Patents by Inventor Choongnyun Kim

Choongnyun 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).

  • Publication number: 20060154745
    Abstract: A golf club is made of a club shaft and a club head. Either the club shaft or the club head is made at least in part of a in-situ composite of bulk-solidifying amorphous alloy. The weights of the various club heads of a set, which have different volumes, may be established by varying the compositions and thence the densities of the bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: William Johnson, Choongnyun Kim, Atakan Peker
  • Publication number: 20060086476
    Abstract: A method of investment casting bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys, and the formation of articles of bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys made by such methods are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventors: Atakan Peker, Choongnyun Kim
  • Patent number: 7017645
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for thermoplastic casting of a suitable glass forming alloy is provided. The method and apparatus comprising thermoplastically casting the alloy in either a continuous or batch process by maintaining the alloy at a temperature in a thermoplastic zone, which is below a temperature, Tnose, (where, the resistance to crystallization is minimum) and above the glass transition temperature, Tg, during the shaping or moulding step, followed by a quenching step where the item is cooled to the ambient temperature. A product formed according to the thermoplastic casting process is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Liquidmetal Technologies
    Inventors: William L. Johnson, Choongnyun Kim, Atakan Peker
  • Publication number: 20030222122
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for thermoplastic casting of a suitable glass forming alloy is provided. The method and apparatus comprising thermoplastically casting the alloy in either a continuous or batch process by maintaining the alloy at a temperature in a thermoplastic zone, which is below a temperature, Tnose, (where, the resistance to crystallization is minimum) and above the glass transition temperature, Tg, during the shaping or moulding step, followed by a quenching step where the item is cooled to the ambient temperature. A product formed according to the thermoplastic casting process is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Inventors: William L. Johnson, Choongnyun Kim, Atakan Peker