Prüfer & Partner mbB Patentanwälte · Rechtsanwälte

An anode for a lithium secondary battery includes an anode current collector, and an anode active material layer on the anode current collector. The anode active material layer includes a carbon-based active material and a silicon-based additive. A content of the silicon-based additive is in a range from 0.1 wt% to 1.0 wt% based on a total solid weight of the anode active material layer. A silicon crystallite size of a (111) plane of the silicon-based additive measured by an X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis is in a range from 100 nm to 500 nm.

A refrigerant processing apparatus (100) and a method of operating the same according to an embodiment of the present disclosure include a storage tank (ST) configured to store a refrigerant mixture recovered from an air conditioning system, a mixing container (MC) configured to blend material refrigerants, material refrigerant tanks (MT) configured to supply single-component refrigerants to the mixing container (MC), and a processor (110). The processor (110) is configured to store the refrigerant mixture from the air conditioning system in the storage tank (ST), determine material refrigerants and a mixing ratio of an initial refrigerant mixture corresponding to the recovered refrigerant mixture in the storage tank (ST) before deterioration, provide single-component refrigerants corresponding to the material refrigerants from the material refrigerant tanks (MT) to the mixing container (MC) according to the material refrigerants and the mixing ratio of the initial refrigerant mixture, and inject the blended refrigerant mixture into the air conditioning system.

A battery assembly according to the present disclosure comprises a cell array comprising a plurality of battery cells arranged in a first direction, wherein each of the plurality of battery cells comprises a terminal part protruding in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a busbar plate comprising an insertion slit into which the terminal part is inserted, wherein the insertion slit has a slit shape extending in a third direction intersecting each of the first direction and the second direction; and a busbar frame disposed between the busbar plate and the cell array and comprising an insertion hole, wherein the insertion hole overlaps the insertion slit in the second direction and accommodates at least a portion of the terminal part, wherein the busbar plate comprises an exposure hole spaced apart from the insertion slit and passing through the busbar plate in the second direction to expose a portion of the busbar frame, and an edge of at least a portion of the exposure hole has a line shape parallel to the third direction with respect to a shape on a plane defined by the first direction and the third direction.

A refrigerant processing apparatus (100) and a method of operating the same are provided. The apparatus (100) recovers a refrigerant mixture from an air conditioning system and stores the refrigerant mixture in a storage tank (ST), provides the recovered refrigerant mixture in the storage tank (ST) to a mixing container (MC), determines a mixing ratio of the recovered refrigerant mixture provided to the mixing container (MC), provides at least one single-component refrigerant from a material refrigerant tank (MT) to the mixing container (MC) such that the mixing ratio of the recovered refrigerant mixture satisfies a preset mixing ratio, and injects the blended refrigerant mixture into the air conditioning system through a refrigerant pump (RP).

A refrigerant processing apparatus (100) includes a storage tank (ST) configured to store a refrigerant mixture recovered from an air conditioning system, a mixing container (MC), material refrigerant tanks (MT), and a processor (110). The processor (110) determines whether to reuse the recovered refrigerant mixture based on a component thereof and a mixing ratio of an initial refrigerant mixture before deterioration. The processor (110) selectively supplies the recovered refrigerant mixture to the mixing container (MC) based on the determination, supplies single-component refrigerants to the mixing container (MC) according to an amount calculated to satisfy the mixing ratio of the initial refrigerant mixture, and injects the generated blended refrigerant mixture into the air conditioning system.

In a first connector (20), plural types of first internal modules (23) have first internal housings (25), respectively, which have first main portions (251) with the same shape. In a second connector (30), plural types of second internal modules (35) have second internal housings (37), respectively, which have second main portions (371) with the same shape. The types of the second internal modules (35) correspond to the types of the first internal modules (23). Leading ends of the second internal housings (37) of the second internal modules (35) are positioned at the same positions as each other in a mating direction (Y-direction). When each of the second internal modules (35) is mated with the first internal module (23) of the type corresponding thereto, a second key (373) of the second internal housing (37) fits with a first key (253) of the first internal module (23) of the type corresponding to the second internal module (35).

A bone anchoring device for coupling a rod to bone is provided, the bone anchoring device including an anchoring element (1) comprising a shank (2) for anchoring in bone and a head (3), a receiving part (5) having a first end (5a) and a second end (5b), a channel (54) for receiving the rod (100), a passage (51) extending from the first end to the second end, the passage (51) defining a central axis (C), and an accommodation space (53) for accommodating the head (3) of the bone anchoring element (1), a pressure element (6) configured to be arranged in the passage (51) and to encompass the head (3) laterally and from a free end of the head (3) to exert pressure onto the head (3) when the head (3) and the pressure element (6) are in the receiving part (5) such that the head (3) is pivotable with respect to the receiving part (5) and can be locked at an angle relative to the receiving part (5); wherein the anchoring element comprises a first cooperating surface (30) and the receiving part comprises a protrusion (57) at an inner wall of the accommodation space (53) providing a second cooperation surface (57a) which cooperates with the first cooperating surface (30) to limit pivoting of the head (3) to a single plane.

A heater portion of a heater structure is connected between main portions of two thick film busbars. The thick film busbars have first connecting portions, respectively. An anisotropic conductive film has two second connecting portions. Each of two thin film connecting portions connects the first connecting portion corresponding thereto to the second connecting portion corresponding thereto. The thick film busbars do not come into direct contact with the anisotropic conductive film. The thin film connecting portions are covered with an insulation coat 70 and the anisotropic conductive film so as not to be exposed except for connection portions with the thick film busbars.

A battery apparatus is disclosed including a cell assembly including a plurality of battery cells; a housing having an accommodation space accommodating the cell assembly therein; a cooling port allowing a cooling fluid to flow into the accommodation space; a plurality of cell monitoring units disposed in the accommodation space to monitor the plurality of battery cells, respectively; and an antenna disposed outside the accommodation space and performing wireless communication with the plurality of cell monitoring units.

Disclosed are a physically unclonable function device and a cryptographic key generation apparatus using the same. More particularly, a physically unclonable function device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a spin-torque generating layer; a magnetic free layer; a tunnel barrier layer; a spacer layer; and an indirect exchange interaction layer, wherein the spin-torque generating layer generates a Spin-Orbit Torque (SOT) when a current flows in an in-plane direction, the magnetic free layer has Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy (PMA), and the indirect exchange interaction layer includes a first magnetic layer, a non-magnetic intermediate layer, and a second magnetic layer, wherein a magnetization direction between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer is determined to be a parallel or antiparallel state according to the thickness of the non-magnetic intermediate layer, and when the magnetization direction of the indirect exchange interaction layer is the antiparallel state, stray magnetic fields of the first and second magnetic layers cancel each other out so that switching of the magnetic free layer does not occur, and when the magnetization direction of the indirect exchange interaction layer is the parallel state, the stray magnetic fields reinforce each other so that switching of the magnetic free layer occurs.