Patents by Inventor Bong Joo Kim

Bong Joo Kim has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7432449
    Abstract: An electrical power line insulator has an end clamp with a saddle for supporting an electrical wire, a track provided on a front surface of the saddle, a keeper for compressing and supporting an electrical wire seated in the saddle, a bolt and a nut for fastening the keeper to the saddle and operable to horizontally move the keeper along the track, and an insulator housing secured to the end clamp and mounted on a support structure. The end clamp and the insulator housing are detachably assembled with each other by means of a cylindrical clamp base integrally provided on a lower portion of the saddle and the track of the clamp and an upper fitting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Inventor: Bong Joo Kim
  • Patent number: 7428121
    Abstract: A locking device for a tape cassette housing of a tape recorder comprises a locking recess and a locking protrusion respectively provided in sides of a tape cassette housing and a deck chassis and corresponding to each other, thereby fastening a tape cassette housing to the deck chassis, the tape cassette housing resiliently coming into contact with the deck chassis as a tape cassette is loaded. In here, around external circumference of the locking protrusion is formed at least one edge, and an end of the edge comes into contact with a corner of the locking recess right before the locking protrusion is inserted into the locking recess. Accordingly, the locking protrusion comes into linear contact with the corner of the locking recess in loading/unloading operations of the tape cassette so that the stopping of the ascending and descending movements of the tape cassette housing is prevented during the loading/unloading operations of the tape cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong-Joo Kim, Hyeong-Seok Choi, Jae-Kab Seo
  • Publication number: 20080223412
    Abstract: A substrate support unit supplies a swirl flow to a substrate to rotate and float the substrate from a chuck plate during a process. A process is performed while rotating and floating the substrate. Thus, the substrate is supported and rotates at a process speed while floating form the chuck plate with a non-contact manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Taek-Youb Lee, Bong-Joo Kim
  • Publication number: 20080229348
    Abstract: An optical disc drive includes a traverse deck having left and right sides to be balanced. The optical disc drive includes a main deck, a tray, a turntable, an optical pickup, a traverse deck, and a balancer. The optical pickup is mounted movably in the back-and-forth direction to emit light to an optical disc placed on the turntable to read and write information from and to the optical disc. On the traverse deck, the turntable is mounted at the front side of the traverse deck and the optical pickup is mounted movably in the back-and-forth direction. The balancer is mounted on the traverse deck to balance the weights of the left and right sides of the traverse deck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Yong EUM, Bong Joo KIM, Young yun SEOL, Hong Kyun YIM, Jin Hyung LEE, Jun Tae PARK
  • Patent number: 7405900
    Abstract: Provided are a magnetic recording and/or reading apparatus and a method of manufacturing a power transmitting gear. The magnetic recording and/or reading apparatus includes a power transmitting gear. The power transmitting gear has one end coupled to a loading motor and the other end coupled to a plurality of link gears to transmit power from a loading motor to drive components during loading and unloading of a magnetic tape. The power transmitting gear includes a first gear engaged with a motor gear coupled to a shaft of the loading motor. The power transmitting gear also includes a second gear engaged with one of the plurality of link gears and a shaft member coupling the first and second gears. A space is formed inside the shaft member to prevent the shaft member from deforming during manufacture of the shaft member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-Young Kim, Bong-Joo Kim, Young-Ho Cho, Chung-Hum Baik, Myoung-Joon Kim, Jae-Kab Seo
  • Patent number: 7385783
    Abstract: A lever fixing apparatus of a cassette housing has at least one lever for connecting a cassette holder to a chassis and at least one snap fixing unit for connecting the lever to at least one of the cassette holder and the chassis in a snap manner to hingedly fix the lever thereto. The lever fixing apparatus can fix the lever to the chassis without using additional coupling parts. Accordingly, the number of processes for assembling the cassette holder to the housing bracket can be reduced and the working time is saved, thereby the productivity being increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Kab Seo, Jun-Young Kim, Bong-Joo Kim, Young-Ho Cho, Chung-hum Baik, Myoung-Joon Kim
  • Publication number: 20080098415
    Abstract: A spindle motor assembly and an information recording/reproducing device having the same. The spindle motor assembly includes a spindle motor, a turntable to be rotated by the spindle motor together with a disk placed and supported thereon, and a support pad provided on the turntable to support a lower surface of the disk; wherein the support pad is provided at a point that corresponds to ? of a diameter of the turntable with respect to a rotation center of the disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myoung-joon Kim, Bong-joo Kim, Young-ho Cho, Sung-wook Kang
  • Publication number: 20080083555
    Abstract: An electrical power line insulator has an end clamp with a saddle for supporting an electrical wire, a track provided on a front surface of the saddle, a keeper for compressing and supporting an electrical wire seated in the saddle, a bolt and a nut for fastening the keeper to the saddle and operable to horizontally move the keeper along the track, and an insulator housing secured to the end clamp and mounted on a support structure. The end clamp and the insulator housing are detachably assembled with each other by means of a cylindrical clamp base integrally provided on a lower portion of the saddle and the track of the clamp and an upper fitting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Inventor: Bong Joo Kim
  • Patent number: 7354013
    Abstract: Disclosed is an idler for a tape recorder that can selectively transmit a driving force from a capstan motor to a take-up reel or a supply reel depending upon a rotational direction of the capstan motor. The idler includes an idler gear connected to either of the take-up reel and the supply reel, and a gear supporting plate, provided with a ?-shaped portion or U-shaped portion, for rotatably supporting the idle gear. The idler gear is provided with a convex portion or a concave portion formed at both ends of a rotary center thereof, and the gear supporting plate is provided with a convex portion or a concave portion corresponding to the convex portion or concave portion of the idler gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bong-Joo Kim
  • Publication number: 20080035811
    Abstract: An apparatus for supporting a display device having: a fixing member, which is fixed to a wall; an upper supporting unit, which is coupled to the fixing member to support the display device and a cable accommodating unit, which is provided at the fixing member to accommodate electric cables connected to the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bong Joo Kim, Sang Hak Kim, Jae Hoo Park
  • Patent number: 7327529
    Abstract: Disclosed is a deck for a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus. The deck has a chassis in which a plurality of structures constituting a mechanical mechanism for loading a tape and recording or reproducing information; and a switch/sensor circuit board in which a plurality of switches and sensors constituting an electronic mechanism for detecting an operation of the deck and a state of the structures. The switch/sensor circuit board is formed of a PCB and assembled to a lower surface of the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Kab Seo, Myoung-Joon Kim, Bong-Joo Kim, Jun-Young Kim, Chung-hum Baik, Young-Ho Cho
  • Publication number: 20070234936
    Abstract: A stand includes a lower member, an upper member spaced apart from the lower member, a pillar member that supports the lower and the upper members, and at least one subsidiary member selectively mountable to the upper member and/or the pillar member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bong-joo Kim
  • Patent number: 7273190
    Abstract: A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus and a method for braking a reel assembly comprising a lower disc rotatably supported by a stationary shaft located on the deck and an upper disc arranged on the stationary shaft to rotatably coupled to an upper portion of the lower disc. Thus, the upper and lower discs are rotatably coupled to a tape reel of a tape cassette. A disc gear is positioned between the upper and lower discs to receive power from a capstan motor. A friction member is disposed between and in contact with the lower disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-Hyeob Oh, Bong-Joo Kim, Jae-Hoon Sim, Byeng-Bae Park, Seung-Woo Lee, Hyeong-Seok Choi
  • Publication number: 20070153338
    Abstract: A loading and unloading apparatus for a recording medium to detachably load a recording medium to an electronic device. A loading frame is installed in the electronic device and with which the recording medium is slidingly engaged. A connector is installed on the loading frame. An unloading unit is slidingly inserted in the loading frame and unloads the recording medium connected to the connector by a predetermined distance to separate the recording medium from the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Jae-kab Seo, Bong-joo Kim, Jeong-hyeob Oh
  • Patent number: 7218469
    Abstract: A reel driving apparatus and a magnetic recording and reproducing device including the reel driving apparatus, where the reel driving apparatus includes: a driver including at least a portion protruding under a deck chassis; a power transmitting unit transmitting a power to the driver; a power changing unit gearing with the driver and selectively transmitting a power to a plurality of reel tables according to a direction along which the driver rotates; and a fixing unit supporting the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-kab Seo, Jun-young Kim, Bong-joo Kim, Young-ho Cho, Chung-hum Baik, Myoung-joon Kim
  • Patent number: 7199968
    Abstract: A locking device for a tape cassette housing of a tape recorder comprises a locking recess and a locking protrusion respectively provided in sides of a tape cassette housing and a deck chassis and corresponding to each other, thereby fastening a tape cassette housing to the deck chassis, the tape cassette housing resiliently coming into contact with the deck chassis as a tape cassette is loaded. In here, around external circumference of the locking protrusion is formed at least one edge, and an end of the edge comes into contact with a corner of the locking recess right before the locking protrusion is inserted into the locking recess. Accordingly, the locking protrusion comes into linear contact with the corner of the locking recess in loading/unloading operations of the tape cassette so that the stopping of the ascending and descending movements of the tape cassette housing is prevented during the loading/unloading operations of the tape cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong-joo Kim, Hyeong-seok Choi, Jae-kab Seo
  • Patent number: 7195191
    Abstract: An oil spatter prevention apparatus having a shaft for use with a device, such as a tape recorder, including a stationary portion fixed to a deck, a shaft body extended from the stationary portion on which a rotation body is rotatably supported on an outer circumference, and an oil spattering prevention means for preventing oil applied between the shaft body and the rotation body from being spattered when the shaft body rotates, the oil spatter prevention means being at least one of a circumferential recess on the shaft body, an annular recess on the shaft stationary portion, and a recess exterior and adjacent to the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong-joo Kim, Hyeong-seok Choi, Jae-kab Seo
  • Patent number: 7191971
    Abstract: Disclosed is a reel clutch of a tape recorder. A plate spring is positioned between a reel gear and a reel disc of a reel disc assembly which is mounted on a deck of a tape recorder, and a stopper reel is provided on the reel disc to restrain the engaging height of the plate spring so that a torque is generated by the frictional contact between the reel disc and the plate spring, whereby assembly productivity can be enhanced and manufacturing costs can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong-joo Kim, Hyeong-seok Choi, Jae-kab Seo, Jun-young Kim, Byeong-bae Park
  • Publication number: 20070034121
    Abstract: A cabinet includes a base plate, a top plate disposed above the base plate, to be spaced therefrom, a column member disposed between the top plate and the bottom plate to be coupled with the top plate and the bottom plate, a fastening member which is fastened to the column member through the top plate from an upper surface of the top plate, and a fastening member cover which is disposed on a top of the fastening member to cover it and is magnetically coupled with the fastening member. Thus, the cabinet improves an outer appearance thereof by preventing an exposure of the fastening members, and improving an efficiency in an assembly thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bong-joo Kim
  • Publication number: 20070022432
    Abstract: A recording medium cover locking device of the image photography apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention comprising a recording medium cover, that can open or close, provided in the image photography apparatus; a lock member for locking or unlocking an opening/closing operation of the recording medium cover; and a restriction unit for restricting a movement of the lock member to inhibit the recording medium cover from being opened while the image photography apparatus is operating in a specific mode. Accordingly, in the image photography apparatus employing the optical disk as the information recording medium, the recording medium cover is not opened while the image photography apparatus is operating in the specific mode, and so it is possible to prevent the optical disk from being damaged or disturbed while recording.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myoung-joon Kim, Bong-joo Kim, Young-ho Cho