Patents Assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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Publication number: 20180208274Abstract: A coupling device for recovering an unmanned ship includes: a coupling unit, which is lifted and lowered by being connected to a crane provided in a mother ship; an accommodation unit provided in the unmanned ship, and having a vertically communicating coupling hole; a guide unit performing guiding such that the coupling unit is coupled to the accommodation unit, and including a towing line formed to be long, and a winch connected to the other side of the towing line so as to selectively wind or unwind the towing line; and a control unit including a sensing part for sensing the tension applied to the towing line by the driving of the winch, and a control part for lowering the coupling unit connected to the crane, if the intensity of the tension sensed by the sensing part is a preset value or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Sun Young KIM, Yeon Gyu KIM, Nam Sun SON
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Publication number: 20180201344Abstract: An unmanned vessel having a coupling apparatus includes: a heaving line launcher, which is provided on one side of the bow of the unmanned vessel; a coupling apparatus, which is provided at the center of gravity of the unmanned vessel and is coupled to a coupling member of a crane provided on a mother vessel; a first winch, which is provided on at least one side of either the bow or stern of the unmanned vessel, a first tow line being wounded around the same; and a second winch around which a second tow line, which passes one side of the coupling apparatus, is wound.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2016Publication date: July 19, 2018Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Nam Sun SON, Sun Young KIM, Yeon Gyu KIM
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Patent number: 10004052Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for estimating a Doppler shift for underwater communication. The apparatus includes: a multipath delay profile determiner for detecting a correlation of a known signal 1 and a received packet signal and time (T1o) at a point having maximum energy of the correlation, and detecting a multipath delay profile at the time (T1o); a correlation calculator for calculating a correlation between a correlation of a known signal 2 and the received packet signal, and the multipath delay profile; a maximum value detector for detecting time (T2o) at a point having maximum energy of the correlation calculated by the correlation calculator; and a Doppler shift estimator for determining a Doppler shift using a difference between the time (T1o) and the time (T2o) at points having respective maximum energy.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Seung-Guen Kim, Yong-Kon Lim, Sea-Moon Kim, Jong-Won Park, Changho Yun
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Patent number: 9968576Abstract: The present invention relates to a neurodegenerative disease treatment use, which is a novel use of Ramalin, and, more specifically, to a composition for preventing or treating neurodegenerative diseases, containing Ramalin, which has an inflammasome and BACE1 expression inhibitory activity. Ramalin according to the present invention has an effect of improving a cognitive ability by inhibiting the expression of an inflammatory factor, which contains an NLRP inflammasome protein, and BACE1, and is thus useful for preventing or treating memory disorder and neurodegenerative diseases.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Joung Han Yim, Il-Chan Kim, Se Jong Han, Dong-Gyu Jo
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Patent number: 9957955Abstract: There is provided a high efficiency ocean thermal difference power generating system by using liquid-vapor ejector and motive pump comprising: an evaporator for changing transferred refrigerant liquid into refrigerant vapor with high temperature and high pressure by the thermal exchange with surface seawater; a vapor-liquid divider which is installed at the outlet part of the evaporator and divides the refrigerants to liquid-state refrigerant and vapor-state refrigerant respectively; a distributor which is installed at the inlet of the evaporator and distributes the refrigerants flowed into the evaporator to multi-paths; a turbine for generating electric power by using the high pressure refrigerant vapor transferred from the liquid-vapor divider or the evaporator; a motive pump for increasing the pressure of the refrigerant liquid distributed from the distributor or the liquid-vapor divider; a liquid-vapor ejector for mixing the low pressure refrigerant vapor which passed the turbine and the high pressure refType: GrantFiled: March 5, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Korea Institute of Ocean Science & TechnologyInventors: Hyeon-Ju Kim, Ho-Saeng Lee, Sang-Won Cha, Young-Kwon Jung, Jung-In Yoon, Chang-Hyo Son, Seong-Hun Seol, Byeong-Hyo Ye
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Patent number: 9954697Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for equalizing a channel and determining reception data of a packet communication receiver. The apparatus includes: an input interface unit which receives a reception sample string of a packet having a midamble and location information of the midamble; a sample dividing unit which divides the reception sample string into a first sub sample string and a second sub string stream using the location information of the midamble; and a channel equalizing unit which performs channel equalization on the first sub sample string and the second sub sample string, respectively, using a channel equalizing algorithm of the channel equalizer.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE TECHNOLOGYInventors: Seung Geun Kim, Yong Kon Lim, Chang Ho Yun, Jong Won Park
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Patent number: 9849954Abstract: A deep-sea exploration multi-joint underwater robot system and a spherical glass pressure housing including a titanium band are provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Korea Institute of Ocean Science & TechnologyInventors: Bong-Huan Jun, Hyung-Won Shim, Jin-Yeong Park, Seong-Yeol Yoo, Hyuk Baek, Pan-Mook Lee
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Publication number: 20170356599Abstract: The present invention relates to a natural gas hydrate tank container loading system for transporting natural gas hydrate, and the present invention provides a natural gas hydrate tank container loading system which enables automated connection of an electric power line and a boil-off pipe, and may automatically connect an electric power line and automatically connect the pipe by simultaneously stacking respective natural gas hydrate tank containers, in order to solve problems of a transportation method using the existing natural gas hydrate tank containers in the related art in that an operation of connecting an electric power line to a refrigerator for minimizing the occurrence of boil-off gas and maintaining a phase equilibrium condition in the tank containers and an operation of connecting the pipe for discharging the boil-off gas need to be manually and individually performed for long-distance transportation of a large amount of natural gas hydrate by using a ship, which causes an inconvenience.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2014Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: Korea Institute of Ocean Science and TechnologyInventors: Hee Jin Kang, Gyeong Joong Lee, Beom Jin Park
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Patent number: 9824052Abstract: The present invention relates to the prevention of bus conflicts in the backplane by providing a bus structure which is configured to control the activation of an attached slave board in the backplane to/from which a plurality of slave boards are attached and detached. The backplane according to the present invention can prevent data bus conflicts and improve the stability of a corresponding system by configuring general purpose I/O (GPIO) pins in a 2 bit request/grant scheme between a master board and the plurality of slave boards. Accordingly, the present invention can improve system reliability, maintainability, and competitiveness in various fields such as the fields of communication devices and server devices, remote monitors and control systems, vessel communications, aircraft communications, and wired and wireless communications in which various protocols are combined and implemented.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jong-Won Park, Yong-Kon Lim, So Young Sung
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Patent number: 9725876Abstract: The present invention provides a dredged soil transport system including a pipe module wound with a coil applying an electromagnetic field to an internally flowing dredged soil and including a plurality of pipelines, a pump module configured to provide a transport pressure for transport of dredged soil to the pipe module, database stored with flow information on flow velocity and flow form in response to physical properties of liquefied unit, and a control module communicating with the pipe module, the pump module and the database wiredly and wirelessly and applying, to the coil, a current of waveform matching to a flow waveform of the dredged soil transported inside the pipeline, and a control method thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Gil-Lim Yoon, YuSeung Kim
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Patent number: 9714880Abstract: The present invention provides an inertia test apparatus for a model ship that mimics a pitching inertia radius of an actual ship by reciprocating a model ship. The apparatus includes a base frame providing a supporting force, vertical frames integrally fixed at both sides of the base frame and having a hinge shaft on an upper end, a swing including a pair of fixing members rotatably hung on the hinge shafts of the vertical frames and a bed integrally formed at a lower ends of the fixing members, and providing a pitching inertia radius of the model ship by reciprocating about the hinge shafts, with the model ship seated on the bed, and a centering adjuster seating the model ship on the bed of the swing and matching a center of gravity of the model ship with a center of the swing by allowing the model ship to move.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2015Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: In Bo Park, Sung Kwon Choi, Jin Ha Kim, Yeonguk Won, Young-Sik Kim, Hong Gun Sung, Sa Young Hong, Jang Pyo Hong, Suk Kyu Cho
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Patent number: 9701375Abstract: An inundation prevention system for ship is provided. The inundation prevention system for ship includes a fire-extinction gas ejection part configured to eject a fire extinction gas to an installation area prepared in a hull, an airbag part of 3D shape disposed in the installation area, and an airbag actuation part configured to supply the fire extinction gas to the airbag part, if inundation occurs in the installation are, and to inflate the airbag in the installation for compulsory buoyancy.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hee-Jin Kang, Jin Choi, Dong-Kon Lee
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Patent number: 9658138Abstract: Disclosed is a container fixing holder of a time-series sediment trapping device. With respect to the container fixing holder of the time-series sediment trapping device, the time-series sediment trapping device includes a funnel; a frame disposed to support and surround the funnel, a frame having at least one rod vertically disposed and a fixing plate coupled to the at least one rod forming the frame on a horizontal plane defined by a lower portion of the funnel, wherein a rotation plate, to which a plurality of time-series sediment trapping containers to trap the time-series sediment collected through the funnel are fixedly attached, is formed under the fixing plate. The container fixing holder includes a circular holder for fixing the plurality of time-series sediment trapping containers fixedly attached to the rotation plate without shaking.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Korea Institute of Ocean Science & TechnologyInventors: Dong-Jin Ham, Gun-Chang Lee, Sang-Bum Chi, Kyeong-Hong Kim, Hyoung-Jeek Kim
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Patent number: 9651669Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for identifying an anomalous satellite in a multi-reference station environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2013Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Deuk Jae Cho, Mi Young Shin
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Patent number: 9643693Abstract: A floating marine structure which includes a first float disposed at the center and a plurality of second floats disposed around the first float, where the first float has a floating body made of a floatable material in a polygonal prism shape, a damping unit coupled to the bottom of the floating body at the center, having the same cross-section as the floating body, having a cross-sectional area larger than the cross-sectional area of the floating body, and reducing a shake of the first float in the sea, and at least one coupling hole formed at each side of the floating body. The second float has the same shape as the floating body and has coupling protrusions formed at sides facing the sides of the floating body and inserted in the coupling holes, and wherein the coupling holes are formed at alternate sides of the floating body.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hyeon Ju Kim, Sa Young Hong, Dong Ho Jung, Bo Woo Nam, Yong Ju Kwon
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Patent number: 9644194Abstract: A cold-adapted protease derived from Pseudoalteromonas arctica PAMC 21717 or a recombinant cold-adapted protease obtained by expressing a gene encoding the cold-adapted protease in E. coli is described, and more particularly, a crystal of a protease exhibiting activity at low temperatures, a method for crystallizing the protease, a method for preparing the protease, a recombinant microorganism that expresses the protease, a method for preparing the recombinant microorganism, a method for preparing the recombinant protease and the use of the cold-adapted protease. The cold-adapted protease exhibits high activity at low temperatures, and securely maintains its enzymatic activity even in the presence of high pH, various metal ions and surfactants. Thus, it is useful in various industrial applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Joung Han Yim, Bon-Hun Koo, Chul Soo Shin, Dockyu Kim, Il-Chan Kim, Se Jong Han, Jun Hyuck Lee, Ha Ju Park
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Patent number: 9638806Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for detecting ambiguities in a satellite signal for the GPS tracking of vessels, which includes: a GNSS receiving unit obtaining a vessel position using a plurality of satellites; a vessel position calculating unit calculating a second vessel position from a first vessel position after a specific amount of time elapses using dead-reckoning; a distance calculating unit calculating prediction distances between each of the satellites and the vessel and an error monitoring unit comparing the calculated prediction distances between the satellites and the vessel, and pseudoranges between the satellites and the GNSS receiving unit at the second vessel position, and monitoring for the occurrence of errors at the satellites on the basis of the existence of an increase in errors at each of the satellites.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Woo Seong Shim, Deuk Jae Cho
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Patent number: 9617434Abstract: This invention relates to amphiphilic hydrogel particles for antifouling paint, which are environmentally friendly and in which anti-corrosion and antifouling effects can be maximized through a single coating process. The amphiphilic hydrogel particles are fabricated by encapsulating conducting polymer particles having anti-corrosion functionality with functional nanoparticles having antifouling functionality and then immobilizing the functional nanoparticles on a hydrogel matrix, whereby the conducting polymer particles contained in the functional nanoparticles are slowly and continuously released or the release rate thereof can be controlled so as to release the corresponding particles in a specific environment, ultimately maintaining long-term functionality. The conducting polymer particles contained in the amphiphilic functional nanoparticles can exhibit anti-corrosion functionality, thus maximizing anti-corrosion and antifouling effects through a single coating process.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jin Hwan Ko, Kwang-Soo Lee, Jin-Soon Park, Ho Sup Jung, Moon Kyu Kwak
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Publication number: 20170089320Abstract: The present invention provides a controller for a pendulum type wave-power generating apparatus. Electric power produced by wave-power generation has been pointed out as being of low efficiency and more expensive than wind-power generation. To overcome the above problems, the present invention uses resonance and impedance matching of the sea waves, thus making it possible to markedly enhance the efficiency of wave-power generation. The present invention does not use a wave-height meter which is generally expensive and controls the generating apparatus in response to variation of the conditions of the sea, thus automatically maintaining the resonance and impedance matching operation, thereby making high-efficiency operation possible. As a result, the cost of the wave-power generation can be reduced, so that the wave-power generation can be widely commercialized.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Applicant: Korea Institute of Ocean Science & TechnologyInventors: Seung-Ho Shin, Key-Yong Hong, Tomiji Watabe
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Patent number: 9598705Abstract: The present invention provides Thermococcus onnurineus MC02 strain (accession no. KCTC12511BP) having increased hydrogen production ability, wherein the expression of rchA gene of the strain increases. Also, the present invention provides a method for producing the strain belonged to the genus Thermococcus having increased hydrogen production ability comprising, increasing the expression of rchA gene of the strain, and hydrogen production method using the strain.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYInventors: Sung Gyun Kang, Jung Hyun Lee, Hyun Sook Lee, Kae Kyoung Kwon, Tae Wan Kim, Yun Jae Kim, Min Sik Kim, Seong Hyuk Lee, Seung Seob Bae, Ae Ran Choi