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Disclosed herein is a cathode active material coated with a fluorine compound for lithium secondary batteries. The cathode active material is structurally stable, and improves the charge-discharge characteristics, cycle characteristics, high-voltage characteristics, high-rate characteristics and thermal stability of batteries.

An apparatus and method for signal detection in a CR-based wireless communication system are provided. In the signal detection apparatus, a cyclic power calculator calculates the power spectral density of a cyclo-stationary and periodical signal to be detected with respect to a cyclic frequency and calculates optimum statistics using the power spectral density. A signal detector determines whether a signal exists or not according to the optimum statistics.

Methods and systems for partitioning and dynamically merging a database index are described. A database index includes a single first-level index partition stored in a data cache. As the first-level index partition in the data cache reaches a predetermined size, it is copied to secondary storage and a new index partition is generated in the data cache. When the number of index partitions in secondary storage reaches some predetermined number, the index partitions are merged to create a single index partition of a higher level in a hierarchy of index partitions having an exponentially increasing size with each increase in level within the hierarchy.

In a semiconductor storage device, a memory controller divides each of blocks in each of chips into a first page set composed of pages and a second page set composed of pages, divides a logical address space into groups, and divides each group into lines. Block units are created each of which is obtained by assembling a predetermined number of blocks from the blocks in each chip. A predetermined number of block units from the block units are managed as standard block units, and the other block units are managed as spare block units. Each standard block unit is made to correspond to one group. The corresponding group data is stored in the pages in the first page set in each block constituting the standard block unit, and unwritten pages for recording update data for the group data are provided to be included in the second page set.

A projection exposure apparatus that exposes a substrate with a liquid interposed between a surface of the substrate and an optical element on the substrate side of a projection optical system; includes liquid supply and discharge mechanisms, which supply the liquid via a liquid supply tube as they recover the liquid via a liquid recovery tube, and an adhesion preventing mechanism that prevents an adhesion of impurities on member forming a flow path for the liquid.

An occluding hearing aid having anti-occlusion effect techniques combined with at least one improvement which, in the preferred embodiment, includes enhancement of acoustic output in the lower-midrange and bass frequency regions, typically between substantially 40 and 500 Hz, which regions are crucial for natural reproduction of multimedia sound and music but are not optimally processed, and generally not provided at all, in prior art hearing aids in order to avoid exacerbation of the occlusion effect. In specific embodiments, the hearing aid of the present invention includes primary or first microphone exposed to external sound plus a secondary or second microphone exposed to sound within an ear canal, in which a signal produced by the secondary microphone is applied as negative feedback to an input of a non-gain controlling signal process and amplifier driving a hearing aid receiver (transducer), whereby, it has been determined by the present inventor, the occlusion effect may be substantially canceled. The hearing aid further comprises at least one of ten combinational improvements each providing substantial performance benefits over known techniques and devices.

A handsfree call apparatus includes: a speaker held in the vicinity of a user's ear by a holding unit with a speaker unit thereof not being attached to a baffle board so as to mix sounds emitted from the front and back of a diaphragm thereof; a microphone, which is provided to a region where sounds emitted from the front and back of the diaphragm of the speaker are mixed and canceled out, configured to collect the call voice of the user; an output unit configured to output a call voice signal of the user from the microphone to transmit this to a call partner; and an input unit configured to receive a call voice signal from the call partner to supply this to the speaker.

A flat panel display device includes a display area in which a desired image is displayed, and a non-display area arranged outside the display area. The display device includes bank portions arranged on a substrate in a predetermined pattern in the display area and partitioning a plurality of first openings, an emission element arranged at each first opening, dummy bank portions formed in the non-display area together with the bank portions and a sealing passivation layer covering the emission element. The sealing passivation layer consisting of at least a two-layer structure including an organic film and an inorganic film alternately deposited, arranged along a surface defining the dummy bank portions on the upper surface of the emission element, and having a sectional portion directed to and contacting the substrate or a film on the substrate. The flat panel display device of the present invention blocks permeation of harmful material such as moisture or oxygen, thereby preventing degradation of performance of the display device.

A multiprocessor system has a transmitting processor and a receiving processor. In response to a transmission request, the transmitting processor implements means for selecting one of two communication buffers of a shared memory in accordance with a given rule; write inhibit means for changing the selected communication buffer to a write-disabled state in order to inhibit writing of the selected communication buffer by other processors; data writing means for copying data from a local memory to the selected communication buffer; write-completion notifying means for notifying a receiving processor of completion of writing; and transmission-end discriminating means for discriminating end of transmission processing. In response to a reception request, the receiving processor implements means for selecting one of the two communication buffers of the shared memory by a rule identical with that of the communication buffer selecting means of the transmitting processor; read wait means for causing this processor to wait until the selected communication buffer attains a read-enabled state; data reading means for copying data from the selected communication buffer to a local memory; read completion notifying means for changing the communication buffer to a write-enabled state after data is read in; and means for discriminating end of reception processing. The communication band-width performance is enhanced.

A multi-band transceiver has a function of sharing transmitted and received signals of multiple frequency bands by the same antenna. The multi-band transceiver mounts multiple filters that correspond to the multiple frequency bands and multiple amplifiers for amplifying the transmitted signals on the same substrate, and arranges the multiple filters in close vicinity to the amplifier in the order where the multiple filters are excellent in their temperature characteristic.

A battery pack has a unit cell packaged by a package material of a laminate type, an outer case which accommodates the unit cell therein, and a vibration isolation device which attenuates vibrations inputted to the outer case and transmitted to the unit cell by pressing one side surface of the unit cell. The vibration isolation device is disposed between the unit cell and the outer case, and includes a first press structure which presses the one side surface of the unit cell. The first press structure is constituted by connecting one surface of the outer case, the one surface facing to the one side surface of the unit cell, and a press plate abutting against the one side surface of the unit cell with an elastic member interposed therebetween.

The present invention provides, in a hot dip plating system having an annealing furnace for hot dip plating steel sheet containing Si, a continuous annealing and hot dip plating method and system causing internal oxidation without causing surface oxidation of the Si in the steel and avoiding a drop in the plating ability of the steel sheet and retardation of alloying, that is, a continuous annealing and hot dip plating method using an annealing furnace having, in order, a front heating zone, rear heating zone, soaking zone, and cooling zone and a hot dip plating bath, comprising heating or soaking the steel sheet at a steel sheet temperature of a temperature range of at least 300° C. or more by indirect heating, making an atmosphere of the zones one comprised of hydrogen H: 1 to 10 vol % and a balance of nitrogen and unavoidable impurities, making a steel sheet peak temperature during heating at the front heating zone 550 to 750° C. and making the dew point less than −25° C., making dew points of the following rear heating zone and soaking zone −30° C. to 0° C., and making a dew point of the cooling zone less than −25° C.

An apparatus for estimating state variables of a secondary battery as an estimation target performs so that a neural network unit studies a true value of a battery temperature, a temperature large value which is larger than the true value of the battery temperature by an approximating temperature sensor detection error, and a temperature small value which is smaller than the true value of the battery temperature by the approximating temperature sensor detection error. After completion of the learning of those values, the neural network unit inputs a battery temperature detected by the temperature sensor, and performs a neural network based calculation to calculate a SOC (state of charge) of the secondary battery. This can drastically increase the calculation accuracy of the SOC of the secondary battery.

An organic light emitting device has a structure in which the penetration of harmful materials into an inner functional layer is blocked to prevent the degradation of the performance of the organic light emitting device and an organic electronic device includes such an organic light emitting device. The organic light emitting device includes an insulating substrate; a light emitting unit arranged on the insulating substrate and including a first electrode layer to inject holes, a second electrode layer to inject electrons, and an active layer interposed between the first and second electrode layers to emit light by recombining the holes and electrons; and a passivation layer including alternately arranged barrier layers and buffer layers to seal the light emitting unit from an external atmosphere, each barrier layer including at least one material selected from a group consisting of an activated metal oxide, an activated metal nitride, or an activated metal oxynitride, and each buffer layer being of a polymer organic material.

A flat panel display device including a display area where an image is displayed and a non-display area located at an outside of the display area includes bank portions arranged in a pattern in the display area and partitioning a plurality of openings, emission elements located in the openings, dummy bank portions formed in the non-display area and integrated therewith, and a sealing passivation layer having a multi-layered structure of organic films and inorganic films alternately arranged, one organic film being located at an interface directly contacting the emission element and one inorganic film located firstly on an outermost portion of the dummy bank portions when the sealing passivation layer extends from the display area to the non-display area.

A travel safety apparatus for a vehicle which includes an object detecting unit which detects an object in a traveling direction of the vehicle; an object information obtaining unit adapted to obtain object information; a vehicle information obtaining unit adapted to obtain vehicle information; a determination unit which determines whether or not there is a possibility of a contact or a collision; a position detecting unit which detects positions of eyeballs of an occupant of the vehicle; a projecting unit adapted to project an image on the occupant's retina when there is a possibility of a contact or a collision; and a controller which controls the projecting unit, wherein the controller is adapted to control the projecting unit to project the predetermined image so that the image overlaps in the occupant's view with a position of the object or an area within a predetermined radius from the position of the object.

The invention provides a modified polypropylene master batch, melt-blow cloth, a preparation method and an application thereof. The modified polypropylene master batch is mainly produced from, by weight, 77-90% of polypropylene, 5-20% of a graphene material and 1-5% of an additive. The graphene material includes any one or more of graphene, graphene oxide and graphene derivative. The additive includes any one or more of a coupling agent, a dispersant and an antioxidant and preferably includes the coupling agent, the dispersant and the antioxidant. The modified polypropylene master batch, when being used for manufacturing the melt-blow cloth, not only improves antibacterial and electrification property but also increases the filtering efficiency and dust capacity of the melt-blow cloth.

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method capable of preventing performance degradation during a channel decoding process. A bit interleaving is performed with respect to parity bits among coded bits output through a channel coding unit, thereby preventing a repetition period of the parity bits from matching a puncturing period for a rate matching. A bit de-interleaving is performed with respect to the parity bits during a channel decoding process, so that the parity bits have a repetition period identical to initial parity bits. Thus, the repetition period of the parity bits is not matched with the puncturing period for the rate matching, thereby preventing performance degradation during the channel decoding process.

Device for haemodiafiltration, which comprises a first circuit for a dialysis solution and a second circuit for blood, so that the toxic substances from the blood flow pass into the dialysis liquid within a haemofilter (11), a liquid pump (20) located upstream of the haemofilter (11) in the first dialysis liquid circuit, is adapted for injecting replacement liquid into the dialysis solution flow after a blood pump (15) finishes pumping blood to the interior of the haemofilter (11).

Maximum charging power of a battery (63) is set by a battery-charging power setting unit (75), while maximum discharging power of the battery (63) is set by a battery-discharging power setting unit (76). Lower and upper limit of generator output power is set by a generator output power setting unit (77). A generator/battery power distribution determining unit (81) distributes power between the battery (63) and the generator (62) using the set values above.

A multi-eye imaging apparatus comprises a plurality of imaging systems (106a, 106b) each including an optical system (107a, 107b) and an imaging element (108a, 108b) and having a different optical axis. The plurality of imaging systems (106a, 106b) include a first imaging system (106b) having a pixel shift means (101) for changing a relative positional relationship between an image formed on the imaging element (108b), and the imaging element (108b), and a second imaging system (106a) in which a relative positional relationship between an image formed on the imaging element (108a), and the imaging element (108a), is fixed during time-series image capture.

The invention discloses a method for controlling the balance of a power lithium ion battery, belonging to the technical field of battery balance control. The method comprises the following steps of: determining battery monomers needing to be balanced in the charging or discharging state on line, calculating balance time needed by the battery monomers needing to be balanced for reaching a target balance capacity, and calculating a start time point when the battery monomers are balanced; and triggering a balance executing mechanism to execute balancing at the initial time point. In the invention, an online active balance way is adopted, and energy is supplemented when the energy level is in low and is released when the energy level is high, so that the energy of each battery monomer tends to be consistent, the discharging capability and cruising distance of a battery pack are increased, the problem caused by battery consistence is solved, and the balance efficiency is increased.