Patents Assigned to Amotech Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10691995
    Abstract: Disclosed is an antenna module, which forms a radiation pattern for near-field communication and a radiation pattern for electronic payment on a flexible printed circuit board, and then couples it with a magnetic sheet, thereby implementing the performance equal to or superior to that of a conventional antenna module while simplifying the manufacturing process. The disclosed antenna module includes a flexible magnetic sheet and an antenna sheet on which a radiation pattern and an insertion hole are formed, and the magnetic sheet is formed with an extension portion formed on one short side, and the extension portion is penetrated and inserted into the insertion hole to be coupled with the antenna sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joo-Seung Maeng, Jin-Won Noh, Eui-Jin Jung, Kil-Jae Jang
  • Patent number: 10683599
    Abstract: Provided is a washing machine including: a washing tub connected with an outer rotor and an outer shaft; a pulsator connected with an inner rotor and an inner shaft; and a planetary gear set mounted between the inner rotor and the pulsator and between the outer rotor and the washing tub, to thus reduce a rotational force of the inner shaft, wherein at least one of the pulsator and the washing tub is rotated during performing a washing stroke by allowing the washing tub to be rotated for a period of time when the pulsator is stopping, to thus minimize a washing machine stop time during performing a washing stroke to thereby enhance a running rate and improve washing efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Soo Kim, Hyung Hwan Ko, Hak Rok Kim, Se Ki Lee
  • Patent number: 10680313
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an antenna module performing near field communication such as NFC and MST, and disclosed is a stacked antenna module that interposes an electromagnetic wave shielding sheet between a lower stacked flexible sheet and an upper stacked flexible sheet in order to implement performance that is equal to or better than that of the conventional antenna upon mounting on a portable terminal composed of a metal material cover, and implements an antenna pattern that winds an electromagnetic wave shielding sheet in the vertical direction thereof by connecting a first radiation pattern and a second radiation pattern formed on the lower stacked flexible sheet and the upper stacked flexible sheet, respectively, through a connector that penetrates the electromagnetic wave shielding sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joo-Seung Maeng, Ki-Sang Lim, Jin-Won Noh, Hyung-Il Baek, Beom-Jin Kim, Yong-Ho Hwang
  • Publication number: 20200156558
    Abstract: A camera monitoring system includes: a housing rotatable around a coupling shaft of a base part disposed in a vehicle; a camera disposed on one end of the housing; a cam plate disposed inside the housing and fixed to the base part; a link including a first end moving along a guide part of the cam plate and a second end to rotate the camera when the housing rotates; a driving part for applying a driving force to rotate the housing; and a control part to determine a folded state of the housing by controlling the driving force applied from the driving part based on a vehicle speed, and to rotate the camera simultaneously with the housing based on the folded state of the housing so as to maintain a previously set angle of a camera view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, AMOTECH CO., LTD., Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Min PARK, Jong Uk KIM, Geon Pyo KIM
  • Patent number: 10658740
    Abstract: Provided are an antenna unit and a wireless power transmission module. There is provided an antenna unit that includes a circuit board, and a first antenna pattern formed on a surface of the circuit board for wireless power transmission and formed of a single conductor including a plurality of windings. The single conductor has a different line width depending on position. There is provided a wireless power transmission module that includes any one of the antenna units, and a shielding unit disposed on one surface of the antenna unit and configured to shield a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Amotech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Won Noh, Hyung-Il Baek, Jae-Il Park
  • Patent number: 10650945
    Abstract: A functional contactor and a portable electronic device having same. The functional contactor includes a conductive elastic part having elasticity and electrically connected to a conductor of an electronic device; and a functional element including a first electrode mounted on a circuit board of the electronic device, a second electrode electrically connected to the underside of the conductive elastic part, and a dielectric formed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Guk Lim, Yun Suk Choi, Yoon-Ho Hwang
  • Patent number: 10652982
    Abstract: Provided are an open-mode protection device and an electronic device having the same. An open-mode protection device according to an embodiment of the present invention is connected in parallel to each of a constant current source and a load configured with a light emitting diode (LED). The open-mode protection device comprises a first external electrode connected to one sides of the constant current source and the load; a second external electrode connected to the other sides of the constant current source and the load, and a ground; a protection unit configured to bypass, to the ground through the second external electrode, an overvoltage or an overcurrent flowing into the first external electrode; and a current suppressing unit connected in series to the protection unit and configured to sense a temperature or current of the protection unit and reduce the current of the protection unit as the temperature or current increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Wook Lee, Jae Woo Choi, Hyun Jin Jo, Ji Woo Moon
  • Publication number: 20200136257
    Abstract: Presented is a multilayer patch antenna which prevents the occurrence of parasitic resonance by having a metal layer formed on the inner wall of a thru-hole, among a plurality of thru-holes formed in a lower patch antenna, penetrated by a power feeding pin of an upper patch antenna. The multilayer patch antenna presented herein comprises: an upper patch antenna having a first thru-hole formed therein; a lower patch antenna having a second thru-hole and a third thru-hole formed therein, away from each other; a first upper power feeding pin protruding under the lower patch antenna by penetrating the first thru-hole and the second thru-hole; a lower power feeding pin protruding under the lower patch antenna by penetrating the third thru-hole; and a metal layer formed inside the second thru-hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chul HWANG
  • Patent number: 10635138
    Abstract: Provided is an electric shock protection device disposed between a human body contactable conductor and an internal circuit unit of an electronic device. The electric shock protection device includes: a sintered body where a plurality of sheet layers stacked; an electric shock protection unit including at least one pair of inner electrodes disposed spaced a predetermined interval apart from each other inside the sintered body and a pore disposed between the inner electrodes; and at least one capacitor layer configured to pass communication signals flowing from the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tong Gi Kim, Jun-Suh Yu, Kyu Hwan Park, Gui Nam Sun, Jae Su Ryu, Seung Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 10631448
    Abstract: Provided is a portable electronic device with an embedded electric shock protection function. A portable electronic device with an embedded electric shock protection function according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises: a circuit board; a camera module mounted on the circuit board; a conductive cover disposed to cover a part of an upper side of the camera module; a conductive connecting part mounted on the circuit board and configured to come into electrical contact with the conductive cover; and an electric shock protection element mounted on the circuit board to be connected in series to the conductive connecting part and configured to pass static electricity introduced from the conductive cover and block a leakage current of an external power source introduced into a ground of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Su Ryu, Byung Guk Lim, Kyu Hwan Park, Jun-Suh Yu
  • Publication number: 20200111611
    Abstract: Provided are an electric shock protection device and method of manufacturing the same. The electric shock protection device may include a capacitor unit comprising multiple sheet layers and multiple capacitor electrodes provided on the sheet layers and has an electric shock prevention function and a communication signal transmission function; a pair of soldering electrodes formed on the sheet layer disposed at an outermost side among the sheet layers, extend from both ends toward a center of the capacitor unit, and are formed as electrodes for co-firing; a pair of terminal electrodes which are provided at both ends of the plurality of sheet layers and connecting the capacitor electrodes to the pair of soldering electrodes; a varistor connected to the pair of soldering electrodes through solders and formed as a single component; and a molding portion molded on the varistor, the pair of soldering electrodes, and one side of each of the terminal electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyu Hwan PARK, Jun Suh YU
  • Patent number: 10601136
    Abstract: The antenna module disclosed, as the antenna module formed with a type of a flexible printed circuit board, and mounted adjacent to an end portion of a mobile terminal, includes a lower layer sheet mounted on the mobile terminal, and having a first radiation pattern formed on the lower layer sheet; an electromagnetic wave shielding sheet with an area narrower than the lower layer sheet, and layered on an top of the lower layer sheet; an upper layer sheet layered on an top of the electromagnetic wave shielding sheet, and having a second radiation pattern formed on the upper layer sheet, a part of both ends of the upper layer sheet being attached to the lower layer sheet; and a connecting portion connecting the first radiation pattern and the second radiation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki-Sang Lim, Jin-Won Noh, Hyung-IL Baek, Beom-Jin Kim, Yong-Ho Hwang
  • Patent number: 10594047
    Abstract: A functional contactor is provided. The functional contactor according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a conductive elastic portion configured to be in electrical contact with a conductor of an electronic device and have elasticity; and a functional device including a first electrode electrically connected to a circuit board or the conductor of the electronic device and a second electrode on which the conductive elastic portion is laminated through solder. Here, the second electrode includes a stopper in which no electrode is formed to prevent the solder from being introduced into a periphery of a lamination region on which the conductive elastic portion is laminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Choi, Byung Guk Lim, Seong Ha Lee, Yun Suk Choi, Dong Hun Kong
  • Patent number: 10566947
    Abstract: A filter for both a differential mode and a common mode is provided. A filter for both a differential mode and a common mode according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a pair of series inductors having a plurality of coil patterns; two pairs of parallel capacitors connected to opposite ends of the pair of inductors, respectively; and a pair of series capacitors connected to the pair of inductors in parallel. Therefore, the filter can be used in both a common mode and a differential mode, and can remove noise without using an additional filter in an application having a comparatively high data processing speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Soo Kim, Jae Su Ryu, Yoon Ho Hwang
  • Publication number: 20200028246
    Abstract: Disclosed are: a ring-shaped antenna, which is formed in a ring shape and mounted between an earphone module housing and the outer circumference of a coin-type battery so as to communicate, through an NFMI, with an antenna mounted in another earphone module; and a wireless earphone module having the same. The disclosed ring-shaped antenna comprises: a flexible base sheet; a terminal sheet formed to extend from one side of the base sheet; a first terminal formed on one surface of the terminal sheet; a second terminal, formed on one surface of the terminal sheet, to be spaced apart from the first terminal; and a radiation pattern formed on one surface of the base sheet, and having one end connected to the first terminal and having the other end connected to the second terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Beon-Jin KIM
  • Publication number: 20200021051
    Abstract: A functional contactor is provided. Provided according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a functional contactor comprising: a conductor which has elasticity and comes into contact with a conductor of an electronic device; a functional element which is connected to the conductor having elasticity and has a first and a second electrode respectively disposed on at least a part of an upper and a lower surface thereof; and a solder through which a lower surface of the conductor having elasticity is coupled with the first electrode of the functional element. The first electrode includes a first part outwardly extending from the lower surface of the conductor having elasticity along one side surface of the conductor having elasticity, and the solder includes an exposure part formed between the first part and a partial lateral surface of the one side surface of the conductor having elasticity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Byung Guk LIM
  • Patent number: 10511103
    Abstract: The present invention suggests an antenna module in which a radiation pattern is alternately formed on an upper surface and a lower surface of a shielding sheet to be wound on the shielding sheet in a vertical direction, and a portable device having the same. In the suggested antenna module, the radiation pattern is alternately formed on the upper surface and the lower surface of the shielding sheet in the vertical direction of the shielding sheet, and the portable device comprises the antenna module having a radiation pattern formed along a short side direction of a back cover formed of a metal material, and mounted to be biased from the center of the back cover to the short side direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-Won Noh, Hyung-Il Baek, Beom-Jin Kim, Ki-Sang Lim, Yong-Ho Hwang
  • Patent number: 10511201
    Abstract: Provided is a stacking-type stator using a multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) in which torque generation can be maximized in an opposite rotor, and a single-phase motor and a cooling fan both using the same. The stacking-type stator includes: a multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) that is stacked and integrated with a penetration opening; and a coil pattern patterned on each layer of the multilayer PCB, wherein throughholes are formed to penetrate the multilayer PCB and connect the coil patterns, wherein the coil pattern comprises: inner and outer rotating direction pattern portions which are arranged in a circumferential direction at intervals along an inner circumference and an outer circumference concentrically with the penetration opening; and a radial pattern portion that interconnects the inner rotating direction pattern portion and the outer rotating direction pattern portion that are adjacent to each other and is disposed along the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Soo Kim, Jin Gwan Kim
  • Patent number: 10504648
    Abstract: An antenna for wireless power transmission. A first coil portion includes a first outer coil portion and a first inner coil portion. A second coil portion includes a second outer coil portion and a second inner coil portion. The first coil portion and the second coil portion are disposed to overlap and intersect each other at one or more points. In a state in which the first coil portion and the second coil portion are overlapped, bends of the first coil portion and the second coil portion overlap and intersect each other. All of the bends of the first outer coil portion are located above the bends of the second outer coil portion or all of the bends of the second outer coil portion are located above the bends of the first outer coil portion. Uniform charging efficiency is obtained across entire areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Hyun Ryu, Hyung Il Baek, Wong Jin Seok, Yong Gil Jo
  • Patent number: 10499520
    Abstract: An electronic device contactor coupling structure is disclosed. The device can include a contactor electrically connecting a conductive case of an electronic device and a circuit board inside the electronic device, the conductive case being exposed to the outside, wherein the contactor is configured with a composite element having two or more of an electric-shock preventing function of blocking leakage current of an external power source, an antistatic function, and a communication signal transmitting function; a conductive bracket and the conductive case are coupled by a conductive fastening means with the circuit board coupled to one side of the conductive bracket; the conductive case has a recess formed on the surface thereof opposite to the conductive bracket; and the contactor is coupled to the recess of the conductive case so as to be electrically connected with the circuit board by the conductive fastening means and the conductive bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Guk Lim, Yun Suk Choi, Dong Hun Kong, Ji Woo Moon