Abstract: A refrigerant recovery operation method for use in a refrigerator in which a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber are independently cooled is disclosed. The refrigerator and the method for controlling the same provide for performing the refrigerant recovery operation not only when the compressor starts operation but also before the compressor stops operation. The refrigerator increases the refrigerant recovery amount within a predetermined pressure range in which the compressor can operate, and controls the refrigerant recovery operation time according to the outdoor air temperature.

Abstract: A seawater pre-treatment method is provided that includes: installing a filtration filter in the form of a hollow cylinder at a predetermined depth of a sea floor, installing a water collection pipe in which a plurality of openings are formed in the inner part of the filtration filter, the water collection pipe being in fluid communication with a water collection tank, sucking pre-treated water from the inner part of the water collection tank by a water conveying pump, and passing the seawater through the filtration filter by a reverse osmosis method and flowing into the water collection pipe and the water collection tank.

Abstract: There is provided an electrode for a lithium secondary battery. The electrode include a current collector; nanoparticles distributed on a surface of the current collector, each of the nanoparticles including a transition metal or an oxide of the transition metal; and an active material layer disposed on a surface of the current collector having the nanoparticles distributed thereon. This electrode may be employed as a negative electrode for the lithium second battery, to improve a capacity of the lithium second battery.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a refrigerator includes an ice storage, a transfer member, a transfer motor coupled to the transfer member, and a controller configured to control the transfer motor to rotate the transfer member in a first rotation direction and a second rotation direction, wherein the transfer member prevents the ice cubes stored in the ice storage from agglomerating by rotating in the first rotation direction and the second rotation direction. The controller warns a user of agglomeration of the ice cubes stored in the ice storage in response to no rotation of the transfer motor sensed.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a body configured to include a storage compartment, a door portion configured to include an inner door pivotably coupled to the body to open/close the storage compartment and an outer door pivotably provided in front of the inner door, an ice making chamber formed at the door portion to be divided from the storage compartment by the inner door and to be opened or closed by the outer door, an ice making system accommodated in the ice making chamber, a dispenser provided at the door portion to provide water and ice, and a water filter mountable at the door portion to purify water supplied from an external water supply source. The ice making chamber is easily accessible by opening only the outer door while the inner door is closed and prevent cold air in the storage compartment from flowing out.

Abstract: A hydrochromic polydiacetylene polymer patch and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The hydrochromic polymer patch comprises a polymer matrix; and polydiacetylene present in the polymer matrix. The polydiacetylene has an ionic functional group in the repeating unit thereof. The ionic functional group is R?M+ or R+X?. R? is a carboxylate anion, M+ is an alkali metal cation, and R+ is a quaternary ammonium group, and X? is F?, Cl?, Br?, I?, PF6?, BF4?, bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonimide (Tf2N?), trifluoromethanesulfonate (TfO?), SCN?, or CH3COO?.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a refrigerator having a first storage compartment, a second storage compartment, and a third storage compartment. The refrigerator includes a four-way valve including an inlet through which refrigerant is introduced, a plurality of outlets to discharge the refrigerant, and configured to open at least one of the plurality of outlets, a first heat exchanger connected to a first outlet of the plurality of outlets to adjust a temperature of the first storage compartment, a second heat exchanger connected to a second outlet of the plurality of outlets to adjust a temperature of the second storage compartment, and a third heat exchanger connected to the second heat exchanger and a third outlet of the plurality of outlets to receive refrigerant from at least one of the second heat exchanger and the third outlet to adjust a temperature of the third storage compartment.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-layer capacitor package comprising: a multi-layer capacitor; connection electrodes coupled to capacitor electrodes respectively, wherein the connection electrodes in each group of the connection electrodes vertically overlap with each other, and first and second groups of the connection electrodes are horizontally spaced from each other; a package housing configured to receive therein the multi-layer capacitor; and first and second internal electrodes received in the housing to be coupled to the first and second groups of the connection electrodes respectively, wherein the first and second internal electrodes are horizontally spaced from each other.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a refrigerator including a vacuum packing device. The refrigerator includes a body and a vacuum packing device provided in the body and configured to suction air in a vinyl pack having a check valve, wherein the vacuum packing device includes a vacuum pump provided to suction the air, a switch module provided to control an operation of the vacuum pump, a suction head including a first path directly connected to the check valve and configured to suction the air, and a chamber including a first opening connected to the first path and provided to collect a foreign substance suctioned through the suction head.

Abstract: A refrigerator that includes a main body, a wall and a storage compartment. The refrigerator further includes a door rotatably coupled to the main body configured to open and close the storage compartment. The door includes an ice-making chamber formed in a front surface of the door. The refrigerator also includes a cooling chamber that includes a cooler is provided inside the wall and configured to generate cooling air. The refrigerator also includes a cooling air duct configured to connect the ice-making chamber and the cooling chamber to supply the cooling air generated by the cooler to the ice-making chamber.

Abstract: Disclosed is a refrigerator having a first storage chamber, a second storage chamber located below the first storage chamber, an ice maker configured to make ice pieces, an ice bucket configured to store the ice pieces made in the ice maker and a middle wall partitioning inside space of the refrigerator into the first storage chamber and the second storage chamber and including a base portion and a stepped portion located higher than the base portion to form ice-making space, wherein at least one portion of the ice maker and at least one portion of the ice bucket are accommodated in the ice-making space. With this structure, the space for actual use of the first storage chamber can be increased.

Abstract: A display device may include: a plurality of pixels; a gate driver that receives clock signals and generates and applies a plurality of gate signals to a respective plurality of gate lines connected to the plurality of pixels; and a clock signal driver. The clock signal driver may output the clock signals and receive feedback clock signals derived from the clock signals, compare the feedback clock signals, and control amplitudes of the clock signals so that an amplitude difference between the feedback clock signals is less than a threshold.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided as follows. A display panel having a first aspect ratio includes pixels, scan lines and data lines. The pixels are arranged at intersections of the scanning lines and the data lines. A display panel driver, in a partial mode in which an image having a second aspect ratio different from the first aspect ratio is displayed on a partial region of the display panel for two or more frame periods, supplies scan signals only to a first number of scan lines electrically connected to pixels of the partial region for a first type frame period of the two or more frame periods, and supplies scan signals to the plurality of scan lines for a second type frame period of the two or more frame periods.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method of producing a metal composite powder by wire explosion in a liquid and a metal composite powder that is coated with a multi carbon layer. The production method includes a process of forming a first carbon layer on a surface of a metal wire consisting of a first metal, a process of forming a metal layer consisting of a second metal, which is different from the first metal, on a surface of the first carbon layer, and a process of forming a metal composite powder coated with a multi carbon layer by wire exploding the metal wire containing the first carbon layer and the metal layer formed on a surface thereof in a solution.

Abstract: Provided is a compound of formula (I) as a TNIK (Traf2- and NCK-interacting kinase), IKK? (I-kappa-B kinase epsilon) and TBK1 (TANK-binding kinase 1) inhibitor; the compound according to the present invention effectively inhibits TNIK, IKK? and TBK1, and thus is useful not only as an anticancer agent for the treatment of various cancers including colorectal cancer, breast cancer, CNS cancer, colon cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, kidney cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, uterus cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, brain cancer, bladder cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, thyroid cancer, head and neck cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, osteosarcoma, B-cell or T-cell lymphoma, acute or chronic leukemia and multiple myeloma, but as a therapeutic agent for chronic inflammation.

Abstract: Disclosed are an evaporator, a refrigerator using the evaporator, and a method for controlling the refrigerator. The evaporator includes a refrigerant evaporation unit in which a flow passage where a refrigerant evaporates is formed, and a phase change material (PCM) accommodation unit that is coupled to the refrigerant evaporation unit and accommodates the PCM whose phase is changed according to latent heat absorbed by the refrigerant, wherein the PCM is brought into direct contact with an outer surface of the refrigerant evaporation unit inside the PCM accommodation unit.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a first storage chamber, a second storage chamber spatially-separated from the first storage chamber, a first refrigeration cycle system to cool the first storage chamber using a first refrigeration cycle, and a second refrigeration cycle system installed to be separated from the first refrigeration cycle system to cool the second storage chamber using a second refrigeration cycle in an independent manner from the first refrigeration cycle. The first and second storage chambers maintain first and second target temperatures, respectively. The first and second refrigeration cycle systems circulate different kinds of refrigerants to cool the first and second storage chambers, respectively.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to refrigerators and methods of controlling the refrigerators. The refrigerator comprises a compressor configured to operate at a first rotation speed and a controller configured to calculate a first average of levels of electric signals input to the compressor during a first reference period, and control the compressor to operate at a second rotation speed higher than the first rotation speed when the first average is greater than a first reference value.

Abstract: A refrigerator and a dehumidification control method thereof to effectively perform both temperature compensation and dehumidification so as to prevent formation of dewdrops in a refrigerating compartment of the refrigerator. The control method includes detecting a temperature of outside air around the refrigerator to judge whether or not the detected temperature corresponds to a low-temperature mode requiring dehumidification, heating a refrigerating compartment by operating a refrigerating compartment heater and a refrigerating compartment fan for dehumidification if the low-temperature mode is judged, cooling the refrigerating compartment by operating a compressor while continuously operating the refrigerating compartment fan, and simultaneously cooling and heating the refrigerating compartment to enable simultaneous implementation of temperature compensation by heating of the refrigerating compartment and dehumidification by cooling of the refrigerating compartment.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a driving coupler to transmit a driving force and a connecting member to transmit the driving force of the driving coupler to a transfer member. The connecting member is rotated when interference with the driving coupler occurs in a process of connecting with the driving coupler and idles within a predetermined angle range regardless of the transfer member. With this constitution, even when ice cubes are loaded by the transfer member, the connecting member may be smoothly rotated. Thus, the driving coupler and the connecting member may be smoothly connected without an impact.