Patents by Inventor Jae Man Kim

Jae Man 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).

  • Patent number: 12674611
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a running-water-type evaporator, and an ice-making device and a water purification device comprising the same, and to a running-water-type evaporator, and an ice-making device and a water purification device comprising the same, the evaporator uniformly transferring, to ice, heat supplied through high-temperature fluid during ice separation, so as to enable the ice to be easily separated without using separate ice-separating water, and thus minimizes melting of the ice during ice separation, and circulating ice-making water in a state where the ice-making water flows only toward the outer sides of a pair of outer plate members, and thus a degradation in the cleanliness of the ice-making water can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: COWAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gyeong Min Lee, Gyeong Jong Kim, Hyun Woo Lee, In Du Choi, Jae Man Kim, Jung Chul Park, Min Chul Yong, Sung Hwan Heo, Byung Hyo Ye, Chung Rae Kim, Jae Wook Cho
  • Publication number: 20260181824
    Abstract: Disclosed are a cooling device and a control method therefor. The cooling device according to one aspect of the present invention comprises: a main tank fluidly connected to the outside thereof to receive a fluid, store the received fluid, and deliver the stored fluid to the outside; a heat exchanger positioned adjacent to the main tank to cool the fluid that has been delivered; and a sub-tank which is fluidly connected to the main tank to receive the fluid that has been delivered to the main tank and which is coupled to the heat exchanger to cool the delivered fluid, wherein the fluid introduced into the main tank may be cooled by the heat exchanger while passing through the sub-tank and then flow back to the main tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 25, 2026
    Applicant: COWAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gyeong Jong KIM, Jae Man KIM, Hyun Woo LEE, Gyeong Min LEE, Kwon Jae LEE, Chung Rae KIM, Jae Wook CHO, Chang Min SON
  • Publication number: 20260139897
    Abstract: Disclosed are a cooling device and a water purifier comprising same. The cooling device, according to one aspect of the present disclosure, comprises: a cooling flow path of having a fluid flowing therein; a cooling frame making contact with the cooling flow path so as to carry out heat-exchange in order to cool the fluid flowing in the cooling flow path; and a cooling module coupled with the cooling frame so as to cool the cooling frame by receiving heat transferred to the cooling frame. The cooling flow path comprises: a first cooling flow path wound outside the cooling frame and fluidly connected to the outside so as to form one portion of the flow path in which the fluid is flowing; and a second cooling flow path wound inside the cooling frame and fluidly connected to the first cooling flow path and the outside so as to form the other portion of the flow path in which the fluid is flowing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Applicant: COWAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Man KIM, Woong JUNG
  • Publication number: 20260071799
    Abstract: An ice-making evaporator has internal spaces of an evaporator main body and an ice-making member partitioned into a plurality of spaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Applicant: COWAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jae Man KIM
  • Publication number: 20260071798
    Abstract: An ice-making evaporator includes: a first body with a first space extending front to rear for refrigerant flow; a first wall divides this space into a second and third space; an ice-maker which features a fourth space communicating with the first space and a first groove formed on the outer portion thereof; a second wall inside the fourth space splits the fourth space into a fifth space connected to the second space and a sixth space connected to the third space; a coupler interposed between the first and the second wall to couple the first and the second wall; a first passage connected to the second space to introduce a refrigerant into the second space; and a second passage connected to the third space to discharge a refrigerant flowing in the third space to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Applicant: COWAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jae Man KIM
  • Publication number: 20260002712
    Abstract: An ice-making evaporator is provided. The ice-making evaporator according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include a first evaporator body that extends from one side to the other side; a first body space partition wall that divides the inside of the first evaporator body into a first body space and a second body space; a refrigerant inlet that is provided in the first evaporator body; a refrigerant outlet that is provided in the first evaporator body; a first protrusion member that is formed to extend in one direction from the first evaporator body; and a first protrusion space partition wall that divides the inside of the first protrusion member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Applicant: COWAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Man KIM, Gyeong Jong KIM, Gyeong Min LEE, Kwon Jae LEE
  • Publication number: 20250164162
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cold water tank assembly according to an aspect of the present invention may include a cold water tank preparation step, an evaporator preparation step, a partition wall preparation step, a first assembly step, a second assembly step, and a third assembly step. A cold water tank assembly according to another aspect of the present invention may include a cold water tank including a body and a cap; an evaporator including a spiral shaft tube and a spiral tube extending to forming a plurality of turns of first spirals at a set pitch around the spiral shaft tube; and a partition wall including a shaft body and a partition extending to form a plurality of turns of second spirals at a set pitch around the shaft body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: COWAY Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Man KIM, Woong JUNG
  • Publication number: 20250085023
    Abstract: A hot water tank assembly is disclosed. A hot water tank assembly according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a hot water tank and a heating heater, the heating heater includes a plurality of straight lines, bent lines, and a connection line, and at least one intersecting portion, in which the straight line, the bent line, or the connection line intersects any one line of the straight line, the bent line, and the connection line, which are parallel and adjacent to each other, at an alternate angle, may be formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: COWAY Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae Man KIM
  • Publication number: 20250052828
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a tab guide, a tab guide device including the tab guide, and a battery cell pressing short circuit device using the tab guide device. More specifically, the present technology provides a tab guide configured to increase a width of an inlet into which a battery cell lead is inserted, using extending members of a flexible material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae Man Kim
  • Publication number: 20250002322
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cold water tank. In the cold water tank, an accommodation space for accommodating a fluid is partitioned by means of partition walls alternately disposed in the transverse direction such that the fluid flows straight along the partition walls, and an evaporator having m evaporation pipes forming an offset and m?1 connection pipes connecting the m evaporation pipes is disposed in the accommodation space opposite to the partition walls so as to be heat-exchanged with the fluid. Therefore, the cold water tank has increased contact surface area heat-exchanged with the fluid and prevents excessive ice formation, and thus provides an enhanced cold water dispensing performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: COWAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jae Man KIM
  • Publication number: 20240318888
    Abstract: An ice making apparatus comprises: a frame assembly includes a support frame and a rotation frame rotatably connected to the support frame; and one or more ice making cells that produce ice. The ice making cell includes an upper ice making cell that covers a portion of the ice and is supported on the support frame, and a lower ice making cell that covers another portion of the ice and is supported on the rotation frame. The rotation frame includes a water to melt ice flowing portion having a water to melt ice flow path through which water to melt ice at a higher temperature than the ice in the lower ice making cell flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: COWAY Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woong JUNG, Hyun Suk MOON, Min Su SONG, Jae Man KIM
  • Publication number: 20240053078
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a running-water-type evaporator, and an ice-making device and a water purification device comprising the same, and to a running-water-type evaporator, and an ice-making device and a water purification device comprising the same, the evaporator uniformly transferring, to ice, heat supplied through high-temperature fluid during ice separation, so as to enable the ice to be easily separated without using separate ice-separating water, and thus minimizes melting of the ice during ice separation, and circulating ice-making water in a state where the ice-making water flows only toward the outer sides of a pair of outer plate members, and thus a degradation in the cleanliness of the ice-making water can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: COWAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gyeong Min LEE, Gyeong Jong KIM, Hyun Woo LEE, In Du CHOI, Jae Man KIM, Jung Chul PARK, Min Chul YONG, Sung Hwan HEO, Byung Hyo YE, Chung Rae KIM, Jae Wook CHO
  • Publication number: 20240053056
    Abstract: A hot water generation apparatus and a water purifier including the same includes: a collection space inside a case member that is disposed above a receiving space in which raw water is accommodated, and has an inclination surface having a predetermined angle of inclination, and a steam outlet through which steam can be discharged is disposed above the collection space, separately from a hot water outlet, so that steam is removed in advance through the steam outlet along the inclination surface before hot water is discharged to the outside. Therefore, since hot water free of steam is discharged and a regular flow of hot water is formed in a straight line along the direction of gravity, user safety is enhanced, aesthetics are improved, and the best user experience can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: COWAY Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Man KIM, Jong Min KIM, Byung Hyo YE, Young Jae LEE
  • Publication number: 20230265570
    Abstract: An embodiment electrochemical device includes a first separator including a first channel and a first land disposed in a first direction, a second separator including a second channel and a second land disposed in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the second separator being stacked on the first separator, and contact patterns provided on the first separator and disposed on the first channel so as to be in contact with the second separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Jung Han Yu, Chung Ho Suh, Joo Young Kim, Kwi Seong Jeong, Young Jae Do, Sang Muk Park, Jae Man Kim, June Bak
  • Patent number: 10055408
    Abstract: A method of extracting an important keyword by an important keyword extracting server, the method includes receiving a set of one or more documents from a network, receiving one or more user defined keywords from a user terminal, calculating, by the server, a relative importance value for each of words detected in the set of documents, determining, by the server, a weight for each of the words based on the one or more user defined keywords, applying, by the server, the weight for each of the words to the relative importance value for each of the words, determining, by the server, at least one of the words to be the important keyword based on the relative importance value to which the weight is applied and transmitting, by the server, the important keyword to the user terminal. Therefore, the method may effectively detect a user defined keyword from at least one document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: LG CNS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seen Tae Lee, Hyun Pyo Kim, Jae Man Kim, Sun Min Yun, Cho Rong Yoon, Yoo Jin Chang, In Chul Jung, Tae Chang Jee
  • Patent number: 9384069
    Abstract: Provided is a method for event processing and a system for using the same. The system for event processing in a computer may include an interface to detect an input associated with an event, an event definition engine which defines the event using a plurality of event components and a corresponding event component wrapper wrapping each of the plurality of event components, an event processing engine which processes the event, and an event action module to generate an output based on the event. The event definition engine may determine a hierarchical relationship between the plurality of event components and assigns the hierarchical relationship in the corresponding event component wrapper. Moreover, the event processing engine may execute each of the event components according to the hierarchical relationship assigned in the event component wrapper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: LG CNS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Woo Lee, Jae Man Kim, Sang Yoon Lee, Yoo Jin Chang
  • Publication number: 20150134652
    Abstract: A method of extracting an important keyword by an important keyword extracting server, the method includes receiving a set of one or more documents from a network, receiving one or more user defined keywords from a user terminal, calculating, by the server, a relative importance value for each of words detected in the set of documents, determining, by the server, a weight for each of the words based on the one or more user defined keywords, applying, by the server, the weight for each of the words to the relative importance value for each of the words, determining, by the server, at least one of the words to be the important keyword based on the relative importance value to which the weight is applied and transmitting, by the server, the important keyword to the user terminal. Therefore, the method may effectively detect a user defined keyword from at least one document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Seen Tae LEE, Hyun Pyo KIM, Jae Man KIM, Sun Min YUN, Cho Rong YOON, Yoo Jin CHANG, In Chul JUNG, Tae Chang JEE
  • Publication number: 20140145444
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for wave power generation of an underwater type, which can be float underwater and can efficiently generate wave power. The apparatus includes a housing formed to have an open bottom end and fixedly connected to the seafloor, a shaft extending from a bottom surface of a top end of the housing, a floater having a top end opened to surround the shaft, positioned at a lower portion of the housing and reciprocating in a perpendicular direction with respect to the housing, and a linear generation unit converting kinetic energy based on the reciprocating motion of the floater into electrical energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Jin Bae Park, Jae Man Kim, Min Kook Song, Seung Kwan Song, Jung Yoon Kim, Jae Seung Kim
  • Publication number: 20130347007
    Abstract: Provided is a method for event processing and a system for using the same. The system for event processing in a computer may include an interface to detect an input associated with an event, an event definition engine which defines the event using a plurality of event components and a corresponding event component wrapper wrapping each of the plurality of event components, an event processing engine which processes the event, and an event action module to generate an output based on the event. The event definition engine may determine a hierarchical relationship between the plurality of event components and assigns the hierarchical relationship in the corresponding event component wrapper. Moreover, the event processing engine may execute each of the event components according to the hierarchical relationship assigned in the event component wrapper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Sang Woo Lee, Jae Man Kim, Sang Yoon Lee, Yoo Jin Chang
  • Publication number: 20130069368
    Abstract: Provided is a wave power generating apparatus and method. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a wave power generating apparatus comprising: a housing; a bellows shaped like a corrugated hose having an open end, disposed in the housing, and extended or contracted by an external force; a weight disposed on the bellows; a rotor disposed on the weight and moving according to the extension or contraction of the bellows and the movement of the weight; and a generator converting kinetic energy of the rotor into electric energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Jin Bae PARK, Jae Man KIM, Hwa Chang SUNG, Min Kook SONG, Geun Bum KOO, Seung Kwan SONG