Patents by Inventor Eun-Tae Kang

Eun-Tae Kang 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: 20250062348
    Abstract: The present exemplary embodiments may provide a negative electrode material for a lithium secondary battery, the negative electrode material containing nano-silicon, crystalline carbon, amorphous carbon, and carbon nanotubes, wherein one end of the carbon nanotube is located inside the negative electrode material and the other end of the carbon nanotube protrudes out of the negative electrode material, and an average length of the carbon nanotubes protruding out of the negative electrode material is 0.1 ?m to 1 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Seung Jae YOU, Jung Gyu WOO, Moonkyu CHO, Sangeun PARK, Yong Jung KIM, Sun Jong PARK, Eun-Tae KANG, Hyun-Chul JO
  • Publication number: 20240055586
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a negative electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery, a method for preparing the same, and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. The negative electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery, according to one embodiment, comprises a silicon-carbon composite comprising silicon nanoparticles and a carbon matrix, and can have a degree of oxidation that is less than or equal to 10.5%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: POSCO Holdings Inc., RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Seung Jae YOU, Sun Jong PARK, Eun-Tae KANG, Yong Jung KIM, Jung Gyu WOO, Moonkyu CHO, Sangeun PARK
  • Publication number: 20240038991
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a negative active material manufacturing method for lithium secondary battery, comprising: grinding the metal-based material into metal-based material nanoparticles through a grinding process; obtaining spherical particles by spheronizing the pulverized metal-based material nanoparticle, a conductive material, and a conductive additive together; obtaining a composite by complexing the spherical particles with an amorphous carbon-based precursor material; and carbonizing the composite; the conductive additive is a carbon nanotube; a content of the carbon nanotube is 0.2 to 2.3 wt % compared to the metal-based material nanoparticle in the composite, a negative active material according to the method, and a secondary battery including the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: POSCO Holdings Inc., RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Moonkyu CHO, Yong Jung KIM, Jung Gyu WOO, Seung YOU, Sun Jong PARK, Eun-Tae KANG
  • Publication number: 20220123305
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides an anode active material for a lithium secondary battery which is a porous silicon-carbon-based composite in which a plurality of nano-silicon particles are embedded in a carbon-based material, the composite having a plurality of pores, wherein the carbon-based material comprises graphite particles, soft carbon, hard carbon, or a combination thereof, and the soft carbon, in the carbon-based material, is in the form of a carbon layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Seung Jae You, Yong Jung Kim, Jung Gyu Woo, Eun-Tae Kang
  • Publication number: 20210408527
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides an anode active material for a lithium secondary battery, which is a porous silicon-carbon composite including a plurality of nano-silicon particles embedded in a carbon-based material and having a plurality of pores, wherein the carbon-based material includes graphite particles, soft carbon, hard carbon, or a combination thereof, and based on 100 wt % of the porous silicon-carbon composite, a weight ratio of the graphite particles to the soft carbon, the hard carbon, or a combination thereof is 1:5 to 5:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yong Jung Kim, Seung Jae You, Eun-Tae Kang, Jung Gyu Woo