Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080217270 | WINE REFRIGERATOR WITH SHELF HAVING ELASTIC SUPPORT MEMBERS - The present invention discloses a shelf of a wine refrigerator including a frame disposed inside a chill room in the horizontal direction, a plurality of support wires formed long inside the frame in the forward and backward directions of the frame at predetermined intervals in the right and left directions of the frame, and a plurality of elastic support members inserted onto each support wire, for elastically supporting wine bottles. | 09-11-2008 |
20080236622 | Control method of dish washing machine - A method for controlling a home appliance is disclosed. The method includes selecting one of a plurality of steam washing modes for washing dishes. Each steam washing mode has a corresponding steam washing pattern. Selecting the number of steam washing pattern cycles for the selected steam washing mode, or selecting the operation time associated with the steam washing pattern that corresponds to the selected steam washing mode. | 10-02-2008 |
20080236623 | Method for controlling dish washing machine - A method for controlling a dish washing machine is disclosed. The disclosed method includes turning off a heater of a steam generator when a water level sensor for the steam generator indicates a minimum water level, supplying water to the steam generator for a first time, to remove air bubbles around the water level sensor, and counting the number of repetition times of the water supplying step when the water level sensor still indicates the minimum water level after the execution of the water supplying step, and again executing the water supplying step, based on the counted value. | 10-02-2008 |
20080236624 | Method for controlling a dish washing machine - A dish washing machine and a control method of the same are disclosed. The control method of a dish washing machine includes supplying water into a washing compartment through spray arms, a first supplying steam, generated by a first steam generator, into the washing compartment, and when the abnormal operation of the steam generator is detected, terminating the operation of the first stem generator. | 10-02-2008 |
20080236625 | Control method of dish washing machine - A method for controlling a dish washing machine having a steam generator is disclosed. The control method includes initially supplying water into a steam generator to supply stream to dishes and deciding a water replenishment pattern during the steam operation of the steam generator, based on the initial amount of the water in the steam generator, before the steam operation of the steam generator. | 10-02-2008 |
20080236636 | Dishwasher - The present invention relates to a dishwasher. A dishwasher includes a washing tub in which dishes are placed, a steam generator that generates steam and a nozzle part in which a flow direction of the steam is diverted at least one time to allow the steam exhausted to the washing tub. | 10-02-2008 |
20080236637 | DISHWASHER AND SOUND-INSULATION MEMBER THEREFOR - A dishwasher is provided which can reduce the discharge of noise produced by the dishwasher, thereby preventing a user from being upset due to the noise and achieving not only a comfortable use environment but also an improvement in productivity. With the dishwasher, it is possible to prevent the noise, caused during operation of the dishwasher, from being discharged from a lower side of a door, by use of a sound-insulation member with a simplified configuration. In the manufacture of the dishwasher, improved assembly productivity can be accomplished. | 10-02-2008 |
20080289654 | Dish washing machine and control method of the same - A dish washing machine and a control method of the same are disclosed. The dish washing machine may include a first heater for heating wash water to wash items in a dishwasher. The dishwasher may also include a second heater for generating steam to be supplied to the dishes. A controller is configured to control the first and second heaters to operate alternately. | 11-27-2008 |
20090019866 | CONTROLLING METHOD OF ICE MAKER - A method of controlling an ice maker is provided that minimizes generation of excess water and reduces energy consumption. The method allows for uniform heat to be generated and distributed throughout the ice tray during an ice separation process. Consequently, the ice separating process may be consistently performed irrespective of the shape of the ice tray and its surroundings, thereby minimizing generation of excess water, and reducing energy consumption. | 01-22-2009 |
20090019880 | ICE MAKER AND CONTROL METHOD OF SAME - An ice maker and a controlling method thereof are provided. The system and method may prevent the overflow or splashing of water or thin ice out of an ice tray during the supply of water or when the ice maker is shaken by an external force. The ice maker may include an ice tray, and an ice tray cover that covers an open portion of the ice tray. The cover may include an opening through which water may be supplied to the ice tray, and through which ice may be discharged from the ice tray. The cover may move together with the tray, or may move separately from the tray, to facilitate these supply and discharge processes. | 01-22-2009 |
20090020681 | ICE TRAY - An ice tray is provided that prevents the overflow or splashing of water or thin ice out of the ice tray as water is supplied to the ice tray, or when the ice tray is shaken by an external force. The ice tray may include a plurality of receiving portions that receive water for freezing into ice pieces. An overflow preventing portion may extend upward from upper edges of the receiving portions to form a barrier to water flowing out of the ice tray. Alternatively, the receiving parts may be positioned within a corresponding plurality of location parts having water proofing walls extending upward therefrom to inhibit the unintentional flow of water or thin ice out of the receiving portions of the ice tray. | 01-22-2009 |
20090049858 | ICE MAKER AND REFRIGERATOR HAVING THE SAME - An ice maker and a refrigerator having the same include an ice making container which is maintained at a temperature higher than a freezing point of water. Ace core rods having the temperature lower than the freezing point are inserted into the ice making container to cause water in the container to freeze. Accordingly, water at the periphery of the ice making container remains liquid which the water surrounding the ice core rods freezes. As a result, air bubbles generated when the ice is made can be discharged from the liquid portions of the water at the outer edges of the container. This results in ice without trapped air bubbles, which allows excellent transparent ice pieces to be formed. In some embodiments, the exterior surfaces of the ice making container are maintained at a temperature lower than the freezing point of water, and thawing rods maintained at the temperature higher than the freezing point of water are inserted into the center portions of the ice making container. In this embodiment, water at the edges of the ice making container are frozen first, while the water surrounding the thawing rods remains liquid. This also allows air bubbles to escape during formation of the ice, which results in transparent ice pieces. | 02-26-2009 |
20090211266 | Method of controlling ice making assembly for refrigerator - Controlling an ice making assembly for a refrigerator such that the ice making assembly produces transparent ice. Transparent ice can be produced even if the space containing the ice making assembly is kept at a temperature lower than 0° C. This is achieved, in part, by maintaining the ice tray at a temperature at or above freezing. | 08-27-2009 |
20090211267 | Ice making assembly for refrigerator and method for controlling the same - An ice making assembly for a refrigerator and a method for controlling the ice making assembly are provided. The ice making assembly and the method of controlling the ice making assembly provides a constant amount of water supply for each ice making cycle regardless of environmental conditions such as the varying water supply pressure of different installation locations. Furthermore, overflowing can be prevented during water supply with the use of a capacitance water level sensor. | 08-27-2009 |
20090211270 | Ice making assembly for refrigerator and method for controlling the same - An ice making assembly for a refrigerator and a method for controlling the ice making assembly. The ice making assembly and the method of controlling the ice making assembly producing transparent ice and capable of preventing water overflow, the freezing of water that has overflowed, and the spilling out of water that has overflowed. | 08-27-2009 |
20090211271 | Ice making assembly for refrigerator and method for controling the same - Ice making assembly for a refrigerator and a method for controlling the ice making assembly. The ice making assembly and method capable of more effectively providing transparent ice. The ice making assembly and method also capable of preventing water overflow. | 08-27-2009 |
20090217678 | Ice-making device for refrigerator and method for controlling the same - An ice-making device for a refrigerator, which is designed to separate ice through a simple process is provided. The ice-making device for a refrigerator includes an ice tray defining an ice-making space, an ice core member that is partly received in the ice-making space to make ice at an end thereof, a driving unit moving and rotating at least one of the ice tray and the ice core member, and a power transmission unit for transferring power from the driving unit to the ice core member. The ice on the ice core member starts being separated in a state where the ice is spaced apart from an outer surface of the ice tray. | 09-03-2009 |
20090217692 | Ice-making device for refrigerator - An ice-making device designed to make and separate ice from an ice tray through a simple process is provided. The ice-making device includes an ice tray defining an ice-making space, a freezing core that is partly received in the ice-making space to make ice at an end thereof, a driving unit moving and rotating the freezing core, and a power transmission unit for transferring power from the driving unit to the freezing core. The power transmission unit including a cam unit rotatably connected to the driving unit and a moving member that moves in vertical and rotational direction by a driving force of a motor transferred by the cam unit. | 09-03-2009 |
20090235681 | Pulse Electrothermal Mold Release Icemaker For Refrigerator Having Interlock Closure And Baffle For Safety - The present document relates to an icemaker having a pulse electrothermal ice release system for separating ice bodies from an ice mold. The pulse electrothermal ice release system operates by applying an electric current through the ice mold through two wires. Safety apparatus for preventing electric shock to users of the icemaker is described. A refrigerator having the icemaker, and an operating method of the icemaker are disclosed. In an embodiment, the safety apparatus interrupts current flow through both wires. | 09-24-2009 |
20090235682 | Pulse Electrothermal Mold Release Icemaker With Safety Baffles For Refrigerator - An icemaker and a refrigerator having an icemaker are discussed. The icemaker has pulse-electrothermal ice release and includes an ice-making tray having several ice forming portions in which water is stored and ice is formed; and a housing surrounding the ice-making tray provided with at least one cold air inlet and/or ice ejection port through which cold air is supplied and ice released along a bent channel. The cold air inlet and/or ice ejection ports are baffled to prevent contact with a user's fingers and thereby reduce the possibility of electric shock. | 09-24-2009 |
20100018226 | APPARATUS FOR ICE-MAKING AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - Ice maker including an ice making container ( | 01-28-2010 |
20100040805 | Antistatic Coating Composition for Polarizer Films and Antistatic Polarizer Film using the Same - Disclosed is a conductive polymer composition for a polarizer film to impart the surface of the polarizer film for liquid crystal displays with antistatic performance. The composition is applied on the surface of the polarizer film without additional surface treatment and is then dried, thereby manufacturing a highly reliable antistatic polarizer film, which has high adhesive strength between the polarizer film and the adhesive layer and also results in no transfer of the adhesive layer of the polarizer film to a glass or transparent polymer substrate when the polarizer film is attached to the substrate and then separated therefrom. | 02-18-2010 |
20100122543 | REFRIGERATOR - A refrigerator includes an ice maker positioned in the refrigerator and configured to make ice. The refrigerator also includes a plate positioned at an open side of the ice making tray and configured to reduce water overflow. The refrigerator further includes a cool air inlet passage configured to allow cool air to be introduced to an area inside of the plate. In addition, the refrigerator includes a cool air outlet passage that is separate from the cool air inlet passage, and configured to allow release of cool air from the area inside of the plate to an exterior of the plate. | 05-20-2010 |
20100122546 | ICE DISPENSING TECHNOLOGY - 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. | 05-20-2010 |
20100122547 | ICE DISPENSING TECHNOLOGY - 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. | 05-20-2010 |
20100122751 | ICE DISPENSING TECHNOLOGY - 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. | 05-20-2010 |
20100131105 | ICE DISPENSING TECHNOLOGY - 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. | 05-27-2010 |
20100139299 | REFRIGERATOR AND FULL ICE LEVEL SENSING APPARATUS THEREOF - A refrigerator and an ice level sensing apparatus are provided. The refrigerator may include a main body, and an ice level sensing apparatus including an optical element for sending or receiving a signal, and an alignment device for aligning and maintaining alignment of the optical element in a preset direction. The sensing apparatus may sense whether an ice storage container in which ice cubes made by an ice maker is at a full ice level. The optical element may be aligned at a preset position, thus preventing movement of the optical element, resulting in improved reliability of the sensing apparatus. | 06-10-2010 |
20100147001 | REFRIGERATOR HAVING HEAT CONDUCTION SHEET - A refrigerator having one or more heat conduction sheets is provided. The refrigerator may include main body having a cooling chamber formed therein, and a door that opens and closes the cooling chamber. One or more heat conduction sheets may be disposed on the main body, the door, or a combination of various portions thereof so as to substantially eliminate an occurrence of a temperature variation on a corresponding planar surface and reduce an insulation thickness. | 06-17-2010 |
20100208985 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING IMAGE, AND RECORD MEDIUM FOR THE METHOD - A method and apparatus for processing an image to create a grayscale image are provided. The method includes converting, in a color image consisting of a plurality of pixels, a pixel value of each pixel in a RGB color space into a pixel value in a new color space through color space conversion, extracting color information using the pixel value in the new color space, calculating a luminance change amount of each pixel using the extracted color information, calculating a luminance value for the grayscale image by combining an original luminance value of each pixel and the luminance change amount, and creating the grayscale image according to the calculated luminance value. In converting color image into grayscale image and representing the grayscale image, the luminance change amount is set according to a property of each color perceived by humans and added to original luminance value, thereby explicitly discriminating among objects. | 08-19-2010 |
20100287971 | REFRIGERATOR AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A refrigerator and a control method thereof are disclosed. A refrigerator is able to supply water preserved in a cool state to an ice maker. The refrigerator includes an ice-making chamber, an icemaker provided in the ice-making chamber, a dispenser for dispensing water, and a water tank connected to the dispenser and the icemaker. The water tank stores water in a cool state. | 11-18-2010 |
20100292846 | REFRIGERATOR INCLUDING ICE MAKING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A refrigerator and a control method thereof, in which an ice making speed is controlled. A selected ice-making operation mode may be determined, and, based on the determination of the selected ice-making operation mode, an internal temperature of the ice making compartment may be controlled to an appropriate temperature. For instance, an operation rate of a cold air fan and/or a rotating speed of the cold air fan may be controlled. | 11-18-2010 |
20100313594 | REFRIGERATOR INCLUDING ICE MAKING DEVICE - A refrigerator, which includes an ice making compartment, an ice making device arranged in the ice making compartment, and an ice making tray provided at the ice making device and configured to receive and retain water to be frozen to make ice. The refrigerator also includes a cold air inlet provided at the ice making compartment and configured to allow cold air to be introduced into the cold air compartment, and a cold air guide configured to guide cold air from the cold air inlet toward the ice making tray. | 12-16-2010 |
20100319387 | REFRIGERATOR - Provided is a refrigerator configured to improve the structure of an ice-making chamber provided to a refrigerator door, thereby efficiently supplying cool air into the ice-making chamber. The refrigerator includes a main body including a storage chamber, a refrigerator door rotatably coupled to the main body, an ice-making device provided to the refrigerator door and configured to make ice, an ice-making unit provided to the ice-making device and including a cool air introduction part, a freezing core vertically arranged in the ice-making unit and cooled by cool air, and an ice tray configured to receive at least one portion of the freezing core therein, wherein the cool air introduction part is provided on an upper side of the freezing core. Cool air is efficiently introduced into the ice-making chamber, thereby increasing the amount of ice made. | 12-23-2010 |
20100326478 | DISHWASHER - The present invention relates to a dishwasher. A dishwasher includes a washing tub in which dishes are placed, a steam generator that generates steam and a nozzle part in which a flow direction of the steam is diverted at least one time to allow the steam exhausted to the washing tub. | 12-30-2010 |
20110185760 | ICE MAKER FOR REFRIGERATOR - Disclosed is an ice maker for a refrigerator. The ice maker is further provided with an ice making evaporator in addition to an evaporator for cooling a refrigerating chamber of a freezing chamber, and the ice making evaporator is sunk in water to generate ice, thereby quickly creating transparent ice. The ice maker can also be disposed in the refrigerating chamber or a refrigerating chamber door, thus to prevent ice from being formed with air bubble remaining in water, resulting in enhancing transparency of ice. In addition, even if the ice maker is disposed in the refrigerating chamber door, cold air is not needed to be induced from the freezing chamber, which allows independent operations of the freezing chamber and the ice maker, thereby increasing energy efficiency. | 08-04-2011 |
20110239480 | DRYER - A laundry machine, more particularly, a dryer is disclosed. A dryer includes a cabinet, a drum in which a drying object is held, a steam generation device to supply steam to the drum, a water supply device to supply water to the steam generation device in order to generate steam, an additive holding part in which an additive is held, and an additive supply device to supply the additive held in the additive holding part to the drum. | 10-06-2011 |
20120111031 | REFRIGERATOR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - The present disclosure relates to a refrigerator in which an amount of water supply to an ice maker can be controlled accurately, and a method for controlling the same. The refrigerator includes an ice maker, a dispenser for dispensing water, a flow passage control valve ( | 05-10-2012 |
20120195185 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN UNRECOVERABLE ERROR DURING RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF AN RLC ENTITY IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A mobile communication system and method for processing an unrecoverable error of a terminal are provided. In the method a Radio Resource Control (RRC) layer receives a downlink reset message from a network, determines whether the RRC layer receives an unrecoverable error report from a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer during a downlink reset; transmits an uplink response message to the network, when the downlink reset is completed; determines whether an unrecoverable error ignore condition is met, when the RRC layer receives the unrecoverable error report; and ignores the unrecoverable error when the unrecoverable error ignore condition is met. The RLC layer then performs data transmission and reception. | 08-02-2012 |
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20140204183 | PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE AND PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD FOR TAKING PICTURE BY USING A PLURALITY OF MICROLENSES - A photographing apparatus and method are provided. The photographing device includes: a main lens configured to transmit light beams reflected from a subject; a microlens array which includes a plurality of microlenses configured to filter and transmit the reflected light beams as different colors; an image sensor configured to sense the light beams that are transmitted by the plurality of microlenses; a data processor configured to collect pixels of positions corresponding to one another from a plurality of original images sensed by the image sensor to generate a plurality of sub images; a storage device configured to store the plurality of sub images; and a controller configured to detect pixels matching one another in the plurality of sub images stored in the storage device and to acquire color information and depth information of an image of the subject. Therefore, color information and depth information are restored without reducing resolution. | 07-24-2014 |
20150015773 | IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDABLE MEDIUM - An image generating apparatus and method are provided. The image generating apparatus includes: a main lens; a microlens array configured to transmit light that is incident on and received from the main lens; an image sensor configured to sense the light received from the microlens array according to a direction; and a digital iris configured to selectively assign, according to the direction of the light, a weight to a light sensing value of the light that is sensed by the image sensor. | 01-15-2015 |