Patents by Inventor Chang-Hak Lim
Chang-Hak Lim 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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Patent number: 7856832Abstract: A refrigerator that allows a user to receive supercooled beverage through a dispenser in the refrigerator door. The refrigerator includes a main body having a compartment and a door opening and closing the compartment, a supercooling compartment in the main body to supercool a beverage, and a dispenser in the door to dispense supercooled liquid from the supercooling compartment without opening the door. A supercooled liquid tank is detachably installed in the supercooling compartment to supercool beverage. The supercooling compartment is installed in the rear side of the door such that a supercooling compartment door may be installed in the front side of the door to open and close the supercooling compartment in front of the door.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2009Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang Hak Lim, Yong Han Kim, Jeong Han Kim, Young Shik Shin, Won Jae Yoon, Jae Seung Lee, Hye Ran Lee, Jung Soo Lim, Joo Young Ha, Kyung Hee Hahm
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Patent number: 7784298Abstract: A refrigerator which can control a supercooling degree corresponding to user's taste or kinds of food, and a cooling control method thereof are disclosed. The refrigerator has a function of supercooling a drink, and includes an input unit to select a slush level for adjusting a supercooling degree of the drink in response to a user's command, a memory unit to store information about a supercooling temperature of the drink corresponding to a selected slush level, and a controller to adjust the supercooling degree of the drink by controlling a temperature within the supercooling compartment based on the information about the supercooling temperature of the drink stored in the memory unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joo Young Ha, Yong Han Kim, Jeong Han Kim, Young Shik Shin, Won Jae Yoon, Jae Seung Lee, Hye Ran Lee, Jung Soo Lim, Chang Hak Lim, Kyung Hee Hahm
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Publication number: 20090314012Abstract: A refrigerator that allows a user to receive supercooled beverage through a dispenser in the refrigerator door. The refrigerator includes a main body having a compartment and a door opening and closing the compartment, a supercooling compartment in the main body to supercool a beverage, and a dispenser in the door to dispense supercooled liquid from the supercooling compartment without opening the door. A supercooled liquid tank is detachably installed in the supercooling compartment to supercool beverage. The supercooling compartment is installed in the rear side of the door such that a supercooling compartment door may be installed in the front side of the door to open and close the supercooling compartment in front of the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang Hak Lim, Yong Han Kim, Jeong Han Kim, Young Shik Shin, Won Jae Yoon, Jae Seung Lee, Hye Ran Lee, Jung Soo Lim, Joo Young Ha, Kyung Hee Hahm
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Patent number: 7596964Abstract: A refrigerator that allows a user to receive supercooled beverage through a dispenser in the refrigerator door. The refrigerator includes a main body having a compartment and a door opening and closing the compartment, a supercooling compartment in the main body to supercool a beverage, and a dispenser in the door to dispense supercooled liquid from the supercooling compartment without opening the door. A supercooled liquid tank is detachably installed in the supercooling compartment to supercool beverage. The supercooling compartment is installed in the rear side of the door such that a supercooling compartment door may be installed in the front side of the door to open and close the supercooling compartment in front of the door.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2006Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang Hak Lim, Yong Han Kim, Jeong Han Kim, Young Shik Shin, Won Jae Yoon, Jae Seung Lee, Hye Ran Lee, Jung Soo Lim, Joo Young Ha, Kyung Hee Hahm
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Publication number: 20080245093Abstract: A refrigerator including a blowing unit optimized for a bottom type condenser. The refrigerator includes a main body having a storage compartment defined therein, a condenser mounted at the bottom of the main body, and a blowing unit to blow air that has already passed through the condenser. The blowing unit includes a centrifugal fan mounted in a machine compartment and a blowing guide member to guide air blown by the centrifugal fan to the front of the main body. Consequently, it is possible to discharge the air that has already passed through the bottom type condenser, to the front of the main body, thereby accomplishing the smooth discharge of air and reducing the power consumption necessary to blow the air.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2008Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Won Jae Yoon, June Kee Min, Yong Pil Park, Sun Gyou Lee, Chang Hak Lim, Jin Jeong, In Sub Lee, Yong Han Kim, Yeo Wool Jung
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Publication number: 20080223063Abstract: Disclosed is a refrigerator in which a space occupied by an evaporating dish can be minimized, evaporation efficiency of defrost water by convection-heat transfer can be improved, air can be easily exhausted in a machine room, and thus the cooling efficiency of a compressor and a condenser can be improved. The refrigerator includes: a cooling apparatus including a compressor, a condenser, and an evaporator; a blowing fan blowing air to cool at least one of the compressor and the condenser; a blowing guide duct guiding the air blown by the blowing fan to an exterior; and an evaporating dish installed in a lower portion of the blowing guide duct in order to collect and evaporate defrost water, the evaporating dish having an opened upper portion to communicate with a path of the blowing guide duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Jeong, June Kee Min, Yong Pil Park, Sung Gyou Lee, Chang Hak Lim, In Sub Lee, Won Jae Yoon, Yong Han Kim, Yeo Wool Jung
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Publication number: 20080127670Abstract: Disclosed is a refrigerator having an ice making apparatus installed at a cooling chamber door that opens/closes a cooling chamber. The refrigerator includes a body having a cooling chamber therein, a cooling chamber door to open/close the cooling chamber, and an ice making apparatus installed in the cooling chamber door to make ice. An ice making evaporator is provided in the ice making apparatus to independently supply the ice making apparatus with cooling air and an ice making evaporator chamber, in which an ice making evaporator is installed, is provided adjacent to the cooling chamber door while being partitioned from the cooling chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTDInventors: Alexei Tikhonov, June Kee Min, Chang-Hak Lim, Won Jae Yoon
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Publication number: 20080066472Abstract: A refrigerator and a safety control method thereof, which is capable of ensuring protection from a high voltage applied to a shelf on which food is placed in order to improve food preservation. The safety control method of a refrigerator having a storage chamber which stores food, the method includes sensing a chamber temperature of the storage chamber, comparing the sensed chamber temperature with a predetermined setting temperature and generating a high voltage when the chamber temperature is less than the predetermined setting temperature, supplying the generated high voltage to the inside of the storage chamber to preserve the food, determining whether a high voltage cutoff condition occurs while the high voltage is supplied to the inside of the storage chamber, and cutting off the high voltage supplied to the inside of the storage chamber when the high voltage cutoff condition occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2007Publication date: March 20, 2008Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang Taek Lee, Young Shik Shin, Jung Soo Lim, Jae Seung Lee, Kyung Hee Hahm, Hye Ran Lee, Jeong Han Kim, Chang Hak Lim, Sook Hyun Hong, Joo Young Ha, Hee Won Jin, Bong Su Son
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Publication number: 20070196543Abstract: A food storage apparatus to sterilize bacteria living in food and a method of controlling the same. The method includes starting an ordered fermentation (maturing) operation in response to a user's input including setting of a target degree of fermentation, detecting a present degree of fermentation of food stored in a storage container, and applying electric energy to the food stored in the storage container if the present degree of fermentation of the food reaches the target degree of fermentation set by the user, to sterilize fermentation fungi, and consequently, to restrict further fermentation of the food.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2006Publication date: August 23, 2007Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Hye Ran Lee, Jae Seung Lee, Kyung Hee Hahm, Young Shik Shin, Jung Soo Lim, Joo Young Ha, Chang Hak Lim
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Publication number: 20070163286Abstract: A refrigerator that allows a user to receive supercooled beverage through a dispenser in the refrigerator door. The refrigerator includes a main body having a compartment and a door opening and closing the compartment, a supercooling compartment in the main body to supercool a beverage, and a dispenser in the door to dispense supercooled liquid from the supercooling compartment without opening the door. A supercooled liquid tank is detachably installed in the supercooling compartment to supercool beverage. The supercooling compartment is installed in the rear side of the door such that a supercooling compartment door may be installed in the front side of the door to open and close the supercooling compartment in front of the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2006Publication date: July 19, 2007Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang Hak Lim, Yong Han Kim, Jeong Han Kim, Young Shik Shin, Won Jae Yoon, Jae Seung Lee, Hye Ran Lee, Jung Soo Lim, Joo Young Ha, Kyung Hee Hahm
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Publication number: 20070163289Abstract: A refrigerator for supercooling beverage into supercooled liquid and a method of producing the supercooled liquid using the same. The refrigerator includes a mixing room provided in a main body to mix chilled air from a freezer compartment and a refrigerator compartment with each other and having a first suction port for suctioning the freezer compartment chilled air and a second suction port for suction the refrigerator compartment chilled air, and a supercooling compartment provided in the main body to be directly or indirectly refrigerated by the chilled air mixed in the mixing room. The mixing room and the supercooling compartment may be provided either in the refrigerator compartment or in the freezer compartment, or in an independent refrigerator compartment to form an independent refrigerating room separated from the freezer compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2006Publication date: July 19, 2007Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyung Hee Hahm, Jae Seung Lee, Hye Ran Lee, Jeong Han Kim, Chang Hak Lim, Jung Soo Lim, Joo Young Ha, Yong Han Kim, Won Jae Yoon, Young Shik Shin
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Publication number: 20070163287Abstract: A refrigerator which can control a supercooling degree corresponding to user's taste or kinds of food, and a cooling control method thereof are disclosed. The refrigerator has a function of supercooling a drink, and includes an input unit to select a slush level for adjusting a supercooling degree of the drink in response to a user's command, a memory unit to store information about a supercooling temperature of the drink corresponding to a selected slush level, and a controller to adjust the supercooling degree of the drink by controlling a temperature within the supercooling compartment based on the information about the supercooling temperature of the drink stored in the memory unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2006Publication date: July 19, 2007Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joo Young Ha, Yong Han Kim, Jeong Han Kim, Young Shik Shin, Won Jae Yoon, Jae Seung Lee, Hye Ran Lee, Jung Soo Lim, Chang Hak Lim, Kyung Hee Hahm
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Patent number: 6769260Abstract: A refrigerator includes at least one storage chamber for accommodating cosmetics. The refrigerator further includes electrical parts for maintaining cosmetics accommodated in the storage chamber at appropriate temperature, a control means for controlling operations of checking and displaying failures of the electrical parts, and a display unit for displaying the results of the checking of the failures.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2002Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae-Seung Lee, Myung-Chul Kim, Yoon-Young Kim, Chang-Hak Lim
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Publication number: 20030226363Abstract: A refrigerator includes at least one storage chamber for accommodating cosmetics. The refrigerator further includes electrical parts for maintaining cosmetics accommodated in the storage chamber at appropriate temperature, a control means for controlling operations of checking and displaying failures of the electrical parts, and a display unit for displaying the results of the checking of the failures.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2002Publication date: December 11, 2003Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae-Seung Lee, Myung-Chul Kim, Yoon-Young Kim, Chang-Hak Lim