Patents Assigned to Yeungnam University
  • Patent number: 10891752
    Abstract: A moving object localization system includes: a sensor that detects a moving object and measures positional information of the moving object; and a server that collects measured information from the sensor and calculates a position of moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Seung Yeob Nam
  • Patent number: 10881854
    Abstract: Provided is a respiratory muscle strengthening device, in which an inhalation start signal is generated correspondingly at an inhalation start time when a patient inhales air or an exhalation start signal is generated correspondingly at an exhalation start time when the patient exhales air, an electric signal according to the inhalation start signal or the exhalation start signal is transmitted to an electric muscle stimulator via a communication unit, a muscle pad installed on respiratory muscles of the patient enables smooth breathing motion by stimulating the respiratory muscles based on a signal transmitted from the electric muscle stimulator, and a receptor pad is provided to the respiratory muscles such that an alarm of determining whether electric stimulation is normally applied via the state of the respiratory muscles detected through the receptor pad is output, thereby securing reliability of a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Su Min Son, Eun Yong Choi, Joon Ha Lee, So Young Kwak
  • Patent number: 10864300
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing a bilayer scaffold through single process comprising: preparing a first polymer aqueous solution; adding a second polymer into the first polymer aqueous solution and stirring a reactant; adding a surfactant into the stirred reactant and stirring the reactant at high temperature and high speed; freeze-drying the stirred reactant thereby obtaining a sponge; dipping the sponge in a cross-linking agent thereby rendering be cross-linked; and freeze-drying the cross-linked reactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Sung Soo Han, Soon Mo Choi, Deep Ti Singh
  • Patent number: 10786460
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a self-assembly preparation method of a nanocomposite material, and more particularly, relates to a self-assembly preparation method of a nanocomposite material comprising steps of: spraying a drug-containing solution onto metal aerosol nanoparticles to form a drug layer on the metal aerosol nanoparticles; and spraying a polymer-containing solution onto the metal aerosol nanoparticles, on which the drug layer is formed, to form a polymer layer on the drug layer, whereby since the method involves no liquid chemical process upon producing the metal aerosol nanoparticles, the processes are simple and can be performed even at a low temperature to suppress deformation of an organic or a drug, and the release rate of the drug, or the like can be easily controlled through metal types of metal aerosol nanoparticles, modification, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Research Cooperation Foundation of Yeungnam University
    Inventor: Jeong Hoon Byeon
  • Patent number: 10785078
    Abstract: A method for signal modulation in a filter bank multi-carrier system is provided. A modulation method according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes generating a plurality of different candidate transmission signals by modulating a complex symbol vector including a plurality of complex symbols in a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) spread filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC)/offset quadrature amplitude modulation (OQAM) scheme and selecting a candidate transmission signal having a lowest peak power or peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) as a transmission signal, wherein the generating of the plurality of candidate transmission signals comprises applying a different phase offset to the complex symbol vector according to a candidate transmission signal to be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kwonhue Choi, Dongjun Na
  • Patent number: 10777866
    Abstract: Disclosed is a quasi-circulator using an asymmetric directional coupler. The quasi-circulator using the asymmetric directional coupler according to an embodiment of the present invention may enhance a characteristic of isolating a transmitting signal from a receiving signal with the same characteristic as transmitting signal loss of a symmetric directional coupler in the related art by arranging impedance of each line of a directional coupler asymmetrically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF THE YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jong Ryul Yang, Bo Yoon Yoo, Ha Neul Lee, Ju Hee Son
  • Patent number: 10773219
    Abstract: The present invention relates to: a polymer composition for preparing a hydrophilic separation membrane, containing sulfonated inorganic particles, preferably, sulfonated titanium dioxide; and a hydrophilic separation membrane prepared therefrom. The hydrophilic separation membrane of the present invention has advantages of having excellent water flux and an excellent antifouling property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Young Ho Ahn, Sivasankaran Ayyaru
  • Patent number: 10768149
    Abstract: An apparatus for improving transmission directivity according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a phased array probe including a channel 1 transducer and a channel 2 transducer which are arranged at intervals corresponding to a quarter wavelength at a center frequency of a guided wave pulse for long-range ultrasonic testing, and a drive unit which supplies electric pulses with opposite phases to the channel 1 transducer and the channel 2 transducer of the channel 1 transducer and the channel 2 transducer, which is disposed on the front end on the basis of an intended transmission direction, is driven with delay by a time corresponding to a quarter frequency of the center frequency than the other transducer disposed on the rear end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY, DIGITAL ULTRASONICS CO. LTD
    Inventor: Myoung-Seon Choi
  • Patent number: 10722834
    Abstract: The present application relates to a functional fiber for adsorbing heavy metal and a method for producing the same, and the functional fiber for adsorbing heavy metal of the present application may have a structure in which thiolated metal nanoparticles are attached to a porous fiber, thereby minimizing the pore clogging of the porous fiber to remarkably improve the adsorption capacity of heavy metal materials, may be prepared by applying the dry technology without liquid impregnation, thereby minimizing the pore clogging of the porous fiber and fundamentally blocking the process wastewater generation, and is easy to implement the roll-to-roll system, so that continuous production is possible and thus productivity may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Jeong Hoon Byeon
  • Patent number: 10688425
    Abstract: The present application relates to a multifunctional filter medium and a method of manufacturing the same. The multifunctional filter medium of the present application is capable of significantly reducing fine dust, harmful microorganisms, and toxic gases and reducing a pressure decrease during filtration due to exclusion of high-density nanofiber, thereby minimizing energy required for filtration and exhibiting sufficient filtration performance as a single filter medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Research Cooperation Foundation of Yeungnam University
    Inventor: Jeong Hoon Byeon
  • Publication number: 20200179686
    Abstract: Provided is a respiratory muscle strengthening device, in which an inhalation start signal is generated correspondingly at an inhalation start time when a patient inhales air or an exhalation start signal is generated correspondingly at an exhalation start time when the patient exhales air, an electric signal according to the inhalation start signal or the exhalation start signal is transmitted to an electric muscle stimulator via a communication unit, a muscle pad installed on respiratory muscles of the patient enables smooth breathing motion by stimulating the respiratory muscles based on a signal transmitted from the electric muscle stimulator, and a receptor pad is provided to the respiratory muscles such that an alarm of determining whether electric stimulation is normally applied via the state of the respiratory muscles detected through the receptor pad is output, thereby securing reliability of a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Su Min SON, Eun Yong CHOI, Joon Ha LEE, So Young KWAK
  • Publication number: 20200163736
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic tension measurer, comprising: a band lengthily formed in a longitudinal direction; a main body formed to allow the band to be guided thereinto such that one-side end portion of the band is fixed and the other-side end portion thereof is drawn to the outside; a marking part implemented in the main body, and formed so as to enable marking in the band at a specific position in response to the tension applied to the band; and a stopper formed in the main body, and stopping the band at a specific position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicants: JSR MEDICAL CO., LTD., RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jae Hwang Kim, Min Ho Jung, Chang Young Chae
  • Patent number: 10626017
    Abstract: A method of synthesizing aluminum nitride, the method includes: preparing mixed powder containing 0.5 to 8 wt % of zinc powder, 0.01 to 2 wt % of magnesium powder, 0.01 to 1 wt % of silicon powder, 0.01 to 1 wt % of copper powder, and a balanced amount of aluminum powder; preparing a feedstock of the mixed powder blended and filled with thermoplastic organic binder, by pressured kneading the mixed powder and the thermoplastic organic binder; forming granules of the feedstock by crushing the feedstock or forming a molded body of the feedstock via a powder molding method; and debinding the granules or the molded body by heating under a nitrogen gas atmosphere, and then performing direct nitridation between aluminum and a nitrogen gas at a temperature higher than a debinding temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Research Cooperation Foundation of Yeungnam University
    Inventors: Kwan Hee Han, Ju Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10628487
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for hash collision detection based on the sorting unit of the bucket designed to reduce the future search time by pre-aligning the database in the bucket and to enhance the efficiency in a search within the database. The present disclosure, a method for hash collision detection based on the sorting unit of the bucket using conventional separate chaining method, comprises aligning records in a single bucket of a directory in ascending order or descending order and maintaining the alignment of records in the bucket when new records are added to the directory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY, INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, KUNSAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Gyu Sang Choi, Byung Won On, In Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 10604487
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating inflammatory bowel disease, containing, as an active ingredient, a pyridinol derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. A pyridinol derivative represented by chemical formula 1 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof has an excellent colitis inhibitory effect in an inflammatory bowel disease model, and thus can be useful as a medicine for preventing or treating inflammatory bowel disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignees: Research Cooperation Foundation of Yeungnam University, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University Erica Campus
    Inventors: Byeong-Seon Jeong, Jung-Ae Kim, Tae-gyu Nam
  • Patent number: 10581274
    Abstract: A home appliance is disclosed, including a first circuit unit including a converter configured to convert an Alternating Current (AC) power into a Direct Current (DC) power, a first coil, a first modulator/demodulator configured to wirelessly transmit the DC power generated by the converter using the first coil, and a first controller configured to control the first modulator/demodulator, and a second circuit including a second coil configured to receive a wireless power transmitted by the first circuit unit, a second modulator/demodulator configured to convert the wireless power received from the second coil, a rectifier configured to rectify an AC power generated by the second modulator/demodulator, and a second controller configured to control operation of the second modulator/demodulator, wherein the first modulator/demodulator and the second modulator/demodulator perform bidirectional time-division data communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignees: LG ELECTRONICS INC., RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Soongkeun Lee, Chungill Lee, Seonwook Park, Sungwoo Bae, Jaejung Yun, Jeongtae Kim, Younggeun Lee
  • Patent number: 10565174
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory includes: at least one parent node; and at least one child node that stores a data object and has a variable size of n multiple of the parent node, n being a natural number, when a target child node to insert at least one new data object is fully filled, wherein the data objects of the target child node are split and reinserted into newly created at least one child node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Gyu Sang Choi, Byung Won On, Jabarov Elkhan
  • Patent number: 10509111
    Abstract: A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor device includes a transmitter that transmits a laser beam including laser beam identification information corresponding to each transmission direction while changing a transmission direction, a receiver that receives a reflected beam returning after the laser beam is reflected by an object, and a signal processor that identifies a transmission direction of a laser beam corresponding to the reflected beam based on laser beam identification information included in the received reflected beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yongwan Park, Gunzung Kim
  • Patent number: 10432443
    Abstract: A plurality of candidate transmission signals which are modulated according to a discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-spread filter-bank multi-carrier (FBMC)/offset quadrature amplitude modulation (OQAM) scheme and are capable of achieving a single carrier effect are generated. A candidate transmission signal having the smallest peak to average power ratio (PAPR) is selected and transmitted, so that a PAPR performance can be effectively improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kwonhue Choi, Dongjun Na
  • Patent number: 10395454
    Abstract: A smart key authentication method for a vehicle remote key system that includes a smart key performing bi-directional communication with a vehicle to control the vehicle and a vehicle authentication module provided at the vehicle to authenticate the smart key is provided. The smart key authentication method includes generating, by the vehicle authentication module, a random number and sharing the random number with the smart key and performing a first authentication process based on the random number, and performing, by the vehicle authentication module, a second authentication process by comparing at least one location information value among an access point (AP) list, a satellite-based positioning sensor value, or a geomagnetic sensor value, which are respectively measured at the vehicle and at the smart key and determining whether or not to permit an authentication to the smart key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Research Company Foundation of Yeungnam University
    Inventors: Seung Yeob Nam, Woojoo Shin