Patents by Inventor Kyung-Woo YI

Kyung-Woo YI 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: 10718058
    Abstract: A reduced iron production method using an electrowinning method and reduced iron is provided. The method includes, preparing a mixture by mixing, a solid electrolyte containing sodium peroxide (Na2O2) and boron oxide (B2O3), with iron oxide (Fe2O3); and putting the mixture in an electrowinning device provided with an anode and an insoluble cathode and heating to form a molten oxide and then applying a voltage to the anode and the cathode to form iron on the cathode. Therefore, by reducing iron oxide through an electrowinning method, a reduced iron in a pure iron state can be obtained. Although it is very difficult to obtain pure iron by refining an iron ore, by using the electrowinning method in which the composition of an electrolyte is controlled and electrolysis conditions are controlled, reduced iron that is pure can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Kyung-Woo Yi, Jong-Ha Park, Ho-Gil Choi
  • Patent number: 10465306
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing titanium by using electrowinning and, more specifically, to a method for preparing titanium by using electrowinning, comprising the steps of: preparing a mixture by mixing a solid electrolyte, which contains an oxide of a Group 1 element and boron oxide, with titanium dioxide; and forming a molten oxide from the mixture by putting the mixture in an electrowinning apparatus comprising an anode and an insoluble cathode and heating the same, and then forming titanium on the cathode by applying voltage to the anode and the cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Kyung-Woo Yi, Jong-Ha Park, Ho-Gil Choi
  • Publication number: 20190226106
    Abstract: A reduced iron production method using an electrowinning method and reduced iron is provided. The method includes, preparing a mixture by mixing, a solid electrolyte containing sodium peroxide (Na2O2) and boron oxide (B2O3), with iron oxide (Fe2O3); and putting the mixture in an electrowinning device provided with an anode and an insoluble cathode and heating to form a molten oxide and then applying a voltage to the anode and the cathode to form iron on the cathode. Therefore, by reducing iron oxide through an electrowinning method, a reduced iron in a pure iron state can be obtained. Although it is very difficult to obtain pure iron by refining an iron ore, by using the electrowinning method in which the composition of an electrolyte is controlled and electrolysis conditions are controlled, reduced iron that is pure can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Kyung-Woo YI, Jong-Ha PARK, Ho-Gil CHOI
  • Publication number: 20170241029
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing titanium by using electrowinning and, more specifically, to a method for preparing titanium by using electrowinning, comprising the steps of: preparing a mixture by mixing a solid electrolyte, which contains an oxide of a Group 1 element and boron oxide, with titanium dioxide; and forming a molten oxide from the mixture by putting the mixture in an electrowinning apparatus comprising an anode and an insoluble cathode and heating the same, and then forming titanium on the cathode by applying voltage to the anode and the cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Kyung-Woo Yi, Jong-Ha Park, Ho-Gil Choi
  • Publication number: 20140207387
    Abstract: A method of analyzing a numeric model for a metal hydride tank, which calculates the temperature change and the change of a reaction rate and the hydrogen concentration in the alloy resulting from a hydrogen reaction based on various user conditions with respect to metal hydride (MH) alloy tanks having various shapes when MH alloy tanks are actually used. The method includes (a) inputting a temperature (T), a real reaction flow rate (QR), and an initial data value of hydrogen concentration (C) for each cell of a model, (b) calculating a possible reaction rate (RP) depending on the temperature (T) and the hydrogen concentration (C) in the metal hydride alloy with respect to each cell, (c) calculating a possible flow rate (QP) with respect to an entire MH alloy region, and (d) calculating a k between the real reaction flow rate (QR) and the possible reaction flow rate (QP).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Sung-Wook CHO, Han-Jung KWON, Jeong-Hyun YOO, Ji-Woong KIM, Kyung-Woo YI, Sang-Kun O
  • Publication number: 20140114626
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of calculating a numeric model for interpretation of a metal hydride tank. The best possible simpljfied algorithm is applied through a simple measuring process, thereby calculating a numeric model for various metal hydride tank systems storing hydrogen, so that temperature variation depending on the reaction with hydrogen and the reacted. quantity of the hydrogen. are calculated with respect to the various metal hydride tank systems by calculating only the numeric model. The method. includes (a) charging a metal hydride (MH) alloy in a metal hydride tank system under a preset temperature condition, (b) measuring temperature variation and a reaction rate between MH alloy and hydrogen, and concentration of the hydrogen of the MH alloy by supplying or emitting the hydrogen, and (c) calculating a numeric model for the temperature variation, the reaction rate, and the concentration of the hydrogen based on data measured through step (b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCE AND MINERAL RESOURCES
    Inventors: Sung-Wook CHO, Han-Jung KWON, Jeong-Hyun YOO, Ji-Woong KIM, Kyung-Woo YI, Sang-Kun O