Abstract: A bitline sense amplifier including: an amplifier which is connected between a first sensing bitline and a second sensing bitline, and detects and amplifies a voltage difference between a first bitline and a second bitline in response to a first control signal and a second control signal; and an equalizer which is connected between a first supply line through which the first control signal is supplied and a second supply line through which the second control signal is supplied, and pre-charges the first bitline and the second bitline with a precharge voltage in response to an equalizing control signal, wherein the equalizer includes an equalizing enable transistor in which a source terminal is connected to the first supply line and performs equalizing in response to the equalizing control signal.

Abstract: An inverse quantization method is implemented by an inverse quantization device, the method configured for acquiring quantized coefficients, estimating a quantization parameter in quantization groups or quantization parameter prediction group units, generating an inverse quantization matrix for adaptive quantization, and generating transform coefficients from the quantized coefficients using the quantization parameter and the inverse quantization matrix.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a via layer above the substrate, and including a protrusion, an insulating pattern above the protrusion, and having a width that is greater than a width of the protrusion, first and second electrodes above the via layer, and spaced apart from each other with the protrusion and the insulating pattern therebetween, a first insulating layer above the protrusion, the insulating pattern, the first electrode, and the second electrode, a light-emitting element above the first insulating layer, and between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first connection electrode connected to a first end of the light-emitting element, and a second connection electrode connected to a second end of the light-emitting element.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly having a positive electrode provided with a positive electrode tab, a separator, and a negative electrode provided with a negative electrode tab, the positive electrode, the separator, and the negative electrode being wound, the electrode assembly having a core part at a center thereof; a can configured to receive the electrode assembly therein, the negative electrode tab being connected to the can; a cap assembly coupled to an opening of the can, the positive electrode tab being connected to the cap assembly; and a reinforcing member provided on an end of the separator exposed beyond the positive electrode or the negative electrode to prevent heat of the positive electrode tab or the negative electrode tab from being transferred to the separator.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate; an auxiliary electrode including metal layers stacked in an undercut structure; and a light-emitting element layer. The light-emitting element layer includes a second common layer; and a common electrode which extend to the non-emission area. A side surface of the auxiliary electrode includes a first bonding portion in contact with the second common layer, and a second bonding portion in contact with the common electrode. The auxiliary electrode includes a first side and a second side facing each other in one direction, and a third side and a fourth side facing each other in other direction crossing the one direction. The first bonding portion has a first width at a first point of the first side and has a second width smaller than the first width at a second point of the third side.

Abstract: A water-cooled heat dissipation module assembly capable of cooling a power module of a vehicle driving inverter system using a battery or fuel cell. The water-cooled heat dissipation module assembly includes a housing unit provided in the form of a housing having an opening portion at least partially opened at one side thereof. The housing unit and at least a part of a rim region of the cooling unit are made of a plastic material, and the housing unit and the cooling unit are joined to each other by plastic welding using a laser.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first sheet pattern on the substrate, a gate electrode on the substrate and surrounding the first sheet pattern, a first source/drain pattern and a second source/drain pattern respectively connected to a first end and a second end of the first sheet pattern, a contact blocking pattern on a lower side of the second source/drain pattern, a first source/drain contact extending in a first direction and connected to the first source/drain pattern, and a second source/drain contact connected to the second source/drain pattern and extending in the first direction to contact an upper surface of the contact blocking pattern. A depth from an upper surface of the gate electrode to a lowermost portion of the first source/drain contact may be greater than a depth from the upper surface of the gate electrode to the upper surface of the contact blocking pattern.

Abstract: A display device includes a light-emitting device disposed on a substrate and including an emission layer, and a light controller disposed on the light-emitting device. The light controller includes a plurality of main light blocking patterns extending in a first direction and spaced apart from each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a plurality of sub-light blocking patterns disposed between adjacent ones of the plurality of main light blocking patterns, extending in the first direction, and spaced apart from each other in the second direction. Each of the plurality of main light blocking patterns has a first thickness in a thickness direction of the substrate, and each of the plurality of sub-light blocking patterns has a second thickness that is less than the first thickness in the thickness direction of the substrate.

Abstract: A wafer processing system includes an optical apparatus including a beam splitter configured to receive a laser beam and to split the laser beam into a first beam in a first state of linear polarization and a second beam in a second state of linear polarization; and a beam delayer configured to delay the second beam so that a pulse of the second beam has a delay time with respect to a pulse of the first beam.

Abstract: A collision safety control system includes a memory storing a collision safety model having a deep learning-based collision safety control logic. The collision safety control system also includes a processor electrically connected to the memory. The processor is configured to, in accordance with the collision safety control logic, train, based on at least one signal including pre-collision data and post-collision data, the collision safety model such that the collision safety model outputs a collision type and a required time-to-fire (RTTF) of passenger protection equipment corresponding to the at least one signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a ship cleaning robot, in which a first caterpillar module and a second caterpillar module are symmetrically rotated almost equally in a vertical direction in a rear horizontal body through a stabilizer, and thus the rear horizontal body also resists external force and inhibit separation from the outer wall as the symmetry is broken when one of the first caterpillar module and the second caterpillar module is separated from the outer wall by the external force, thereby having advantages of maintaining close contact with the outer surface of a ship.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device and a method of operating the semiconductor memory device are provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a memory block including a plurality of sub-blocks, a peripheral circuit configured to perform a program operation on the memory block, and control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit to perform the program operation on the memory block, wherein the program operation comprises programming to program normal data to a first sub-block, allocated to be a normal sub-block, among the plurality of sub-blocks, and programming parity data of the normal data to a second sub-block, allocated to be a backup block, among the plurality of sub-blocks.

Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus includes: a DTC generator unit that generates DTC signals having edges delayed to define time segments; a template generator unit that generates template signals consecutively in a pre-designated number within the time segments in response to the DTC signals; a coarse time determiner unit that determines the time segment in which a delayed signal is received by calculating correlations with the consecutively generated template signals; a fine time measurer unit that determines the time at which the delayed signal is received within the time segment determined at the coarse time determiner unit from the results of calculating correlations between multiple template signals within the determined time segment and the delayed signal; and a distance calculator unit that calculates the total delay duration of the delayed signal and calculates the distance to the measurement target object from the calculated delay duration.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a contact point monitoring device for a vacuum circuit breaker, and a correction method performed through same, wherein deviations due to temperature in a sensor for monitoring the amount of wear at a contact point may be compensated for. According to the present disclosure, the amount of wear at the contact point may be accurately detected by correcting a characteristic value of a photosensor according to operation temperature, by taking into consideration the temperature characteristics of the photosensor.

Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes a fin-type active region protruding from a top surface of a substrate and extending in a first direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate, a gate structure intersecting with the fin-type active region and extending on the substrate in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a source/drain region on a first side of the gate structure, a first contact structure on the source/drain region, and a contact capping layer on the first contact structure. A top surface of the first contact structure has a first width in the first direction, a bottom surface of the contact capping layer has a second width greater than the first width stated above in the first direction, and the contact capping layer includes a protruding portion extending outward from a sidewall of the first contact structure.

Abstract: A coil component includes a body having one surface and the other surface, opposing each other in one direction, and one end surface connecting the one surface and the other surface to each other, a support substrate embedded in the body, a coil portion disposed on the support substrate and including a lead-out pattern exposed from the one end surface, a first insulating layer disposed on the one end surface and having one region and the other regions spaced apart from each other in the other direction crossing the one direction, an external electrode having a connection portion, disposed between the one region and the other region to be connected to the lead-out pattern, and an extension portion extending from the connection portion to the one surface, and a second insulating layer disposed on the one end surface to cover the first insulating layer and the connection portion.

Abstract: An electrical stimulation device includes a terminal electrode having an opening at a center thereof, a ground electrode having an area smaller than that of the terminal electrode, and a power source connected to the terminal electrode and the ground electrode and configured to apply an electrical stimulus to an object disposed between the terminal electrode and the ground electrode by applying a terminal voltage to the terminal electrode.

Abstract: An inductor includes a first magnetic body having a toroidal shape and having a ferrite; and a second magnetic body configured to be different from the first magnetic body and including a metal ribbon, wherein the second magnetic body includes an outer magnetic body disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the first magnetic body and an inner magnetic body disposed on an inner circumferential surface of the first magnetic body, and each of the outer magnetic body and inner magnetic body is wound in a plurality of layers in a circumferential direction of the first magnetic body.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure discloses tobacco material including: a center portion including a flavor material; and an outer portion including a tobacco mixture, wherein the outer portion surrounds the center portion.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device according to the present invention is an organic electroluminescent device comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic material layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the organic material layer is formed using a composition having an organic electroluminescence material and a solvent, the organic electroluminescence material has a host, and the organic electroluminescence device has excellent operation properties such as luminous efficiency and driving voltage by using an organic electroluminescence material having high solubility in a solvent.