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A battery module includes one or more cell assemblies with a plurality of unit cells, and a housing for mounting the cell assemblies therein and circulating a temperature control cooling medium through the cell assemblies. The cell assemblies are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the housing. A guidance unit is installed in a cooling medium passage formed in the longitudinal direction of the housing, and proceeds along the passage to guide cooling medium flow along the passage toward the cell assemblies.

Disclosed is a cooling apparatus of a battery module, which can minimize temperature deviation between a plurality of secondary batteries constituting the battery module. The cooling apparatus of a battery module includes a housing including an accommodation part accommodating the battery module, and an air passage through which outside air passes, a first heat transfer member fixed to the housing and having a surface exposed to the air passage, and a second heat transfer member disposed between the battery module and the first heat transfer member. The second heat transfer member may contact a portion in the battery module having relatively high temperature.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for controlling cold air circulation in a refrigerator. The present invention re-circulates cold air, which has been discharged into a refrigerating chamber (35), so that the interior of the refrigerating chamber (35) can be maintained at a substantially uniform temperature and relatively low temperature cold air is prevented from being delivered to an evaporator (39). Particularly, the present invention further facilitates the cold air circulation at a lower portion of the refrigerating chamber (35) so that the temperature of the entire refrigerating chamber (35) can be kept to be uniform and the temperature of a vegetable storage chamber (36) can be set at a desired temperature. To this end, an embodiment of the present invention includes a circulation duct (50) configured to suck the cold air around the vegetable storage chamber (36) and to discharge it to a relatively upper portion of the refrigerating chamber (35). An inlet (51) of the circulation duct (50) is installed in vicinity of a reward lower portion of the vegetable storage chamber (36), and an outlet of the circulation duct (50) is open to above a shelf (35′) corresponding to a top end of the vegetable storage chamber (36). Further, a circulation fan (54) is installed at the outlet (52).

Disclosed herein is a heat sink including: a first region connected to a cooling water introduction part and having a plurality of first pins arranged therein; and a second region connected to a cooling water discharge part and having a plurality of second pins arranged therein.

The electrostatic chuck comprises a chuck base for supporting a wafer, a dielectric film mounted on the chuck base, the dielectric film having an electrode for supplying direct current voltage to provide an electrostatic force to fix the wafer, the electrode disposed in the dielectric film, and a cooling channel for supplying refrigerant to the dielectric film to control the temperature of the wafer. At least two first cooling channel parts are formed at the surface of the dielectric film corresponding to the edge part of the wafer such that the first cooling channel parts form concentric circles, second cooling channel parts formed at the surface of the dielectric film such that the first cooling channel parts are connected to each other through the second cooling channel parts, first through channels formed through the dielectric film for supplying the refrigerant to the first and second cooling channel parts, and a second through channel formed through the center of the dielectric film for supplying the refrigerant to the center of the wafer.

Provided is a refrigerator (10) and a method for controlling the same. The refrigerator (10) includes a compressor (111, 115) compressing a refrigerant, a condenser (120) condensing the refrigerant compressed in the compressor (111, 115), a refrigerant tube (100) guiding the refrigerant condensed in the condenser (120), a flow adjustment part (130) coupled to the refrigerant tube (100) to divide the refrigerant into a plurality of refrigerant passages (101, 103, 105), a plurality of expansion devices (141, 143, 145) respectivley disposed in the plurality of refrigerant passages (101, 103, 105) to decompress the refrigerant condensed in the condenser (120), a plurality of evaporators (150, 160) evaporating the refrigerant decompressed in the plurality of expansion devices (141, 143, 145), and a supercooling heat exchanger (500) disposed at an outlet-side of the condenser (120) to supercool the refrigerant. The refrigerant supercooled in the supercooling heat exchanger (500) is introduced into the flow adjustment part (130).

Proposed is a substrate heating unit including: a laser generator providing a laser beam for heating a substrate; and a beam shaper processing the laser beam from the laser generator and selectively providing one of a first beam having a uniform energy distribution and a second beam having an edge-enhanced energy distribution to the substrate.

Disclosed are a solid oxide fuel cell, a method of fabricating the same, and a tape casting apparatus for fabricating an anode. The solid oxide fuel cell includes an electrolyte film sheet, a cathode, and an anode, and the anode includes a catalyst active layer sheet for inducing a reforming reaction of the supplied fuel. The catalyst active layer sheet is formed by a tape casting method using a plurality of pieces of slurry having different catalyst contents, and the catalyst content within the catalyst active layer sheet is gradually changed in a flow direction of the fuel. In the solid oxide fuel cell, a temperature deviation of a unit cell is minimized by uniformly reforming the fuel in the flow direction of the fuel, thereby improving mechanical and chemical durability.

Method and system for thermal treatment by heat induction of a metal piece on a targeted zone. According to the method, the thermal treatment is carried out using a thermal element mounted on a robotic system for moving the thermal element along a cyclical trajectory on the targeted zone so as to heat the target zone and minimize the temperature deviations over the targeted zone.

A battery module includes one or more cell assemblies with a plurality of unit cells, and a housing for mounting the cell assemblies therein and circulating a temperature control cooling medium through the cell assemblies. The cell assemblies are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the housing. A guidance unit is installed in a cooling medium passage formed in the longitudinal direction of the housing, and proceeds along the passage to guide cooling medium flow along the passage toward the cell assemblies.

Disclosed is a cooling apparatus of a battery module, which can minimize temperature deviation between a plurality of secondary batteries constituting the battery module. The cooling apparatus of a battery module includes a housing including an accommodation part accommodating the battery module, and an air passage through which outside air passes, a first heat transfer member fixed to the housing and having a surface exposed to the air passage, and a second heat transfer member disposed between the battery module and the first heat transfer member. The second heat transfer member may contact a portion in the battery module having relatively high temperature.

Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for efficiently controlling a temperature, which are capable of minimizing a temperature deviation and decreasing a temperature control time by simultaneously controlling temperatures of matching material used in a microwave imaging system in a main water tank and an auxiliary water tank, and preventing an amplitude and phase information of the microwaves obtained by the microwave imaging system from deteriorating over a lapse of time.

A steering wheel includes a heating element which heats an entire rim to a uniform temperature. The heating element is coated as an electrically conductive paste on a surface of the rim, and is formed such that an electrical resistance increases away from an inner diameter portion of the rim toward an outer diameter portion of the rim.

The objective of the present invention is to provide a combined heating and hot water boiler, and a control method therefor, the boiler being capable of reducing a temperature deviation of hot water when the hot water is used, and reducing the number of times that a heater is turned on / off, so as to prevent the lifespan of a relay from being shortened. To this end, the combined heating and hot water boiler comprises: a first heat exchanger for generating heated supply water; a second heat exchanger for generating hot water by means of heat exchange between tap water and the supply water supplied from the first heat exchanger; a flowrate regulating valve for regulating the circulation flowrate of the supply water, which circulates by passing through the second heat exchanger, during a hot water mode; and a control unit for calculating a required heat quantity corresponding to a hot water temperature set by a user during the hot water mode, setting a supply heat quantity, supplied from the first heat exchanger, such that the supply heat quantity corresponds to the required heat quantity, and regulating the opening degree of the flowrate regulating valve such that the circulation flowrate corresponds to the required heat quantity during the hot water mode.

Disclosed are a solid oxide fuel cell, a method of fabricating the same, and a tape casting apparatus for fabricating an anode. The method of fabricating the solid oxide fuel cell includes fabricating an electrolyte film sheet, a functional layer sheet, a support layer sheet, and a catalyst active layer sheet; forming a stack by sequentially stacking the electrolyte film sheet, the functional layer sheet, the support layer sheet, and the catalyst active layer sheet; fabricating an anode including the electrolyte film, the functional layer, the support layer, and the catalyst active layer by sintering the stack; and forming a cathode on the electrolyte film sheet. A catalyst content within the catalyst active layer sheet is gradually changed in a predetermined direction.

The invention relates to a substrate heating unit, a substrate processing apparatus, and a substrate processing method. When a substrate is processed, one of a first light beam (a flat-topped laser beam in an overall uniform form) having a homogenized energy distribution and a second light beam (a flat-topped laser beam in an edge-strengthened form) having an energy distribution in which an edge region is strengthened is selectively supplied to the substrate, therefore, the substrate can be heated to an overall uniform temperature, and the temperature deviation of the substrate can be minimized under the condition that the temperature of the edge region of the substrate is relatively low.

A cylinder block includes: a plurality of cylinders; a water jacket through which a coolant flows along an outer periphery of the plurality of cylinders; and insertion members which are inserted into the water jacket formed at both sides of the plurality of cylinders in order to separately cool upper and lower portions of the plurality of cylinders, in which the insertion members restrict a flow of the coolant at a lower side of the water jacket and generate a flow of the coolant at an upper side of the water jacket.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing silicon ingots, comprising: a chamber; a crucible installed in the chamber; a heating unit for heating the crucible; a crucible-mounting unit on which the crucible is placed; and at least two or more water-cooling rod groups arranged below the crucible-mounting unit, wherein said at least two or more water-cooling rod groups are spaced apart from each other about the crucible mounting unit and connected to respective water supply pipes.

The present invention relates to a substrate seating unit which maintains a constant distance between a tray and a chuck fixated by a clamp. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the substrate seating unit includes: the chuck installed inside a chamber of a substrate processing device; the tray having a plurality of substrate seating grooves, wherein the substrates are inserted on the surface and installed on a chuck surface; and the clamp pressurizing the edge of the chuck and the tray to fixate the edge of the chuck and the tray. A spacer is protruded from the center of a bottom surface of the tray or the center of the chuck surface.

The invention provides a battery module which includes a battery cell stack, on which plurality of battery cells are stacked, and a heat conduction member disposed on one surface of the battery cell stack. The heat conduction member includes a porous insulating layer and a conductive layer disposed on a surface of the porous insulating layer.

A battery module according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a battery cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked; and a sensing assembly located on the battery cell stack, wherein the sensing assembly includes a main body unit located on the battery cell stack, and a module connector connected to the main body unit, and the main body unit is a flexible printed circuit (FPC) or a flexible flat cable (FFC) and includes a hot wire circuit.

The present invention provides an apparatus and method for supplying hot water. The apparatus for supplying hot water comprises: at least one processor; a heat exchanger connected to the at least one processor, and configured to receive tap water through a tap water inflow pipe, heat the supplied tap water by means of heat exchange to thereby generate hot water, and discharge the generated hot water through a hot water supply pipe; a burner configured to directly or indirectly provide heat required to generate the hot water; a mixing valve connected to the at least one processor and installed on a mixing pipe connecting the tap water inflow pipe and the hot water supply pipe, and configured to mix the tap water with the hot water discharged from the heat exchanger and flowing through the hot water supply pipe; and a memory connected to the at least one processor and configured to store instructions. Of the hot water flowing through the hot water supply pipe, when the hot water flowing upstream of a connection point with the mixing pipe is first hot water, and the hot water flowing downstream of the connection point is second hot water, the instructions, when executed, cause the processor to: obtain, on the basis of the temperature of the tap water and a required temperature of the second hot water, a reference temperature, which is a temperature of the first hot water that allows the mixing valve to maintain a predetermined opening rate; and control the burner such that the temperature of the first hot water discharged from the heat exchanger reaches the obtained reference temperature.

A cylinder block includes: a plurality of cylinders; a water jacket through which a coolant flows along an outer periphery of the plurality of cylinders; and insertion members which are inserted into the water jacket formed at both sides of the plurality of cylinders in order to separately cool upper and lower portions of the plurality of cylinders, in which the insertion members restrict a flow of the coolant at a lower side of the water jacket and generate a flow of the coolant at an upper side of the water jacket.

The battery module according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a battery cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked; and a sensing assembly located on the battery cell stack. The sensing assembly includes a main body located on the battery cell stack and a module connector connected to the main body. The main body is a flexible printed circuit (FPC) or a flexible flat cable (FFC), and the main body includes a heating wire circuit.

A method of forming a heating element for use with a steering wheel includes (i) forming a first heating part of a heating element which is coated in a longitudinal direction of the rim along an inner diameter portion of the rim by continuously connecting loops having the same shape, (ii) forming a second heating part of the heating element which is coated in the longitudinal direction of the rim along an outer diameter portion of the rim by continuously connecting loops having the same shape, (iii) forming a third heating part of the heating element which is coated in the longitudinal direction of the rim by continuously connecting loops having the same shape between the first heating part and the second heating part; and (iv) adjusting an electrical resistance of the heating element according to a coating width or thickness of the conductive paste.

The present invention has four vane modules, two of the vane modules facing each other and forming a first discharge pair and the remaining two forming a second discharge pair. The first discharge pair and the second discharge pair provide indirect wind and direct wind in alternation, and thus an indoor space can be heated quickly. The first discharge pair and the second discharge pair discharge air at different angles from each other, and thus the blind spots to which the discharged air does not reach can be minimized.

Provided is a refrigerator (10) and a method for controlling the same. The refrigerator (10) includes a compressor (111, 115) compressing a refrigerant, a condenser (120) condensing the refrigerant compressed in the compressor (111, 115), a refrigerant tube (100) guiding the refrigerant condensed in the condenser (120), a flow adjustment part (130) coupled to the refrigerant tube (100) to divide the refrigerant into a plurality of refrigerant passages (101, 103, 105), a plurality of expansion devices (141, 143, 145) respectivley disposed in the plurality of refrigerant passages (101, 103, 105) to decompress the refrigerant condensed in the condenser (120), a plurality of evaporators (150, 160) evaporating the refrigerant decompressed in the plurality of expansion devices (141, 143, 145), and a supercooling heat exchanger (500) disposed at an outlet-side of the condenser (120) to supercool the refrigerant. The refrigerant supercooled in the supercooling heat exchanger (500) is introduced into the flow adjustment part (130).

A battery pack according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of battery modules; a plurality of heat sinks formed on a lower side of each of the plurality of battery modules; a first flow path that supplies a refrigerant to each of the plurality of heat sinks; and a second flow path that discharges the refrigerant circulated in the plurality of heat sinks, wherein the refrigerant supplied to each of the heat sinks circulates in a space formed between the heat sink and the lower surface of the module frame, respectively.

The present invention aims to provide a heating and hot water dual-purpose boiler and its control method capable of reducing hot water temperature deviation when hot water is used, and reducing the number of on / off of the heater to prevent shortening of the life of the relay. A heating and hot water boiler for achieving the above object includes: a first heat exchanger generating heated supply water; a second heat exchanger passing between the supply water supplied from the first heat exchanger and the direct supply water heat exchange to generate hot water; the flow regulating valve is used to adjust the circulating flow rate of the supply water circulating through the second heat exchanger in the hot water mode; the control part, in the hot water mode, calculates the Set the required amount of heat corresponding to the hot water temperature, and set it so that the supply heat supplied from the first heat exchanger corresponds to the required amount of heat, and in the hot water mode, adjust the opening of the flow regulating valve degrees such that the circulation flow corresponds to the required heat.

A heat treatment method for AHSS hot rolled coils is disclosed. The heat treatment method for the AHSS hot rolled coils, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a hot rolled coil production step of manufacturing a hot rolled coil by hot rolling a material to be rolled, cooling the same, and then winding the same; a first cooling step of cooling the hot rolled coil to a temperature at which the phase transformation thereof is completed, such that an edge portion of the hot rolled coil becomes hard; a hot rolled coil edge-strength softening step of heating only the edge portion of the hot rolled coil to a tempering temperature so as to raise the temperature thereof, and then maintaining the hot rolled coil at the tempering temperature for a predetermined time so as to thermally treat the hot rolled coil such that the edge portion of the hot rolled coil, having passed through the first cooling step, has strength similar to the strength of a center portion of the hot rolled coil; and a second cooling step of cooling the hot rolled coil having passed through the hot rolled coil edge-strength softening step.