Patents by Inventor Byeong Heon Jeong
Byeong Heon Jeong has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240154137Abstract: A sheet frame module capable of forming an airtight line and flow path of reaction gas by bonding a plurality of sheet frames configured in a flat shape separately from a separator, and a unit cell for a fuel cell including the same, is disposed between a pair of separators for a fuel cell to form an airtight line and flow path of reaction gas, and includes a center sheet frame in which a membrane electrode assembly is disposed at a center portion thereof; a first side sheet frame disposed between one side of the center sheet frame and one of the pair of separators to form an airtight line and flow path of a first reaction gas; and a second side sheet frame disposed between the other side of the center sheet frame and another of the pair of separators to form an airtight line and flow path of a second reaction gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Jin Hyeok YOO, Byeong-Heon Jeong, Seung Hun Han, Duk Hoon Kwon, Jong Jin Yoon, Jong Hyeok Noh
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Patent number: 11919999Abstract: Provided are a method for preparing a polyetherketoneketone and a polyetherketoneketone prepared thereby, wherein, at the time of a polymerization reaction, nitrogen gas is blown into a liquid reaction medium while stirring, thereby quickly removing hydrochloric acid, which is a by-product generated during the reaction, and preventing aggregation of resin particles, thus suppressing the generation of scales.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: HANWHA CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Kwang Seok Jeong, Min Sung Kim, Jae Heon Kim, Ju Young Park, Cho Hee Ahn, Byeong Hyeon Lee, Sang Hyun Cho
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Patent number: 11721820Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a cell pitch of a fuel cell stack, the fuel cell stack including a plurality of unit cells stacked in a stacking direction, wherein each unit cell has a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) interposed between a pair of metal separators, is provided. The apparatus includes a detector configured to generate a magnetic field in response to application of a current while being moved along the stacking direction of the unit cells, and sense an induced current generated in the separators by the generated magnetic field to detect positions of the separators.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Jin Hyeok Yoo, Byeong-Heon Jeong
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Patent number: 11658313Abstract: A separator assembly for a fuel cell includes: a first separator having a protruding bead seal providing a seal; a second separator joined to the first separator to be integrated therewith and having an arched bulge protruding in the same direction as the bead seal at a location corresponding to a location where the bead seal is formed; a gasket provided on a concave surface of the bulge of the second separator at the location where the bulge is formed, the concave surface being opposite to a convex surface of the bulge; and a sealing agent applied to a convex surface of the bead seal of the first separator at the location where the bead seal is formed.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Seong Il Heo, Yoo Chang Yang, Byeong-Heon Jeong
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Patent number: 11652221Abstract: A separator assembly for an air-cooled fuel cell includes: a cathode separator and an anode separator, each of which having a cooling surface bonded to each other to face each other. The separator assembly further includes a plurality of first gaskets having a ring shape configured to surround and seal a plurality of inlet manifolds and a plurality of outlet manifolds are disposed on a cooling surface of any one separator among the cooling surface of the cathode separator and the cooling surface of the anode separator. The plurality of first gaskets are configured to allow cooling air for cooling the cooling surface to flow between first gaskets adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Byung Gun Song, Byeong-Heon Jeong, Young June Park
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Patent number: 11641018Abstract: A unit cell of a fuel cell includes: an insert including a membrane electrode assembly and a gas diffusion layer; a foamed body disposed on an outer side surface of the insert; and a frame covering an outer side surface of the foamed body such that a polymer resin is injected to the outer side surface of the foamed body while the polymer resin partly penetrates into the foamed body.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Soo Jin Lim, Byeong-Heon Jeong, Seong Il Heo
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Publication number: 20230089216Abstract: Disclosed are methods manufacturing a four-layer membrane electrode assembly integrated with an adhesive film. The methods include a step of preparing a three-layer membrane electrode assembly comprising a first electrode and a second electrode by attaching the first electrode to a first surface of an electrolyte membrane, attaching the second electrode to a second surface of the electrolyte membrane, and joining a first gas diffusion layer to the first electrode; and a step of attaching an adhesive film to the three-layer membrane electrode assembly by preparing the adhesive film by attaching an upper protective film to an upper surface of the adhesive film and a lower protective film to a lower surface of the adhesive film, removing the lower protective film, and attaching the adhesive film to an outer peripheral region of the membrane electrode assembly including the second electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Ye Jin Yoon, Byeong-Heon Jeong
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Patent number: 11591422Abstract: A method can be used for manufacturing an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer for a fuel cell. A polymerization step includes subjecting an organic chelate compound forming a coordinate bond, a vanadium-based Ziegler-Natta catalyst, an organoaluminum compound, and ethylene, propylene, and diene monomers, together with a solvent, to polymerization in a reactor. A separation step includes recovering residual catalysts and unreacted monomers from the stream discharged from the reactor. An acquisition step includes recovering the solvent from the stream deprived of the residual catalysts and unreacted monomers to acquire the ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Kumho Polychem Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byeong-Heon Jeong, Hee Ryoung Koo, Au Ji Ru Son, Young Min Jang, Hyun Soo Kim
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Patent number: 11581551Abstract: An elastomeric cell frame for a fuel cell includes an insert which includes: a membrane electrode assembly including a polymer electrolyte membrane and a pair of electrode layers respectively disposed on opposite sides of the polymer electrolyte membrane; and a pair of gas diffusion layers disposed and bonded on upper and lower surfaces of the membrane electrode assembly, respectively. The insert further includes an elastomeric frame disposed in an external region of the insert. The elastomeric frame surrounds one of opposite edge surfaces of the insert and a side surface of the insert, the elastomeric frame being interface-bonded, through thermal bonding, to portions of the polymer electrolyte membrane and the electrode layers exposed at the one of opposite edge surfaces of the insert and the side surface of the insert.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Byeong-Heon Jeong, Jin Hyeok Yoo
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Patent number: 11549858Abstract: An apparatus for testing the airtightness of a separator for a fuel cell includes: a jig unit being in close contact with a surface of the separator on which an airtightness line is formed, and having a test flow field formed thereon, the test flow field being opened to a location contacting the airtightness line of the separator; and a test solution supply means for supplying a test solution to a contact location at which the airtightness line of the separator and the jig unit contact to each other through the test flow field of the jig unit, such that a leakage of the test solution at the contact location is tested.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Jin Hyeok Yoo, Byeong-Heon Jeong
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Publication number: 20220411548Abstract: A method can be used for manufacturing an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer for a fuel cell. A polymerization step includes subjecting an organic chelate compound forming a coordinate bond, a vanadium-based Ziegler-Natta catalyst, an organoaluminum compound, and ethylene, propylene, and diene monomers, together with a solvent, to polymerization in a reactor. A separation step includes recovering residual catalysts and unreacted monomers from the stream discharged from the reactor. An acquisition step includes recovering the solvent from the stream deprived of the residual catalysts and unreacted monomers to acquire the ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Byeong-Heon Jeong, Hee Ryoung Koo, Au Ji Ru Son, Young Min Jang, Hyun Soo Kim
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Patent number: 11459412Abstract: A method can be used for manufacturing an ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer for a fuel cell. A polymerization step includes subjecting an organic chelate compound forming a coordinate bond, a vanadium-based Ziegler-Natta catalyst, an organoaluminum compound, and ethylene, propylene, and diene monomers, together with a solvent, to polymerization in a reactor. A separation step includes recovering residual catalysts and unreacted monomers from the stream discharged from the reactor. An acquisition step includes recovering the solvent from the stream deprived of the residual catalysts and unreacted monomers to acquire the ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymer.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Kumho Polychem Co., Ltd.Inventors: Byeong-Heon Jeong, Hee Ryoung Koo, Au Ji Ru Son, Young Min Jang, Hyun Soo Kim
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Patent number: 11387478Abstract: An elastomeric cell frame for a fuel cell according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes, as a cell frame constituting a unit cell of a fuel cell, an insert including a membrane electrode assembly having an anode formed on one surface of a polymer electrolyte membrane, and having a cathode formed on the other surface thereof, and a pair of gas diffusion layers disposed on both surfaces thereof; and an elastomeric frame disposed to surround the rim of the insert in the outer region of the insert, and formed with a discharge flow field provided in the form of a sheet bonded at the rim of the insert and the interface thereof while being thermally bonded and for discharging generated water generated in the insert along the longitudinal direction at the widthwise edge.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Jin Hyeok Yoo, Yoo Chang Yang, Byeong-Heon Jeong
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Publication number: 20220209255Abstract: A separator assembly for an air-cooled fuel cell includes: a cathode separator and an anode separator, each of which having a cooling surface bonded to each other to face each other. The separator assembly further includes a plurality of first gaskets having a ring shape configured to surround and seal a plurality of inlet manifolds and a plurality of outlet manifolds are disposed on a cooling surface of any one separator among the cooling surface of the cathode separator and the cooling surface of the anode separator. The plurality of first gaskets are configured to allow cooling air for cooling the cooling surface to flow between first gaskets adjacent to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Byung Gun SONG, Byeong-Heon JEONG, Young June PARK
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Patent number: 11374239Abstract: A frame gasket may include a flat base, which is positioned along the edge of stack constitutional parts and which includes a first elastic base and reinforced fibers mixed therein to ensure sealing of a fuel cell stack, and first projection units, which project over the base and which include a second elastic base.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Byeong-Heon Jeong, Seong Il Heo, Soo Jin Lim
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Patent number: 11367883Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an elastomeric cell frame for a fuel cell, a method of manufacturing the same, and a unit cell using the same, in which the elastomeric cell frame is integrally bonded to a membrane electrode assembly and a gas diffusion layer using a pair of elastomeric frames without a separate adhesive member. An elastomeric cell frame of a unit cell of a fuel cell according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an insert including a membrane electrode assembly and a pair of gas diffusion layers disposed on and bonded to opposite surfaces of the membrane electrode assembly; and an elastomeric frame including a pair of elastomeric frames which is bonded to each other and has portions disposed on a lower surface and an upper surface of a rim of the insert, respectively, in an outer region of the insert.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Byeong-Heon Jeong, Jin Hyeok Yoo, Seong Il Heo
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Publication number: 20220140370Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a cell pitch of a fuel cell stack, the fuel cell stack including a plurality of unit cells stacked in a stacking direction, wherein each unit cell has a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) interposed between a pair of metal separators, is provided. The apparatus includes a detector configured to generate a magnetic field in response to application of a current while being moved along the stacking direction of the unit cells, and sense an induced current generated in the separators by the generated magnetic field to detect positions of the separators.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Jin Hyeok Yoo, Byeong-Heon Jeong
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Publication number: 20220057287Abstract: An apparatus for testing the airtightness of a separator for a fuel cell includes: a jig unit being in close contact with a surface of the separator on which an airtightness line is formed, and having a test flow field formed thereon, the test flow field being opened to a location contacting the airtightness line of the separator; and a test solution supply means for supplying a test solution to a contact location at which the airtightness line of the separator and the jig unit contact to each other through the test flow field of the jig unit, such that a leakage of the test solution at the contact location is tested.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Jin Hyeok Yoo, Byeong-Heon Jeong
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Elastomeric cell frame for fuel cell, method for manufacturing the same and fuel cell using the same
Patent number: 11251441Abstract: An elastomeric cell frame for a fuel cell includes an insert in which a membrane electrode assembly and a pair of gas diffusion layers disposed on both surfaces of the insert have been bonded; a separator assembly disposed on one of the surfaces of the insert while a pair of separators is configured to face each other; and a sheet-shaped elastomeric frame disposed to surround a rim of the insert and a rim of the separator assembly and a side surface thereof in outside regions of the insert and the separator assembly, and integrally bonded with the rim of the insert and the rim of the separator assembly by thermal bonding.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jin Hyeok Yoo, Byeong-Heon Jeong -
Patent number: 11183697Abstract: A fuel cell separator includes a first separator plate and a second separator plate for an anode or a cathode. The first and second separator plates are adjacent to each other for assembly in a fuel cell stack. A first protrusion is formed at an edge portion of the first separator plate and protrudes toward the second separator plate arranged facing the first separator plate. A second protrusion is formed at an edge portion of the second separator plate and protrudes toward the first separator plate arranged facing the second separator plate. With the first and second separator plates adjacent to each other, since side surfaces of the first and second protrusions push each other, assembly positions of the first and second separator plates are regulated. The first and second protrusions are arranged such that opposing side surfaces thereof are spaced from each other. A third gasket is arranged in a gap between the first and second protrusions.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Soo Jin Lim, Byeong-Heon Jeong, Seong Il Heo