Patents by Inventor Ki-Young YOON
Ki-Young YOON 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: 11953211Abstract: A method and an apparatus for real-time analysis of the district heating network is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for analyzing a district heating network including pipes and fluids inside the pipes includes receiving, by a processor, pipe data representing a structure of the pipes; receiving, by the processor, input data on at least one of the physical state of the district heating network and the flow of fluids; calculating, by the processor, data for at least one of the physical state of the district heating network or the flow of fluids using the pipe data and the input data.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: GS Power Co. Ltd.Inventors: Yuan Hu Li, Chang Yeol Yoon, Ki Song Lee, Kun Young Lee, Tae Gon Kim
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Publication number: 20240083018Abstract: An embodiment device includes an input module including a motor configured to generate a rotational force, an output module configured to receive power from the input module to be rotatable, and a connection module having a first side coupled to the input module and a second side, opposite the first side, coupled to the output module, wherein the connection module is configured to transmit the power from the input module to the output module.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Hyo-Joong Kim, Sang In Park, Ki Hyeon Bae, Ju Young Yoon, Beom Su Kim, Min Woong Jeung, Seong Taek Hwang, Ho Jun Kim, Hyun Seop Lim, Kyu Jung Kim
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Publication number: 20230219282Abstract: Aspects disclosed herein include a composite material comprising: one or more shape memory polymers; and a first additive provided in the shape memory polymer(s); wherein: the first additive increases one or more ultrasound-absorption characteristics of the composite material compared to that of the same shape memory polymer(s) free of said first additive; the composite material is characterized by a composite transition temperature (Tcm,trans); and the composite material or one or more portions thereof undergo a shape change from a temporary shape to a permanent shape when the composite material or said one or more portions thereof are heated to within 35° C. of Tcm,trans or a temperature approximately equal to or greater than Tcm,trans.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Max KUDISCH, Jeong Hoon KO, Chiara DARAIO, Mikhail G. SHAPIRO, Di WU, Gunho KIM, Robert H. GRUBBS, Ki-Young YOON
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Patent number: 10973940Abstract: Disclosed is a coating composition for preventing odor. The coating composition may include one or more types of odorless microorganisms selected from the group consisting of Caulobacter vibrioides, Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens, Bradyrhizobium daqingense and Methylobacterium brachiatum or a culture solution thereof. Further provided is a method for preventing odor, and the method may include applying the coating composition for preventing odor. When a biofilm is formed from the microorganisms in the coating composition by coating an object on which an odor-causing microorganism can live, the inflow and the inhabitation of external microorganisms generating odor may be significantly blocked, thereby enabling odor to be effectively prevented.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: So Yoon Park, Tae Hee Lee, Ji Wan Kim, Ki Young Yoon
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Patent number: 10669517Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method that can accelerate reproduction of odor from an air-conditioner by segmenting microorganisms, a temperature/humidity condition and nutrients for metabolism of the microorganisms as conditions for reproducing the odor from the air-conditioner and setting the segmented microorganisms, a temperature/humidity condition and nutrients for metabolism of the microorganisms according to an accelerated condition thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Tae Hee Lee, Ki Young Yoon, Jae Sik Choi, Ji Wan Kim, So Yoon Park
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Publication number: 20190119625Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method that can accelerate reproduction of odor from an air-conditioner by segmenting microorganisms, a temperature/humidity condition and nutrients for metabolism of the microorganisms as conditions for reproducing the odor from the air-conditioner and setting the segmented microorganisms, a temperature/humidity condition and nutrients for metabolism of the microorganisms according to an accelerated condition thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Tae Hee LEE, Ki Young YOON, Jae Sik CHOI, Ji Wan KIM, So Yoon PARK
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Patent number: 10202573Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method that can accelerate reproduction of odor from an air-conditioner by segmenting microorganisms, a temperature/humidity condition and nutrients for metabolism of the microorganisms as conditions for reproducing the odor from the air-conditioner and setting the segmented microorganisms, a temperature/humidity condition and nutrients for metabolism of the microorganisms according to an accelerated condition thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2015Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Tae Hee Lee, Ki Young Yoon, Jae Sik Choi, Ji Wan Kim, So Yoon Park
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Publication number: 20180320215Abstract: Disclosed is a method for screening for an antimicrobial agent capable of controlling microorganisms generating offensive odor in an air conditioning apparatus. Further disclosed is a method for removing offensive odor in the air conditioning apparatus. The microorganism causing offensive odor in the air conditioning apparatus may be used in the development of a novel antimicrobial agent or in the development of an aromatic for blocking offensive odor by establishing the chemical properties of metabolites of the microorganisms. In addition, there are various industrial applications, for example, by fundamentally removing the cause of offensive odor by creating an environment in which the microorganisms cannot live in the air conditioning apparatus in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: So Yoon Park, Tae Hee Lee, Ji Wan Kim, Ki Young Yoon
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Publication number: 20180303963Abstract: Disclosed is a coating composition for preventing odor. The coating composition may include one or more types of odorless microorganisms selected from the group consisting of Caulobacter vibrioides, Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens, Bradyrhizobium daqingense and Methylobacterium brachiatum or a culture solution thereof. Further provided is a method for preventing odor, and the method may include applying the coating composition for preventing odor. When a biofilm is formed from the microorganisms in the coating composition by coating an object on which an odor-causing microorganism can live, the inflow and the inhabitation of external microorganisms generating odor may be significantly blocked, thereby enabling odor to be effectively prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: So Yoon Park, Tae Hee Lee, Ji Wan Kim, Ki Young Yoon
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Patent number: 9371757Abstract: A catalytic converter of an internal combustion engine may include: at least one inlet channel having an end through which an exhaust gas is flowed into and the other end which is blocked; at least one outlet channel having an end which is blocked and the other end through which the exhaust gas is discharged; and a wall defining a boundary between neighboring inlet channel and outlet channel, and adapted to flow the exhaust gas from the inlet channel to the outlet channel, wherein the wall includes a single-layered portion formed at an end portion and having a three-way catalyst layer, and a multi-layered portion being the portion other than the single-layered portion and having a three-way catalyst layer, a hydrocarbon trap layer and an insulating layer. An apparatus of purifying an exhaust gas is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Ki Young Yoon, Chibum In
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Publication number: 20160169851Abstract: An electronic nose apparatus is capable of replacing the olfactory sense of human. An apparatus and method for judging sensibility of a smell form olfactory characteristics of smells as data and judge the type and intensity of the smell based on the data. Particularly, a smell pattern is implemented as a database, and the sensibility of the smell of unknown gas is judged based on the implemented data, thus providing information on the sensibility of the smell. The apparatus and method implement detecting a gas via a sensor apparatus, comparing a detection pattern detected via the sensor apparatus with a smell sensibility pattern on a previously stored database to analyze the detection pattern, determining a most approximate smell sensibility pattern, based on the comparison, and judging smell sensibility of the detection gas based on the determined smell sensibility pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Tae Hee LEE, Ki Young YOON, Ji Wan KIM, So Yoon PARK, Seung Chul HA
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Publication number: 20160168527Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method that can accelerate reproduction of odor from an air-conditioner by segmenting microorganisms, a temperature/humidity condition and nutrients for metabolism of the microorganisms as conditions for reproducing the odor from the air-conditioner and setting the segmented microorganisms, a temperature/humidity condition and nutrients for metabolism of the microorganisms according to an accelerated condition thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Tae Hee LEE, Ki Young YOON, Jae Sik CHOI, Ji Wan KIM, So Yoon PARK
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APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RESTRAINING MICROBIAL PROPAGATION ON A SURFACE OF AN EVAPORATOR FOR VEHICLE
Publication number: 20160137035Abstract: An apparatus and a method of restraining microbial propagation on the surface of an evaporator of an automotive air conditioning system include a blower for generating airflow, an evaporator (evaporator core) for cooling, a heater core through which an engine coolant passes for heating, a temperature control door, an internal/external air mode door, a mode door, and a controller for controlling these components, in which microbial propagation can be prevented by heating the evaporator using the heat of the heater core only by controlling the operation of the temperature control door without any additional component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2015Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Ki Young Yoon, Jae Sik Choi, Tae Hee Lee, Ji Wan Kim, So Yoon Park -
Patent number: 8776507Abstract: A system for regenerating a particulate filter mounted on an exhaust pipe of a gasoline engine including a plurality of cylinders and an ignition device for igniting fuel and air in the cylinder, a three-way catalyst device mounted on the exhaust pipe connected to the gasoline engine, and to oxidize or reduce exhaust gas, the particulate filter mounted on the exhaust pipe downstream of the three-way catalyst device to trap particulate matter and regenerate the particulate matter using heat of the exhaust gas, a differential pressure sensor mounted upstream and downstream of the particulate filter and to measure a pressure difference of the particulate filter, and a control portion to receive the measured pressure difference and control parameters to determine an amount of non-ignited fuel which is not ignited and flows to the three-way catalyst device among the fuel flowing into the plurality of cylinders.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2012Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Chibum In, Ki Young Yoon
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Publication number: 20140186227Abstract: A catalytic converter of an internal combustion engine may include: at least one inlet channel having an end through which an exhaust gas is flowed into and the other end which is blocked; at least one outlet channel having an end which is blocked and the other end through which the exhaust gas is discharged; and a wall defining a boundary between neighboring inlet channel and outlet channel, and adapted to flow the exhaust gas from the inlet channel to the outlet channel, wherein the wall includes a single-layered portion formed at an end portion and having a three-way catalyst layer, and a multi-layered portion being the portion other than the single-layered portion and having a three-way catalyst layer, a hydrocarbon trap layer and an insulating layer. An apparatus of purifying an exhaust gas is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Ki Young Yoon, Chibum In
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Publication number: 20130091828Abstract: A system for regenerating a particulate filter mounted on an exhaust pipe of a gasoline engine including a plurality of cylinders and an ignition device for igniting fuel and air in the cylinder, a three-way catalyst device mounted on the exhaust pipe connected to the gasoline engine, and to oxidize or reduce exhaust gas, the particulate filter mounted on the exhaust pipe downstream of the three-way catalyst device to trap particulate matter and regenerate the particulate matter using heat of the exhaust gas, a differential pressure sensor mounted upstream and downstream of the particulate filter and to measure a pressure difference of the particulate filter, and a control portion to receive the measured pressure difference and control parameters to determine an amount of non-ignited fuel which is not ignited and flows to the three-way catalyst device among the fuel flowing into the plurality of cylinders.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2012Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Chibum IN, Ki Young YOON
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Publication number: 20100272904Abstract: Provided is a catalytic surface activation method for electroless deposition comprising a metallic aerosol nanoparticle generation step of generating metallic aerosol nanoparticles, which act as plating initiation catalyst; a metallic aerosol nanoparticle fixation step of fixing the resultant metallic aerosol nanoparticles on a plating surface; and an electroless deposition step of impregnating the material to be plated in an electroless deposition solution to form a plating layer on the plating surface on which the metallic aerosol nanoparticles have been fixed. The catalytic surface activation method for electroless deposition of the present invention is applicable to large-scale plating with simple process and superior applicability, improves the plating characteristics with little impurity generation, requires no post-treatment process for removing impurities and is environment-friendly with no wastewater generation by directly fixing metallic aerosol nanoparticles on the material to be plated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITYInventors: Jeong-Hoon Byeon, Jae-Hong Park, Ki-Young Yoon, Jung-Ho Hwang
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Publication number: 20100272903Abstract: Provided is a catalytic surface activation method for electroless deposition comprising a metallic aerosol nanoparticle generation step of generating metallic aerosol nanoparticles, which act as plating initiation catalyst; a metallic aerosol nanoparticle fixation step of fixing the resultant metallic aerosol nanoparticles on a plating surface; and an electroless deposition step of impregnating the material to be plated in an electroless deposition solution to form a plating layer on the plating surface on which the metallic aerosol nanoparticles have been fixed. The catalytic surface activation method for electroless deposition of the present invention is applicable to large-scale plating with simple process and superior applicability, improves the plating characteristics with little impurity generation, requires no post-treatment process for removing impurities and is environment-friendly with no wastewater generation by directly fixing metallic aerosol nanoparticles on the material to be plated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSIYInventors: Jeong-Hoon Byeon, Jae-Hong Park, Ki-Young Yoon, Jung-Ho Hwang
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Publication number: 20100272905Abstract: Provided is a catalytic surface activation method for electroless deposition comprising a metallic aerosol nanoparticle generation step of generating metallic aerosol nanoparticles, which act as plating initiation catalyst; a metallic aerosol nanoparticle fixation step of fixing the resultant metallic aerosol nanoparticles on a plating surface; and an electroless deposition step of impregnating the material to be plated in an electroless deposition solution to form a plating layer on the plating surface on which the metallic aerosol nanoparticles have been fixed. The catalytic surface activation method for electroless deposition of the present invention is applicable to large-scale plating with simple process and superior applicability, improves the plating characteristics with little impurity generation, requires no post-treatment process for removing impurities and is environment-friendly with no wastewater generation by directly fixing metallic aerosol nanoparticles on the material to be plated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITYInventors: Jeong-Hoon Byeon, Jae-Hong Park, Ki-Young Yoon, Jung-Ho Hwang
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Publication number: 20080241422Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the aerosol synthesis of carbon nanostructures under atmospheric pressure comprising a spark generation step of generating a spark between a graphite electrode made of carbon and a metal electrode made of a catalytic metal inducing the graphitization of carbon and vaporizing the carbon component of the graphite electrode and the metal component of the metal electrode utilizing the heat produced by the spark, thereby generating carbon vapor and metal vapor; and a carbon nanostructure generation step of cooling and condensing the carbon vapor and the metal vapor to form a graphitic carbon layer and catalytic metal particles and generating carbon nanostructures in which the graphitic carbon layer grows on the surface of the catalytic metal particles and covers the catalytic metal particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei UniversityInventors: Jung-Ho Hwang, Jeong-Hoon Byeon, Byung-Ju Ko, Jae-Hong Park, Ki-Young Yoon