Patents Represented by Attorney Ked & Associates, LLP
  • Patent number: 8119218
    Abstract: An optical recording medium is provided. The optical recording medium includes a first recording layer and a second recording layer. The first recording layer includes a compound in the form of M(1?X)OX, where M is one of Si, Zn or Sn, and X is approximately 0.001 to 0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Kwanglyul Lee
  • Patent number: 8120711
    Abstract: A display system and a method of controlling a display system are provided. The display system may include a receiving device to transmit a power control signal across a wireless communication link according to a power on/off command inputted from a user, to receive an audio/video (A/V) signal, to display the A/V signal, and to transmit an acknowledgment signal of the A/V signal. The display system may further include a transmitting device to turn on/off in response to a power control signal received from the receiving device, to transmit the A/V signal to the receiving device, and to control a power thereof according to whether the acknowledgement signal of the A/V signal has arrived.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Su Young Kim
  • Patent number: 8119955
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for preventing microwave leakage for a microwave oven. The present invention comprises a cavity assembly formed with an opening portion through which heating energy generated in an energy generating means is supplied into a cooking chamber provided within the cavity assembly; a cover provided on a side of the cavity assembly to cover the opening portion; and a choke member provided between the cavity assembly and the cover to prevent microwave supplied into the cooking chamber from leaking through a gap between the cavity assembly and the cover. According to the present invention, there is an advantage in that microwave is effectively prevented from leaking through a gap, which is formed when installing a heating means for providing a heating source in addition to the microwave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Kwang-Yong Park
  • Patent number: 8115369
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lighting device. The lighting device includes: a substrate; a light emitting device disposed on the substrate; a heat radiating body radiating heat from the light emitting device; and a pad being interposed between the substrate and the heat radiating body and transferring heat generated from the light emitting device to the heat radiating body and comprising silicon of 10 to 30 wt %, a filler of 70 to 90 wt %, glass fiber of 2 to 7 wt % in terms of weight percent (wt %).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok Jin Kang, Tae Young Choi, Sungho Hong, Dong Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 8115739
    Abstract: A touch screen device and an operating method thereof are provided. More specifically, a touch screen device is provided which allows a user to selectively restrict input through a touch screen. The touch screen device includes a screen that includes a display configured to display images thereon and a detector configured to detect a touch on the display and convert the touch into an electrical signal, and a controller configured to cause images to be displayed on the display and receive and process signals from the detector. Further, a user may determine whether the controller is operated according to the signal input into the detector. The determination may be made either by a switch separately installed on an earphone or by inputting a signal into the detector by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ho Joo Park, Seung Jun Bae, Yoon Hee Koo, Seong Cheol Kang
  • Patent number: 8113955
    Abstract: A game service system is provided for transmitting and receiving a broadcast signal and reproducing an image and an audio signal. This system allows a user not only to view TV programs broadcasted from a broadcasting station, but also to order a desired game program, receive the selected game program from a broadcasting station, and execute the selected game program. In addition, because the game program can be transmitted through the broadcasting media, a plurality of users can receive a desired game program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kuk Ho Bae, Kwang Chul Ju
  • Patent number: 8113704
    Abstract: An LED back-light unit and other devices using the LED back-light unit are discussed. According to one embodiment, an LED back-light unit includes a light guide portion that includes a light guide plate and a reflection plate coupled to the light guide plate, wherein the light guide plate has a light input part and a first connection part, and wherein the reflection plate has a second connection part connected to the first connection part, and a light source including at least one light emitting diode, the light source emitting light toward the light guide portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Choon Bae, Seung Se Kim, Hoon Hur
  • Patent number: 8109114
    Abstract: An ice maker and a controlling method thereof are provided. The system and method may prevent the overflow or splashing of water or thin ice out of an ice tray during the supply of water or when the ice maker is shaken by an external force. The ice maker may include an ice tray, and an ice tray cover that covers an open portion of the ice tray. The cover may include an opening through which water may be supplied to the ice tray, and through which ice may be discharged from the ice tray. The cover may move together with the tray, or may move separately from the tray, to facilitate these supply and discharge processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Tae Hee Lee, Hong Hee Park, Joon Hwan Oh, Young Jin Kim, Kwang Ha Suh
  • Patent number: 8109647
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a first lighting module, a second lighting module, a case coupled to the first and second lighting modules, and a power circuit between the first and second lighting modules. Each of the first and second lighting modules includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), and bottom surfaces of the first and second lighting modules and the power circuit are aligned on substantially a same plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kim Dong Soo, Kim Yun Ha
  • Patent number: 8104912
    Abstract: Provided is a light emitting module, which includes a module board, a light emitting diode, and a resin material. The module board includes a plurality of holes. The light emitting diode is in the hole. The resin material is in the hole. The module board includes a printed circuit board (PCB), and the PCB includes a photo solder resist (PSR) layer, an electrical conduction layer, and an insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Seok Park
  • Patent number: 8104192
    Abstract: A laundry dryer is provided. The laundry dryer includes a drying drum (14), a drying duct (17), a heater (166), an upper base (22), a lower base (21), and a blower (23). The drying drum (14) hold laundry. The drying duct (17) guides indoor air to be suctioned into the drying drum (14). The heater (16) heats the air suctioned into the drying drum (14) The upper base includes a drum connecting duct (203) that guides air passing from the drying drum (14) in a downward direction. The lower base (21) has the upper base (22) mounted therabove, and forms an air passage (201) that exhausts the air guided downward by the drum connecting duct (203) an indoor space. The blower (23) is mounted on one side of the lower base, and suctions air inside the drying drum (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hwan-Joo Myung, Soon-Jo Lee
  • Patent number: 8108018
    Abstract: A phone is provided. The phone comprises a first body having a first face, a second body having a second face facing the first face and connected to the first body so as to be slidable in a moving direction parallel to the first and second faces, guiding members protruding from the first face, and a sliding member mounted on the second face and guiding the guiding members so as to slide in the moving direction. The sliding member includes insert members, each of which has a guide groove, disposed parallel to the moving direction to allow the respective guiding members to be inserted thereinto and housings fixedly mounted on the second face to house the respective insert members. The space defined by the first body and the second body is minimized. With this configuration, the first body is movable in a circular arc direction relative to the second body and has the same curvature as the second body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Diabell Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eun-Suk Jung
  • Patent number: 8104852
    Abstract: Refrigerator for enabling putting in or taking out food to/from a basket (55) therein with of lowering a position of the user, such as bending oneself, and enabling the user to look into an inside of the basket (55) conveniently as the basket (55) is tilted in a lifted up state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Hwan Oh, Kyung Han Jeong, Sang Oh Kim
  • Patent number: 8102484
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a transparent conductive layer formed adjacent one of two semiconductor layers having an active layer therebetween. The transparent conductive layer includes first and second transparent conductive regions with different electrical conductivities. The difference in electrical conductivities controls an amount or flow rate of current into the semiconductor layer adjacent the transparent conductive layer, and an electrode is at least partial aligned with the second transparent conductive region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Youl Lee, So Jung Kim, June O Song, Kwang Ki Choi
  • Patent number: 8102862
    Abstract: A radio link (RL) parameter updating method of a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) system in a mobile communication system is disclosed. According to a radio channel situation of a terminal, an RL parameter applied to transmission and reception of control information between the terminal and a base station is dynamically controlled. For this purpose, the RL parameter updating method includes: a step in which the base station determines whether to update an HSDPA related parameter and transmits the parameter update information to the RNC to trigger updating of the RL parameter; and a step in which the RNC updates the HSDPA related parameter and transmits it to the terminal. The parameter update information is delivered through an RL parameter update response message, and the RNC is a serving RNC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young-Dae Lee, Jin-Young Park, Eun-Jung Kim
  • Patent number: 8098762
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving signals in a multiple-input multiple-output communication system provided with a plurality of antenna elements is disclosed. Accordingly, the present invention provides a plurality of antenna groups at one distance having the antenna elements arranged at the other distance, a method and a means for identifying the groups and adding an identifier for the groups. It further provides a method and an apparatus for allocating power for the groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Seung Hwan Won
  • Patent number: RE43139
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for interacting with a mobile telephone are provided. A remote control unit receives a user command and transmits it to a TV system which recognizes the user command as a telephone function command and transmits the function command to the mobile telephone if the TV system is set to Telephone Mode. The TV system may also output data received from the mobile telephone in response to the transmitted function command. Thus, a user may interact with a mobile telephone using an interactive TV system by displaying text/image data received from the telephone and by inputting various telephone function commands using a remote control unit. Upon receiving a function command from the TV system, the mobile telephone generates output data in response to the function command and transmits itto the TV system. A display unit of the TV system displays the text/image data, and a speaker outputs the sound data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jae Kyung Lee
  • Patent number: RE43184
    Abstract: A method for selecting and activating a particular menu displayed in a client's region of a monitor screen by use of an image cognition is disclosed. Using an image-capturing device such as a camera attached to a system, a user's image is recognized at real time and displayed on an initial screen of a monitor. The user makes a direct hand motion while viewing his own image displayed on the initial screen, and when a desired menu icon is designated among a variety of menu icons arrayed on the initial screen, the system guides the user's hand image to the corresponding menu icon for its selection. When the user makes a particular body motion to activate the selected menu, the system recognizes the motion for thereby activating the selected menu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jin-Soo Lee, Hyeon-June Kim
  • Patent number: D654618
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-il Kong, Han Gyoul Kim, Hwayoung Kim, Ji Yeon Hyun
  • Patent number: RE43196
    Abstract: Structure of a driving unit in a drum type washing machine including a tub for storing washing water, a drum of a metal rotatably mounted inside of the tub disposed horizontal to the ground, or with an angle to the ground for accommodating laundry therein, a shaft connected to the drum mounted inside of the tub through the tub for transmission of a driving force of the motor to the drum, bearings fitted onto outer circumferences of both end portions of the shaft for supporting the shaft, a bearing housing having stator fastening bosses at fixed intervals along a circumference of a central portion thereof for supporting the bearings, a stator having a plurality of magnetic cores each formed by stacking magnetic laminations each having a salient pole projected outward in a radial direction and a rib projected inward in a radial direction, both of which are formed as one unit, frames of insulating material for covering top and bottom surfaces of a magnetic core assembly of the magnetic cores, and coils each woun
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kwang Soo Kim, Jae Mun Kim