Patents by Inventor Woo-Sung Choi
Woo-Sung Choi 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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Publication number: 20240158259Abstract: A method of manufacturing a binder-free electrode includes hydrothermally synthesizing a transition metal oxide-based active material on a 3D porous substrate; and using electrothermal waves on the substrate on which the transition metal oxide-based active material is hydrothermally synthesized. Consequently, a transition metal oxide/conductive substrate composite can be synthesized within a few seconds.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Won Joon CHOI, Woo Sung KIM, Byung Seok SEO
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Patent number: 11848461Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a plurality of battery cells such that long side surfaces of adjacent ones of the battery cells face one another; a plurality of insulation spacers, at least one of the insulation spacers being between adjacent battery cells, each of the insulation spacers including a heat-insulating first sheet and a plurality of flame-retardant second sheets respectively adhered to opposite surfaces of the first sheet by an adhesion member; a cover member including an internal receiving space configured to accommodate the battery cells and the insulation spacers; a top plate coupled to the cover member and including ducts respectively corresponding to vents of the battery cells and having fire extinguishing agent openings respectively corresponding to the insulation spacers; a top cover coupled to the top plate and having discharge openings respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet between the top cover and the top plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Taek Kim, Eun Ok Kwak, Jang Hoon Kim, Jin Bhum Yun, Jong Yeol Woo, Kwang Deuk Lee, Woo Sung Choi
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Publication number: 20230395934Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a cover member accommodating a plurality of battery cells in an internal receiving space, the battery cells being arranged in a first direction, each of the battery cells including a vent; a top plate coupled to a top of the cover member and including a duct corresponding to the vent of each of the battery cells; a top cover coupled to a top of the top plate and having a discharge opening corresponding to the duct; and an extinguisher sheet between the top cover and the top plate, the extinguisher sheet being configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a reference temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Eun Ok KWAK, Jin Bhum YUN, Jang Hoon KIM, Jin Taek KIM, Jong Yeol WOO, Kwang Deuk LEE, Woo Sung CHOI
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Patent number: 11799167Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a cover member accommodating a plurality of battery cells in an internal receiving space, the battery cells being arranged in a first direction, each of the battery cells including a vent; a top plate coupled to a top of the cover member and including a duct corresponding to the vent of each of the battery cells; a top cover coupled to a top of the top plate and having a discharge opening corresponding to the duct; and an extinguisher sheet between the top cover and the top plate, the extinguisher sheet being configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a reference temperature.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eun Ok Kwak, Jin Bhum Yun, Jang Hoon Kim, Jin Taek Kim, Jong Yeol Woo, Kwang Deuk Lee, Woo Sung Choi
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Patent number: 11771935Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a plurality of battery cells arranged in a length direction; a plurality of insulation spacers; a cover member including an internal receiving space; a top plate coupled to a top of the cover member, the top plate including ducts respectively corresponding to vents of the battery cells and having opening holes respectively corresponding to the insulation spacers; a top cover coupled to a top of the top plate and having discharge holes respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet between the top cover and the top plate, the extinguisher sheet being configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a temperature exceeding a reference temperature, the top cover including protrusion parts on a bottom surface thereof, the protrusion parts covering an exhaust region and being coupled to an exterior of each of the ducts.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Taek Kim, Eun Ok Kwak, Jang Hoon Kim, Jin Bhum Yun, Jong Yeol Woo, Kwang Deuk Lee, Woo Sung Choi
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Patent number: 11764438Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a cover member accommodating a plurality of battery cells in an internal receiving space, the battery cells being arranged in a first direction, each of the battery cells including a vent; a top plate coupled to a top of the cover member and including a duct corresponding to the vent of each of the battery cells; a top cover coupled to a top of the top plate and having a discharge opening corresponding to the duct; and an extinguisher sheet between the top cover and the top plate, the extinguisher sheet being configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a reference temperature.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eun Ok Kwak, Jin Bhum Yun, Jang Hoon Kim, Jin Taek Kim, Jong Yeol Woo, Kwang Deuk Lee, Woo Sung Choi
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Patent number: 11764430Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a plurality of battery cells arranged in a first direction such that long side surfaces of adjacent ones of the battery cells face one another; a plurality of insulation spacers, at least one of the insulation spacers being between each adjacent pair of the battery cells, each of the insulation spacers including a heat-insulating first sheet and a plurality of flame-retardant second sheets respectively adhered to opposite surfaces of the first sheet by an adhesion member; a cover member including an internal receiving space configured to accommodate the battery cells and the insulation spacers; a top plate coupled to the cover member, the top plate including ducts respectively corresponding to vents of the battery cells and having fire extinguishing agent openings respectively corresponding to the insulation spacers; a top cover coupled to the top plate and having discharge openings respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet between the top cover andType: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Taek Kim, Eun Ok Kwak, Jang Hoon Kim, Jin Bhum Yun, Jong Yeol Woo, Kwang Deuk Lee, Woo Sung Choi
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Patent number: 11735795Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a plurality of battery cells arranged in a length direction, each of the battery cells including a vent; a plurality of insulation spacers, at least one of the insulation spacers being located between long side surfaces of an adjacent pair of the battery cells; a cover member; a top plate coupled to a top portion of the cover member and including ducts respectively corresponding to the vents of the battery cells and including opening holes respectively corresponding to the insulation spacers; a top cover coupled to a top portion of the top plate and including discharge holes located in an exhaust area and respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet located between the top cover and the top plate, configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a temperature exceeding a certain temperature and including opening holes located to correspond to the ducts.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Taek Kim, Eun Ok Kwak, Jin Bhum Yun, Jang Hoon Kim, Jong Yeol Woo, Kwang Deuk Lee, Woo Sung Choi
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Patent number: 11735788Abstract: An energy storage module includes a plurality of battery cells, each including a vent; a plurality of insulation spacers, at least one of the insulation spacers being located between long side surfaces of each adjacent pair of the battery cells; a cover member including an internal receiving space; a top plate coupled to a top portion of the cover member and including ducts respectively corresponding to the vents of the battery cells, and opening holes respectively corresponding to the insulation spacers; a top cover coupled to a top portion of the top plate and including discharge holes respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet located between the top cover and the top plate, configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a temperature exceeding a certain temperature, and including opening holes positioned to correspond to the ducts.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Taek Kim, Eun Ok Kwak, Jang Hoon Kim, Jin Bhum Yun, Jong Yeol Woo, Kwang Deuk Lee, Woo Sung Choi
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Patent number: 11728541Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a cover member including an internal receiving space configured to accommodate battery cells each including a vent; a top plate coupled to a top of the cover member and including ducts respectively corresponding to the vents of the battery cells; a top cover coupled to a top portion of the top plate and including discharge holes located in an exhaust area and respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet located between the top cover and the top plate, and configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a temperature exceeding a certain temperature, and the top cover includes protrusion parts located on a bottom surface of the top cover, covering the exhaust area, and coupled to an exterior of the ducts.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Taek Kim, Eun Ok Kwak, Jin Bhum Yun, Jang Hoon Kim, Jong Yeol Woo, Kwang Deuk Lee, Woo Sung Choi
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Publication number: 20230230998Abstract: A backside-illuminated image sensor and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The backside-illuminated image sensor is capable of improving sensitivity by including a scattering layer in a substrate that may result in incident light having a path greater than the thickness of the substrate and, simultaneously, of additionally enhancing light sensitivity with respect to a specific wavelength or wavelength band of light passing through one of a plurality of different color filters by a varying depth or thickness of the scattering layer for each unit pixel in the image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Woo Sung CHOI, Man Lyun HA
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Patent number: 11700463Abstract: An image sensor having a shield including, for example, a metal, is above an electrical charge storage element in a pixel region to block light incident toward the electrical charge storage element, thereby making it possible to reduce or prevent reading a charge value including leakage charge introduced to the electrical charge storage element, and thus adversely affecting an image result.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: DB HiTek, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Woo-Sung Choi, Man-Lyun Ha, Ju-Il Lee
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Patent number: 11641527Abstract: An image sensor having a shield including, for example, a metal, is above an electrical charge storage element in a pixel region to block light incident toward the electrical charge storage element, thereby making it possible to reduce or prevent reading a charge value including leakage charge introduced to the electrical charge storage element, and thus adversely affecting an image result.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: DB HiTek, Co., Ltd.Inventors: Woo-Sung Choi, Man-Lyun Ha, Ju-Il Lee
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Patent number: 11616263Abstract: An energy storage module includes a plurality of battery cells, each including a vent; a plurality of insulation spacers, at least one of the insulation spacers being located between long side surfaces of each adjacent pair of the battery cells; a cover member including an internal receiving space; a top plate coupled to a top portion of the cover member and including ducts respectively corresponding to the vents of the battery cells, and opening holes respectively corresponding to the insulation spacers; a top cover coupled to a top portion of the top plate and including discharge holes respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet located between the top cover and the top plate, configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a temperature exceeding a certain temperature, and including opening holes positioned to correspond to the ducts.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Taek Kim, Eun Ok Kwak, Jang Hoon Kim, Jin Bhum Yun, Jong Yeol Woo, Kwang Deuk Lee, Woo Sung Choi
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Patent number: 11569546Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a cover member accommodating a plurality of battery cells in an internal receiving space, each of the battery cells including a vent; a top plate coupled to a top of the cover member and including a duct corresponding to the vent of at least one of the battery cells; a top cover coupled to a top of the top plate and having an exhaust area corresponding to the duct, the exhaust area having a plurality of discharge openings, the top cover including a protrusion protruding from a bottom surface of the top cover, the protrusion extending around a periphery of the exhaust area and around a distal end of the duct; and an extinguisher sheet between the top cover and the top plate, the extinguisher sheet being configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a reference temperature.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Taek Kim, Eun Ok Kwak, Jang Hoon Kim, Jin Bhum Yun, Jong Yeol Woo, Kwang Deuk Lee, Woo Sung Choi
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Publication number: 20220125967Abstract: The present invention relates to an indoor air sterilization and purification apparatus, which may perform both a space sterilization function for sterilizing and purifying microbial particles existing in the air of an indoor space and a surface sterilization function for sterilizing and disinfecting an object surface in an indoor space, thus to improve sterilization performance for the indoor space, and may proximately irradiate the object with sterilization light or spray a disinfectant without any special obstacle in movement, even if shapes and arrangement states of the objects existing in the indoor space are complicated, thus to improve the sterilization function.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Woo-Sung CHOI, Meoungwhan CHO, Seogwoo LEE
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Publication number: 20220125981Abstract: The present invention provides a biological indicator for verification of disinfection or sterilization, and in particular, provides a biological indicator capable of verifying disinfection or sterilization using luminescent microorganisms, and a kit for verification of disinfection or sterilization using the biological indicator. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a biological indicator for verification of disinfection or sterilization that may confirm in real time how much disinfection or sterilization has been performed after disinfecting or sterilizing harmful microorganisms by irradiation with UV rays.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventor: Woo-Sung CHOI
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Publication number: 20220125963Abstract: The present invention provides a UV sterilization module capable of suppressing a generation of ozone inside and outside a device, and emitting UV rays having a wavelength of near 200 to 230 nm, in particular UV rays having a wavelength of 222 nm at a high luminous intensity, and a UV sterilization apparatus using the UV sterilization module. According to the UV sterilization apparatus of the present invention, bacteria or viruses existing on a surface of the biological tissue may be selectively UV sterilized without harming animal cells such as human cells, and a generation of ozone harmful to the skin may be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Woo-Sung CHOI, Meoungwhan CHO, Seogwoo LEE
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Publication number: 20220123426Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a plurality of battery cells arranged in a length direction; a plurality of insulation spacers; a cover member including an internal receiving space; a top plate coupled to a top of the cover member, the top plate including ducts respectively corresponding to vents of the battery cells and having opening holes respectively corresponding to the insulation spacers; a top cover coupled to a top of the top plate and having discharge holes respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet between the top cover and the top plate, the extinguisher sheet being configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a temperature exceeding a reference temperature, the top cover including protrusion parts on a bottom surface thereof, the protrusion parts covering an exhaust region and being coupled to an exterior of each of the ducts.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Jin Taek KIM, Eun Ok KWAK, Jang Hoon KIM, Jin Bhum YUN, Jong Yeol WOO, Kwang Deuk LEE, Woo Sung CHOI
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Publication number: 20220123386Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a plurality of battery cells arranged in a first direction such that long side surfaces of adjacent ones of the battery cells face one another; a plurality of insulation spacers, at least one of the insulation spacers being between each adjacent pair of the battery cells, each of the insulation spacers including a heat-insulating first sheet and a plurality of flame-retardant second sheets respectively adhered to opposite surfaces of the first sheet by an adhesion member; a cover member including an internal receiving space configured to accommodate the battery cells and the insulation spacers; a top plate coupled to the cover member, the top plate including ducts respectively corresponding to vents of the battery cells and having fire extinguishing agent openings respectively corresponding to the insulation spacers; a top cover coupled to the top plate and having discharge openings respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet between the top cover andType: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Jin Taek KIM, Eun Ok KWAK, Jang Hoon KIM, Jin Bhum YUN, Jong Yeol WOO, Kwang Deuk LEE, Woo Sung CHOI