Yong-Joon
Yong Joon Cho, Yongin-Si KR
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| 20140167747 | WELDED PORTION QUALITY DETERMINING SYSTEM - A welded portion quality determining system includes a first plate and a second plate, a welded portion defined at a point where the first plate and the second plate are welded to each other. Magnetic field generators generate a magnetic field to be supplied to the welded portion, and magnetic pickup devices receive the magnetic field generated by the magnetized welded portion to sense the received magnetic field. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20150018998 | VEHICLE WELDING QUALITY INSPECTION DEVICE AND THE METHOD THEREOF - A vehicle welding quality inspection device for checking welding parts of a vehicle body transferred along a transferring line may include a welding part shooting unit fixed on an outside of the transfer line, shoots a welding inspection part of the vehicle body, and outputs the shot data to the controller, and a welding part vision sensor disposed on a front end of an arm of a robot, is moved thereby toward the welding point of the welding inspection part that is recognized by the controller, shoots the welding point, and the vision data to the controller. | 01-15-2015 |
Yong Joon Cho, Gyeonggi-Do KR
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| 20150298245 | PROJECTION WELDING DEVICE - A projection welding gun device includes an upper welding tip and a lower welding tip that are combined with a gun body through a shank, where the upper welding tip presses an upper panel corresponding to a protrusion portion that is formed on a lower panel to weld the upper and lower panels, and a rotation unit that is rotated by a driving portion is disposed between the gun body and the shank to rotate the shank. | 10-22-2015 |
Yong Joon Cho, Bucheon-Si KR
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| 20140283758 | Animal training apparatus with radio transceiver - An animal training apparatus with a radio transceiver is provided, which includes an encoder/tact switch setting animal stimulation levels, a mode designation input unit, a stimulation command input unit, an ID code setting unit, an RF radio signal generation unit, an antenna switch, a signal amplification unit, a received signal demodulation unit, a low-pass filter removing harmonic waves in a transmitted RF signal, a microphone inputting a user input audio signal, an audio output unit, and a first microprocessor operating in a radio transceiver mode if a user command is input, and generating data that corresponds to the stimulation level if a stimulation command is input. The animal training apparatus can subdivide and continuously set stimulation levels for animals, set levels that suit respective animals in the case of multi-dog training, and provide easiness to carry about through condensation of the training apparatus and the radio transceiver into one product. | 09-25-2014 |
Yong Joon Jang, Suwon-Si KR
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| 20130058060 | CONTROL PANEL ASSEMBLY AND LAUNDRY TREATING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A control panel assembly and a laundry treating apparatus having the same, the control panel assembly including a control panel, a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) provided at a rear side of the control panel, and a PCB housing configured to fix the PCB to the control panel, wherein the PCB housing includes a bottom plate and a sidewall that is extended from an end portion of the bottom plate, a fastening part is provided at the sidewall of the PCB housing for the PCB to be fastened to the PCB housing, the bottom plate includes at least one hook for the PCB to be fastened to the PCB housing and the PCB includes at least one accommodating hole to accommodate the at least one hook. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20140298671 | CLOTHING DRYER - A clothing dryer having an improved structure of a drainage unit thereof, including: a body; a drum; a base that is disposed at a lower portion of the drum; a first water tub that is mounted on the base to collect condensate water generated when a drying operation is performed; and a plurality of drainage pipes that are combined with one side of the first water tub and cause the condensate water to move, wherein, in order to change a position at which the plurality of drainage pipes and the first water tub are combined with each other, the first water tub is combined with edges of the base so that at least a part of the first water tub is able to be exposed to an outside. | 10-09-2014 |
Yong Joon Kwon, Seoul KR
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| 20110139005 | Air Purifier Employing A Water Jet-Type Fan System, and Purification Method Thereof - The present invention relates to an air purifier employing a water jet-type fan system having a simple structure, in which water is pumped by a water pump and sprayed and scattered by the water jet-type fan system in which a plurality of spray nozzles are mounted on a fan having a flow channel, in order to purify contaminants. The fan system rotates by the principle of action and reaction using the spraying force of water. The air purifier of the present invention performs an air purification process and an air circulation function at the same time by spraying and scattering water so as to use the adsorption power of water, instead of using a motor fan for circulating air. The present invention also relates to a purification method of the air purifier. | 06-16-2011 |
Yong Joon Lee, Incheon KR
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| 20130322658 | DRIVER VOICE SOUND RECEIVING DEVICE - Disclosed is a driver voice sound receiving device that includes a cluster lens having a transparent radial curved panel for protecting a cluster dashboard in front of a driver's seat. More specifically, the cluster lens reflects sound waves from the driver's voice and collects the reflected voice sound waves at a specific location. Additionally, a microphone is provided at a location that is adjacent to specific location where the voice sound waves reflected by the cluster lens are collected. | 12-05-2013 |
Yong Joon Lee, Seoul KR
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| 20130294615 | POP-NOISE REMOVING METHOD - Provided is a pop-noise removing method. The pop-noise removing method analyzes an acoustic noise, occurring when receiving digital broadcasting under a weak electric field environment, and reduces a pop-noise on the basis of the analyzed result, for transferring digital broadcasting with a minimized pop-noise to consumers. Accordingly, an output of the pop-noise of digital broadcasting can be minimized | 11-07-2013 |
| 20150296227 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus includes: a first communication unit configured to receive first multimedia data and identification information of the first multimedia data through a first communication network; an address generator configured to generate access addresses of second multimedia data using the identification information; a second communication unit configured to receive the second multimedia data from the access addresses through a second communication network; an image processor configured to combine the first multimedia data and the second multimedia data so as to generate third multimedia data; and a display configured to output the third multimedia data. | 10-15-2015 |
Yong Joon Park, Seoul KR
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| 20160111730 | CURRENT COLLECTOR-CATALYST MONOLITHIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL NANOFIBER NETWORK FOR LI-AIR BATTERIES AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is an electrode for lithium-air batteries without using a binder and a carbon additive and a method of manufacturing the same, and more specifically, provided is a nanofiber network-based current collector-catalyst monolithic porous air electrode which has an improved specific surface area and high air permeability as the energy density per weight is increased and the diameter, porosity, and thickness of the nanofibers are controlled by utilizing a significantly light polymer and carbon based material. | 04-21-2016 |
Yong Joon Park, Suwon KR
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| 20130321937 | CAMERA MODULE - Disclosed herein is a camera module in which a movement of a magnet is controlled by only magnetic force between the magnet and a yoke without a spring for controlling the movement of the magnet which operates up and down. The camera module includes: a lens module; and a main frame supporting the lens module and allowing the lens module to be driven in an optical axis direction, wherein the lens module includes: a lens assembly including a plurality of lenses; and a magnet fixed to one side of the lens module, and the main frame includes: a coil facing the magnet, fixed to one side within the main frame, and generating an electric field as power is applied thereto; and a yoke disposed to face the magnet with the main frame and the coil interposed therebetween and controlling driving of the lens module by attraction with the magnet. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140009089 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING VOICE COIL MOTOR - There are provided an apparatus and a method for driving a voice coil motor (VCM), the apparatus including an instruction signal generating unit generating an instruction signal according to a digital signal generated from an input signal, and a driving unit driving the voice coil motor (VCM) by selecting a path for a driving current applied to the voice coil motor (VCM) according to the digital signal and controlling a duty of the driving current according to the instruction signal. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140098434 | LENS ACTUATOR - There is provided a lens actuator, including: a lens barrel in which at least one lens is provided on an optical axis; a magnetic part provided on one surface of the lens barrel; and a printed circuit board in which a coil pattern part generating electromagnetic force is provided, the printed circuit board having one surface facing the magnetic part, wherein magnetic material is provided on the other surface of the printed circuit board. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140168497 | CAMERA MODULE DRIVER AND CAMERA MODULE INCLUDING THE SAME - There are provided a camera module driver and a camera module including the same. The camera module driver includes: a driving unit driving a lens; and a memory unit storing an operation setting value of the driving unit, wherein the driving unit includes a register sensing application of power to perform a reset operation of changing arbitrarily distributed data into preset default data, and the driving unit and the memory unit are formed in a single integrated circuit. | 06-19-2014 |
Yong-Joon Choi, Suwon-Si KR
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| 20110222339 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE FOR REDUCING INTERFERENCE BETWEEN WORD LINES AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a nonvolatile memory device and a method of operating the same. The nonvolatile memory device in accordance with an embodiment of the inventive concept may include a string select line; a ground select line; a dummy word line adjacent to the ground select line; a first word line adjacent to the dummy word line; and a second word line disposed between the string select line and the first word line. The nonvolatile memory device is configured to apply a voltage to the dummy word line. When programming a memory cell connected to the first word line, a first dummy word line voltage lower than a voltage applied to the second word line is applied to the dummy word line. When programming a memory cell connected to the second word line, a second dummy word line voltage between a voltage applied to the first word line and the first dummy word line voltage is applied to the dummy word line. Accordingly, when a program operation is performed, a charge loss of a memory cell connected to a word line adjacent to a dummy word line can be reduced by changing a voltage applied to the dummy word line according to a select word line. | 09-15-2011 |
Yong-Joon Choi, Seoul KR
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| 20100237466 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - A semiconductor device includes a lower electrode, a supporting member enclosing at least an upper portion of the lower electrode, a dielectric layer on the lower electrode and the supporting member, and an upper electrode disposed on the dielectric layer. The supporting member may have a first portion that extends over an upper part of the sidewall of the lower electrode, and a second portion covering the upper surface of the lower electrode. The first portion of the supporting member protrudes above the lower electrode. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20120225530 | METHODS OF FABRICATING A SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A method of fabricating a semiconductor memory device includes forming a hard mask pattern using a damascene method on a lower mold layer stacked on a substrate and etching the lower mold layer using the hard mask pattern as an etch mask to define a protrusion under the hard mask pattern. A support pattern is formed on a top surface of the etched lower mold layer, the top surface of the etched lower mold layer being located at a lower level than a top surface of the protrusion. A lower electrode supported by the support pattern is formed. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20150097251 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - Semiconductor devices may include a semiconductor substrate with a first semiconductor fin aligned end-to-end with a second semiconductor with a recess between facing ends of the first and second semiconductor fins. A first insulator pattern is formed adjacent sidewalls of the first and second semiconductor fins and a second insulator pattern is formed within the first recess. The second insulator pattern may have a top surface higher than a top surface of the first insulator pattern, such as to the height of the top surface of the fins (or higher or lower). First and second gates extend along sidewalls and a top surface of the first semiconductor fin. A dummy gate electrode may be formed on the top surface of the second insulator. Methods for manufacture of the same and modifications are also disclosed. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150162247 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREOF - The disclosure provides semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same. The method includes etching a substrate using a first mask pattern formed on the substrate to form a trench, forming a preliminary device isolation pattern filling the trench and including first and second regions having first thicknesses, forming a second mask pattern on the first region, etching an upper portion of the second region and a portion of the first mask pattern, which are exposed by the second mask pattern, to form a second region having a second thickness smaller than the first thickness, removing the first and second mask patterns, and etching upper portions of the first region and the second region having the second thickness to form a device isolation pattern defining preliminary fin-type active patterns. An electronic device including a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are also disclosed. | 06-11-2015 |
| 20160064380 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - Semiconductor devices may include a semiconductor substrate with a first semiconductor fin aligned end-to-end with a second semiconductor with a recess between facing ends of the first and second semiconductor fins. A first insulator pattern is formed adjacent sidewalls of the first and second semiconductor fins and a second insulator pattern is formed within the first recess. The second insulator pattern may have a top surface higher than a top surface of the first insulator pattern, such as to the height of the top surface of the fins (or higher or lower). First and second gates extend along sidewalls and a top surface of the first semiconductor fin. A dummy gate electrode may be formed on the top surface of the second insulator. Methods for manufacture of the same and modifications are also disclosed. | 03-03-2016 |
Yong-Joon Choi, Daejeon KR
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| 20160093880 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRODE AND ELECTRODE MANUFACTURED BY THE SAME - Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an electrode, which comprises drying an electrode sheet including a current collector and an electrode active material slurry coated to the current collector and containing an electrode active material, a binder and a solvent, wherein the electrode sheet is dried by a mid-infrared lamp which irradiates mid-infrared rays with a wavelength of 1 μm to 3 μm to the electrode sheet, and a surface temperature of the electrode sheet has a constant region in the range of 50° C. to 70° C. Since an electrode is dried by using a mid-infrared lamp, the electrode may be uniformly dried, and an adhesion force between the electrode active material layer and the current collector may be greatly improved, which allows great enhancement of characteristics of a battery to which the electrode is applied. | 03-31-2016 |
Yong-Joon Jeon, Hawaseong-Si KR
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| 20130024912 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTHORIZATION BASED ENHANCED ADDRESS BOOK SERVICE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Method and apparatus providing Enhanced Address Book (EAB) service in a mobile communication system includes performing an authorization procedure to share information with at least one other user; when sharing information of a user of the terminal is updated, identifying at least one other user authorized to receive the information of the user; and transmitting the updated information to a terminal of the at least one identified other user. | 01-24-2013 |
Yong-Joon Kim, Gyeonggi-Do 420-830 KR
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| 20120017672 | Tire pressure monitoring system and tire pressure sensor thereof - Provided is a tire pressure sensor (TPS) of a tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS). The TPS includes a detachable and angle-adjustable tire valve coupled to the front side of a tire pressure sensor housing. A holder bracket having a tire valve insertion hole is at the front side, and an insertion head inserted into the valve insertion hole is at an end of the tire valve. Accordingly, the angle of the tire valve is freely controlled, allowing compatible use regardless of the shape or size of wheels of cars and commercial vehicles. Thus, manufacturing costs can be greatly reduced, thereby obtaining superior competitiveness over competitors' products. Furthermore, air leakage through a wheel valve hole can be effectively prevented against high speed rotation and inertia motion caused by the high speed rotation during the driving of a vehicle. | 01-26-2012 |
Yong-Joon Kim, Gyeonggi-Do KR
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| 20100319447 | CUTTING INSERT - Provided is a tire pressure sensor valve that can be easily installed to a 2-piece or 3-piece inch-up wheel and protect a tire pressure sensor when removing a tire. The tire pressure sensor valve includes a sensor housing including a mounting space for receiving a PCB to which circuit parts including an air pressure sensor are mounted, and a coupling recess for coupling, a valve body including a head and an inner air inlet hole having an opening-closing member, the head being inserted into the coupling recess of the sensor housing and fixed to the sensor housing through a screw, and a valve adapter including a threaded end such that the end is covered with a valve cap. | 12-23-2010 |
Yong-Joon Lee, Seongnam-Si KR
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| 20150029113 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - An electronic device includes: a touchscreen having a front touchscreen region and at least one side touchscreen region, the side touchscreen region being integrally formed with the front touchscreen region; and a body to which the touchscreen is attached. In one such electronic device, an application program corresponding to a side icon on the side touchscreen region is configured to be displayed on the front touchscreen region when the side icon is moved to an activation icon on the side touchscreen region by a drag-and-drop operation. In another such electronic device, an application program corresponding to a side icon on the side touchscreen region is configured to be displayed on the front touchscreen region when the side icon is moved to the front touchscreen region by a drag-and-drop operation. | 01-29-2015 |
Yong-Joon Lee, Yongin-City KR
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| 20140218321 | MOBILE DEVICE INCLUDING A FLEXIBLE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A mobile device includes a touch-screen having an external touch-screen region, an internal foldable touch-screen region, and a curved-surface touch-screen region that couples the external touch-screen region and the internal foldable touch-screen region, and a body to which the touch-screen is attached, wherein the device is configured to move at least one icon corresponding to at least one executing application program to the curved-surface touch-screen region in response to a folding angle of the internal foldable touch-screen region when a folding operation of the internal foldable touch-screen region is performed. | 08-07-2014 |
Yong-Joon Lee, Yongin-Si KR
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| 20130307816 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display device and a method of controlling the display device are provided. The display device includes: a display unit for displaying visual information to a user on an overall screen region, and being configured to bend with respect to a bending portion between screen regions of the overall screen region that display the visual information; a pressure sensor a location corresponding to the bending portion, and being configured to sense a first pressure applied to the bending portion when the display unit is bent with respect to the bending portion; and a control unit for controlling the visual information provided through the display unit based on sensing information transferred from the pressure sensor. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130336304 | TERMINAL SYSTEM AND FLEXIBLE TERMINAL - A including a first terminal and a second terminal that are configured to be coupled to each other over a local area wireless communication network, wherein the second terminal senses the amount of transformation of the second terminal and displays different information according to the amount of transformation of the second terminal. | 12-19-2013 |
Yong-Joon Park, Daejeon KR
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| 20080286187 | MESOPOROUS SILICA PARTICLES AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are mesoporous silica particles and a preparation method thereof, particularly, a method of preparing mesoporous silica particles, including mixing a silica precursor, an alkylamine-based surfactant, and a phosphoric acid-based cosurfactant, thus preparing a mixture solution (a mother liquor); adding or not adding the mixture solution with an acid solution, and conducting stirring, thus providing mesoporous silica particles; and thermally treating the mesoporous silica particles. These mesoporous silica particles are prepared using a phosphoric acid-based cosurfactant for stabilizing the surface of the particles to prevent the aggregation thereof, thereby uniformly distributing the particles. Through a hydrothermal reaction, the mesoporous silica particles have various pore sizes, a large surface area, and a high pore volume, and thus are widely used in catalysts, adsorbents, low dielectrics, and separation and purification processes, and are useful as templates for the preparation of novel porous materials, including porous carbon. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20120026495 | Device for On-Site Measurement of Concentration of Uranium in High Temperature Molten Salts - A device for on-site measurement of concentration of uranium in high temperature molten salts is provided. More particularly, to a device for on-site measurement of concentration of uranium in high temperature molten salts that can be directly applied to a pyroprocess for reusing spent nuclear fuel and determine concentration of uranium 3+ and 4+ chemical species using ultraviolet-visible light absorption spectrometry. The device includes first and second optical waveguides submerged in molten salts including uranium through a port formed at an upper side of a pyrochemical process apparatus; a lengthwise driver installed at the port to be operated to adjust a distance between the optical waveguides; a light source for supplying light to the second optical waveguide as any one of the optical waveguides; and a spectrometer connected to the first optical waveguide as the other one of the optical waveguides to analyze the light emitted from the second optical waveguide and introduced through the first optical waveguide via the molten salts. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120123721 | ELECTRONIC SCALE HAVING FUNCTION OF COMPENSATING FOR AIR PRESSURE CHANGES IN GLOVE BOX - The present invention relates to an electronic scale having an air pressure change compensation function, which can precisely measure the weight of an object to be weighed even in an environment in which air pressure changes moment by moment in an airtight space such as in a glove box. According to the present invention, there is provided an electronic scale having an internal air pressure measurement sensor, by which the function of correcting the weight of an object to be weighed is provided even in an environment in which air pressure changes such as in the glove box is provided, thus enabling the weight of a sample to be precisely measured even in an environment in which air pressure changes moment by moment. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20130264222 | MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM OF METAL IONS OR OXYGEN IONS APPLICABLE TO HIGH CONCENTRATION NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE - A monitoring method of metal ions or oxygen ions applicable to a high concentration non-aqueous electrolyte includes: applying a potential in a non-aqueous electrolyte to obtain current information with respect to the potential; varying the potential applied in the non-aqueous electrolyte containing metal ion concentration or oxygen ion concentration such that the metal ion concentration or the oxygen ion concentration is maintained in spite of the potential being applied; detecting a linear relationship among the concentration, the current, and passed charges in the non-aqueous electrolyte by repeatedly performing the obtaining step and the varying step, while changing the concentration; and calculating metal ion concentration or oxygen ion concentration of the non-aqueous electrolyte in pyroprocessing of the non-aqueous electrolyte by using the linear relationship. Concentration and components of a solute existing in a non-aqueous electrolyte can be measured while an electrowinning process and pyroprocessing is being conducted. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20150050816 | METHOD OF ELECTROCHEMICALLY PREPARING SILICON FILM - A method of preparing a silicon thin film, silicon thin film prepared using the method, and an electronic device including the silicon thin film are provided. The method includes applying an oxidized silicon element solution to a substrate and sintering the silicon oxide film to prepare a compact silicon oxide thin film, electrochemically reducing the silicon oxide thin film to form a porous silicon film, and re-sintering the porous silicon film. Therefore, the silicon thin film used in semiconductors, solar cells, secondary batteries and the like can be easily prepared at a low cost with a smaller number of processes than the conventional methods, and thus price competitiveness of products can be enhanced. | 02-19-2015 |
Yong-Joon Park, Suwon-Si KR
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| 20140104710 | CAMERA MODULE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A camera module including a housing; a lens barrel having a lens and reciprocating in the housing; a magnetic member coupled with the lens barrel; an electromagnetic member coupled with the housing and generating a magnetic field so that the lens barrel moves along an optical axis; and a Hall sensor in the housing and detecting a change in magnetic field according to a position of the magnetic member before electric power is outputted to the electromagnetic member. A control unit sets a current position of the magnetic member as a first target position, setting an initial position for driving auto focusing as a second target position, aligning the lens barrel to the first target position by controlling electric power supplied to the electromagnetic member, and then moving the lens barrel to the second target position by supplying electric power to the electromagnetic member. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20160054641 | CAMERA MODULE - Disclosed herein is a camera module in which a movement of a magnet is controlled by only magnetic force between the magnet and a yoke without a spring for controlling the movement of the magnet which operates up and down. The camera module includes: a lens module; and a main frame supporting the lens module and allowing the lens module to be driven in an optical axis direction, wherein the lens module includes: a lens assembly including a plurality of lenses; and a magnet fixed to one side of the lens module, and the main frame includes: a coil facing the magnet, fixed to one side within the main frame, and generating an electric field as power is applied thereto; and a yoke disposed to face the magnet with the main frame and the coil interposed therebetween and controlling driving of the lens module by attraction with the magnet. | 02-25-2016 |
Yong-Joon Son, Yuseong-Gu KR
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| 20080248789 | MOBILE MIDDLEWARE SUPPORTING CONTEXT MONITORING AND CONTEXT MONITORING METHOD USING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is mobile middleware, a context monitoring method, a context-aware system, and a context-aware service provision method, which support energy-efficient context monitoring. The mobile middleware receives a request for a CMQ from context-aware application programs, receives sensor data from sensors, monitors whether the CMQ is satisfied, and transmits an event to the context-aware application programs according to results of the monitoring. In this case, the mobile middleware controls the sensors so that only sensor data required to determine whether the CMQ is satisfied needs to be transmitted so as to reduce energy consumption during the performance of the monitoring. Therefore, the mobile middleware can perform energy-efficient context monitoring, required by the context-aware application programs. | 10-09-2008 |