LG Electronics Patents

LG Electronics Inc. is a South Korean electronics manufacturer. LG sells televisions, mobile phones, tablets, and home appliances, including refrigerators, washers, dryers, and vacuum cleaners.

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  • Patent number: 11971032
    Abstract: A vane rotary compressor may include a main bearing and a sub bearing provided with a plurality of back pressure pockets each having a different pressure formed on a surface facing the cylinder, a rotational shaft radially supported by the main bearing and the sub bearing, a roller provided with a back pressure chamber that communicates with the plurality of back pressure pockets and having a plurality of vanes configured to divide a compression space into a plurality of compression chambers. At least one of the main bearing or the sub bearing is provided with an oil supply passage that communicates with a back pressure pocket having a relatively low pressure among the plurality of back pressure pockets. Accordingly, oil may be smoothly supplied to a back pressure pocket having a low pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kiyoul Noh, Seokhwan Moon, Joonhong Park
  • Patent number: 11973189
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery includes an organic solvent, a lithium salt, and a compound represented by Formula 1. In some embodiments, the compound represented by Formula 1 is present in an amount of 0.5 part by weight to 5 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the non-aqueous electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Woo Oh, Chul Haeng Lee, Yoo Sun Kang
  • Patent number: 11970686
    Abstract: A beverage maker may include a fermentation tank including a space in which a beverage is made, a refrigerant cycle device to cool the fermentation tank, a temperature sensor to detect a temperature of the fermentation tank, and a controller to drive the refrigerant cycle device to decrease a temperature of the fermentation tank which accommodates a mixture including an ingredient of the beverage to a fermentation temperature while the beverage is being made, to stop driving of the refrigerant cycle device when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor reaches a first step temperature of a plurality of step temperatures set higher than the fermentation temperature, and to re-drive the refrigerant cycle device after a predetermined period of time has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngjoon Kim, Daewoong Lee, Jinpyo Hong
  • Patent number: 11973628
    Abstract: A method of transmitting, by a transmitting device, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal in a wireless communication system, the method including: generating, by a digital module of the transmitting device, a frequency-shifted OFDM baseband signal by performing frequency up-shift of a first signal by a difference between a carrier frequency f0 and a first frequency fbase, wherein the first frequency fbase is among frequencies corresponding to integer multiples of 128?f closest to the carrier frequency f0, and wherein ?f is an OFDM subcarrier spacing; up-converting, by an analog oscillator of the transmitting device, the frequency-shifted OFDM baseband signal by the first frequency fbase to generate an OFDM symbol signal at the carrier frequency f0; and transmitting the OFDM symbol signal at the carrier frequency f0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sukhyon Yoon, Hyunsoo Ko, Kijun Kim, Byounghoon Kim, Changhwan Park
  • Patent number: 11971496
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for a terminal to report information related to reference signal measurement in a wireless communication system. In particular, the disclosed method is characterized by comprising: receiving a plurality of reference signals; measuring a time of arrival (ToA) for each of the plurality of reference signals; and transmitting identification information on the reference signal having the smallest ToA among the plurality of reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunsu Cha, Hyunsoo Ko, Kijun Kim, Youngsub Kim, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11973175
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a pouch-shaped battery cell, the method including (a) forming an electrode assembly receiving portion in a laminate sheet to manufacture a preliminary battery case, (b) receiving an electrode assembly in the electrode assembly receiving portion and sealing other outer peripheries of the preliminary battery case excluding a first side outer periphery of the preliminary battery case, through which gas is discharged, (c) disposing a fixing jig at each of opposite end corner portions of a first side outer periphery of the electrode assembly receiving portion, (d) performing an activation process and a degassing process, (e) resealing the first side outer periphery of the electrode assembly receiving portion, and removing an end of the preliminary battery case, wherein step (d) to step (f) are performed in the state in which the corner portion is in tight contact with the inner surface of the fixing jig, which is technology capable of preventing the preliminary battery case f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin Seop Kwak
  • Patent number: 11971176
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking compartment, which is surrounded by a bottom surface, a pair of side surfaces, and a back surface of the housing, and has an upper surface and a front surface which are open. A door includes a door upper surface part which covers the upper surface of the housing and a door front surface part which is connected to a front side of the door upper surface part and covers the front surface of the housing and opens and closes the upper surface and the front surface of the housing by rotating about a rear side of the door upper surface part. A heating part is installed in at least one of the housing or the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hag Soo Kim, Sung Mun Yoon
  • Patent number: 11973547
    Abstract: Proposed are a method and device for receiving a feedback frame in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a first STA transmits an NDPA frame to a second STA. The first STA transmits an NDP frame to the second STA. The first STA receives, from the second STA, a feedback frame transmitted on the basis of the NDP frame. The feedback frame includes information about a beamforming feedback matrix. The information about the beamforming feedback matrix includes a first bit for the index difference between quantized phi of adjacent subcarriers, and a second bit for the index difference between quantized psi of the adjacent subcarriers. The adjacent subcarriers are two adjacent subcarriers starting with the first subcarrier among all of the subcarriers. The first subcarrier is either the left edge subcarrier or the right edge subcarrier. The quantized phi and psi are information about beamforming angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunwoong Yun, Jinmin Kim, Eunsung Park, Dongguk Lim, Jinsoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11971178
    Abstract: An indoor unit of an air conditioner includes a cabinet assembly; a door assembly disposed at a front of the cabinet assembly to cover the front of the cabinet assembly; a fixed plate fixed to the cabinet assembly and disposed between the door assembly and the cabinet assembly; and a door assembly moving part disposed between the door assembly and the fixed plate to move the door assembly in a left-right direction with respect to the cabinet assembly. When seen from the front of the cabinet assembly, the fixed plate is fixed eccentric in a direction where the door assembly moves such that when the door assembly moves, a center line of the door assembly remains within a left-right width of the fixed plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunggyu Choi, Kangyoung Kim, Junseok Bae, Seongkuk Mun, Heejun Cheon, Nahee Kim
  • Patent number: 11973190
    Abstract: An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery includes a lithium salt, a non-aqueous solvent containing a fluorine-based organic solvent, and a fluorine-based compound represented by Formula 1. In some embodiments, a lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator disposed therebetween, and the electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sol Ji Park, Kyoung Ho Ahn, Jun Hyeok Han, Chul Haeng Lee
  • Patent number: 11971204
    Abstract: The refrigerator may comprise: a first tray assembly forming a part of ice-making cells; and a second tray assembly forming the other part of the ice-making cells. In order that ice can be produced in the direction of ice-making cells formed by any One of the first and second tray assemblies to ice-making cells formed by the other tray assembly, following the start of an ice-making process, the one tray assembly comprises a first part, and the first part comprises: a first surface forming a part of the ice-making cells; and a first deformation-resistant reinforcement part extending from the first surface in the vertical direction away from a heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Donghoon Lee, Wookyong Lee, Sunggyun Son, Donghoon Lee, Seungseob Yeom, Yongjun Bae, Chongyoung Park
  • Patent number: 11973191
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt, an organic solvent, and a phosphoric acid-based additive-represented by Formula 1 below, which improves the high temperature stability in a lithium secondary battery: wherein R is described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haeun Kim, Jeongwoo Oh, Chul Haeng Lee
  • Patent number: 11972704
    Abstract: The flexible display device may include a display panel, including a display area, a non-display area and a bending area, bent in a rear direction so that one edge of the display panel has a predetermined curvature, a first back plate and a second back plate, disposed on a rear surface of the display panel, a cushion tape disposed on a rear surface of the first back plate, and a fixing tape, disposed between the cushion tape and the second back plate, made of an adhesive layer in the bending area. Accordingly, there is an effect of improving the quality of the flexible display device by reducing the peeling defect of the bending area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junho Yun, DongWon Jang, Lokdam Baek
  • Patent number: 11973209
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery includes a lithium composite transition metal oxide including nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and manganese (Mn), wherein the lithium composite transition metal oxide has a layered crystal structure of space group R3m, includes the nickel (Ni) in an amount of 60 mol % or less based on a total amount of transition metals, includes the cobalt (Co) in an amount greater than an amount of the manganese (Mn), and is composed of single particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun Hee Lee, Seong Bae Kim, Young Su Park, Yi Rang Lim, Hong Kyu Park, Song Yi Yang, Byung Hyun Hwang, Woo Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11972735
    Abstract: A display device comprises: a display panel including a scan line, a power supply line, and a pixel; a gate driver that supplies a scan signal to the pixel; and a bias driver that supplies a bias voltage to the pixel, wherein a driving period of the pixel includes a first and second frame that are different, wherein the first frame includes a first refresh period in which a first data voltage is written and a first reset period in which the first data voltage is maintained, wherein the second frame includes a second refresh period in which a second data voltage is written and a second reset period in which the second data voltage is maintained, and a first voltage pulse of the bias voltage during the first refresh period and a second voltage pulse of the bias voltage during the second refresh period are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jaehyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 11973222
    Abstract: A positive electrode active material precursor having a uniform particle size distribution and represented by Formula 1, wherein a percentage of fine powder with an average particle diameter (D50) of 1 ?m or less is generated when the positive electrode active material precursor is rolled at 2.5 kgf/cm2 is less than 1%, and an aspect ratio is 0.93 or more, and a method of preparing the positive electrode active material precursor [NixCoyM1zM2w](OH)2 ??[Formula 1] in Formula 1, 0.5?x<1, 0<y?0.5, 0<z?0.5, and 0?w?0.1, M1 includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Mn and Al, and M2 includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Zr, B, W, Mo, Cr, Nb, Mg, Hf, Ta, La, Ti, Sr, Ba, Ce, F, P, S, and Y. A method of preparing the positive electrode active material precursor is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Bae Kim, Yi Rang Lim, Kyoung Wan Park, Hyun Uk Kim, Hong Kyu Park, Chang Jun Moon, Eun Hee Kim
  • Patent number: 11972715
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including data lines extending in a first direction, gate lines extending in a second direction which differs from the first direction, and unit pixels connected to the data lines and the gate lines, wherein each of the unit pixels includes a white pixel and a plurality of color pixels, an nth white pixel arranged at an nth position among white pixels arranged in the first direction is connected to an odd white data line (where n is an odd number), and an n+1th white pixel arranged at an n+1th position among white pixels arranged in the first direction is connected to an even white data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jihun Kim, Joon-Min Park
  • Patent number: 11973227
    Abstract: Provided are a binder composition for a secondary battery electrode, and an electrode mixture including the same, and more particularly, a binder composition for a secondary battery electrode capable of providing excellent binding strength for an active material and an electrode while having excellent latex stability, thereby improving performance of a secondary battery, and an electrode mixture including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seon Hee Han, Min Ah Kang, Dong Jo Ryu, Jung Sup Han, Jeong Man Son, Cheolhoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11972728
    Abstract: A light emitting display device includes a display panel including a subpixel, and a driver configured to drive the display panel, and in the subpixel, initialization of both ends of an organic light emitting diode is performed simultaneously with writing of a data voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Woo Lee, Yi Yeon Hwang, Hee Young Chae
  • Patent number: 11973456
    Abstract: According to the present invention, provided is a motor of which a controller generates an index signal at a second time point delayed from a first time point at which a pulse due to an index magnet is detected among pulses of a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal detected by a second Hall sensor, compares a second time point which is input in advance based on a constant speed condition of the motor and a detected second time point to obtain a first error, compares a duty value, which is input in advance based on the constant speed condition of the motor, of a PWM signal and a duty value of a detected PWM signal to obtain a second error, and controls a speed of the motor on basis of the first error and the second error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Seob Lee
  • Patent number: 11973626
    Abstract: Proposed are a method and a device for receiving a PPDU in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a reception STA receives a PPDU from a transmission STA through a broadband and decodes the PPDU. The PPDU includes a legacy preamble and a first and a second signal field. The legacy preamble and the first and second signal fields are generated on the basis of a first and a second phase rotation value. When the broadband corresponds to a 320 MHz band, the first phase rotation value is [1 ?1 ?1 ?1 1 ?1 ?1 ?1 ?1 1 1 1 ?1 1 1 1]. An element of the first phase rotation value is applied to each 20 MHz band of the 320 MHz band. An element of the second phase rotation value is applied to each subcarrier of the 320 MHz band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunsung Park, Jinyoung Chun, Jinsoo Choi, Dongguk Lim
  • Patent number: 11973379
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a motor which comprises: a housing; a cover disposed to cover the housing; a stator disposed in the housing; a rotor disposed inside the stator; a shaft disposed in the center of the rotor; a sensing magnet disposed at the end of the shaft; and a circuit board including a sensor for sensing the sensing magnet, wherein the sensor is disposed inside a hole formed through the cover. Therefore, in the motor, a hole is formed through the cover disposed to cover an opening of the housing and a sensor is disposed inside the hole, so that a size of an axis direction of the motor can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dae Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 11973177
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a secondary battery in which an electrode tab is improved in mechanical strength and a method for manufacturing the same. Also, the secondary battery according to the present invention includes: an electrode provided with a coating portion coated with an active material on an electrode collector and a non-coating portion on which the active material is not applied to the electrode collector in a longitudinal direction of the electrode collector and a notching tab part extending from the coating portion in a width direction of the electrode collector without coating with the active material and overlapping each other to form two or more layers when the electrode is wound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Woong Kim, Hyoung Kwon Kim, Sang Uck Kim
  • Patent number: 11973963
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present disclosure includes deriving transform coefficients through dequantization based on the quantized transform coefficients for the target block; deriving modified transform coefficients based on an inverse reduced secondary transform (RST) for the transform coefficients; deriving residual samples for the target block based on an inverse primary transform for the modified transform coefficients; and generating a reconstructed samples based on the residual samples, and prediction samples derived based on an intra prediction mode for the target block, wherein the inverse RST is performed based on a transform kernel matrix selected from a transform set including a plurality of transform kernel matrices, the transform set is determined based on a mapping relationship according to the intra prediction mode applied to the target block, and a plurality of intra prediction modes including the intra prediction mode of the target block are mapped to one transform set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11973181
    Abstract: A separator for a lithium battery having (a) a porous polymeric layer, such as a polyethylene layer; and (b) a nanoporous inorganic particle/polymer layer on both sides of the polymeric layer, the nanoporous layer having an inorganic oxide and one or more polymers; the volume fraction of the polymers in the nanoporous layer is about 15% to about 50%, and the crystallite size of the inorganic oxide is 5 nm to 90 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: David W. Avison, Steven A. Carlson, Benjamin Sloan
  • Patent number: 11974041
    Abstract: Provided are a shaper unit and an image stabilization device. A shaper unit, according to one aspect of the present invention, comprises: a shaper body formed of a transparent material; first glass disposed on one side of the shaper body; a membrane disposed on one side of the first glass; a variable prism disposed on one side of the membrane; and a second glass disposed on one side of the variable prism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soo Min Jeong, Ji Sung Kim, Jun Seok Oh
  • Patent number: 11973089
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device comprising: a first thin film transistor including a first semiconductor pattern disposed on a substrate and comprising poly-silicon, and a first gate electrode; a middle layer on the first gate electrode; a second thin film transistor including a second semiconductor pattern disposed on the middle layer and comprising an oxide semiconductor, and a second gate electrode; and a storage capacitor including first to fourth storage electrodes overlapping with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyunsoo Lim
  • Patent number: 11973896
    Abstract: An invisible intercom and access system and method. The invisible intercom and access system may include a visitor device configured to make a phone call to a specific phone number; one or more authorized point of contact (APoC) device configured to receive the phone call and having an input configured to receive a code that produces tones; one or more third party device configured to control access to one or more access point of a property or building; and an invisible intercom and access apparatus configured to receive the phone call from the visitor device and connect the phone call to the one or more APoC device, recognize the tones of the code input at the one or more APoC device, and control or send a control signal to the one or more third party device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: David Joel White
  • Patent number: 11974224
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for receiving a wake-up signal by a first UE in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: operating a wake-up receiver during a wake-up signal on-duration by the first UE; and receiving a wake-up signal transmitted by a second UE through the wake-up receiver and then receiving data, wherein information related to the wake-up signal on-duration is commonly signaled to the first UE, which receives the wake-up signal, and the second UE which transmits the wake-up signal. The UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, the BS or a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyukjin Chae, Hanbyul Seo, Seunggye Hwang
  • Patent number: 11974066
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a back cover accommodating the display panel, and a sound output unit including at least one sound output module disposed to overlap the display panel. The at least one sound output module includes a support plate including an uneven surface and a piezoelectric element attached on the uneven surface of the support plate and has a shape corresponding to the uneven surface of the support plate. Accordingly, a sound having a straight characteristic within an audible frequency domain may be output, thereby enhancing a sense of reality and an immersion of a viewer watching an image displayed by the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Eui Shin, Chiwan Kim, Taeheon Kim, YongWoo Lee, Kyungyeol Ryu, YuSeon Kho
  • Patent number: 11973203
    Abstract: A battery pack is provided including at least one rechargeable secondary battery; a battery frame having a battery accommodation portion configured to accommodate the at least one secondary battery; a packaging member provided in the form of an adhesion sheet having an adhesive surface formed at one surface thereof, the packaging member including a body portion fixedly adhered to an upper portion of the secondary battery accommodated in the battery frame and a fixing portion bent and extended downward from the body portion and having the adhesive surface fixedly adhered to an outer surface of an outermost edge of the battery frame; and an anti-noise member attached to at least one portion of the adhesive surface of the packaging member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Hyuk-Joon Son, Young-Su Son, Young-Kyu Lee, Jae-Young Jang
  • Patent number: 11974065
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a broadcast receiving device that minimizes the time required for channel search and a display device including the same, and the broadcast receiving device includes an RF automatic gain controller configured to perform automatic gain control to adjust a gain value according to an input magnitude of an RF signal, and a controller configured to detect the presence or absence of a signal in a preset frequency band based on whether the gain value is changed, and to perform channel search in the preset frequency band according to the presence or absence of a signal in the preset frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Ingyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11973219
    Abstract: A method for pre-lithiation of a negative electrode is disclosed, including the steps of: producing a lithium metal laminate which includes i) lithium metal foil; and ii) a buffer layer including carbonaceous material particles, inorganic compound particles, polymer compound particles or their combination, and coated on one surface of the lithium metal foil; producing a negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector, and a negative electrode active material layer formed on at least one surface of the negative electrode current collector; and laminating the lithium metal laminate with the negative electrode in such a manner that the buffer layer of the lithium metal laminate is in contact with the negative electrode active material layer. A lithium metal laminate used for the method is also provided. The pre-lithiation of a negative electrode that includes a buffer layer reduces the problem of rapid volumetric swelling occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Oh-Byong Chae, Jun-Hyuk Song, Yoon-Ah Kang, Je-Young Kim, Sang-Wook Woo
  • Patent number: 11974237
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a method, by a user equipment (UE), for transmitting uplink data through a preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) in a wireless communication system and apparatus therefor. According to the present disclosure, the method comprises, the UE receives, from a base station, PUR configuration information for uplink data transmission based on the PUR in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state; transitions from the RRC connected state to an RRC idle state; performing a timing advance (TA) update procedure based on whether a TA related to uplink transmission timing is valid; and transmits, to the base station, the uplink data on a first resource of the PUR, wherein, based on that a specific resource included in the PUR is included in a TA update performing interval, a transmission for the uplink data on the specific resource is dropped, and a value of a counter for release of the PUR is held regardless of dropping of the uplink data on the specific resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaehyung Kim, Joonkui Ahn, Seokmin Shin, Changhwan Park, Seunggye Hwang
  • Patent number: 11973242
    Abstract: A degassing apparatus for a secondary battery, and a degassing method using same, is provided. The degassing apparatus includes a drive motor and a jig arm configured to pressurize a first surface of a gas pocket of a battery cell and a second surface opposite the first surface by controlling a separation distance by the operation of a driving motor. The degassing apparatus is capable of performing an effective degassing and sealing process for the battery cell without positional movement of the battery cell during cell activation or after cell activation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Jih Kim, Joon Sung Bae, Beom Koon Lee, Dong Hun Bae, Eui Kyung Lee, Suk Hyun Hong
  • Patent number: 11973924
    Abstract: A barrier panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate having block region and transmission region; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, the liquid crystal layer including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules aligned in a predetermined direction; a plurality of barrier electrodes in the block region and the transmission region of the first substrate; a common electrode on the second substrate to apply an electric field to the liquid crystal layer with the plurality of barrier electrodes; a diffraction unit in the plurality of barrier electrodes to diffract the light transmitting therethrough; and a polarization plate over the second substrate, wherein an optical axis direction of the polarization plate is parallel to the alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecule to transmit an image through an area where the electric field is not applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: You-Yong Jin, Hee-Jin Im, Yong-Ku Lee, Wook Jeon
  • Patent number: 11973244
    Abstract: A battery module includes a cell stack; a bus bar frame assembly having a front bus bar frame configured to cover one longitudinal side of the cell stack, a rear bus bar frame configured to cover another longitudinal side of the cell stack, and an upper cover configured to cover at least a portion of an upper surface of the cell stack; and a module frame coupled to the bus bar frame assembly, wherein the front bus bar frame includes at least one first upper guide formed to protrude at an upper end thereof and at least one first side guide formed to protrude at a side portion thereof, and the rear bus bar frame includes at least one second upper guide formed to protrude at an upper end thereof and at least one second side guide formed to protrude at a side portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Ho Lee, Jun-Yeob Seong, Jong-Ha Jeong
  • Patent number: 11973947
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, chroma quantization parameter offset-related information may be signaled via a palette coding syntax, and index information about a chroma quantization parameter offset list may be efficiently parsed/signaled on the basis of information about the number of entries within the chroma quantization parameter offset list. Accordingly, bits that need to be signaled for video/image coding can be reduced, and coding efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hendry Hendry, Seunghwan Kim, Jie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11973542
    Abstract: The present invention relates to wireless power transmission. A method for controlling a communication connection for a wireless charging device supporting in-band communication and out-band communication, according to an embodiment of the present invention, may comprise: a step of receiving a first packet from a device through in-band communication; a step of generating a power transmission contract on the basis of the first packet; a step of performing an out-band communication connection on the basis of the power transmission contract; a step of controlling power by using out-band communication when the out-band communication connection is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Joonho Park
  • Patent number: 11973989
    Abstract: An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present document comprises the steps of: obtaining a sign data hiding availability flag indicating whether or not sign data hiding is available for a current slice; obtaining a TSRC availability flag indicating whether or not TSRC is available for a transform skip block of the current slice; obtaining residual coding information about the transform skip block on the basis of the TSRC availability flag; deriving a residual sample for the transform skip block on the basis of the residual coding information; and generating a reconstruction picture on the basis of the residual sample, wherein the TSRC availability flag is obtained on the basis of the sign data hiding availability flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunmi Yoo, Jungah Choi, Jin Heo, Jangwon Choi
  • Patent number: 11973557
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and a device for transmitting a message in an initial access procedure by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. According to the present disclosure, a UE may transmit to a base station capability information associated with transmission power of the UE and the information may include a subset including at least one transmit precoding matrix indicator (TPMI) supported by the UE. The UE may receive first control information for transmitting a message associated with an initial access and the control information may include a TPMI used for the UE to transmit the message. Thereafter, the UE may transmit to the base station the message by using transmission power determined based on the TPMI and the transmission power may be determined according to whether the TPMI is included in the at least one TPMI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Haewook Park, Jiwon Kang, Jonghyun Park, Kijun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Patent number: 11974004
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may obtain information on one or more control methods supported by an external device, select a first control method according to a predetermined priority based on the obtained information, and switch the first control method to a second control method having a next priority according to a change in a control situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Miyeon Kwon, Kyungryun Lee
  • Patent number: 11973602
    Abstract: A method for a terminal to transmit hybrid automatic repeat and request (HARQ) feedback information in a wireless communication system supporting coordinated multiple point (CoMP) transmission includes: receiving a first PDCCH and a second PDCCH from a first transmission node and a second transmission node, respectively; receiving, from the first transmission node and the second transmission node, a first PDSCH and a second PDSCH scheduled by the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH, respectively; determining HARQ-ACK codebook for the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH; and transmitting HARQ feedback information for the determined HARQ-ACK codebook. The first and second PDCCHs include specific HARQ feedback timing information used for the CoMP. When a reception occasion for the first PDSCH and a reception occasion for the second PDSCH overlap, the HARQ feedback information is transmitted on a slot corresponding to the value indicated by the specific HARQ feedback timing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyuseok Kim, Suckchel Yang, Jiwon Kang, Hyungtae Kim
  • Patent number: 11974010
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a display device for controlling one or more home appliances in consideration of a viewing situation can include: a display unit; a storage unit configured to store a learned usage pattern inference model by using a deep learning algorithm or a machine learning algorithm; a user input interface unit configured to receive a viewing event; and a control unit configured to obtain a viewing pattern from the received viewing event, to use the usage pattern inference model to obtain a usage pattern of the one or more home appliances from the obtained viewing pattern, and to display, on the display unit, usage recommendation information indicating the obtained usage pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jaekyung Lee
  • Patent number: 11973713
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present specification is a method by which a terminal transmits a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system, the method: receiving, from a base station, configuration information relating to an SRS transmission, wherein the configuration information includes a first parameter set relating to a first SRS transmission and a second parameter set relating to a second SRS transmission; receiving downlink control information (DCI) from the base station; and transmitting, to the base station, a first SRS and/or a second SRS on the basis of the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seongwon Go, Jonghyun Park, Jiwon Kang
  • Patent number: 11974446
    Abstract: Disclosed are a white organic light emitting element, which may uniformize the color coordinates of white regardless of a change in current density by changing the configuration of different kinds of light emitting layers contacting each other, and a display device using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wook Song, Eun-Jung Park, Chun-Ki Kim, Se-Ung Kim
  • Patent number: 11974150
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method by which a terminal, in which a primary cell and a secondary cell are set, activate a bandwidth part (BWP) in a wireless communication system, comprising: receiving downlink control information (DCI) from a network, the DCI notifying the terminal of the separation of the secondary cell from the dormant BWP; and activating a specific BWP of the secondary cell on the basis of the DCI, the specific BWP being a BWP set by upper layer signaling received through the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Joonkui Ahn, Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim
  • Patent number: 11974325
    Abstract: Proposed is a method for transmitting a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble in a wireless communication system. Specifically, a method performed by user equipment (UE) comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, setting information including a first power ramping step for a two-step random access channel (RACH) and a second power ramping step for a four-step RACH; transmitting, to the base station, information including a first preamble and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for a two-step RACH on the basis of the first power ramping step; and transmitting, to the base station, a second preamble for a four-step RACH by using the second power ramping step, on the basis of the number of retransmissions of the information exceeding a maximum number of retransmissions associated with a preset two-step RACH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jeongsu Lee, Sukhyon Yoon, Hyunsoo Ko, Kijun Kim, Suckchel Yang
  • Patent number: 11974254
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system, a third party different from both terminals or a base station, which are parties to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, may be involved in resource allocation for the V2X communication. For example, a first terminal performing V2X communication with a second terminal receives recommendation information recommending a resource available for the V2X communication from a third terminal and performs the V2X communication with the second terminal by using a recommended resource determined based on the recommendation information or a resource selected by the first terminal based on the recommendation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongyoul Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Hyukjin Chae
  • Patent number: 11974480
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate including a plurality of pixels. The organic light emitting display apparatus further includes a plurality of organic light emitting diodes on the substrate so as to correspond to the plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels includes a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, and a fourth pixel which emit different color light. Each of the plurality of organic light emitting diodes includes a first electrode, a light emitting portion on the first electrode and a second electrode on the light emitting portion. A thickness of the first electrode of the first pixel is different from a thickness of the first electrode of the second pixel, and the thickness of the first electrode of the second pixel is different from a thickness of the first electrode of the third pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaeho Lee, Wonhoe Koo, Dongmin Sim, Taemin Kim, Hyekyung Choi, Kyunghoon Han