Abstract: A backlight assembly comprises a light source unit emitting light, a heat-blocking plate disposed over the light source unit to prevent heat generated from the light source unit from being upwardly transmitted, and a receiving container receiving the light source unit and the heat-blocking plate. The receiving container includes a bottom plate and a plurality of sidewalls. Each of the sidewalls extends from a side of the bottom plate and has openings formed through each of the sidewalls. The openings are formed over the heat-blocking plate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a round window driving transducer for easy implantation and an implantable hearing device having the same. The round window driving transducer is implantable in the round window of the cochlea in the middle ear cavity, and has excellent high frequency characteristics, which can assist patients with sensorineural hearing loss to hear sound better. The round window driving transducer can be placed inside the middle ear cavity, radiate sound with high efficiency, and be implanted by surgery using a fixing part formed with shape memory alloy, shape memory resin, or a bendable spring structure. Further, the round window driving transducer can overcome problems of the prior art, such as a difficult surgery and low vibration efficiency, which would inevitably occur when floating mass transducers are implanted in a drilled groove in the bone or when various types of piezoelectric transducers are implanted in the round window.

Abstract: A display device module includes a display panel having a first side and a second side, a first receiving container having a first side and a second side, the first side receiving the first side of the display panel, and a grip protrusion formed on the second side of the first receiving container for engaging a jaw of a gripper.

Abstract: An implantable middle ear hearing device having a tubular vibration transducer to drive a round window is designed to input sound to a round window opposite an oval window in an inner ear. The tubular vibration transducer has a unique structure that does not attenuate the magnitude of a signal, particularly, in a high frequency band. Sound delivery effect is much higher than those of conventional schemes. It is also possible to minimize difficulties associated with and problems resulting from the operation, which the conventional methods would have. Further, the transducer can have a relatively less compact than ossicle contact type transducers, and thus be easily fabricated. The hearing device can be applied to a sensorineural hearing loss patient with the ossicle damaged. Moreover, since sound is directly transmitted without through the ear drum and the ossicle, high efficiency sound delivery is achievable and hearing loss compensation are easy.

Abstract: A hybrid diffusion plate includes a plurality of sub diffusion plates facing one another and diffusing light, heat-insulating layers having heat conductivity lower than the sub diffusion plates and respectively interposed between each pair of adjacent sub diffusion plates, and a sealant applied between each pair of adjacent sub diffusion plates along an edge and bonding the sub diffusion plates to each other.

Abstract: Provided are a diffusion plate assembly having light diffusion and heat blocking effects and requiring no diffusion plate supporter and a backlight assembly including the diffusion plate assembly. The diffusion plate assembly includes a first plate diffusing light; a second plate disposed to face a surface of the first plate and blocking heat transfer toward the first plate and a spacer interposed between the first plate and the second plate and separating the first plate and the second plate.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a piezoelectric type vibrator included in an implantable hearing device. The piezoelectric type vibrator comprises: a housing; a piezoelectric element portion formed at one end thereof with a free end and at the other end thereof with a non-free end, the piezoelectric element portion being at least partially disposed at the inside of the housing and including at least one piezoelectric element and terminals connected to both ends of the piezoelectric element; and a connection portion attached at one end thereof to one side of the inner wall of the housing and at the other end thereof to a non-free end of the piezoelectric element portion.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a piezoelectric type vibrator included in an implantable hearing device. The piezoelectric type vibrator comprises: a housing; a piezoelectric element portion formed at one end thereof with a free end and at the other end thereof with a non-free end, the piezoelectric element portion being at least partially disposed at the inside of the housing and including at least one piezoelectric element and terminals connected to both ends of the piezoelectric element; and a connection portion attached at one end thereof to one side of the inner wall of the housing and at the other end thereof to a non-free end of the piezoelectric element portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a low frequency stimulator provided in a mobile terminal, which comprises a high-voltage pulse generator for adjusting a voltage of the mobile terminal to a level suitable for low frequency stimulation; an output controller for outputting a voltage output from the high-voltage pulse generator in a unipolar or bipolar format and controlling the cycle of the output voltage; an electrode section for delivering a stimulation pulse according to the voltage output from the output controller; and a control section for controlling a first switching signal applied to the high-voltage pulse generator to adjust the level of the voltage and controlling a second switching signal applied to the output controller to output a unipolar or bipolar voltage of the controlled cycle.

Abstract: A skin impedance model of a predetermined part of a living body, which is an object to be measured, wherein the skin impedance model is estimated by providing a predetermined current between two ends of the predetermined part and measuring a voltage between the two ends, the model including a first area having a first resistor and a first constant phase element (CPE) connected in parallel, a second area having a second resistor and a second CPE connected in parallel, and a third resistor serially connected to the parallel connection of the second resistor and the second CPE, and a third area having a fourth resistor and a third CPE connected in parallel, wherein the second area and the third area are connected in parallel and are serially connected to the first area through a fifth resistor.

Abstract: A handover method in wireless telecommunication system supporting USTS is disclosed. The method for performing a handover of a mobile station in an asynchronous wireless telecommunication system supporting an uplink synchronous transmission scheme (USTS) mode, includes the steps of: a) performing a mode conversion of the mobile station from the USTS mode to a non-USTS mode based on a first signal measurement result from the mobile station; and b) performing a handover for the mobile station. In another embodiment of the present invention, the method further includes the step of: c) performing a mode conversion from the non-USTS mode to the USTS mode based on a second signal measurement result from the mobile station.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pyridine sulfonyl urea derivatives, salts or stereochemical isomers thereof showing an effective herbicidal activity in pre- and/or post-emergence treatment in rice farming, or to a method to use thereof, a method for the preparation thereof, an intermediate used for the preparation thereof, and a herbicidal composition comprising same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pyridine sulfonyl urea derivatives, salts or stereochemical isomers thereof showing an effective herbicidal activity in pre- and/or post-emergence treatment in rice farming, or to a method to use thereof, a method for the preparation thereof, an intemediate used for the preparation thereof, and a herbicidal composition comprising same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pyridine sulfonyl urea derivatives, salts or stereochemical isomers thereof showing an effective herbicidal activity in pre- and/or post-emergence treatment in rice farming, or to a method to use thereof, a method for the preparation thereof, an intemediate used for the preparation thereof, and a herbicidal composition comprising same.

Abstract: A multi-functional, bi-directional communication telemetry capsule for endoscopy is provided. The multi-functional, bi-directional communication telemetry capsule includes a capsule body insertable into a patient's body, a lens mounted on the capsule body, an imaging sensor installed in the capsule body to image a site of the patient's body viewed through the lens, a pH sensor, a biological potential sensing electrode, a stimulating electrode, a pressure sensor, a light emitter to emit light in front of the capsule body, the light intensity of the light emitter being externally controllable, a transmitter to wirelessly transmit an image signal generated by the imaging sensor, a pH signal generated by the pH sensor, a biological signal generated by the biological potential sensing electrode, and a pressure signal generated by the pressure sensor, a receiver to wirelessly receives an external control signal, and a control unit and a power source for the forgoing constitutional elements.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fungicidal composition which comprises N-(&agr;-cycno-2-thenyl)-4-ethyl-2-(ethylamino)-5-thiazolecarboxamide (ethaboxam) and as an adjuvant polyoxyalkylene alkyl ether.

Abstract: A middle ear hearing aid transducer is provided. The middle ear hearing aid includes: first and second permanent magnets arranged such that the same poles face each other; a coil separated a predetermined distance from the outer surfaces of the first and second permanent magnets, and surrounding the first and second permanent magnets; a case for accommodating the first and second permanent magnets and the coil; and a vibration member for supporting the first and second permanent magnets to keep a predetermined distance between the coil and the outer surfaces of the first and second permanent magnets, and for transmitting vibrations of the first and second permanent magnets to the case.

Abstract: A handover method in wireless telecommunication system supporting USTS is disclosed. The method for performing a handover of a mobile station in an asynchronous wireless telecommunication system supporting an uplink synchronous transmission scheme (USTS) mode, includes the steps of: a) performing a mode conversion of the mobile station from the USTS mode to a non-USTS mode based on a first signal measurement result from the mobile station; and b) performing a handover for the mobile station. In another embodiment of the present invention, the method further includes the step of: c) performing a mode conversion from the non-USTS mode to the USTS mode based on a second signal measurement result from the mobile station.

Abstract: A middle ear hearing aid transducer is provided.

Abstract: Disclosed are water soluble azo dyes, represented by Formula I or II, and their synthesis and use. The water soluble azo dyes are synthesized by diazotizing 4-aminopyridine and coupling the resulting diazo intermediate with alkylated metanilic or orthanilic acid. To be suitable for measuring blood glucose levels, the dyes are combined with m-nitrophenyl boronic acid in an aqueous solvent. A combined ao form of the dyes with glucose shows a peak at 540 nm. At this wavelength, the absorptivity has a tendency to increase with the increasing of glucose level, which allows the measurement of blood glucose levels. ##STR1## wherein R has a 1-4 carbon atom length and is an alkyl, a hydroxy alkyl, a carboxyl-containing alkyl, or a sulfonyl-containing alkyl.