Abstract: The present invention relates to a water level monitoring device and method, which has an advantage of efficient water level monitoring and high device reliability by setting a portion of an area including the water area and the shore area in the image data, monitoring an area in the horizontal direction other than the vertical direction through the image, decreasing complexity by significantly reducing the computational amount over an existing vertical direction water level measuring system, excluding noises such as floating matters, irregular reflection and so on through a water level model generating process for area distinction, and generating a water level model adaptive to environmental factors such as algal bloom, muddy water and so on.

Abstract: A washing machine includes a tub made of plastic to store water therein and a drum rotatably installed in the tub to hold laundry therein. A shaft passes through the tub and connects to the drum to transmit driving power from a motor to the drum. A wall having a recessing part and a projecting part is formed on an inner surface or outer surface thereof in a circumferential direction. A bearing housing has a stator fastening part where the stator fastening part has a recessing part and a projecting part corresponding with the recessing part and the projecting part of the wall in a circumferential direction, and a stator of the motor is mounted on the stator fastening part and a rotor of the motor is connected to a rear part of the shaft and surrounding the stator.

Abstract: A tub having a structurally strengthened rear wall and a washing machine with the same therein are disclosed. A washing machine includes a bearing housing having a flange part and a tub injection-molded with the bearing housing inserted into a wall thereof, the wall having a recessing part and a projecting part formed on an inner or an outer surface thereof along a circumferential direction, and a circumferential rib or a radial rib formed on the recessing part.

Abstract: A tub having a structurally strengthened rear wall and a washing machine with the same therein are disclosed. A washing machine includes a bearing housing having a flange part and a tub part injection-molded with the bearing housing inserted into a wall thereof, the wall having a recessing part and a projecting part formed on an inner or an outer surface thereof along a circumferential direction, and a circumferential rib or a radical rib formed on the recessing part.

Abstract: Provided is a test tool for an airspeed indicator of an aircraft, including: a cylinder portion including an insertion groove with a predetermined amount of space, and of which one end is sealed by a cover and includes an injection portion on the cover so that the insertion groove passes through a pitot tube, and of which another open end includes a protruded step around its inner circumferential surface; a piston portion being inserted into the insertion groove to reciprocally move within the insertion groove, and including a protrusion portion having a size and a shape corresponding to an aperture of the insertion groove, and a bar-shaped knob portion being extended from the protrusion portion; and a display portion being formed of a transparent material on an outer surface of the cylinder portion to display a location of the protrusion portion reciprocally moving within the cylinder portion.

Abstract: Disclosed are examples of an interworking system. In some embodiments, the interworking system includes a STUN server and an application layer gateway (ALG) server. The STUN server can be configured to provide binding information. The application layer gateway (ALG) server can include an IP masquerading performer, a STUN client performer, an address translator and a determiner.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The method includes: forming a plurality of protruded patterns smaller than gate structures by selectively removing predetermined portions of a substrate; and forming the gate structures over the protruded patterns. The semiconductor device includes: a plurality of protruded substrate portions smaller than the gate structures; and a plurality of gate structures encompassing the protruded substrate portions. Each of the gate structures includes a gate conductive layer that extends below the top and along profiles of the corresponding protruded portion such that channels are formed on surfaces of the protruded portions.

Abstract: Provided is a system for preventing snow from piling or freezing into slippery ice on a road in the winter season. The system comprises a case, an antifreeze fluid supply tank installed in an upper portion of the case, an electric heater installed in a lower portion of the case to heat an antifreeze fluid supplied from the antifreeze fluid supply tank, a circulation pump connected between the antifreeze fluid supply tank and the electric heater to supply the antifreeze fluid to the electric heater, an antifreeze fluid discharge pipe connected to one side of the electric heater to discharge the heated antifreeze fluid outside the electric heater therethrough, a synthetic resin hose buried under a road and connected to the antifreeze fluid discharge pipe at one end thereof, and an antifreeze fluid return pipe connected between the other end of the hose and a middle portion of the antifreeze fluid supply tank.

Abstract: A tub having a structurally strengthened rear wall and a washing machine with the same therein are disclosed. A washing machine includes a bearing housing having a flange part and a tub injection-molded with the bearing housing inserted into a wall thereof, the wall having a recessing part and a projecting part formed on an inner or an outer surface thereof along a circumferential direction, and a circumferential rib or a radial rib formed on the recessing part.

Abstract: A tub having a structurally strengthened rear wall and a washing machine with the same therein are disclosed. A washing machine includes a bearing housing having a flange part and a tub injection-molded with the bearing housing inserted into a wall thereof, the wall having a recessing part and a projecting part formed on an inner or an outer surface thereof along a circumferential direction, and a circumferential rib or a radial rib formed on the recessing part.

Abstract: A tub having a structurally strengthened rear wall and a washing machine with the same therein are disclosed. A washing machine includes a bearing housing having a flange part and a tub injection-molded with the bearing housing inserted into a wall thereof, the wall having a recessing part and a projecting part formed on an inner or an outer surface thereof along a circumferential direction, and a circumferential rib or a radial rib formed on the recessing part.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The method includes: forming a plurality of protruded patterns smaller than gate structures by selectively removing predetermined portions of a substrate; and forming the gate structures over the protruded patterns. The semiconductor device includes: a plurality of protruded substrate portions smaller than the gate structures; and a plurality of gate structures encompassing the protruded substrate portions, wherein channels are formed on surfaces of the protruded substrate portion.

Abstract: A tub having a structurally strengthened rear wall and a washing machine with the same therein are disclosed. A washing machine includes a bearing housing having a flange part and a tub part injection-molded with the bearing housing inserted into a wall thereof, the wall having a recessing part and a projecting part formed on an inner or an outer surface thereof along a circumferential direction, and a circumferential rib or a radical rib formed on the recessing part.

Abstract: A substrate has an active region divided into storage node contact junction regions, channel regions and a bit line contact junction region. Device isolation layers are formed in the substrate isolating the active region from a neighboring active region Recess patterns are formed each in a trench structure and extending from a storage node contact junction region to a channel region Line type gate patterns, each filling a predetermined portion of the trench of the individual recess pattern, is formed in a direction crossing a major axis of the active region in an upper portion of the individual channel region.

Abstract: A tub having a structurally strengthened rear wall and a washing machine with the same therein are disclosed. A washing machine includes a bearing housing having a flange part and a tub injection-molded with the bearing housing inserted into a wall thereof, the wall having a recessing part and a projecting part formed on an inner or an outer surface thereof along a circumferential direction, and a circumferential rib or a radial rib formed on the recessing part.

Abstract: Provided is a fuse circuit capable of selectively using a power supply voltage for a logic operation according to an operation mode. The fuse circuit includes a mode generating circuit, a power supply voltage selection circuit, and at least one fuse unit. The mode generating circuit generates a plurality of mode signals. The power supply voltage selection circuit selects one out of a plurality of power supply voltages in response to the plurality of mode signals and outputs the selected power supply voltage to a first node. Each of the fuse units is coupled between the first node and a ground voltage and uses the selected power supply voltage as a power supply voltage for a logic operation. Thus, a semiconductor device including the fuse circuit may accurately test a connection state of a fuse.

Abstract: Disclosed are an interworking system between IP networks using different IP address format, an application layer gateway (ALG) server, a network address translator, an interworking method, and a SIP message routing method. The interworking system between a local network using a private IP and a public network using a public IP includes a STUN server and an application layer gateway (ALG) server. The STUN server provides binding information of header information of a public IP binding request. The application layer gateway (ALG) server performs a public IP binding request with header information changed by IP masquerading, and performs routing by applying the received binding information to media receiving address information of a SIP message.

Abstract: A walk-in memory apparatus for an automobile seat locks the seat on a body only after the seat moves past a preset reference point when the seat, moved forwards with a seat back folded up by a seat walk-in apparatus, moves backwards with the seat back unfolded. The walk-in memory apparatus causes the entire seat to move forwards along tracks in an unlocked state when the seat back is folded up. The seat includes a track memory unit which, when the seat moves backwards with the seat back unfolded, causes the seat to be unlocked from the track when the stopper bracket is located ahead of a reference stopper and to be locked on the track when the stopper bracket is located behind the reference stopper.

Abstract: A structure for blocking outflow of a fluid for a washing machine includes a door installed at an outlet of a detergent supply unit such that the door opens the outlet when wash water and detergent are supplied from the detergent supply unit to a washing tub and closes the outlet of the detergent supply unit when foam or steam is discharged from the washing tub to the detergent supply unit, thereby preventing the fluid, such as foam or steam in the washing tub, from flowing to the detergent supply unit through a water supply bellows.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a capacitor of a semiconductor device includes: forming an interlayer insulating film including a contact plug over a semiconductor substrate; forming a first stack film including a capacitor oxide film and a nitride film over the interlayer insulating film; etching the first stack film to form a first stack pattern and a contact hole that exposes the contact plug; forming a lower electrode in the contact hole; forming a capping oxide film continuously over the first stack pattern to form a bridge connecting the neighboring first stack patterns; forming an etching barrier film including cavities over the capping oxide film; performing a blanket etching process onto the etching barrier film including cavities until the capacitor oxide film is exposed to form a nitride film pattern; and removing the exposed capacitor oxide film.