Patents by Inventor Hak Jun Lee

Hak Jun Lee 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: 20240136664
    Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode, the second electrode and the separator being wound around a winding axis to define a core and an outer peripheral surface. The first electrode and the second electrode include a first uncoated region and a second uncoated region along a winding direction, respectively, and an active material layer coating is absent in the first uncoated region and the second uncoated region. The battery further includes a housing receiving the electrode assembly through an opening formed at a bottom, a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and disposed within the housing, a cap covering the opening, a spacer interposed between the cap and the electrode assembly to fix the electrode assembly and seal the housing, and a terminal electrically connected to the second uncoated region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Min-Ki JO, Bo-Hyun KANG, Do-Gyun KIM, Su-Ji CHOI, Kwang-Su HWANGBO, Hae-Jin LIM, Jae-Won LIM, Hak-Kyun KIM, Je-Jun LEE, Ji-Min JUNG, Geon-Woo MIN, Jae-Woong KIM
  • Publication number: 20240136674
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes a first active material portion coated with an active material layer and a first uncoated portion not coated with an active material layer along a winding direction. At least a part of the first uncoated portion is defined as an electrode tab by itself. The first uncoated portion includes a first portion adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly, a second portion adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly, and a third portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion or the second portion has a smaller height than the third portion in the winding axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: 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, Pil-Kyu PARK, Kwang-Su HWANGBO, Do-Gyun KIM, Geon-Woo MIN, Hae-Jin LIM, Min-Ki JO, Su-Ji CHOI, Bo-Hyun KANG, Jae-Woong KIM, Ji-Min JUNG, Jin-Hak KONG, Soon-O LEE, Kyu-Hyun CHOI
  • Publication number: 20240128605
    Abstract: Provided are an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and vehicle including the same. An electrode assembly, in which a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound about an axis to define a core and an outer circumferential surface. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes, at a long side end portion, an uncoated portion exposed beyond the separator in a direction of the axis. At least a part of the uncoated portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly to define a bent surface region having overlapping layers of the uncoated portion. The bent surface region includes a welding target region having a number of the overlapping layers of the uncoated portion, and the welding target region extends along a radial direction of the electrode assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Min-Woo KIM, Do-Gyun KIM, Kyung-Wook CHO, Geon-Woo MIN, Min-Ki JO, Jae-Woong KIM, Kwang-Su HWANGBO, Hae-Jin LIM, Su-Ji CHOI, Jae-Won LIM, Hak-Kyun KIM, Je-Jun LEE, Ji-Min JUNG
  • Publication number: 20240128608
    Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first uncoated region and a second uncoated region; a battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly and electrically connected to the second uncoated region; a cap to cover an open portion on bottom of the battery housing; a first electrode terminal passing through a partially closed portion of the battery housing and being electrically isolated from the battery housing; and a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and connected to the first electrode terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Bo-Hyun KANG, Do-Gyun KIM, Geon-Woo MIN, Min-Ki JO, Su-Ji CHOI, Kwang-Su HWANGBO, Jae-Woong KIM, Jae-Won LIM, Hak-Kyun KIM, Je-Jun LEE, Ji-Min JUNG
  • Publication number: 20240123481
    Abstract: A foil tab forming apparatus forms at least one foil tab of a positive electrode foil tab and a negative electrode foil tab respectively provided at a top portion and a bottom portion of an electrode assembly. The foil tab forming apparatus includes a pre-forming jig configured to bend the foil tab by pressing the foil tab, while moving in a direction from an outer circumferential portion of the electrode assembly to a winding center portion of the electrode assembly and a forming jig configured to press the foil tab that has been primarily bent by the pre-forming jig, by moving along a direction parallel to a winding axis of the electrode assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Won LIM, Hak-Kyun KIM, Jong-Sik PARK, Je-Jun LEE
  • Publication number: 20240128590
    Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode wound around a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumferential surface, the first electrode including a first uncoated region in which an active material layer is not coated along a winding direction; a housing accommodating the electrode assembly through an open portion at a lower end thereof; a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and disposed in the housing; a cap to cover the open portion; and a spacer between the first current collector and the cap and having a height corresponding to a distance between the first current collector and the cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Geon-Woo MIN, Hae-Jin LIM, Do-Gyun KIM, Kwang-Su HWANGBO, Min-Ki JO, Bo-Hyun KANG, Su-Ji CHOI, Jae-Won LIM, Hak-Kyun KIM, Je-Jun LEE, Ji-Min JUNG
  • Publication number: 20240088425
    Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. In the electrode assembly, the uncoated portion of an electrode includes a segment region divided into a plurality of segments, and the segment region includes a plurality of segment groups separated by a group separation pitch along a winding direction. One end of the electrode assembly includes a plurality of segment alignments. In winding turns corresponding to the plurality of segment alignments, group separation pitches of segment groups disposed in a same winding turn are substantially identical, and separation pitches of the segment groups is greater in a winding turn of a region adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly than in a winding turn of a region adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Eun LEE, Jong-Sik PARK, Hak-Kyun KIM, Je-Jun LEE, Jae-Won LIM, Yu-Sung CHOE, Byoung-Gu LEE, Duk-Hyun RYU, Kwan-Hee LEE
  • Publication number: 20240072387
    Abstract: A cylindrical secondary battery, a battery pack, and a vehicle are provided. The cylindrical secondary battery includes an electrode assembly having a first electrode tab at a first end of the electrode assembly a battery can configured to accommodate the electrode assembly through an opening portion formed at one side of the battery can, a current collecting plate including three or more tab coupling portions electrically connected to the first electrode tab, and a can coupling portion extending from ends of the tab coupling portions toward the opening portion of the battery can and having a continuous outer peripheral surface electrically connected to an inner surface of the battery can, and a top cap configured to cover the opening portion of the battery can.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyeong Hoon PARK, Jimin JUNG, Jae Won LIM, Je Jun LEE, Hak Kyun KIM
  • Patent number: 11711028
    Abstract: Disclosed are an inverter control device and method. The method according to an embodiment of the present includes estimating a rotation speed of a motor, determining a slip frequency reference using an energy of a direct current terminal capacitor of an inverter, which provides an output voltage to the motor, and a direct current terminal energy reference when a direct current terminal voltage of the inverter is a certain level or less, and providing a frequency reference determined by adding the rotation speed of the motor and the slip frequency reference to the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: LS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Cheol Choi, Hak Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 11482963
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an inverter control device for estimating the magnetic flux of a rotor, and calculating and compensating for a slip frequency on the basis of a torque current and a magnetic flux current, to control the speed of an electric motor. To this end, the present invention may comprise: a command voltage generation unit for outputting a three-phase PWM voltage with respect to a command frequency to an inverter on the basis of voltage/frequency operation; and a slip frequency determination unit for determining a slip frequency on the basis of the phase current and phase voltage of an electric motor driven by the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: LS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-Cheol Choi, Hak-Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 11456691
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an inverter control device which estimates back electromotive force of an induction motor, and which uses a torque current and a flux current so as to calculate a slip frequency and compensate for same, thereby enabling the motor to operate at a constant speed. To this end, the present invention may comprise: a command voltage generating unit for outputting, to an inverter, a three phase PWM voltage with respect to a command frequency on the basis of a voltage/frequency operation; and a slip frequency determining unit for determining a slip frequency on the basis of a phase current and a phase voltage of a motor driven by the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: LS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-Cheol Choi, Hak-Jun Lee
  • Publication number: 20220172928
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus is provided. A plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber, in which a plasma process is performed, a chuck disposed inside the chamber and provided with a wafer, a gas feeder disposed on the chuck and for providing process gas to the inside of the chamber, an OES port extending in a vertical direction along a sidewall of the chamber, and for receiving each of a first light emitted from plasma at a first position and a second light emitted from plasma at a second position closer to the gas feeder than the first position, an OES sensor for sensing the first light to measure first plasma data, and sensing the second light to measure second plasma data, and a control unit for controlling the plasma process using the first and second plasma data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Soo Ryun Ro, Jeong Seok Kang, Young Hwan Yang, Hak Jun Lee
  • Publication number: 20220173684
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electric motor driving system. A system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a speed control unit for outputting a current command through a proportional-integral control applying a proportional gain and a first integral gain from a difference between a speed command of an electric motor and a feedback speed of the electric motor; a speed command generation unit for outputting the speed command using a sine function in which the amplitude of the speed command and the speed control bandwidth are frequencies; and a gain changing unit for adjusting the proportional gain and the first integral gain so that the phase difference between the speed command and the feedback speed is substantially ? 4 .
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventor: Hak Jun LEE
  • Publication number: 20220158569
    Abstract: Disclosed are an inverter control device and method. The method according to an embodiment of the present includes estimating a rotation speed of a motor, determining a slip frequency reference using an energy of a direct current terminal capacitor of an inverter, which provides an output voltage to the motor, and a direct current terminal energy reference when a direct current terminal voltage of the inverter is a certain level or less, and providing a frequency reference determined by adding the rotation speed of the motor and the slip frequency reference to the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Seung Cheol CHOI, Hak Jun LEE
  • Publication number: 20220014138
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an inverter control device which estimates back electromotive force of an induction motor, and which uses a torque current and a flux current so as to calculate a slip frequency and compensate for same, thereby enabling the motor to operate at a constant speed. To this end, the present invention may comprise: a command voltage generating unit for outputting, to an inverter, a three phase PWM voltage with respect to a command frequency on the basis of a voltage/frequency operation; and a slip frequency determining unit for determining a slip frequency on the basis of a phase current and a phase voltage of a motor driven by the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Seung-Cheol CHOI, Hak-Jun LEE
  • Publication number: 20220014139
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an inverter control device for estimating the magnetic flux of a rotor, and calculating and compensating for a slip frequency on the basis of a torque current and a magnetic flux current, to control the speed of an electric motor. To this end, the present invention may comprise: a command voltage generation unit for outputting a three-phase PWM voltage with respect to a command frequency to an inverter on the basis of voltage/frequency operation; and a slip frequency determination unit for determining a slip frequency on the basis of the phase current and phase voltage of an electric motor driven by the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Seung-Cheol CHOI, Hak-Jun LEE
  • Patent number: 10707463
    Abstract: The present invention provides a battery pack mounted to a battery pack mounting part of a device for supplying power, including: a base plate including one surface on which two or more battery module assemblies respectively having a plurality of battery cells arranged therein are mounted in a separated state from each other with a predetermined interval therebetween; a cover member mounted on one surface of the base plate while enclosing the battery module assemblies; and a reinforcement supporting member positioned at a separation part between the battery module assemblies while supporting the mounting state of the cover member for the base plate, wherein the battery pack is mounted in a state in which an external circumferential surface of the cover member faces a battery pack mounting part of a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Min Sung Kim, Yoon Hee Lee, Hak Jun Lee, Jun Hee Jung
  • Patent number: 10658955
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sensorless control system for a permanent magnet synchronous machine. The sensorless control system includes a counter electromotive force estimation unit configured to estimate a counter electromotive force using a phase voltage reference applied to an inverter and a phase current applied from the inverter to the permanent magnet synchronous machine, and a speed estimation unit configured to estimate an angular velocity and an electrical angle of a rotor of the permanent magnet synchronous machine, and the counter electromotive force estimation unit according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may maintain robust performance at a low speed by modifying some portion of a conventional Luenberger observer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: LSIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hak-Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 10597412
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel epoxy compound, a method for preparing same, a composition and cured product comprising same, and use thereof, wherein the compound shows excellent heat-resistant properties—specifically, a low thermal expansion property and a high glass transition temperature (including Tg-less which does not show a glass transition temperature), a flame retardant property and processability—specifically, a viscosity-control property, does not require a separate silane coupling agent, and has improved brittleness in a composite. According to one aspect of the present invention, provided are: an epoxy compound having at least one non-reactive silyl group, alkenyl group or combination thereof together with at least two epoxy groups and at least one alkoxysilyl group; a method for preparing the epoxy compound through alkoxysilylation and alkylsilylation; an epoxy composition comprising same; and a cured product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Sang-Yong Tak, Hyun-Aee Chun, Yun-Ju Kim, Sung-Hwan Park, Su-Jin Park, Sook-Yeon Park, Hak-Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 10529967
    Abstract: A battery pack has a base plate including one surface on which two or more battery module assemblies respectively having a plurality of battery cells arranged therein are mounted in a separated state from each other with a predetermined interval therebetween. A cover member battery is coupled at one surface of the base plate in a state that the module assemblies are incorporated therein. A reinforcement supporting member is positioned at a separation part between the battery module assemblies while supporting a mounting state of the cover member for the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun hee Jung, Min Sung Kim, Yoon Hee Lee, Hak Jun Lee