Patents Assigned to Posco
  • Publication number: 20150315686
    Abstract: A hot-rolled stainless steel sheet having excellent hardness and low-temperature impact properties, in which a ferrite is formed with martensite as a matrix structure, is manufactured by a steel manufacturing process, a continuous casting process, and a hot-rolling process. The hot-rolled stainless steel sheet comprises C, N, Si, Mn, Cr, Ni, Ti, Nb, Mo, and the remainder being Fe and other inevitable impurities, wherein C is 0.01 to 0.03 wt %, Cr is 11 to 14 wt %, Ti is 0.1 to 0.2 wt %, and Nb is 0.1 to 0.2 wt %. The ferrite stability (FS) expressed by the following [formula 1] is 5 to 50, and a ferrite is formed with martensite as a matrix structure. [Formula 1] 4 FS=?215?619C?16.6Mn+23.7Cr?36.8Ni+42.2Mo+96.2Ti+67Nb?237N+17.2Si, wherein the numerical value of each component described in [Formula 1] denotes the content (wt %) of each component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: POSCO
    Inventors: Dong Chul CHAE, Gyu Jin JO, Jae Hwa LEE, Kwang Yuk KIM
  • Patent number: 9175335
    Abstract: The present patent application describes a cantilever for atomic force microscopy (AFM), which includes a cantilever body having a fixed end and a free end, the free end having a surface region being chemically modified by a dendron in which a plurality of termini of the branched region of the dendron are bound to the surface, and a terminus of the linear region of the dendron is functionalized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignees: POSCO, POSTECH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Joon Won Park, Yu Jin Jung, Bong Jin Hong, Saul Tendler, Stephanie Allen
  • Patent number: 9175375
    Abstract: Provided is a metal coated steel sheet having a coating layer including a metal having a level of Gibbs free energy equal to that of Fe or above and an oxide thereof. Accordingly, the quality of a plated steel sheet may be improved by preventing the generation of bare spots through inhibition of the formation of Mn oxide, Si oxide, or Al oxide on the surface thereof, and simultaneously, the complexity of a manufacturing facility or an increase in manufacturing costs may be minimized. Economic benefits are thus realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Myung-Soo Kim, Ju-Youn Lee, Young-Ha Kim, Jong-Sang Kim
  • Patent number: 9174272
    Abstract: There is provided a strip casting method using a twin roll strip casting process in which molten steel is supplied through an injection nozzle to a region between twin rolls rotating in opposite directions to produce a strip having a predetermined thickness and a high degree of edge quality. The twin roll strip casting method includes: performing the casting process by setting a casting thickness to have a minimal value during an early stage of the casting process in which edge bulging occurs; and performing the casting process by increasing the casting thickness to a maximum value after the molten steel reaches a pre-set target temperature as the casting process proceeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Oh-Seong Kweon, Suk-Kyun Hwang, Seong-In Jeong
  • Patent number: 9179268
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for providing MultiCast and BroadCast Service (MCBCS). According to the present invention, the MCBCS system and method supports session start and data path registration procedures, join and leave procedure for providing the MCBCS with static or dynamic multicast service schemes, and supports procedures for providing to mobile stations operating in idle mode. Accordingly, the present invention enables effectively implementing the MCBCS in a wireless communication system, particularly in WiMAX system, and provides the MCBCS according to the mobile stations operating in idle mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: POSCO ICT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Su-Lyun Sung, Dong-Hyun Lee
  • Publication number: 20150311551
    Abstract: A power generation system which is a fuel cell system including a preheating device that preheats a fuel, a preliminary reforming device that reforms the preheated fuel, a fuel cell stack module in which the reformed fuel reacts to generate electric power, and a circulating device that selectively supplies a product generated in the fuel cell stack module to the preheating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: POSCO ENERGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Seon Hwa KIM
  • Patent number: 9171653
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lithium manganese composite oxide and a method for preparing the same, and more particularly, to a lithium manganese composite oxide and a method for preparing same, in which a wet-milling process and a spray-drying process are applied, and the abundance ratio of Mn3+ ions to Mn4+ ions at the surface of the composite oxide is adjusted by controlling an oxidizing atmosphere during heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: POSCO ES MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyoung-Shin Ko, Tae-Won Kim
  • Publication number: 20150299472
    Abstract: Provided are an organic-inorganic hybrid coating solution composition including 12 wt % to 36 wt % of a urethane-acryl hybrid resin, 8 wt % to 24 wt % of a nanosilicate-phenoxy hybrid resin, and 40 wt % to 80 wt % of an inorganic-based anti-corrosion agent based on a solid content, and an organic-inorganic hybrid coated steel sheet having a coating layer formed with the coating solution composition. A coating solution composition having excellent solution stability and a coated steel sheet having improved corrosion resistance, solvent resistance, and conductivity may be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: POSCO
    Inventors: Kyoung-Pil Ko, Rho-Bum Park, Jong-Sang Kim, Jung-Hwan Lee
  • Publication number: 20150298190
    Abstract: A mandrel of a coil box comprises: a cylindrical mandrel body having a center shaft disposed therein and a slot into which a front end portion of a hot bar is inserted; and a guide part which is arranged towards the inside of the mandrel body from a peripheral wall of one side of the slot so as to prevent the cooling and plastic deformation of the front end portion of the bar inserted through the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: POSCO
    Inventors: Choong-Yun LEE, Sang-Hyeon LEE, Sung-Lim LEE
  • Patent number: 9162595
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle seat structure that is lighter than a steel vehicle seat structure while providing the same function thereof. For this, the vehicle seat structure includes a seat cushion frame and a seat back frame connected to the seat cushion frame. At least one of components constituting the seat back frame and the seat cushion frame is formed of a magnesium plate produced through a rolling process and that has a texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Min-Hong Seo, Kang-Hwan Ahn, Tae-Oh Lee
  • Publication number: 20150292051
    Abstract: Provided are a method for reusing an iron-containing by-product and an apparatus configured to use the method. The method include: forming briquettes by mixing an iron-containing by-product with 5 parts by weight to 20 parts by weight of carbon, based on 100 parts by weight of the iron-containing by-product; preliminarily reducing the briquettes within a temperature range of 800° C. to 1300° C.; and supplying the preliminarily reduced briquettes to an electric furnace. The apparatus includes: a reducing furnace in which briquettes formed by mixing an iron-containing by-product with 5 parts by weight to 50 parts by weight of carbon, based on 100 parts by weight of the iron-containing by-product is reduced within a temperature range of 800° C. to 1300° C.; and an electric furnace to which the preliminarily reduced briquettes are supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: POSCO
    Inventors: Baek Lee, Soo-Ho Choi, Geon Shin
  • Publication number: 20150292104
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a composition for the surface treatment of metal, a surface-treated steel sheet which is surface-treated with the composition and to a method for manufacturing the surface-treated steel sheet. To accomplish the objective, the method of the present invention may involve the preparing of a composition for the surface treatment of metal using graphene having superior characteristics such as corrosion resistance, electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity. The composition may be effectively coated onto the metal surface by means of electrophoresis, and thus a highly functional surface-treated steel sheet can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: POSCO
    Inventors: Hyun-Ju Jeong, Jae-Hun Choi, Byeng-Su Kim, Hyun-Tae Kim, Jae-Kon Lee
  • Patent number: 9156090
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing iron-based powder includes providing an iron-based molten steel manufactured through a iron making process and a steelmaking process to a tundish; and performing water atomization over the molten steel discharged through a nozzle connected to the tundish. The iron-based powder is manufactured from the molten steel refined after a molten iron tapped from a iron making process is charged into a converter without a pre-treatment process of the molten iron, thus economically providing the highly clean iron-based powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignees: POSCO, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ha Neul Kim, Eon Sik Lee, Oh-Joon Kwan, Sun Jong Park, Hee Soo Kang
  • Patent number: 9133532
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a high-carbon hot-rolled steel sheet, including the steps of i) preparing high-carbon steel materials comprising C: 0.7 to 0.9%, Si: 0.5% or less, Mn: 0.1 to 1.5%, Cr: 0.5% or less, P: 0.05% or less, and S: 0.03% or less in wt % and remaining Fe and other inevitable impurities; ii) heating the high-carbon steel materials again and manufacturing a steel sheet by performing hot rolling in an austenite region in which a finishing temperature for the hot rolling is an Ar3 transformation temperature or higher; iii) rapidly cooling the steel sheet at 520 to 620° C. before phase transformation is started in a Run-Out Table (ROT); iv) uniformly maintaining a cooling retention temperature so that the cooled steel sheet is subject to phase transformation in any one temperature between 520 to 620° C.; and v) winding the steel sheet in the cooling retention temperature. Also provided is the high-carbon steel sheet made by the above-described method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Kyong-Su Park, Han-Chul Shin
  • Patent number: 9133540
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for efficiently removing a pollutant source in a snout of a steel plating line such as a steel galvanizing line. The pollutant removing apparatus includes at least one pollutant collecting member connecting to a snout between a heating furnace and a plating tank, and a contact-free inducer varying magnetic field within the snout to forcibly guide, without contact, a pollutant source of a steel plate or a processing unit to the pollutant collecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Tae-In Jang, Yong-Hun Kweon, Jung-Kuk Kim, Chang-Woon Jee
  • Publication number: 20150251216
    Abstract: A magnesium alloy with dense surface texture and its surface treatment method, and more particularly to a magnesium alloy and its surface treatment method, where the magnesium alloy includes: a parent material including magnesium or magnesium alloy; a surface-modified layer being formed on the surface of the parent material and containing Si; and a coating layer formed on the surface-modified layer, where the surface-modified layer comprises a “—Si—O—Mg—” structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicants: POSCO, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Young-Hee Park
  • Patent number: 9115874
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an optical semiconductor illuminating apparatus, which includes a heat dissipating base; a light emitting module comprising at least one semiconductor light emitting device and mounted on a lower side of the heat dissipating base; and a plurality of heat dissipating fins each having opposite edges protruding from opposite sides of the heat dissipating base and being mounted on an upper surface of the heat dissipating base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Posco LED Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Ki Kim, Dong Soo Kim, Tae Hoon Song, Dong Hee Kim, Su Woon Lee, Il Park
  • Patent number: 9117733
    Abstract: A light emitting module according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and first through m-th lighting blocks (‘m’ is an integer greater than one). The PCB has wiring patterns electrically connecting optical semiconductor devices. The first through the m-th lighting blocks are disposed on the PCB and configured to generate light. Each of the first through the m-th lighting blocks includes first through n-th lighting groups (each block includes at least one group), each of which includes optical semiconductor devices disposed on the PCB, and an electric currents configured to flow through each lighting group is substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Posco LED Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Bok Yoon, Dae Won Kim
  • Patent number: 9109273
    Abstract: A cold rolled steel sheet and a hot dip galvanized steel sheet, which have high strength and elongation, such as a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more and an elongation of 28% or more, and excellent delayed fracture resistance, and manufacturing methods thereof. The cold rolled steel sheet has a composition including 0.05 to 0.3 weight percent C, 0.3 to 1.6 weight percent Si, 4.0 to 7.0 weight percent Mn, 0.5 to 2.0 weight percent Al, 0.01 to 0.1 weight percent Cr, 0.02 to 0.1 weight percent Ni and 0.005 to 0.03 weight percent Ti, 5 to 30 ppm B, 0.01 to 0.03 weight percent Sb, 0.008 weight percent or less S, balance Fe and impurities. The hot dip galvanized steel sheet has a hot dip galvanized layer or a hot dip galvannealed layer on the cold rolled steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Young Hoon Jin, Kwang Geun Chin, Seung Bok Lee, Jai Hyun Kwak
  • Patent number: 9109784
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a housing, a light emitting module disposed on an open region at one side of the housing, and a heat sink unit placed within the housing to absorb and discharge heat from the light emitting module. The light emitting module includes a heat sink base on which a semiconductor optical device is mounted. The heat sink unit includes at least one main heat pipe having one side adjoining the heat sink base and a heat sink block adjoining the other side of the main heat pipe to cooperate with the main heat pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Posco LED Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Su Woon Lee, Seung Ki Kim, Jung Hwa Kim, Seon Min Park, Hwi Seok Yang, Yu Jin Heo