Patents by Inventor Seong Jae Kim

Seong Jae 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).

  • Patent number: 8141747
    Abstract: A food storage apparatus enables dispensation of contents (e.g., ice and/or water) stored in the food storage apparatus and collects residual contents after the dispensation of the contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seong Jae Kim, Nam Gi Lee
  • Patent number: 8113248
    Abstract: A food storing apparatus capable of dispensing a content stored in the apparatus is disclosed. The food storing apparatus includes a button tray composite device configured to function as a switch to control the dispensation of the content, but also configured to function as a tray for receiving a residual content discharged after the content dispensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Nam Gi Lee, Seong Jae Kim, Dong Jeong Kim
  • Patent number: 8074466
    Abstract: There is provided a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a storage space receiving food, a door, and a dispensing apparatus. The door selectively opens and closes the storage space. The dispensing apparatus dispenses contents stored in the storage space without opening the door. The dispensing apparatus substantially protrudes from an outer surface of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seong Jae Kim, Hyeong Kook Lee, Kyung Han Jeong
  • Patent number: 8042708
    Abstract: A dispenser for a refrigerator is provided that increases a usable space of a storage compartment of the refrigerator. The dispenser includes a chute which receives contents from an inside of the refrigerator and discharges the contents to an outside through an opening provided on an end of the chute. A cover selectively opens or shuts the opening. A first unit causes the cover to slide relative to the opening so as to open or shut the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyung Han Jeong, Seong Jae Kim, Dong Jeong Kim
  • Publication number: 20110253978
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) and a method for fabricating the same, capable of improving brightness by forming a InGaN layer having a low concentration of indium, and whose lattice constant is similar to that of an active layer of the LED, is provided. The LED includes: a buffer layer disposed on a sapphire substrate; a GaN layer disposed on the buffer layer; a doped GaN layer disposed on the GaN layer; a GaN layer having indium disposed on the GaN layer; an active layer disposed on the GaN layer having indium; and a P-type GaN disposed on the active layer. Here, an empirical formula of the GaN layer having indium is given by In(x)Ga(1?x)N and a range of x is given by 0<x<2, and a thickness of the GaN layer having indium is 50-200 ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventor: Seong Jae KIM
  • Patent number: 8016160
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a dispenser to dispense water or ice, a door handle positioned below the dispenser, and a tray mounted to the door handle in a position to receive at least some water or ice dispensed from the dispenser. The tray coupled to the door handle attached to the door may receive excess or residue water or ice dispensed from the dispenser without deterioration of the exterior appearance of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Jeong Kim, Seong Jae Kim
  • Patent number: 8011202
    Abstract: Disclosed is the auger in an ice bin mounted in a refrigerator, and the like. The auger in the ice bin is configured to rotate an auger having spiral-shaped transfer blades and to dispose ice in each space between the transfer blades of the auger for transfer. Accordingly, a certain amount of ice can always be discharged without simultaneously discharging a great amount of ice, and a user may select the number of ice, thus to diversity functions of an ice dispenser. In addition, since the auger is made of a flexible material, the ice can be prevented from being crushed during transfer, thereby enhancing the reliability of the ice dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yong-Su Kim, Seong-Jae Kim, Nam-Gi Lee
  • Patent number: 8006502
    Abstract: Refrigerator including a door, a dispenser mounted to the door, the dispenser having a dispensing opening for dispensing content, a button and tray combination device for controlling the dispensing of the content, as well as holding residue from the dispensing opening after the dispensing of the content, and a sensing device for sensing a height of the residue in the button and tray combination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seong Jae Kim, Nam Gi Lee
  • Patent number: 8001796
    Abstract: A food storing apparatus dispenses a content stored in the apparatus. The food storing apparatus includes a button tray that functions as a switch to control dispensing of different contents in accordance with different moved positions of the button tray, but also functions as a tray to receive a residual content discharged after dispensing the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seong Jae Kim, Nam Gi Lee
  • Patent number: 7997452
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a dispenser including a moving chute configured to move from a stored position in which an outlet of the moving chute is positioned in a space defined in a refrigerator door to an operable position in which the outlet of the moving chute is positioned outside of the refrigerator door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Jeong Kim, Seong Jae Kim, Kyung Han Jeong
  • Patent number: 7992951
    Abstract: A door opening and closing device for a refrigerator includes plural doors for opening and closing a refrigerator main body; a hinge unit for connecting the corresponding door to the refrigerant main body so that the door can perform rotational motion or translational motion against the refrigerant main body; first interference units provided between the corresponding door and the refrigerant main body, and contacting from a state in which the door is closed to a state in which the door is opened to a designated angle for separating the doors; and second interference units provided between the corresponding door and the refrigerant main body, and contacting from the state in which the door is opened above the designated angle for separating the doors. The door opening and closing device reduces noise and impact generated by the opening and closing of the doors, allowing a user to open and close the doors more softly and smoothly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seong Jae Kim, Jang Ho Shim, Ki Chul Woo, Sang Yeul Lee, Joon Hwan Oh, Seung Yup Kim, Jong Ho Hong
  • Patent number: 7989235
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) and a method for fabricating the same, capable of improving brightness by forming a InGaN layer having a low concentration of indium, and whose lattice constant is similar to that of an active layer of the LED, is provided. The LED includes: a buffer layer disposed on a sapphire substrate; a GaN layer disposed on the buffer layer; a doped GaN layer disposed on the GaN layer; a GaN layer having indium disposed on the GaN layer; an active layer disposed on the GaN layer having indium; and a P-type GaN disposed on the active layer. Here, an empirical formula of the GaN layer having indium is given by In(x)Ga(1-x)N and a range of x is given by 0<x<2, and a thickness of the GaN layer having indium is 50-200 ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Seong Jae Kim
  • Publication number: 20110113812
    Abstract: Refrigerator with an icemaker including a cabinet having a mullion wall for compartmentalization of a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber, a case provided to a door on the refrigerating chamber, having a cavity therein, a first duct for supplying cold air from a neighborhood of an evaporator in the freezing chamber to the cavity, the icemaker in the cavity for producing ice, an ice container in the cavity for storing the ice, and a dispenser in the door in communication with the cavity, thereby having ice supplied to a user at an outside of the refrigerator through a dispenser provided to the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Myung Ryul LEE, Seong Jae KIM, Chang Ho SEO, Sung Hoon CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20110113813
    Abstract: Refrigerator with an icemaker including a cabinet having a mullion wall for compartmentalization of a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber, a case provided to a door on the refrigerating chamber, having a cavity therein, a first duct for supplying cold air from a neighborhood of an evaporator in the freezing chamber to the cavity, the icemaker in the cavity for producing ice, an ice container in the cavity for storing the ice, and a dispenser in the door in communication with the cavity, thereby having ice supplied to a user at an outside of the refrigerator through a dispenser provided to the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Myung Ryul LEE, Seong Jae KIM, Chang Ho SEO, Sung Hoon CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20110113811
    Abstract: Refrigerator with an icemaker including a cabinet having a mullion wall for compartmentalization of a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber, a case provided to a door on the refrigerating chamber, having a cavity therein, a first duct for supplying cold air from a neighborhood of an evaporator in the freezing chamber to the cavity, the icemaker in the cavity for producing ice, an ice container in the cavity for storing the ice, and a dispenser in the door in communication with the cavity, thereby having ice supplied to a user at an outside of the refrigerator through a dispenser provided to the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Myung Ryul LEE, Seong Jae KIM, Chang Ho SEO, Sung Hoon CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20110107785
    Abstract: Refrigerator with an icemaker including a cabinet having a mullion wall for compartmentalization of a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber, a case provided to a door on the refrigerating chamber, having a cavity therein, a first duct for supplying cold air from a neighborhood of an evaporator in the freezing chamber to the cavity, the icemaker in the cavity for producing ice, an ice container in the cavity for storing the ice, and a dispenser in the door in communication with the cavity, thereby having ice supplied to a user at an outside of the refrigerator through a dispenser provided to the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Myung Ryul LEE, Seong Jae KIM, Chang Ho SEO, Sung Hoon CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20110048045
    Abstract: An ice maker comprises a tray accommodating water to make ice, a first control box (200) installed at a side of the tray, the first control box (200) accommodating a predetermined part of a mechanism unit driving the ice maker; and a second control box (300) accommodating the other part of the mechanism unit which is electrically connected with the part of the mechanism unit accommodated in the first control part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Si Yeon An, Seong Jae Kim, Dong Hoon Lee, Il Wook Joung
  • Patent number: 7884388
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) and a method for fabricating the same, capable of improving brightness by forming a InGaN layer having a low concentration of indium, and whose lattice constant is similar to that of an active layer of the LED, is provided. The LED includes: a buffer layer disposed on a sapphire substrate; a GaN layer disposed on the buffer layer; a doped GaN layer disposed on the GaN layer; a GaN layer having indium disposed on the GaN layer; an active layer disposed on the GaN layer having indium; and a P-type GaN disposed on the active layer. Here, an empirical formula of the GaN layer having indium is given by In(x)Ga(1?x)N and a range of x is given by 0<x<2, and a thickness of the GaN layer having indium is 50-200 ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Seong Jae Kim
  • Publication number: 20100319366
    Abstract: An ice maker, a refrigerator including the ice maker, and an ice making method are provided. The ice maker includes a tray having a predetermined length into which water is supplied to make ice. The ice maker is configured to mechanically separate the ice from the tray by using pistons which are driven by a motor. This permits the ice maker to have a reduced size, and occupy a small area, thereby implementing a slim configuration of a refrigerator. Furthermore, since an installation height of the ice maker is lowered, a path for supplying cool air may be shortened. This arrangement prevent loss of cool air being supplied to the ice making chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Seong-Jae KIM, Bong-Jin Kim, Young-Hoon Yun
  • Publication number: 20100319367
    Abstract: An ice maker, a refrigerator including the ice maker, and an ice making method are provided. The ice maker includes a tray having a predetermined length and to which water is supplied to make ice. The ice maker is configured to mechanically separate the ice from the tray by using pistons which are driven by being pressed by structures. This allows the ice maker to have a reduced size, and a small occupation area, thereby implementing a slim configuration of a refrigerator. Furthermore, since an installation height of the ice maker is lowered, a path for supplying cool air may be shortened. This may prevent loss of cool air being supplied to the ice making chamber. Since the ice maker has a simplified configuration and precise operation controls, the fabrication costs may be reduced, and inferiority of the ice maker due to malfunctions may be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Seong-Jae KIM, Bong-Jin Kim, Young-Hoon Yun