Abstract: An ice detecting apparatus for an ice maker provided in a refrigerator includes an ice maker, and an ice detecting sensor attached to the ice maker and detecting an amount of ice collected in an ice container. The ice detecting sensor includes at least one optical transmitter or emitter provided on one side of the ice maker and at least one receiver at another side of the ice maker. The optical transmitter and receiver are separated by a prescribed distance and, at least one heater is provided to generate heat to be transferred to at least one of the optical transmitter or receiver.

Abstract: A deposition apparatus for depositing a deposition material on a substrate in order to improve characteristics of a deposition layer includes: a deposition source facing the substrate and ejecting the deposition material; a patterning slit sheet including patterning slits for depositing the deposition material in a desired pattern and disposed to face the substrate; a frame coupled to the patterning slit sheet; and a stage bonded to the frame to support the frame, wherein a separation area is formed between the frame and the stage.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device includes a switching thin film transistor (TFT) that includes a lower gate, a source, and a drain formed on a substrate and on the same layer, a first gate insulating layer formed to cover the lower gate, the source, and the drain, an active layer formed on the first gate insulating layer, a conductive line formed to contact the source and the drain, a second gate insulating layer formed on the active layer, and an upper gate formed on the second gate insulating layer. The lower gate of the switching TFT is a light shield that blocks light from being irradiated onto the active layer.

Abstract: An inventive composite optical gain medium capable includes a thin-disk gain layer bonded to an index-matched cap. The gain medium's surface is shaped like a paraboloid frustum or other truncated surface of revolution. The gain medium may be cryogenically cooled and optically pumped to provide optical gain for a pulsed laser beam. Photons emitted spontaneously in the gain layer reflect off or refract through the curved surface and out of the gain medium, reducing amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). This reduces limits on stored energy and gain imposed by ASE, enabling higher average powers (e.g., 100-10,000 Watts). Operating at cryogenic temperatures reduces thermal distortion caused by thermo-mechanical surface deformations and thermo-optic index variations in the gain medium. This facilitates the use of the gain medium in an image-relayed, multi-pass architecture for smoothed extraction and further increases in peak pulse energy (e.g., to 1-100 Joules).

Abstract: An array substrate includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor including a gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer and source and drain electrodes, wherein a first insulating layer of an inorganic insulating material is disposed between the gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer, and wherein a second insulating layer of an inorganic insulating material is disposed between the oxide semiconductor layer and the source and drain electrodes; a passivation layer on the thin film transistor; a first electrode on the passivation layer in the pixel region; and a first hydrogen absorbing layer on at least one of top and bottom surfaces of the first insulating layer, top and bottom surfaces of the second insulating layer and top and bottom surfaces of the passivation layer, the first hydrogen absorbing layer including plurality of particles spaced apart from each other and including one of nickel, palladium and platinum.

Abstract: A refrigerator having an improved structure so as to easily assemble a detachable door and a main body. The refrigerator includes a main body that forms an appearance of the refrigerator, a storage chamber that is provided inside the main body, a door that is rotatably coupled to the main body to open and close an opened front surface of the storage chamber, and a hinge bracket that connects the main body and the door. Here, the hinge bracket may include a first hinge that is coupled to the main body and a second hinge that is coupled to the door and detachably coupled to a front side of the first hinge.

Abstract: A door opening unit for automatically opening a door for a dishwasher includes an actuator, a link member that makes a straight motion due to pressurization of the actuator and has a plurality of legs, a plurality of rotation levers that are connected to the plurality of legs of the link member, and a plurality of pressurization members that are connected to the plurality of rotation levers. Since the plurality of pressurization members may pressurize a plurality of points of the door, the door may be more smoothly opened. Also, the door opening unit for automatically opening the door includes a restoring spring that restores positions of the plurality of pressurization members when power to the actuator is turned off.

Abstract: Disclosed is a convergence machining apparatus based on turning in which a rotation center of a work piece to a headstock and a footstock and a slide surface of first and second beds mounted with a reciprocal carriage, the headstock, and the footstock are positioned on the same virtual line when viewed from a direction parallel with a rotation axis of the work piece, thereby preventing an offset error in processing due to a relative displacement between the work piece and a tool installed at the reciprocal carriage.

Abstract: A deposition apparatus for depositing a deposition material on a substrate in order to improve characteristics of a deposition layer includes: a deposition source facing the substrate and ejecting the deposition material; a patterning slit sheet including patterning slits for depositing the deposition material in a desired pattern and disposed to face the substrate; a frame coupled to the patterning slit sheet; and a stage bonded to the frame to support the frame, wherein a separation area is formed between the frame and the stage.

Abstract: A thermoelectric material including a composition according to Chemical Formula 1: (Bia-xSb1-a-yMb)2-i(TecSe1-c)3-j??Chemical Formula 1 wherein M is an element of Group 13, 0?a?1, 0<b?0.004, 0?x?b, 0?y?b, x+y=b, 0?c?1, ?0.2?i?0.2, and ?0.2?j?0.2.

Abstract: An ice detecting apparatus for a refrigerator the apparatus includes an ice maker, an ice container to collect ice made by the ice maker, and an ice detecting sensor to detect an amount of ice stored in the ice container. The ice detecting sensor has a transmitter module provided on one side of the ice maker and a receiver module provided on another side of the ice maker. The transmitter module is separated by a prescribed distance from the receiver module. At least one of the transmitter module or receiver module includes at least one optical element and at least one heater, and the heater is made of an electroconductive heating material.

Abstract: A washing machine including a cabinet, a tub placed within the cabinet, a wash tub located within the tub to receive laundry therein, an element receiving unit in which elements are received, the element receiving unit being coupled to one side of the cabinet, a coupling panel provided at the element receiving unit so as to be coupled to the cabinet, a receiving panel provided at the cabinet so as to receive at least a portion of the coupling panel, a first holder and a second holder formed at the coupling panel, and a first receiving hole and a second receiving hole perforated in the receiving panel to receive the first holder and the second holder respectively therein. The coupling panel is pivotally rotated after the first holder is positioned into the first receiving hole, causing the second holder to be fitted into the second receiving hole.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus for preparing an electrode assembly, comprising a printing unit including a charging mean for bringing polymer particles into electric charging to obtain electrically charged polymer particles, and a transferring mean for coating the electrically charged polymer particles by way of transferring on at least one surface of a substrate for an electrochemical device to form an adhesive layer on the substrate, the substrate being at least one of a cathode, an anode and a separator; and a laminating unit that applies heat and pressure to the substrate having the adhesive layer formed thereon so as to obtain the electrode assembly comprising the cathode, the anode and the separator interposed therebetween.

Abstract: Hard magnetic exchange-coupled composite structures and perpendicular magnetic recording media including the hard magnetic exchange-coupled composite structures, include a ferrite crystal grain and a soft magnetic metal thin film bounded to the ferrite crystal grain by interfacial bonding on an atomic scale and having a thickness of about 5 nm or less, wherein a region of the soft magnetic metal thin film adjacent to an interface with the ferrite crystal grain includes an amorphous soft magnetic metal film.

Abstract: A soft magnetic exchange-coupled composite structure, and a high-frequency device component, an antenna module, and a magnetoresistive device including the soft magnetic exchange-coupled composite structure, include a ferrite crystal grain as a main phase and a soft magnetic metal thin film bound to the ferrite crystal grain by interfacial bonding on an atomic scale. A region of the soft magnetic metal thin film adjacent to an interface with the ferrite crystal grain includes a crystalline soft magnetic metal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to microorganisms of corynebacterium which can utilize xylose and to a method for producing L-lysine using same. More particularly, the present invention relates to microorganisms of corynebacterium which are modified, in which genes encoding xylose isomerase and xylulokinase which are xylose synthases are introduced to express the xylose synthase. The present invention also relates to a method for producing L-lysine, comprising a step of culturing the modified microorganisms of corynebacterium using xylose as a carbon source, and recovering L-lysine from the culture.