Abstract: A tube-facing machine includes a driving unit including a driving shaft and a motor for rotating the driving shaft, a cutting unit including a cutting tip mounted to the front end of the driving shaft and having a blade, and a tube-mounting unit. The cutting tip is disposed such that an angle between an imaginary reference line extending outwards from the center point of the tube in a radial direction and an imaginary line extending from the center point of the tube to a point at which the blade meets the inner circumference of the tube in a rotating direction of the cutting tip is greater than an angle between the imaginary reference line and another imaginary line extending from the center point of the tube to a point at which the blade meets the outer circumference of the tube in the rotating direction of the cutting tip.

Abstract: A multifunctional device for removing a film from a pipe is disclosed. The multifunctional device for removing a film from a pipe, according to the present invention, is a device for removing a film from the inner surface or outer surface of a pipe, and comprises: a tool part for removing the film; a roller part including at least one surface roller traveling on the inner surface or outer surface of the pipe; and a connection part including a first plate connected to the tool part, and a second plate which is arranged on the other side of the first plate so as to be connected to the first plate through one shaft and which is connected to the roller part.

Abstract: Proposed is a transport vehicle including a traveling unit being moved along a first direction, a slide unit being driven for sliding in a second direction vertical to the first direction, a hand unit ascending and descending by a hoist combined with the slide unit and gripping the goods, and a control unit controlling driving of the traveling unit for traveling or driving of the slide unit for sliding, wherein the control unit applies a filter signal to an initial slide control signal for driving for sliding and controls driving of the hand unit for sliding through a drive control signal for sliding to which the filter signal is applied, and the filter signal includes a plurality of impulse signals and an interval between the impulse signals is determined as a value corresponding to a length of the hoist in linear interpolation on pre-stored period values on a per-hoist-length basis.

Abstract: The inventive concept provides a transfer robot system. Embodiments of the inventive concept provide a transfer robot system and a transfer robot system driving method in which a bottleneck phenomenon of mobile robots may be prevented, as a new obstacle which does not exist within a map for a mobile robot is recognized in advance during an autonomous driving of the mobile robot and the new obstacle is not passed through. The transfer robot system includes an OHT for transferring an article by autonomously driving along a rail and having a bottom side distance detection sensor installed for generating a distance information of below; and a mobile robot for transferring the article by autonomously driving on the ground and autonomously driving while avoiding an obstacle information generated through the distance information.

Abstract: A method of operating a mobile robot for transporting an article in a manufacturing facility, the mobile robot, and an article transport system including the same are proposed. The method of operating the mobile robot includes obtaining a 3-D depth image, extracting, from the 3-D depth image, a region of interest corresponding to a traveling path of the mobile robot on a bottom surface of the manufacturing facility, generating a projected point cloud by projecting an object detected from the region of interest on a reference plane corresponding to the bottom surface, generating an imaginary point cloud filled with voxels in the reference plane, detecting a hole existing in the bottom surface by comparing the imaginary point cloud to the projected point cloud, and travelling while avoiding the hole.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transferring unit traveling on a rail provided along a ceiling, the transferring unit including: a body provided with a traveling driver; traveling wheel rotated by receiving power from the traveling driver; a grip member configured to grip an article; a lifting member provided between the body and the grip member and configured to move the grip member in a vertical direction; and a controller, in which the controller lowers or raises the grip member while the transferring unit travels on the rail, in which the controller controls the lifting member and the traveling driver so that the lowering or raising of the grip member is performed in a constant speed section in which the transferring unit travels at a constant speed.

Abstract: A tube-facing machine includes a driving unit including a driving shaft and a motor for rotating the driving shaft, a cutting unit including a cutting tip mounted to the front end of the driving shaft and having a blade, and a tube-mounting unit. The cutting tip is disposed such that an angle between an imaginary reference line extending outwards from the center point of the tube in a radial direction and an imaginary line extending from the center point of the tube to a point at which the blade meets the inner circumference of the tube in a rotating direction of the cutting tip is greater than an angle between the imaginary reference line and another imaginary line extending from the center point of the tube to a point at which the blade meets the outer circumference of the tube in the rotating direction of the cutting tip.

Abstract: Proposed is a transport vehicle including a traveling unit being moved along a first direction, a slide unit being driven for sliding in a second direction vertical to the first direction, a hand unit ascending and descending by a hoist combined with the slide unit and gripping the goods, and a control unit controlling driving of the traveling unit for traveling or driving of the slide unit for sliding, wherein the control unit applies a filter signal to an initial slide control signal for driving for sliding and controls driving of the hand unit for sliding through a drive control signal for sliding to which the filter signal is applied, and the filter signal includes a plurality of impulse signals and an interval between the impulse signals is determined as a value corresponding to a length of the hoist in linear interpolation on pre-stored period values on a per-hoist-length basis.

Abstract: A printing device which authorizes a printing limitedly according to a user level, a printing system using the same and a printing method thereof. The printing device includes an interface part receiving a printing data requested by a user and a security level of the requested printing data; an authentication part determining whether to print the requested printing data based on the security level and a pre-stored user level of the user; a printing part printing the requested printing data; and a controller transmitting the requested printing data received through the interface part to the printing part if the authentication part permits the printing. Accordingly, even if a user obtains an access to the system, because the user has a limitation in using and printing the data depending on his/her position or job, the security of the data can be more effectively guaranteed.

Abstract: A method of setting printing options at a host apparatus using a LINUX-based operation system (OS), the method including displaying at least one printing option providing text input for a user from among printing options provided by an image forming apparatus connected to the host apparatus; receiving setting information regarding printing options selected by a user from among the at least one printing option as text input; and storing the setting information with the corresponding printing options.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an input unit to receive a network resources address where a document exists, a web information receiving unit to read information on the document existing at the received address, an image path extracting unit to extract a path and a name of an image file consistent with predetermined reference data from the document information, an image receiving unit to receive the image file through the network using the extracted path and name of the image file, and a printing unit to print the image file.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an input unit to receive a network resources address where a document exists, a web information receiving unit to read information on the document existing at the received address, an image path extracting unit to extract a path and a name of an image file consistent with predetermined reference data from the document information, an image receiving unit to receive the image file through the network using the extracted path and name of the image file, and a printing unit to print the image file.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The image forming apparatus supports the printing management function, such that it can continue or cancel the printing operation when a printing-operation change factor occurs during the printing operation established by the user. In the case of using the printing management function, the user can easily stop the printing operation when the erroneous data occurs or he or she desires to cancel the remaining printing operations during the printing operation, such that an amount of resources required for the printing operation can be minimized, resulting in the implementation of increased operation efficiency.

Abstract: A method of setting printing options at a host apparatus using a LINUX-based operation system (OS), the method including displaying at least one printing option providing text input for a user from among printing options provided by an image forming apparatus connected to the host apparatus; receiving setting information regarding printing options selected by a user from among the at least one printing option as text input; and storing the setting information with the corresponding printing options.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an input unit to receive a network resources address where a document exists, a web information receiving unit to read information on the document existing at the received address, an image path extracting unit to extract a path and a name of an image file consistent with predetermined reference data from the document information, an image receiving unit to receive the image file through the network using the extracted path and name of the image file, and a printing unit to print the image file.

Abstract: A driver of a server managing a plurality of image forming device drivers and a data printing method using the same are provided. The virtual driver includes an object information storage part for storing image forming device information to provide object information and objects of the image forming devices; an object information register for registering new object information and corresponding image forming device information in the object information storage part by searching another new object different from the objects stored in the object information storage part when the image forming device is connected to the server, and then a new object is found by recognizing the connection; a user interface unit for displaying the object information stored in the object information storage part when the client device requests a data output; and a job controller for outputting print data to the image forming device providing the object when the object is selected through the user interface unit.

Abstract: An imaging forming apparatus, host apparatus, and job performing method thereof, the job performing method using target setup in an image forming apparatus supporting at least one function for targeting one host apparatus of a plurality of host apparatuses connected to the image forming apparatus via a network, the method including: receiving, by the host apparatus, input of a user generating a job event using a function by target setup supported by the image forming apparatus; transmitting, by the host apparatus, a use request message corresponding to the job event to the image forming apparatus; receiving, by the host apparatus, a message about whether to make a registration including whether a job targeting the host apparatus is registered in response to the use request message from the image forming apparatus; and displaying whether the job event is registered based on the received message about whether to make the registration.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to upgrade a driver of an image forming apparatus. The method includes accessing a website having a website driver program useable by the image forming apparatus, converting a class mode of the image forming apparatus from an original class mode to a predetermined class mode that is different from the original class mode, comparing a driver program stored in the image forming apparatus with the website driver program on the website, and downloading the website driver program from the website and storing the website driver program in the image forming apparatus when the website driver program is a later version than the stored driver program.

Abstract: A method for forming graphene includes introducing a substrate and a carbon-containing reactant source into a chamber, and radiating a laser beam onto the substrate to decompose the carbon-containing reactant source and form graphene over the substrate using carbon atoms generated by decomposition of the carbon-containing reactant source. A carbon-containing gas (methane) decomposes upon radiation of a laser beam. The carbon-containing gas has a decomposition rate on the order of femtoseconds and the laser beam has a pulse on the order of nanoseconds or more. The graphene is grown in a single layer along the surface of the substrate. Then, the graphene is selectively patterned using a laser beam to form a desired pattern.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to upgrade a driver of an image forming apparatus. The method includes accessing a website having a website driver program useable by the image forming apparatus, converting a class mode of the image forming apparatus from an original class mode to a predetermined class mode that is different from the original class mode, comparing a driver program stored in the image forming apparatus with the website driver program on the website, and downloading the website driver program from the website and storing the website driver program in the image forming apparatus when the website driver program is a later version than the stored driver program.