Abstract: A refrigerant flow rate adjustment device and a system using the same include a refrigerant provided at a quantitative flow rate to a heat exchanger such that the occurrence of a liquid refrigerant is reduced at an outlet end of an evaporator. The refrigerant flow rate adjustment device and system prevent the occurrence of the liquid refrigerant at the outlet end of the heat exchanger, prevent an increase in load, and prevent a lubrication defect of a compressor.

Abstract: A surgical instrument includes an end tool including a first jaw and a second jaw that are rotatable, a manipulation part including an actuation manipulation part that controls actuation motions of the first jaw and the second jaw, and a power transmission part including a first jaw wire and a second jaw wire connected to the manipulation part to transfer the rotation of the manipulation part to the first jaw and the second jaw, respectively, wherein the actuation manipulation part includes an actuation pulley configured to be rotatable around an actuation rotation shaft, and a handle member that is fixedly coupled to the actuation pulley and rotated along with the actuation pulley, and a tensioner that rotates along with the rotation of the actuation pulley, and the tensioner comes into contact with the first jaw wire or the second jaw wire according to the rotation of the actuation pulley, and applies additional tension to the first jaw wire or the second jaw wire.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device, and a method of operating the same, includes a memory block including a plurality of pages, a read and write circuit configured to apply a first bit line voltage to a selected bit line corresponding to a selected memory cell and apply a second bit line voltage having a potential lower than that of the first bit line voltage to an unselected bit line during detrap operation, a voltage generation circuit configured to generate a first set voltage, a second set voltage, and a pass voltage during the detrap operation, and an address decoder configured to apply the first set voltage to a selected word line corresponding to the selected page and apply the second set voltage having a potential higher than that of the first set voltage to unselected word lines, during the detrap operation.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polyethylene yarn capable of providing a user with a soft tactile sensation as well as a cooling feeling or a cooling sensation, and also having improved weavability that enables the manufacture of a skin cooling fabrics having excellent pilling resistance, abrasion resistance, cuttability, and sewability, a method for manufacturing the same, and a skin cooling fabric including the same. In a strength-elongation curve of the polyethylene yarn obtained by measuring at ambient temperature, (i) elongation at strength of 1 g/d is 0.5 to 3%, (ii) elongation at strength of 3 g/d is 5.5 to 10%, and (iii) a difference between elongation at strength of 4 g/d and elongation at maximum strength is 5.5 to 25%, and the polyethylene yarn has toughness of 55 to 120 J/m3 at ambient temperature.

Abstract: Disclosed is a battery module, which includes a cell stack including a plurality of battery cells; a compression member disposed on at least one side of the cell stack and interposed in a gap between the battery cells, the compression member being configured to be shape-deformable by an external pressure; and a pressurizing member configured to pressurize the compression member on the at least one side of the cell stack.

Abstract: A memory system includes at least one memory device that includes memory areas. The memory system includes a device allocation manager and security erase circuitry. The device allocation manager determines which of the memory areas is allocated or released based on a request input from at least one host. The security erase circuitry stores a security erase task for a first memory area, which is associated with a release determined by the device allocation manager, in an erase job queue, and removes the security erase task from the erase job queue when the first memory area is reallocated to a first host to which the first memory area was allocated before the release.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a decoding method for a bit stream that supports a plurality of layers. The decoding method may include receiving information on a set of video parameters that includes information on the plurality of layers, and parsing the set of video parameters to 5 grasp information on the layers in the bit stream.

Abstract: Provided is a carbon dioxide capturing apparatus comprising: a reaction tower including a carbon dioxide adsorption unit or a carbon dioxide absorption unit which adsorbs or absorbs carbon dioxide from exhaust gas; desorption tower connected to the reaction tower and including an adsorbent heating unit for heating an adsorbent circulating inside or an absorbent heating unit for heating an absorbent circulating inside; an adsorbent or absorbent which circulates in the reaction tower and the desorption tower and alternately adsorbs and desorbs carbon dioxide or alternately absorbs and desorbs carbon dioxide; and a heat exchange unit which desorbs carbon dioxide from the adsorbent on which carbon dioxide is adsorbed or the absorbent in which carbon dioxide is absorbed, through heat exchange between the adsorbent on which carbon dioxide is adsorbed and the heated adsorbent, or between the absorbent in which carbon dioxide is absorbed and the heated absorbent, wherein the adsorbent on which carbon dioxide is adsor

Abstract: The present invention relates to a peptide of a novel sequence that has hair growth promotion and hair loss prevention activity. The peptide has activity that can promote or induce the proliferation or activity of cells related to hair formation, and thus a composition containing the peptide can be usefully used for preventing hair loss or promoting hair growth.

Abstract: A device for decoding a feature map according to the present disclosure comprises an image decoding unit to decode an image from a bitstream; an inverse format conversion unit to restore a feature map latent representation by converting a formation of a decoded image; and a feature map restoration unit to restore a multi-layer feature map from the feature map latent representation. Here, the feature map restoration unit restores the multi-layer feature map based on a learned neural network parameter.

Abstract: Provided is a process of manufacturing light olefins, which is a fluidized bed catalytic naphtha cracking process having improved economic feasibility and decreased greenhouse gas emissions. The process of manufacturing light olefins according to the present invention has a decreased hot spot occurring when supplying an additional fuel oil and decreased tendency of catalyst deactivation by water, thereby improving economic feasibility of the process and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to allow construction of an environmentally friendly process.

Abstract: An embodiment of the disclosed technology reduces direct data transmission and reception between a plurality of host devices and enables data sharing by a data storage device, through management of allocation information and access mode information of memory regions included in the data storage device used by the plurality of host devices, thereby improving data processing performance by the plurality of host devices and the use efficiency of the data storage device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a peptide of a novel sequence, which has an activity for promoting hair growth and preventing hair loss. Since the peptide has activity for promoting or inducing the proliferation or activation of cells related to hair formation, a composition containing the peptide can be useful for preventing hair loss or promoting hair growth.

Abstract: There are provided a memory device and an operating method of the memory device. The memory device includes: a memory block including a plurality of pages, each page from the plurality of pages including memory cells, the memory cells configured to be programmed to different program states according to a plurality of target voltages; and a peripheral circuit for performing a program operation of a selected page among the plurality of pages. The peripheral circuit is configured to: decrease at least one target voltage among the plurality of target voltages to a sub-target voltage in the program operation of the selected page; and program memory cells programmed according to the sub-target voltage in the selected page according to a final target voltage corresponding to the sub-target voltage, after a program operation of a page adjacent to the selected page is performed.

Abstract: A fixing structure of an electrode includes a battery housing having a bottom with a perforation hole; an electrode terminal fixed to the bottom; and a terminal gasket interposed between the electrode terminal and the bottom. The electrode terminal includes a neck portion inserted into the perforation hole; a head portion connected to one end of the neck portion and having a cross section larger than the cross section of the perforation hole and extending along one surface of the bottom; a protrusion connected to the other end of the neck portion and extending along an axial direction of the battery housing from the other surface of the bottom; a diameter-enlarged portion configured to extend in a centrifugal direction from the protrusion; and a front end surface at an axial end of the protrusion. The diameter-enlarged portion may be a fastening member at an outer circumference of the protrusion.

Abstract: An electrode for a secondary battery may include an electrode collector, a coating portion having an active material coated on the electrode collector, a first non-coating portion on which the active material is not applied to the electrode collector, and a second non-coating portion on which the active material is not applied to the electrode collector. The first non-coating portion may be adjacent to the coating portion in a width direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the electrode collector, the first non-coating portion having a longitudinal dimension extending along the longitudinal direction, the first non-coating portion configured to be bent and electrically coupled to a can member of the secondary battery. The second non-coating portion may be adjacent to the coating portion in the longitudinal direction. The electrode may be stacked into a stack with a separator and a second electrode of an opposite polarity than the electrode.

Abstract: A refrigerator for drinks is provided. The refrigerator may have an open hole that is open upward, so a drink container may be inserted in an erect state in a cabinet through the open hole. An insertion guide connected to the open hole may be disposed in the cabinet and the width of the insertion guide may change in a height direction. Accordingly, a drink container may be guided by the insertion guide when being inserted into or taken out of the refrigerator for drinks.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for coding/decoding an image. The method for decoding the image comprises the steps of: deriving a scale factor of a current block, depending on whether the current block is a conversion skip block; and scaling the current block on the basis of the scale factor, wherein the scale factor of the current block is derived on the basis of the position of a conversion coefficient inside the current block, and wherein the conversion skip block is the current block to which conversion is not applied and is specified on the basis of information indicating whether to apply reconversion to the current block.

Abstract: The image encoding and decoding method and apparatus based on a periodicity on phase signal are disclosed. One embodiment on an encoding an image, the method comprising: generating a prediction signal for an input signal, calculating an initial residual signal, which is a difference value between the input signal and the prediction signal, generating a transformed residual signal by transforming a value of the initial residual signal to have a size value within a preset range, and encoding the transformed residual signal, wherein the transformed residual signal is generated based on a period of a signal, wherein the preset range is a range of the period of the signal.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display module, a lifting part disposed on a rear surface of the display module and connected to the display module, and a drive belt connected to the lifting part and which moves in a first direction to extend and retract the lifting part in the first direction. The drive belt moves along a guide groove that is defined in the lifting part and that is open in the first direction.