Patents by Inventor In-ho Nam

In-ho Nam 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: 20240128494
    Abstract: A pouch type all-solid-state battery including a reference electrode is disclosed. In the all-solid-state battery, a potential variation of each electrode is accurately measured because the ion transfer path between the reference electrode and a positive electrode/negative electrode is short. Accordingly, the all-solid-state battery secures a desired cell performance while having battery specifications similar to actual battery specifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jae Ho Shin, Ji Chang Kim, Hyun Min Seo, Young Jin Nam, Ga Young Choi
  • Publication number: 20240118196
    Abstract: In the case of a gas in which several gases are mixed, a type and concentration of the gas may be incorrectly measured when measured using only an optical band-pass filter. The invention of the present application is directed to providing a technology in which a plurality of broadband band-pass filters having overlapping regions are provided to calculate a magnitude of absorption for each wavelength band for light passing through each broadband band-pass filter, thereby identifying the presence of a gas of interest and the presence of a gas other than the gas of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Cheol Woo NAM, Byung Yul MOON, Eung Yul KIM, Jae Hwan KIM, Chun Ho SHIN, Kwang Hun PARK, Myun Gu CHOI, Chang Hwang CHOI, Yong Geol KIM, Jae Min JEON
  • Patent number: 11955611
    Abstract: An equipment for inspecting a secondary battery is provided. The equipment includes a loading device on which a secondary battery is loaded in an upright position, and a side portion inspecting device which inspects a side portion of the secondary battery loaded on the loading device, wherein the side portion inspecting device comprises an elevation unit which lifts the secondary battery loaded on the loading device so as to be withdrawn out of the loading device and allows the secondary battery to return to its original position after a first period of time elapses and a side portion inspecting unit which captures an image of the side portion of the secondary battery, which is withdrawn out of the loading device by the elevation unit, thereby inspecting the side portion of the secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Young Kim, Dong Hyung Lee, Woo Young Choi, Sang Ho Nam
  • Publication number: 20240112440
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for array image processing are provided. The method includes receiving sub images corresponding to different views of an input array image generated through an array lens, generating temporary restored images based on the sub images using a gradient between neighboring pixels of each of the sub images, determining matching information based on a view difference between pixels of the sub images using a neural network model, based on a pixel distance between matching pairs of the pixels of the sub images using the matching information, extracting refinement targets from the matching pairs, refining the matching information by replacing at least some of target pixels included in the refinement targets based on a local search of a region based on pixel locations of the refinement targets, and generating an output image of a single view by merging the temporary restored images based on the refined matching information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jingu HEO, Byong Min KANG, Dong Kyung NAM, Yang Ho CHO
  • Publication number: 20240111203
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging lens array including a plurality of imaging lenses each with a same focal length, the plurality of imaging lenses being configured to capture a scene; a sensing array comprising a plurality of sensors configured to receive light passing through the plurality of imaging lenses; a processor configured to determine a scene depth plane corresponding to the scene based on a comparison, for each of a plurality of candidate depths, between reference pixel values based on first sensors of the plurality of sensors corresponding to a reference imaging lens of the plurality of imaging lenses and target pixel values that are based on second sensors of the plurality of sensors corresponding to a target imaging lens of the plurality of image lenses; and a lens driver configured to position the imaging lens array to be disposed at a point corresponding to the scene depth plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Ho CHO, Juyong PARK, Jingu HEO, Dong Kyung NAM
  • Publication number: 20240107181
    Abstract: An optimization method includes determining first information related to a difference between the color filter spectrum and the color spectrum or a difference between an image transformed by the color transformation matrix and a ground truth (GT) image in the reset color space, determining second information representing smoothness of the color filter spectrum, third information representing a transmittance of the color filter spectrum, calculating a cost value based on the first information, the second information, and the third information, compare the calculated cost value and a threshold, and updating one of the filter spectrum information and the color transformation matrix in response to the calculated cost value being equal to or greater than the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Geonwoo Kim, Sung Kwang Cho, Yang Ho Cho, Dong Kyung Nam
  • Publication number: 20240094283
    Abstract: A test board for semiconductor devices is provided which contains a plurality of semiconductor devices and is loaded into a testing apparatus. The test board includes: a receiving part formed with a plurality of semiconductor device receiving grooves that respectively receive a plurality of semiconductor devices; and a lid part removably attached to the receiving part, wherein the lid part includes a heat transfer portion having a first heat transfer end portion, which is exposed on the outside of the lid part while the lid part is attached to the receiving part, and a second heat transfer end portion, which extends from the first heat transfer end portion and is exposed to a temperature regulating region defined to include at least one of the plurality of semiconductor device receiving grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Taek Seon LEE, Ho Nam KIM
  • Publication number: 20240097450
    Abstract: An energy storage system includes an energy storage device that stores energy generated from a new and renewable energy power plant, a power management device that monitors a total amount of power produced by at least one new and renewable energy power plant in a plurality of regions, determines an operation mode of the energy storage device based on a result of monitoring a reference capacity of an integrated line through which power of the plurality of regions is transmitted and a result of monitoring the total power amount, and controls a power capacity flowing through the integrated line according to the operation mode, and a power conversion device that receives a command corresponding to the operation mode from the power management device and controls an operation of the energy storage device according to the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hyun Jae KANG, Seung Sig NAM, Tay Seek LEE, Seong Ho YUN, Hee Se HONG
  • Publication number: 20240091043
    Abstract: The present application provides a footwear for postoperative protection and rehabilitation. The protective footwear specifically structurally includes: a footwear body; an air bag system, provided at a position of the footwear body corresponding to a human metatarsal region; and a fixing frame, provided at the position of the footwear body corresponding to the human metatarsal region, wrapping a compressed air bag, and comprising a flat plate and two arc-shaped plates extending upward and inward from two sides of the flat plate; where, when a human foot is squeezed by gravity, air in a bottom air reservoir is squeezed into side-flap air reservoirs, such that the side-flap air reservoirs are inflated; and restricted by the fixing frame, the side-flap air reservoirs generate an inward pressure to the metatarsal region to reduce a tensile stress generated between metatarsals when the human foot moves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Yiang WU, Ming GE, Kit Sum Samantha CHAN, Ho Nam Ernest YIM
  • Patent number: 11931978
    Abstract: An anti-icing honeycomb core composite manufactured by forming an electromagnetic wave absorption layer by using dielectric fiber, molding the electromagnetic wave absorption layer into a honeycomb core structure by using a molded part including a first base, a second base, and an inner block, hardening the honeycomb core structure, and removing the molded part. The molding step includes first stacking, on the first base including a plurality of grooves in which the inner blocks each having a hexagonal column shape are able to be seated, a plurality of the inner blocks and a plurality of the electromagnetic wave absorption layers as the honeycomb core structure so that the electromagnetic wave absorption layer is disposed between the plurality of inner blocks, and second stacking covering the inner blocks and the electromagnetic wave absorption layers stacked on the first base with the second base having the same shape as the first base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION GYEONGSANG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Young Woo Nam, Hyeon Seok Choe, Jin Hwe Kweon, Rho Shin Myong, Won Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 11929520
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a porous separator for electrochemical devices, configured to guarantee electrical insulation between a positive electrode and a negative electrode, wherein the porous separator includes no polyolefin substrate, and includes inorganic particles, a binder for coupling between the inorganic particles, and a crosslinking agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoung Ho Ahn, Kwan Woo Nam, Chul Haeng Lee, Young Duk Kim, Je An Lee
  • Publication number: 20240076224
    Abstract: A molding method for a cover window includes: locally heating a peripheral portion of a glass substrate around a central portion of the glass substrate to a temperature of about 610° C. to about 670° C., forming a cover window by pressing the glass substrate, and annealing and cooling the cover window. Accordingly, a cover window in which each of edges has an outwardly convex curved surface through a glass substrate may be formed. In addition, the surface roughness of a cover window formed through a glass substrate may be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: HYUNSEUNG SEO, Young Ki PARK, Jong Soo BAEK, JIHYUN KO, SEUNGHO KIM, Jin Su NAM, Oh Joo PARK, JUN HO LEE
  • Publication number: 20240079879
    Abstract: An energy storage system includes an energy storage device that stores energy generated from a new and renewable energy power plant, a power management device that monitors an amount of power of the new and renewable energy power plant, determines an operation mode of the energy storage device based on a result of monitoring a reference capacity of a line connected to the new and renewable energy plant and the amount of power, and controls a power capacity flowing through the line according to the operation mode, and a power conversion device that receives a command corresponding to the operation mode from the power management device and controls an operation of the energy storage device according to the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Hyun Jae KANG, Seung Sig NAM, Tay Seek LEE, Seong Ho YUN, Hee Se HONG
  • Patent number: 11919632
    Abstract: An air mobility device improves propulsion due to the Coand? effect when flying so as to increase a flying range and reduces noise when flying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youn Sic Nam, Myeong Man Park, Kwan Ho Moh, Keon Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 11911157
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for estimating a target component, the apparatus including a temperature controller configured to modulate temperature of an object, a measurer configured to measure a spectrum for each temperature of the object that changes based on the modulation, and a processor configured to obtain effective optical pathlength vectors corresponding to a temperature change based on the spectrum for each temperature of the object, obtain a representative effective optical pathlength based on the obtained effective optical pathlength vectors, and obtain a target component estimation model based on the obtained representative effective optical pathlength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyeong Seok Jang, Sung Hyun Nam, Sung Mo Ahn, Jun Ho Lee, Ho Jun Chang
  • Patent number: 11912804
    Abstract: A core-shell copolymer, a method of making the same, and a thermoplastic resin composition including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a core-shell copolymer includes a core and a shell surrounding the core, the core includes a conjugated diene-based monomer-derived repeating unit and a phosphate-based cross-linking agent-derived cross-linking part represented by Formula 1, and the shell includes a first alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer-derived repeating unit, a second alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer-derived repeating unit, and a sulfonate-based ionic monomer-derived repeating unit represented by Formula 2. The core is 68 parts to 92 parts and the shell is 8 parts to 32 parts, based on 100 parts of the core-shell copolymer, the core has a swell index of 2.7 to 10.9, the shell includes 1 wt % to 16 wt % of the sulfonate-based ionic monomer-derived repeating unit, and the shell has a weight average molecular weight of 105,000 g/mol to 645,000 g/mol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang Jin Lee, Yoon Ho Kim, Sang Il Nam, Kyung Bok Sun, Chang No Lee, Sang Hoon Han
  • Patent number: 11913133
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing polycrystalline silicon ingot using a crucible in which an oxygen exhaust passage is formed by single crystal or polycrystalline rods, the method including the steps of: manufacturing the single crystal or polycrystalline silicon rods each having the shape of a quadrilateral pillar; putting the single crystal or polycrystalline quadrilateral pillar-shaped silicon rods into the crucible in such a manner as to be arranged close to one another along the inner peripheral surface of the crucible to thus form a space portion inside the single crystal or polycrystalline silicon rods, into which silicon chunks are put, and the oxygen exhaust passages between the inner peripheral surface of the crucible and the respective surfaces of the single crystal or polycrystalline silicon rods oriented toward the inner peripheral surface of the crucible; putting the silicon chunks into the space portion of the crucible; and melting and crystallizing the silicon chunks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Lintech Corporation
    Inventors: Ho Jung You, Dong Nam Shin, Sei Kwang Oh, Jun Seok Lee, Sun Bin Yum, Tae-Woo Kang
  • Patent number: 11906618
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hybrid multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar concept. Via a first subset of a plurality of transmit channels and during a first time interval, first frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar signals are con-currently transmitted with different phase offsets among different transmit channels of the first subset in accordance with a first predefined code division multiplexing scheme. Via a second subset of the transmit channels and during a second time interval subsequent to the first time interval, second FMCW radar signals are concurrently transmitted with different phase offsets among different transmit channels of the second subset in accordance with a second predefined code division multiplexing scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Byung Kwon Park, Sang Ho Nam
  • Publication number: 20240043732
    Abstract: A heat dissipation material is provided. In the heat dissipation material with a filler, comprising secondary particles in which primary particles are aggregated, the filler in a polymer resin matrix may form a thermal interface layer for conduction of thermal energy between a heat generation part and a heat absorption part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF CERAMIC ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Seung Hyup Lee, Gyeong Ho Yun, Yun Jin Kim, Su Hyeon Cho, Min Ho Nam
  • Publication number: 20240038407
    Abstract: A method of removing floating foreign substances that may interfere with a normal operation of an electromechanical mechanism of a control rod drive mechanism and a device for executing the same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Chae Ho NAM, Ho Yel LEE