Abstract: An air conditioner is provided that may minimize lengths of pipes connecting a plurality of indoor devices and an outdoor device, facilitate connection between respective refrigerant pipes through a distribution device, and omit a separate cable to transmit/receive a control signal between the plurality of indoor devices and the distribution device.

Abstract: An air conditioning device is provided. The air conditioning device includes a distribution device that distributes refrigerant from an outdoor unit to a plurality of indoor units, and that receives refrigerant from the plurality of indoor units and supplies the received refrigerant to the outdoor unit. The distribution device may reduce the length of pipes used to connect the plurality of indoor units and the outdoor unit and facilitate installation of the outdoor unit.

Abstract: An air conditioning device is provided that includes an outdoor unit and a distribution unit. In the air conditioning device, a length of pipes that connect a plurality of indoor units to the outdoor unit is minimized to improve aesthetic appeal and efficiency, and pipes are arranged in the distribution unit for interconnecting the indoor units and the outdoor unit efficiently so as to minimize the volume of the distribution unit. The distribution unit may have a modular structure such that single or multiple distribution units may be added or removed as needed.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition for a refrigerator according to the present invention can include (A) about 20 to about 40 parts by weight of an acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene graft copolymer resin prepared by grafting in emulsion polymerization about 60 to about 30% by weight of a monomer mixture comprising a cyanide vinyl compound and an aromatic vinyl compound to about 40 to about 70% by weight of a rubber polymer having an average particle size of about 0.1 to about 0.4 ?m; (B) about 1 to about 20 parts by weight of a styrenic copolymer comprising (b1) about 0 to about 75% by weight of a styrenic copolymer prepared by copolymerizing about 5 to about 20% by weight of a rubber polymer having an average particle size of about 0.

Abstract: In a wireless data communication network, a mobile terminal is reconnected to a contents provider, when a connection established between the mobile terminal and the contents provider is interrupted or after a completion of the downloading of contents, by using return address information and contents address information including addresses of the contents provider and a web page including information relating to the downloaded contents, respectively. A WML (wireless markup language) script including the contents address information and the return address information is provided to the mobile terminal before initiating the downloading of the contents. In this way, the mobile terminal can easily be reconnected to the contents provider when the connection established between the mobile terminal and the contents provider is interrupted due to network congestion or the mobile terminal leaving the service coverage area.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for growing a nitride single crystal on a silicon wafer and a method for manufacturing a light emitting device using the same. In growing the nitride single crystal according to one aspect of the invention, first, a silicon substrate having a surface in (111) crystal orientation is prepared. A first nitride buffer layer is formed on the surface of the silicon substrate. Then, an amorphous oxide film is disposed on the first nitride buffer layer. A second buffer layer is disposed on the amorphous oxide film. Thereafter, the nitride single crystal is formed on the second nitride buffer layer.

Abstract: The electrostatic chuck comprises a chuck base for supporting a wafer, a dielectric film mounted on the chuck base, the dielectric film having an electrode for supplying direct current voltage to provide an electrostatic force to fix the wafer, the electrode disposed in the dielectric film, and a cooling channel for supplying refrigerant to the dielectric film to control the temperature of the wafer.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for patterning coatings which includes the steps of: a) applying coatings onto a flat plate; b) allowing the coatings applied to the flat plate to contact with protrusions of a substrate so as to transfer portions of the coatings on the flat plate which contact with the protrusions of the substrate to the protrusions of the substrate from the flat plate, the substrate having unevenness formed with the protrusions and grooves; and c) allowing the coatings remaining on the flat plate or on the protrusions of the substrate to contact with a print surface of a print object so as to transfer the coatings to the print object. The method has simple processes, and ensures high precision and high speed in patterning functional materials, preferalby, electronic materials.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a photosensitive composition comprising a triazine-based photoactive compound containing oxime ester. The photosensitive composition according to the present invention has good sensitivity, retention rate, mechanical strength, heat resistance, chemical resistance and developing durability since it contains, as photopolymerization initiator, a compound having an oxime ester group and a triazine group in one molecule and thus effectively absorbs UV radiation. Therefore, the photosensitive composition according to the present invention is advantageous not only in curing of materials for color filters, resin black matrixes, column spacers, overcoats and passivation films of liquid crystal displays, but also in high temperature process characteristics.

Abstract: A quality control (QC) probe for inspecting a quality of a microarray, a method for fabricating a microarray in which the QC probe and a target probe are immobilized on a support, and a method for inspecting the quality of a microarray using the QC probe are provided. More particularly, a method for fabricating a microarray by mixing a QC probe labeled with a fluorescent material and a target probe at a certain ratio and immobilizing the mixture on a support of a microarray, a method for inspecting the quality of a microarray including identifying the immobilization state of probes by scanning a fluorescent signal produced by a fluorescent material before or after a hybridization reaction of a target probe and a target product using the prepared microarray, and a QC probe used for inspecting the quality of a microarray are provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an anisotropic conductive film with two or more adhesive resins simultaneously formed thereon, such that the two or more adhesive resins are simultaneously formed on a substrate of a flat panel display so as to connect various kinds of devices and flexible circuit boards thereto, thereby reducing the size of a non-display region of the substrate and reducing the number of steps of a manufacturing process. Moreover, with the use of an anisotropic conductive film with two layers of adhesive resins with different conductive particles, an excellent bonding force thereof enables a device or flexible circuit board to be stably mounted on a narrow area.

Abstract: The invention relates to a wavelength-convertible LED package including a package substrate having a lead frame, and an LED mounted on the package substrate and electrically connected to the lead frame. The wavelength-convertible LED package also includes a low refractive index region surrounding the LED, having a first refractive index, and a high refractive index layer formed on the low refractive index region, having a rough pattern on an upper surface thereof and a second refractive index higher than the first refractive index. The wavelength-convertible LED package further includes a resin part containing phosphor for converting the wavelength of light emitted from the LED, having a third refractive index lower than the second refractive index.

Abstract: A light emitting diode package includes an electrode pattern over a substrate, an electrode adhesive on the electrode pattern, a heat dissipating layer over the substrate, a body part abutting the heat dissipating layer, a light emitting diode chip on the body part, and a terminal part connected to the light emitting diode chip and attached to the electrode adhesive.

Abstract: A NAND flash memory device includes a semiconductor substrate having a drain select transistor; a source select transistor, and memory cell transistors connected in series between the drain select transistor and the source select transistor, and an oxide film formed in the semiconductor substrate at each of a first side and a second side of a gate of the source select transistor. A method of manufacturing a NAND flash memory device includes providing the semiconductor substrate and forming the oxide film in the semiconductor substrate at each of the first side and the second side of the gate of the source select transistor.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for manufacturing a nitride layer and a vertical nitride semiconductor light emitting device. In manufacturing the nitride layer according to the invention, a sapphire substrate is prepared. A buffer layer made of a material having a melting point and a thermal conductivity higher than those of nitride is formed on the sapphire substrate. Also, the nitride layer is formed on the buffer layer. Then a laser beam is irradiated to an underside of the sapphire substrate to remove the nitride layer. According to the invention, the nitride layer is made of a material having a composition expressed by AlxInyGa(1-x-y)N, where 0?x?1, 0?y?1, and 0?x+y?1. In addition, the buffer layer is made of SiC.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a high-quality GaN-based semiconductor layer on a substrate of different material, an AlN nucleation layer is grown on a substrate, a GaN buffer layer is grown on the AlN nucleation layer, and the substrate annealed. The AlN nucleation layer is formed to have a thickness greater than a critical radius of a nucleus of AlN crystal and less than a critical resilient thickness of AlN, and the GaN buffer layer is formed to have a thickness greater than a critical radius of a nucleus of GaN crystal and less than a critical resilient thickness of GaN. Annealing time is greater than L2/DGa where L indicates a diffusion distance of Ga, and DGa indicates a diffusion coefficient of Ga in the AlN nucleation layer.

Abstract: The invention provides a high-quality vertical semiconductor light emitting device having fewer cracks and a manufacturing method thereof. In the vertical semiconductor light emitting device, an Si—Al alloy substrate is prepared. Then a p-type group III-V compound semiconductor layer is formed on the Si—Al alloy substrate. An active layer is formed on the p-type group III-V compound semiconductor layer. Also, an n-type group III-V compound semiconductor layer is formed on the active layer.

Abstract: Flash memory devices having a cell string structure. According to the present invention, the size of a first group of memory cells connected to a first word line and a second group of memory cells connected to a last word line is formed greater than that of a third group of memory cells respectively connected to the remaining word lines other than the first and last word lines. Accordingly, the program speed of the first and second groups of the memory cells can be improved.

Abstract: In a method for setting up theme pictures and bells of a mobile telecommunication terminal, contents data stored in a storage unit of the mobile telecommunication terminal are retrieved based on a user's setting of a theme picture and a bell. A selection window is provided to the user to select the retrieved contents data. It is to determine whether the contents data selected in the selection window are VOD contents. If the contents data are the VOD contents data, at least one among video and audio data including the VOD contents data is decoded. A setup window is provided to determine whether the theme pictures include the decoded audio data. A speaker of the mobile telecommunication terminal is controlled on or off based on a user's setting of the setup window when the theme pictures are set up.

Abstract: A back light unit and an LCD device using the same in which current which flows in a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) is uniformly controlled having a small PCB is provided. The back light unit includes a plurality of LED arrays having LEDs and a detector which detects a feedback signal which corresponds to a current that is input to the LEDs. The backlight unit also includes a driver which drives the LEDs in accordance with the feedback signal from the detector.