Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a first pixel area and a second pixel area, wherein the second pixel area is located at a side of the first pixel area, first pixels located in the first pixel area and connected to first scan lines, and second pixels located in the second pixel area and connected to second scan lines, wherein the first pixels and the second pixels include pixel rows extending in a first direction, and at least one of the second scan lines is inclined with respect to the first direction.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area disposed around the display area. The peripheral area includes a bending region and a contact region adjacent to the bending region. A first connection line includes a first portion disposed in the contact region, and a second portion disposed in both the bending region and the contact region, and including a first layer and a second layer. At least part of the second layer of the second portion overlaps the first layer of the second portion. In the contact region, the first layer of the second portion is electrically connected to the first portion, and the second layer of the second portion is electrically connected to the first layer of the second portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system for transmitting and receiving safety information, which generates first safety information about a control target and second safety information representing the occurrence or not of an error in the control target by using one microcontroller. The system includes a first slave controller generating first safety information and second safety information by using sensing data obtained from a control target and a master controller receiving the first safety information and the second safety information from the first slave controller through a wireless channel. When an error occurs in the first slave controller, the first slave controller transmits the second safety information to a second slave controller, and the second slave controller transmits the second safety information, received from the first slave controller, to the master controller.

Abstract: A device and a method for controlling autonomous driving control a speed of an autonomous vehicle before downhill travel. The device and method calculate a travel resistance of an autonomous vehicle on a travel-intended-route, including a downhill route, a main braking pressure required to travel at a constant speed, and a brake temperature based on braking. The device and method determine whether to reduce the main braking pressure based on the calculated brake temperature and calculates a decreased amount of the main braking pressure and an increased amount of a speed of the autonomous vehicle based on the decreased amount of the main braking pressure on the travel-intended-route when determining to reduce the main braking pressure. The device and method limit a maximum speed of the autonomous vehicle before entering the travel-intended-route based on the increased speed amount.

Abstract: A digital radio frequency (RF) transmitter including processing circuitry configured to generate first through third pattern signals based on a pattern of an inphase (I)-quadrature (Q) binary data pair and a pattern of an inverted I-Q binary data pair, the first through third pattern signals having a same pattern and different phases, and a switched-capacitor digital-to-analog converter (SC-DAC) configured to remove an n-th harmonic component of an RF analog signal by amplifying the first through third pattern signals to have a certain magnitude ratio and synthesizing the amplified first through third pattern signals into the RF analog signal, where “n” is an integer of at least 3, may be provided.

Abstract: A display device includes a touch panel; a display panel under the touch panel and displaying an image; a piezoelectric element under the touch panel and including an upper electrode, a lower electrode and a piezoelectric layer; and a rectifying circuit connected to the piezoelectric element.

Abstract: An embodiment device for controlling autonomous driving includes a roll angle estimated value calculation device configured to calculate a roll angle estimated value of a vehicle based on a height of a center of gravity of the vehicle, a sprung mass, a spring constant of a suspension, a target speed, and a target turning radius, and a controller configured to compare a roll angle of the vehicle with a preset reference roll angle to adjust the target speed or the target turning radius of the vehicle.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an air conditioner for a vehicle, which can prevent reduction of an air volume by reducing a back-and-forth width of the vehicle and sufficiently securing the degree of opening of a warm air bypass door, and control an efficient linkage between the warm air bypass door and a defrost door. The air conditioner includes: an air-conditioning case having an air passageway formed therein; a heat exchanger for cooling and a heat exchanger for heating which are disposed in the air passageway of the air-conditioning case to exchange heat with air passing the air passageway; a warm air bypass passageway for directly discharging the air passing the heat exchanger for heating to a front seat floor vent; and a warm air bypass door for adjusting the degree of opening of the warm air bypass passageway, wherein the warm air bypass door includes a rotary shaft and a plate, and the plate has a bent portion to have at least two sides.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner is disclosed. The vacuum cleaner according to the present disclosure includes a main body and a suction nozzle. The suction nozzle includes a housing, a driver, a rotating brush, and a detachable cover. A pressing button is mounted in the housing. The detachable cover is rotated about the rotational axis of the rotating brush to be mounted in the housing. The pressing button selectively blocks rotation of the detachable cover.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fiber composite for a strain sensor and a method for producing the same. The composite includes a stretchable fiber; a conductive elastic polymer layer coated on the stretchable fiber; polymer beads disposed on the stretchable fiber or on the elastic polymer layer; and a conductive elastic polymer layer covering the polymer beads. The fiber composite is durable and stable. Therefore, a strain sensor produced using the fiber composite exhibits excellent durability, recoverability, repeatability and sensitivity, and a fast sensing speed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an air conditioner for a vehicle, which can send air-conditioned air toward a rear seat of the vehicle in order to perform air-conditioning of a front seat of the vehicle and air-conditioning of a rear seat. The air conditioner includes an air passageway formed in an air-conditioning case, wherein the air passageway includes: a rear seat cold air passageway which is a passageway that the air passed through the heat exchanger for cooling bypasses the heat exchanger for heating and flows toward a rear seat of the vehicle; and a warm air passageway which is a passageway that the air passed through the heat exchanger for cooling passes through the heat exchanger for heating and flows toward a front seat or the rear seat of the vehicle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a memory system including a controller configured to authenticate a user who inputs a request for discarding the memory system, to verify whether the request is valid when the user is authenticated as a legitimate user, to register discard activation of the memory system when the request is valid, and to transmit the request to a memory device; and the memory device configured to determine whether the transmitted request is valid, and to register the discard activation of the memory system when the request is valid.

Abstract: A separable high-voltage connector assembly which can miniaturize a size by individually separating each first pin of a connector mounted on a board to form multiple small connectors and simplify a process and prevent an error that connectors are incorrectly inserted into each other by forming an inserting connector through fastening and assembling each of individually separated second pins.

Abstract: A flexible display panel includes a flexible substrate including a first region including a display region and having a curved display surface, and a plurality of non-display regions that is located outside the display region and including a second region located outside the first region and folded in a direction different from a display direction of the first region, and an encapsulation member for encapsulating the display region along the curved display surface.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides cryogenic storage systems and methods of using the cryogenic storage systems. A cryogenic storage system of the present disclosure may comprise a cryogenic tank with an inner door and an outer door, and a robot apparatus located adjacent to the cryogenic tank. The cryogenic tank may store multiple racks such that at most a single rack is removable through the inner door or the outer door. The cryogenic tank may store the multiple racks in multiple groups of racks comprising a first group of racks located at a first radial distance and a second group of racks located at a second radial distance that is greater than the first radial distance. The robot apparatus may selectively open and close the inner or outer doors, and insert or withdraw the single rack into or out of the cryogenic tank through the inner door or the outer door.

Abstract: Disclosed are a novel Lactobacillus fermentum) E4 strain isolated from Kimchi which is a traditional Korean fermented food and a mass production method for the strain. The Lactobacillus fermentum E4 strain is verified to be a safe and useful probiotic strain through acid tolerance, bile acid tolerance, gelatin liquefaction, and urease tests. In addition, high DPPH free radical scavenging (%) associated with antioxidant activity was observed, and reduction in cytokines Iinterleukin-1? (IL-1?), Iinterleukin-8 (IL-8), Iinterleukin-6 (IL-6), and Toll-like receptor (TLR4), which are associated with an inflammatory response, was observed.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for manufacturing a cell stack for a secondary battery, the apparatus including: a stack table on which a negative electrode plate and a positive electrode plate are sequentially stacked with a separator interposed therebetween; an electrode-plate-stacking-position adjusting means; a clamping means; a drive means configured to reciprocally turn the stack table, the electrode-plate-stacking-position adjusting means, and the clamping means to both sides so that the separator supplied to the stack table is folded in a zigzag shape and the negative electrode plate and the positive electrode plate are alternately stacked between folded portions of the separator; and a support means configured to support the stack table, the electrode-plate-stacking-position adjusting means, the clamping means, and the drive means.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including pixels connected to compensation gate lines, and a compensation gate driver which supplies compensation gate signals to the display panel. The compensation gate driver includes: a first compensation gate driver which generates the compensation gate signals based on a first-first clock signal and a second-first clock signal and a second compensation gate driver which generates the compensation gate signals based on a first-second clock signal and a second-second clock signal. The first-first clock signal and the second-first clock signal have the same waveform as the first-second clock signal and the second-second clock signal, respectively, during a scan period in which a compensation gate signal is supplied to the display panel, and have different waveforms from the first-second clock signal and the second-second clock signal, respectively, during a blank period in which the compensation gate signal is not supplied to the display panel.

Abstract: An embodiment inter-platooning vehicle distance controller includes a processor configured to separate a linear control section from a non-linear control section based on whether a preceding vehicle brakes during platooning, predict a real-time deceleration for each platooning vehicle with regard to a disturbance factor when generating a deceleration in the linear control section, and set target decelerations of platooning vehicles based on the predicted real-time deceleration, and a memory configured to store data and an algorithm executable by the processor.