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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7942506 | Inkjet printer head and method to manufacture the same An inkjet printer head includes a substrate, an insulating layer having a groove and disposed on the substrate, a heating member having a concavely curved upper surface and disposed on an upper portion of the groove, an electrode to make contact with the heating mem... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941705 | Computer system to use memory having defective memory cell and control method thereof A computer system having a plurality of devices including a data storage part which includes a plurality of cells to store data, and a controller to inspect whether there is a defective cell in the data storage part if a condition to execute a cell inspection functi... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941612 | Multipath accessible semiconductor memory device with host interface between processors A multipath accessible semiconductor memory device provides an interface function between processors. The memory device may include a memory cell array having a shared memory area operationally coupled to two or more ports that are independently accessible by two or... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941078 | Electrophotographic image forming apparatus having transparent toner An electro photographic image forming apparatus includes first and second photosensitive bodies, first and second exposing units to form electrostatic latent images on the first and second photosensitive bodies each of which being charged to a uniform electric poten... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940538 | Multi-voltage power supply A multi-voltage power supply includes a transformer, a first output circuit to generate a first output voltage using a voltage transferred to a secondary winding of the transformer, and a first output voltage controller to control a voltage supplied to the primary w... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938529 | Photo printer A photo printer including a printer body having a printing engine disposed therein, a conveying unit to reciprocate a printing medium supplied to the printing engine, a supplying unit disposed at an upper portion of the printer body to supply the printing medium to ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937037 | Cleaning apparatus having an upper housing with varied thickness and image forming apparatus having the same A cleaning apparatus include a cleaning member to remove a waste toner remaining in a photoconductive medium and a housing to support the cleaning member, including a waste toner admission portion to provide a transfer path of the waste toner removed by the cleaning... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937013 | Fusing device and image forming apparatus including the same Disclosed herein is a fusing device having an improved heating structure. The fusing device is configured to apply heat and pressure to fix a developer to a print medium and includes a pressure device and a heating device. The heating device includes a heat radiatin... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936886 | Speaker system to control directivity of a speaker unit using a plurality of microphones and a method thereof A speaker system to control directivity of a speaker unit using a plurality of microphones, and a method thereof. The method includes sensing through a plurality of channels a shock sound with an impulse pattern generated at a listening position and measuring delay ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936655 | Read circuit of a disk drive system and method of signal processing thereof A read circuit of a disk drive system that adaptively reduces signal-dependent noise including a sequence detector, a signal-dependent adaptive engine and a signal-dependent post-processor. The sequence detector recovers a data sequence from equalized data. The sign... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936486 | Transferring guide device usable with image reading sensor unit and scanning apparatus having the same A transferring guide device usable with an image reading sensor unit of a scanning apparatus includes a guide holder installed at the image reading sensor unit and a guide rail installed at a scanning apparatus body. The guide holder slide-contacts the guide rail, a... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936334 | Display apparatus A displaying apparatus includes a signal input unit through which an analog image signal is input, an A/D converter to convert the analog image signal input through the signal input unit into a digital image signal according to a preset offset value thereof, a monit... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934811 | Inkjet printhead having conductive epoxy resin An inkjet printhead includes an ink flow path including a nozzle through which ink is ejected and is formed of a conductive epoxy resin, the conductive epoxy resin is a hardening result of a conductive cross-linked polymer resist composition formed by actinic radiat... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7932750 | Dynamic domino circuit and integrated circuit including the same A dynamic domino circuit includes a clock generator and a domino circuit. The clock generator generates a pulse signal and a plurality of internal clock signals based on a global clock signal. Phases of the plurality of internal clock signals are sequentially delaye... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930895 | Brushless direct current motor, compressor and air conditioner having the same A brushless direct current motor, includes a rotor which comprises a permanent magnet, a stator which comprises coils associated with a plurality of phases which form an electrical field for generating a torque by interaction with a magnetic field which is generated... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929888 | Developing unit and image forming apparatus employing the same A developing unit which forms an image on a photosensitive medium, includes a housing which accommodates a developer, a magnetic cylinder having a catch pole which picks up the developer in the housing by a magnetic force, and a main pole which couples a carrier amo... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929883 | Image forming apparatus, driving device and driving frame thereof An image forming apparatus includes driving device frame having a base plate on which is formed integrally with the base plate one or more supporting shafts for supporting one or more power transmission members that transmit driving power from a driving source to dr... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929250 | Head slider having an air bearing surface (ABS) with a shallow recess (SR) retreated behind the ABS and a cavity retreated behind the ABS and SR, hard disk drive including the same, and method of floating the same A head slider and a hard disk drive (HDD) including the head slider, the head slider including an air bearing surface (ABS) protruding from a disk facing surface of the head slider toward the disk, a shallow recess (SR) retreated behind the ABS, and a cavity recess ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927771 | Color filter and fabrication method thereof A color filter and a fabrication method thereof are provided. In the method, color filter ink that includes wax beads is ejected by an inkjet printing process. A black matrix defining R/G/B pixels is formed on a first surface of a substrate and transparent electrode... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926910 | Nozzle plate for inkjet head and method of manufacturing the nozzle plate A nozzle plate for an inkjet head and a method of manufacturing the nozzle plate includes a silicon substrate having a nozzle, a thermally oxidized silicon layer formed on an outer surface of the silicon substrate and an inner wall of the nozzle, an adhesion layer d... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926177 | Method of forming hydrophobic coating layer on surface of nozzle plate of inkjet printhead A method of forming a hydrophobic coating layer on a surface of a nozzle plate of an inkjet printhead includes forming a plurality of nozzles in the nozzle plate, each of the nozzles having an exit, stacking a film on the surface of the nozzle plate to cover the exi... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925194 | Developing unit and image forming apparatus using the same A developing unit to supply toner to a photosensitive medium of an image forming apparatus to form an image thereon, including a housing to hold a toner of a predetermined color, a developing roller which is coupled to the housing to be rotatable in a direction oppo... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925176 | Transfer voltage control method of image forming apparatus A transfer voltage control method of an image forming apparatus includes supplying a first measurement voltage to a first transfer member and a second transfer member, measuring a variation in resistance of the first transfer member by supplying a second measurement... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924682 | Unit to remove crosstalk in multi-layered disk, optical pickup including the unit, and optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus including the optical pickup A unit to remove crosstalk in a multi-layered disk, an optical pickup including the unit, and an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus including the optical pickup, of which the optical pickup includes: a light source; an optical path changer to change the ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924532 | Head gimbal assembly of hard disk drive having support element in a bonding region of a slider A head gimbal assembly (HGA) of a hard disk drive (HDD) includes a flexure, a slider attached to the flexure and including a magnetic head, a plurality of pads at a side of the slider, a plurality of traces attached to and supported by the flexure and respectively b... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924522 | Apparatus and method of detecting error symbol, and disk drive apparatus using the same An apparatus and a method of detecting an error symbol in a data storage apparatus so that an error correcting performance of an error correction decoder. The error symbol detecting apparatus includes an equalizer equalizing a signal transmitted to a channel using a... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924481 | Image reading device and image forming apparatus having the same An image reading device and an image forming apparatus and methods thereof can achieve a duplex scanning operation and enable a user to easily arrange the scanned documents after being discharged. The image reading device may include a supply path coupled to a docum... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924478 | Scanner module and image scanning apparatus employing the same Disclosed are a scanner module and an image scanning apparatus employing the same. The scanner module includes a light source generating light to be irradiated onto an object and a light guide member extending in correspondence with a width of the object to be scann... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7922289 | Nozzle plate of inkjet printhead and method of manufacturing the same Provided are a nozzle plate of an inkjet printhead and a method of manufacturing the same. The nozzle plate includes: a substrate including a plurality of nozzles; and a plurality of first grooves formed on the surface of a substrate around the nozzles. In this stru... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920383 | Heat sink for dissipating heat and apparatus having the same A heat sink includes first and second base plates to contact with first and second surfaces of a heat source, respectively. The first base plate includes a support unit protruding from a first surface and a first dissipating unit to dissipate heat from the heat sour... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920351 | Method of setting AC erase frequency and AC erase method based on data frequency A method of setting an AC erase frequency using a data frequency of a disk area and an AC erase method. The method of setting the AC erase frequency includes obtaining a data frequency for each disk area, and setting an AC erase frequency for each disk area based on... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7918447 | Image forming apparatus An inkjet image forming apparatus including a printing media storage unit configured to store printing media, a pickup unit configured to pick up a printing medium stored in the printing media storage unit, and a cover made of a conductive material and adapted to co... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7914594 | Air filtering device and cleaning system of semiconductor manufacturing apparatus with the same An air filtering device and an air cleaning system of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus to reduce cost and increase manufacturing productivity. The air filtering device may include a frame having an open aperture coupled to an air supply line. A buffer frame c... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7914113 | Print head having nozzles with varied spacing and inkjet printer including the same A print head includes a first nozzle group which includes a plurality of first nozzles arranged linearly, and a second nozzle group and a third nozzle group which include a plurality of second nozzles and a plurality of third nozzles arranged linearly, and are dispo... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912403 | Image forming apparatus with frame and pressing member An image forming apparatus includes a main frame having a first driving force transmitting part, and a first electrode to supply power, a developing cartridge mounted to the main frame, and having a second driving force transmitting part engaged to the first driving... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912385 | Image forming apparatus and developer level calculating method of the same An image forming apparatus and a developer level calculating method of the same. The image forming apparatus includes a developing unit which includes a developing roller to provide the developer onto a photosensitive body, a developing sensor to sense a developer l... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911408 | Management system of monitor A management system of a monitor including at least one first monitor, a first computer to supply a video signal to the at least one first monitor having a first controller to transmit monitor information about the at least one first monitor through a network, a sec... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7910010 | Ink jet head having an electrostatic actuator and manufacturing method of the same An inkjet head having an electrostatic actuator and a manufacturing method of the same are disclosed. The inkjet head having an electrostatic actuator, comprising a stator, on which is formed a plurality of comb pattern shaped first protrusion parts and second protr... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7909438 | Piezo-electric type inkjet printhead A piezoelectric type inkjet printhead includes an upper substrate including a pressure chamber to be filled with ink that is to be ejected, a reservoir to store ink that flowed in from an ink container, a restrictor connect the reservoir to one end of the pressure c... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7909318 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus capable of preventing simultaneous delivery of two sheets of paper when they are supplied from a paper supply device, thereby improving operational reliability of the paper supply device. The image forming apparatus includes a body incorpo... | 03/22/2011 |
