Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device that includes a heating unit which comprises a first heat source to heat an unfixed image on a print medium, and a pressing unit which forms a fixing nip by contacting the heating unit, where the pressing unit comprises a carbon nanotube heating layer as a second heat source to heat the unfixed image.
Abstract:
A reformer for a fuel cell system, and a method of controlling the reformer. The reformer includes a cylindrical reforming catalyst; a burner disposed inside of the reforming catalyst and comprising a plurality of nozzles to direct flames at the reforming catalyst; a nozzle covering element to selectively cover a portion of each of the nozzles; a combustion fuel supply valve to change the amount of a combustion fuel that is supplied to the burner; and a controller that controls the nozzle covering units and the combustion supply valve. The method of controlling the reformer includes: moving the nozzle covering element to cover a decreasing portion of each of the nozzles in response to an increasing amount of the combustion fuel being supplied to the burner; and moving the nozzle covering element to cover a increasing portion of each of the nozzles in response to a decreasing amount of the combustion fuel supplied to the burner.
Abstract:
A reformer burner that includes a fuel supply tube through which a fuel is supplied and a fuel supply chamber that surrounds the fuel supply tube and has a plurality of atomizing holes to atomize a fuel into a combustion chamber of a reformer.
Abstract:
A fixing unit which enables high-speed operation and miniaturization, and an image forming apparatus having the fixing unit, includes a heating member which is heated by a heat source, the heating member having a predetermined width; a rotating member to rotate in contact with the heating member; a driving member to rotate the rotating member; and a pressing member to press both sides of the heating member towards the driving member and to form a predetermined fixing nip between the rotating member and the driving member, wherein the heating member has a second moment of inertia which is set to maintain a fixing efficiency of 90% or more in a central portion of the heating member.
Abstract:
A fusing device includes a rotatable pressing roller, a fusing belt to rotate by a rotational force transmitted from the rotatable pressing roller, a nip forming member to contact an inner surface of the fusing belt to form a nip on a contact area between the rotatable pressing roller and the fusing belt, a heating member formed in approximately an internal central portion of the fusing belt to heat the nip forming member and the fusing belt, an inner support member formed within the fusing belt to press a nip part of the nip forming member toward the rotatable pressing roller, and an outer support member formed outside the fusing belt, and both ends of the outer support member being engaged with the inner support member to thereby reinforce the strength of the inner support member and form a path for radiation heat to disperse. The support unit includes an inner support member placed within the belt unit, and an outer support member placed outside the belt unit, both ends of the outer support member being engaged with the inner support member to reinforce the strength of the inner support member and to form a path for a radiation heat to disperse.
Abstract:
A heating apparatus and a method of driving the same. The heating apparatus includes: a heating plate on which an object to be heated is loaded and which is partitioned into a plurality of heating zones; a main heating apparatus that is placed on a lower portion of the heating plate and uniformly heats the entire heating plate; and a plurality of subheaters located below the heating plate and disposed to respectively correspond to the heating zones, such that each of the subheaters heats a corresponding one of the heating zones.
Abstract:
A slide opening/closing type mobile device includes a body section including a guide section that has a pair of long holes and is configured so that an interval between the pair of long holes becomes smaller at first, as it goes from one ends towards the other ends of the long holes, and then, becomes larger based on certain starting points; a slider provided with guide rollers movably inserted in the pair of long holes of the guide section in a state of being elastically biased to the outside; a rotation plate rotatably mounted on the slider; and a display section mounted on the rotation plate. The display section is slidable upward and downward with respect to the body section by the slider, and rotates at a predetermined angle by the rotation plate.
Abstract:
Provided are a flash memory system and a programming method performed in the flash memory system. The flash memory system includes a buffer unit including a plurality of buffers, and temporarily storing data transmitted by a host; a plurality of channel units each including at least one flash memory chip that includes a plurality of memory cell arrays; and a control unit which controls the data stored in the buffer unit to be sequentially transmitted to the channel units and the transmitted data to be recorded to the memory cell arrays of the flash memory chips in the channel units.
Abstract:
A method of controlling On-Die Termination (ODT) resistors of memory devices sharing signal lines is provided. The ODT controlling method comprises setting an ODT control enable signal of each of the memory devices and address/command or data termination information to a mode register of the corresponding memory device, and controlling resistances of ODT resistors of the signal lines in the memory devices in response to the address/command or data termination information and termination addresses. When only one of the memory devices is activated, ODT resistors of the activated memory device are set to a first resistance. When all the memory devices are activated, ODT resistors of the memory devices are set to a second resistance.
Abstract:
Provided are a method and apparatus capable of reducing a metadata processing time associated with address mapping performed to input/output burst data at a high speed in a virtual file system of a storage unit having a plurality of non-volatile data storage media. The method includes: determining a block group including a block included in each of a plurality of the non-volatile data storage media; determining an access unit including each page included in the determined block group; and mapping an address of input/output data to the determined block group and the access unit. Therefore, it is possible to significantly reduce an address mapping processing time in the virtual file system that may function as a bottleneck in high-speed input/output in a large-capacity storage unit.