Abstract: Provided are an air-cleaning device and method for reducing harmful gas including ethylene and harmful microorganisms, and an air-cleaning system including the air-cleaning device.

Abstract: Provided is a catalytic activity recovery method of a manganese oxide catalyst, an air-cleaning device using the same, air-cleaning system including the air-cleaning device, and an operation method of air-cleaning device by using the manganese oxide catalyst. The catalytic activity recovery method of a manganese oxide catalyst includes recovering the initial activity of a manganese Ni oxide catalyst by heating a manganese oxide catalyst which has been used to decompose ozone and of which activity is thus reduced by 10% or more compared to the initial ozone decomposition efficiency thereof, at the temperature of 80° C. to 250° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst layer for a fuel cell, a method for producing the catalyst layer, and a membrane-electrode assembly and a fuel cell including the catalyst layer. More particularly, the invention relates to a catalyst layer for a fuel cell, the catalyst layer including a catalyst, a heat dissipation material, and an ionomer and having an effect that the heat generated by an exothermic reaction in the catalyst layer can be efficiently discharged to the outside and a phenomenon of deterioration of a membrane-electrode assembly caused by temperature increase in the catalyst layer can be suppressed; a method for producing the catalyst layer; and a membrane-electrode assembly and a fuel cell, both including the catalyst layer.

Abstract: An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery can enhance lifetime and output characteristics in a high-capacity lithium secondary battery. The electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery includes a lithium salt, a solvent, and a functional additive. The functional additive includes 1-(3-((tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxy)propyl)-5-(4-fluorophenyl)-1H-1,2,3-triazole-4-carbonitrile as a positive electrode film additive.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a first substrate including pixel regions, each of the pixel regions including a photoelectric conversion region, color filters on the pixel regions, the color filters on a first surface of the first substrate, micro lenses on the color filters, and a lens coating layer on the micro lenses. The lens coating layer includes a first coating layer and a second coating layer, the second coating layer is on the first coating layer, the first and second coating layers include a same material, and a density of the second coating layer is greater than a density of the first coating layer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery, which can enhance lifetime and output characteristics in a high-capacity lithium secondary battery, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery may include a lithium salt, a solvent, and a functional additive, wherein the functional additive includes 5,5-diallyl-3-(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)oxazolidin-2-one as a positive electrode film additive.

Abstract: A filter medium is provided. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the filter medium is implemented by including: a porous second support and a nanofiber web which are sequentially stacked on each of an upper portion and a lower portion of a first support; and a channel through which a filtrate filtered in the nanofiber web flows in a direction of the first support, wherein the first support, the second support, and the nanofiber web satisfy predetermined conditions on a basis weight and a thickness of each layer. In a water treatment operation of the filter medium, the shape, structural deformation, and damage of the filter medium can be minimized, excellent filtration efficiency can be implemented, and a channel can be smoothly secured, thereby securing high flux. In addition, even at high pressure applied during backwashing, the filter medium has an extended use period due to excellent durability of the filter medium.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for encoding/decoding an immersive image, and the method for encoding an immersive image may include extracting an invalid region from an already encoded atlas and encoding a current atlas by referring to the invalid region.

Abstract: A method of producing an immersive video comprises decoding an atlas, parsing a flag for the atlas, and producing a viewport image using the atlas. The flag may indicate whether the viewport image is capable of being completely produced through the atlas, and, according to a value of the flag, when the viewport image is produced, it may be determined whether an additional atlas is used in addition to the atlas.

Abstract: An image encoding method according to the present disclosure may include classifying a plurality of view images into a basic image and an additional image; performing pruning for at least one of the plurality of view images based on a result of the classification; generating an atlas based on a result of performing the pruning; and encoding the atlas and metadata for the atlas. In this case, the metadata may include spherical harmonic function information on a point in a three-dimensional space.

Abstract: A cooling structure includes a plurality of bars arranged separately from each other and configured to press a battery cell, a support configured to support the plurality of bars, flow paths defined by a first surface of the battery cell and one pair of neighboring bars, and configured to guide a flow of a cooling medium, with the cooling medium being in direct contact with the first surface of the battery cell, and a separation wall provided in at least one of the flow paths and being configured to separate each of the at least one flow path into sub-flow paths.

Abstract: The electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery comprises: a lithium salt; a solvent; and a functional additive, wherein the functional additive comprises naphthalen-1-yl sulfurofluoridate, represented by the following formula 1:

Abstract: There is provided an RF sputtering apparatus for controlling an atomic layer of a thin film. The RF sputtering apparatus includes: a sputtering main body including a substrate, a target facing the substrate, and a chamber for performing a sputtering process to deposit the target on the substrate; a power supply unit connected to the target of the sputtering main body via a network to apply RF power; a roughing pump unit for forming vacuum inside the chamber of the sputtering main body; and a gas supply unit for supplying reaction gas to the inside of the chamber. A power cable for supplying a power source to the power supply unit is formed with a single crystal copper wire.

Abstract: The disclosed gas-liquid separation device separates, from a liquid, gas mixed in the liquid. The gas-liquid separation device includes a body configured to allow mixed fluid to be introduced into a longitudinally central portion thereof, and to have a cylindrical structure having an inner diameter gradually reduced as the body extends from the central portion to opposite ends thereof, a pair of gas discharge pipes respectively provided at the opposite ends of the body and configured to discharge, to an exterior of the body, gas separated from the mixed fluid in an interior of the body, and a pair of liquid discharge pipes respectively provided at the opposite ends of the body and configured to discharge, to the exterior of the body, the mixed fluid from which the gas has been separated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, a device, and a program for calculating a brachytherapy plan, and a brachytherapy apparatus. The method comprises: a step in which a computer obtains the number of radiation irradiation spots on the basis of radiation irradiation information (a radiation irradiation spot number obtaining step (S200)); a step in which the computer obtains target area information from a body model of a patient generated on the basis of medical image data of the patient (a target area information obtaining step (S400)); and a therapy plan calculating step (S600) in which the computer calculates, on the basis of the radiation irradiation information and the target area information, the radiation irradiation spots to which radiation is irradiated and the time length of irradiation to each radiation irradiation spot.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a display panel including a display region having a first pixel region where pixels are disposed, and a sensing region having a second pixel region where pixel groups are disposed and a light transmitting part disposed between the pixel groups, is discussed. The method can include forming a light shield layer at least in the sensing region, wherein the light shield layer includes an opening hole corresponding to the light transmitting part and exposes the light transmitting part to a laser beam through the opening hole. The method can further include forming a metal layer spaced apart from the light blocking layer in the first pixel region of the display region and the sensing region, and irradiating the laser beam to at least the sensing region to remove the metal layer from the light transmitting part.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an immersive video decoding method and an immersive video encoding method. The immersive video decoding method includes partitioning a current picture into multiple main blocks, determining whether each main block is to be partitioned into multiple sub-blocks, and when it is determined that each main block is to be partitioned into multiple sub-blocks, determining a partitioning type of the corresponding main block. Here, the corresponding main block may be partitioned into four or two sub-blocks depending on the partitioning type. When the corresponding main block is partitioned into multiple sub-blocks, whether depth information is to be updated for each of the sub-blocks generated by partitioning the main block may be determined.

Abstract: A multilayer electronic component includes a body including an active portion inducing dielectric layers and internal electrodes, and upper and lower cover portions, and external electrodes including connection portions and band portions extending onto portions of first and second surfaces of the body, and including an electrode layer and a conductive resin layer. In a cross-section of the body, when a line along which the band portion of the conductive resin layer is in contact with the first surface is d, an area of an isosceles right triangle, in which d is a base and an extension line extending from an end of the electrode layer by a length of d is a height, is K1, and a ratio of the area occupied by dummy electrodes in the lower cover portion and the internal electrodes in K1 to K1 is K2, K2 is 20% or more.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a substrate having a plurality of pixel regions, a lower layer on the substrate; a plurality of color filters on the lower layer, and a micro-lens layer on or covering top surfaces of the color filters. The micro-lens layer extends to a location between two of the color filters and contacts the lower layer on one of the pixel regions. The color filters are spaced apart from the lower layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is an appearance inspection apparatus for a secondary battery, which simultaneously obtains laterals image by picking up a plurality of secondary batteries loaded in a tray, and then simultaneously obtains top and bottom images of the secondary batteries by returning the plurality of inspected secondary batteries back to the tray and transporting the tray.