Abstract:
A row decoder preventing leakage current and a semiconductor memory device including the same are provided. The row decoder includes an address decoder and a selection signal generator. The address decoder decodes a predetermined address signal and activates an enable signal. The selection signal generator electrically connects a boosted voltage node to an output node to activate a block selection signal when the enable signal is activated and electrically breaks a path between the boosted voltage node and the output node and a path between the boosted voltage node and a ground voltage node when the enable signal is deactivated. The selection signal generator includes a feedback circuit, a switch, and a direct current (DC) path breaker. The feedback circuit is electrically connected to the output node to generate an output voltage that varies with a voltage level of the block selection signal. The switch transmits the output voltage of the feedback circuit to the output node. The DC path breaker turns on the switch when the enable signal is activated and turns off the switch when the enable signal is deactivated. Accordingly, when a supply voltage applied to the semiconductor memory device is low, a DC path is broken in the row decoder, thereby preventing the leakage current.
Abstract:
An apparatus and a method determine an area of an optical disc in which an inner area and an outer area of the optical disc having an absolute time of 99 minutes are distinguished from each other by referring to a number of ATIP syncs. The method includes counting the number of ATIP syncs for one rotation of the optical disc at a current position of a pickup when ATIP information recorded on the optical disc indicates that the pickup is currently present in an area of the optical disk that is greater than or equal to 95 minutes; and determining the current position of the pickup by comparing the number of counted ATIP syncs with a reference number of ATIP syncs. Accordingly, time spent determining the area of an optical disc and accessing the optical disc is reduced.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM PON) system in which an optical signal outputted from a central office is injected into a Fabry-Perot laser diode (F-P LD) as the light source of an optical network unit, so that the output wavelength of the optical network unit is injection-locked at the same wavelength as that of the optical signal outputted from the central office, thereby enabling the optical network unit to output an optical signal having the same wavelength as that of the optical signal outputted from the central office. In accordance with this system, it is possible to transmit and receive forward and backward data at the same wavelength by the unit of channels. Since inexpensive F-P LDs are used as respective light sources of the central office and optical network units, it is possible to efficiently and economically implement a WDM PON system.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention provide a high voltage transfer circuit, a row decoder circuit comprising the high voltage transfer circuit, and a non-volatile semiconductor memory device comprising the high voltage transfer circuit. In one embodiment, the invention provides a high voltage transfer circuit of a semiconductor memory device comprising a high voltage switch comprising a high voltage transistor comprising a first terminal connected to a boosted voltage via a first depletion-type transistor and comprising a second terminal connected to an output node via a second depletion-type transistor. The high voltage transfer circuit further comprises a driver circuit adapted to drive the first and second depletion-type transistors and the high voltage transistor in response to an input signal.
Abstract:
A pretensioner comprises a pyrotechnic force generating device including a horizontal tube with a propellent charged cartridge, a housing receiving one end of the cylinder with the horizontal tube being supported to cooperate with the force generating device in order to reverse-rotate the reel; a force transmitting portion including an arm positioned in a first chamber of the housing, one end of which is directed to the piston in the cylinder and the other end of which is extended out of the cylinder, a pulley rotatably mounted on the other branched end of the arm and a cable fixed at one end to the housing, passed through the pulley, wound around the clutch disk and fixed at the other end to the clutch disk; and a pretensioner positioned in a second chamber, which comprises the clutch disk and a clutch portion, in which the clutch disk includes a circular groove formed around the periphery thereof to allow a length of the cable to be wound thereon, a plurality of second coupling projections each having a right-angled surface toward one direction and a slanted surface toward the other direction, at least three of coupling grooves cut out at one side in a right-angle and at the other side in a slant angle and a first fixing groove formed to fix the other end of the cable, and the clutch portion includes at least three of first coupling projections forming a slanted surface at one side and a right-angled surface at other side for cooperating with the coupling grooves and a plurality of third coupling projections or concaved grooves formed at the positions facing to the second coupling projections on one side surface of the reel.
Abstract:
An engine encapsulation structure of a vehicle may include an engine room encapsulation member disposed at an upper portion of an engine compartment and covering an upper portion of a power train having an engine and a transmission, an underbody encapsulation member disposed at a lower portion of the engine compartment and covering a lower portion of the power train, wherein the engine room encapsulation member and the underbody encapsulation member form an inner space and enclose the power train in the inner space when being assembled each other, and a front inlet formed at a front portion of the assembly to allow air through the front inlet and to cool the power train while the air passes through the inner space of the assembly, the air being discharged through a rear outlet formed to the assembly.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a stator for an electric water pump may be used for manufacturing the stator used in the electric water pump. In the electric water pump which includes stator assembly for an electric water pump, wherein the stator assembly including a plurality of core-insulator assemblies generates a magnetic field according to a control signal and a rotor is rotated by the magnetic field generated at the stator assembly to pressurize coolant, the method for manufacturing the stator assembly may include a) stacking a plurality of pieces made of a magnetic material to form a core stack, b) molding an insulator to the core stack, c) coiling a coil to the insulator to form a core-insulator assembly so as to form a magnetic path, and d) connecting the respective core-insulator assembly in an annular shape in sequence to form the stator assembly.
Abstract:
A mobile terminal and method of moving network thereof are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a first communication module configured to set a link with a first network, to receive second network-associated information from the first network, and to output the received second network-associated information, a second communication module configured to set a receive-only mode with respect to the second network, to receive signal strength information of one or more neighbor cells belonging to the second network from the second network using the second network-associated information output from the first communication module, and to output the received signal strength information and a controller configured to control a signal input/output operation between the first and second communication modules and a signal transmission/reception operation between the first communication module and the first network, and the second communication module and the second network, respectively.
Abstract:
Provided is a spindle motor having an electrostatic discharge (ESD) path that can stably discharge electric charges introduced from the outside to a rotating shaft through a base plate, in a structure of forming a bearing housing by using a resin and insert-molding the base plate. The spindle motor includes: a rotor to the central portion of which one end of a rotating shaft is coupled; a bearing that rotatably supports the rotating shaft; a bearing housing that accommodates the bearing in the inside of a groove and that is made of a resin; and a base plate whose inner circumferential portion is buried and combined in the inside of the bearing housing, wherein part of the base plate is in contact with the bearing to thus discharge externally introduced static electricity through the rotating shaft, bearing, and the base plate.
Abstract:
A system for accumulating social relation information for social network services, includes a user location profile management unit for collecting at preset periods location profile information of a user; a user profile management unit for collecting and storing user profiles preset by the user; and a social activity tracking unit for collecting profiles from social activities of the user. Further, the system for accumulating the social relation information for the social network services includes a social relation information generation unit for collecting pieces of information received from the user location profile management unit, the user profile management unit, the email tracking unit, the chatting tracking unit and the Internet phone call tracking unit, and extracting new social relation information based on correlations between the pieces of collected information to generate a social relation ontology.