Patents Assigned to Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
  • Patent number: 8481999
    Abstract: Provided is a hydrogen penetration barrier for preventing hydrogen from being diffused and discharged through a barrier and preventing hydrogen embrittlement of a material due to diffusion of hydrogen ions into a material. In detail, the hydrogen penetration barrier prevents penetration of hydrogen ions by using a built-in potential of a semiconductor layer doped with a p-type impurity and a semiconductor layer doped with an n-type impurity and a potential applied by a reverse biased voltage and includes an absorption layer absorbing the hydrogen molecules to primarily prevent the penetration of the hydrogen molecules and uses the absorption layer made of the conductive material as an application electrode of the reverse biased voltage and ionizes the hydrogen absorbed to the absorption layer to secondarily prevent the penetration of the hydrogen molecules and prevent the hydrogen embrittlement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Yong Il Kim, In Jung Kim, Yun-Hee Lee, Kyoung Seok Lee, Seung Hoon Nahm
  • Publication number: 20130168336
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a structure for attaching tactile sensors to a curved surface, comprising a sensor fixing unit configured to have at least part of one surface curved and to have a plurality of sensor insertion grooves, crossing each other, formed in the one surface in a matrix form; tactile sensor units formed in a matrix form, inserted into the respective sensor insertion grooves, and configured to detect external force; sealing units configured to seal the respective sensor insertion grooves; and a support unit configured to come in contact with one face of the sealing units or the sensor fixing units and to support the sensor fixing units. Accordingly, the tactile sensors can be easily attached to a curved surface, and mass production is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Jong Ho KIM, Min Seok KIM, Yon-Kyu PARK, Dae Im KANG, Dong-Ki KIM
  • Patent number: 8476592
    Abstract: Provided is a terahertz wave apparatus. The terahertz wave apparatus includes: a wavelength-fixed laser emitting a first laser light having a fixed first wavelength; a wavelength-swept laser emitting a second laser light having a tunable second wavelength; a coupler coupling the first laser light with the second laser light; and a generator converting a mixed light emitted from the coupler into a terahertz wave, wherein a frequency of the terahertz wave is continuously tunable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Min Yong Jeon, Kyung Hyun Park, Dae-Su Yee
  • Publication number: 20130167272
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical-mechanical complex sensor for nanomaterials, including: a detector having a piezoelectric film therein, for measuring a mechanical property of a nanomaterial when a bending or tensile load is applied to the nanomaterial; a first detection film formed at an end of the detector to measure the mechanical property and an electrical property of the nanomaterial) in real time at the same time, when the nanomaterial contacts the first detection film; and a support to which one end of the detector is integrally connected, for supporting the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Seung Hoon Nahm, Hoon Sik Jang, Sang Gu Jeon, Min Seok Kim
  • Publication number: 20130156066
    Abstract: The present invention is effective in that automatically corrected temperature can be measured using one light source and one optical detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Il Bum Kwon, Dong Jin Yoon, Dusun Hwang
  • Publication number: 20130145851
    Abstract: A magnetostrictive phased array transducer for transducing shear horizontal bulkwaves including a plurality of magnetostrictive members each having a bottom surface of a plate-shaped structure made of a ferromagnetic material, which is mounted to be adhered closely to the surface of a mounting place; an insulator disposed on a side surface of each magnetostrictive member; a meander coil having a plurality of coil lines extended in the direction parallel with the bottom surface on each insulator, wherein adjacent coil lines are connected so that current flows in the opposite directions to each other, thereby generating a dynamic magnetic field with respect to each magnetostrictive member; and a magnet mounted to generate a static magnetic field perpendicular to the dynamic magnetic field. When the current is supplied to the meander coil, a plurality of magnetostrictive members generate a plurality of shear horizontal bulkwaves while being deformed by the magnetostriction effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventor: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Scienc
  • Publication number: 20130135468
    Abstract: A camera tracing and surveillance system and method for security using a thermal image coordinate, whereby an image having high resolution for identification in which a person can be accurately identified within a surveillance area and identity of the person can be accurately checked, can be obtained using a simple algorithm. To this end, the person within the surveillance area is identified and a position coordinate of the person is extracted from a thermal image captured by a thermal image camera, and a tracing and surveillance camera traces the person, enlarges an image of the person, and captures the enlarged image based on the extracted position coordinate so that an image having high resolution for identification can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Su Un Kim, Man Yong Choi, Jeong Hak Park, Bong Young Ahn
  • Patent number: 8451438
    Abstract: An integrating sphere photometer and a measuring method of the same are provided to precisely measure a directional light source. The integrating sphere photometer includes an integrating sphere having a plurality of through-holes, a plurality of photometers disposed at the through-holes, baffles disposed in front of the photometers to be spaced apart therefrom, an auxiliary light source disposed inside the integrating sphere, an auxiliary baffle disposed in front of the auxiliary light source, and a summing unit of output signals of the photometers under the illumination of a light source to be measured disposed in the central area inside the integrating sphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Seongchong Park, Dong Hoon Lee, Seung Nam Park
  • Patent number: 8450684
    Abstract: A quantification method of functional groups in an organic thin layer includes: a) measuring an absolute quantity per unit area of an analysis reference material having functional groups included in a reference organic thin layer by means of MEIS spectroscopy; b) carrying out spectrometry for the same reference organic thin layer as in a) and thereby obtaining peak intensities of the functional groups in the reference organic thin layer; c) carrying out the same spectrometry as in b) for an organic thin layer to be analyzed having the same functional groups and thereby measuring peak intensities of the functional groups with unknown quantity; and d) comparing the peak intensities of the functional groups measured in b) with respect to the absolute quantity of the analysis reference material in a) and thereby determining the absolute quantity per unit area of the functional groups with unknown quantity measured in c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Tae Geol Lee, Dae Won Moon, Hyegeun Min
  • Patent number: 8447546
    Abstract: Provided is a measurement method of Fourier coefficients using an integrating photometric detector, wherein, when measuring an exposure (Sj) with a predetermined time interval during a predetermined time period using an integrating photometric detector with respect to light of which amplitude varies with the time period, normalized Fourier coefficients (??2n, ??2n) for a waveform of an intensity of the light is determined by carrying out a discrete Fourier transform with respect to an equation for the measured exposure (Sj).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Yong Jai Cho, Won Chegal, Hyun Mo Cho
  • Publication number: 20130122640
    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: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Kyung Joong Kim, Seung Hui Hong, Jae Hee Park, Woo Lee
  • Publication number: 20130099102
    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: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Seongchong Park, Dong Hoon Lee, Seung Nam Park
  • Publication number: 20130093608
    Abstract: Provided are a signal processing apparatus and a signal processing method. The signal processing method include receiving a serial signal including an information frame including channel information and data information of a corresponding channel, extracting a clock signal from the serial signal, generating a load signal when a clock count reaches a maximum clock count by calculating the clock signal; converting the serial signal to a parallel signal according to the load signal, and changing the maximum clock count by comparing parallel-converted parallel channel information with a load count indicating the number of local signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventor: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Scienc
  • Publication number: 20130095504
    Abstract: Provided is a detection kit, which a disease detection kit used together with a secondary ion mass spectrometer in order to detect a disease marker contained in a biological sample, the detection kit including: a base including a noble metal thin film formed thereon; a reactant containing peptide specifically reacting with the disease marker; a first storage unit filled with the reactant; a test substance containing a biological sample of a possible disease carrier; a second storage unit filled with the test substance; a mixing unit mixing the reactant and the test substance with each other to prepare a detection substance containing the specific reactant, which is the peptide specifically reacted with the disease marker contained in the biological sample; and a contact unit contacting the detection substance prepared by the mixing unit with the base to bond the specific reactant to the noble metal film of the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Tae Geol Lee, Young-Lai Cho, Mi Young Son
  • Publication number: 20130065266
    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: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Tae Geol Lee, Dae Won Moon, Byong Chul Yoo, In Hoo Kim
  • Patent number: 8395117
    Abstract: Provided is a spectrophotometer using medium energy ion. The spectrophotometer using medium energy ion is configured to include: an ion source 10 generating ions; a collimator 20 collimating the ions as a parallel beam; an accelerator 30 accelerating the parallel beam; an ion beam pulse generator 40 pulsing the accelerated ion beam; a focusing objective 50 focusing the pulsed ion beam on a specimen 1; a detector 60 detecting a spectroscopic signal of scattered ion from a specimen 1; and a data analyzer 70 analyzing and processing the spectroscopic signal detected by the detector 60.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignees: K-MAC, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Dae Won Moon, Ju Hwang Kim, Yeon Jin Yi, Kyu-Sang Yu, Wan Sup Kim
  • Patent number: 8390309
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for inspecting quantum efficiency homogeneity of a solar cell using a spatial light modulating device. The apparatus includes a light emitting device configured to radiate predetermined light; a spatial light modulating device configured to change a light path of rays emitted from the light emitting device according to individual control of a plurality of pixels; a spatial light modulating device controller configured to individually control the states of the plurality of pixels; a solar cell which the rays passing through or reflected from the spatial light modulating device irradiate; and a calculation controller configured to calculate quantum efficiency of the solar cell based on a photocurrent signal generated from the solar cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Seung Nam Park, Dong-Hoon Lee, Seongchong Park, Chul Woung Park, Seung Kwan Kim, Ji Soo Hwang, Yong Shim Yoo, Dong-Joo Shin
  • Publication number: 20130044318
    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: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Yong Jai CHO, Won CHE GAL, Hyun Mo CHO
  • Patent number: 8371172
    Abstract: A method and system for predicting acoustic fields based on generalized moving frame acoustic holography are disclosed. The method includes acquiring a first wavenumber spectrum on a measurement plane according to a moving coordinate system, converting the first wavenumber spectrum to a second wavenumber spectrum on a reference coordinate system using a relative velocity between the measurement plane and a medium, converting the second wavenumber spectrum to a third wavenumber spectrum on a prediction plane using an acoustic wave propagation theory, converting the third wavenumber spectrum to a fourth wavenumber spectrum on a moving coordinate system using a relative velocity between the medium and the prediction plane, and computing acoustic fields on the prediction plane using the fourth wavenumber spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventor: Hyu-Sang Kwon
  • Patent number: 8350568
    Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus includes a dewar containing a low-temperature liquid refrigerant, a prepolarization coil disposed inside the dewar and including a superconducting wire, a prepolarization coil driving unit for intermittent application of current to the prepolarization coil in a capacitor charge/discharge method to generate a prepolarization magnetic field, a sensor unit for measuring a nuclear magnetic resonance signal from a sample to which a prepolarization magnetic field is applied with the prepolarization coil, and a readout magnetic field generation unit for applying a readout magnetic field to the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
    Inventors: Seong-min Hwang, Kiwoong Kim, Jin-Mok Kim, Yong-Ho Lee, Chan Seok Kang, Kwon Kyu Yu, Seong-Joo Lee