Abstract: An electric vehicle may include a motor system having a motor and an inverter, a main battery and an auxiliary battery, and a controller which controls the main battery to be charged by voltage step-up of power of the auxiliary battery through the motor system during driving of the electric vehicle, and controls the auxiliary battery to be charged by voltage step-down of power of the main battery through the motor system when charging the main battery through an external power source.

Abstract: A memory device includes a word line including a cell array region and a connection region extending in a first direction from the cell array region; a first select line and a second select line, spaced apart from each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction on the cell array region, the first select line and the second select line, extending onto the connection region of the word line; and an isolation pattern disposed between the first select line and the second select line. The isolation pattern includes a first sub-isolation pattern extending in the first direction and a second sub-isolation pattern extending in the second direction from the first sub-isolation pattern. The second select line is bent to surround an outside corner defined at an intersection point of the first sub-isolation pattern and the second sub-isolation pattern of the isolation pattern.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a battery module; a pack frame that houses the battery module and has a through-hole formed on one surface thereof; a cooling port that is inserted into the through hole; a cooling connector that is located inside the pack frame and is connected to the cooling port; a cover member that is coupled to the cooling port and has an opening part formed therein; and a pack coolant tube that is connected to the cooling connector. The cooling port includes a plate-shaped base part and a first tube that protrudes from the base part in a first direction and passes through the through hole. The base part includes a base protrusion part formed on one surface of the base part in the first direction. A sealing member is located between the opening of the cover member and the base protrusion part.

Abstract: This invention relates to macrostructures (and pharmaceutical formulations containing them) that include an antiparallel coiled-coil. wherein the antiparallel coiled-coil comprises a first coil of Formula I and a second coil of Formula II: T1-g0-a1-b1-c1-d1-e1-f1-g1-a2-b2-c2-d2-e2-f2-g2-a3-b3-c3-d3-e3-f3-T2 (I) T3-f0-g?0-a?1-b?1-c?1-d?1-e?1-f?1-g?1-a?2-b?2-c?2-d?2-e?2-f?2-g?2-a?3-b?3-c?3-d?3-e?3-T4 (II), as described in the present application. Methods of using these macrostructures are also disclosed.

Abstract: A capacitor component includes a body including dielectric layers, first and second internal electrodes, laminated in a first direction, facing each other, and first and second cover portions, disposed on outermost portions of the first and second internal electrodes, and first and second external electrodes, respectively disposed on both external surfaces of the body in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, and respectively connected to the first and second internal electrodes. An indentation including a glass is disposed at at least one of boundaries between the first internal electrodes and the first external electrode or one of boundaries between the second internal electrodes and the second external electrode.

Abstract: Disclosed are a radar image generation method and an apparatus for performing the same. The radar image generation method includes receiving a received signal received at each of radars that are distributed and arranged; generating an input signal by processing the received signal; generating a support vector based on the input signal; updating the support vector; updating a coefficient corresponding to the support vector; and generating a radar image based on the support vector and the coefficient.

Abstract: A battery charging method, including obtaining a voltage capacity ratio for a reference charge C-rate and voltage capacity ratios for N (N an integer of 1 or more) charge C-rates greater than the reference charge C-rate, each of the voltage capacity ratios for the reference charge C-rate and the N charge C-rates being defined as a ratio of a voltage variance to a capacity variance depending on a change in state of charge (SOC) of a battery when the battery is charged at a corresponding one of the C-rates, comparing the voltage capacity ratio of the reference charge C-rate with each of the voltage capacity ratios of the N charge C-rates, and then setting a charge C-rate of the N charge C-rates so that a difference in voltage capacity ratio is minimized for each of SOC sections, and charging the battery with the charge C-rates corresponding to the SOC sections.

Abstract: A lumbar support of a car seat according to the present invention includes: a support plate to support user's back and made of elastic material; a support frame to which the support plate is rotatably engaged; a slider member mounted on the support frame in a movable manner in a vertical direction; a vertically driving means to move the slider member on the support frame; a biasing force control means including an upper member moving together with the slider member, a lower member disposed below the upper member, a biasing member connecting the upper and lower members to each other and having a controllable biasing force acting on the support plate depending on a distance between the upper and lower members, and an actuating means to control the distance between the upper member and the lower member.

Abstract: A battery charging method, including obtaining a voltage capacity ratio for a reference charge C-rate and voltage capacity ratios for N (N an integer of 1 or more) charge C-rates greater than the reference charge C-rate, each of the voltage capacity ratios for the reference charge C-rate and the N charge C-rates being defined as a ratio of a voltage variance to a capacity variance depending on a change in state of charge (SOC) of a battery when the battery is charged at a corresponding one of the C-rates, comparing the voltage capacity ratio of the reference charge C-rate with each of the voltage capacity ratios of the N charge C-rates, and then setting a charge C-rate of the N charge C-rates so that a difference in voltage capacity ratio is minimized for each of SOC sections, and charging the battery with the charge C-rates corresponding to the SOC sections.

Abstract: A lumbar support of a car seat according to the present invention includes: a support plate to support user's back and made of elastic material; a support frame to which the support plate is rotatably engaged; a slider member mounted on the support frame in a movable manner in a vertical direction; a vertically driving means to move the slider member on the support frame; a biasing force control means including an upper member moving together with the slider member, a lower member disposed below the upper member, a biasing member connecting the upper and lower members to each other and having a controllable biasing force acting on the support plate depending on a distance between the upper and lower members, and an actuating means to control the distance between the upper member and the lower member.

Abstract: An LC device having a substrate, a support layer having upper and lower sides formed on the substrate, inductors formed on either the upper or lower side of the support layer, and capacitors formed in the opposite side of the support layer. The support layer may be formed of a low-k dielectric material, and a connection portion may be provided to connect the inductors and capacitors in the support layer. The inductors and capacitors are disposed in a stacked structure on the upper and lower sides of the low-k dielectric support layer on the substrate, so that space efficiency may be maximized on the substrate. The low-k dielectric support layer provides support between the inductors and capacitors so that substrate loss is minimized and a Q factor of the inductors is enhanced.

Abstract: An LC device having a substrate, a support layer having upper and lower sides formed on the substrate, inductors formed on either the upper or lower side of the support layer, and capacitors formed in the opposite side of the support layer. The support layer may be formed of a low-k dielectric material, and a connection portion may be provided to connect the inductors and capacitors in the support layer. The inductors and capacitors are disposed in a stacked structure on the upper and lower sides of the low-k dielectric support layer on the substrate, so that space efficiency may be maximized on the substrate. The low-k dielectric support layer provides support between the inductors and capacitors so that substrate loss is minimized and a Q factor of the inductors is enhanced.

Abstract: An LC device having a substrate, a support layer having upper and lower sides formed on the substrate, inductors formed on either the upper or lower side of the support layer, and capacitors formed in the opposite side of the support layer. The support layer may be formed of a low-k dielectric material, and a connection portion may be provided to connect the inductors and capacitors in the support layer. The inductors and capacitors are disposed in a stacked structure on the upper and lower sides of the low-k dielectric support layer on the substrate, so that space efficiency may be maximized on the substrate. The low-k dielectric support layer provides support between the inductors and capacitors so that substrate loss is minimized and a Q factor of the inductors is enhanced.

Abstract: A shoe comprising an enhanced inner sole that is positioned in the shoe, either as a separate insert or built-in, to thereby raise the position in which the foot rests inside the shoe.

Abstract: An LC device having a substrate, a support layer having upper and lower sides formed on the substrate, inductors formed on either the upper or lower side of the support layer, and capacitors formed in the opposite side of the support layer. The support layer may be formed of a low-k dielectric material, and a connection portion may be provided to connect the inductors and capacitors in the support layer. The inductors and capacitors are disposed in a stacked structure on the upper and lower sides of the low-k dielectric support layer on the substrate, so that space efficiency may be maximized on the substrate. The low-k dielectric support layer provides support between the inductors and capacitors so that substrate loss is minimized and a Q factor of the inductors is enhanced.

Abstract: A tunable Fabry-Perot filter is provided with two optical fibers each being coated with a high-reflective thin film at its one end, a silicon block for aligning the two optical fibers with each other having a pair of V-shaped grooves formed at both ends thereof, respectively, a resonant cavity medium of silicon or polymeric material having a high coefficient of thermo-optic effect, and a thermal electrode for applying heat to the resonant cavity medium.

Abstract: Disclosed is a thermo-optic tunable attenuator, which comprises a single mode channel optical waveguide, an optical waveguide of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer structure coupled with the single mode channel optical waveguide, the optical waveguide including two symmetric Y-branches, and two metal heating wires for applying power to one side of each of the two symmetric Y-branches, wherein the two metal heating wires are in a facing relationship with each other, wherein a refractive index of the optical waveguide is changed in response to a power applied to any one of the two metal heating wires.

Abstract: A wavelength converter for converting wavelength of a signal beam combined to a pump beam. The wavelength converter comprises a mode converting region for converting mode of the pump beam; a direction combining region for combining the signal beam to the pump beam; and wavelength converting region for converting the wavelength of the signal beam combined to the pump beam. The mode converting region and the wavelength converting region are formed as integrated by nonlinear polymeric material to construct a polymeric waveguide extended along propagation direction. The wavelength converting region includes the nonlinear polymer poled to a predetermined direction. According to the present invention, a DFG device, a cascade wavelength converting device, and second harmonic generation device of higher energy converting efficiency can be developed.

Abstract: A tunable Fabry-Perot filter is provided with two optical fibers each being coated with a high-reflective thin film at its one end, a silicon block for aligning the two optical fibers with each other having a pair of V-shaped grooves formed at both ends thereof, respectively, a resonant cavity medium of silicon or polymeric material having a high coefficient of thermo-optic effect, and a thermal electrode for applying heat to the resonant cavity medium.

Abstract: Disclosed is a thermo-optic tunable attenuator, which comprises a single mode channel optical waveguide, an optical waveguide of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer structure coupled with the single mode channel optical waveguide, the optical waveguide including two symmetric Y-branches, and two metal heating wires for applying power to one side of each of the two symmetric Y-branches, wherein the two metal heating wires are in a facing relationship with each other, wherein a refractive index of the optical waveguide is changed in response to a power applied to any one of the two metal heating wires.