Abstract: A refrigerator and a method for controlling such a refrigerator is provided in which a receiving box may be automatically drawn in and out together with a door that forms a front face thereof in response to a command input at an input unit, thereby increasing user convenience.

Abstract: A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a receiving box that may be automatically drawn in and out together with a door in response to a door drawing in command or drawing out command, thereby enhancing user convenience.

Abstract: A refrigerator and a method for controlling the same are provided. In this refrigerator and control method, a receiving box may be automatically drawn in and out together with a door based on a movement command received at an input unit, thus enhancing user convenience and satisfaction.

Abstract: A speed-variable single phase induction motor. By a plurality of stators disposed with an interval therebetween and a plurality of magnetic rotors corresponding to the respective stators, the motor implements a high efficiency and a speed-variable performance such as a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor with a low cost without using an expensive inverter driving apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus is capable of reducing an overhead caused by a mute section in a wireless communication system that provides a Voice of Internet Protocol (VoIP) service. In the method, one or more terminals for providing the VoIP service during a next time section are determined. Mute section set information of a current time section and the next time section for the one or more terminals is determined. An amount of a resource of the next time section is allocated to at least one terminal whose next time section is not set to a mute section and whose current time section is set to a mute section among the one or more terminals such that the amount of the resource of the next time section is smaller than an amount of a resource of a current time section.

Abstract: A home appliance and a washing or drying apparatus according to the present invention include a photo-etched member, a transparent member affixed to the entire surface of the photo-etched member, and an adhesive member to attach the transparent member and the photo-etched member to each other. The adhesive member has various colors and is arranged such that the adhesive member is formed at a portion of the photo-etched member. Accordingly, a pattern can be decorated in various colors.

Abstract: An ice making apparatus for a refrigerator, in which an ice bank stores ice and has an opening that discharges ice on its one side. An ejector opens and closes the opening and is rotatably provided at the opening to also eject ice from the ice bank. After completion of an ice discharging operation, a sensor senses a relative position of the ejector against the ice bank and the ejector is controlled to close the opening to the extent necessary.

Abstract: An ice-making device includes a duct through which ice is dispensed and a duct-covering part opening and closing the duct. A sensor part senses whether the duct-covering part closes the duct and a control part controls the duct-covering part to open the duct when the sensor part senses that the duct-covering part fails to close the duct and the duct-covering part has been attempting to close the duct for at least a preset period of time.

Abstract: An ice-making device includes a duct through which ice is dispensed and a duct-covering part opening and closing the duct. When an operation load applied to the duct-covering part while the duct-covering part closes the duct is greater than a preset normal load, the duct-covering part operates to open the duct.

Abstract: An ice-making device that includes a duct through which ice is dispensed and a duct-covering part for opening and closing the duct. An ice conveying part conveys the ice dispensed through the duct. A driving speed of the ice conveying part increases for a previously set initial driving time when the dispensing of the ice starts, and the ice conveying part is driven at a previously set target speed when the initial driving time elapses.

Abstract: An outer rotor-type fan motor and a method for magnetizing a magnet applied thereto. The outer rotor-type fan motor comprises a rotation shaft; a stator disposed outside the rotation shaft; a fan having a hub and blades formed on the hub, the hub covering the stator with a predetermined gap; and a magnet disposed on an inner surface of the hub and spaced from the stator with a predetermined gap, wherein the magnet is an isotropic magnet magnetized to have a pole anisotropy. Accordingly, a cogging torque and noise are reduced without reducing a back-electromotive force, thereby obtaining a high efficiency.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling driving of a fan motor for a refrigerator are disclosed. When operated, a plurality of fan motors provided in a refrigerator are sequentially operated at certain delay times, to thus improve operation efficiency of the plurality of fan motors. The apparatus for controlling driving of a fan motor includes: at least one blowing unit that supplies cool air; a driving unit that generates a drive signal for driving the blowing unit; a control unit that controls operation of the driving unit; a power unit that provides operation power of the driving unit and the control unit; and a cut-off unit that is positioned between the driving unit and the power unit and cuts off noise and a surge voltage introduced from the power unit to the driving unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a scanning display apparatus using a laser beam source. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the scanning display apparatus can include a lighting optical system, configured to use a laser device as a light source, the laser device outputting a plurality of beams having different wavelengths that are recognized as an identical color; an optical modulator, configured to output a modulation beam by diffracting a beam transferred from the lighting optical system; a diffuser, placed on an optical path of the modulation beam outputted from the optical modulator and configured to expand a width of the modulation beam through a diffraction grating pattern formed on one surface of the diffuser; and a scanning mirror, configured to scan the modulation beam having passed through the diffuser on a screen.

Abstract: A tilt mirror is disclosed. The tilt mirror can include: a reflection portion, which may reflect incident light; a first cantilever, which may be formed on either end of the reflection portion, and which may generate a stress in one direction; a second cantilever, which may be formed on either end of the reflection portion beside the first cantilever, and which may generate a stress in the other direction; and a connector portion, which may connect the reflection portion with one end of the first cantilever and with one end of the second cantilever such that the stress generated in the one direction and the stress generated in the other direction are transferred to the reflection portion. The tilt mirror provides a simple composition that can be utilized to alter the path for rays of light.

Abstract: Disclosed is a diffractive micromirror and a method of producing the same. More particularly, the present invention pertains to a diffractive thin-film piezoelectric micromirror, which is operated in a piezoelectric operation manner to assure excellent displacement, operation speed, reliability, linearity, and low voltage operation, and a method of producing the same. The diffractive thin-film piezoelectric micromirror includes a silicon substrate on which a recess is formed to provide an air space to the center thereof, and a piezoelectric mirror layer having a band shape, which is attached to the silicon substrate along both ends of the recess at both ends thereof while being spaced from the bottom of the recess at a center portion thereof and which includes a thin-film piezoelectric material layer to be vertically movable when voltage is applied to the piezoelectric material layer, and thus diffracts an incident light beam.

Abstract: A hybrid induction motor includes a motor casing; a rotational shaft rotatably coupled with the motor casing; an induction rotor rotated by being integrally coupled with the rotational shaft and having a rotor core and a conductor bar inserted in the rotor core; a stator having a hollow into which the induction rotor is inserted and installed with a certain length in a direction of the rotational shaft; a first magnetic rotor inserted between the stator and the induction rotor and coupled with the rotational shaft so as to be freely rotatable; a second magnetic rotor inserted between the stator and the induction rotor so as to be symmetrical with the first magnetic rotor and coupled with the rotational shaft so as to be freely rotatable; and a magnetic spacer inserted between the first and second magnetic rotors.

Abstract: A motor having a reverse-rotation preventing unit, comprises: a casing; a stator fixedly-coupled to an inside of the casing; a primary rotor rotatably inserted into the stator; a motor shaft coupled to the primary rotor; a secondary rotor having a permanent magnet and rotatably inserted into an air gap between the stator and the primary rotor; a locking unit installed at an inner wall of the casing; a ratchet unit rotatably coupled to the secondary rotor, and locked or unlocked to/from the locking unit when the secondary rotor is forward-rotated or reverse-rotated, for rotating the secondary rotor in a forward direction; and a position setting unit for moving the ratchet unit to a locking position or a unlocking position by a difference between a centrifugal force generated when the secondary rotor is rotated and its restoration force. In the present invention, the motor is only forward-rotated without being reverse-rotated and thus a reliability thereof is enhanced.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the position of the mirror of a diffractive light modulator and performing positional compensation, and a method of controlling the apparatus. A position measurement unit measures the position of a mirror of the diffractive light modulator. A control unit calculates the value of displacement from a reference position by evaluating a position value calculated by the position measurement unit, calculates a compensation value and outputs a compensation control signal. A compensation and actuation unit performs compensation on a drive voltage in response to the compensation control signal, and actuates the mirror of the diffractive light modulator using the compensated drive voltage.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for driving a piezoelectric element or an optical modulator including a piezoelectric element and a recorded medium recorded with a program for executing the same. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the method for driving a piezoelectric element causing a displacement object to be displaced by being contracted or expanded according to a supplied driving voltage, including supplying a driving signal to the piezoelectric element during a first driving period in a first voltage range; supplying a control signal for controlling a polarization hysteresis of the piezoelectric element according to a driving, performed during the first driving period, to the piezoelectric element; and supplying the driving signal to the piezoelectric element during a second driving period in a second voltage range.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for calibrating the displacement of reflective parts in a diffractive optical modulator. The apparatus includes a diffractive optical modulator, a light intensity measurement unit, a projection unit, and display electronics. The light intensity measurement unit is disposed near one side of the diffractive optical modulator and measures and outputs the intensity of incident linear diffracted light having a predetermined diffraction order.