Abstract: Disclosed is a washing machine having an improved structure so as to enable noise reduction. The disclosed washing machine comprises: a main body; a drum rotatably disposed inside the main body; and a detergent supply device provided in the main body and supplying detergent into the drum, wherein the detergent supply device includes: a housing; a detergent container containing the detergent and movably coupled to the housing; and a water supply frame having an inflow hole through which water supplied from the outside flows in, and a flow velocity mitigation part provided at the lower side of the inflow hole so as to mitigate the flow velocity of the water.

Abstract: Provided is a laundry treating apparatus including a cabinet, a laundry care device movably provided inside the cabinet, wherein the laundry care device includes a jetting unit configured to jet air to the laundry, and a suction unit into which air jetted by the jetting unit, after passing through the laundry, is suctioned. Inside of the laundry treating apparatus is kept pleasant and laundry care efficiency is enhanced.

Abstract: A composite casting system for manufacturing a heterogeneous material casting product may include a fixed mold; a movable mold for opening or closing one side of the fixed mold; a slide core pin provided inside the fixed mold or the movable mold, and capable of being protruded to a cavity side, which is formed by a combination of the fixed mold and the movable mold, from the inside of the fixed mold or the movable mold; a high-pressure casting device for injecting high-pressure casting molten metal into the cavity; and a gravity casting device for injecting gravity casting molten metal through a gravity casting hole formed on the fixed mold or the movable mold.

Abstract: Proposed is an iridium alloy catalyst having reversible catalytic activity for an oxygen evolution reaction (OER), a hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), and a hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) by including an iridium alloy including iridium (Ir) and nickel (Ni). The iridium alloy catalyst according to the present disclosure is rapidly converted to an iridium alloy catalyst in an oxide form and an iridium alloy catalyst in a metallic form according to applied voltage by controlling its crystallinity. Thus, even in case an oxide layer is formed after the OER, the oxidation layer disappears during the HER and HOR and the properties of an iridium metal catalyst remain, thereby maintaining HER/HOR performance.

Abstract: A semiconductor package and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor package. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a semiconductor package, and method of manufacturing thereof, that comprises a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and comprising at least one first recess portion formed in a direction ranging from the first surface toward the second surface, a plurality of first recess conductive patterns formed in the first recess portion, and a first passive element inserted into the first recess portion of the substrate and having a first electrode and a second electrode electrically connected to the plurality of first recess conductive patterns.

Abstract: A clothes care apparatus comprises a main body including a clothes care compartment, a clothes support member disposed in the clothes care compartment and including an air supply port provided to allow air to flow therein, a blower configured to form an airflow to be supplied to the clothes support member, and a nozzle provided to guide the airflow formed by the blower to the clothes support member, and including an airflow outlet disposed to face the air supply port, the airflow outlet provided to supply an airflow to an inside and an outside of the clothes support member.

Abstract: A method for managing contents shared by a Social Network Service (SNS), executed by a cloud server which is associated with an account of the SNS. It is detected whether a first content has been newly uploaded to the SNS or whether a metadata related to the first content previously uploaded to the SNS has been newly added. A second content corresponding to the first content is searched. The cloud storage is updated by linking context information related to the first content to the second content corresponding to the first content. The cloud server interworks with an account of the SNS of each user's individual to link context information of content shared on the SNS with the content stored in the personal cloud storage, thereby enabling easier update of the cloud storage. A user may easily search for desired contents using the context information.

Abstract: Disclosed is a hydrogen production and storage system using solar energy which converts solar energy into electric energy through a solar panel, operates a water electrolysis reactor using the electric energy to produce hydrogen, and stores the hydrogen at a high pressure in a hydrogen storage tank through a water tank, a pressure control valve, etc.

Abstract: Provided are a photoelectrode for hydrogen generation in solar water splitting and a manufacturing method thereof. The photoelectrode for hydrogen generation in solar water splitting, includes a light absorbing layer including a chalcopyrite compound; and a hydrogen generation catalyst including CuxS (where 0?x?2) which is present on the light absorbing layer, and may be manufactured by using a solution process which enables mass production and produce hydrogen from water using sunlight with high efficiency without using a noble metal element.

Abstract: A washing machine having a bubble generator includes a bubble spray part provided at an upper side of a tub and configured to discharge bubbles from a top to a bottom inside the tub; a wash liquid jet nozzle provided inside the bubble spray part and configured to jet wash liquid; a blowing fan provided in the bubble spray part and configured to blow air in a direction in which the wash liquid jet nozzle jets the wash liquid; and a porous plate member provided at a front end of the bubble spray part and including a plurality of holes, wherein when the wash liquid jetted from the wash liquid jet nozzle collides with the porous plate member, bubbles are generated.

Abstract: Provided is a washing machine capable of improving solubility of a powder detergent that remains without having been dissolved in mixing water contained in a tub. The washing machine includes a cabinet having a detergent supplier, a tub arranged in the cabinet to be connected to the detergent supplier and containing mixing water in which washing water supplied to the detergent supplier and a powder detergent are mixed, a drum rotatably installed in the tub, a circulation hose connecting between the tub and the drum for the mixing water contained in a lower portion of the tub to be circulated, a detergent dissolution device generating vortex current in mixing water circulated through the circulation hose to improve solubility of the powder detergent, and a circulation pump arranged in the circulation hose and configured to repeatedly supply and discharge mixing water to and from the detergent dissolution device through on/off controlling.

Abstract: A semiconductor package and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor package. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a semiconductor package, and method of manufacturing thereof, that comprises shielding on multiple sides thereof.

Abstract: A casting method for forming a fastening part on an inclined plane of a casting may include mounting a plug unit including a casting plug and a screw thread insert combined with the casting plug on a movable mold or a fixed mold; performing casting by moving and combining the movable mold with the fixed mold and injecting a molten metal into a cavity formed between the movable mold and the fixed mold; performing mold opening after the casting; and separating the casting plug from the screw thread insert, wherein when the plug unit is mounted on the mold, the screw thread insert is deployed in the cavity, and a mold plane on which the casting plug is mounted forms an inclined plane having an acute angle against a horizontal plane that is parallel to a movement direction of the movable mold.

Abstract: A method for producing a methanol precursor, methyl trifluoroacetate, having high-purity includes the steps of (a) preparing methyl bisulfate by mixing a catalyst with an acid solution comprising a sulfur-containing acid to provide a first mixture and supplying methane gas to the first mixture to prepare the methyl bisulfate; and (b) preparing methyl trifluoroacetate (CF3CO2CH3) by adding trifluoroacetic acid (CF3CO2H) to the first mixture including the methyl bisulfate to provide a second mixture and distilling the second mixture under heating to prepare, separate and purify the methyl trifluoroacetate (CF3CO2CH3). Methanol may be produced by adding water to the methyl trifluoroacetate (CF3CO2CH3). A methyl ester represented by Formula 2 below may be produced by adding a carboxylic acid represented by Formula 1 below to the methyl trifluoroacetate (CF3CO2CH3): R1CO2H??(1), where R1 is selected from C1-C10 alkyl groups, R1CO2CH3??(2), where R1 is as defined in Formula 1.

Abstract: Disclosed are a polyimide film for a semiconductor package reflow process, and a manufacturing method therefor, the polyimide film being capable of ensuring ease of attachment/detachment of a semiconductor chip after a reflow process is completed, by means of the application of a thermoplastic polyimide layer having a glass transition temperature less than or equal to a reflow process temperature.

Abstract: A washing machine having a bubble generator includes a bubble spray part provided at an upper side of a tub and configured to discharge bubbles from a top to a bottom inside the tub, a wash liquid jet nozzle provided inside the bubble spray part and configured to jet wash liquid; a blowing fan provided in the bubble spray part and configured to blow air in a direction in which the wash liquid jet nozzle jets the wash liquid; and a porous plate member provided at a front end of the bubble spray part and including a plurality of holes, wherein when the wash liquid jetted from the wash liquid jet nozzle collides with the porous plate member, bubbles are generated.

Abstract: A vacuum die casting method may include: coupling a fixed die and a movable die to each other; closing a molten metal pouring hole formed in a sleeve using an injection plunger operated in the sleeve, which is formed on a lower side of the fixed die or the movable die; performing vacuum decompression in a cavity formed between the fixed die and the movable die using a vacuum decompression device connected to chill vent blocks provided on upper portions of the fixed die and the movable die; supplying oxygen in the cavity using an oxygen supply device connected to the chill vent blocks after completing the step of performing vacuum decompression; and supplying a molten metal to the cavity through the molten metal pouring hole.

Abstract: A sulfur dioxide absorbent that is an ionic liquid including a solvent; and a salt of a diamine compound that is substituted with a hydroxyl group and has a chemical formula 1 to 3 below dissolved in the solvent: where, in Chemical Formula 1 and 2, R1-R4 are the same or different and each is independently selected from the group consisting of H, a C1-C6 alkyl, and a C1-C6 alkoxy; and where, in Chemical Formula 1 to 3, X is selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, I, MeSO3, CF3SO3, HCO2, CF3CO2 and CH3CO2; and n is an integer of 1-10. The sulfur dioxide absorbent is constituted to selectively absorb sulfur dioxide and sulfurous acid (H2SO3) formed by combination of sulfur dioxide with water, not CO2.

Abstract: A semiconductor package using a polymer substrate is disclosed and may include a polymer cavity structure comprising first metal traces, a micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) device and a semiconductor die bonded to a first surface within a cavity of the cavity structure, and a substrate coupled to the cavity structure and comprising second metal traces coupled to the first metal traces. The substrate may enclose the MEMS device and the semiconductor die. Ground traces may be on external surfaces of the polymer cavity structure. Ball lands may be on a surface of the substrate opposite to a surface with the second metal traces. The first metal traces may extend from the first surface of the polymer cavity structure up a sidewall of the cavity and to conductive patterns on a top surface of the polymer cavity structure.

Abstract: In a synchronization system including a local terminal, latest metadata of a file in a local storage and latest metadata of a file in the server storage are managed in a first tree database, which is a virtual database in a local terminal, and each of the local terminals is allowed to upload or download a changed file on the basis of the metadata in the first tree database so that a conflict that may occur due to multiple users simultaneously changing files can be minimized.