Patents by Inventor Dong Chul Kim
Dong Chul 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).
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Publication number: 20240154244Abstract: The present disclosure provides a secondary battery in which a heat insulation member is attached onto a vent to protect a cell from flames. The secondary battery includes a case having the vent on one side, an electrode assembly in the case, a pair of terminals coupled to respective sides of the case, and electrically connected to the electrode assembly, and the heat insulation member coupled to a surface of the case, and covering a region corresponding to the vent.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Jeong Ho KIM, Myung Chul KIM, Du Seong JEON, Dong Hyeong KIM
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Publication number: 20240154211Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery pack capable of reducing heat propagation to neighboring cells when an event occurs in a specific battery cell. In an example embodiment, a battery pack includes: a plurality of battery cells; a heat shielding member covering a side of a battery cell of the plurality of battery cells where a vent is formed; and a rigid member coupled to an outer surface of the heat shielding member, and the rigid member includes an opening hole corresponding to the vent.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Dong Hyeong KIM, Myung Chul KIM, Du Seong JEON, Jeong Ho KIM
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Publication number: 20240154241Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a battery pack capable of reducing heat propagation to neighboring cells when an event occurs in a specific battery cell. In an example embodiment, a battery pack includes: a plurality of battery cells; a first heat shielding member arranged to cover a side of a battery cell where a vent is formed; and a rigid member coupled to an outer surface of the first heat shielding member, and the rigid member includes a metal plate and an insulating member covering the metal plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Dong Hyeong KIM, Myung Chul KIM, Doo Sung JEON, Jeong Ho KIM
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Patent number: 11975637Abstract: Proposed herein is a reclining apparatus for a seat, which secures coupling between a cap and a gear plate through a uniform position adjustment of the cap when the cap of a recliner is assembled, secures operation performance between components, and prevents a bearing from being deformed and separated due to an external force.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: HYUNDAI TRANSYS INCORPORATEDInventors: Sung Chul Kim, Dong Hyeon Son
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Patent number: 11974115Abstract: An active sound design (ASD) tuning device and a method thereof may include an ASD device that generates a virtual engine sound for each vehicle situation and a control device that outputs a composite sound by correcting and synthesizing the virtual engine sound and an internal sound measured for each vehicle situation based on a binaural vehicle impulse response (BVIR).Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Ki Chang Kim, Dong Chul Park, Eun Soo Jo, Jin Sung Lee
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Publication number: 20240135880Abstract: The display device includes a display panel and a pixel. A compensator configured to calculate a degradation rate of the pixel based on an input gray level of first image data, and compensates the first image data based on the degradation rate to generate second image data. A data driver configured to generate a data signal based on the second image data and configured to supply the data signal to the pixel. The pixel includes a first element group and a second element group connected in series to each other, the first element group includes at least one first light emitting element, and the second element group includes at least one second light emitting element. The compensator is to calculate the degradation rate by applying first information on the number of the first light emitting elements and second information on the number of the second light emitting elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Seok Ha HONG, Joon Chul GOH, Dong Joon KWAG, Hyung Jin KIM, Jae Sung BAE
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Publication number: 20240137511Abstract: Disclosed herein are a video decoding method and apparatus and a video encoding method and apparatus. In video encoding and decoding, multiple partition blocks are generated by splitting a target block. A prediction mode is derived for at least a part of the multiple partition blocks, among the multiple partition blocks, and prediction is performed on the multiple partition blocks based on the derived prediction mode. When prediction is performed on the partition blocks, information related to the target block may be used, and information related to an additional partition block, which is predicted prior to the partition block, may be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION KOREA AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY, HANBAT NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATIONInventors: Jin-Ho LEE, Jung-Won KANG, Hyunsuk KO, Sung-Chang LIM, Dong-San JUN, Ha-Hyun LEE, Seung-Hyun CHO, Hui-Yong KIM, Hae-Chul CHOI, Dae-Hyeok GWON, Jae-Gon KIM, A-Ram BACK
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Patent number: 11965936Abstract: A battery diagnosis apparatus for diagnosing a battery including battery cells, the apparatus according to an embodiment may include a voltage measurer for measuring the voltage of each battery cell during a preset period of time, a voltage variation calculator for calculating an individual voltage variation of each battery cell during the preset period of time, an average voltage variation calculator for calculating an average voltage variation of the battery cells during the preset period of time, and an abnormality detector for determining that a voltage abnormality has occurred in at least one battery cell among the battery cells when a difference between the voltage variation of the at least one battery cell and the average voltage variation of the at least one battery cell is greater than a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Hyun Chul Lee, Dong Keun Kwon, Sung Yul Yoon, Seung Hyun Kim, An Soo Kim
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Publication number: 20240121955Abstract: A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device may include: forming a stack comprising first material layers and second material layers that are alternately stacked; forming an opening in the stack; forming a first seed layer in the opening; forming a first buffer layer by surface-treating the first seed layer; and forming a blocking layer by oxidizing the first seed layer through the first buffer layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: SK hynix Inc.Inventors: Jong Gi KIM, Young Jin NOH, Jae O PARK, Jin Ho BIN, Dong Chul YOO, Yoo Il JEON
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Patent number: 11945864Abstract: A monoclonal antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof according to an embodiment of the present invention can bind to lymphocyte-activation gene 3 (LAG-3) including a heavy chain variable region and a light chain variable region and inhibit the activity thereof. Thus it is expected to be useful for the development of immunotherapeutic agents for various disorders that are associated with LAG-3.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Y-BIOLOGICS INC.Inventors: Sang Pil Lee, Ji-Young Shin, Sunha Yoon, Yunseon Choi, Jae Eun Park, Ji Su Lee, Youngja Song, Gisun Baek, Seok Ho Yoo, Yeung-chul Kim, Dong Jung Lee, Bum-Chan Park, Young Woo Park
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Patent number: 11944998Abstract: A method of fabricating a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) according to one aspect of the present invention may include forming, on a semiconductor substrate, a first region implanted with impurity ions at a first average concentration and a second region implanted with no impurity ions or implanted with the impurity ions at a second average concentration lower than the first average concentration, forming an insulating layer by oxidizing the semiconductor substrate wherein the insulating layer includes a first oxide layer having a first thickness on at least a part of the first region and a second oxide layer having a second thickness smaller than the first thickness on at least a part of the second region, and forming a membrane layer on the insulating layer such that a gap is defined between the second oxide layer and the membrane layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Byung Chul Lee, Dong-Hyun Kang, Jin soo Park, Tae Song Kim
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Patent number: 11949881Abstract: The present invention discloses an encoding apparatus using a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) scanning, which includes a mode selection means for selecting an optimal mode for intra prediction; an intra prediction means for performing intra prediction onto video inputted based on the mode selected in the mode selection means; a DCT and quantization means for performing DCT and quantization onto residual coefficients of a block outputted from the intra prediction means; and an entropy encoding means for performing entropy encoding onto DCT coefficients acquired from the DCT and quantization by using a scanning mode decided based on pixel similarity of the residual coefficients.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Kwangwoon University Research Institute for Industry Cooperation, Industry-Academia Cooperation Group of Sejong UniversityInventors: Se-Yoon Jeong, Hae-Chul Choi, Jeong-Il Seo, Seung-Kwon Beack, In-Seon Jang, Jae-Gon Kim, Kyung-Ae Moon, Dae-Young Jang, Jin-Woo Hong, Jin-Woong Kim, Yung-Lyul Lee, Dong-Gyu Sim, Seoung-Jun Oh, Chang-Beom Ahn, Dae-Yeon Kim, Dong-Kyun Kim
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Patent number: 11948808Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device produced thereby. For example and without limitation, various aspects of this disclosure provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, and a semiconductor device produced thereby, that comprises an interposer without through silicon vias.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: AMKOR TECHNOLOGY SINGAPORE HOLDING PTE. LTD.Inventors: Dong Jin Kim, Jin Han Kim, Won Chul Do, Jae Hun Bae, Won Myoung Ki, Dong Hoon Han, Do Hyung Kim, Ji Hun Lee, Jun Hwan Park, Seung Nam Son, Hyun Cho, Curtis Zwenger
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Publication number: 20240096558Abstract: A multilayer electronic component includes a silicon (Si) organic compound layer having a body cover portion disposed in a region, in which electrode layers are not disposed, of external surfaces of a body, and an extending portion disposed to extend from the body cover portion between an electrode layer and a conductive resin layer of an external electrode, and thus, may improve bending strength and humidity resistance reliability.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong Yeong KIM, Ji Hong JO, Woo Chul SHIN
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Publication number: 20240081850Abstract: Disclosed is an endoscope apparatus. The endoscope apparatus of the present invention includes: an endoscope including a flexible insertion section to be inserted into a human body; a flexible channel attached to the insertion section so that a part forms a passage in a longitudinal direction of the insertion section; and an assistant arm movably inserted into the passage and manipulated by a control device, and the assistant arm includes forceps capable of gripping a human body tissue, and a bending section bent by the control device to pull the human body tissue griped by the forceps.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Dong Ho LEE, John KWON, Un Je YANG, Joon Hwan KIM, Woo Chul JEONG, Dong Soo KWON
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Publication number: 20240075988Abstract: An embodiment roof assembly for a vehicle includes a roof panel including a core, an upper skin attached to a top surface of the core, and a lower skin attached to a bottom surface of the core, a face sheet disposed above the roof panel, and a foam layer interposed between the roof panel and the face sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Kyung Min Yu, Dong Won Kim, Chang Hun Lee, Min Jun Kim, Young Ju Kim, Hyun Chul Lee
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Publication number: 20240079249Abstract: An atomic layer etching method using a ligand exchange reaction may include a substrate providing step of putting a substrate with a thin film formed thereon into a reaction chamber, a halogenated thin film forming step of forming a halogenated thin film on a surface of the thin film by infusing a halogenated gas into the reaction chamber, and an etching step of etching the halogenated thin film by infusing a ligand without a metal or metal precursor into the reaction chamber with the substrate with the halogenated thin film.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Jae Chul LEE, Hyun Sik NOH, Dong Kyun LEE, Eun Ae JUNG, Kyoung-Mun KIM, Jooyong KIM, Younghun BYUN, Byeong Il YANG, Changhyun JIN
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Publication number: 20240080011Abstract: A bulk-acoustic wave (BAW) resonator includes a central portion in which a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode are sequentially stacked on a substrate, and an extension portion extending externally from the central portion, and an insertion layer and a loss prevention film are disposed in the extension portion between the substrate and the second electrode. The loss prevention film is formed to have a thickness of 50 ? to 500 ?. The insertion layer is stacked on the loss prevention film, and has a side surface opposing the central portion, the side surface is formed as a first inclined surface having a first inclination angle. The loss prevention film has a side surface opposing the central portion, the side surface is formed as a second inclined surface having a second inclination angle. The second inclination angle is formed to be greater than the first inclination angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Moon Chul LEE, Jae Hyoung GIL, Kwang Su KIM, Sung Jun LEE, Yong Suk KIM, Dong Hyun PARK, Tae Kyung LEE
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Patent number: 11919446Abstract: An apparatus and a method for generating a sound of an electric vehicle are provided. The apparatus determines whether a current condition may be a regenerative braking condition, generates a regenerative braking sound based on an amount of change in motor torque in the regenerative braking condition, and outputs the generated regenerative braking sound.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Ki Chang Kim, Dong Chul Park
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Patent number: 11917148Abstract: Disclosed herein are a video decoding method and apparatus and a video encoding method and apparatus. In video encoding and decoding, multiple partition blocks are generated by splitting a target block. A prediction mode is derived for at least a part of the multiple partition blocks, among the multiple partition blocks, and prediction is performed on the multiple partition blocks based on the derived prediction mode. When prediction is performed on the partition blocks, information related to the target block may be used, and information related to an additional partition block, which is predicted prior to the partition block, may be used.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Korea Aerospace University, Hanbat National University Industry-Academic Cooperation FoundationInventors: Jin-Ho Lee, Jung-Won Kang, Hyunsuk Ko, Sung-Chang Lim, Dong-San Jun, Ha-Hyun Lee, Seung-Hyun Cho, Hui-Yong Kim, Hae-Chul Choi, Dae-Hyeok Gwon, Jae-Gon Kim, A-Ram Back