Patents Assigned to Korea Research Institute of Standard and Science
  • Publication number: 20140348183
    Abstract: Provided is a data synchronization apparatus. The data synchronization apparatus includes a signal conversion block converting individual serial digital signals into parallel digital signals in response to a load signal and converting the parallel digital signals into synchronized serial digital signals in response to a synchronization load signal which does not overlap the load signal, a clock/load signal generator outputting a reference load signal for generating the synchronization load signal to the signal conversion block, a multiplexer multiplexing the synchronized serial digital signals, and a first serial-to-parallel (S/P) converting the multiplexed signal into parallel signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Jin Mok KIM, Hyukchan KWON, Yong Ho LEE, Ki Woong KIM
  • Publication number: 20140342460
    Abstract: Provided is a preparation method of a free fatty acid particle dispersion solution, the preparation method including: a) dissolving fatty acid in a solvent to prepare a fatty acid solution; and b) injecting the fatty acid solution in a non-solvent having miscibility with the solvent to prepare a free fatty acid particle dispersion solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Se Hwa KIM, Eun-Soo LEE
  • Patent number: 8881575
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for collecting gas samples in a foam and an analysis method using the same, and more particularly, to an apparatus for collecting gas samples in a foam in which the foam is grinded, such that the gas sample in the foam may be effectively collected, and pressure before and after collection of the gas samples may be measured to thereby increase accuracy of gas analysis, such that characteristics of the foam may be more accurately evaluated, and an analysis method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Jin-Bok Lee, Jin-Seog Kim, Dong-Min Moon, Kwang-Sup Kim, Jeong-Soon Lee
  • Patent number: 8886282
    Abstract: A system and method for measuring a magnetocardiogram (MCG) in order to measure a weak magnetic field generated from the heart of a small animal such as a laboratory rat are provided. The system includes a case, a SQUID sensor located and fixed inside the case to detect magnetism, a platform arranged near the SQUID sensor inside the case, the small animal being placed on the platform, a linear station to which the platform is fixed to move a location of the platform, and a control unit configured to control operations of the SQUID sensor and the linear station and measure the MCG of the small animal using intensities of the magnetism detected by the SQUID sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: In Seon Kim, Yong Ho Lee, Ki Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 8871438
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a disease diagnosis method, a marker screening method, and a marker using a time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS), and more particularly, to a large intestine cancer diagnosis method, a large intestine cancer marker screening method, and a large intestine cancer marker using a time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS). Specifically, the present invention provides a method diagnosing a disease using a pattern of secondary ion mass (m/z) peaks of biological samples measured using a time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) as a marker, a marker screening method being a reference judging an existence or non-existence of a disease, and a marker configured of specific secondary ion mass peaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Tae Geol Lee, Dae Won Moon, Byong Chul Yoo, In Hoo Kim
  • Publication number: 20140313511
    Abstract: Provided is a real-time spectroscopic ellipsometer capable of obtaining information on properties of a sample, a nano pattern shape, and the like, in real time by measuring and analyzing, for a plurality of wavelengths, a change in a polarization state of incident light generated while being reflected or transmitted due to the sample when light having a specific polarization component is incident to the sample. The real-time spectroscopic ellipsometer according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention have the improved structure and function to solve problems such as polarization dependency of a light source and a photometric detector, wavelength dependency of a compensator, a limitation of a change in integration time due to a fixing of a measuring frequency of exposure, in a rotating-element multichannel spectroscopic ellipsometers of the related art, thereby measuring more accurately, precisely, and rapidly measuring the characteristics of the sample than the related art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Yong Jai CHO, Won CHE GAL, Hyun Mo CHO
  • Patent number: 8865513
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor quantum dot-sensitized solar cell. More particularly, the manufacturing method according to the present invention includes: a quantum dot forming step of forming a semiconductor layer containing a group 4 element and InP on a substrate and then performing heat-treatment on the substrate including the semiconductor layer formed thereon to remove indium (In) therefrom, thereby forming an n-type semiconductor quantum dot, which is a group 4 element quantum dot doped with phosphorus (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Kyung Joong Kim, Seung Hui Hong, Jae Hee Park, Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 8860268
    Abstract: Provided is an rotational vibration exciter, and more particularly to an rotational vibration exciter which can accurately generate angular vibration of a printed circuit board including a moving coil for rotational excitation and angular vibration of a rotational shaft integrated with the printed circuit board including the moving coil by replacing a conventional cable as an external current supply line with a vertical flexible PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Wan Sup Chung, Sae Won Yoon, Jong Yeon Lim
  • Patent number: 8859999
    Abstract: The movement-free bending method means the one of deformation methods for a one- or two-dimensional nanostructures using an ion beam capable of bending and deforming them and furthermore, changing a bending direction without requiring a motion such as a rotation of the nanostructures. The present invention affords a movement-free bending method for deforming the nanostructure 20 having the one-dimensional or two-dimensional shape by irradiating the ion beam 10, wherein a bending direction of the nanostructure 20 is controlled depending on energy of the ion beam 10 or a thickness of the nanostructure 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Dal Hyoun Kim, Hwack Joo Lee, Sang Jung Ahn
  • Publication number: 20140302545
    Abstract: Provided are an enzyme treatment apparatus for proteins using a hollow fiber membrane and an on-line proteomics method using same. The enzyme treatment apparatus for proteins according to the present invention can increase a recovery rate of peptides, which are recovered through an enzyme treatment process, by basically solving the problem of low reproducibility of an enzyme activity which may occur during a conventional enzyme treatment process, and can also reduce a time for purification and provide higher yield by performing separation and purification through a single step. In particular, the present invention can be usefully applied for developing a disease-specific protein biomarker through a statistical analysis method having highly efficient detectability for proteins in research for finding biomarkers related to human diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Duk Jin Kang, Sang Ryoul Park, Sook-Kyung Kim
  • Patent number: 8830463
    Abstract: Provided is a real-time spectroscopic ellipsometer capable of obtaining information on properties of a sample, a nano pattern shape, in real time by measuring and analyzing, for a plurality of wavelengths, a change in a polarization state of incident light generated while being reflected or transmitted due to the sample when light having a specific polarization component is incident to the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Yong Jai Cho, Won Che Gal, Hyun Mo Cho
  • Publication number: 20140235996
    Abstract: A method for mapping of myocardial electric activity includes measuring electrocardiogram data or magnetocardiogram data and mapping the degree of electric activity of a myocardial surface using the electrocardiogram data or the magnetocardiogram data. A signal source of the electrocardiogram data or the magnetocardiogram data is a myocardial surface potential that is scalar quantity. The mapping uses a lead-field vector which represents the sensitivity between the myocardial surface potential and the electrocardiogram or magnetocardiogram data, and a modified lead-field vector which combines a constraint matrix with a constraint condition where no potential sources exist in a specific region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Kiwoong Kim, Hyukchan Kwon, Yong-Ho Lee, Kwon-Kyu Yu, Jin-Mok Kim
  • Publication number: 20140232400
    Abstract: Provided are an object discrimination method and an object discrimination apparatus using an ultra-low magnetic field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The method includes measuring the respective spin-lattice relaxation times at a plurality of strengths of prepolarization magnetic fields with respect to a measurement target and classifying the measurement target using the spin-lattice relaxation times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Kiwoong Kim, Chan-Seok Kang, Seong-Joo Lee, Yong-ho Lee, Kwon-Kyu Yu
  • Patent number: 8772713
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a time-of-flight based mass microscope system for an ultra-high speed multi-mode mass analysis, for using a laser beam or an ion beam simultaneously to enable both a low molecular weight analysis such as for drugs/metabolome/lipids/peptides and a high molecular weight analysis such as for genes/proteins, without being limited by the molecular weight of the object being analyzed, and for significantly increasing the measuring speed by using a microscope method instead of a microprobe method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Jeong Hee Moon, Dae Won Moon, Tae Geol Lee, Sohee Yoon, Ju Hwang Kim
  • Patent number: 8775114
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining phase sensitivity of an accelerometer based on an analysis of the harmonic components of the interference signal, which can estimate phase lags of an accelerometer through an analysis of the interference signal obtained using a single photo-detector when the accelerometer moves in sinusoidal motion with an initial phase of vibration. The method comprises the steps of obtaining an interference signal in a time domain generated from a signal reflected by an accelerometer and a fixed mirror using a single photo-detector; transforming the interference signal in the time domain into a signal in a frequency domain including a plurality of harmonic signals by Fourier transform; and determining the phase sensitivity of the accelerometer using initial phase of vibration displacement of the accelerometer, which is included in the interference signal in the frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignees: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Yong Bong Lee, Sung Soo Jung, Seung-Woo Kim
  • Publication number: 20140183354
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a time-of-flight based mass microscope system for an ultra-high speed multi-mode mass analysis, for using a laser beam or an ion beam simultaneously to enable both a low molecular weight analysis such as for drugs/metabolome/lipids/peptides and a high molecular weight analysis such as for genes/proteins, without being limited by the molecular weight of the object being analyzed, and for significantly increasing the measuring speed by using a microscope method instead of a microprobe method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Jeong Hee Moon, Dae Won Moon, Tae Geol Lee, Sohee Yoon, Ju Hwang Kim
  • Patent number: 8761270
    Abstract: In the present invention, time information is sent through a common power line in executing home automation devices or using various industrial equipments. In the power line broadcasting, a small amount of data, such as time information, is transmitted unidirectionally, and long-distance power line broadcasting can be possible using carriers of a low frequency band. time setting for various instruments is automatically performed in response to a power signal after a breakdown of electric current, making unnecessary a user's action to perform the time setting, and the existing power line can be used without change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Sam Yong Woo, Young Beom Kim, Myungsoo Kim, Taeg Yong Kwon, Seong Hoon Yang
  • Patent number: 8749774
    Abstract: Provided are an integrating sphere photometer and a measuring method of the same. The integrating sphere photometer includes a plurality of photodetectors, an integrating sphere having through-holes formed to correspond to the photodetectors, baffles disposed inside the integrating sphere in front of the photodetectors to be spaced apart from the photodetectors, a photometer disposed at a through-hole, and an adjustment unit adjusting output signals of the photodetectors to have the same output signal with respect to light illuminated from a point-like standard light source disposed at a center region in the integrating sphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Seongchong Park, Dong Hoon Lee, Seung Nam Park
  • Patent number: 8742336
    Abstract: There are provided a bio-chip for secondary ion mass spectrometry and a method of fabricating the same, the bio-chip, which is a bio-chip for analyzing a biochemical material using the secondary ion mass spectrometry, including: a substrate; and core-shell particles positioned above substrate, wherein the core-shell particles each include a metal nanoparticle as a core and a metal shell surrounding the metal nanoparticle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Young-Pil Kim, Tae Geol Lee
  • Publication number: 20140148014
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus and method includes a chamber, a remote plasma source outside the chamber to provide activated ammonia and activated hydrogen fluoride into the chamber, and a direct plasma source to provide ion energy to a substrate inside the chamber. The plasma source includes ground electrodes extending in a first direction on a first plane perpendicularly spaced apart from a plane on which the substrate is disposed and defined by the first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and power electrodes disposed between the ground electrodes, extending in the first direction parallel to each other and receiving power from an RF power source to generate plasma between adjacent ground electrodes. The activated ammonia and the activated hydrogen fluoride are supplied on the substrate through a space between the power electrode and the ground electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: ShinJae You, Jung-Hyung Kim, Yong-Hyung Shin, Dae-Jin Seong, Daewoong Kim