Patents Assigned to SNU R&DB Foundation
  • Waveguide for a bulk-type medium, vibrator using same to transmit shear waves to a bulk-type medium, and method using the vibrator to transmit shear waves to a bulk-type medium
    Patent number: 9527111
    Abstract: The aim of the present invention is to provide a waveguide capable of transmitting shear waves in a desired pattern to a bulk-type medium, a vibrator, and a method of transmitting shear waves by using the vibrator. To this end, the present invention provides a waveguide including a vibrating portion that is vibrated by a vibrating unit, a transmitting portion that transmits shear waves generated by the vibrating unit to a bulk-type medium and is thicker than the vibrating portion, and a connecting portion that contacts both the vibrating portion and the transmitting portion and has a thickness varying from a portion contacting the vibrating portion to a portion contacting the transmitting portion. Also, the present invention provides a vibrator using the waveguide and a method of transmitting shear waves by using the vibrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Young Eui Kwon, Hyun Joong Jeon, Hoe Woong Kim, Yoon Young Kim
  • Integrated circuit having main route and detour route for signal transmission and integrated circuit package including the same
    Patent number: 9524922
    Abstract: The integrated circuit includes first and second vias, a first buffer configured to receive a signal transmitted from the first via, a second buffer configured to receive a signal transmitted from the second via, a first detour circuit configured to receive a signal transmitted through the second buffer, a second detour circuit configured to receive a signal transmitted through the first buffer, a first selector configured to selectively output one of the signal transmitted from the first via and a signal transmitted through the first detour circuit, and a second selector configured to selectively output one of the signal transmitted from the second via and a signal transmitted through the second detour circuit. Each of the first and second buffers and the first and second detour circuits transmits a signal in only one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Kyounghwan Lim, Hyoun Soo Park, Kee Sup Kim, Bonghyun Lee, Chul Rim, JungYun Choi, Taewhan Kim, Heechun Park
  • Pen holder
    Patent number: 9522562
    Abstract: The pen holder includes a first, second and third cover portions, a connecting part and a fixing unit. The first, second and third cover portions are respectively inserted into a thumb, a forefinger and a middle finger. The connecting part connects the first, second and third cover portions. A first end of the connecting part is fixed to one of the first, second and third cover portions. A force is applied to a second end of the connecting part such that the first, second and third cover portions are closed to each other. A fixing unit fixes to the second end of the connecting part and applies the force to the connecting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Kyu Jin Cho, Byung Chul Kim, Dae Young Lee
  • Mutant proteins and genes encoding the same with improved insecticidal activity and use thereof
    Patent number: 9512187
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses novel Cry1Ac mutants with improved insecticidal activity and/or spectrum against pests belong to Order lepidoptera. Also provided are transgenic plants expressing the present protein and methods for controlling Lepidopteran pest using the present mutants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Yeon Ho Je, Jae Young Choi, Song Eun Kim, Jae Su Kim
  • TRPV1 inhibitory peptides and composition for skin-aging protection or wrinkle improvement comprising the same
    Patent number: 9511011
    Abstract: TRPV1 inhibitory peptides and a composition for skin-aging prevention and wrinkle improvement comprising the same as an active ingredient are described. The TRPV1 inhibitory peptide of the present subject matter inhibits the expressions of MMP and proinflammatory cytokines induced by UV exposure and reduces skinfold thickness and intracellular Ca2+ influx, so that it can be effectively used as an active ingredient of the composition for skin-aging prevention, wrinkle improvement, skin-whitening, or alleviating inflammation, irritation, or pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jin Ho Chung, So Min Kang, Young Mee Lee, Yeon Kyung Kim
  • HIGH SPEED ACTUATOR INCLUDING ACTIVE STIFFNESS CONTROLLER AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20160352259
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high speed actuator. The high speed actuator includes an actuation part configured to cause deformation such as bending or twisting and an active stiffness controller on a surface of the actuation part or in the actuation part configured to control in real time a stiffness (e.g., of the actuator) according to an external signal. The active stiffness controller may control a stiffness of the high speed actuator in order for the actuator to be actuated at a high speed. Moreover, since the stiffness of the actuator is controlled in real time, a speed of the actuator may be controlled in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: SNU R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Sung Hoon AHN, Sung Hyuk SONG
  • Member for flexible element and manufacturing method thereof
    Patent number: 9510445
    Abstract: In the present invention, a copper electrode having a nanohole structure is prepared by using a polymer substrate in the form of nanopillars in order to avoid fatigue fracture that causes degradation of electrical and mechanical properties of a flexible electrode during repetitive bending of a typical metal electrode. The nanohole structure may annihilate dislocations to suppress the initiation of fracture and may blunt crack tips to delay the propagation of damage. Therefore, the nanohole electrode exhibits very small changes in electrical resistance during a bending fatigue test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignees: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION, KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Young Chang Joo, In Suk Choi, Myoung Woon Moon, Byoung Joon Kim, Min Suk Jung
  • Data protection method and apparatus
    Patent number: 9509495
    Abstract: A data protection method and apparatus that can protect data through encryption using a Boolean function is provided. The data protection method includes applying an inverse affine transformation to data to be encrypted using a Boolean function; applying round operations of an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cryptographic algorithm to the inverse-affine transformed data; and producing ciphertext data by applying an affine transformation to the result of the round operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, SNU R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Kyunghee Lee, Junghee Cheon, Eunyoung Kwon, Bumhan Kim, Jinsu Kim, Hongtae Kim, Hansol Ryu, Hyunsook Hong
  • NOVEL COMPOUND OR PHARMACEUTICALLY ACCEPTABLE SALT THEREOF, AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAME AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT
    Publication number: 20160340331
    Abstract: A compound inhibiting Hsp90 and a pharmaceutical composition including the same as an active ingredient are described, which compound is represented by formula 2 and suppresses the expression of Hsp90, inhibits the accumulation of HIF-1?, the Hsp90 client protein, and efficiently inhibits the activation of VEGF. The compound displays low cytotoxicity and can be effectively used as an active ingredient of an anti-cancer agent, a diabetic retinopathy treating agent, and an anti-arthritic agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Young-Ger SUH, Hongchan AN, Seungbeom LEE, Kyu-Won KIM, Ho-Young LEE, Sang Geon KIM, Jeong Hun KIM
  • Particulate matter sensor unit
    Patent number: 9494508
    Abstract: A particulate matter sensor unit may include a sensor portion of an electrostatic induction type that may be reacted when a particulate matter having electric charge may be passing the vicinity thereof, a protection pad that the sensor portion may be bonded on one side thereof through a conductive paste, an heater electrode that may be formed on the protection pad and burns the particulate matters that may be disposed on the sensor portion to eliminate them, and a sensor electrode that may be formed on the protection pad to transfer a signal that may be generated by the sensor portion to an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jin Ha Lee, Sera Lim, Kuk-jin Chun, Junyong Lee, Kyoung doug Min, Seounghyeon Lee, Young Jae Kim
  • Single nanoparticle having a nanogap between a core material and a shell material, and preparation method thereof
    Patent number: 9482618
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a nanoparticle, which can be used effectively for Raman analysis based on very high amplification effect of electromagnetic signal by plasomonic coupling of nanogap formation inside thereof and high reproducibility, and which includes core and surrounding shell with nanogap formation between the same and the method of synthesis thereof. The present invention is also to provide the method for detecting the analyte using the above nanoparticle and the analyte detection kit including the above nanoparticle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignees: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY, SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Yung Doug Suh, Jwa Min Nam, Dong Kwon Lim, Ki Seok Jeon
  • Fabricating method of magnetic axis controlled structure
    Patent number: 9482726
    Abstract: Provided is a method of fabricating a magnetic axis-controlled structure. The method of fabricating a magnetic axis-controlled structure includes providing a composition including magnetic nanoparticles dispersed in a liquid medium, applying a magnetic field to the composition to align the magnetic nanoparticles along the magnetic field and form a magnetic axis, and solidifying the liquid medium to fix the magnetic axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sunghoon Kwon, Hyoki Kim, Junhoi Kim, Howon Lee
  • Crystal structure of the NanR and ManNAc-6P complex, and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9482669
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a three-dimensional structure of a complex explored by crystallization of the complex of NanR which is a key pathogenic regulatory protein of Vibrio vulnificus and ManNA6P which is a NanR regulator. Further, the present invention relates to a modified NanR protein, a polynucleotide encoding the protein, a vector including the polynucleotide, and a transformant including the vector. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for screening a substance regulating interaction between NanR and the transcriptional control region of nan operon which is a gene cluster regulated by NanR, or a substance regulating interaction between NanR and ManNAc-6P, by designing three-dimensional structure of the complex, and to an antibacterial composition including the screened substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignees: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION, KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Sang Ho Choi, Byoung Sik Kim, Myung Hee Kim, Jung Won Hwang
  • Implantable device for drug delivery operated by magnetic force
    Patent number: 9474853
    Abstract: Disclosed is an implantable device for drug delivery operated by a magnetic force. The device is provided with a body member and an external magnetic controller which is able to move some of the parts in the body member so that the drug inside the body member can be delivered to a site of interest of the animal body without the extra power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Young Bin Choy, Seung Ho Lee
  • Storage device that performs a de-duplication operation, and method of operating the same
    Patent number: 9477589
    Abstract: A storage device is provided which includes a nonvolatile memory device configured to store a plurality of reference data, a memory configured to store a hash manage table used to manage a plurality of reference hash keys of each of the plurality of reference data, a hash key generator configured to generate a plurality of hash keys based on write requested data, and a memory controller configured to compare the plurality of hash keys and reference hash keys of each reference data to determine whether to store the write requested data in the nonvolatile memory device. The memory controller selects one of the plurality of reference data according to a similarity between the plurality of hash keys and the plurality of reference hash keys of each reference data and stores the write requested data and the selected reference data in the nonvolatile memory device to refer to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sangkwon Moon, Ji Hong Kim, Ji Sung Park, Hyunchul Park, Kyung Ho Kim
  • Image processor, image reconstruction method, and radiation imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 9472001
    Abstract: The image reconstruction method includes performing a forward projection of a first image of an object using a line integral-based value and a point spread function (PSF)-based value to acquire a forward projection value, and performing a back projection of raw image data using the forward projection value to acquire a second image of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Kye Young Jeong, Byung Kwan Park, Jae Mock Yi, Jae Sung Lee, Hong Jung, Jung Ah Son
  • Method of forming microsphere having structural color
    Patent number: 9457333
    Abstract: Provided is a method of forming a microsphere having a structural color, which includes providing a composition for generating a structural color including a curable material and magnetic nanoparticles dispersed in the curable material, forming an emulsion by adding the composition for generating a structural color to an immiscible solvent, arranging the magnetic nanoparticles located in the emulsion droplet of the curable material in a one-dimensional chain structure by applying a magnetic field to the emulsion, and fixing the chain structure by curing the emulsion droplet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sunghoon Kwon, Hyoki Kim
  • POROUS GRAPHENE FOR CATHODE OF SECONDARY BATTERY AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD
    Publication number: 20160285095
    Abstract: In the graphene manufacturing method, a graphite oxide is formed from graphite, and then the graphite oxide is treated with a hydrochloric acid. The hydrochloric acid-treated graphite oxide is reduced at temperature of 120° C. or above and 200° C. or below by performing thermal treatment thereto. Since a low-temperature process is used for manufacturing graphene by performing thermal treatment at a relatively low temperature for a short time, this method has great economic feasibility and utilization. Due to a simple composing process and low thermal treatment temperature, graphene may be mass-produced with a low price. In particular, the graphene may be used as a cathode material for a lithium secondary battery, which exhibits a high capacity at a high voltage of 2V or above by reacting with Li, different from an anode material of a lithium secondary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Ki-Suk KANG, Hae-Gyeom KIM
  • ACUPRESSURE DEVICE ASSISTING BREATH
    Publication number: 20160279028
    Abstract: An acupressure device includes an acupressure section, a driving part and a control part. The acupressure section is disposed in front of the belly and presses the belly. The driving part is connected to the acupressure section and fixed at a backside of a user and moving the acupressure section toward the belly. The control part is controlled by the user and changing an intensity of a pressure from the acupressure section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Kyu Jin CHO, Sang Yoep LEE, Merewether Gene BROWN
  • SWITCH DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND POWER FACTOR CORRECTION CIRCUIT HAVING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20160285353
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a switch driving circuit and power factor correction circuit having the same, and more particularly, to a technology to provide a negative offset using Zener diodes to prevent malfunctions in driving a switch. The switch driving circuit to operate a switch implemented with a Field Effect Transistor (FET) includes a first Zener diode connected to a control input end of the switch; a capacitor connected in parallel with the first Zener diode; and second and third Zener diodes for providing a negative offset to fix a voltage applied between the gate and source of the switch to a negative value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jin Han KIM, Han Sol SEO, Bo-Hyung CHO, Sang-Woo KANG, Paul JANG