Patents by Inventor Dong-Lak Kim

Dong-Lak 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: 9672303
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method of predicting the initial cooling of a superconducting magnet, which can predict the change in initial cooling temperature of a superconducting magnet when the superconducting magnet is cooled using an ultra-low refrigerator. In the system and method, the change in cooling temperature of a superconducting magnet can be accurately predicted by classifying influence factors related to the cooling of a superconducting magnet into a plurality of control volumes and inducing a governing equation with respect to each of the control volumes. Based on this system and method, the reliability of basic data required to design an apparatus for measuring a high magnetic field for forming an ultralow-temperature environment can be greatly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA BASIC SCIENCE INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yeon Suk Choi, Dong Lak Kim
  • Publication number: 20140180625
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method of predicting the initial cooling of a superconducting magnet, which can predict the change in initial cooling temperature of a superconducting magnet when the superconducting magnet is cooled using an ultra-low refrigerator. In the system and method, the change in cooling temperature of a superconducting magnet can be accurately predicted by classifying influence factors related to the cooling of a superconducting magnet into a plurality of control volumes and inducing a governing equation with respect to each of the control volumes. Based on this system and method, the reliability of basic data required to design an apparatus for measuring a high magnetic field for forming an ultralow-temperature environment can be greatly improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: KOREA BASIC SCIENCE INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yeon Suk Choi, Dong Lak Kim
  • Patent number: 8440966
    Abstract: A Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer (FT-ICR MS) is provided. A preamplifier is installed as nearest to an ion cyclotron resonance (ICR) trap as possible at a detector part in the mass spectrometer, and thermal noise generated at the preamplifier is minimized by means of a cryo-cooling system to increase a signal-to-noise ratio of ion detection signals such that an ultra-low amount of specimen can be detected, which was impossible in the related art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Korea Basic Science Institute
    Inventors: Myoung Choul Choi, Yeon Suk Choi, Jeong Min Lee, Seung Yong Kim, Dong Lak Kim, Hyun Sik Kim, Jong Shin Yoo, Stefan Karl-Heinz Stahl
  • Publication number: 20120137707
    Abstract: An apparatus for transferring cryogenic refrigeration includes a cryocooler interface, a housing, a working fluid, a heat exchanger, a flexible thermal link, and a remote cartridge cold head. The cryocooler interface is thermally connected to a cryocooler providing a source of refrigeration. The refrigeration is passed from the crycooler into the heat exchanger via the cryocooler interface. The remote cartridge cold head is attached to a remote location. Heat is drawn from the remote location through the remote cartridge cold head and into the heat exchanger via the working fluid within the flexible thermal link and housing. Within the heat exchanger, heat is transferred from the working fluid to the refrigeration source, such as a cryocooler; accordingly, the remote location is cooled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicants: Korea Basic Science Institute, The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Andrew Painter, Yeon Suk Choi, Dong Lak Kim, Hongyu Bai
  • Patent number: 7889034
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for designing a superconducting magnet for generating high magnetic fields with high uniformity for controlling a stray field to be within an allowable range and acquiring structural and magnetic stability by optimizing the arrangement of positions and shapes of coils configuring the superconducting magnet. Volumes of a main coil and a shielding coil are set to be variables, and the critical value of a wires related on the current and magnetic field, the heat transfer depth, and the quench strain are defined to be restriction conditions so that linear programming is applied to determine an initial shape of the shielding coil and division of the main coil based on the sum of total volumes, that is, an objective function. The initial shapes of the main coil and the shielding coil determined through the linear programming are revised and the shape of a shimming coil is determined by using non-linear programming based on the objective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Korea Basic Science Institute
    Inventors: Byoung-Seob Lee, Dong-Lak Kim, Hyun-Sik Kim, Jong-Shin Yoo
  • Publication number: 20090322457
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for designing a superconducting magnet for generating high magnetic fields with high uniformity for controlling a stray field to be within an allowable range and acquiring structural and magnetic stability by optimizing the arrangement of positions and shapes of coils configuring the superconducting magnet. Volumes of a main coil and a shielding coil are set to be variables, and the critical value of a wires related on the current and magnetic field, the heat transfer depth, and the quench strain are defined to be restriction conditions so that linear programming is applied to determine an initial shape of the shielding coil and division of the main coil based on the sum of total volumes, that is, an objective function. The initial shapes of the main coil and the shielding coil determined through the linear programming are revised and the shape of a shimming coil is determined by using non-linear programming based on the objective function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Byoung-Seob Lee, Dong-Lak Kim, Hyun-Sik Kim, Jong-Shin Yoo
  • Publication number: 20090166533
    Abstract: A Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer (FT-ICR MS) is provided. A preamplifier is installed as nearest to an ion cyclotron resonance (ICR) trap as possible at a detector part in the mass spectrometer, and thermal noise generated at the preamplifier is minimized by means of a cryo-cooling system to increase a signal-to-noise ratio of ion detection signals such that an ultra-low amount of specimen can be detected, which was impossible in the related art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: Korea Basic Science Institute
    Inventors: Myoung Choul CHOI, Yeon Suk CHOI, Jeong Min LEE, Seung Yong KIM, Dong Lak KIM, Hyun Sik KIM, Jong Shin YOO, Stefan Karl-Heinz STAHL