Patents by Inventor Kyu Kim

Kyu 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).

  • Publication number: 20250101183
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a composite solid electrolyte having high ionic conductivity and capable of continuous process and mass production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Sunghyun NAM, Hyeaeun HAN, Dong Kyu KIM
  • Publication number: 20250105479
    Abstract: An insulator for a rechargeable battery is disclosed. The insulator may include: a first insulator including a plurality of first through holes; and a second insulator including a plurality of second through holes. A connection portion between a first one of the plurality of second through holes and an adjacent second one of the plurality of second through holes overlaps the first through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Wonik LEE, Dae Kyu KIM
  • Patent number: 12256881
    Abstract: A shoe care device includes an inner cabinet that has an accommodation space configured to accommodate shoes therein, an inlet defined at a first portion of the accommodation space and configured to supply air to the accommodation space, and an outlet defined at a second portion of the accommodation space and configured to suction air from the accommodation space. The shoe care device further includes a connection path configured to circulate air between the inlet and the outlet, a blowing fan disposed at the connection path and configured to blow air from the outlet toward the inlet, a dehumidifying material disposed at the connection path and configured to dehumidify the air blown by the blowing fan, a heater configured to heat the dehumidifying material, and a regeneration path configured to guide, to a location other than the inlet, the air having passed through the dehumidifying material heated by the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jeong Uk Lee, Chan Ho Chun, Chang Kyu Kim, Hye Yong Park, Manho Chun, Sora Kim, DoHyun Jung, Taehee Lee
  • Patent number: 12257934
    Abstract: A seatback-folding device for emergency escape for vehicles is equipped with a simply structured mechanism for emergency escape. A locking operation at the time of unfolding of a seatback of a second-row seat and an unlocking operation at the time of folding of the seatback of the second-row seat are performed by ascending/descending of a shaft caused by operation of a lever, thereby not only enabling an occupant sitting on a third-row seat to quickly fold the seatback of the second-row seat and thus to easily secure an emergency escape route, but also reducing the number of components, weight, the number of assembly processes, and manufacturing cost compared to a related art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: HYUNDAI TRANSYS INC.
    Inventors: Sang Min Kim, Jung Bin Lee, Byung Mo Kim, Jun Kyu Kim, Jae Sung Lee
  • Publication number: 20250089766
    Abstract: An inhaler includes a stick provided with a chamber configured to accommodate a capsule including powder and a piercing hole opened toward the chamber, a holder including an insertion groove into which the stick is inserted, a piercing member provided in the insertion groove and configured to crush the capsule through the piercing hole when the stick is inserted into the insertion groove, a vibration member configured to provide vibration to the piercing member, a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor configured to measure a biosignal of a user of the inhaler, and a controller configured to control an operation of the inhaler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Min Kyu KIM, Paul Joon SUNWOO, Wonkyeong LEE
  • Publication number: 20250096445
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a secondary battery is provided. The method includes accommodating an electrode assembly in a battery case, injecting a first electrolyte composition into the battery case to impregnate the electrode assembly, injecting a second electrolyte composition into the battery case, and curing the second electrolyte composition, wherein an electrode tab is connected to the electrode assembly and protrudes to the outside of the electrode assembly, wherein the first electrolyte composition includes a 1-1st lithium salt containing at least one selected from the group consisting of lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) and lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI), and a first solvent, wherein the second electrolyte composition includes an oligomer and a second solvent and does not include lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) and lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Yeo Min Yoon, Je Young Kim, Ji Hoon Ryu, Dong Kyu Kim, Tae Seob Lim
  • Publication number: 20250089813
    Abstract: A charging device for an aerosol generating device including a first charging pin and a second charging pin spaced apart from the first charging pin by a first interval includes a charging station on which a plurality of charging pads is arranged to be spaced apart from each other and a controller configured to detect, among the plurality of charging pads, one charging pad to which the first charging pin is connected and another charging pad to which the second charging pin is connected, and supply power to the detected charging pads, wherein two adjacent charging pads among the plurality of charging pads are spaced apart by a second interval that is less than or equal to the first interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wonkyeong LEE, Min Kyu KIM, Paul Joon SUNWOO
  • Publication number: 20250096308
    Abstract: An electrolyte, a battery comprising the same, and a method for producing the same are provided. The electrolyte includes: a polymer formed from a polyethylene oxide (PEO)-based copolymer containing crosslinkable functional groups; a ceramic compound; and a polar compound, wherein at least some of the crosslinkable functional groups of the PEO-based copolymer containing crosslinkable functional groups form crosslinks with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Sung Hyun NAM, Dong Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 12255126
    Abstract: There are provided a semiconductor and a method of fabricating the same. The semiconductor device may include a second semiconductor substrate directly bonded to a first semiconductor substrate. The first semiconductor substrate may include a first through via with an end portion protruding through a first top surface, the first top surface being a top surface of a first semiconductor substrate body, a liner extending to partially expose a side surface of the end portion of the first through via, and a first diffusion barrier layer. The liner may include a third top surface that is positioned at a lower height than a second top surface, the second top surface being a top surface of the end portion of the first through via and substantially equal to the first top surface. Alternatively, the liner may include a third surface positioned at a height that is lower than the second top surface and higher than the first top surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Mi Seon Lee, Sung Kyu Kim, Jong Hoon Kim
  • Publication number: 20250088768
    Abstract: An image sensing device for obtaining an image of a scene by sensing light is disclosed. The image sensing device includes a pixel circuit configured to output a pixel signal based on a voltage level of a floating diffusion node at which charges generated corresponding to an intensity of incident light are accumulated, a voltage controller configured to control a voltage level of an output node where the pixel signal is output in response to a voltage control signal, a conversion circuit configured to convert the pixel signal into a digital signal, and a voltage trimming circuit configured to control the voltage control signal based on the digital signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Seung Hwan LEE, Gun Hee YUN, Min Kyu KIM, Han Sol PARK
  • Publication number: 20250082250
    Abstract: A method of detecting atrial fibrillation includes receiving a photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal from a first sensor of a wearable device, detecting a heart rate from the PPG signal based on a window power spectrum analysis of the PPG signal, and detecting atrial fibrillation based on the heart rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE
    Inventors: Soyoung LEE, Jinseok Lee, Sang Kyu Kim, Yongbin Lee, Hong Soon Rhee
  • Publication number: 20250088127
    Abstract: A motor control device, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a switching unit including a first switch unit and a second switch unit; a first resistor connected to an output unit of the switching unit; and a control unit controlling a motor connected with the switching unit, wherein the second switch unit includes a plurality of unit switches and the control unit determines and controls the type of the motor by using at least one switch from among the plurality of unit switches and a current flowing through the first resistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventor: Won Kyu KIM
  • Publication number: 20250082934
    Abstract: A brain stimulation system includes a wearable electronic device including a display, a biometric information acquisition unit, and a first processor, and a brain stimulation device having at least one area that is attached to the body of a user and configured to apply brain stimulation to the user such that the user feels a smoking sensation. The biometric information acquisition unit detects changed biometric information of the user in response to the brain stimulation, and the first processor displays one of a virtual reality image and an augmented reality image including the detected biometric information of the user on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Won Kyeong LEE, Min Kyu KIM, Paul Joon SUNWOO
  • Publication number: 20250086243
    Abstract: A method for providing user-customized information is disclosed. The method for providing user-customized information can provide information suitable for a user's situation by: obtaining information on a location where a terminal is located, and information on the time when the location information was obtained; obtaining situation information of a user of the terminal predicted on the basis of the location information and the time information; and requesting, to a server, situation-adaptive information corresponding to the user's situation on the basis of the obtained situation information of the user, pre-stored profile information of the user, and state information of the terminal at a time when the location information is obtained so as to obtain the situation-adaptive information from the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hang-kyu KIM, Chi-hyun PARK, Hae-dong YEO
  • Publication number: 20250087833
    Abstract: A secondary battery including an electrode assembly, a gel polymer electrolyte, and a battery case accommodating the electrode assembly and the gel polymer electrolyte. The electrode assembly includes a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of separators, the plurality of electrodes are stacked in a vertical direction, and each of the plurality of separators is disposed between the stacked electrodes. The separator includes a porous substrate and a ceramic coating layer disposed on both sides of the porous substrate, and the ceramic coating layer contains inorganic particles and a binder, wherein the inorganic particles are included in an amount ranging from 92 wt % to less than 100 wt %, and the binder is included in an amount ranging from greater than 0 wt % to 8 wt %. The method of making the battery is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Ryu, Je Young KIM, Dong Kyu KIM, Yeo Min Yoon, Seong Won Choi, Won Kyung Shin, Tae Seob Lim
  • Publication number: 20250082035
    Abstract: A powder inhalation device includes a storage tank configured to store a medium in a powder form, a powder loading unit configured to receive the medium from the storage tank, an air flow passage through which the medium transferred to the powder loading unit flows together with air, an air flow sensor configured to detect a pressure or a flow velocity in the air flow passage, a powder diffuser configured to diffuse the medium transferred to the powder loading unit toward the air flow passage, and a controller configured to control the powder diffuser by receiving a pressure signal or a flow velocity signal from the air flow sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Min Kyu KIM, Won Kyeong LEE
  • Publication number: 20250086681
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle QR code type parking card on which a QR code is printed and a QR code type parking card application system for contacting a driver by scanning a QC code, and a method for contacting a driver by using the vehicle QR code type parking card on which the QR code is printed, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: scanning, by a caller, the QR code printed on the QR code type parking card to access a QC code type parking card application; retrieving, from a DB, a license plate number matching a unique identification number of the scanned QR code type parking card; confirming, by the caller, the retrieved license plate number; sharing his/her current location information with the driver; confirming, by the driver, a shared location of the caller; retrieving, from the DB, a contact number of the driver if the driver accepts a connection request from the caller; and connecting the caller and the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventor: Min Kyu KIM
  • Publication number: 20250084517
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a steel sheet for use in automobiles, etc., and to a steel sheet that has high strength and high formability and is superb in terms of spot weldability, and a manufacturing method therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Sung-Kyu Kim, Tae-Kyo Han, Jun-Ho Park, Kyoung-Rae Cho, Sang-Ho Han
  • Publication number: 20250087382
    Abstract: An insulation composition for a high-voltage cable according to an example of the present disclosure includes a base resin, a flame retardant, a cross-linking agent, and other additives. Here, the base resin includes 30 to 60 wt % of a polar ethylene-based copolymer, 20 to 50 wt % of ethylene-propylene rubber or ethylene alpha-olefin, and 10 to 20 wt % of maleic anhydride-modified ethylene-vinyl acetate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Yun Jae Jung, Seung Min Yoo, Byeong Kyu Kim, Young Jong Lee, In Ho Kim, Yeong Ju Lee, Jung Woo Park
  • Publication number: 20250074512
    Abstract: A vehicle front subframe includes: a pair of longitudinal members each extending in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle and having a mounting recess; an inner reinforcing member mounted in an inner cavity of each longitudinal member; and a suspension arm having a mount mounted in the mounting recess of each longitudinal member through a mount member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chang Kyu Kim, Il Hun Park, Byung Joo Chung, Seung Hak Lee, Won Hae Lee