Abstract: A laminate leadless carrier package having a semiconductor chip mounted at the edge of a recess region in a substrate supporting the chip, the substrate having a plurality of conductive and dielectric layers, a wire bond coupled to the optoelectronic chip and a wire bond pad positioned on the top surface of the substrate. An encapsulation covers the laser chip, the wire bond, and at least a portion of the top surface of the substrate including the recess region. The encapsulation is an optically transparent molding compound. The package is arranged to be mounted as a side-looker and/or a top-looker.

Abstract: There is provided a novel carbamoyloxy arylalkan arylpiperazine derivative compound having abundant racemic or enantiomeric characteristics, represented by the formula 1, and pharmaceutically available salts or hydrates thereof. Also, there are provided a pharmaceutical composition for treating pain (i.e., acute or chronic pain, neuropathic pain, inflammatory pain, diabetic pain, postherpetic neuralgia, etc.), anxiety or depression including an effective amount of the compound, and a method for treating pain, anxiety or depression in mammals by administering an effective amount of the compound to the mammals in need of treatment thereof.

Abstract: There is provided a novel carbamoyloxy arylalkanoyl arylpiperazine derivative compound having abundant racemic or enantiomeric characteristics, represented by the Formula 1, and pharmaceutically available salts or hydrates thereof. Also, there are provided a pharmaceutical composition for treating pain, anxiety or depression including an effective amount of the compound, and a method for treating pain, anxiety or depression in mammals by administering an effective amount of the compound to the mammals in need of treatment thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides transparent chips with natural metal-like texture by coating silica-containing transparent chips with colored material, such as a metal powder, in a transparent resin as a base resin. The present invention also provides artificial stone with natural metal-like texture and patterns by mixing the colored material coated transparent chips and inorganic filler with a matrix resin. The artificial stone of the present invention can be prepared by mixing about 4 to about 24 parts by weight of inorganic filler and about 0.1 to about 5.0 parts by weight of the colored material coated transparent chips, per about 1 part by weight of the matrix resin. The colored material coated transparent chips can have a specific gravity of about 2.0 to about 2.65, while the matrix resin can have a specific gravity of about 2.2 to about 2.

Abstract: A waste toner cartridge includes a housing and a plug. The housing has a recessed bottom wall and a periphery wall integrally connected with the bottom wall to define an accommodation recess therebetween and provided with a flange having an arc section and two restricting portions respectively extending from two ends of the arc section. The plug has a body portion received in the accommodation recess, and an anchor portion extending axially from the body portion. The body portion of the plug has an outer diameter larger than a distance between the restricting sections of the flange, and the anchor portion of the plug has a radius larger than a radius of curvature of the arc section of the flange such that the plug can be firmly retained in the accommodation recess of the housing when the plug is not in use.

Abstract: A seal-free pouch includes a bag body, a tear and a feeding unit. The bag body is provided for forming a first accommodating space. The tear is interconnected with the first accommodating space. The feeding unit includes a protrusion and is installed on a side of the tear for partitioning the tear to form a second accommodating space and a third accommodating space, and the second accommodating space is interconnected with the tear, but the third accommodating space is not interconnected with the tear. If the protrusion of the feeding unit is folded into halves along the third accommodating space, the first accommodating space will be limited and interconnected with the exterior of the seal-free pouch through the second accommodating space.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for decoding a concatenated burst in a WiBro system are provided. A concatenated decoder fragments a received burst into fragment blocks, decodes at least one of the fragment blocks, and determines whether the decoded fragment block satisfies a circular state. A concatenated decoding controller determines burst quality information of the received burst according to a circular state check result on the decoded fragment block, and determines whether to stop decoding on the received burst according to the burst quality information.

Abstract: A decoding apparatus in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) mobile communication system is provided. In the apparatus comprises, a first combiner performs first combining on an input burst a first number of times. A deinterleaver deinterleaves an output of the first combiner and outputs a burst having a repeated structure. A second combiner performs second combining on the burst having the repeated structure a second number of times. A decoder decodes the combined burst. A signal detector stores a second internal memory state value of the decoder for an instance where a first decoded bit is extracted from the decoded data, stores a second internal memory state value of the decoder for an instance where a last decoded bit is extracted from the decoded data, compares the first and second stored internal memory state values of the decoder, and sets a burst quality indicator (BQI) according to the comparison result.

Abstract: There is provided a novel carbamoyloxy arylalkanoyl arylpiperazine derivative compound having abundant racemic or enantiomeric characteristics, represented by the Formula 1, and pharmaceutically available salts or hydrates thereof. Also, there are provided a pharmaceutical composition for treating pain, anxiety or depression including an effective amount of the compound, and a method for treating pain, anxiety or depression in mammals by administering an effective amount of the compound to the mammals in need of treatment thereof.

Abstract: An array substrate including a plurality of pixel regions transmitting light includes a switching element disposed in each of the pixel regions defined by gate and source lines, wherein the switching element is electrically connected to the gate and source lines, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element, a first insulating layer disposed on the switching element, and a second insulating layer disposed under the first insulating layer, wherein a thickness of the second insulating layer is dependent on a peak wavelength of red light.

Abstract: The present invention provides a phase change non-volatile memory material comprising a base material and at least one non-metallic light element selected from the group consisting of boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, wherein the base material has a composition which corresponds to either that of congruent melting of the type with a minimum melting point or that of eutectic melting within the range of ±0.15 atomic fraction for each constituent element, thereby having a melting temperature of 600° C. or lower. The phase change non-volatile memory material according to the present invention may be utilized to reduce the electric power needed for reset/set operation and thermal interference between memory cells.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for decoding low density parity check (LDPC) codes are provided. A memory module configured by a plurality of unit memories stores a reliability value. Variable node processors perform a computation associated with a variable node, and update data of the memory module in a column direction, respectively. Check node processors perform a computation associated with a check node, and update data of the memory module in a row direction, respectively. A parity checker determines if all errors have been corrected such that an iterative decoding process is performed. A memory access control module selects a unit memory to be updated by a variable node processor or a check node processor.

Abstract: A retainer ring of a chemical-mechanical polishing device which can prevent itself from being twisted and improve defective proportion and equipment operating rate occurred when polishing semiconductor wafers by embedding a metal member inside. Retainer ring installed to a polishing head of a chemical mechanical polishing device to fix a semiconductor wafer includes: a first member of a resin connected to a carrier of the polishing head and a room is formed inside; a second member of a metal embedded into the room of the first member. The present invention can improve a defective proportion of a semiconductor wafer polishing process by above effects and can reduce initial limitation conditions accompanied to mass production to increase an equipment operation rate by providing credibility of the retaining ring.

Abstract: Azole compounds containing carbamoyl group and pharmaceutically useful salts thereof are described. The compounds are effective anticonvulsants which are used in the treatment of disorders of the central nervous system, especially as anxiety, depression, convulsion, epilepsy, migraine, bipolar disorder, drug abuse, smoking, ADHD, obesity, sleep disorder, neuropathic pain, stroke, cognitive impairment, neurodegeneration, stroke and muscle spasm.

Abstract: A low density parity check (LDPC) code generating method and apparatus are provided. A parity check matrix with (N?K) rows for check nodes and N columns for variable nodes are formed to encode an information sequence of length K to a codeword of length N. The parity check matrix is divided into an information part matrix with K columns and a parity part matrix with (N?k) columns. The parity part is divided into P×P subblocks. P is a divisor of (N?K). First and second diagonals are defined in the parity part matrix and the second diagonal is a shift of the first diagonal by f subblocks. Shifted identity matrices are placed on the first and second diagonals and zero matrices are filled elsewhere. An odd number of delta matrices each having only one element of 1 are placed in one subblock column of the parity part matrix. The parity check matrix is stored.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for reducing power consumption of a receiver by performing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) according to a detected decoding error are provided. The apparatus includes a decoding reliability metric generator for setting a decoding result as a decoding reliability metric, which is a reference value for determining a code block having a decoding error, based on a decoding result, a decoding reliability metric buffer for storing the decoding reliability metric set by the decoding reliability metric generator and a code block controller for, when the decoding error occurs, identifying code blocks having the decoding error by checking the decoding reliability metric and for controlling to decode the identified code blocks.

Abstract: A video MP3 system including an audio/video (AV) decoder which further comprises a video decoder for restoring a moving picture signal in a MP3 player for restoring an audio signal, an apparatus and method for generating reduced video data which are appropriate for use in the video MP3 system, and an apparatus and method for restoring the reduced video data are provided. In the apparatus for generating reduced video data operated by a method for generating reduced video data, a video stream compressed according to rules of a MPEG is divided into a motion vector, a discrete cosine transform (DCT) DC coefficient, a DCT AC coefficient, and reduced video data, which are appropriate for use in the video MP3 system, are generated by using the motion vector, the discrete cosine transform (DCT) DC coefficient, and the DCT AC coefficient.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor array panel is provided, which includes: forming a gate line on a substrate; depositing a gate insulating layer and a semiconductor layer in sequence on the gate line; depositing a lower conductive film and an upper conductive film on the semiconductor layer; photo-etching the upper conductive film, the lower conductive film, and the semiconductor layer; depositing a passivation layer; photo-etching the passivation layer to expose first and second portions of the upper conductive film; removing the first and the second portions of the upper conductive film to expose first and second portions of the lower conductive film; forming a pixel electrode and a pair of redundant electrodes on the first and the second portions of the lower conductive film, respectively, the redundant electrodes exposing a part of the second portion of the lower conductive film; removing the exposed part of the second portion of the lower conductive film to expose a portion of the semicon

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for decoding an LDPC code including a plurality of check nodes and a plurality of variable nodes. The apparatus includes a check node selection scheduler that selects at least one of the check nodes, an LLR memory that stores an input LLR value for the variable nodes as an initial LLR value and stores updated LLR values for variable nodes connected to the selected check node, and a check node message memory that stores a check node message indicating a result value of check node processing on the selected check node. The apparatus further includes at least one united node processor that generates a variable node message by subtracting the check node message of the selected check node from corresponding LLR values read from the LLR memory, performs check node processing on the variable node message, calculates an LLR value updated by adding the variable node message to the check node processing result value, and delivers the calculated LLR value to the LLR memory.

Abstract: An EL display is provided with enhanced light emission characteristics wherein light emitted from a light-emitting layer undergoes constructive interference due to a resonance effect. The EL display includes a transparent substrate, an anode and a cathode formed on the same side of the transparent substrate, and an intermediate layer interposed between the anode and the cathode, and said intermediate layer including a light-emitting layer that emits light when the anode and the cathode are electrically driven by a voltage, and wherein the anode and the cathode are formed as a translucent conductive layer that partially reflects the light emitted from the light-emitting layer.