Abstract:
A clothing treatment apparatus includes a plurality of inverters for controlling the motors of a drum, a compressor, and a blowing fan, a converter for converting input power input from an external source and outputting the converted power to the inverters, and a control unit for controlling the plurality of inverters and the converter.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a rotor that is capable of more efficiently using magnetic flux from magnets and a motor including the same. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores, a plurality of magnets magnetized such that magnetic flux is formed in the circumferential direction, the magnets and the rotor cores being alternately arranged in the circumferential direction, a coupler connected to a shaft, and a rotor frame including a coupler base connected to the coupler, an extension base extending from the coupler base in the radial direction, and a rotary base extending from the extension base in the axial direction of the shaft for supporting the rotor cores and the magnets while surrounding the rotor cores and the magnets, wherein the coupler base, the extension base, and the rotary base are integrally formed by injection molding, and the rotor frame is coupled to the coupler, the rotor cores, and the magnets, and wherein the extension base is provided with crossing ribs that cross in the radial direction.
Abstract:
A refrigerator includes: a cabinet defining a storage space, a door configured to open and close the storage space, a microphone configured to receive voice, a speaker configured to output audio, and a controller configured to, based on the microphone receiving a voice command and the audio being output, operate the refrigerator according to the voice command.
Abstract:
Provided are a robot cleaner and a method for controlling the same, which are capable of determining the presence or absence of a liquid based on an image captured by a camera. The robot cleaner includes a cleaner body including a traveling part, a camera provided on one surface of the cleaner body and configured to acquire an image of surroundings of the cleaner body, and a controller provided in the cleaner body and configured to control the traveling part. The controller is configured to divide an image acquired by the camera into a plurality of images with respect to a reference line, and determine the presence or absence of a liquid based on two or more images among the plurality of divided images.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a robot cleaner, and more particularly, to a robot cleaner that replaces a battery charged in a charging base and a discharged battery of the cleaning robot simply by using power of a cleaning robot of the robot cleaner. According to the present disclosure, the cleaning robot of the robot cleaner may include at least two driving wheels, and the charging base may include a replacement unit mechanically connected to one of the driving wheel to replace batteries and a docking unit mechanically connected to the other of the driving wheel to dock the cleaning robot. Therefore, as the cleaning robot and the charging base are mechanically connected, there is an effect of exchanging batteries only by using a control unit and the driving motor of the cleaning robot.
Abstract:
Provided is an emotional-speech synthesizing device including: a sentence recognition unit that recognizes a sentence that is input; a word emotion determination unit that calculates probability vector of an emotion that is pre-defined for each word that makes up the recognized sentence and estimates the emotion and a rhythm based on the probability vector; and an emotional-speech synthesizing unit. The emotional-speech synthesizing unit calculates in stages degrees of similarity in the emotion and the rhythm between the adjacent words based on context information on the recognized sentence, applies weight to a phoneme candidate corresponding to the each word based on the degrees of the similarity and the probability vector, selects the phoneme candidate that has a minimum target pitch, minimum duration time, a minimum distance value of a target pitch contour, and thus synthesizes an emotional speech that corresponds to the recognized sentence in optimal units.
Abstract:
A switching mode power supply apparatus is provided. The switching mode power supply apparatus may include a switch unit configured to switch an input voltage to a transformer and a controller configured to select an operation mode having a switching frequency according to a size of a load applied to a secondary side of the transformer and control a switching operation of the switch unit. The switching mode power supply apparatus may include a transformer. A refrigerator having the switching mode power supply apparatus is also provided.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus may detect a rotor magnetic pole of a single-phase BLDC motor. The method and apparatus may quickly and precisely initially drive the single-phase BLDC motor by detecting a position of a magnetic pole of a rotor adjacent to a stator by applying a high frequency voltage to the single-phase BLDC motor and analyzing a magnitude of a flowing current.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a rotor that is capable of more efficiently using magnetic flux from magnets and a motor including the same. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores, a plurality of magnets magnetized such that magnetic flux is formed in the circumferential direction, the magnets and the rotor cores being alternately arranged in the circumferential direction, a coupler connected to a shaft, and a rotor frame formed by injection molding, the rotor frame being integrally coupled to the rotor cores, the magnets, and the coupler, wherein each of the rotor cores includes a pole shoe for defining a gap between each of the rotor cores and a stator and a rotor core body having a depression formed in the side opposite to the pole shoe in the radial direction, and portions of side surfaces of corresponding ones of the magnets located at opposite sides of each of the rotor cores are exposed by the depression to define an aperture formed in the circumferential direction.
Abstract:
A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator may have a refrigerator body having a first storage chamber and a second storage chamber, an evaporator located at the first storage chamber, a cooling fan disposed at one side of the evaporator, a circulation path formed to include the evaporator and the cooling fan, the circulation path having a plurality of openings at upper and lower parts of the first storage chamber, an upper communication portion arranged to connect upper regions of each of the first and second storage chambers, a lower communication portion arranged to connect lower regions of each of the first and second storage chambers, a temperature sensor unit configured to sense inner temperatures of the second storage chamber and a controller being configured to control a rotation direction of the cooling fan based on the detected temperatures of the temperature sensor unit.