Patents by Inventor Nam-Ho Kim

Nam-Ho 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: 20230339282
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a coupled torsion beam axle type rear suspension system that includes a coupled torsion beam axle (100) installed to extend in a transverse direction of a vehicle body, a pair of trailing arms (200) coupled to respective ends of the coupled torsion beam axle (100), and a transverse leaf spring (300) having both ends connected to the respective trailing arms (200) and a center portion connected to a body cross member (40), thereby reducing the number of parts and improving driving stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seung Hak Lee, Won Hae Lee, Byung Joo Chung, Nam Ho Kim, Min Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 11789429
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures include: obtaining a density-based representation of a modeled object, the density-based representation comprising multiple different subsets of elements, each subset having a starting element at a milling depth, which is one of three or more milling depths for three or more corresponding discrete layers that are each perpendicular to a milling direction for the modeled object; and reassigning milling depths of at least a portion of the multiple different subsets of elements, the reassigning for a current starting element in a current layer for an element subset comprising moving the milling depth for the element subset of the current starting element when an angular difference between other starting elements, which are associated with the current starting element and are located in a different layer, meets or exceeds a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Nam Ho Kim, David Jon Weinberg
  • Patent number: 11762368
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes, where the 3D models of the physical structures are produced so as to facilitate manufacturing of the physical structures using 2.5-axis subtractive manufacturing systems and techniques, include: obtaining a design space, design criteria, and in-use case(s); iteratively modifying a generatively designed shape in the design space in accordance with the design criteria and the in-use case(s) using a density-based representation of the generatively designed shape and including adjusting the density-based representation of the generatively designed three dimensional shape in accordance with a milling direction of a 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: David Jon Weinberg, Nam Ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20230264744
    Abstract: A frame for a purpose-built vehicle (PBV) includes: a front part frame positioned at a front side of a vehicle; a rear part frame positioned at a rear side of the vehicle; and a center part frame. The center part frame has a rectangular planar shape and is coupled between the front part frame and the rear part frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nam Ho Kim, Won Hae Lee, Byung Joo Chung, Seung Hak Lee, Min Seok Kim
  • Publication number: 20230264742
    Abstract: A frame structure for a purpose built vehicle (PBV) includes: two main side members extending while gradually rising toward a front of the PBV and extending in a front/rear direction to be disposed on either side of the PBV; two auxiliary side members respectively extending in a front/rear direction to be disposed on a lower side of the two main side members; a front cross member connecting the two auxiliary side members in a lateral direction of the PBV; and a plurality of vertical members respectively connecting the main side members and the auxiliary side members in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Won Hae Lee, Nam Ho Kim, Byung Joo Chung, Seung Hak Lee, Min Seok Kim
  • Publication number: 20230249534
    Abstract: A frame for an electric vehicle includes a front part frame located at a front of the vehicle; a rear part frame located at a rear of the vehicle; and a central part frame configured in a flat shape to be coupled between the front part frame and the rear part frame and to accommodate a battery therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Nam Ho KIM, Won Hae LEE, Byung Joo CHUNG, Seung Hak LEE, Min Seok KIM
  • Publication number: 20230238638
    Abstract: A vehicle battery pack case includes a battery bolt provided on a lateral side of a vehicle frame; a first nut provided outside the battery bolt, externally and internally formed with an internal screw thread and an external screw thread, of which tightening directions are opposite to each other, and tightened to the battery bolt through the internal screw thread; and a second nut provided outside the battery bolt and the first nut, and tightened to the first nut through the external screw thread formed on the first nut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Seung Hak LEE, Won Hae LEE, Byung Joo CHUNG, Nam Ho KIM, Min Seok KIM
  • Publication number: 20230227105
    Abstract: A frame structure for a purpose built vehicle (PBV) includes: an inner panel connected to the rear of a middle part of a side member to form an inner side of a rear part of the side member, a front outer panel connected to the rear of the middle part of the side member and coupled to an outer side of the inner panel to form a closed cross-section, a center outer panel connected to the rear of the front outer panel and coupled to the outer side of the inner panel to form a space in which a rear suspension member is coupled, and a rear outer panel connected to the rear of the center outer panel and coupled to the outer side of the inner panel to form a closed cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Won Hae Lee, Nam Ho Kim, Byung Joo Chung, Seung Hak Lee, Min Seok Kim
  • Publication number: 20230142411
    Abstract: A deposition mask according to an embodiment comprises a metal plate comprising a deposition area and a non-deposition area. The through-hole comprises a communicating portion connected to a first facing hole configured such that the first diameter slopes at an acute angle with regard to one surface in the transverse-axis direction of the metal plate, and a communicating portion connected to a second facing hole configured such that the first diameter slopes at an obtuse angle with regard to one surface in the transverse-axis direction of the deposition mask. In the longitudinal-axis direction of the metal plate, the first facing hole and the second facing hole are arranged alternately in a row. In the transverse-axis direction of the metal plate, the first facing hole and the second facing hole are arranged alternately in a row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventor: Nam Ho KIM
  • Publication number: 20220302805
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, for producing an electrical apparatus. In one aspect of the disclosure, a method includes identifying a first electrical apparatus including a first winding configured to receive a first voltage, the first winding including a first electrical coil and a second coil coupled in series. The method also includes determining, based on a reduction rate, one or more characteristics of a second electrical apparatus including a second winding configured to receive the first voltage, the second winding including a third electrical coil and a fourth coil coupled in parallel. Each of the first coil and the second coil including a first number of turns and each of the third coil and the fourth coil including a second number of turns. The reduction rate is associated with a ratio based on a reducing number of turns and the first number of turns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventor: Nam Ho KIM
  • Publication number: 20220195579
    Abstract: A deposition mask according to an embodiment includes a metal plate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface wherein the metal plate includes iron (Fe) and nickel (Ni), a thickness of the metal plate is 15 ?m to 30 ?m, and the metal plate includes a first surface layer having a depth of 20% or less of the thickness of the metal plate from the first surface and a second surface layer having a depth of 20% or less of the thickness of the metal plate from the second surface, wherein when diffraction intensity with respect to a (111) crystal plane of the first surface layer is defined as I(111), diffraction intensity with respect to a (200) crystal plane is defined as I(200), and diffraction intensity with respect to a (220) crystal plane is defined as I(220), a ratio of diffraction intensity of I(220) is defined by Equation 1 below, A=I(220)/(I(200)+I(220)+I(111)) ??[Equation] a ratio of diffraction intensity of I(200) is defined by Equation 2 below, B=I(200)/(I(200
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Nam Ho KIM
  • Publication number: 20220197254
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures include: obtaining a density-based representation of a modeled object and data specifying a starting element for each of multiple different subsets of elements; processing starting elements having milling depths associated with layers below a top most layer, the processing including, for a current starting element for a current layer, identifying other starting elements that have milling depths associated with a layer above the current layer and are closer to the current starting element than an amount at least equal to a radius of a smallest available milling tool, calculating a maximum angular difference, and moving the milling depth for the element subset of the current starting element to a layer above the current layer, responsive to the maximum angular difference being greater than a threshold, to remove a non-manufacturable corner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Nam Ho Kim, David Jon Weinberg
  • Patent number: 11243510
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures include: obtaining a density-based representation of a modeled object and data specifying a starting element for each of multiple different subsets of elements; processing starting elements having milling depths associated with layers below a top most layer, the processing including, for a current starting element for a current layer, identifying other starting elements that have milling depths associated with a layer above the current layer and are closer to the current starting element than an amount at least equal to a radius of a smallest available milling tool, calculating a maximum angular difference, and moving the milling depth for the element subset of the current starting element to a layer above the current layer, responsive to the maximum angular difference being greater than a threshold, to remove a non-manufacturable corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Nam Ho Kim, David Jon Weinberg
  • Publication number: 20210365004
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes, where the 3D models of the physical structures are produced so as to facilitate manufacturing of the physical structures using 2.5-axis subtractive manufacturing systems and techniques, include: obtaining a design space, design criteria, and in-use case(s); iteratively modifying a generatively designed shape in the design space in accordance with the design criteria and the in-use case(s) using a density-based representation of the generatively designed shape and including adjusting the density-based representation of the generatively designed three dimensional shape in accordance with a milling direction of a 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: David Jon Weinberg, Nam Ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20210365007
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures include: obtaining a density-based representation of a modeled object and data specifying a starting element for each of multiple different subsets of elements; processing starting elements having milling depths associated with layers below a top most layer, the processing including, for a current starting element for a current layer, identifying other starting elements that have milling depths associated with a layer above the current layer and are closer to the current starting element than an amount at least equal to a radius of a smallest available milling tool, calculating a maximum angular difference, and moving the milling depth for the element subset of the current starting element to a layer above the current layer, responsive to the maximum angular difference being greater than a threshold, to remove a non-manufacturable corner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Nam Ho Kim, David Jon Weinberg
  • Patent number: 11002571
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of fabricating a nanowire connected to an optical fiber, the method comprising the steps of: a) filling a micropipette with a material solution to form a nanowire; b) coaxially aligning the micropipette with the optical fiber at one end of the optical fiber such that a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber and a longitudinal axis of the micropipette are aligned in a line; c) forming a meniscus of the material solution to form the nanowire in the coaxially aligned state; and d) fabricating the nanowire by evaporating a solvent from the material solution to form the nanowire while lifting the micropipette in a state in which the meniscus is formed, in a direction away from the optical fiber. The method further comprises a step of a step of controlling a shape of the distal end of the nanowire by irradiating a laser to the nanowire fabricated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: LESSENGERS INC.
    Inventors: Jung Ho Je, Nam Ho Kim, Jun Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10761283
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical interconnection for interconnecting a first contact and a second contact, which need to be optically interconnected, the optical interconnection comprising: a nanorod formed on at least one of the first contact and the second contact; and a nanowire extending from the first contact or the nanorod formed on the first contact so as to transmit an optical signal toward the second contact or the nanorod formed on the second contact. The optical interconnection according to the present invention shows improved optical signal characteristics due to a reduction in coupling loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: LESSENGERS Inc.
    Inventors: Jung Ho Je, Chong Cook Kim, Nam Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 10625559
    Abstract: A tubular type torsion beam is manufactured by bending and welding and coupling a plate material. The plate material has a plurality of protrusions disposed on a plurality of side surfaces in a width direction of the vehicle. The torsion beam is manufactured by molding the plate material in a pipe shape by bending the plate material in the width direction and molding the plate material to dispose the plurality of protrusions to contact each other to form a gap between the plurality of side surfaces of the plate material and then welding and coupling the plurality of side surfaces of the plate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, HWASHIN CO., LTD
    Inventors: Nam Ho Kim, Byong Cheol Kim, Jong Kyu Park
  • Publication number: 20200103256
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of fabricating a nanowire connected to an optical fiber, the method comprising the steps of: a) filling a micropipette with a material solution to form a nanowire; b) coaxially aligning the micropipette with the optical fiber at one end of the optical fiber such that a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber and a longitudinal axis of the micropipette are aligned in a line; c) forming a meniscus of the material solution to form the nanowire in the coaxially aligned state; and d) fabricating the nanowire by evaporating a solvent from the material solution to form the nanowire while lifting the micropipette in a state in which the meniscus is formed, in a direction away from the optical fiber. The method further comprises a step of a step of controlling a shape of the distal end of the nanowire by irradiating a laser to the nanowire fabricated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Chong Cook KIM, Jung Ho JE, Nam Ho KIM, Jun Ho LEE
  • Publication number: 20190384025
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical interconnection for interconnecting a first contact and a second contact, which need to be optically interconnected, the optical interconnection comprising: a nanorod formed on at least one of the first contact and the second contact; and a nanowire extending from the first contact or the nanorod formed on the first contact so as to transmit an optical signal toward the second contact or the nanorod formed on the second contact. The optical interconnection according to the present invention shows improved optical signal characteristics due to a reduction in coupling loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Jung Ho JE, Chong Cook KIM, Nam Ho KIM