Abstract: A conductive wiring includes an alloy including cobalt and palladium. An interconnect structure includes one or more dielectric layers, and the conductive wiring positioned on at least one selected from the upper, lower, and side portions of the dielectric layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a ball valve with an antistatic function, the ball valve including a cap unit and a body unit coupled to each other to provide a flow passage of a fluid; a ball unit provided on the flow passage of the fluid to control a flow of the fluid by rotation; a handle unit providing an external force for the rotation of the ball unit; a stem unit connecting the ball unit and the handle unit to transmit the external force provided by the handle unit to the ball unit; a first lined unit provided on an inner surface of the cap unit to prevent the cap unit from coming into contact with the fluid and prevent oxidation of the cap unit due to the fluid.

Abstract: A display device includes a pixel in a display area, sensing electrodes overlapping the pixel, a sensing pad in a non-display area, a sensing connection line in the non-display area, and electrically connected to the sensing pad, a sensing signal line in the non-display area, and electrically connected to the sensing electrodes, and a power line extending from the non-display area, and electrically connected to the pixel, wherein the sensing signal line is electrically connected to the sensing connection line through an opening or indentation defined by the power line.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of pixels and having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the semiconductor substrate having a trench formed through the first surface and the second surface; a micro-lens on the second surface; an isolation layer in the trench that isolates the pixels from each other; and an etching barrier layer in the isolation layer and having a first depth from the first surface. The etching barrier layer has a corrosion resistance higher than a corrosion resistance of a region of the semiconductor substrate other than the etching barrier layer.

Abstract: A headrest for a seat of a vehicle includes a body portion disposed above a backrest portion; a support portion disposed in front of the body portion; and an air cell disposed on the support portion, where a volume of the air cell expands toward a front of the headrest, and the support portion is configured to be slidably movable along the body portion.

Abstract: Provided is a side airbag device of a vehicle. The side airbag device includes an airbag cushion which is embedded in a backrest of a seat and is inflated and deployed to correspond to an entire side surface of an upper body of an occupant upon side collision of the vehicle, and an inflater configured to generate a gas by an impact detection signal upon the side collision of the vehicle to supply the gas to the airbag cushion. The airbag cushion has a height to which the airbag cushion is inflated and deployed upward due to contact with an occupant's arm. Thus, in the early stage of airbag cushion deployment, interference with the curtain airbag is avoided, and the upper chamber is expanded upward upon contact with the occupant's arm, allowing the occupant's head to be safely protected.

Abstract: A battery module is disclosed. In some implementations, the battery module includes: a housing having an internal space, a cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells and a first heat blocking member blocking heat propagation between the plurality of battery cells are stacked, and a second heat blocking member disposed between the cell stack and the housing, wherein at least a portion of the first heat blocking member is in contact with the second heat blocking member.

Abstract: An on-device artificial intelligence (AI) processing distributed processing device and method capable of distributing AI processing load of a terminal through internal or external other devices are provided. The on-device AI processing distributed processing device can, measure an amount of AI processing for performing the user command, select an AI processing distributed processing target when the measured amount of AI processing exceeds a self-processing capacity, request distributed process for AI processing to the selected AI processing distributed processing target, and when a first AI processing result value is received from the AI processing distributed processing target, provide a final result value based on the first AI processing result value and a self-processed second AI processing result value.

Abstract: A method for model tuning and a system therefor are provided. The method according to some embodiments may include obtaining a deep learning model into which an adapter is inserted, wherein the adapter is a module inserted to adjust the output of the deep learning model using a plurality of weight matrices, and the plurality of weight matrices include a diagonal weight matrix, calculating loss by performing a specific task on the deep learning model and updating the plurality of weight matrices of the adapter based on the loss.

Abstract: A memory device may include a memory cell array in which a plurality of decks are stacked, a control circuit configured to perform a read or write operation on a target deck of the plurality of decks, a current detection circuit configured to measure a sneak current flowing through at least one deck among the plurality of decks, the at least one deck being adjacent to the target deck and a buffer configured to store data transferred from memory cells of the at least one deck, wherein the control circuit is configured to execute a read or write command to perform the read or write operation on the target deck after the sneak current flowing through the at least one deck is measured.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first connection wiring in a first insulating film, an etching stop film, a buffer insulating film, a resistance pattern, a pattern etching stop film, a bottom surface of the pattern etching stop film contacting an upper surface of the resistance pattern, a second insulating film disposed on the buffer insulating film and the pattern etching stop film, a wiring via disposed in the second insulating film and penetrating the buffer insulating film and the etching stop film to contact the first connection wiring, a resistance via disposed in the second insulating film and penetrating the pattern etching stop film to contact the resistance pattern, and a second connection wiring disposed in the second insulating film and contacting the wiring via and the resistance via. A portion of the bottom surface of the pattern etching stop film is separated from the resistance pattern.

Abstract: An appearance inspection method of a product according to embodiments of the present invention may include obtaining and pre-processing an image of appearance of a target object; pre-processing the image; extracting a region of interest from the preprocessed image and obtaining a brightness-corrected image by performing brightness correction on the extracted region of interest; extracting defective candidates from the brightness-corrected image; obtaining a post-processed image by post-processing the extracted defective candidates; and determining whether the target object is defective based on the post-processed image.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a MXene surface-modified with a metal alkoxide, which is formed by surface-modifying a MXene represented by the following Chemical Formula 1 with a metal alkoxide, in which the metal alkoxide is covalently bonded to the surface of the MXene and is present as a ligand. Mn+1 Xn??[Chemical Formula 1] Here, M is one or more transition metal elements selected from the group consisting of Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, and Ta, X is at least one of carbon and nitrogen, and n is an integer from 1 to 4.

Abstract: A valve device includes a valve base having a discharge flow path through which a target fluid is discharged, a plunger configured to be rectilinearly movable from a first position at which the plunger closes the discharge flow path to a second position at which the plunger opens the discharge flow path, a solenoid configured to provide driving power for moving the plunger, and an anti-freezing member connected to the plunger and configured to prevent freezing of the target fluid in the discharge flow path by moving in the discharge flow path in conjunction with a movement of the plunger, thereby obtaining an advantageous effect of preventing the discharge flow path through which the target fluid is discharged from being clogged, and of improving safety and reliability.

Abstract: An on-device artificial intelligence (AI) device capable of interpreting a conversation between multiple speakers in real time and a method thereof are provided. The AI device can include an input module where utterance voice of a speaker is input; and a processor configured to perform AI processing to interpret the utterance voice of the speaker into a target language, wherein the processor is configured to when utterance voices are input from a plurality of speakers, preprocess the utterance voices, classify the preprocessed utterance voices by speaker, when a specific speaker is selected from the plurality of speakers, extract utterance voice of the selected specific speaker from the classified utterance voices by speaker, and interpret the utterance voice of the specific speaker into a target language and output it.

Abstract: A Peripheral Component Interconnect express (PCIe) device includes: a plurality of ports forming a plurality of lanes; and a link controller configured to set a link including the plurality of lanes to allocate non-sequential lane numbers to lanes adjacent to each other among the plurality of lanes.

Abstract: A battery diagnosing apparatus according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a profile acquisition unit that acquires a battery profile representing a correspondence between a voltage and a capacity of a battery; and a control unit that divides a capacity section of the battery profile into a plurality of sections, derives a target value for one target index related to a differential capacity peak or a charging end voltage among a plurality of diagnosis indices set in advance, from each of the divided sections, compares a correspondence between the derived plurality of target values with a preset reference profile that represents a correspondence between a plurality of target indices, and diagnoses a state of the battery based on a result of the comparison.

Abstract: A method and system for integrated surface water and groundwater modelling using a dynamic mesh evolution. The system includes a dynamic mesh evolution that enables elevation changes in a landscape to be better represented in a simulation model. By moving, adding or removing computation nodes within the model over a predetermined range and updating the metadata, elevation changes may be better represented.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a multicomponent nanopattern having a regular array and allowing a variety of combinations of compositions by depositing a film including a multicomponent material on a substrate having a prepattern formed thereon and then conducting ion-etching thereon twice. The method can be utilized in a variety of applications requiring considerably regularly arranged multicomponent nanostructures such as transistors, organic optoelectronic devices, catalysts and gas sensors.

Abstract: A counterattack method against a hacked node in a controller area network (CAN) bus physical layer includes: setting node IDs (NIDs), which are different unique IDs, for each of a plurality of nodes connected to a CAN bus line; determining that an error frame is generated when at least one of a node using a forged NID, a node using a different NID, and a node using a non-existent NID is found; increasing counts of a transmit error counter (TEC) and a receive error counter (REC) of a transmitting node and a receiving node whenever the error frame is generated; and allowing a node of which the count of the TEC or REC is greater than a set threshold value to enter a bus-off state to block the node.