the first casing and the second casing; and a terminal portion integrally formed in a remaining one of the first casing or the second casing and configured to allow connection of the coil.

Abstract: A method for controlling an LLC resonance converter controls a converter through the steps of detecting parameter values related to operation of the converter, determining a switching duty of the converter on the basis of the detected parameter values, and controlling the converter with the determined switching duty to improve nonlinearity of a gain curve of the converter, thereby reducing output current ripples and achieving low-gain output.

Abstract: A receiver includes an amplification block supporting carrier aggregation (CA). The amplification block includes a first amplifier circuit configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) input signal at a block node from an outside source, amplify the RF input signal, and output the amplified RF input signal as a first RF output signal. The first amplifier circuit includes a first amplifier configured to receive the RF input signal through a first input node to amplify the RF input signal, and a first feedback circuit coupled between the first input node and a first internal amplification node of the first amplifier to provide feedback to the first amplifier.

Abstract: A power supply system may include a target device and an adapter. The target device may include an adapter connection switch that receives adapter recognition information to form a connection with the adapter, a voltage detection unit that receives an output voltage from an adapter, and a voltage-change-requesting unit that outputs a voltage to request a voltage change based on information on the output voltage from the adapter. The adapter may include a device information recognition unit that receives the voltage to request a voltage change, and an output-voltage-changing unit that changes the output voltage based on the voltage to request a voltage change.

Abstract: A connection structure of a stator of a drive motor is configured to allow coils to be wound in a plurality of slots provided in a stator core and to connect the coils withdrawn from the slots. The coils are wound in the slots to form first-type structures and second-type structures configured such that withdrawal directions of three-phase (U-, W- and V-phase) withdrawal lines and N-phase withdrawal lines withdrawn from the slots of the first-type structures are opposite to withdrawal directions of three-phase (U-, W- and V-phase) withdrawal lines and N-phase withdrawal lines withdrawn from the slots of the second-type structures. The first-type structures and the second-type structures are disposed symmetrically to each other with respect to a reference line formed to divide the slots in half.

Abstract: Proposed is a modular driving apparatus which is driven in combination with at least one ride module or is driven independently by being combined with or separated from the ride module. The modular driving apparatus includes: a main body including a coupling space in which the ride module is mounted, and wheel modules which surrounds both sides of the ride module mounted in the coupling space and operates to run together with the mounted ride module or operates to run autonomously; and coupling guide blades which are respectively fastened to both sides of the main body and respectively include wheel module coupling holes for exposing the outer surfaces of the wheel modules.

Abstract: An engine start system of a hybrid vehicle includes a converter circuit unit converting voltage and outputting the converted voltage and a switch having a first terminal connected to an output terminal of the converter circuit unit and a second terminal selectively forming an electrical connection with the first terminal. A diode has an anode connected to the second terminal and a cathode connected to the first terminal. A battery is connected to the second terminal. A low-voltage starter connected to the battery and provides rotary power to start an engine in a stopped state by converting battery power into rotational energy. A controller opens the switch and supplies driving power to the low-voltage starter when the engine is started.

Abstract: A device for supplying power from a vehicle battery to the outside is provided. The device includes an inverter circuit having a bridge circuit with multiple switching elements and that converts the received DC power into the AC power by switching the switching elements and that outputs the AC power. A controller controls an on/off state of each switching element through pulse width modulation. When an output AC output to the load has a value greater than a preset reference value or an input direct current input into the inverter has a value greater than a preset reference value, the controller changes a duty of each switching element to reduce an output AC voltage output from the inverter. When the reduced output AC voltage has a value equal to or less than a preset reference value, the controller stops a power conversion operation of the inverter.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a power factor correction circuit of a charger for charging a vehicle batter is configured to correct a power factor of an input AC voltage through switching of a switching element. The apparatus for controlling the power factor correction circuit includes: a phase angle detection unit configured to detect phase angle information of the input AC voltage; and a frequency determination unit configured to synchronize a period in which a preset frequency variation value varies, with a period of the input AC voltage by applying the phase angle information to the frequency variation value, and determine, as a switching frequency of the switching element, a value obtained by applying the synchronized frequency variation value to a preset fundamental frequency value.

Abstract: An embodiment controller for use in a communication system for platooning vehicles that performs Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication through controllers mounted in the platooning vehicles includes a communication unit configured to transmit and receive a message including control and sensor information of the platooning vehicles, a scheduler configured to store message transmission times of the platooning vehicles, and a determiner configured to determine whether a message received through the communication unit corresponds to schedule information stored in the scheduler, wherein the controller is configured to transmit a message in accordance with an order determined based on the schedule information and find out a message transmission order of the platooning vehicles by sharing the schedule information.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a low-voltage DC-to-DC converter of a vehicle for converting high-voltage power into low-voltage power may include a signal selector for selecting and outputting one of a charging-oriented voltage command for charging the battery or a preset burst mode voltage command for operation of the low-voltage DC-to-DC converter in a burst mode in which the battery cannot be charged, a battery charge/discharge current limiter for generating a voltage command compensation value for limiting charge current of the battery when the signal selector outputs the charging-oriented voltage command and limiting discharge current of the battery when the signal selector outputs the burst mode voltage command, and a controller for controlling an output voltage of the low-voltage DC-to-DC converter to follow a compensated voltage command generated by applying the voltage command compensation value to the voltage command output by the signal selector.

Abstract: A charging apparatus may include a power factor correction converter including a switching element, to correct a power factor of AC power provided by external charging equipment through ON/OFF control of the switching element, to convert the corrected power factor into DC power, and to output the DC power; a DC link capacitor connected to both ends of the PFC converter to form a DC voltage; a DC-DC converter converting a magnitude of the DC voltage formed by the DC link capacitor into a magnitude of a voltage required by an energy storage device to be charged; and a duty controller configured to determine a duty of the switching element in the PFC converter based on a magnitude of a common-mode component of an AC voltage of the AC power provided by the external charging equipment and the magnitude of the DC voltage formed by the DC link capacitor.

Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and method for assisting with driving of a vehicle, the electronic device including: a sensing unit configured to sense a driving state of at least one external vehicle on an entry scheduled lane that the vehicle is to enter by changing lanes; a processor configured to determine an entry possible region on the entry scheduled lane based on the sensed driving state of the at least one external vehicle and determine an entry condition for entry of the vehicle into the entry possible region; and an outputter configured to output information about the entry possible region and the entry condition.

Abstract: A stator for a drive motor includes: a segmented stator core including a plurality of mounting portions; a bobbin equipped on each mounting portion of the plurality of the mounting portions and having a coil wound thereon; a first casing and a second casing coupled to the bobbin, respectively, at opposite sides of the bobbin with respect to the segmented stator core, and configured to enclose the coil; a passage formed in one of the first casing or the second casing, and configured to allow fluid communication with the inside of the first casing and the second casing; and a terminal portion integrally formed in a remaining one of the first casing or the second casing and configured to allow connection of the coil.

Abstract: An LLC resonance converter and a charging system having the same capable of resolving excessive current generation and output voltage divergence that occur at the time of initial startup, on the basis of the characteristic of the LLC resonance converter whose output is determined by LC resonance.

Abstract: A system for controlling charging power of an eco-friendly vehicle is provided. The system includes a battery, a power supply unit supplying AC power, and an inverter having a plurality of legs including a plurality of power conversion devices. Legs of the plurality of legs are supplied with power by being connected with the power supply unit and both ends of each leg of the legs being connected with the battery. One or more switches are disposed between one or more legs of the plurality of legs and the power supply unit. A controller changes a power transmission path from the power supply unit by determining a phase of a power that is supplied from the power supply unit and by operating each switch of the one or more switches based on the phase of the supplied power.

Abstract: Disclosed is a separator which includes a porous polymer substrate including a polymer showing a variation in phase angle represented by the following Formula 1 at 0.1 Hz depending on an increase in temperature. An electrochemical device including the separator is also disclosed. Variation in phase angle at 0.1 Hz=[(Phase angle190?Phase angle280)/(Phase angle190)]×100?0%,??[Formula 1] wherein Phase angle190 means the phase angle of the porous polymer substrate at 0.1 Hz and 190° C., and Phase angle280 means the phase angle of the porous polymer substrate at 0.1 Hz and 280° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a safety-improved battery cell including a thermal expansion tape and a method of manufacturing the same, wherein a battery pack including multiple battery cells is configured such that heat generated during a charging/discharging process and internal gas generated thereby are discharged to outside of a battery cell by employing a thermal expansion tape. Thus, the present invention can improve safety of a pouch-type secondary battery pack by discharging gas generated in a pouch-type secondary battery. In addition, the present invention utilizes pressure of gas generated in the secondary battery and thus can be operable without provision of a separate device and an external power source. Moreover, the present invention can perform repetitive gas discharge due to a configuration of a fixing unit having thermal expansion properties.

Abstract: An electrochromic device is provided which may efficiently supply electrons to an anode layer that donates electrons externally during initial driving of the device, thereby preventing the structural weakening of the device and improve the electrical stability and durability of the device, and to a method for fabricating the same. The electrochromic device includes a first electrode, a cathode layer, an electrolyte layer, an anode layer and a second electrode, which are sequentially deposited between opposite first and second transparent substrates. The electrolyte layer includes: a first electrolyte layer configured to provide electrolyte ions to the cathode and anode layers; and a second electrolyte layer formed between the first electrolyte layer and the anode layer to have a thinner thickness than the first electrolyte layer and having a mixture of the same electrolyte as that of the first electrolyte layer and a reducing agent.

Abstract: A separator for an electrochemical device, including a porous polymer substrate and an inorganic coating layer formed on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate. The inorganic coating layer includes inorganic particles and a binder resin. The binder resin includes a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVdF)-based polymer having a main chain, and at least one hydrogen atom in the main chain of the PVdF-based polymer is substituted with an acrylic compound-derived functional group.