Patents Assigned to Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resource
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Method for remediating contaminated soil using microorganism strain having ability to produce urease
Patent number: 9821354Abstract: The present invention provides a method of remediating contaminated soil with heavy metal using a microorganism of Sporosarcina sp. Contaminated soil is inoculated with the Sporosarcina sp. KM-01 (Sporosarcina pasteurii KM-01) strain includes a base sequence of SEQ ID NO. 1, the Sporosarcina sp. KM-07 (Sporosarcina pasteurii KM-07) strain includes a base sequence of SEQ ID NO. 2, and the Sporosarcina sp. KM-12 (Sporosarcina pasteurii KM-12) strain includes a base sequence of SEQ ID NO. 3. The strains are capable of producing urease.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES (KIGAM)Inventors: In Hyun Nam, Jae Gon Kim, Chul-Min Chon, Min-Jeong Park -
Patent number: 9824783Abstract: The invention generally relates to a radiation shielding apparatus that includes a shielding box unit into which a radiation generating device is inserted, a locking unit disposed on an outside of the shielding box unit, an operation display unit disposed on the outside of the shielding box unit to display a locked state of the locking unit, and a control unit for controlling an operation of each of the radiation generating device and the operation display unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCESInventors: Kyeong Ja Kim, Seung Ryeol Lee, Yi Re Choi, Eung Seok Yi
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Patent number: 9810801Abstract: Provided is a method for swell effect and mis-tie correction in high-resolution marine seismic data using multi-beam echo sounder data, and more particularly, a method for swell effect and mis-tie correction in high-resolution marine seismic data using multi-beam echo sounder data capable of acquiring the high-resolution marine seismic data having the swell effect and the mis-tie effectively corrected by using the multi-beam echo sounder data including water depth data of a sea-bottom having high precision.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCESInventors: Young-Jun Kim, Nam Hyung Koo, Won-Sik Kim, Jong-Hwa Chun
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Patent number: 9798026Abstract: Provided is elastic reverse-time migration system and method using an absolute value function for improving the quality of subsurface structure images, and more particularly, elastic reverse-time migration system and method using an absolute value function for improving the quality of subsurface structure images capable of minimizing waveform changing by separating wavefields using stress-displacement relationships and improving accuracy of the subsurface structure images by applying the absolute value function to migration images.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCESInventors: Jiho Ha, Wookeen Chung, Sungryul Shin, Young-Jun Kim, Wonsik Kim
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Patent number: 9798034Abstract: An electromagnetic exploration device minimizes signal interference due to a metal body or electronic components that constitute an air vehicle by installing a transmission coil and a receiving coil in an envelope of an airship, and enables a batch arrangement of the optimized transmission coil and receiving coil in accordance with various exploration purposes using the envelope shape, thereby acquiring exploration data from one flight. The device in an airship having an envelope includes: a transmission coil along the periphery of the horizontal axial direction of the envelope, for generating a primary magnetic field; at least one receiving coil along the periphery of the envelope, for detecting a secondary magnetic field induced by the primary magnetic field; and an analyzing device for applying an electric current to the receiving coil and analyzing a measurement value of the secondary magnetic field detected by the receiving coil, thereby performing air electromagnetic exploration.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral ResourcesInventors: Seong-Jun Cho, Sam-Kyu Park
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Patent number: 9795943Abstract: Provided are a lithium adsorbent prepared using an aerosol deposition method, including (a) synthesizing lithium manganese oxide powder, and (b) coating the lithium manganese oxide powder on a surface of a substrate by the aerosol deposition method, and a method of preparing the same. The lithium adsorbent is characterized in that the lithium manganese oxide powder may be directly coated on various substrates using the aerosol deposition method, thereby greatly reducing a decrease of a lithium recovery rate even after a long time has lapsed. Further, the lithium adsorbent having a large surface area prepared by the preparation method of the present invention is characterized by being easily handled, being selectively reacted with lithium ions, having a larger adsorption area, being physically and chemically stable, and being used reversibly.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCESInventors: Kang-Sup Chung, Byoung-Gyu Kim, Taegong Ryu, Jungho Ryu, In-Su Park, Hye-Jin Hong, Jae-chun Lee
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Publication number: 20170299745Abstract: The present invention relates to a one-way wave equation prestack depth migration method using an elastic generalized-screen (EGS) wave propagator capable of efficiently expressing the movement of an elastic wave passing through a mutual mode conversion between a P-wave and an S-wave while propagating boundary surfaces of an underground medium, by expanding, to an elastic wave equation, a conventional scalar generalized-screen (SGS) technique capable of quickly calculating the propagation of a wave in a medium in which there is a horizontal speed change, and according to the present invention, provided is a prestack EGS migration method for seismic wave multi-component data, which: can calculate a wave field with higher accuracy in a medium having a complex structure by expanding up to a second term of a Taylor series expansion of a vertical slowness term of a propagator; includes a mode separation operator in the propagator so as to directly use a shot gather as a migration input, without the need to separatType: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral ResourcesInventors: Byoung Yeop Kim, Joong Moo Byun, Soon Jee Seol, Ho Young Lee
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Patent number: 9776889Abstract: Disclosed is an inline separator for separating well fluid or gas-dominant fluid using centrifugal force. The inline separator includes: an outer pipe provided with an inlet; a vortex-generating rotor installed in the outer pipe; a fixed extraction pipe having an external diameter smaller than an internal diameter of the outer pipe and installed in the outer pipe at a downstream side of the vortex-generating rotor; a movable extraction pipe connected to an end of the fixed extraction pipe, close to the vortex-generating rotor, and having an extendable and retractable structure such that a position of an introduction hole of the movable extraction pipe is changeable; a pressure compensation pipe that applies pressure to oil or gas separated in a downstream end of the fixed extraction pipe; and a seawater discharge pipe connected to a portion of the outer pipe at which the fixed extraction pipe is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCESInventors: Young Ju Kim, Nam Seop Woo
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Patent number: 9771632Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for adsorption/desorption of lithium ions from brine, which employs a counter current decantation process in adsorption/desorption of lithium ions, thereby achieving an adsorption rate of 65±5% and a desorption rate of 95±3%. The method includes supplying brine into one of a plurality of adsorption reactors, adsorbing lithium ions to an adsorbent by supplying the adsorbent to the adsorption reactor to which the brine is supplied and forcing the brine and the adsorbent to sequentially flow backwards inside the respective adsorption reactors, and desorbing the lithium ions from the brine by forcing the adsorbent to which the lithium ions are adsorbed to sequentially flow backwards inside a plurality of desorption reactors. Here, the brine and the adsorbent are stirred by a stirrer to maintain the adsorbent in an intermediate state instead of settling or floating inside the respective adsorption reactors.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCESInventors: Joon-Soo Kim, Jin-Young Lee, Kyeong-Woo Chung, Hoo-In Lee
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Patent number: 9765616Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus for sampling water in a borehole and a method thereof. The apparatus includes a water sampling cylinder to sample the water in the borehole; a first camera to monitor the water sampling cylinder and a sample discharging part provided in the borehole; a first motor to insert the water sampling cylinder into the sample discharging part; a vacuum vessel to receive a sample input from the water sampling cylinder; a waterproof member having a hole serving as a passage through which the water sampling cylinder moves back and forth; and a supporting member that urges the waterproof member closely to the sample discharging part to prevent foreign substances from being introduced into the borehole. The first motor includes a plurality of protrusions meshed with a plurality of grooves provided in the water sampling cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCESInventors: Jeong-Chan Kim, Ki-Sung Sung, Gi-Tak Chae
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Patent number: 9753162Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for detecting infrasound. The apparatus for detecting infrasound includes a sound wave detector including a diaphragm dividing an inner space of a first container into a first space and a second space, and a microchannel assembly including a second container having an inner space with one of the spaces divided by the diaphragm and a plurality of microchannels having different resistance values with respect to transmission of a sound wave, and exposing the inner space of the second container to the air through one of the plurality of microchannels. Such an apparatus for detecting infrasound may have various cut-off frequencies according to the number of the microchannels.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCESInventor: Tae Sung Kim
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Patent number: 9746575Abstract: Borehole electromagnetic exploration or tomography (EM tomography). An induction type broadband 3-component borehole magnetic measuring sensor can accurately and precisely measure a broadband magnetic field about x, y and z axes using a three-dimensional (3D) model within a borehole by monitoring natural variations in the earth's magnetic field or based on EM tomography using the borehole. The measuring sensor is applicable to energy resource fields such as petroleum and coal, mineral resources fields and civil engineering and environmental fields.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral ResourcesInventors: Tae Jong Lee, Yoonho Song, Myeong Jong Yi
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Patent number: 9714930Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for measuring salinity of interstitial water in a soil sample, the apparatus including: an air supplier that generates a stream of high-pressure air; an air nozzle from which the high-pressure air, supplied from the air supplier, is ejected; a soil-compressing tank into which the high-pressure air, ejected from the air nozzle, is introduced and which compresses a soil sample contained therein to squeeze interstitial water from the soil sample; and a water tank which collects and stores the interstitial water drained from the soil-compressing tank and in which a salinity-measuring sensor for measuring salinity is installed to measure salinity of the interstitial water.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2014Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE & MINERAL RESOURCESInventors: Sueng Won Jeong, Gil Young Kim, Jang-Jun Bahk, Seong-Pil Kim, Sang Hoon Lee, Dongyeob Kim
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Patent number: 9715029Abstract: An electric field sensor for underwater, including a sensing unit that senses a change in an electric field and transfers a sensing signal of the electric field to a signal line, a waterproof sealing unit that keeps a signal transferring portion of the sensing unit in a waterproof state, and a water-passing protection unit that shields and protects an exposed portion of the sensing unit. The sensing unit includes a nonconductive hollow pipe connected to the signal line, a sheet of carbon fiber that is wound around the outer surface of the hollow pipe and that senses an electric field, and a terminal ring that is electrically conductively installed at an end portion of the sheet of carbon fiber to provide a connection portion of the signal line and that is watertightly sealed by the waterproof sealing unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCESInventors: Sung-Ho Cho, Hyun-Key Jung, Hyosun Lee, Hyoungrea Rim
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Patent number: 9716813Abstract: An aerial survey plane having a cover for protecting a lens of an infrared camera for an aerial survey according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: an aerial survey observation window; an aerial survey infrared camera; at least one shock absorbing part to absorb shock applied to the aerial survey infrared camera; at least one support vertically provided on the shock absorbing part; a lifting part to lift and lower the aerial survey infrared camera; a protective cover provided between the aerial survey infrared camera and the bottom surface of the fuselage of the aerial survey plane and having a size to cover the aerial survey observation window; at least one motor to move the protective cover toward any one direction; and a controller to remotely control the opening and the closing of the protective cover.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral ResourcesInventors: Jong-Gyu Han, Ki-Sung Sung, Sung-Soon Lee, Yeong-Kwang Yeon, Jeong-Chan Kim
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Patent number: 9696456Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of processing marine gravity data and a processing apparatus for the same. According to the present invention, the processing method comprises obtaining an initial free-air anomaly per profile from raw data; obtaining a filtered free-air anomaly by filtering high-frequency components from the initial free-air anomaly; shifting free-air anomaly by correcting the filtered free-air anomaly based on a reference free-air anomaly; and showing a per-profile free-air anomaly using the reference corrected free-air anomaly.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral ResourceInventors: Kyong O Kim, Jin Ho Kim, Gee Soo Kong, Moo Hee Kang, Young Ho Yoon
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Patent number: 9683104Abstract: Provided is a surface modification method of calcite powder prepared from desulfurized gypsum and heat-treated at a high temperature. According to the surface modification method, hydrophilic calcite powder having polarity may be changed into hydrophobic non-polar calcite powder by safely adsorbing a surface modifier onto a surface of the calcite powder and coating the surface with non-polar fatty acid. Particularly, in the case in which calcite powder heat-treated at a high temperature is hydrophobized, a significantly excellent hydrophobic surface property may be implemented.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2013Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCES AND MINERAL RESOURCES (KIGAM)Inventors: Chi Wan Jeon, Young Nam Jang, Soo Chun Chae, Seung Woo Lee, Jun Hwan Bang, Kyung Sun Song
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Patent number: 9678048Abstract: Disclosed is a method of evaluating a final equilibrium pH of a contaminated soil on site by using a paste pH. The method includes measuring the paste pH by adding a solution to the contaminated soil, and evaluating the final equilibrium pH according to an initial pH by applying the paste pH to Final ? ? equilibrium ? ? pH = ( paste ? ? pH + 1 ) × exp ? ( - 1 initial ? ? pH ) - exp ? ( - 1 ? ( paste ? ? pH + 1 ) initital ? ? pH ) , Equation ? ? 1 in which the initial pH is a predetermined integer in a range of 1 to 10.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCESInventors: Pyeong-Koo Lee, Jung-Hae Choi
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Patent number: 9658093Abstract: There is provided a water exchange meter being capable of automatically and continuously measuring the water exchange at the surface water/sediment interface in which a saturated vertical hydraulic conductivity of the sediment from the hydraulic head difference between a chamber and a storage pipe at a measurement location is measured, and after the measurement of the saturated vertical hydraulic conductivity, while the measurement device used in the measurement of the vertical hydraulic conductivity is maintained, a vertical hydraulic gradient between upper and lower portions of a chamber is continuously measured in situ.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral ResourcesInventors: Bong Joo Lee, Ji-Hoon Lee, Heesung Yoon, Eunhee Lee
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Patent number: 9658147Abstract: A apparatus for measuring saturated hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated porous media in an unsaturated zone of the earth. The measuring apparatus includes a cylinder member inserted into the porous media in a position in which the upper and lower ends of the cylinder member are open, a means for supplying a constant flow rate of water to the cylinder member, and a pressure measuring means for measuring the hydraulic head in response to water flowing into the cylinder member. The measuring apparatus can easily measure the vertical hydraulic conductivity of a foundation based on Darcy's Law in the field. It is possible to accurately measure the hydraulic conductivity of a sedimentary layer in the natural state and easily determine geological characteristics of the soil. It is possible to obtain very accurate information regarding the process of dispersion and movement of contaminants.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCESInventors: Bong-Joo Lee, Ji-Hoon Lee