Abstract: A padded receiving device for nail care devices comprising a pad, a pad holder with a pad, or a padded base engaging case, individually or in any combination with each other. The pad holder for supporting the pad has a front slit and an optional rear slit. The pad holder has a top member and a bottom member molded or attached together. A hook from a rear end of the bottom member attaches the pad holder to the nail care device. The pad has a top piece and a bottom piece joined together by a center piece. The center piece situates at an opening bored on the nail care device. The padded receiving device may consist of the pad independent of the pad holder. If the nail care device has a base, the padded receiving device further comprise a padded base engaging case.

Abstract: Integrated circuit field effect transistors include an integrated circuit substrate and a fin that projects away from the integrated circuit substrate, extends along the integrated circuit substrate, and includes a top that is remote from the integrated circuit substrate. A channel region is provided in the fin that is doped a conductivity type and has a higher doping concentration of the conductivity type adjacent the top than remote from the top. A source region and a drain region are provided in the fin on opposite sides of the channel region, and an insulated gate electrode extends across the fin adjacent the channel region.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a transistor device includes forming a non-crystalline germanium layer on a seed layer. The non-crystalline germanium layer is selectively locally heated to about a melting point thereof to form a single-crystalline germanium layer on the seed layer. The non-crystalline germanium layer may be selectively locally heated, for example, by applying a laser to a portion of the non-crystalline germanium layer. Related devices are also discussed.

Abstract: A cleaning unit and an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including the cleaning unit that prevents a cleaning blade from overturning is disclosed. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning blade that contacts an outer circumference of an object to be cleaned with a predetermined pressure, and thus removes material remaining on the outer circumference of the object while the object is rotating. A bracket is connected to one side of the cleaning blade and supports the cleaning blade. A support frame is connected to the other side of the cleaning blade (that is, a side opposite to the side where the bracket is connected), and is placed close to the object to be clean. The support frame prevents the cleaning blade from being bent in a rotation direction of the object.

Abstract: A disc recording/reproducing apparatus including a main frame; a tray, mounted to reciprocate on the main frame, having a disc loading part at an upper surface thereof to mount a disc cartridge or a bare disc; a shutter opening/closing unit mounted to the main frame to expose and cover an opening of the disc cartridge according to the reciprocation of the tray; and a cam unit to guide an opening/closing operation part toward the disc loading part when the disc cartridge is loaded on the tray, and to release the guide of the opening/closing operation when the bare disc is loaded on the tray. Alternatively, the disc recording/reproducing apparatus may include a shifting unit to move the opening/closing operation unit toward the disc loading part when the disc cartridge is loaded on the tray, and to separate the opening/closing unit from the disc loading unit when the bare disc is loaded on the tray.

Abstract: A compact high-density optical disc capable of securing recording/reproducing characteristics and high-density recording capacity. The high-density optical disc has a whole diameter of 80 mm or less to 28 mm, a whole thickness in a range of 0.3–0.7 mm, and a position where data starts being recorded in a range of 27–45 mm of the diameter. Thus, an existing disc drive can be used, the size of the high-density optical disc can be reduced, and high-density recording capacity can be secured.

Abstract: A disc recording/reproducing apparatus includes a main frame, a disc cartridge including a case with an opening on a bottom thereof to expose a disc-type recording medium and a window on a sidewall thereof, a shutter mounted in the case to expose and cover the opening, a rotary wheel operating in association with the shutter, and a latch unit formed at one side of the case to control rotation of the rotary wheel, a tray mounting the disc cartridge and moving with respect to the main frame, a shutter opening/closing unit connected to one side of the main frame, a rack member of a cantilever type contacting with the rotary wheel, and first and second connection ribs connected to a static part of the shutter opening/closing unit, and a cam guiding the rack member distanced in relation to or from the latch unit, during shutter opening/closing operations.

Abstract: A disc cartridge includes a case accommodating a disc and having an aperture hole formed on a first surface of the case so that a recording/reproducing apparatus access a recording surface of the disc, and an open hole formed on a second surface to be open to an outside of the case, a shutter opening/shutting the aperture hole and installed in the case, a disc holder installed at a side defining the open hole to move up and down and covering a gap between an outer circumference of the disc and an inner surface of the side defining the open hole when the disc holder descends, and a shutter driving mechanism moving the shutter so that the aperture hole is open/shut. Thus, a passage through which dust is introduced toward an information area of the disc, and a gap formed at an outer circumference are blocked by the disc holder so that a possibility of contamination by dust can be reduced.

Abstract: A disk cartridge includes a case to accommodate a disk, and a shutter installed in the case to move under the disk, and to selectively open/shut an opening hole formed in the case. The disk cartridge includes a support portion to protrude from the shutter to support a non-information area of the disk. Thus, since the shutter contacts only the non-information area of the disk, the information area of the disk is protected during an operation of the shutter to open and shut the opening hole.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor fin construction useful in FinFET devices that incorporates an upper region and a lower region with wherein the upper region is formed with substantially vertical sidewalls and the lower region is formed with inclined sidewalls to produce a wider base portion. The disclosed semiconductor fin construction will also typically include a horizontal step region at the interface between the upper region and the lower region. Also disclosed are a series of methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices incorporating semiconductor fins having this dual construction and incorporating various combinations of insulating materials such as silicon dioxide and/or silicon nitride for forming shallow trench isolation (STI) structures between adjacent semiconductor fins.

Abstract: Provided are improved methods for forming silicon films, particularly single-crystal silicon films from amorphous silicon films in which a single-crystal silicon substrate is prepared by removing any native oxide, typically using an aqueous HF solution, and placed in a reaction chamber. The substrate is then heated from about 350° C. to a first deposition temperature under a first ambient to induce single-crystal epitaxial silicon deposition primarily on exposed silicon surfaces. The substrate is then heated to a second deposition temperature under a second ambient that will maintain the single-crystal epitaxial silicon deposition on exposed single-crystal silicon while inducing amorphous epitaxial silicon deposition on insulating surfaces. The amorphous epitaxial silicon can then be converted to single-crystal silicon using a solid phase epitaxy process to form a thin, high quality silicon layer.

Abstract: An adaptive interference suppression receiver for a DS/CDMA system includes: input signal generators outputting a part of received signals of receiver antennas that has a coding block's transfer code; adaptive filter blocks filtering a complex signal output from the input signal generators with a tap weight updated based on a constraint MMSE criterion and estimating phase and amplitude components of a specific user channel using the filtering output signal to generate a channel-estimated signal; a signal restorer combining the channel-estimated signal and the filtering output signal and restoring an original signal; a signal selector for selecting known training data signal or the restored signal; and error generators comparing the channel-estimated signal and the filtering output signal and calculating an error between the two signals.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a glycosylated immunoglobulin or a fragment thereof, in which an immunoglobulin variant, comprising one or more amino acid modifications selected from the group consisting of M160N, A195N, T243N, E265N, Y299T, F331T and Q346N, is additionally glycosylated, and a gene encoding the same.

Abstract: Integrated circuit field effect transistors include an integrated circuit substrate and a fin that projects away from the integrated circuit substrate, extends along the integrated circuit substrate, and includes a top that is remote from the integrated circuit substrate. A channel region is provided in the fin that is doped a conductivity type and has a higher doping concentration of the conductivity type adjacent the top than remote from the top. A source region and a drain region are provided in the fin on opposite sides of the channel region, and an insulated gate electrode extends across the fin adjacent the channel region. Related fabrication methods also are described.

Abstract: A disk cartridge includes a lower case having an opening formed thereon, an upper case installed at the lower case to be capable of being open and shut while pivoting, to accommodate a disk therebetween, a shutter installed at the lower case to be capable of sliding and opening and shutting the opening hole, a close covering member having an inclined surface installed at the shutter to be capable of sliding, closely contacting a non-information area disposed at an inner circumference of the disk when the shutter is closed, and being separated from the non-information area disposed at the inner circumference of the disk when the shutter is open. Thus, when the shutter is closed, introduction of dust is prevented so that the possibility of the information area of the disk being contaminated is lowered. Also, since the disk is fixed between the upper and lower cases, while the disk is carried, noise and damage can be reduced.

Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes a gate electrode formed on an active region of an integrated circuit device and on a field isolation layer adjacent to the active region. A source region and a drain region are in the active region on alternate sides of the gate electrode. At least one buried insulation layer is beneath the drain region or the source region.

Abstract: A method of forming an integrated circuit can be provided by successively laterally forming single crystalline thin film regions from an amorphous thin film using a lower single crystalline seed layer.

Abstract: A field effect transistor includes a vertical fin-shaped semiconductor active region having an upper surface and a pair of opposing sidewalls on a substrate, and an insulated gate electrode on the upper surface and opposing sidewalls of the fin-shaped active region. The insulated gate electrode includes a capping gate insulation layer having a thickness sufficient to preclude formation of an inversion-layer channel along the upper surface of the fin-shaped active region when the transistor is disposed in a forward on-state mode of operation. Related fabrication methods are also discussed.

Abstract: A color CRT comprising a panel having a substantially flat outer surface and an inner surface having a certain curvature, and a mask having a plurality of electron beam passing holes, wherein an effective surface diagonal size of the panel is not greater than about 534 mm, wherein a central portion transmittance rate is within the range of about 45–75%, wherein the panel satisfies the condition 1.1?(Rxs/Ryc)?4.6, wherein Rxs is defined as an inner curvature radius along an edge of a longer side of the panel, and wherein Ryc is defined as an inner curvature radius along a line in the center of the panel parallel to the shorter side of the panel.

Abstract: A receiving system for estimating symbol timing in a feed-forward manner comprises: a matched filter for receiving baseband signals and dividing them into real and imaginary numbers; a symbol timing estimator for receiving signals from the matched filter and estimating symbol timing using variables; a storage unit for storing the variables and outputting them according to requests of the symbol timing estimator; an interpolator for receiving a symbol timing estimate from the symbol timing estimator, and interpolating symbol-reading timing of the baseband signal; a delayer for delaying the baseband signal input to the interpolator; an RF/IF signal processor for receiving RF signals and performing RF/IF signal processing; and a baseband converter for converting the signal output from the RF/IF signal processor into baseband signals, and outputting them to the matched filter.