Abstract: A distillation unit includes a shell, a heat exchanger disposed inside the shell, and a supporting portion that is disposed inside the shell and receives the heat exchanger. The shell has a cylindrical shape, extends in an axial direction, and includes an opening part that extends in the axial direction. The heat exchanger includes a heat exchange piping, which includes pipes that have horizontal spiral shape and are arranged with respect to each other in a vertical direction relative to a longitudinal direction of the shell. The supporting portion has a plate shape and extends in a direction that intersects the axial direction. The heat exchange piping is disposed along the supporting portion in the axial direction.

Abstract: A laundry processing device performs a control method. The laundry processing device includes a washing tub, a distillation tank that stores liquid carbon dioxide discharged from the washing tub and gaseous carbon dioxide, a storage tank that stores liquid carbon dioxide generated by cooling gaseous carbon dioxide of the distillation tank and that stores gaseous carbon dioxide evaporated from the cooled liquid carbon dioxide, a compressor that suctions and discharges at least one of the gaseous carbon dioxide of the distillation tank or the gaseous carbon dioxide of the storage tank, a cooler that cools gaseous carbon dioxide discharged from the compressor, and a controller that monitors gas pressures inside the distillation tank and the storage tank.

Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus includes a 2-tank structure including a distillation tank and a washing tub. The laundry treating apparatus includes the washing tub that defines an inner space configured to receive laundry, the distillation tank configured to store liquid carbon dioxide, a compressor configured to receive gaseous carbon dioxide evaporated from the liquid carbon dioxide in the distillation tank, the compressor being configured to discharge the gaseous carbon dioxide, a cooler configured to cool the gaseous carbon dioxide discharged from the compressor and to supply the liquid carbon dioxide to the washing tub, and a controller configured to perform a control method. In some cases, a laundry treating apparatus includes a 3-tank structure including a storage tank, a washing tub, and a distillation tank.

Abstract: Disclosed are a dryer and an operating method therefor that are useful in a 5G environment provided for the Internet of Things. The dryer of the disclosure includes a tumbler, a fan connected to the exit of the tumbler, a heat exchanger disposed in a flow line of a working fluid connected to the exit of the fan, a compressor having an entrance connected to a flow line connected to the exit of the fan and an exit connected to the entrance of the heat exchanger, and a steam generator having an exit connected to the entrance of the compressor.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dryer operating method that is useful in a 5G environment provided for the Internet of Things. The dryer of the disclosure includes a heating device, a tumbler connected to the exit of the heating device, a fan connected to the exit of the tumbler, a heat exchanger disposed in a flow line of a working fluid connected to the exit of the fan, and a compressor having an entrance connected to the flow line connected to the exit of the fan and an exit connected to the entrance of the heat exchanger. The method of the disclosure includes heating the working fluid using the heating device, reducing the pressure in the tumbler by discharging a portion of the working fluid in a circulation line to outside using the compressor, drying an object to be dried received in the tumbler, and cooling the object to be dried.

Abstract: Disclosed are a dryer and an operation method thereof that are useful in a 5G environment provided for the Internet of Things. The dryer of the disclosure includes a heating device, a tumbler having an entrance connected to the heating device, a fan provided so as to be connected to the exit of the tumbler, a heat exchanger disposed in a flow line of a working fluid connected to the exit of the fan, a compressor having an entrance connected to a circulation line of the working fluid connected to the exit of the fan and an exit connected to the entrance of the heat exchanger, and a first cleaning unit connected to the entrance of the heat exchanger and to the exit of the heat exchanger.

Abstract: Disclosed are a dryer and an operating method therefor that are useful in a 5G environment provided for the Internet of Things. The dryer of the disclosure includes a heating device, a tumbler connected to the exit of the heating device, a fan connected to the exit of the tumbler, a heat exchanger disposed in a flow line of a working fluid connected to the exit of the fan, a compressor having an entrance connected to a flow line connected to the exit of the fan and an exit connected to the entrance of the heat exchanger, and a regeneration device having an entrance connected to the exit of the heat exchanger.

Abstract: A unit light source module configured as a 3D display system includes a light emitting unit including a plurality of point light sources corresponding to a number of viewpoints and a light collecting unit disposed a predetermined distance apart from the light emitting unit and collecting and outputting the light source outputted from the plurality of point light sources.

Abstract: Disclosed are a backwashing fluid discharge apparatus and a filter unit. The backwashing fluid discharge apparatus includes a plurality of drainage members installed so as to be located within a filter member in order to discharge backwash fluid moved to an inside of the filter member, and the drainage members have different diameters so as to form a plurality of inlet holes for introduction of the backwash fluid, and the drainage members have different lengths such that the inlet holes are located at different heights.

Abstract: Disclosed is a filter device. The filter device includes a filter housing including an inflow port, through which ballast water flows in, and an outflow port through which the ballast water flows out, a plurality of filter members provided in the filter housing to filter out a foreign substance included in the ballast water, and a backwashing unit coupled to at least one of the plurality of filter members to filter out the foreign substance by using a difference internal pressure and atmospheric pressure. The backwashing unit is provided for the ballast water to flow in so that when it is required for the backwashing unit to remove the foreign substance, at least one of the plurality of filter members coupled to the backwashing unit filters out the foreign substance included in the ballast water.

Abstract: A defrosting apparatus includes: an evaporator; a defrosting heater removing frost formed on the evaporator; and a controller controlling the defrosting heater until defrosting for the evaporator is completed when a driving start command for the defrosting apparatus is input, wherein the controller controls the defrosting heater to have an idle section in which the defrosting heater is not operated between a point in time in which the driving start command is input and a point in time in which the defrosting is completed.

Abstract: A unit light source module configured as a 3D display system includes a light emitting unit including a plurality of point light sources corresponding to a number of viewpoints and a light collecting unit disposed a predetermined distance apart from the light emitting unit and collecting and outputting the light source outputted from the plurality of point light sources.

Abstract: Disclosed is a filter device. The filter device includes a filter housing including an inflow port through which water flows in and an outflow port through which the water flowed in through the inflow port flows out, a plurality of filter members installed in the filter housing, an inflow unit installed in the filter housing and provided in each of both sides of each of the plurality of filter members for the water flowed in from the inflow port to be supplied to a plurality of openings respectively provided in the both sides of each of the plurality of filter members, and a backwashing unit coupled to both sides of at least one of the plurality of filter members for foreign substances filtered out by the plurality of filter members to be backwashed from the plurality of filter members. The plurality of filter members each has a hollow form to filter the water flowed in from the inflow port.

Abstract: Disclosed is a filter device. The filter device includes a filter housing including an inflow port, through which ballast water flows in, and an outflow port through which the ballast water flows out, a plurality of filter members provided in the filter housing to filter out a foreign substance included in the ballast water, and a backwashing unit coupled to at least one of the plurality of filter members to filter out the foreign substance by using a difference internal pressure and atmospheric pressure. The backwashing unit is provided for the ballast water to flow in so that when it is required for the backwashing unit to remove the foreign substance, at least one of the plurality of filter members coupled to the backwashing unit filters out the foreign substance included in the ballast water.

Abstract: Disclosed are a backwashing fluid discharge apparatus and a filter unit. The backwashing fluid discharge apparatus includes a plurality of drainage members installed so as to be located within a filter member in order to discharge backwash fluid moved to an inside of the filter member, and the drainage members have different diameters so as to form a plurality of inlet holes for introduction of the backwash fluid, and the drainage members have different lengths such that the inlet holes are located at different heights.

Abstract: A defrosting apparatus includes: an evaporator; a defrosting heater removing frost formed on the evaporator; and a controller controlling the defrosting heater until defrosting for the evaporator is completed when a driving start command for the defrosting apparatus is input, wherein the controller controls the defrosting heater to have an idle section in which the defrosting heater is not operated between a point in time in which the driving start command is input and a point in time in which the defrosting is completed.

Abstract: A refrigerator is disclosed. The refrigerator includes a refrigerator body having a storage chamber defined therein, a refrigeration cycle device for cooling the storage chamber, a chilling case for receiving a beverage container such that the chilling case surrounds the beverage container in a contact manner, and a rapid cooling device, having a case receiving part for receiving the chilling case, for cooling a coolant using the refrigeration cycle device and spraying the cooled coolant to an outside of the chilling case in a vicinity of the chilling case. A beverage is cooled in a state in which the beverage container is not in direct contact with the coolant, whereby the coolant is not present at the outside of the beverage container, and therefore, the beverage container is kept sanitary.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for treating ballast water using an electrolysis method so as to prevent ship explosions, and to a method for controlling the prevention of ship explosions using same. The device for treating ballast water using an electrolysis method is installed in a ship, wherein the apparatus comprises: a partition wall for separating an explosion danger zone in which a ballast tank is installed, and a safety zone in which the apparatus for treating ballast water is installed; a chlorine-injection tube linearly passing through said partition wall so as to connect the apparatus for treating ballast water to the ballast tank; and a compressor installed in said chlorine-injection tube so as to maintain a positive pressure in said chlorine-injection tube by transferring water into said chlorine-injection tube, even when an operation using the chlorine-injection tube is stopped.

Abstract: A refrigerator is disclosed. The refrigerator includes a refrigerator body having a storage chamber defined therein, a refrigeration cycle device for cooling the storage chamber, a coolant cooler, having a coolant channel for allowing a coolant to pass therethrough, for performing heat exchange between the coolant and a refrigerant of the refrigeration cycle device to cool the coolant, a coolant supply channel for guiding the coolant cooled by the coolant cooler, a rapid cooling body, in which a beverage container receiving part is defined, having a plurality of spray holes for spraying the coolant supplied through the coolant supply channel to the outside of a beverage container, a coolant collection channel for guiding the coolant discharged from the rapid cooling body to the coolant cooler, and a circulation pump mounted on the coolant supply channel and/or the coolant collection channel for circulating the coolant.

Abstract: A refrigerator and an operating method thereof are disclosed. The refrigerator includes a refrigerator body having a storage chamber defined therein, a refrigeration cycle device for cooling the storage chamber, a thawing box mounted in the storage chamber, the thawing box having a plurality of air jet holes formed therethrough, a thawing heater mounted in the thawing box for heating a stored object in the thawing box, and a blower mounted at the thawing box for introducing cool air from the storage chamber into the thawing box through the air jet holes such that the stored object is cooled by the air and discharging the air out of the thawing box. The thawing box, the thawing heater, and the blower perform not only a thawing function but also a rapid cooling function, thereby manufacturing the refrigerator in a simple structure at low costs and improving spatial utilization of the storage chamber.