Abstract:
In a display apparatus, a display panel is divided into dimming areas and a backlight device includes light source blocks providing light to the dimming areas. Average gray-scale values and maximum gray-scale values respectively corresponding to the dimming areas are generated based on image signals provided to the dimming areas. Whether the average gray-scale values and the maximum gray-scale values are respectively within first and second reference ranges are checked. One of at least two parameters is selected according to a checked result, and representative brightness values respectively corresponding to the dimming areas are determined using the selected parameter. Duty ratios of the light source blocks are controlled based on the representative brightness values. As a result, power consumption is reduced when applying a dimming device to the display apparatus.
Abstract:
Provided is a BLDC motor for a hair dryer, which includes high strength plastic parts integrated through injection molding. Thus, the number of parts is decreased to thereby decrease manufacturing costs and the weight of the BLDC motor. Furthermore, a sirocco fan installed in the BLDC motor is directly coupled to an outer circumferential surface of a rotor housing so as to optimize an assembling structure of the sirocco fan, thereby stabilizing the rotation thereof. Accordingly, vibration and noise due to rotation can be reduced, and an amount of introduced air can be maximized. To this end, the BLDC motor includes a rotor housing including permanent magnets on an inner surface thereof, and a shaft hole in a central portion thereof to receive a shaft, wherein a sirocco fan for blowing air is coupled to an outer portion of the rotor housing, a rotor frame coupling the shaft to the rotor housing to integrally rotate them, a stator core around which a coil is wound to interact with a magnetic field formed on the permanent magnets, thereby generating torque, a PCB coupled to a lower portion of the stator core by a screw, a base bracket including a support protrusion on an upper outer portion thereof to support the stator core, and a bearing housing coupled to an upper portion of the base bracket to support a ball bearing, and including a removal prevention protrusion in a lower outer portion thereof to prevent removal of the stator core.
Abstract:
A method of driving a light source unit of a liquid crystal display panel according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes the steps of calculating average and maximum values of image signals applied to the liquid crystal panel; calculating a representative value of the image signals using the average and maximum values; determining the luminance of the light source unit according to the representative value and driving the light source unit accordingly. The representative value may be calculated from Lrep=(1−β)×Lavg+β×Lmax, where Lrep is a representative value, Lavg is an average value, Lmax is the maximum value, and β is a value that decreases as a difference between the maximum and average image signal values increases, and has a range between 0 and 1.
Abstract:
A display apparatus includes a shutter panel and a display panel that alternately displays a left-eye image and a right-eye image in a 3D mode. The shutter panel includes dual-frequency liquid crystals in which a polarity of dielectric constant anisotropy is changed according to a frequency of the driving voltage to selectively delay a phase of the left-eye image or the right-eye image, which pass through the dual-frequency liquid crystals. The dual-frequency liquid crystals have a fast response speed to the low voltage, and thus a cross-talk phenomenon between the left-eye image and the right-eye image may be prevented.
Abstract:
A circuit board includes a capacitor and a circuit substrate. The capacitor is mounted on the first insulation layer, and a first conductive layer is disposed between the first and second insulation layers. A plurality of first holes is disposed extended through the first conductive layer, and has a mesh pattern to decrease the spread of vibration generated by the capacitor. A third insulation layer is disposed in the first holes, and the third and first insulation layers may include the same material.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus to control power supplied to a heating roller and a phase control circuit corresponding to the method or the apparatus. The phase control circuit may include an examination unit to compare levels of a sine wave having a predetermined first period and a switching signal to increase and decrease repeatedly according to a predetermined second period, and a phase control signal generation unit to generate a phase control signal having a non-zero in intervals of time sections including a time when levels of the switching signal and the sine wave which is in a decreasing section are equal to each other during a time period when the level of the sine wave is zero, and a time when levels of the switching signal and the sine wave which is in an increasing section are equal to each other during a time period when the level of the sine wave is zero.
Abstract:
A display device has a noise reduction function. The display device includes a display panel, a data driver connected to the display panel, a gate driver connected to the display panel, and a signal controller. The signal controller controls the data driver and the gate driver, and includes an inversion determinator that is configured to select an inversion driving method based on an image pattern of input image data.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a mutant Neq A523R DNA polymerase consisting of an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 wherein alanine at amino acid position 523 in a Nanoarchaeum equitans DNA polymerase (Neq DNA polymerase) consisting of an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 has been substituted with arginine by site-directed mutagenesis. Also disclosed are a gene consisting of a nucleotide sequence encoding the mutant Neq A523R DNA polymerase, a recombinant vector comprising the gene, and a transformant transformed with the vector. In addition, disclosed are a PCR kit comprising the mutant Neq A523R DNA polymerase having excellent performance compared to the wild-type Neq DNA polymerase, and a method for preparing the Neq A523R DNA polymerase.
Abstract:
A switching mode power supply apparatus includes an alternating current (AC) power input unit to receive an AC voltage from an AC power supply source, a first rectifier to output a direct current (DC) voltage by rectifying the received AC voltage, a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generator to output a PWM signal, a transformer to transform the DC voltage output from the first rectifier into an AC voltage according to a turn ratio and outputting the AC voltage according to the PWM signal, a second rectifier to output a DC voltage by rectifying the AC voltage output from the transformer, a feedback unit to provide as feedback a change of the DC voltage output from the second rectifier to the PWM signal generator, a DC power input unit to receive a DC voltage from a DC power supply source, a DC voltage input detector to detect whether a DC voltage is input to the DC power input unit based on connectivity with the DC power input unit, and an AC power input controller to stop input of the AC voltage from the AC power supply source based on whether a DC voltage is input to the DC power input unit.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a steering column having an outer tube, an adjustment lever, a tilt bolt and a steering shaft. According to the present invention, force for supporting the outer tube is increased and strengthened at the time of tightening the adjustment lever, and the tilt bolt is coupled on the central axis of the steering shaft so that no bending is caused and the adjustment lever does not hit a driver on the knee when a vehicle collision occurs, whereby the collision safety of the vehicle can be improved, and the number of parts and steps for assembling the parts can be reduced.