Patents Assigned to Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang University
  • Publication number: 20190019583
    Abstract: Provided is a plasma diagnosis system using multiple-path Thomson scattering, including: a light source which supplies pulsed laser beams; an optical system which includes first and second beam focusing units and supplies a pulsed laser beam in a vertical polarization state and a pulsed laser beam in a horizontal polarization state to the first and second beam focusing units; a collection optic system which measures a first collection signal obtained by collecting signals scattered from the plasma and a second collection signal obtained by collecting signals scattered from the plasma and measures the first and second collection signals; and a controller which measures a Thomson scattering signal for the plasma by using the first and second collection signals. The first and second collection signals are configured with one of a background scattering noise signal and a mixed signal of a Thomson scattering signal and the background scattering noise signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang University
    Inventors: Kyu Man CHO, Seung Hyun YOON, Wha-Keun AHN, June Gyu PARK
  • Patent number: 10132832
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a microcantilever having a cantilever and a functional probe provided on the cantilever may include steps of: providing a probe mold which accommodates a liquid probe solution in which quantum dots for the functional probe are mixed, and has a groove corresponding to the shape of the functional probe; bringing a cantilever into contact with the probe mold on which the groove is formed to correspond to the location of the functional probe; forming the functional probe on the cantilever by curing the probe solution accommodated in the groove in a state where the cantilever contacts the probe mold; and separating the cantilever from the probe mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION SOGANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jung Chul Lee, Seok Beom Kim, Jae Seol Lee
  • Patent number: 10093535
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a microchannel resonator capable of measuring a mass and characteristics of an object using a principle in which a resonance frequency is changed according to a mass of a moving material, the method including: providing a silicon substrate; forming a cavity channel inside the silicon substrate; forming a hollow silicon oxide structure on the inner wall surface of the cavity channel by oxidizing the inner wall surface of the cavity channel; and partially removing the periphery of the hollow silicon oxide structure such that the hollow silicon oxide structure can resonate with respect to the silicon substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION SOGANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jung Chul Lee, Joo Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10067205
    Abstract: A pulse restoration circuit includes: a voltage restorator configured to include an OP amplifier and input an input voltage to an input terminal of the OP amplifier; a rising time restorator configured to be connected to the other input terminal of the OP amplifier; and a falling time restorator configured to be connected to an output terminal of the OP amplifier, whereby it is possible to improve a reduction in performance of the medical image electronics transmitting an analog signal via the cable and a PET detector of a PET-MRI convergence system among the medical image electronics by correcting a distortion phenomenon of an output signal depending on a cable length into the original signal using the pulse restoration circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION SOGANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yong Choi, Jihoon Kang, Kyubom Kim
  • Patent number: 9994442
    Abstract: Provided is a method of arranging particles on a substrate, the method including: (a) preparing a substrate, a surface of which has depressions or projections capable of fixing the positions and/or orientations of one or more particles; and (b) placing the particles on the substrate and applying a physical pressure to the particles so that a portion or the whole of each particle is inserted in each of pores defined by the depressions or the projections. Provided is also a method of arranging particles on a substrate, the method including: (a) preparing a substrate, at least a surface portion of which has adhesive property; and (b) placing particles, which do not have flat facets but curved surfaces, on the substrate and applying a physical pressure to the particles so that the particles are immobilized on adhesive surface portions of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION SOGANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kyung Byung Yoon, Nguyen Khanh Nguyen, Cao Thanh Tung Pham
  • Patent number: 9994875
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a recombinant strain for producing 2,3-butanediol, comprising (a) an inactivated lactate dehydrogenase and (b) an inactivated sucrose regulator. According to the present invention, it is possible to economically produce 2,3-butanediol using a cheap carbon source, and the efficiency and productivity of 2,3-butanediol is remarkable compared with a wild type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION SOGANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jin Won Lee, Min Kyu Oh, Moo Young Jung
  • Patent number: 9976940
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for DNA staining, which can be safely used for researchers, can prevent DNA photocleavage, and can be applied to various fields. According to the present invention, when DNA is stained by using a fluorescent protein and a particular peptide bound to DNA, such a fluorescent protein-peptide is safe to researchers, suppresses DNA photocleavage, and allows reversible staining, thereby enabling efficient DNA staining. Therefore, the composition for DNA staining of the present invention can be variously used in DNA-related research.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION SOGANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kyu Bong Jo, Seong Hyun Lee, David C. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 9945841
    Abstract: A method for measuring cell cycles includes immobilizing a capture specifically binding to a cell membrane protein to a substrate, wherein the cell membrane protein is a counterpartner binding to the capture, binding a cell having the cell membrane protein as the counterpartner to the capture, and measuring a redox potential of the cell. A method for screening a substance affecting cell cycles includes immobilizing a capture specifically binding to a cell membrane protein to a substrate; wherein the cell membrane protein is a counterpartner binding to the capture, binding a cell having the cell membrane protein as the counterpartner to the capture, treating a test substance of interest for analysis to a cell, and measuring a redox potential of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION SOGANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jeong-Woo Choi, Tae-Hyung Kim, Kafi Md Abdul
  • Patent number: 9938637
    Abstract: Provided are a method for preparing a thin film or a thick film, including: a first step of providing a porous substrate capable of supplying silicon; a second step of applying zeolite seed crystals onto the surface of the porous substrate; a third step of coating the seed crystals-applied porous substrate with an aqueous solution containing a structure-directing agent; and a fourth step of forming and growing a film from the seed crystals by the secondary growth above a temperature at which moisture inside the seed crystals-applied porous substrate prepared in the third step can form steam, and a film prepared by the method. The film manufacturing method of the present invention is a simple manufacturing process, and thus has high reproducibility and high throughput. Since a synthetic gel is not used and a solution is used, the unnecessary consumption of materials, environmental pollution, and waste of a synthetic gel can be prevented while not necessitating drying and washing of a film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang University
    Inventors: Kyung Byung Yoon, Cao Thanh Tung Pham
  • Patent number: 9870682
    Abstract: A contact type tactile feedback apparatus and operational method of the contact type tactile feedback apparatus is provided. The contact type tactile feedback apparatus may enable an object to be in close contact with a power feedback portion to transfer a power sensed by a sensor, using a fixing portion, thereby enabling the object to recognize the power, intuitively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang University
    Inventors: Joonah Park, Hyung Kew Lee, Eun Hyup Doh, Kwang Seok Yun
  • Publication number: 20170320923
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a proton-transport vesicle and a method for preparing the same, the proton-transfer vesicle comprising: (a) a single phospholipid bilayer liposome; (b) a rhodopsin protein; and (c) a photosystem II protein, wherein the rhodopsin protein and the photosystem II protein are inserted and located in a bilayer of the liposome. Since the heterologous photosensitive proteins are inserted and located in the bilayer of the liposome, the vesicle has an absorption wavelength band of the whole region of visible light by utilizing absorption bands of different lights of the respective photosensitive proteins. Thus, the restricted efficiency caused by utilizing only a specific wavelength in existing organisms or artificial vesicles was improved, and the wavelength region can be enlarged to the all wavelength ranges of visible light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION SOGANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kwan Woo SHIN, Hee Yeon KIM, Kwang-Hwan JUNG, Keel Yong LEE, Tae Kyu AHN
  • Patent number: 9796789
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a biomemory device, comprising (a) a substrate; and (b) a heterolayer comprising a protein having a redox potential and an inorganic particle; wherein the heterolayer is immobilized on the substrate. By applying inorganic particles, the present invention provides a biomemory device capable of enhancing low current signals detected electron transfer between biomolecules and substrates up to at least five (5) times greater signals. The present invention is capable of controlling the redox states with help of redox potentials of proteins depending on applied potential. The present invention provides a new-concept biomemory device as an information storage device based on the principle of electron transfer of a naturally occurring biomolecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION SOGANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jeong Woo Choi, Taek Lee, Jun Hong Min
  • Patent number: 9729300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling a remote transmitting station in a wireless communication system, including a step of: a first transmission point transmitting to a second transmission point time resource information related to at least one or more remote transmitting stations among a plurality of remote transmitting stations, wherein the plurality of transmitting stations located at cell edges of the first transmission point and cell identifiers of the at least one or more remote transmitting stations are changed according to a time period instructed by the time resource information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignees: LG ELECTRONICS INC., INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION SOGANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Byounghoon Kim, Wonjin Sung, Jaewon Kim, Jaeyong Park, Hyunggil Yoo
  • Patent number: 9718894
    Abstract: Provided is a bioprocessing device including a hybrid of (1) a protein having a redox potential; and (b) a single strand DNA (ssDNA) conjugated to the protein. The bioprocessing device of the present invention has a function of information reinforcement, information regulation, or information amplification. This bioprocessing device of the present invention presents a new concept of biocomputing system enabling various functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION SOGANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jeong-Woo Choi, Taek Lee, Jun Hong Min
  • Patent number: 9676634
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel method for producing titanium dioxide particles, and titanium dioxide particles produced thereby, and more specifically, to a novel method for producing titanium dioxide particles capable of producing titanium dioxide particles having uniform particle size through chemical reaction at a temperature equal to or lower than room temperature and can easily control the size of titanium dioxide particles, and titanium dioxide particles produced thereby, having a uniform particle size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION SOGANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kyung Byung Yoon, Hyun Sung Kim, Myunpyo Hong
  • Patent number: 9657273
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing differentiated cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cell, wherein undifferentiated induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) are removed, the method comprising steps of: (a) preparing a cell sample including undifferentiated induced pluripotent stem cells and differentiated cells by differentiating induced pluripotent stem cells; and (b) causing selective apoptosis of the undifferentiated induced pluripotent stem cells by treating the resultant in step (a) with quercetin of Formula 1 below or with YM-155 of Formula 2 below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang University
    Inventors: Hyuk Jin Cha, Kwang Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 9650663
    Abstract: This invention relates to a sensor for detecting a stem cell differentiation, including (a) an electrode; and (b) a substrate of an alkaline phosphatase. The phosphorylation or dephosphorylation of the substrate for an alkaline phosphatase as a stem cell undifferentiation marker which dephosphorylates its substrate may be measured using an electrical signal in the present sensor. Therefore, the sensor of the present invention enables to electrically detect a stem cell status in a high-throughput manner and to determine the stem cell differentiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang University
    Inventors: Jeong-Woo Choi, Cheol-Heon Yea
  • Patent number: 9609431
    Abstract: Provided are an interested audio source cancellation method, a voice recognition method using the interested audio source cancellation method, computer-readable recording media recording programs for implementing the methods, and a voice recognition apparatus for performing voice recognition by using the interested audio source cancellation method. The interested audio source cancellation method includes steps of: receiving input mixed signals from two microphones and transforming the signals into a time-frequency domain through short-term Fourier transformation; setting an interested audio source cancellation vector for cancelling an interested audio source signal from the input mixed signals in the time-frequency domain; and generating a mixed noise signal by cancelling the interested audio source signal from the input mixed signals by using the interested audio source cancellation vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION SOGANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hyung Min Park, Myung Woo Oh
  • Publication number: 20160377549
    Abstract: By forming a monolayer of metal core-shell nanoparticles, transferring the monolayer to various substrates and removing the shells surrounding the particles by way of selective etching, it is possible to form large-area uniform nanogap structures very easily. In addition, a nanogap is formed by an ultrasmall void having no limitation in diffusion between metal cores through Van der Waals interaction between the metal core particles, as the etching proceeds. It is possible to enhance a near-field significantly around the nanogap structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang University
    Inventors: Taewook KANG, Yuna SIN
  • Patent number: 9514936
    Abstract: Manufacturing a particle may include inserting a supporting body into a receiving groove on a first substrate to accommodate a first surface of the supporting body into the receiving groove and to expose a second surface of the supporting body to outside; forming a first coating layer on the second surface; attaching a second substrate to the supporting body on which the first coating layer is formed; exposing the first surface of the supporting body on which the first coating layer is formed to outside, by separating the supporting body on which the first coating layer is formed and which is attached to the second substrate from the first substrate; forming a second coating layer on the first surface of the supporting body; and separating the supporting body, on which the first coating layer and the second coating layer are formed, from the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION SOGANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kyung Byung Yoon, Phil Kook Son, Hye Ryeong Park