Patents by Inventor Hong-seok Min

Hong-seok Min 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: 20180342768
    Abstract: An improved, low porosity, solid electrolyte membrane and a method of manufacturing the solid electrolyte membrane are provided. The low porosity, solid electrolyte membrane significantly improves both mechanical strength and porosity of the membrane, inhibits the growth of lithium dendrites (Li dendrites), and thereby maintains and maximizes electrochemical stability of an all-solid-state battery. This is accomplished by wet-coating a sulfide or oxide solid electrolyte particle with a thermoplastic resin, or a mixture of the thermoplastic resin and a thermosetting resin, using a solvent to prepare a composite and hot-pressing the composite at a relatively low temperature and at a low pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Oh Min Kwon, Hong Seok Min, Yong Sub Yoon, Kyung Su Kim, Dae Yang Oh, Yoon Seok Jung, Young Jin Nam, Sung Hoo Jung
  • Publication number: 20180342710
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a short-preventive all-solid-state battery in which a thermosetting insulating resin applied in advance to a pouch-type electrode case provided with an electrode assembly received therein is forced to fill a space between the edges of the electrode assembly during packaging of the electrode assembly to fill vacant spaces between electrodes at the edges of the electrode assembly and may thus prevent physical contact and collision between the electrodes and fundamentally prevent generation of a short circuit caused thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Yong Sub YOON, Pil Gun OH, Oh Min KWON, Hong Seok MIN
  • Publication number: 20180331398
    Abstract: A vehicular battery module that is capable of securing the stability of a vehicle by inducing self-discharge of a battery cell when the battery is overcharged includes: a plurality of stacked battery cells, each of which includes a battery pouch and electrode terminals extending outwards from the battery pouch, and a variable-resistor disposed between the electrode terminals of the one-side battery pouch and the other-side battery pouch so as to electrically connect the two electrode terminals to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Pil Gun Oh, Yong Sub Yoon, Sang Mo Kim, Yun Sung Kim, Hong Seok Min, Oh Min Kwon
  • Patent number: 10109842
    Abstract: A battery cell includes: an electrode assembly; a pouch case accommodating the electrode assembly therein; and an electrode lead including an outer lead protruding to an outside of the pouch case and an inner lead disposed between the outer lead and the electrode assembly, accommodated in the pouch case, and cut by expansion force of the pouch case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Seung Ho Ahn, Ik Kyu Kim, Woo Jin Shin, Hong Seok Min, Sung Min Choi, Jung Je Woo, Jung Young Cho
  • Patent number: 10059217
    Abstract: A system for controlling a battery to extend a driving mileage is provided. The system supplies a high voltage required to drive a motor by connecting a plurality of batteries in series by turning off a battery switching unit during engaged of an accelerator and balances voltage between the plurality of batteries. A voltage deviation is managed by connecting the plurality of batteries in parallel by turning on the battery switching unit when the accelerator is disengaged. The system includes a plurality of battery modules and a battery switching unit configured to connect the plurality of battery modules in parallel when an accelerator is disengaged and connect the plurality of battery modules in series when the accelerator is engaged. A motor driving unit is configured to receive an output by the battery switching unit when the accelerator is engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Hong Seok Min, Seung Ho Ahn, Sung Min Choi, Ik Kyu Kim
  • Publication number: 20180183084
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte sheet for all-solid batteries has a carrier film including poly (methyl methacrylate) and an ionic conductive material, and has a solid electrolyte slurry coated on the carrier film. The solid electrolyte sheet and an all-solid battery including such a solid electrolyte sheet can realize formation of a solid electrolyte layer as a thin film and can prevent a short-circuit upon stacking a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The solid electrolyte sheet and the all-solid battery can prevent yield decrease resulting from a short-circuit of the all-solid battery and can minimize supernumerary pores due to ionic conductive material incorporated into the solid electrolyte layer to suppress formation of lithium dendrites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hong Seok Min, Yong Sub Yoon, O Min Kwon, Pil Gun Oh, Dong Wook Shin, Sung Woo Noh
  • Publication number: 20180183108
    Abstract: Disclosed are a separator for secondary batteries with enhanced stability and a method of manufacturing the separator. The separator can prevent self-discharge which may occur when a porous non-woven fabric material is used for a separator; can perform a shutdown function at a high temperature of 200° C. or less; and can avoid even under harsh conditions of high temperatures, deterioration in stability caused by internal short-circuit of positive and negative electrodes. In particular, the separator for secondary batteries of the present invention includes a porous non-woven fabric material impregnated with a baroplastic polymer powder and pores of the porous non-woven fabric material are filled with the baroplastic polymer powder by pressing an assembly of the secondary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Yeol Mae Yeo, Ki Seok Koh, Yoon Sung Lee, Seung Min Oh, Hong Seok Min, Sung Min Choi
  • Publication number: 20180183095
    Abstract: Disclosed are an all solid battery including a positive electrode layer including a positive electrode active material, a solid electrolyte and a conductive material coated with an insulator coating layer, an electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode layer and a method of manufacturing an all solid battery the same. In particular, the method includes: coating, by atomic layer deposition (ALD), a conductive material with an insulator by atomic layer deposition (ALD) to produce a conductive material surrounded by an insulator coating layer; producing a positive electrode layer including the conductive material coated with the insulator coating layer-formed conductive material, a positive electrode active material, and a solid electrolyte; and stacking and pressing the positive electrode layer produced above, an electrolyte layer and a negative electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Oh Min Kwon, Yong Sub Yoon, Hong Seok Min, Pil Gun Oh, Yoon Seok Jung, Young Jin Nam, Sung Hoo Jung, Dae Yang Oh
  • Publication number: 20180175440
    Abstract: Disclosed are a positive electrode active material capable of suppressing a reaction between a core and a solid electrolyte, a method of manufacturing the same and an all-solid battery including the same. Provided is a positive electrode active material for all-solid batteries including a core comprising a lithium-containing metal oxide, and a coating layer comprising LiI applied to the surface of the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TEC HNOLOGY)
    Inventors: Oh Min Kwon, Hong Seok Min, Yong Sub Yoon, Kyung Su Kim, Yoon Seok Jung, Young Jin Nam, Dae Yang Oh, Sung Hoo Jung
  • Publication number: 20180172135
    Abstract: Disclosed is a side-assembly-type transmission mount, in which a powertrain-rotation-preventing unit is mounted to a case, which is coupled to the upper portion of a transmission bracket, thereby preventing a powertrain from falling when a bolt is fractured. The powertrain-rotation-preventing unit includes a rotation-preventing pipe configured to allow the bolt to be inserted therethrough and to have rotation-preventing protrusions protruding from the upper and lower portions thereof, first rotation-preventing recesses formed in a core so as to have shapes corresponding to the rotation-preventing protrusions on the rotation-preventing pipe, and second rotation-preventing recesses formed in a space formed in a transmission support bracket. The rotation-preventing protrusions on the rotation-preventing pipe are inserted into the first and second rotation-preventing recesses formed in the core and the transmission support bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: O Min Kwon, Hong Seok Min, Yong Sub Yoon, Kyung Su Kim, Dae Yang Oh, Yoon Seok Jung, Young Jin Nam, Sung Hoo Jung
  • Publication number: 20180159185
    Abstract: An overcharge safety device includes a switch electrically connecting a lead tap of a battery cell with a bus bar, and includes a guide member connected with the switch and movable as a pouch of the battery cell swells. As the pouch of the battery cell swells, the guide member moves toward the bus bar to disconnect the switch from the lead tap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sung Min Choi, Hong Seok Min, Oh Min Kwon, Ik Kyu Kim, Seung Ho Ahn
  • Publication number: 20180114979
    Abstract: An active material composite particle serves as an active material for an electrode of an all-solid battery. The active material composite particle includes a bare electrode active material, and a fine-grained solid electrolyte, bound to a surface of the bare electrode active material via a solid binder. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Yong Sub Yoon, Hong Seok Min, Kyung Su Kim, Oh Min Kwon, Dong Wook Shin, Chan Hwi Park, Seung Hyeon Son
  • Publication number: 20180090793
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery cell. The battery cell includes: an electrode assembly; a pouch which wraps around the electrode assembly; an electrode tab extended from the electrode assembly; a lead tab attached to the electrode tab; and a current interrupt device which is configured to block reconnection of the lead tab and the electrode tab when the pouch is shrunk to return to an original position after being expanded, while blocking current flow by separating the lead tab and the electrode tab through the expansion of the pouch, when abnormal situation of battery cell occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Sung Min CHOI, Ik Kyu KIM, Seung Ho AHN, Hong Seok MIN
  • Publication number: 20170338517
    Abstract: An all solid-state battery is formed of slurry of an electrode/electrolyte/conductive material composite. An outer circumferential surface of the conductive material is coated with a solid electrolyte to form a solid electrolyte layer. Since the surface of the conductive material is coated with a solid electrolyte, contact characteristics between the conductive material and the solid electrolyte and between the conductive material and an electrode can be maximized. Also, since the surface of the conductive material having a large surface area is coated with the solid electrolyte, an ion conductor, the conductive material may be given ion conductivity, as well as electronic conductivity, facilitating securing of an ion conduction path. In addition, since the conductive material having a large surface area is coated with the solid electrolyte, a proportion of the solid electrolyte to the composite may be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Oh Min KWON, Yong Sub YOON, Kyung Su KIM, Hong Seok MIN
  • Patent number: 9825278
    Abstract: A high voltage battery for vehicles includes an anode tab that is divided into a first part placed near a battery cell and a second part placed near a terminal. A first part extension extends from the first part and is fixed to a lower pouch. A second part extension extends from the second part, comes into contact with the first part extension, and is fixed at an upper end thereof to an upper pouch. An cathode extension extends from a cathode tab and is spaced apart from the upper end of the second part extension. A cushion is interposed between the second part extension and the cathode extension, with a reference level of pressure formed in the cushion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Hong Seok Min, Seung Ho Ahn, Sung Min Choi
  • Publication number: 20170324076
    Abstract: Disclosed are an all-solid state battery and a method of manufacturing the same. The all-solid state battery includes: a current collector comprising an electrode mixture comprising an active material, a conductive material, a binder, and a nano-solid electrolyte; and a composite electrode comprising microcapsules. The electrode mixture is formed in a slurry and the microcapsules are configured to coat the slurry on the current collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Sang Heon Lee, Hong Seok Min, Oh Min Kwon, Yong Sub Yoon, Kyung Su Kim
  • Patent number: 9741995
    Abstract: A battery system improving operation reliability of a swelling current interrupt device (CID) is provided. The battery system includes a cooling plate that forms an appearance of a battery in which the swelling CID interrupting a current flow is mounted and includes a swelling aperture formed therein. The swelling aperture induces an expansion of a pouch in which the swelling CID is embedded. Therefore, since the swelling aperture is formed in the cooling plate, improved operation reliability of the swelling CID than a battery system according to related art in which operation reliability was varied based on a thickness of a pouch cell is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Hong Seok Min, Ik Kyu Kim, Sung Min Choi, Seung Ho Ahn
  • Publication number: 20170214051
    Abstract: Provided is an electrode active material slurry including a clustered complex and a slurry, wherein the clustered complex includes an electrode active material, a solid electrolyte, a conductive material, and a first binder, and the slurry includes a solvent and a second binder. The electrode active material slurry may include the clustered complex including the first binder and the slurry including the second binder so as to decrease a surface area of the overall complex, such that adhesion property with the current collector may be sufficiently secured even by using a small amount of binder, and performance of the all-solid secondary battery may be further improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Yong Sub Yoon, Hong Seok Min, Kyung Su Kim, Oh Min Kwon, Dong Wook Shin, Sung Woo Noh, Lak Young Choi
  • Publication number: 20170166471
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a crystallized glass for a secondary battery. The secondary battery include a solid electrolyte comprising sulfide, which can be prepared by synthesizing sulfides using thermal energy and vapor pressure as energy sources. The method of the present invention is suitable for manufacturing a crystallized glass for use as the electrolyte comprising sulfide of the secondary battery. The method includes dispersing two or more kinds of sulfides in a solvent and synthesizing the sulfides under conditions of a temperature equal to or greater than a boiling point of the solvent and high pressure greater than standard atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Yong Sub Yoon, Hong Seok Min, Kyung Su Kim, Oh Min Kwon, Dong Wook Shin, Min Yong Eom, Chan Hwi Park, Seung Hyun Oh
  • Publication number: 20170133710
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an all-solid state battery. The method includes coating a first slung or composition having on a substrate to form a first electrolyte layer a predetermined thickness, coating a second slurry or composition on the first electrolyte layer to form a second electrolyte layer having a predetermined thickness, laminating an electrode layer on the second electrolyte layer, bonding the electrode layer to the second electrolyte layer through pressing, and removing the substrate from the first electrolyte layer. The first slung or composition of the first electrolyte layer has content of a binder less than that of the second slurry or composition of the second electrolyte layer, and thus, the substrate may be easily removed from the first electrolyte layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Yong Sub Yoon, Hong Seok Min, Kyung Su Kim, Oh Min Kwon, Dong Wook Shin, Sung Woo Noh, Lak Young Choi