Patents by Inventor Kwang-Hee Lee

Kwang-Hee Lee 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).

  • Electrode having excellent light transmittance, method for manufacturing same, and electronic element including same
    Patent number: 9735295
    Abstract: An electronic device with an electrode having a superior light transmittance and including a substrate, an amine group-containing compound layer formed on the substrate, and a metal layer formed on the amine group-containing compound layer is provided. In accordance with the present invention, the electrode is easily manufactured when a solution process is used, has performances of a light transmittance, a sheet resistance, and flexibility higher than those of a typical ITO transparent electrode, and a manufacturing cost of the electrode may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: GWANGJU INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kwang Hee Lee, Su Hyun Jung, Hong Kyu Kang
  • ORGANIC PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICE, AND IMAGE SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20170213973
    Abstract: An organic photoelectric device includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the photoelectric conversion layer includes a p-type semiconductor compound and an n-type semiconductor compound, and the organic photoelectric device satisfies Equation 1, and has external quantum efficiency (EQE) of greater than or equal to about 40% at ?3 V.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Young YUN, Gae Hwang LEE, Kwang Hee LEE, Dong-Seok LEEM, Yong Wan JIN, Tadao YAGI
  • Image sensor and electronic device including the same
    Patent number: 9716120
    Abstract: An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate integrated with at least one of a first photo-sensing device that may sense a first wavelength spectrum of visible light and a second photo-sensing device that may sense second wavelength spectrum of visible light, and a third photo-sensing device on the semiconductor substrate that may selectively sense third wavelength spectrum of visible light in a longer wavelength spectrum of visible light than the first wavelength spectrum of visible light and the second wavelength spectrum of visible light. The first photo-sensing device and the second photo-sensing device may overlap with each other in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Wan Jin, Kwang Hee Lee, Gae Hwang Lee, Kyung Bae Park, Dong-Seok Leem, Yeong Suk Choi
  • Organic photoelectronic device and image sensor
    Patent number: 9673259
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to an organic photoelectronic device that includes a first electrode, a light-absorption layer on the first electrode and including a first p-type light-absorption material and a first n-type light-absorption material, a light-absorption auxiliary layer on the light-absorption layer and including a second p-type light-absorption material or a second n-type light-absorption material that have a smaller full width at half maximum (FWHM) than the FWHM of the light absorption layer, a charge auxiliary layer on the light-absorption auxiliary layer, and a second electrode on the charge auxiliary layer, and an image sensor including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung Bae Park, Satoh Ryuichi, Gae Hwang Lee, Kwang Hee Lee, Dong-Seok Leem, Yong Wan Jin, Tadao Yagi, Chul Joon Heo
  • Organic pixels including organic photodiode, manufacturing methods thereof, and apparatuses including the same
    Patent number: 9673258
    Abstract: Provided is an organic pixel, which includes a semiconductor substrate including a pixel circuit, an interconnection layer having a first contact and a first electrode formed on a semiconductor substrate, and an organic photo-diode formed on the interconnection layer. For example, the organic photo-diode includes an insulation layer formed on the first electrode, a second electrode and a photo-electric conversion region formed between the first contact, the insulation layer and the second electrode. The photo-electric conversion region includes an electron donating organic material and an electron accepting organic material. The organic photo-diode may further include a second contact electrically connected to the first contact. The horizontal distance between the second contacts and the insulation layer may be less than or equal to a few micrometers, for example, 10 micrometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics
    Inventors: Kyo Jin Choo, Hirosige Goto, Kyu Sik Kim, Yun Kyung Kim, Kyung Bae Park, Jin Ho Seo, Sang Chul Sul, Kyung Ho Lee, Kwang-hee Lee
  • ORGANIC PHOTOELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170154929
    Abstract: An organic photoelectronic device includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, photoelectronic conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a first material and a second material providing a p-n junction and an interlayer being adjacent to the first electrode between the first electrode and the photoelectronic conversion layer and including a third material, wherein the first material and the third material are an organic material having each energy bandgap of about 1.7 eV to about 2.3 eV, and an image sensor including the same is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Seok LEEM, Seon-Jeong Lim, Kwang Hee Lee, Xavier Bulliard, Yong Wan Jin, Tadao Yagi
  • IMAGE SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20170154911
    Abstract: An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of photo-sensing devices, a photoelectric conversion device disposed on the semiconductor substrate and absorbing the mixed light of a first color and a second color, and a color filter disposed on one side of the photoelectric conversion device and configured to selectively transmit a mixed light including a third color, and an electronic device including the image sensor is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: YONG WAN JIN, Gae Hwang Lee, Seon-Jeong Lim, Sung Young Yun, Kwang Hee Lee
  • Hemming system of panels for vehicle
    Patent number: 9662702
    Abstract: A hemming system of panels for a vehicle hems panels of various types of vehicles by loading, hemming, and unloading of the panels of vehicles using twin turn tables 100 connected to each other by a carrier. As such, the hemming system improves productivity, reduces working time by automatically repeating loading, hemming, and unloading of panels and transporting of molds using platform trucks, and increases the commercial values of products by improving the quality of hemming panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: In Ho Jeong, In Kwon Lee, Jae Ill Lee, Kwang Hee Lee, Sang Jin Choi, Ock Do Kim, Jeong Ho Choi, Se Kyu Kang, Byeong Ho Choi, Seon Woo Kweon, In Hyup Im
  • Organic photoelectric device, and image sensor and electronic device including the same
    Patent number: 9666810
    Abstract: An organic photoelectric device includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the photoelectric conversion layer includes a p-type semiconductor compound and an n-type semiconductor compound, and the organic photoelectric device satisfies Equation 1, and has external quantum efficiency (EQE) of greater than or equal to about 40% at ?3 V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Young Yun, Gae Hwang Lee, Kwang Hee Lee, Dong-Seok Leem, Yong Wan Jin, Tadao Yagi
  • IMAGE SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20170141149
    Abstract: An electronic device may include at least one image sensor that includes a plurality of photo-sensing devices, a photoelectric device on one side of the semiconductor substrate and configured to selectively sense first visible light, and a plurality of color filters on separate photo-sensing devices. The plurality of color filters may include a first color filter configured to selectively transmit a second visible light that is different from the first visible light and a second color filter transmitting first mixed light including the second visible light. The electronic device may include multiple arrays of color filters. The electronic device may include different photoelectric devices on the separate arrays of color filters. The different photoelectric devices may be configured to sense different wavelength spectra of light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang Hee LEE, Gae Hwang Lee, Sung Young Yun, Dong-Seok Leem, Xavier Bulliard, Yong Wan Jin
  • IMAGE SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20170141143
    Abstract: An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate integrated with at least one of a first photo-sensing device that may sense a first wavelength spectrum of visible light and a second photo-sensing device that may sense second wavelength spectrum of visible light, and a third photo-sensing device on the semiconductor substrate that may selectively sense third wavelength spectrum of visible light in a longer wavelength spectrum of visible light than the first wavelength spectrum of visible light and the second wavelength spectrum of visible light. The first photo-sensing device and the second photo-sensing device may overlap with each other in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Wan JIN, Kwang Hee LEE, Gae Hwang LEE, Kyung Bae PARK, Dong-Seok LEEM, Yeong Suk CHOI
  • IMAGE SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20170125485
    Abstract: An image sensor including a semiconductor substrate integrated with a plurality of photo-sensing devices and a nanopattern layer on the semiconductor substrate, the nanopattern layer having a plurality of nanopatterns, wherein each nanopattern of the plurality of nanopatterns correspond one to one with a single photo-sensing device of the plurality of photo-sensing devices, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gae Hwang LEE, Kwang Hee Lee, Dong-Seok LEEM, Yong Wan JIN
  • Stacked image sensor
    Patent number: 9628734
    Abstract: A stacked image sensor includes a substrate including a first photoelectric conversion device, a second photoelectric conversion device and a first color signal storing device disposed between the first photoelectric conversion device and the second photoelectric conversion device. A second color filter and a third color filter are disposed at positions corresponding to the first photoelectric conversion device and the second photoelectric conversion device on the substrate. A conductive connecting member is disposed between the second color filter and the third color filter. A first color sensing photoelectric conversion device is disposed on the second color filter, the third color filter, and the conductive connecting member. The cross-sectional area of conductive connecting member is at least greater than the cross-sectional area of the first color signal storing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Bae Park, Gae Hwang Lee, Kwang Hee Lee, Yong Wan Jin, Chul Joon Heo
  • Clothes treatment apparatus and control method thereof
    Patent number: 9617679
    Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet configured to define an accommodating space where clothes are accommodated, an air supply device configured to supply air to the accommodating space of the cabinet, an aroma treating part configured to perform aroma treatment toward the accommodating space, and a control part configured to control the air supply device and the aroma treating part. An aroma effect may be given to clothes treated in the clothes treatment apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hye Yong Park, Kwang Hee Lee
  • Apparatus for determining lane position through inter-vehicle communication
    Patent number: 9620013
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for determining lane position of vehicle through inter-vehicle communication, and more particularly an apparatus that determines lane location that personal vehicle is currently driving through using a lane information transferred from surrounding vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Dong Seog Han, Kwang Hee Lee
  • COMPOUND FOR ORGANIC PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICE AND ORGANIC PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICE AND IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20170092868
    Abstract: A compound for an organic photoelectric device is represented by Chemical Formula 1. An organic photoelectric device includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, and an active layer including the compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: TADAO YAGI, Rie SAKURAI, Hyesung CHOI, Tatsuya IMASE, Hiromasa SHIBUYA, Sung Young YUN, Gae Hwang LEE, Kwang Hee LEE, Dong-Seok LEEM, Seon-Jeong LIM, Xavier BULLIARD, Yong Wan JIN, Yeong Suk CHOI, Moon Gyu HAN
  • Three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound system for scanning object inside human body and method for operating 3D ultrasound system
    Patent number: 9603579
    Abstract: Provided is a three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound system and a 3D ultrasound system operating method that may obtain 3D ultrasound data with respect to an object inside a human body to determine an accurate sagittal view. The 3D ultrasound system may include a scanner to generate ultrasound data including image data generated by scanning an object inside a human body, a processing unit to detect a center point of the object from the generated ultrasound data, and to generate, on the ultrasound data, a virtual plane on which the detected center point is placed, and a controller to rotate the ultrasound data based on the image data included in the virtual plane and to determine a sagittal view with respect to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG MEDISON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang-Hee Lee, Sung-yoon Kim
  • Organic photoelectric devices, image sensors, and electronic devices
    Patent number: 9608212
    Abstract: Organic photoelectric devices, image sensors, and electronic device, include a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, and an active layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the active layer includes a p-type semiconductor compound including a squaraine derivative and an n-type semiconductor compound represented by Chemical Formula 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoko Ishibe, Moon Gyu Han, Dong-Seok Leem, Kwang Hee Lee, Yong Wan Jin, Yeong Suk Choi
  • ORGANIC PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICE AND IMAGE SENSOR
    Publication number: 20170069690
    Abstract: An organic photoelectric device includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, and an active layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the active layer includes an n-type semiconductor compound that is transparent in a visible ray region and represented by Chemical Formula 1, and a p-type semiconductor compound having a maximum absorption wavelength in a wavelength region of about 500 nm to about 600 nm of a visible ray region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rie SAKURAI, Hiromasa SHIBUYA, Tadao YAGI, Kwang Hee LEE, Takkyun RO, Sung Young YUN, Gae Hwang LEE, Dong-Seok LEEM, Seon-Jeong LIM, Xavier BULLIARD, Yong Wan JIN, Yeong Suk CHOI, Hye Sung CHOI
  • ORGANIC PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICE AND IMAGE SENSOR
    Publication number: 20170062747
    Abstract: An organic photoelectronic device includes an anode and a cathode facing each other, a light-absorption layer between the anode and the cathode, and a first auxiliary layer between the cathode and the light-absorption layer, the first auxiliary layer having an energy bandgap of about 3.0 eV to about 4.5 eV, and a difference between a work function of the cathode and a highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy level of the first auxiliary layer is about 1.5 eV to about 2.0 eV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Dong-Seok LEEM, Sung Young YUN, Kwang Hee LEE, Sean-Jeong LIM, Yong Wan JIN