Abstract: A method of manufacturing an inkjet printhead includes forming a chamber layer having multiple ink chambers on a substrate. A sacrificial layer is formed and is configured to fill a space associated with the ink chambers on the chamber layer. A nozzle layer is formed on the top surfaces of the chamber layer and the sacrificial layer and having multiple nozzles. An etching mask is prepared on the bottom surface of the substrate. The etching mask has at least one linear etching pattern configured to define a portion of the substrate in which an ink feed hole is to be formed. The substrate is etched through the linear etching pattern until the sacrificial layer is exposed and a through hole is formed. The through hole defines the portion of the substrate in which the ink feed hole is to be formed. The sacrificial layer and the portion of the substrate surrounded by the through hole are removed to form the ink feed hole.

Abstract: Disclosed are an ink ejecting device and a method of manufacturing the same. The disclosed ink ejecting device includes an inkjet head including a substrate, which includes an ink feed hole, a plurality of via holes, which are formed in the rear surface of the substrate, and which expose the ink feed holes therethtough, a chamber layer stacked on the substrate, and a nozzle layer stacked on the chamber layer, and includes a base header, which is attached to the inkjet head and includes a plurality of ink supply slots having a corresponding arrangement with respect to the via holes.

Abstract: A system and method for positioning a portion of an object to be measured includes installing a digital camera adjacent to a charge coupled device (CCD) lens of an image measuring machine, setting positioning parameters corresponding to different positions of the digital camera on a Z-axis of a world coordinate system, receiving an image of the object captured by the digital camera, and selecting corresponding positioning parameters according to a position of the digital camera. The method further includes selecting a point of the portion of the object in the image, calculating coordinates of the selected point in a plane of the CCD lens, and controlling the CCD lens to move to the calculated coordinates so as to position the CCD lens on the portion of the object.

Abstract: A platform comprising: a base; a first platform unit rotatably mounted to the base and being rotatable about a first axis relative to the base; a second platform unit rotatably mounted to the first platform unit and be rotatable about a second axis relative to the first platform unit; and a flexible transmitting device connected between the base and the first platform unit and/or the first platform unit and the second platform unit for transmitting power and/or data. The flexible transmitting device is arranged to wind about the first axis when the first platform unit is rotated about the first axis and/or wind about the second axis when the second platform unit is rotated about the second axis.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit to transfer a toner to a printing medium, and a waste toner recovery unit to convey a waste toner recovered from the transfer unit. A first driving source for driving the transfer unit is configured independently of a second driving source for driving the waste toner recovery unit, so that deterioration in the quality of image caused by the waste toner recovery unit can be minimized.

Abstract: A song writing method and apparatus using a touch screen in a mobile terminal are disclosed. The song writing method includes: displaying, upon activation of a song writing mode, an onscreen musical keyboard of an octave on the touch screen; identifying, when a key of the onscreen musical keyboard is touched, a musical note mapped to the touched key through computation of coordinates of the touched key; creating musical interval data on the basis of the identified note and the current octave level; and converting the musical interval data into sound data recognizable by the mobile terminal and outputting the sound data. Hence, various types of songs can be conveniently composed through the song writing method employing the onscreen musical keyboard. The applicability of the mobile terminal can be extended through a function that can mix a written song with contents generated through various musical instruments.

Abstract: An optical article includes a light-transmissive substrate and Ti/Sn-containing nanoparticles. The nanoparticles include one or more Ti-rich phases and one or more Sn-rich phases and the phases are arranged in the form of a layered-structure, a network-structure of each other interconnected phases and/or an isolated-structure. Methods of preparing the optical article includes providing Ti/Sn-containing nanoparticles, mixing a curable light-transmissive liquid resin with the Ti/Sn-containing nanoparticles; and curing the liquid resin to form an optical article.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hard disk drive includes measuring an imbalance value including an imbalance position with respect to a rotation center of a rotation shaft of the hub, with respect to each of a plurality of disks installed on a hub of a spindle motor to rotate the disks, allowing different imbalance positions of the disks to approach each other in a circumferential direction by applying an impact to the hard disk drive, and correcting the imbalance value by applying an impact to the hard disk drive in a direction opposite to the imbalance positions of the disks approaching each other with respect to the rotation shaft of the hub, to move the imbalance positions of the disks approaching each other in a radial direction of the disks with respect to the rotation center of the rotation shaft of the hub.

Abstract: Disclosed are molded ultra-thin semiconductor die packages, systems that incorporate such packages, and methods of making such packages. An exemplary package comprises a leadframe having an aperture formed between the leadframe's first and second surfaces, and a plurality of leads disposed adjacent to the aperture. The package further comprises a semiconductor disposed in the aperture of the leadframe with its top surface substantially flush with the leadframe's first surface, and at least one gap between at least one side surface of the semiconductor die and at least one lead of the leadframe. A body of electrically insulating material is disposed in the at least one gap. A plurality of conductive members interconnect leads of the leadframe with conductive regions on the die's top surface, with at least one conductive member having a portion disposed over at least a portion of the body of insulating material.

Abstract: A filter tuning circuit for a wireless communication system is provided. A filter tuning circuit includes a comparator and a counter which control a transconvertance value of a differential transconverter to tune a filter.

Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses for making carbon nanotube (CNT) papers are provided. In one embodiment, a method for making a CNT paper may include disposing a structure having an edge portion including a relatively sharp edge into a CNT colloidal solution and withdrawing the structure from the CNT colloidal solution.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for processing data and a recording media recorded with a program realizing the same. The method for processing bitmap data for driving an inkjet head in which nozzle rows are spaced from one another in a scan direction, each of the nozzle rows consisting of a plurality of nozzles disposed on the same straight line, the method including: converting a distance by which a second nozzle row is spaced from a first nozzle row in the scan direction into a pixel count of the bitmap data; and compensating the bitmap data for driving the second nozzle row by as much as the pixel count.

Abstract: A battery management system (BMS) includes at least one sub-BMS and a main BMS. The at least one sub-BMS measures information about a battery, and generates an activation signal according to operating state. The main BMS receives the activation signal and determines the operating state of the at least two sub-BMSs. If the at least two sub-BMSs normally operate, the main BMS generates a synchronization signal and transfers the same to the sub-BMSs. The at least one sub-BMS measures the information about the battery according to the synchronization signal.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a first active region and a second active region, providing a semiconductor substrate having a first region and a second region, forming a high-k dielectric layer over the semiconductor substrate, forming a first capping layer and a second capping layer over the high-k dielectric layer, the first capping layer overlying the first region and the second capping layer overlying the second region, forming a layer containing silicon (Si) over the first and second capping layers, forming a metal layer over the layer containing Si, and forming a first gate stack over the first region and a second gate stack over the second active region.

Abstract: In a key scanning circuit, a key input unit has a parallel connection of a plurality of circuits having a series connection of resistors and switches between a power supply input terminal and a key scanning terminal. The resistors connected in parallel have different resistances. A current mirror has a first terminal connected to the key scanning terminal. A reference current source is connected between a second terminal of the current mirror and the power supply input terminal.

Abstract: Techniques for forming a nanostructure on a probe tip are provided.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate having a display region and a driver region; a gate line and a data line crossing each other to define a pixel region in the display region, the pixel region having a pixel electrode; an insulation layer between the gate line and the data line; a first thin film transistor in the display region; and a second thin film transistor having a first polarity and a third thin film transistor having a second polarity in the driver region, wherein the pixel electrode, the gate line and the gate electrodes of the first to third thin film transistors have a double-layer structure in which a metal layer is formed on a transparent conductive layer, and the transparent conductive layer of the pixel electrode is exposed through a transmission hole passing through the insulation layer and the metal layer in the pixel region.

Abstract: A method of resetting a trellis-coded modulation (TCM) encoder to a known state, the TCM encoder including a reset input that resets the TCM encoder to the known state when held at a reset level for a plurality of symbol clock cycles, the method including identifying an event to occur in the future that requires the TCM encoder to be reset to the known state; and holding the reset input of the TCM encoder at the reset level beginning the plurality of clock symbol cycles before a time the event will occur so that the TCM encoder will be reset to the known state immediately before the event occurs.

Abstract: A flip chip molded leadless package (MLP) with electrical paths printed in conducting ink. The MLP includes a pre-molded leadframe with the electrical paths printed directly thereon. The present invention also provides a method of fabricating the semiconductor package.

Abstract: A stage by stage delay current-summing slew rate controller includes a delay controller, a delay cell array, a current source array, a switch array, a load. The delay cell array includes N delay cells, the switch array includes N switches, and the switch includes N current sources, wherein N>1. The delay controller is connected with the control ports of the delay cells respectively, and the delay cells are connected with the control terminal of the switches respectively. One of the connecting terminals of the switch is connected with the output end of the current source, and the other end of the connecting terminals of the switch is connected with one end of the load, and the other end of the load is connected to the ground.