Abstract: Provided is a thermoelectric module. The thermoelectric module includes a thermoelectric element including a first substrate, a first electrode disposed on the first substrate, a semiconductor structure disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the semiconductor structure, and a second substrate disposed on the second electrode, a heat sink disposed on the second substrate, and an adhesive layer configured to bond the second substrate to the heat sink. The heat sink has a shape in which predetermined patterns are regularly repeated and connected. Each pattern includes a first surface disposed opposite to the second substrate, a in second surface which extends upward from one end of the first surface, a third surface which extends from the second surface to face the second substrate, and a fourth surface which extends upward from the other end opposite to the one end of the first surface and is connected to a third surface of an adjacent pattern.

Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus includes an organic light emitting display panel including a display area having a transparent area and an opaque area, and a non-display area. A gate driver is configured to sequentially supply a gate pulse to a plurality of gate lines included in the organic light emitting display panel. An initialization circuit is configured to transfer gate pulses or initialization control signals, output from the gate driver, to a plurality of transparent area gate lines. A camera is configured to photograph a region in a forward direction with respect to the organic light emitting display panel, and the camera may be provided in the transparent area of a rear surface of the organic light emitting display panel. A first pixel driving circuit provided in the transparent area may differ from a second pixel driving circuit provided in the opaque area.

Abstract: A compound of Chemical Formula 4 or 5: wherein: one of X1 and X2 is a direct bond, and the other is O, S, or CY1Y2, one of X3 and X4 is a direct bond, and the other is O, S, or CY3Y4, W1 to W4 are each independently N or CRa, and one or more of W1 to W4 are N, Y1 to Y4 are the same as or different from each other, and are each independently an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and the other substituents are as defined in the specification; and an organic light emitting device comprising the same. The compound can lower the driving voltage, improve the light efficiency, and enhance service life characteristics of the device due to thermal stability of the compound.

Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate including a plurality of pixels. The organic light emitting display apparatus further includes a plurality of organic light emitting diodes on the substrate so as to correspond to the plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels includes a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, and a fourth pixel which emit different color light. Each of the plurality of organic light emitting diodes includes a first electrode, a light emitting portion on the first electrode and a second electrode on the light emitting portion. A thickness of the first electrode of the first pixel is different from a thickness of the first electrode of the second pixel, and the thickness of the first electrode of the second pixel is different from a thickness of the first electrode of the third pixel.

Abstract: A display device and a mobile terminal device including the same are provided, wherein the display device includes a display panel including a display area in which a plurality of display pixels are disposed, and a sensing area in which a plurality of display pixels and a plurality of sensor pixels are disposed. The display pixels of the display area and the display pixels of the first sensing area emit light by receiving a data voltage of an input image in a display mode. The sensor pixels in the first sensing area generate an electric currents according to light reflected from a fingerprint in a fingerprint recognition mode. A resolution of the display pixel is lower than a resolution of the sensor pixel in the first sensing area.

Abstract: Disclosed are a white organic light emitting element, which may uniformize the color coordinates of white regardless of a change in current density by changing the configuration of different kinds of light emitting layers contacting each other, and a display device using the same.

Abstract: A dishwasher includes a storage and a moving mechanism that is coupled to and decoupled from a tub and configured to move in a front-rear direction of the tub. The moving mechanism includes a pair of first rollers provided in each lateral surface of the storage and configured to guide the moving of the storage, a guide provided in each lateral surface of the storage, under the first roller, and configured to guide the moving of the storage, and a guide rib disposed between an upper end of the first roller and a lower end of the guide. The guide rib is provided in each lateral surface of the storage and protrudes in a lateral direction of the storage.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner for performing autonomous driving may include: a main body; a driving unit; a suctioning unit; a plurality of sensors for sensing obstacles present in each direction; and a control unit for controlling the driving unit to move the main body on the basis of a preset driving pattern. The control unit uses sensors provided at the front side of the main body and a first side of the both sides of the main body so as to detect whether entry into a corner area among cleaning areas is made while driving along the preset driving pattern, and controls the driving unit such that the first side of the main body comes into contact with a first wall forming the corner area at least one time when the main body enters the corner area.

Abstract: An air conditioner may include an outdoor unit including a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger configured to heat exchange compressed refrigerant; an indoor unit having an air inlet and an air outlet and connected with the outdoor unit through a first pipe through which refrigerant discharged from the compressor flows and a second pipe through which refrigerant discharged from the outdoor heat exchanger flows; a blowing fan disposed in the indoor unit; a main heat exchanger configured to heat exchange air, which flows inside through the air inlet, and connected with the second pipe; a reheat exchanger disposed downstream of the main heat exchanger and connected with the first pipe; and a waste heat exchanger disposed upstream of the main heat exchanger and configured to heat-exchange air, which flows inside through the air inlet, and condensate water, which is produced at the main heat exchanger, with each other.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses that the robot cleaner includes a mop module including a left rotating plate to which a mop is attached to the bottom surface and a right rotating plate to which the mop is attached to the bottom surface; a base on which the mop module is installed; a case disposed to cover at least an upper portion and a part of a side of the base; and a plurality of push supporters supporting the case spaced apart from the base, wherein each push supporter provides the case with the elastic restoring force at least in the upper direction of the base and the outer direction of the base.

Abstract: The refrigerator may comprise: a first tray assembly forming a part of ice-making cells; and a second tray assembly forming the other part of the ice-making cells. In order that ice can be produced in the direction of ice-making cells formed by any One of the first and second tray assemblies to ice-making cells formed by the other tray assembly, following the start of an ice-making process, the one tray assembly comprises a first part, and the first part comprises: a first surface forming a part of the ice-making cells; and a first deformation-resistant reinforcement part extending from the first surface in the vertical direction away from a heater.

Abstract: A method of recovering a solvent including: supplying polymerization reactants including one or more monomers and a solvent to a reactor to obtain a polymer solution; supplying a stream including the polymer solution to a separator to separate an upper discharge stream including the solvent, wherein the solvent is in a gaseous phase, and a lower discharge stream including the polymer solution; heating a divergence stream including a part of the lower discharge stream from the separator by a heating device and refluxing the divergence stream to the separator; supplying a residue stream including a remainder of the lower discharge stream from the separator to a steam stripping process unit; and adjusting a vapor mass fraction of the divergence stream which is refluxed to the separator with a pressure adjustment valve after being heated by the heating device.

Abstract: Disclosed is an indoor unit for an air conditioner.

Abstract: A modified conjugated diene-based polymer having high linearity and improved compounding properties is provided. The modified conjugated diene-based polymer includes phosphor, sulfur and chlorine in specific amount ranges, and the degree of branching is controlled, and accordingly, if applied to a rubber composition, tensile strength and viscoelasticity may be excellent, and processability may be markedly improved.

Abstract: The method for preparing a super absorbent polymer according to the present disclosure has a feature that it is possible to reduce the generation of a fine powder during production of the super absorbent polymer while maintaining excellent physical properties of the super absorbent polymer, including centrifuge retention capacity (CRC) and vortex removal time.

Abstract: A system for automatically inspecting and sorting pellets while continuously transferring the pellets at a high speed to detect and effectively remove pellets that are defective. The system includes a sorter to photograph and inspect a first surface and a second surface of each of the pellets while transferring the pellets. The system separates and removes pellets that are determined as being defective and transfers and loads pellets having good quality to a designated position. The system further includes a sample inspector to receive the plurality of pellets that are determined as good products to manufacture a plate-shaped sample of a molded product and photograph a first surface and a second surface of the manufactured sample, thereby inspecting whether the sample of the molded product is defective.

Abstract: A microdevice for detecting aldehydes or ketones by utilizing a rotary platform, the microdevice comprising a disc-shaped rotary platform and a microfluidic structure disposed on the rotary platform, and the microfluidic structure comprising a sample storage part, an eluent storage part, a separation part, a first microfluid flow channel, a second microfluid flow channel, and an absorption pad.

Abstract: Provided are a novel crosslinking agent compound, and a superabsorbent polymer prepared by using the same. More particularly, provided are a crosslinking agent compound having a novel structure, which exhibits excellent crosslinking property and thermal degradability, and a superabsorbent polymer prepared by using the same.

Abstract: The present application provides a method for preparing a composite material. The present application provides a method for preparing a composite material comprising a metal foam and a polymer component, wherein the polymer component is formed in an asymmetrical structure on both sides of the metal foam, and a composite material prepared in such a manner.

Abstract: There is provided a method and an apparatus for efficiently recovering an amide-based compound such as N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone from an aqueous solution containing an amide-based compound such as N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone.

Abstract: A polymer capable of securing pattern uniformity in a photoresist pattern, the polymer containing a photoacid generator by including a structure unit represented by Chemical Formula 1a; and a structure unit represented by Chemical Formula 1b as shown in the specification.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an impeller comprising: a shroud having a plurality of spiral upper slot units formed therein; a hub located to face the shroud; and a plurality of blades connected to the hub and inserted into the upper slot units to be coupled to the shroud, wherein the blade includes a body portion formed to be inclined to one side and an upper end portion, which is bent upward from the body portion and has a second concave surface formed in one side and a second convex surface formed on the other side thereof, and the upper slot unit includes an upper slot bottom for forming a space in which the upper end portion is inserted; an upper slot wall divided into a first upper slot wall located at the second concave surface side and a second upper slot wall located at the second convex surface side; and a second inclined surface formed to be inclined from the first upper slot wall so as to face the second concave surface.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a drain pump driving apparatus and a laundry treatment machine including the same. A drain pump driving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure and a laundry treatment machine including the same include: an inverter converting a direct current (DC) voltage from a converter into an alternating current (AC) voltage based on a switching operation and to output the converted AC voltage to a drain motor; and a controller to control the motor to, when a drain channel in a drain pump is clogged, be temporarily stopped in a period during which a speed of the motor increases and then to repeatedly rotate and stop in a first direction the same as a start-up direction, and to repeatedly rotate and stop in a second direction opposite to the first direction when the drain channel is clogged even after the motor repeatedly rotates and stops in the first direction.

Abstract: A blower is provided. The blower according to the present disclosure includes: a fan causing airflow; a lower body forming an inner space at which the fan is disposed, and having a suction hole through which air passes; and a first upper body positioned above the lower body, and the first upper body may include a first wall forming a first flow path communicating with the inner space of the lower body and a first panel surrounding the first wall, and the first panel may include a first slit formed through the first panel and discharging air flowing through the first flow path to an outside of the first panel.

Abstract: A garment folding machine includes: a frame unit defining an external framework of the garment folding machine, a loading unit configured to receive a garment, a folding unit configured to convey and fold the received garment, and an unloading unit configured to collect the garment from the folding unit. The folding unit comprises a plurality of folding layers that are spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction, where each of the plurality of folding layers includes a conveyor configured to convey the garment, and a conveyor motor configured to provide driving power to the conveyor. A first conveyor motor is configured to, based on the garment being positioned over two or more adjacent conveyors of the plurality of folding layers, operate at a first rotational speed that is different from a second rotational speed of a second conveyor motor disposed above the first conveyor motor.

Abstract: A camera device according to the present embodiment comprises: a first operation part comprising one of a first coil or a magnet and arranged on a fixed member; a second operation part which comprises the other one of the first coil and the magnet, is arranged on a movable member, and faces the first operation part; a hall sensor facing one of the first operation part and the second operation part; and a second coil arranged near the hall sensor, wherein at least a portion of the second coil is arranged between the hall sensor and the first coil.

Abstract: A vane rotary compressor may include a main bearing and a sub bearing provided with a plurality of back pressure pockets each having a different pressure formed on a surface facing the cylinder, a rotational shaft radially supported by the main bearing and the sub bearing, a roller provided with a back pressure chamber that communicates with the plurality of back pressure pockets and having a plurality of vanes configured to divide a compression space into a plurality of compression chambers. At least one of the main bearing or the sub bearing is provided with an oil supply passage that communicates with a back pressure pocket having a relatively low pressure among the plurality of back pressure pockets. Accordingly, oil may be smoothly supplied to a back pressure pocket having a low pressure.

Abstract: Provided is a method of evaluating electrode quality, which includes: providing a plurality of electrodes which include a current collector and an active material layer formed on the current collector and have not been roll-pressed; measuring a color coordinate value of the active material layer of each of the plurality of electrodes using an optical instrument and calculating an average value; and evaluating the electrodes as good products when a difference between the color coordinate value measured from the individual electrodes and the average value is no more than a predetermined value and as defective when the difference exceeds the predetermined value.

Abstract: A beverage maker may include a fermentation tank including a space in which a beverage is made, a refrigerant cycle device to cool the fermentation tank, a temperature sensor to detect a temperature of the fermentation tank, and a controller to drive the refrigerant cycle device to decrease a temperature of the fermentation tank which accommodates a mixture including an ingredient of the beverage to a fermentation temperature while the beverage is being made, to stop driving of the refrigerant cycle device when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor reaches a first step temperature of a plurality of step temperatures set higher than the fermentation temperature, and to re-drive the refrigerant cycle device after a predetermined period of time has elapsed.

Abstract: An indoor unit for an air conditioner enables a water tank to be tilted forward by means of a tilting assembly, and thus enables a user to conveniently separate or mount the water tank to the indoor unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for a terminal to report information related to reference signal measurement in a wireless communication system. In particular, the disclosed method is characterized by comprising: receiving a plurality of reference signals; measuring a time of arrival (ToA) for each of the plurality of reference signals; and transmitting identification information on the reference signal having the smallest ToA among the plurality of reference signals.

Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking compartment, which is surrounded by a bottom surface, a pair of side surfaces, and a back surface of the housing, and has an upper surface and a front surface which are open. A door includes a door upper surface part which covers the upper surface of the housing and a door front surface part which is connected to a front side of the door upper surface part and covers the front surface of the housing and opens and closes the upper surface and the front surface of the housing by rotating about a rear side of the door upper surface part. A heating part is installed in at least one of the housing or the door.

Abstract: A touch display device and a film for the touch display device, capable of increasing power efficiency to provide a hover touch function, by providing a touch display device comprising a display panel having a plurality of subpixels, and having a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines electrically connected with the plurality of subpixels, a touch panel having a plurality of driving touch electrodes positioned to overlap with at least one subpixel among the plurality of subpixels, a touch driving signal for touch sensing applied to one or more driving touch electrodes among the plurality of driving touch electrodes, and a magnetic substance disposed around each of the plurality of driving touch electrodes, on the plurality of driving touch electrodes.

Abstract: An indoor unit of an air conditioner includes a cabinet assembly; a door assembly disposed at a front of the cabinet assembly to cover the front of the cabinet assembly; a fixed plate fixed to the cabinet assembly and disposed between the door assembly and the cabinet assembly; and a door assembly moving part disposed between the door assembly and the fixed plate to move the door assembly in a left-right direction with respect to the cabinet assembly. When seen from the front of the cabinet assembly, the fixed plate is fixed eccentric in a direction where the door assembly moves such that when the door assembly moves, a center line of the door assembly remains within a left-right width of the fixed plate.

Abstract: A decoration element is described. The decoration element includes a light reflective layer; a light absorbing layer provided on the light reflective layer; and a color developing layer comprising a color film, wherein the color developing layer is provided: on a surface of the light reflective layer opposite to a surface of the light reflective layer facing the light absorbing layer; between the light reflective layer and the light absorbing layer; or on a surface of the light absorbing layer opposite to a surface of the light absorbing layer facing the light reflective layer.

Abstract: A method of transmitting uplink signals is disclosed. The method includes transmitting, by a user equipment, periodic control information on a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) at a predetermined period, dropping the periodic control information and multiplexing uplink signals except the periodic control information when the user equipment is operating in subframe bundling transmission mode where the uplink signals are transmitted in a plurality of consecutive subframes, and transmitting the multiplexed uplink signals on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH).