Abstract: Disclosed herein is a battery cell configured to have a structure in which an electrode assembly, including positive electrodes, negative electrodes, and separators disposed respectively between the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes, is mounted in a battery case made of a laminate sheet including a resin layer and a metal layer, wherein the battery case is made of a one-unit member, which is bent to form an upper case and a lower case, at least one of the upper and lower cases is provided with a receiving part, in which the electrode assembly is mounted, the receiving part having a round corner formed at at least one side edge thereof, and sealed portions, which are formed at the upper case and the lower case by thermal welding, are located at an upper side of the battery case at which at least one electrode terminal is located, a first lateral side of the battery case adjacent to the upper side, and a lower side of the battery case opposite to the upper side, and a second lateral side of the ba

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing an electrode assembly, the method including: preparing an electrode laminate including at least one negative electrode, at least one positive electrode, and at least one separation film; generating a separation film assembly by bonding remaining portions of the separation film positioned in regions not corresponding to shapes of the negative electrode and the positive electrode; and cutting the separation film assembly so as to correspond to the shapes of the negative electrode and the positive electrode, and an electrode assembly manufactured by the method.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a battery case including a receiving part having an electrode assembly mounted therein, wherein the receiving part, which is formed by deforming a sheet type base material, is configured to have a stair-like structure in which at least one corner and/or surface forming a shape of the receiving part is deformed.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for fabricating a semiconductor device using a 4-way valve with improved purge efficiency by improving a gas valve system by preventing dead volume from occurring are provided. The apparatus includes a reaction chamber in which a substrate is processed to fabricate a semiconductor device; a first processing gas supply pipe supplying a first processing gas into the reaction chamber; a 4-way valve having a first inlet, a second inlet, a first outlet, and a second outlet and installed at the first processing gas supply pipe such that the first inlet and the first outlet are connected to the first processing gas supply pipe; a second processing gas supply pipe connected to the second inlet of the 4-way valve to supply a second processing gas; a bypass connected to the second outlet of the 4-way valve; and a gate valve installed at the bypass.

Abstract: An OLED display device includes a first substrate; organic light-emitting diodes each including a first electrode, an organic light-emitting layer and a second electrode on the first substrate; a passivation layer on the organic light-emitting diodes; a second substrate spaced apart from the first substrate; a color filter layer on an inner surface of the second substrate; and a color changing layer contacting the passivation layer and the color filter layer.

Abstract: An electrode assembly and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The electrode assembly includes an electrode stack including at least one anode, at least one cathode, and at least one separation film and a plurality of cathode tabs and a plurality of anode tabs for electrically connecting the electrode stack. In this case, the electrode tabs are arranged to allow the electrode tabs having the same polarity to be electrically connected to one another while a portion of the electrode tabs having the same polarity are arranged so as not to overlap one another on the same plane.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting data. Data to be transmitted is an aggregated frame including a first subframe and a second subframe each including information used to verify integrity of each subframe, and an apparatus receiving the data verifies integrity of a subframe based on the information used to verify the integrity.

Abstract: When a plurality of terminals share the same resources in a wireless communication system, and when control information such as acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NAK) information or scheduling information is transmitted, a method of efficiently performing code division multiplexing (CDM) is required to distinguish the plurality of terminals. In particular, it is necessary to develop a method by which a code sequence of CDM can be selected and used according to each cell condition. Provided is a method of forming a signal in a wireless communication system in which a plurality of terminals commonly share frequency and time resources. The method includes the operations of receiving condition information in a cell; selecting one of a plurality of time domain orthogonal sequences having different lengths, according to the condition information; and allocating the selected time domain orthogonal sequence to a control signal symbol block.

Abstract: The present invention relates to IFN-? fusion protein in which a cytoplasmic transduction peptide (CTP) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) are bonded to an IFN-? protein. The IFN-? fusion protein of the present invention is characterized in that the specific activity of interferon remains high, the half-life of the INF-? fusion protein is extended when delivered in vivo, and the mobility of the interferon in a liver is improved. The IFN-? fusion protein of the present invention can be used in the development of protein drugs effective in preventing or treating liver diseases, including various types of viral infections or the like.

Abstract: There is provided an electrode assembly having steps including: a first electrode stair including at least one first electrode unit; and a second electrode stair including at least one second electrode unit having an area different from that of the first electrode unit, wherein the first electrode stair and the second electrode stair are stacked to be adjacent, separated by at least one separator as a boundary therebetween and including one or more electrode laminates having steps formed by a difference between areas of the first electrode stair and the second electrode stair, and shapes of the corners of the first electrode stair and the second electrode stair having steps are different. There is also provided a secondary battery including the electrode assembly. Secondary batteries having various designs without restriction in shapes of corners of electrode units can be provided.

Abstract: A fantasy sports game managing apparatus includes a data processing and operation processing units. The operation processing unit stores pieces of daily fantasy sports game participation information including a game event selected by each of a plurality of users, a type of contest, a roster created by a user, and whether to use a player card, obtains game integration information included in sports game information from the data processing unit, and calculates a fantasy point of a lineup included in the roster of each user. When a player card is used in creating a roster, the operation processing unit calculates an additional point corresponding to performance of an athlete corresponding to the used player card according to a skill set included in the used player card, and adds up the calculated fantasy point and the additional point to determine a ranking of a contest according to the added fantasy point.

Abstract: An apparatus for driving a voice coil actuator of a camera and a method thereof are provided. The driving apparatus performs input shaping based on a resonance frequency of a voice coil actuator and damping of vibration in the voice coil actuator to generate a control signal using a shaping signal as an initial input from an unshaped control signal, and thereby drives the voice coil actuator using the control signal subjected to input shaping. The shaping signal is provided to remove the resonance of the voice coil actuator, and may be a pure shaping signal, such as a multi-step shaping signal or a toggle shaping signal, or a convoluted shaping signal obtained by convoluting such pure shaping signals. The driving apparatus may significantly reduce residual vibration and may enhance an auto-focus function of the voice actuator using input shaping control based on damping.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel indene derivative, a preparation method for the same, and a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating retinal disease comprising the same as an active ingredient. The novel indene derivative of the present invention, the optical isomer of the same, or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the same have excellent inhibitory efficiency of receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 1 (RIPK1).

Abstract: A transparent conductor, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display including the same, the transparent conductor including metal nanowires; and a matrix in which the metal nanowires are embedded, wherein a capping layer is formed on surfaces of the metal nanowires, the capping layer including a sulfur-containing compound, and the capping layer has a thickness of about 0.025 or less times an average diameter of the metal nanowires.

Abstract: A frame transmission method and a wireless communication apparatus performing the same. A frame transmission method performed by a first wireless communication apparatus includes receiving subframe unit length information of a second wireless communication apparatus from the second wireless communication apparatus, determining a subframe unit length of the first wireless communication apparatus based on the received subframe unit length information, generating a plurality of subframes based on the determined subframe unit length, and transmitting a frame in which the generated subframes are aggregated to the second wireless communication apparatus, and wherein, when at least one of the subframes includes a padding, a length of the padding allows a length of the at least one of the subframes including the padding to be a multiple of a natural number of the determined subframe unit length.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wear system for providing a service. The wear system may comprise a wear device configured to detect authentication information regarding a user wearing the wear device in a first state, to transmit the authentication information to a server, and if authentication of the user is complete through the server, to detect user data of the wear device in a second state and to transmit the user data to the server and the server, upon detecting identification information regarding the user using the authentication information received from the wear device, to complete the authentication of the user, to generate a user profile based on the user data received from the wear device, to store the user profile corresponding to the identification information, and to provide service information related to the user to the wear device.

Abstract: A method of depositing a thin film includes: repeating a first gas supply cycle a first plurality of times, the first gas supply cycle including supplying a source gas to a reaction space; supplying first plasma while supplying a reactant gas to the reaction space; repeating a second gas supply cycle a second plurality of times, the second gas supply cycle including supplying the source gas to the reaction space; and supplying second plasma while supplying the reactant gas to the reaction space, wherein the supplying of the first plasma includes supplying remote plasma, and the supplying of the second plasma includes supplying direct plasma.

Abstract: There is provide an electrode assembly including an electrode laminate having a plurality of electrode units rolled up to be stacked on one another in at least two rectangularly shaped separation films, the electrode assembly being characterized in that at least one of two rectangularly shaped separation films is disposed on upper and lower surfaces of the respective electrode unit, at least one separation film disposed on one surface being different from a separation film disposed on another surface, and the electrode laminate includes at least one step formed by stacking an electrode unit having a difference in area from an electrode unit adjacent thereto, having one of the rectangularly shaped separation films as a boundary therebetween.