Patents by Inventor Jun Kang
Jun Kang 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).
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Patent number: 12600631Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for mass synthesis of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotubes synthesized thereby and, more specifically, to a method for mass synthesis of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotubes synthesized thereby, wherein the method enables not only the synthesis of a catalyst at a high rate through plasma generation without a separate reductant but also the continuous mass synthesis of high-purity carbon nanotubes. The technical essences of the present invention are a method for mass synthesis of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotubes synthesized thereby, the method comprising: a first step of supplying a CNT growth material containing a carbon precursor; a second step of disposing a pair of metal wires in a solution mixed with a metal salt, and applying electric power to the metal wires to generate plasma; and a third step of thermally treating the CNT growth material and the catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 14, 2026Assignee: KOREA MARITIME UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATIONInventors: Jun Kang, Jae Hyuk Choi, Won Ju Lee, Gyu Jang Jo, Se Hyeon Kim, Dae Yeong Kim
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Publication number: 20250382180Abstract: A method of manufacturing a carbon nanotube-carbon nanofiber composite, includes preparing a spinning solution comprising an alkali metal precursor and a carbon-containing polymer; electrospinning the spinning solution to manufacture carbon-containing polymer nanofibers having the alkali metal precursor bound to a surface; heat-treating the carbon-containing polymer nanofibers to manufacture carbon nanofibers having the alkali metal precursor bound to a surface; and heat-treating the carbon nanofibers while supplying a carbon source to manufacture a carbon nanotube-carbon nanofiber composite having carbon nanotubes bound to a surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2025Publication date: December 18, 2025Applicant: NATIONAL KOREA MARITIME & OCEAN UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATIONInventors: Jun KANG, Se Hwa HONG
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Publication number: 20250262830Abstract: Proposed is a tire curing mold and, for example, a tread mold formed for use in a curing process for a green tire. The tread mold may include a pattern segment having a pattern surface disposed to face the green tire during the curing process. The tread mold may also include a back segment disposed outside the pattern segment, and a middle segment arranged between the pattern segment and the back segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2024Publication date: August 21, 2025Inventor: Jun KANG
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Patent number: 12295090Abstract: A system for generating a plasma discharge in liquid utilizes first and second electrodes spaced apart in an interior space of a vessel holding the liquid. A channel can be defined in certain embodiments at least partially by at least one of the first and second electrodes, and an inlet in fluid communication with the interior space is configured to generate a vortical fluid flow in the vessel. A method for generating a plasma discharge in liquid is also provided. A high voltage electrode for generating a plasma discharge in liquid that includes a central solid cylindrical rod is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Onvector LLCInventors: Jun Kang, Daniel J. Cho, HyoungSup Kim, Russel Ryall McAvoy
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Publication number: 20240199425Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for mass synthesis of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotubes synthesized thereby and, more specifically, to a method for mass synthesis of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotubes synthesized thereby, wherein the method enables not only the synthesis of a catalyst at a high rate through plasma generation without a separate reductant but also the continuous mass synthesis of high-purity carbon nanotubes. The technical essences of the present invention are a method for mass synthesis of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotubes synthesized thereby, the method comprising: a first step of supplying a CNT growth material containing a carbon precursor; a second step of disposing a pair of metal wires in a solution mixed with a metal salt, and applying electric power to the metal wires to generate plasma; and a third step of thermally treating the CNT growth material and the catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2019Publication date: June 20, 2024Inventors: Jun KANG, Jae Hyuk CHOI, Won Ju LEE, Gyu Jang JO, Se Hyeon KIM, Dae Yeong KIM
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Patent number: 11995982Abstract: A method for constructing a prediction model of an auto trips quantity and a prediction method and system are disclosed. The prediction model construction method designs a deep neural network Multitask GCN-LSTM based on GCN and LSTM for predicting the auto trips quantity. The deep neural network comprises three modules, wherein the three modules are respectively used for extracting a spatial correlation, a temporal correlation and a feature fusion. The prediction method and system predict the auto trips quantity based on a model constructed. By considering a road segment local relationship and a road segment global relationship and taking an auto arrival quantity as a related task in constructing the model, the prediction model construction method uses a multi-task learning method to avoid overfitting of the deep neural network and reduce a prediction error of the auto trips quantity effectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: CHANG AN UNIVERSITYInventors: Zhe Chen, Bin Zhao, Yuehan Wang, Zongtao Duan, Na Fan, Jun Kang
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Patent number: 11971422Abstract: The invention discloses a digital slide scanner sample identification device, and relates to the digital slide scanner for solving the problem that a bar code scanner can normally read a bar code label through the light contact, and the samples cannot be read due to the shielding of the bar code since the samples are stored in the digital slide scanner or scanning samples are stacked. The device comprises a digital slide scanner, and scanning samples; a near-field communication NFC read-write module is arranged in the digital slide scanner, and a NFC label is arranged on each scanning sample. By using the NFC technology, the NFC label data in a large amount of scanning samples can be read within short time, a feedback indication can be provided, and the working efficiency is greatly improved. The invention further discloses a digital slide scanner sample identification method.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MOTIC CHINA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Kang, Jianping Jiang, Muwang Chen
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Publication number: 20230311897Abstract: A sensing system is used for driving assistance or automatic driving. A gating camera is controlled to be in an enabled state/disabled state according to a traveling environment. The gating camera divides a field of view into a plurality of ranges in a depth direction and generates a plurality of slice images corresponding to the plurality of ranges in the enabled state. A main controller processes an output of a main sensor group and an output of the gating camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicants: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., BRIGHTWAY VISION LTD.Inventors: Yoshihisa ENDO, Jun KANG, Manabu KATO, Yuichi WATANO
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Patent number: 11777313Abstract: The present invention discloses a unit commitment method considering security region of wind turbine generators with frequency response control, and the main steps are: 1) determining security region of wind turbine generators when provides frequency response; 2) based on the security region of the wind turbine generators when provides frequency response, establishing a unit commitment model considering security region of wind turbine generators; and 3) calculating the unit commitment model considering the security region of the wind turbine generators by using mixed-integer linear programming method, and obtaining the operation result of the unit commitment considering the security region of the wind turbine generators with frequency response control. The present invention can be widely used in the setting of frequency response parameters of wind turbine generators dispatched in the prior art and the start-stop and output plans of synchronous generator.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignees: State Grid Qinghai Electric Power Research Institute, Chongqing University, State Grid Qinghai Electric Power Company, State Grid Corporation of ChinaInventors: Yue Fan, Senlin Yang, Juan Yu, Xiaoku Yang, Ling Dong, Jun Kang, Maochun Wang, Yongqiang Han, Zhifang Yang, Rui Song, Xuebin Wang, Juelin Liu, Haiting Wang, Xiaokan Gou, Guobin Fu, Chunmeng Chen, Pengsheng Xie, Yanhe Li, Shichang Zhao, Xuan Wang, Ying Liang, Jun Yang, Shujie Zhang, Ming Xiao, Jiatian Gan, Guoqiang Lu, Yujie Ding, Dongning Zhao, Jia Yang, Ke Liu, Shaofei Wang, Yongfei Ma, Jie Zhang, Aizhen Zhu, Kaixuan Yang, Shuxian Yuan
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Publication number: 20230299585Abstract: Disclosed is a coordinated peak shaving optimization method for a plurality of power supplies based on a fluctuation characteristic of a renewable energy source, including the following steps: s1: determining a weekly generated electricity quantity of hydropower based on an available capacity and a storage capacity of an electricity quantity; s2: predicting a renewable energy power generation curve and a load curve of a system weekly; s3: determining a start point of peak shaving of the hydropower based on an external transmission curve, the renewable energy generation curve, and the load curve of the system and a generating capacity of the hydropower; s4: determining a weekly peak shaving demand of the system; and s5: establishing an optimization model with a maximum peak shaving demand. The present disclosure proposes a reasonable arrangement for peak shaving, so as to resolve an accommodation problem caused by large-scale access of a renewable energy source.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Qiang Zhou, Yanhong Ma, Yanqi Zhang, Yue Wu, Ningbo Wang, Zhicheng Ma, Xushan Han, Guogang Jin, Long Zhao, Qingquan Lv, Dingmei Wang, Jinping Zhang, Pengfei Gao, Ruixiao Zhang, Jianmei Zhang, Jin Li, Zhenzhen Zhang, Lijuan Liu, Senlin Yang, Jun Kang, Rui Song
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Patent number: 11749802Abstract: A method for manufacturing a porous carbon material doped with a heterogeneous element and a porous carbon material doped with a heterogeneous element manufactured using the method are proposed. The method includes melting carbon precursor powder that contains one or more kinds of heterogeneous elements selected from metal and nonmetal to prepare a precursor melt; disposing a pair of metal wires in the precursor melt; and applying power to the metal wires to perform plasma-discharge, thus forming and aggregating carbon nanoparticles doped with the heterogeneous element while having a micropore and thereby forming a porous carbon material having a meso-macro hierarchical pore structure. As the heterogeneous element is bound to carbon of the carbon precursor, the carbon nanoparticles are formed in an amorphous structure while being doped with the heterogeneous element, thus increasing an active site.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Inventors: Jun Kang, Dae Young Kim
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Publication number: 20230113872Abstract: The present invention discloses a unit commitment method considering security region of wind turbine generators with frequency response control, and the main steps are: 1) determining security region of wind turbine generators when provides frequency response; 2) based on the security region of the wind turbine generators when provides frequency response, establishing a unit commitment model considering security region of wind turbine generators; and 3) calculating the unit commitment model considering the security region of the wind turbine generators by using mixed-integer linear programming method, and obtaining the operation result of the unit commitment considering the security region of the wind turbine generators with frequency response control. The present invention can be widely used in the setting of frequency response parameters of wind turbine generators dispatched in the prior art and the start-stop and output plans of synchronous generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2020Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Yue Fan, Senlin Yang, Juan Yu, Xiaoku Yang, Ling Dong, Jun Kang, Maochun Wang, Yongqiang Han, Zhifang Yang, Rui Song, Xuebin Wang, Juelin Liu, Haiting Wang, Xiaokan Gou, Guobin Fu, Chunmeng Chen, Pengsheng Xie, Yanhe Li, Shichang Zhao, Xuan Wang, Ying Liang, Jun Yang, Shujie Zhang, Ming Xiao, Jiatian Gan, Guoqiang Lu, Yujie Ding, Dongning Zhao, Jia Yang, Ke Liu, Shaofei Wang, Yongfei Ma, Jie Zhang, Aizhen Zhu, Kaixuan Yang, Shuxian Yuan
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Patent number: 11626592Abstract: The present invention relates to a lithium-carbon composite having cavities formed therein and a method of manufacturing the same, the method including adding and mixing an organic solvent having an aromatic ring with a lithium precursor, arranging a pair of metal wires in the organic solvent, forming a lithium-carbon composite in which a carbon body is doped with lithium through plasma discharge in a solution, and annealing the lithium-carbon composite in order to remove hydrogen from the lithium-carbon composite and form cavities in the lithium-carbon composite. Accordingly, a lithium-carbon composite can be simply synthesized using plasma discharge in a solution, and the synthesized lithium-carbon composite can be annealed to thus form cavities therein, thereby increasing the lithium charge and discharge performance of a lithium secondary battery using the lithium-carbon composite.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Inventors: Jun Kang, Kwang Ho Kim
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Publication number: 20220343756Abstract: A method for constructing a prediction model of an auto trips quantity and a prediction method and system are disclosed. The prediction model construction method designs a deep neural network Multitask GCN-LSTM based on GCN and LSTM for predicting the auto trips quantity. The deep neural network comprises three modules, wherein the three modules are respectively used for extracting a spatial correlation, a temporal correlation and a feature fusion. The prediction method and system predict the auto trips quantity based on a model constructed. By considering a road segment local relationship and a road segment global relationship and taking an auto arrival quantity as a related task in constructing the model, the prediction model construction method uses a multi-task learning method to avoid overfitting of the deep neural network and reduce a prediction error of the auto trips quantity effectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: CHANG AN UNIVERSITYInventors: Zhe CHEN, Bin ZHAO, Yuehan WANG, Zongtao DUAN, Na FAN, Jun KANG
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Patent number: 11373366Abstract: The invention disclosures a method for improving modeling speed of digital slide scanner, relates to the technical field of microscopes, the modeling speed is slow for image quality; and the focusing plane positions of the modeling points in modeling and in scanning imaging are different, which causes decrease of image quality, that is the question that higher requirement on motion repetition precision of the stage. The invention adopts modeling and scanning imaging in units of scanning lines, modeling and scanning the current line and modeling and scanning imaging the next line thereafter, wherein the modeling of the next line takes advantage of the time from the end of the current line to line feeding and returning to the beginning of the next line, during which the modeling is completed, which may parallel the modeling time with scanning and line feeding process, and effectively reduce the equivalent modeling time.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: MOTIC CHINA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Kang, Shouli Jia, Muwang Chen
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Publication number: 20220174808Abstract: A system for generating a plasma discharge in liquid utilizes first and second electrodes spaced apart in an interior space of a vessel holding the liquid. A channel can be defined in certain embodiments at least partially by at least one of the first and second electrodes, and an inlet in fluid communication with the interior space is configured to generate a vortical fluid flow in the vessel. A method for generating a plasma discharge in liquid is also provided. A high voltage electrode for generating a plasma discharge in liquid that includes a central solid cylindrical rod is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Jun Kang, Daniel J. Cho, HyoungSup Kim, Russel Ryall McAvoy
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Publication number: 20220099691Abstract: The invention discloses a digital slide scanner sample identification device, and relates to the digital slide scanner for solving the problem that a bar code scanner can normally read a bar code label through the light contact, and the samples cannot be read due to the shielding of the bar code since the samples are stored in the digital slide scanner or scanning samples are stacked. The device comprises a digital slide scanner, and scanning samples; a near-field communication NFC read-write module is arranged in the digital slide scanner, and a NFC label is arranged on each scanning sample. By using the NFC technology, the NFC label data in a large amount of scanning samples can be read within short time, a feedback indication can be provided, and the working efficiency is greatly improved. The invention further discloses a digital slide scanner sample identification method.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2019Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Jun KANG, Jianping JIANG, Muwang CHEN
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Patent number: 11279633Abstract: A system for generating a plasma discharge in liquid utilizes first and second electrodes spaced apart in an interior space of a vessel holding the liquid. A channel can be defined in certain embodiments at least partially by at least one of the first and second electrodes, and an inlet in fluid communication with the interior space is configured to generate a vortical fluid flow in the vessel. A method for generating a plasma discharge in liquid is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Onvector LLCInventors: Jun Kang, Daniel J. Cho, HyoungSup Kim
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Publication number: 20210408543Abstract: A method for manufacturing a porous carbon material doped with a heterogeneous element and a porous carbon material doped with a heterogeneous element manufactured using the method are proposed. The method includes melting carbon precursor powder that contains one or more kinds of heterogeneous elements selected from metal and nonmetal to prepare a precursor melt; disposing a pair of metal wires in the precursor melt; and applying power to the metal wires to perform plasma-discharge, thus forming and aggregating carbon nanoparticles doped with the heterogeneous element while having a micropore and thereby forming a porous carbon material having a meso-macro hierarchical pore structure. As the heterogeneous element is bound to carbon of the carbon precursor, the carbon nanoparticles are formed in an amorphous structure while being doped with the heterogeneous element, thus increasing an active site.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Jun Kang, Dae Young Kim
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Publication number: 20210305570Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a nitrogen-carbon aggregate having a hierarchical pore structure, a nitrogen-carbon aggregate manufactured therefrom, and a sodium ion battery including the same. The technical gist of the present invention includes a method of manufacturing a nitrogen-carbon aggregate having a hierarchical pore structure, a nitrogen-carbon aggregate manufactured therefrom, and a sodium ion battery including the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2020Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Jun Kang, Dae Young Kim