Abstract: A clothes dryer is provided. In the dryer, air flowing into a drying container is provided with heat from heat pump. The clothes dryer comprises a cabinet, a drying container rotationally mounted in the cabinet, a motor providing the container with rotational force, a first air path connected to a side of the container, a second air path connected to another side of the container and to the outside of the cabinet, and a first heat exchanging member and a second heat exchanging member in the first air path. A damper may be additionally included in the second air path.

Abstract: The structure of the present invention comprises a semiconductor substrate and a trench region formed on the semiconductor substrate. The trench region includes an extended funnel portion in the vicinity of the semiconductor substrate surface. A device isolation layer is formed at the trench region. The device isolation layer includes a void formed at a lower level than the funnel portion. The sidewalls of the hard mask pattern and the internal walls of the trench region are etched to form a funnel portion with an extended trench region at the vicinity of the semiconductor substrate surface. Accordingly, the void in the trench region does not extend above a surface of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A frame synchronization signal detection apparatus includes a synchronization signal detector, a main frame synchronization signal generator, a sub frame synchronization signal generator, and an output unit. The synchronization signal detector detects and outputs a synchronization signal from a digital data signal. The main frame synchronization signal generator detects and outputs a first valid synchronization signal from the synchronization signal, as an internal frame synchronization signal, and generates and outputs a first insertion synchronization signal, as the internal frame synchronization signal, if the first valid synchronization signal is not detected in a predetermined first time period. The sub frame synchronization signal generator detects and outputs a second valid synchronization signal from a synchronization signal. The output unit outputs a frame synchronization signal.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for scrambling and descrambling data wordwise in an optical disk system are provided. The apparatus includes a bit storing means which stores at least 15 bits, and a calculating means which calculates first through fifteenth bits of the bit storing means in parallel during one clock cycle and inputs the results of the calculation back into the bit storing means.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved toothbrush holder in which a toothbrush can be stored or from which a toothbrush can be taken out in a simple manner. In the toothbrush holder, on the inside of which an enclosing space that is opened on one side is formed, a body is included, on one side of which an inserting groove is formed. A protective cover is hinged rotatably to one side of the body to close the opened part of the body. A hinge member is provided to the body and a part of the protective cover, respectively. A guide member is provided on the inside of the protective cover and encloses the head part of the toothbrush. A chucking member is installed on the closed rear surface of the body and is attached detachably to a wall surface of a fixture. Through this configuration, a rotation movement of the protective cover can be made in accordance with a rotation of the toothbrush and thus the procedure of taking out the toothbrush is performed easily; therefore improving significantly a convenience of using it.

Abstract: An on-the-fly error checking and correcting system and method of supporting a non-volatile memory processes data using an on-the-fly error correction method to be performed between a temporary memory and a flash memory. The flash memory stores actual data read from the temporary memory and parity generated on-the-fly in a write mode, and transmits the stored data to the temporary memory, computes a syndrome from the stored data on-the-fly, and generates an error correction information signal according to the result of computing in a read mode. Thus, error correction may only be selectively performed.

Abstract: An isolation structure may include a trench formed on a surface of a substrate. A first isolation pattern may be provided on an inner face of the trench to define an auxiliary trench. A second isolation pattern may be provided on the first isolation pattern to partially fill the auxiliary trench. A third isolation pattern may be provided on the second isolation pattern to fill up the auxiliary trench. The second isolation pattern may have an etching selectivity with respect to the first isolation pattern.

Abstract: A method of forming an isolation layer structure for a semiconductor device includes forming a first structure on a substrate, the first structure including an insulation layer pattern having a sacrificial pattern therein, the sacrificial pattern having an etching rate that is different from the insulation layer pattern, partially removing the insulation layer pattern until the sacrificial pattern is exposed to form a second structure, partially removing the sacrificial pattern from the insulation layer pattern to form a third structure having a recessed portion at a central portion thereof, and removing an upper portion of the third structure such that a top surface of the third structure is concave with respect to a top surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A method for setting a product address in a home network system is disclosed. The method includes a step for requesting a temporary address in which a network controller designates redundant addresses with a predetermined range to each product and requests an arbitrary address among the redundant address as a temporary address; a step for designating a temporary address in which each product designates an arbitrary address among the redundant addresses as a temporary address and informs to a network controller; and a step for confirming an address in which the network controller sequentially sets one of the redundant addresses for each address not doubled among informed temporary addresses from each product.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dental model articulator to connect the upper and the lower dental model casts. A mounting member is respectively mounted on each upper and lower cast, and a pair of elastic connecting members are connected to the mounting members. A vertical bar of the elastic connecting member has an S-type serpentine portion. The cast can smoothly move to the front, rear, left and right side by the S-type serpentine portion. A fastening member connects and disconnects the elastic connecting member and the mounting member by fastening a socket of the mounting member. A pivot member connects each elastic connecting member enabling to be pivoted. Whereby, the connecting ball of the elastic connecting member and the socket of the mounting member are connected by the fastening member, therefore the connecting ball can be connected to and disconnected from the socket.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. An insulation layer having a high etching rate as compared with a pad oxide layer is formed as a buffer layer between a first STI film formed as a lower part of semiconductor substrate and a second STI film formed as an upper part of the semiconductor substrate, to obtain a pillar CD for an SAP structure. The buffer layer is etched more speedily in comparison with the pad oxide layer in a procedure of etching the pad oxide layer, thus ensuring a sufficient pillar CD without an excessive wet etch-back. Accordingly, a defect occurrence such as a grooving or seam can be prevented in realizing the SAP structure, and a tunnel oxide layer can be formed with uniform thickness.

Abstract: Optical disk players include a disk spinning system that is configured to spin an optical disk at a constant linear velocity and a burst cutting area decoding system that is configured to decode data in a burst cutting area of the optical disk, while the optical disk is spinning at the constant linear velocity. The burst cutting area data decoding system may be configured to determine a rotational frequency of the optical disk while reading the data in the burst cutting area, and using the rotational frequency that was determined to decode the data in the burst cutting area that was read.

Abstract: Provided are a recording medium, a recording medium playing device and method, which has an EFM demodulation unit for adaptively realigning an EFM demodulation point. The recording medium demodulates first data into second data in response to a channel clock signal recovered from the first data, compares a demodulation point indicating demodulation of the first data into the second data with an alignment point set in response to the first data, and jumps the demodulation point forward or backward by a difference between the demodulation point and the alignment point.

Abstract: A data coding apparatus and method for recording digital data on a digital versatile disk (DVD) are provided, where the DVD recording apparatus reduces the number of times that memory is accessed by storing only additional information and parity information when ECC encoded data are temporarily stored in an external memory, and performs data coding without any clock loss by scrambling only a specific field on-the-fly when the data stored in the external memory are read.

Abstract: Provided are a restoration system and method for an optical disc, by which a radio frequency signal optically picked up from an optical disc is restored. The restoration system includes a slice, a phase locked loop, a latch circuit, a 3T correction circuit, and a demodulator. In particular, the 3T correction circuit includes an extension storage device, a length measuring device, a phase detector, and an extension determiner and corrects data output from the extension storage device. In the restoration method, data required for determining the need for correction and the direction of correction is detected and a plurality of steps for selecting non-correction, two directional correction, forward correction, and backward correction are performed, thereby correcting the high radio frequency signal according to conditions of the high radio frequency signal. It is preferable that the restoration system operates according to the restoration method.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fixing pin for a model teeth die connecting a model teeth die to a model base. The fixing pin includes a model base inserting portion having a side expansion portion and being inserted into the model base, and a die inserting portion being fixedly inserted into the model teeth die. The model base inserting portion is a taper type, and the side expansion portion is a streamline and expands from one side of the model base inserting portion. Further, the die inserting portion is formed on the upper surface of the model base inserting portion neighboring to the side expansion portion. Thereby, when the model teeth die is connected to the model base, it is prevented from being rotated. Further, the fixing pin may be easily manufactured.

Abstract: A method for separating multiple home networks networked in one communication line into each home network is disclosed, which includes the steps of forming home network for networking apparatuses in the house to communicate with one another, setting individual home codes to each apparatus, connecting the home networks formed in a plurality of houses to one another, and forming packet data including the home codes for communicating.

Abstract: Disclosed is a network control system for home appliances that satisfies the characteristics of low-cost and high-efficiency with respect to currently used appliances adopting a low-performance microcomputer. The system is constructed to define a master/slave type communication structure with respect to the respective appliances; construct a network by connecting the appliances through the serial communication function; and enable the appliances to communicate with one another if a predetermined communication event is produced. According to the system, an optimized network for the home appliances can be implemented, and operation states of the respective appliances can be displayed through the co-operation among the appliances, thereby maximizing the user convenience.

Abstract: Disclosed is a network control system for home appliances that satisfies the characteristics of low-cost and high-efficiency with respect to currently used appliances adopting a low-performance microcomputer. The system is constructed to define a master/slave type communication structure with respect to the respective appliances; construct a network by connecting the appliances through the serial communication function; and enable the appliances to communicate with one another if a predetermined communication event is produced. According to the system, an optimized network for the home appliances can be implemented, and operation states of the respective appliances can be displayed through the co-operation among the appliances, thereby maximizing the user convenience.

Abstract: A method for detecting a communication speed of an apparatus is disclosed. The method includes a step for storing a communication speed which is currently used or a communication speed of one bit; a step for detecting a communication speed of received data by using data of a first frame which are first input among the received data; a step for detecting a consistent communication speed by comparing the detected communication speed and an initialized communication speed; a step for recognizing that a communication error is found if a consistent communication speed is not found as a result of said detection and for setting a consistent communication speed as a communication speed between the two apparatuses if a consistent communication speed is found; and a step for inputting the received data by using the set communication speed and performing corresponding commands.