Patents by Inventor Hak-Kwan Kim

Hak-Kwan Kim 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).

  • Publication number: 20110318639
    Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing a lithium manganese oxide-carbon nano composite by mixing a lithium ion solution with a manganese ion solution, dispersing a carbon material in the solution in which the lithium ion is mixed with the manganese ion, and forming the lithium manganese oxide on a surface of the carbon material by maintaining the solution in which the carbon material is dispersed at a predetermined temperature. In addition, there is provided the lithium manganese oxide-carbon nano composite formed by coating the carbon material with the lithium manganese oxide at a thickness of several nm. There is provided a manufacturing apparatus capable of coating the carbon material with the lithium manganese oxide at a thickness of several nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicants: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY, SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hak Kwan Kim, Hyun Chul Jung, Dong Hyeok Choi, Kwang Bum Kim, Sang Bok Ma, Hye Ryun Choi
  • Publication number: 20110310529
    Abstract: There are provided an electrochemical capacitor and a method for manufacturing the same. The electrochemical capacitor according to the present invention includes: a plurality of first and second electrodes disposed to be opposite to each other; a separator disposed between the first and second electrodes; wherein at least one of the plurality of first electrodes is made of an electrode material doped with lithium ions and a lithium layer having the dendrite is formed on the surface of the electrode material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong Seok Min, Hak Kwan Kim, Hyun Chul Jung, Dong Hyeok Choi
  • Publication number: 20110305931
    Abstract: Disclosed is a secondary power source and a manufacturing method thereof. The secondary power source includes a unit cell formed by sequentially laminating a first electrode, a separation film, and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode is formed by forming a first electrode material, into which lithium ions can be irreversibly occluded, on a first conductive sheet, and the first electrode is laminated in the unit cell after lithium ions are occluded into the first electrode material by using a metal that can supply lithium ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong Seok Min, Hak Kwan Kim, Hyun Chul Jung, Dong Hyeok Choi, Bae Kyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20110300290
    Abstract: There are provided a device for fabricating an electrode by a roll-to-roll process and a method for fabricating an electrode. The device for fabricating an electrode includes an unwinding roll and a winding roll travelling an electrode material; a film forming roll disposed between the unwinding roll and the winding roll allowing the electrode material to travel along a cylindrical surface of the film forming roll and having a cooling unit cooling the electrode material; and an evaporation unit receiving a lithium source and mounted for the received lithium source to form a thin film in the electrode material positioned on the film forming roll. Thereby, the lithium is deposited in a vacuum atmosphere such that the process is simple and the deposition rate and the deposition uniformity of lithium can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hak Kwan Kim, Dong Hyeok Choi, Hong Seok Min, Hyun Chul Jung, Bae Kyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20110300449
    Abstract: Provided are a method of manufacturing an electrode for a secondary power source, and a secondary power source. The method includes forming an electrode active material on a conductive sheet, forming a Li thin film layer by depositing lithium (Li) on the electrode active material, doping the electrode active material with the deposited Li, and controlling a doping level by monitoring the doping amount of Li. Accordingly, a cathode is doped with Li ions before a cell is assembled, thereby simplifying the manufacturing process, enhancing the doping rate of Li ions, and making the doping amount even.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hak Kwan Kim, Dong Hyeok Choi, Hong Seok Min, Bae Kyun Kim, Hyun Chul Jung
  • Publication number: 20110278161
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a doping bath for fabricating an energy storage device, including: a doping bath that receives an electrolyte; a lithium foil that is provided in the doping bath; and a power supply means that supplies power to the lithium foil and at least one cell laminate provided to be sunk in the electrolyte in the doping bath, wherein the power supply means performs a charging process to supply power between a cathode and an anode of the cell laminate and a discharging process to supply power between the lithium foil and the cathode of the cell laminate to dope the anode of the cell laminate with lithium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Hyeok Choi, Hak Kwan Kim, Hong Seok Min, Hyun Chul Jung, Bae Kyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20110189543
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a magnesium secondary battery. The magnesium secondary battery includes an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte material in which carrier ions, used as carriers between the anode and the cathode at the time of charge/discharge, are received, wherein at least any one of the cathode and the cathode is composed of a spinel crystal structure having magnesium ions Mg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Hyeok Choi, Hak Kwan Kim, Hyun Chul Jung
  • Publication number: 20110168945
    Abstract: Provided are a positive active material and a method of preparing the same. The positive active material includes LiM2-yNyO4 (0<y?2, M and N are transition metals) surface-treated with a nickel (Ni)-containing compound. The positive active material coated with a metal oxide has excellent high-rate discharge performance without a decrease in capacity even at a higher discharge rate in comparison with a capacity at a low discharge rate (C-rate), and a method of preparing the positive active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Hyeok Choi, Hyun Chul Jung, Hak Kwan Kim, Jun Hee Bae
  • Publication number: 20110063777
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a metal oxide electrode material, an electrochemical capacitor using the same, and a method for producing the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a metal oxide electrode material substituting a sublattice location of metal for one or more kinds of different metals, an electrochemical capacitor using the same, and a method for producing the same in metal oxides constituting an electrochemical capacitor electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Dong Hyeok Choi, Hyun Chul Jung, Jun Hee Bae, Hak Kwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20110043967
    Abstract: There is provided a super capacitor and a method of fabricating the same. The method includes providing a substrate in which a plurality of nanoholes are formed, forming a first electrode layer on one face of the substrate, filling the nanoholes with a conductive material to form conductive nanowires, removing the substrate such that the conductive nanowires are placed on the first electrode layer, forming a solid electrolyte layer on the first electrode layer on which the conductive nanowires are formed, and forming a second electrode layer on the solid electrolyte layer, the second electrode layer being separated from the first electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hak Kwan Kim, Hyun Chul Jung, Jun Hee Bae
  • Publication number: 20110043968
    Abstract: There is provided a super capacitor employing a novel hybrid system. The super capacitor includes an anode comprising a transition metal oxide, a cathode comprising a carbide pre-doped with Li ions, a separator disposed between the anode and the cathode to separate the anode and the cathode from each other, and an electrolyte contacting the anode and the cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hak Kwan Kim, Hyun Chul Jung, Dong Hyeok Choi
  • Publication number: 20110013344
    Abstract: There is provided a polarizable electrode for a capacitor and an electric double layer capacitor having the same. The polarizable electrode is a gel-state mixture including carbon nanotubes (CNTs) forming a network structure, porous carbon materials dispersed between the CNTs, and ionic liquids allowing the CNTs and the porous carbon materials to be dispersed. The polarizable electrode secures an electrical connection path between an electrode and a collector and prevents separation between the porous carbon materials and the ionic liquids using the network structure formed by the CNTs. Accordingly, the electric double layer capacitor having the polarizable electrode has low contact resistance between the electrode and the collector and has low possibility of polarization occurrence between the electrode and an electrolyte, resulting in high capacitance and high energy efficiency due to low equivalent series resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sergey Remizov, Hak Kwan Kim, Hyun Chul Jung
  • Publication number: 20110002085
    Abstract: There are provided an electrode for a capacitor and an electric double layer capacitor having the same. The electrode for a capacitor may include: activated carbon; and 25 to 75 parts by weight of carbon aerogel per 100 parts by weight of the activated carbon. The electrode according to an aspect of the invention has excellent bonding strength between electrode materials and is free of defects such as aggregation and cracking. An electric double layer capacitor having this electrode has high capacitance and low internal resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Hee Bae, Hyun Chul Jung, Hak Kwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20100233496
    Abstract: It is to provide a method for manufacturing a metal electrode having transition metal oxide coating layer and a metal electrode manufactured thereby, which eliminates a contact resistance problem and simultaneously improves electric conductivity of the electrode by using a one body electrode, which is not requiring separate current collector and binder, and further maintains pseudo-capacitance from the redox reaction by coating the metal surface with a transition metal oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Hak-Kwan Kim, Seung-Hyun Ra, Jun-Hee Bae, Hyun-Chul Jung
  • Publication number: 20100220430
    Abstract: It relates to a supercapacitor using an ion-exchanger, particularly to a supercapacitor which may optimize the capacity of current collection by employing an ion-exchanger instead of a binder in manufacturing of supercapacitor electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Inventors: Jun-Hee BAE, Seung-Hyun Ra, Hak-Kwan Kim, Hyun-Chul Jung
  • Publication number: 20100195269
    Abstract: It discloses a hybrid supercapacitor including a carbon aerogel cathode and a surface-oxidized transition metal nitride aerogel anode which is able to increase energy density and power density with increase of overall cell potential and at the same time lower internal resistance of the electrode and equivalent series resistance by using a monolithic electrode with no use of current collector and binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Hak-Kwan KIM, Seung-Hyun RA, Jun-Hee BAE, Hyun-Chul JUNG
  • Publication number: 20100195268
    Abstract: It discloses a hybrid supercapacitor including a carbon aerogel cathode and a transition metal oxide aerogel anode which is able to increase energy density and power density with increase of overall cell potential and at the same time lower internal resistance of the electrode and equivalent series resistance by using a monolithic electrode with no use of current collector and binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Hak-Kwan KIM, Soung-Hyun RA, Jun-Hee BAE, Hyun-Chul JUNG