Patents by Inventor Joon Ho Yoon

Joon Ho Yoon 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: 20180274794
    Abstract: An air conditioner (AC) indoor unit includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet; a heat exchanger arranged inside the housing; a blower fan for sucking in air at the inlet to be subject to heat exchange with the heat exchanger, and discharging the heat-exchanged air out of the outlet; and an air flow control device for controlling an air flow discharged from the outlet by sucking in air around the outlet. The AC indoor unit may control the direction of a discharged air flow without a conventional blade structure, thereby increasing an amount of discharged air, reducing circulation noise, and enabling design differentiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd
    Inventors: Woo Seog SONG, Dong Yoon Lee, Bu Youn Lee, Dong Woon Kang, Do Yeon Kim, Do-Hoon Kim, Byung Ghun Kim, Young-Jae Kim, Jun Woo Kim, Hyun Ah Kim, Yong Ho Seo, Hyeong Joon Seo, Byung Yui So, Jae Hyoung Sim, Joon-Ho Yoon, Jung Dae Lee, Chang Seon Lee, Chul Ju Lee, Seung Beom Lim, Keun Jeong Jang, Min Gu Jeon, Min- Gi Cho, Sung-June Cho, Eun Sung Jo, Hyeong Kyu Cho
  • Publication number: 20180274797
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an air conditioner. The air conditioner includes a housing including an inlet and an outlet; an discharge duct connected to the outlet, and configured to guide air discharged from the outlet to an indoor space, a blow fan assembly disposed in the inside of the housing such that a rotating shaft of the blow fan assembly extends in a vertical direction, and configured to inhale air in the vertical direction in which the rotating shaft extends and to discharge the air in a radial direction, and a heat exchanger extending along a part of a circumference of the blow fan assembly, and including a bending portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Kyung Hoon KIM, Hooi Joong KIM, Sung-June CHO, Kwon Jin KIM, Se-Hoon SHIN, Joon-Ho YOON, Yeon-Seob YUN, Heung Seob CHOI
  • Patent number: 9995494
    Abstract: An air conditioner (AC) indoor unit includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet; a heat exchanger arranged inside the housing; a blower fan for sucking in air at the inlet to be subject to heat exchange with the heat exchanger, and discharging the heat-exchanged air out of the outlet; and an air flow control device for controlling an air flow discharged from the outlet by sucking in air around the outlet. The AC indoor unit may control the direction of a discharged air flow without a conventional blade structure, thereby increasing an amount of discharged air, reducing circulation noise, and enabling design differentiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woo Seog Song, Dong Yoon Lee, Bu Youn Lee, Dong Woon Kang, Do Yeon Kim, Do-Hoon Kim, Byung Ghun Kim, Young-Jae Kim, Jun Woo Kim, Hyun Ah Kim, Yong Ho Seo, Hyeong Joon Seo, Byung Yul So, Jae Hyoung Sim, Joon-Ho Yoon, Jung Dae Lee, Chang Seon Lee, Chul Ju Lee, Seung Beom Lim, Keun Jeong Jang, Min Gu Jeon, Min-Gi Cho, Sung-June Cho, Eun Sung Jo, Hyeong Kyu Cho
  • Publication number: 20180080676
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes a housing having an inlet, an outlet, and a discharge plate having a plurality of holes disposed adjacent to the outlet, a heat exchanger disposed within said housing, a blowing fan for blowing air exchanged with the heat exchanger; and a shutter movably provided to close at least one of a first path through which air blown by the blowing fan flows to the outlet and a second path that flows to the discharge plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-June CHO, Dong Yoon LEE, Je Gu LEE, Se-Hoon SHIN, Joon-Ho YOON, Heung Seob CHOI, Kwon Jin KIM
  • Patent number: 9829212
    Abstract: A diffuser which reduces noise generated due to a flow of cool air when the cool air is discharged from a supply duct configured to supply cool air generated from a body provided at outdoors to the indoors, and an air conditioner having the same are provided. The diffuser includes a coupling part coupled to the supply duct, an extension part extending from the coupling part while having a taper shape such that cool air supplied through the supply duct is guided to the indoors, a mesh provided to surround an outer side of the extension part, and a housing accommodating the coupling part and the extension part, and having an opening configured to discharge the cool air supplied to the extension part to the indoors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Hoon Im, Yong Hyun Kil, Jung Ho Kim, Eun Ji Na, Jin Ho Mok, Kil Hong Song, Gwang-jun Yu, Joon-Ho Yoon, Seong-Young Jeong
  • Publication number: 20170284697
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an air conditioner including a suction panel which includes a suction port through which air is suctioned in inside a housing. The suction panel is formed to rotate with an axial direction of an air blowing fan or a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the air blowing fan as a rotation axis to be coupled with or separated from the housing. Accordingly, a user may easily and intuitively separate the suction panel and falling of the suction panel, which may occur when the suction panel is separated, may be effectively reduced using a supporting unit disposed at the suction panel. Also, the housing and cover members which cover an outer perimeter of a lower portion of the housing may be coupled with each other by pressurizing the cover members toward the housing, thereby allowing the user to easily coupled the cover members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Yoon LEE, Jae Hyoung SIM, Do Yeon KIM, Do-Hoon KIM, Byung Yul SO, Joon-Ho YOON, Jung Dae LEE, Sung-June CHO
  • Patent number: 9714773
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an air conditioner including a suction panel which includes a suction port through which air is suctioned in inside a housing. The suction panel is formed to rotate with an axial direction of an air blowing fan or a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the air blowing fan as a rotation axis to be coupled with or separated from the housing. Accordingly, a user may easily and intuitively separate the suction panel and falling of the suction panel, which may occur when the suction panel is separated, may be effectively reduced using a supporting unit disposed at the suction panel. Also, the housing and cover members which cover an outer perimeter of a lower portion of the housing may be coupled with each other by pressurizing the cover members toward the housing, thereby allowing the user to easily coupled the cover members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Yoon Lee, Jae Hyoung Sim, Do Yeon Kim, Do-Hoon Kim, Byung Yul So, Joon-Ho Yoon, Jung Dae Lee, Sung-June Cho
  • Publication number: 20170205082
    Abstract: An air conditioner that further provides a lighting function is provided. The air conditioner can increase space utilization of a ceiling by the lighting device being integrally installed in the indoor unit. In addition, heat generated at the lighting device can be radiated by the cooling structure provided in the indoor unit, and thereby overheating of the lighting device can be prevented. The air conditioner includes a blowing fan configured to flow air, a housing in which an intake port is formed to suction air by the blowing fan, a lighting device provided in the housing, and a cooling channel configured to guide the air suctioned by the blowing fan to pass the lighting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Kyoung-Rock KIM, Joon-Ho YOON, Jung Ho KIM
  • Publication number: 20170167737
    Abstract: An integrated air conditioner comprises: a housing partitioned into a first housing on the upper side thereof and a second housing on the lower side thereof, wherein the first housing has a first intake port through which external air is introduced thereinto and a first exhaust port through which internal air is exhausted therefrom, and the second housing has a second intake port through which external air is introduced thereinto and a second exhaust port through which internal air is exhausted therefrom; a compressor provided in the interior of the housing to compress a refrigerant; a condenser that is provided on a second fluid channel, which connects the second intake port and the second exhaust port, and condenses the compressed refrigerant, supplied from the compressor, into a liquid phase; an expansion unit that expands the refrigerant, condensed in the condenser, into a low-pressure refrigerant; and an evaporator that is provided on a first fluid channel, which connects the first intake port and the fi
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Yong Hyun Kil, Jung Ho Kim, Joon Ho Yoon
  • Publication number: 20170115028
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an air conditioner including a suction panel which includes a suction port through which air is suctioned in inside a housing. The suction panel is formed to rotate with an axial direction of an air blowing fan or a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the air blowing fan as a rotation axis to be coupled with or separated from the housing. Accordingly, a user may easily and intuitively separate the suction panel and falling of the suction panel, which may occur when the suction panel is separated, may be effectively reduced using a supporting unit disposed at the suction panel. Also, the housing and cover members which cover an outer perimeter of a lower portion of the housing may be coupled with each other by pressurizing the cover members toward the housing, thereby allowing the user to easily coupled the cover members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Yoon LEE, Jae Hyoung Sim, Do Yeon Kim, Do-Hoon Kim, Byung Yul So, Joon-Ho Yoon, Jung Dae Lee, Sung-June Cho
  • Publication number: 20170115027
    Abstract: In an air conditioner, a drain extraction unit and a refrigerant pipe connecting unit may be disposed in a blocking region in which a discharge port is not provided so that a size of the discharge port may be secured and the discharge port may be uniformly disposed, thereby generating uniform airflow in a room. In a lower housing formed in a circular shape, some of components inside an indoor unit of the air conditioner may be disposed in a protrusion portion that protrudes from the circular housing, thereby facilitating the installation of the air conditioner. A condensate water collecting space disposed outside the housing may be provided in a drain tray, thereby efficiently preventing a leakage due to condensate water generated outside the housing. The housing, the drain tray, and the cover member of the air conditioner may be coupled by a coupling member coupled outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Yoon LEE, Do-Hoon Kim, Joon-Ho Yoon, Chul Ju Lee, Jun Woo Kim, Bu Youn Lee, Jung Dae Lee, Sung-June Cho
  • Publication number: 20170108229
    Abstract: An air conditioner (AC) indoor unit includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet; a heat exchanger arranged inside the housing; a blower fan for sucking in air at the inlet to be subject to heat exchange with the heat exchanger, and discharging the heat-exchanged air out of the outlet; and an air flow control device for controlling an air flow discharged from the outlet by sucking in air around the outlet. The AC indoor unit may control the direction of a discharged air flow without a conventional blade structure, thereby increasing an amount of discharged air, reducing circulation noise, and enabling design differentiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woo Seog SONG, Dong Yoon LEE, Bu Youn LEE, Dong Woon KANG, Do Yeon KIM, Do-Hoon KIM, Byung Ghun KIM, Young-Jae KIM, Jun Woo KIM, Hyun Ah KIM, Yong Ho SEO, Hyeong Joon SEO, Byung Yul So, Jae Hyoung SIM, Joon-Ho YOON, Jung Dae LEE, Chang Seon LEE, Chul Ju LEE, Seung Beom LIM, Keun Jeong JANG, Min Gu JEON, Min-Gi CHO, Sung-June CHO, Eun Sung JO, Hyeong Kyu CHO
  • Publication number: 20170102154
    Abstract: An air conditioner (AC) indoor unit includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet; a heat exchanger arranged inside the housing; a blower fan for sucking in air at the inlet to be subject to heat exchange with the heat exchanger, and discharging the heat-exchanged air out of the outlet; and an air flow control device for controlling an air flow discharged from the outlet by sucking in air around the outlet. The AC indoor unit may control the direction of a discharged air flow without a conventional blade structure, thereby increasing an amount of discharged air, reducing circulation noise, and enabling design differentiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woo Seog SONG, Dong Yoon LEE, Bu Youn LEE, Dong Woon KANG, Do Yeon KIM, Do-Hoon KIM, Byung Ghun KIM, Young-Jae KIM, Jun Woo KIM, Hyun Ah KIM, Yong Ho SEO, Hyeong Joon SEO, Byung Yul SO, Jae Hyoung SIM, Joon-Ho YOON, Jung Dae LEE, Chang Seon LEE, Chul Ju LEE, Seung Beom LIM, Keun Jeong JANG, Min Gu JEON, Min-Gi CHO, Sung-June CHO, Eun Sung JO, Hyeong Kyu CHO
  • Publication number: 20170089605
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes a housing having a suction port and a discharge port, a main fan configured to draw air into the housing through the suction port and discharge air from the housing through the discharge port, an auxiliary fan configured to draw, into the housing, air discharged by the main fan and a controller configured to control a rotational speed of the auxiliary fan to change a direction in which air is discharged from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Jin KIM, Ju-Hyun Kang, Young-Jae Kim, Byung Yul So, Yong-Gak Kim, In-Jung Baek, Na Yeong Byeon, Moo Gyo Seo, Hyeong Joon Seo, Seung Cheon Yu, Sang Woo Lee, Hyo Kyu Lee, Jin Ho Lim, Min-Gi Cho, Hyeong Kyu Cho, Jun Hwang, Do Yeon Kim, Hyun Ah Kim, Yong Ho Seo, Woo Seog Song, Hyun-Joo Song, Young Sun Shin, Joon-Ho Yoon, Bu Youn Lee, Jung Dae Lee, Chang Seon Lee, Min Gu Jeon, Hee Jae Jeong
  • Patent number: 9557070
    Abstract: An air conditioner (AC) indoor unit includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet; a heat exchanger arranged inside the housing; a blower fan for sucking in air at the inlet to be subject to heat exchange with the heat exchanger, and discharging the heat-exchanged air out of the outlet; and an air flow control device for controlling an air flow discharged from the outlet by sucking in air around the outlet. The AC indoor unit may control the direction of a discharged air flow without a conventional blade structure, thereby increasing an amount of discharged air, reducing circulation noise, and enabling design differentiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woo Seog Song, Dong Yoon Lee, Bu Youn Lee, Dong Woon Kang, Do Yeon Kim, Do-Hoon Kim, Byung Ghun Kim, Young-Jae Kim, Jun Woo Kim, Hyun Ah Kim, Yong Ho Seo, Hyeong Joon Seo, Byung Yul So, Jae Hyoung Sim, Joon-Ho Yoon, Jung Dae Lee, Chang Seon Lee, Chul Ju Lee, Seung Beom Lim, Keun Jeong Jang, Min Gu Jeon, Min-Gi Cho, Sung-June Cho, Eun Sung Jo, Hyeong Kyu Cho
  • Patent number: 9551498
    Abstract: An indoor unit of an air conditioner having improved structures of suction, discharge and/or flow passages which may increase operation efficiency, reduce noises and realize a compact size. The indoor unit includes a housing comprising a front panel and a rear panel coupled to a rear portion of the front panel, at least one discharge outlet exposed to a front of the front panel, at least one suction inlet formed in the rear panel at a position corresponding to the discharge outlet, at least one heat exchanger disposed at a front portion of the suction inlet to absorb heat from air introduced through the suction inlet or transfer heat to the air introduced through the suction inlet, and at least one diagonal flow fan disposed between the heat exchanger and the discharge outlet to suction air passing through the heat exchanger and discharge the air through the discharge outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Ho Kim, Jin Baek Kim, Yeon Seob Yun, Tae Duk Kim, Woo Seog Song, Moon Sun Shin, Hae Gyun Shin, Ki Pyo Ahn, Joon Ho Yoon, Min Gi Cho, Jae Youn Cho, Sun Muk Choi, Hyoung Seo Choi, Dong Gi Han, Jin Woo Hong, Jun Hwang
  • Publication number: 20160327297
    Abstract: An air conditioner (AC) indoor unit includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet; a heat exchanger arranged inside the housing; a blower fan for sucking in air at the inlet to be subject to heat exchange with the heat exchanger, and discharging the heat-exchanged air out of the outlet; and an air flow control device for controlling an air flow discharged from the outlet by sucking in air around the outlet. The AC indoor unit may control the direction of a discharged air flow without a conventional blade structure, thereby increasing an amount of discharged air, reducing circulation noise, and enabling design differentiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woo Seog SONG, Dong Yoon Lee, Bu Youn Lee, Dong Woon Kang, Do Yeon Kim, Do-Hoon Kim, Byung Ghun Kim, Young-Jae Kim, Jun Woo Kim, Hyun Ah Kim, Yong Ho Seo, Hyeong Joon Seo, Byung Yul So, Jae Hyoung Sim, Joon-Ho Yoon, Jung Dae Lee, Chang Seon Lee, Chul Ju Lee, Seung Beom Lim, Keun Jeong Jang, Min Gu Jeon, Min-Gi Cho, Sung-June Cho, Eun Sung Jo, Hyeong Kyu Cho
  • Publication number: 20160131402
    Abstract: A heat pipe provided with an outdoor unit having a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger, a plurality of indoor units provided to be driven at a cooling mode or a heating mode. an indoor unit mode control unit to control the each of the plurality of indoor units to be driven at a cooling mode or a heating mode. and a flow path conversion apparatus connected to a first refrigerant pipe and a second refrigerant pipe connected from the outdoor unit, connected to a high pressure gas pipe and a low pressure gas pipe connected to the indoor unit mode controlling unit, and configured to change the flow path of a refrigerant by selectively connect all or some of the first refrigerant pipe, the second refrigerant pipe, the high pressure gas pipe, and the low pressure gas pipe according to the mode at which the indoor units are driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoung-Rock KIM, Kyung Hoon KIM, Tae II KIM, Hyeon U PARK, Joon-Ho YOON, Dong-Gyu LEE, Dong Sik JIN
  • Publication number: 20150267929
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an air conditioner that is designed to include a first space in which an evaporator is disposed and a second space in which a condenser is disposed and which is divided from the first space. An outdoor unit and an indoor unit are integrally formed, and thus it is easy to move the air conditioner. A structure and disposition of a heat exchanger are improved, and thus heat exchange efficiency is improved. Operations of a cooling mode and a dehumidifying mode are possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Ho KIM, Yong Hyun KIL, Sung-June CHO, Joon-Ho YOON, Kil Hong SONG, Dong Woon KANG, Eun-Jung KANG, Eom Ji JANG, Ina CHAE
  • Publication number: 20150241084
    Abstract: A diffuser capable of reducing noise generated due to a flow of cool air when the cool air is discharged from a supply duct configured to supply cool air generated from a body provided at outdoors to the indoors at a high speed as the diffuser is coupled to the supply duct, and an air conditioner having the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Hoon IM, Yong Hyun KIL, Jung Ho KIM, Eun Ji NA, Jin Ho MOK, Kil Hong SONG, Gwang-jun YU, Joon-Ho YOON, Seong-Young JEONG