Patents by Inventor Hak Kyun KIM

Hak Kyun 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: 20220271345
    Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on an axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes a first portion coated with an active material and a second portion at a first side and adjacent the first portion, the second portion being exposed beyond the separator along a first axial direction of the electrode assembly. A part of the second portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly forming a first surface region including stacked layers of the second portion, and in a partial region of the first surface region, a number of the stacked layers of the second portion is 10 or more in the in the first axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Hae-Jin LIM, Jin-Hak KONG, Soon-O LEE, Kyu-Hyun CHOI, Do-Gyun KIM, Su-Ji CHOI, Kwang-Su HWANGBO, Geon-Woo MIN, Min-Ki JO, Jae-Won LIM, Hak-Kyun KIM, Je-Jun LEE, Ji-Min JUNG, Jae-Woong KIM, Jong-Sik PARK, Yu-Sung CHOE, Byoung-Gu LEE, Duk-Hyun RYU, Kwan-Hee LEE, Jae-Eun LEE, Bo-Hyun KANG, Pil-Kyu PARK
  • Publication number: 20220271402
    Abstract: A battery having an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator between the first and the second electrode, the first electrode having a first portion including an active material extending between a pair of first sides, and a second portion extending between the pair of first sides and exposed beyond the separator, and at least part of the second portion includes an electrode tab; a battery housing having a first opening at a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly; and a first current collector including a support portion on the electrode assembly, a first tab coupling portion extending from the support portion and coupled with the second portion of the first electrode and a first housing coupling portion extending from the support portion and electrically coupled onto an inner surface of the battery housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Won LIM, Hak-Kyun KIM, Je-Jun LEE, Ji-Min JUNG, Su-Ji CHOI, Kwang-Su HWANGBO, Do-Gyun KIM, Geon-Woo MIN, Hae-Jin LIM, Min-Ki JO, Jae-Woong KIM, Jong-Sik PARK, Yu-Sung CHOE, Byoung-Gu LEE, Duk-Hyun RYU, Kwan-Hee LEE, Jae-Eun LEE, Bo-Hyun KANG, Jin-Hak KONG, Soon-O LEE, Kyu-Hyun CHOI, Pil-Kyu PARK
  • Publication number: 20220271403
    Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator between the first electrode and second electrode, a first portion including an active material extending between a pair of first sides, and a second portion extending between the pair of first sides and exposed beyond the separator, at least a part of the second portion includes an electrode tab; a battery housing having a first end with a first opening, a second end opposite the first end, and an inner surface, the battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly; a first current collector including a tab coupling portion coupled to the second portion of the first electrode and a housing coupling portion extending from the tab coupling portion and electrically coupled to the inner surface of the battery housing; and a cap covering the first opening of the battery housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Won LIM, Hak-Kyun KIM, Je-Jun LEE, Ji-Min JUNG, Kwang-Su HWANGBO, Do-Gyun KIM, Geon-Woo MIN, Hae-Jin LIM, Min-Ki JO, Su-Ji CHOI, Jae-Woong KIM, Jong-Sik PARK, Yu-Sung CHOE, Byoung-Gu LEE, Duk-Hyun RYU, Kwan-Hee LEE, Jae-Eun LEE, Bo-Hyun KANG, Jin-Hak KONG, Soon-O LEE, Kyu-Hyun CHOI, Pil-Kyu PARK
  • Publication number: 20220271405
    Abstract: The riveting structure of an electrode terminal for a battery includes a battery housing having a bottom; an electrode terminal riveted through a hole formed in the bottom of the battery housing; and a gasket between the electrode terminal and the battery housing. Also, the electrode terminal includes a body portion inserted into the hole; an outer flange portion extending along an outer surface of the bottom of the battery housing from a first side of the body portion exposed through the outer surface; an inner flange portion extending toward an inner surface of the bottom of the battery housing from a second side of the body portion exposed through the inner surface; and a flat portion on the second side of the body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Geon-Woo MIN, Min-Ki JO, Do-Gyun KIM, Jae-Woong KIM, Kwang-Su HWANGBO, Jong-Sik PARK, Jae-Won LIM, Yu-Sung CHOE, Hak-Kyun KIM, Je-Jun LEE, Byoung-Gu LEE, Duk-Hyun RYU, Kwan-Hee LEE, Jae-Eun LEE, Hae-Jin LIM, Su-Ji CHOI, Bo-Hyun KANG, Ji-Min JUNG, Jin-Hak KONG, Soon-O LEE, Kyu-Hyun CHOI, Pil-Kyu PARK
  • Publication number: 20220271344
    Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, second electrode, and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode including a first region coated with an active material and a second region at a first side and adjacent to the first region, the second region being exposed beyond the separator, and at least part of the second region is an electrode tab; a housing including a first end with a first opening, the housing accommodating the electrode assembly; a first current collector including an edge portion on the electrode assembly, a second region coupling portion extending from the edge portion and coupled with the second region, and a terminal coupling portion spaced apart from the second region coupling portion; and a terminal coupled with the terminal coupling portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Su-Ji CHOI, Kwang-Su HWANGBO, Do-Gyun KIM, Geon-Woo MIN, Min-Ki JO, Jae-Won LIM, Hak-Kyun KIM, Je-Jun LEE, Ji-Min JUNG, Hae-Jin LIM, Jae-Woong KIM, Jong-Sik PARK, Yu-Sung CHOE, Byoung-Gu LEE, Duk-Hyun RYU, Kwan-Hee LEE, Jae-Eun LEE, Bo-Hyun KANG, Jin-Hak KONG, Soon-O LEE, Kyu-Hyun CHOI, Pil-Kyu PARK
  • Publication number: 20220231345
    Abstract: A battery, includes an electrode assembly having a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator, wherein each of the first electrode and the second electrode has a first portion including an active material corresponding to the separator, and a second portion exposed beyond the separator and not coated with the active material; a battery housing having a first end with a first opening and a second end with a second opening opposite the first end, the battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly through the second opening at the second end and electrically connected to the second portion of the second electrode; a terminal electrically connected to the second portion of the first electrode and exposed out of the battery housing through the first opening of the battery housing at the first end; and a cap covering and sealing the second opening at the second end of the battery housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang-Su Hwangbo, Do-Gyun Kim, Geon-Woo Min, Hae-Jin Lim, Min-Ki Jo, Su-Ji Choi, Bo-Hyun Kang, Jong-Sik Park, Jae-Won Lim, Yu-Sung Choe, Hak-Kyun Kim, Je-Jun Lee, Byoung-Gu Lee, Duk-Hyun Ryu, Kwan-Hee Lee, Jae-Eun Lee, Jae-Woong Kim, Ji-Min Jung, Jin-Hak Kong, Soon-O Lee, Kyu-Hyun Choi, Pil-Kyu Park
  • Patent number: 10982211
    Abstract: The present invention features compositions and methods relating to tRNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs). Provided herein are oligonucleotide compositions that are complementary to tsRNAs, in particular leuCAGtsRNA, and methods of using the oligonucleotides for the regulation of respective tsRNA. Further provided are methods of inducing apoptosis through the inhibition of leuCAGtsRNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Mark A. Kay, Hak Kyun Kim, Shengchun Wang
  • Publication number: 20200199594
    Abstract: The present invention features compositions and methods relating to tRNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs). Provided herein are oligonucleotide compositions that are complementary to tsRNAs, in particular leuCAGtsRNA, and methods of using the oligonucleotides for the regulation of respective tsRNA. Further provided are methods of inducing apoptosis through the inhibition of leuCAGtsRNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Mark A. Kay, Hak Kyun Kim, Shengchun Wang
  • Patent number: 10633655
    Abstract: The present invention features compositions and methods relating to tRNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs). Provided herein are oligonucleotide compositions that are complementary to tsRNAs, in particular leuCAGtsRNA, and methods of using the oligonucleotides for the regulation of respective tsRNA. Further provided are methods of inducing apoptosis through the inhibition of leuCAGtsRNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Mark A. Kay, Hak Kyun Kim, Shengchun Wang
  • Publication number: 20170044530
    Abstract: The present invention features compositions and methods relating to tRNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs). Provided herein are oligonucleotide compositions that are complementary to tsRNAs, in particular leuCAGtsRNA, and methods of using the oligonucleotides for the regulation of respective tsRNA. Further provided are methods of inducing apoptosis through the inhibition of leuCAGtsRNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Office of the General Counsel
    Inventors: Mark A. KAY, Hak Kyun Kim, Shengchun Wang
  • Patent number: 9444089
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mandrel configured to be used in a winding process for manufacturing a jelly roll type electrode assembly using a long sheet type stack of a cathode/separator/anode structure, wherein the mandrel is oval in a section perpendicular to a rotational central axis of the mandrel and is divided into a first mandrel part located at one side of a central region of the mandrel, in which an end of the sheet type stack is fixedly fitted, and a second mandrel part located at the other side of the central region of the mandrel, and the first mandrel part and the second mandrel part each include a main body part having a region in which the sheet type stack is fitted in an engaged state and an exchange part, detachably mounted to the main body part, having an end of a major axis of the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Cheol Jeong, Hak Kyun Kim, Dong-Myung Kim, Sunhwan Kim, Chang Sin Yeo
  • Patent number: 9428537
    Abstract: The present invention features compositions and methods relating to tRNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs). Provided herein are oligonucleotide compositions that are complementary to tsRNAs, in particular leuCAGtsRNA, and methods of using the oligonucleotides for the regulation of respective tsRNA. Further provided are methods of inducing apoptosis through the inhibition of leuCAGtsRNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mark A. Kay, Hak kyun Kim, Shengchun Wang
  • Patent number: 9160030
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mandrel configured to be used in a winding process for manufacturing a jelly roll type electrode assembly using a long sheet type stack of a cathode/separator/anode structure, wherein the mandrel is oval in a section perpendicular to a rotational central axis of the mandrel, a length ratio of a major axis to a minor axis of the mandrel being 1.5 or more, and a tilt of an outer side of the mandrel is continuously changed from an end of the minor axis of the mandrel to an end of the major axis of the mandrel in the section perpendicular to the rotational central axis of the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Cheol Jeong, Hak Kyun Kim, Dong-Myung Kim, Sunhwan Kim, Chang Sin Yeo
  • Patent number: 8968899
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a secondary battery having an electrode assembly placed in a prismatic container, wherein an upper part of the inside of an electrolyte injection hole formed in a base plate mounted to an open upper end of the prismatic container is configured to have a chamfered structure in which the diameter of the electrolyte injection hole is gradually decreased downward, a lower part of the inside of the electrolyte injection hole is configured to have a non-chamfered structure, the chamfered structure is formed in an irregular shape to increase the length of an electrolyte leakage route along which an electrolyte leaks out of the secondary battery, and, when a sealing member is pressed into the electrolyte injection hole, the sealing member is deformed so as to correspond to an internal structure of the electrolyte injection hole such that the electrolyte injection hole is sealed by the sealing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Kue Kim, Seung Tae Lee, Eun Jung Lee, Hak Kyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20140323555
    Abstract: The present invention features compositions and methods relating to tRNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs). Provided herein are oligonucleotide compositions that are complementary to tsRNAs, in particular leuCAGtsRNA, and methods of using the oligonucleotides for the regulation of respective tsRNA. Further provided are methods of inducing apoptosis through the inhibition of leuCAGtsRNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Mark A. KAY, Hak Kyun Kim, Shengchun Wang
  • Publication number: 20130323556
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mandrel configured to be used in a winding process for manufacturing a jelly roll type electrode assembly using a long sheet type stack of a cathode/separator/anode structure, wherein the mandrel is oval in a section perpendicular to a rotational central axis of the mandrel and is divided into a first mandrel part located at one side of a central region of the mandrel, in which an end of the sheet type stack is fixedly fitted, and a second mandrel part located at the other side of the central region of the mandrel, and the first mandrel part and the second mandrel part each include a main body part having a region in which the sheet type stack is fitted in an engaged state and an exchange part, detachably mounted to the main body part, having an end of a major axis of the mandrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Cheol JEONG, Hak Kyun KIM, Dong-Myung KIM, Sunhwan KIM, Chang Sin YEO
  • Publication number: 20130316206
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mandrel configured to be used in a winding process for manufacturing a jelly roll type electrode assembly using a long sheet type stack of a cathode/separator/anode structure, wherein the mandrel is oval in a section perpendicular to a rotational central axis of the mandrel, a length ratio of a major axis to a minor axis of the mandrel being 1.5 or more, and a tilt of an outer side of the mandrel is continuously changed from an end of the minor axis of the mandrel to an end of the major axis of the mandrel in the section perpendicular to the rotational central axis of the mandrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Cheol JEONG, Hak Kyun KIM, Dong-Myung KIM, Sunhwan KIM, Chang Sin YEO