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| 20120028147 | FUEL CELL VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF THE SAME - A fuel cell vehicle includes a stack that generates electrical energy by a fuel gas, a blower that blows air into the stack, an air cut-off valve that is mounted on an air supply line, a bypass line diverged between the air cut-off valve and the blower and having an end portion that is opened, a bypass valve that is mounted on the bypass line, and a control portion that closes the air cut-off valve and opens the bypass valve upon detecting an off signal for idle engine stop or a signal for turning off the engine. Therefore, if the fuel cell vehicle is in an idle stop condition, the blower supplying the stack with air stops operating, and simultaneously the bypass line is opened and the air cut-off valve is closed such that the air supplied to the stack can be securely cut off. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120131991 | FUEL EFFICIENCY MEASURING SYSTEM FOR FUEL CELL VEHICLE - The present invention provides an improved fuel efficiency measuring system for a fuel cell vehicle which simplifies various valves and hydrogen lines and modulizes its individual elements. More specifically, the present invention provides an improved fuel efficiency measuring system for a fuel cell vehicle that eliminates a purging hydrogen tank previously used for removing residual air in a hydrogen supply line and instead removes residual air in a hydrogen supply line by using a vehicle side hydrogen tank. Additionally, the present invention simplifies couplers installed in a hydrogen supply line, and considerably reduces manufacturing costs by eliminating a high-cost break-away coupler adapted to couple a fuel efficiency measuring unit and the vehicle side. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120138261 | FUEL CELL VEHICLE - The present invention provides a fuel cell vehicle, particularly a fuel cell vehicle equipped with a moisture remover that removes moisture from an air conditioner evaporator. The fuel cell vehicle includes: a fuel cell stack as a power supplier; an electric heater operated by power from the fuel cell stack; a blower fan for providing air to the electric heater; an air channel configured to supply the air passing through the electric heater to an air conditioner evaporator; and a controller for controlling the operations of the electric heater and the blower fan, whereby moisture is removed from the air conditioner evaporator by supplying air heated by the electric heater to the air conditioner evaporator. The fuel cell vehicle effectively removes moisture from an air conditioner evaporator, solves the problem of a bad smell in the related art, and further removes the oxygen and the stack voltage which remain in the cathode, such that it is possible to avoid cathode oxygen depletion of the related art. | 06-07-2012 |
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| 20110218193 | NOVEL TRICYCLIC DERIVATIVE OR PHARMACEUTICALLY ACCEPTABLE SALTS THEREOF, PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF, AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a novel tricyclic derivative with efficient inhibitory activity against poly(ADP-ribose)polymerases (PARP) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, a preparation method thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same. The tricyclic derivative of the invention is useful for the prevention or treatment of diseases caused by excess PARP activity, especially neuropathic pain, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, diabetic nephropathy, inflammatory diseases, osteoporosis, and cancer, by inhibiting the activity of poly(ADP-ribose)polymerases. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20120101296 | METHOD FOR PREPARING TRICYCLIC DERIVATIVES - The present invention relates to a method for preparing a tricyclic derivative, and more particulary, to a method for preparing a tricyclic derivative inetermediate with high yield and purity, the method including: introducing a hydroxy group by esterifying and substituting 2-fluoroisophthalic acid compound; introducing a piperidyl group; introducing a hydroxy group through reduction reaction; and then hydrolyzing the resultant compound, and to a method for preparing the tricyclic derivative using said intermediate. According to the method of the present invention, it is possible to provide a tricyclic derivative and an intermediate thereof with high productivity and economic feasibility as well as high purity and yield, by purifying a compound using re-crystallization unlike typical methods of using column chromatography. In addition, the method of the present invention can be usefully used for industrial mass production because sodium borohydride or lithium aluminum hydride with low risk of a fire is used unlike typical methods of using lithium borohydride which is not industrially applicable due to high risk of a fire. | 04-26-2012 |
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| 20080318570 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERFACING AMONG MOBILE TERMINAL, BASE STATION AND CORE NETWORK IN MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method, apparatus and a computer readable record media storing instructions for executing the same method for interfacing among a hybrid type synchronous or asynchronous terminal to a core network in a next generation mobile telecommunications system. The hybrid type synchronous or asynchronous radio network determines the operating type of the core network when the core network has a connection thereto, and sends the determined core network operating type information and information related to the core network to the hybrid type synchronous or asynchronous terminal, thereby allowing the synchronous or asynchronous terminal to smoothly perform a data interfacing operation with the core network. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090196222 | Method and apparatus for interfacing synchronous core network with asynchronous radio network - A method and apparatus for interfacing a synchronous core network with an asynchronous radio network in a next-generation mobile telecommunications system is disclosed. The method for mapping a message in order to interface a synchronous core network with an asynchronous radio network, the radio network having a base station (BS), the base station having a radio resource controller, a radio link controller, a medium access controller and a physical controller, the method comprising the steps of: a) selecting a function necessary to map a synchronous message to an asynchronous message; b) determining whether the synchronous message is to be transmitted to the mobile station or not; c) storing information necessary to map the synchronous message to the asynchronous message if the synchronous message is to transmitted to the mobile station, d) mapping parameters in the synchronous message to those in the asynchronous message, thereby generating the asynchronous message; e) discarding the message not to be transmitted to the mobile station after storing parameters included in the message not to be transmitted onto a predetermined device; and f) transmitting the asynchronous message to the radio resource controller. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20120202534 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERFACING SYNCHRONOUS CORE NETWORK WITH ASYNCHRONOUS RADIO NETWORK - A method and apparatus for interfacing a synchronous core network with an asynchronous radio network in a next-generation mobile telecommunications system is disclosed. The method includes: a) selecting a function necessary to map a synchronous message to an asynchronous message; b) determining whether the synchronous message is to be transmitted to the mobile station or not; c) storing information necessary to map the synchronous message to the asynchronous message if the synchronous message is to transmitted to the mobile station, d) mapping parameters in the synchronous message to those in the asynchronous message, thereby generating the asynchronous message; e) discarding the message not to be transmitted to the mobile station after storing parameters included in the message not to be transmitted onto a predetermined device; and f) transmitting the asynchronous message to the radio resource controller. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120329453 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERFACING AMONG MOBILE TERMINAL, BASE STATION AND CORE NETWORK IN MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method, apparatus and a computer readable record media storing instructions for executing the same method for interfacing among a hybrid type synchronous or asynchronous terminal to a core network in a next generation mobile telecommunications system. The hybrid type synchronous or asynchronous radio network determines the operating type of the core network when the core network has a connection thereto, and sends the determined core network operating type information and information related to the core network to the hybrid type synchronous or asynchronous terminal, thereby allowing the synchronous or asynchronous terminal to smoothly perform a data interfacing operation with the core network. | 12-27-2012 |
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| 20120256101 | SUPER-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY SYSTEM USING SPECKLE ILLUMINATION AND ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING - A nano-scale resolution fluorescence microscopy system and a method of obtaining an image using the nano-scale resolution microscopy system, and more particularly, a method and a microscopy system, capable of observing fluorescence probes in high resolution by radiating an irregular diffused light to have an incoherent speckle pattern that has low correlation in an adjacent space are disclosed. According to embodiments of the present invention, a diffraction limit of a fluorescence microscope may be overcome, and a super high resolution image on a nanometer scale may be obtained. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259590 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSED SENSING WITH JOINT SPARSITY - Provided is a method and apparatus for support recovery of jointly sparse signals from a plurality of snapshots, thereby enhancing a capability for reconstructing a support in a variety of circumstances, by providing enhanced robustness against noise and perturbation, and/or enhanced computational efficiency. The method may include partial support recovery using a compressed sensing-multiple measurement vector (CS-MMV) scheme; and a complementary support recovery and sparsity level estimation. The complementary support recovery may use subspace information extracted from the plurality of snapshots and partial support information. The total number of elements in the partial support and in the complementary support may be equal to the sparsity level. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120281810 | APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING RADIATION IMAGE, MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CAPTURING RADIATION IMAGE - An apparatus for capturing a radiation image of a subject including at least two materials includes a radiation irradiating unit configured to irradiate multi-energy radiation including at least two energy bands to a calibration model including a plurality of thicknesses of each of the at least two materials; an attenuation-coefficient estimating unit configured to estimate attenuation coefficients for each of the at least two materials for each of the at least two energy bands based on values obtained by passing the multi-energy radiation through the calibration model; and an energy-band determining unit configured to determine an optimal combination of at least two energy bands to be included in multi-energy radiation to be irradiated to the subject from a plurality of different combinations of at least two energy bands based on the estimated attenuation coefficients and the values obtained by passing the multi-energy radiation through the calibration model. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120288176 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING MONTE-CARLO SIMULATION GAMMA-RAY SCATTERING IN POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY USING GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT - A method and apparatus for reconstructing an image by generating a scatter-corrected sinogram are provided. In the reconstructed image in which initial scattering is not corrected, a emission position of a photon is determined. A graphics processing unit (GPU) calculates migration of the photon using a Monte-Carlo simulation. A 3-dimensional (3D) line of response (LoR) may be calculated through a position in which the photon reaches a detector. The calculated LoR may be converted into a 3D sinogram form and stored in a prompt sinogram and a scatter-corrected sinogram. A final scatter-corrected sinogram may be generated by adjusting a scale of the scatter-corrected sinogram. | 11-15-2012 |
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| 20080266948 | Memory system, program method thereof, and computing system including the same - Disclosed is a memory system and a method of programming a multi-bit flash memory device which includes memory cells configured to store multi-bit data, where the method includes and the system is configured for determining whether data to be stored in a selected memory cell is an LSB data; and if data to be stored in a selected memory cell is not an LSB data, backing up lower data stored in the selected memory cell to a backup memory block of the multi-bit flash memory device. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090109786 | DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - A method of operating a non-volatile data storage device includes determining the type of the previous power off event when the non-volatile data storage device is rebooted; and selecting and performing a reboot sequence based upon the determined type of the power off event. Determining the type of the previous power off event may be performed by analyzing one or more metadata groups stored in the non-volatile data storage device. During normal operation of the data storage device a preamble (indicating that an operation of a data storage device started) and a postamble (indicating that an operation of the data storage device ended) are written in each group of metadata. If the power off event is a sudden (abnormal) power off event during a write operation, the postamble is not written, and its absence indicates that the power off event was a sudden (abnormal) power off event. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113112 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE, MEMORY SYSTEM, AND COMPUTING SYSTEM USING NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - Provided is a data storage device including two or more data storage areas including may have two or more (heterogeneous) types of nonvolatile memory cells. At least one of the data storage areas includes a plurality of memory blocks that are sequentially selected, and metadata are stored in the currently selected memory block. The memory blocks can be sequentially used and metadata can be stored in a uniformly-distributed manner throughout the data storage device. Therefore, separate merging and wear-leveling operations are unnecessary. Thus, it is possible to improve the lifetime and writing performance of a data storage device having two or more heterogeneous nonvolatile memories. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20100293348 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF REARRANGING DATA AND NONVOLITILE DATA STORAGE APPARATUS - A storage apparatus includes one or more memory units each having a plurality of memory blocks to store a file having data corresponding to a plurality of clusters, and a controller to store the file in the memory units such that such that the data of at least two sequential addresses of the clusters are stored in the memory blocks of different memory units. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110314207 | MEMORY SYSTEM, PROGRAM METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - Disclosed is a memory system and a method of programming a multi-bit flash memory device which includes memory cells configured to store multi-bit data, where the method includes and the system is configured for determining whether data to be stored in a selected memory cell is an LSB data; and if data to be stored in a selected memory cell is not an LSB data, backing up lower data stored in the selected memory cell to a backup memory block of the multi-bit flash memory device. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120284452 | MEMORY SYSTEM, PROGRAM METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - Disclosed is a memory system and a method of programming a multi-bit flash memory device which includes memory cells configured to store multi-bit data, where the method includes and the system is configured for determining whether data to be stored in a selected memory cell is an LSB data; and if data to be stored in a selected memory cell is not an LSB data, backing up lower data stored in the selected memory cell to a backup memory block of the multi-bit flash memory device. | 11-08-2012 |
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| 20120030960 | CLOTHES DRYER - Disclosed is a clothes dryer having a heat pump, the clothes dryer capable of enhancing energy efficiency by recovering waste heat to the maximum in correspondence to a capacity of the heat pump, capable of enhancing reliability by preventing overheating of a compressor and a heat exchange means, and capable of shortening drying time. The clothes dryer includes a body, a tub rotatably installed in the body, a suction duct installed at the body, and configured to suck external air and to supply the external air into the tub, an exhaustion duct configured to exhaust air having passed through the tub to outside of the body, and a heat pump having a heat exchange means for recovering waste heat by heat-exchanging air passing through the exhaustion duct, wherein part of the air exhausted via the exhaustion duct is heat-exchanged with the heat exchange means of the heat pump. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120079735 | CLOTHES TREATING APPARATUS WITH HEAT PUMP SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A clothes treating apparatus includes a drum, an air suction unit forming a flow path of air introduced into the drum, an air exhaustion unit forming a flow path of air exhausted from the drum, a condenser heating air sucked into the drum through the air suction unit, an evaporator cooling air exhausted from the drum through the air exhaustion unit, a compressor compressing refrigerant introduced from the evaporator, and a variable expander expanding a refrigerant introduced from the condenser, and having a variable open degree. An operation method includes measuring a temperature of a refrigerant into the evaporator, and a temperature of a refrigerant into the compressor, and decreasing an open degree of the variable expander when a temperature difference between the two measured temperatures is less than a predetermined first value. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120079736 | DIAGNOSING METHOD FOR CLOTHES TREATING APPARATUS AND CLOTHES TREATING APPARATUS WITH REFRIGERANT LEAKAGE DETECTING MEANS - A clothes treating apparatus includes a drum configured to accommodate therein an object to be dried, an air suction device configured to form a flow path of air introduced into the drum, an air exhaustion device configured to form a flow path of air exhausted from the drum, a condenser disposed to heat air sucked into the drum through the air suction device, an evaporator disposed to cool air exhausted from the drum the air exhaustion device, and a compressor and an expander configured to constitute a heat pump together with the condenser and the evaporator. The method includes a temperature detection step of detecting a temperature change of air passing through the condenser or the air suction device, and a determination step of determining that refrigerant leakage has occurred when a temperature decrease amount measured in the temperature detection step is more than a predetermined level. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120079737 | CLOTHES TREATING APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A clothes treating apparatus including a drum, an air suction duct forming a flow path of air introduced into the drum, an auxiliary fan introducing air into the air suction duct, an air exhaustion duct forming a flow path of air exhausted from the drum, a main fan exhausting air to the air exhaustion duct from the drum, a condenser heating air sucked into the drum through the air suction duct, an evaporator cooling air exhausted from the drum through the air exhaustion duct, and a compressor and an expander forming a heat pump together with the condenser and the evaporator. The method includes measuring a discharge side pressure of the compressor, and comparing the measured discharge side pressure with a maximum allowable pressure, and determining that the auxiliary fan does not operate when the discharge side pressure is more than the maximum allowable pressure. | 04-05-2012 |