Patents by Inventor Min Kim

Min 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).

  • Patent number: 12636346
    Abstract: A composition useful for alleviating or treating pain and uses thereof are disclosed. The composition containing glutamate decarboxylase and a gene coding for an anti-inflammatory cytokine. A method for alleviating or treating pain of a subject includes administering the composition to the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: KOLON LIFE SCIENCE, INC.
    Inventors: Sujeong Kim, Heonsik Choi, Kyoungbaek Choi, Minjung Kim, Hyeonyoul Lee, Minju Kim, Daewook Kim, Min Kim, Jangjoon Park, Kyung-Ran Kim, Hyelin Ji
  • Patent number: 12614487
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides to a stretchable display device and a stretchable panel driving circuit, the display device including a stretchable display panel, a gate driving circuit configured to supply gate signals to pixels through gate lines, a data driving circuit, at least one stretch detection circuit group including at least one delay cell and at least one stretch variable capacitor disposed in a non-display area of the display panel, and configured to detect a delay time caused by stretch, a compensation control signal generator configured to generate a compensation control signal based on the delay time, and a timing controller configured to output a compensated signal based on the compensation control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Kim, SunYoon Kim, Sanggoo Jeong
  • Publication number: 20260103182
    Abstract: A hybrid electric vehicle includes an engine, a first motor including a driving shaft connected directly to the engine, and a controller configured to identify vibration of the engine through the first motor in a mode where the first motor performs charging with power of the engine, identify compensation torque, which periodically increases and decreases to have a reverse phase to the vibration, identify final compensation torque, and control output torque of the first motor based on a sum of the final compensation torque and the charging torque, thereby reducing vibration and noise due to the engine exciting force of the hybrid electric vehicle, and effectively reducing the vibration in a low frequency band due to torque imbalance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2025
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jae Ho Hwang, Hong Geuk Park, Min Kim, Sang Hun Han, Tae Young Chung, Jung Hwi Kim
  • Publication number: 20260086422
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a lens driving device and a camera module including the same. A lens driving device according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a first frame including a lens and disposed on the substrate, a second frame on which the first frame is placed and a third frame on which the second frame is disposed. The first frame can move in a Z-axis direction, the second frame can tilt in X-axis and Y-axis directions and rotate around the Z axis, and the third frame can include a stopper structure to limit tilting and rotation of the second frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2025
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Inventors: Min KIM, Sung Ki JUNG
  • Publication number: 20260005420
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an antenna apparatus with an induction heating function includes a housing, ground unit, patch unit, patch coupler, power supply unit, and controller. The housing is formed by coupling a base plate and a front cover, defining an internal installation space. The ground unit is fixed to the base plate within this space. A thin, metal conductor patch unit is positioned in front of the ground unit, with multiple patch units optionally included. Each patch unit is coupled to the base plate by a respective patch coupler in an electrically insulated state. The power supply unit includes a communication feeding module for supplying signal current to generate RF signals, and an induction power module to supply current for magnetic field generation in the ground unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2025
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Inventors: Jin Kyu BANG, Seung Jae BAEK, Hui Cheol SHIN, Sung Min KOO, Min KIM
  • Publication number: 20260005638
    Abstract: Proposed is a motor driving apparatus that includes a motor, a first inverter, a second inverter, a mode changeover part including a plurality of mode changeover switches, each including an end connected to the opposite end of each of the plurality of windings and an opposite end interconnected to an opposite end of each of the other mode changeover switches to form a node, a battery, and a controller that applies a zero-phase current to the motor, thereby increasing battery temperature in a state where the opposite end of each of the plurality of windings and the node are electrically separated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2025
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Jae Ho HWANG, Hong Geuk PARK, Yong Jae LEE, Min KIM, Tae Young CHUNG, Jung Hwi KIM
  • Patent number: 12504670
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a lens driving device and a camera module including the same. A lens driving device according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a first frame including a lens and disposed on the substrate, a second frame on which the first frame is placed and a third frame on which the second frame is disposed. The first frame can move in a Z-axis direction, the second frame can tilt in X-axis and Y-axis directions and rotate around the Z axis, and the third frame can include a stopper structure to limit tilting and rotation of the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Kim, Sung Ki Jung
  • Publication number: 20250274067
    Abstract: In an inverter driving device and method, an inverter includes plurality of legs corresponding to a plurality of phases, respectively. A controller is configured to determine an offset voltage by which an amplitude of a cosine component of a pole voltage is less than or equal to a predetermined value based on a phase voltage command and is configured to control ON/OFF states of a switch included in each of the legs by pulse width modulation in which the offset voltage is reflected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2024
    Publication date: August 28, 2025
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Min KIM, Hong Geuk PARK, Jae Ho HWANG, Tae Young CHUNG, Jung Hwi KIM
  • Publication number: 20250273108
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides to a stretchable display device and a stretchable panel driving circuit, the display device including a stretchable display panel, a gate driving circuit configured to supply gate signals to pixels through gate lines, a data driving circuit, at least one stretch detection circuit group including at least one delay cell and at least one stretch variable capacitor disposed in a non-display area of the display panel, and configured to detect a delay time caused by stretch, a compensation control signal generator configured to generate a compensation control signal based on the delay time, and a timing controller configured to output a compensated signal based on the compensation control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: August 28, 2025
    Applicant: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Kim, SunYoon Kim, Sanggoo Jeong
  • Patent number: 12367839
    Abstract: A display device may include a plurality of subpixels respectively connected to a plurality of data lines; a data driving circuit configured to convert a compensated digital image data into an analog data voltage and to supply the analog data voltage to the data lines; a large-capacity memory configured to store initial compensation data based on a characteristic value for each of the plurality of subpixels; a high-speed memory configured to store sampled compensation data sampled from the initial compensation data for less than all of the plurality of subpixels in one frame; and a timing controller configured to control the gate driving circuit and the data driving circuit, to determine final compensation data based on at least one of the sampled compensation data and the initial compensation data, and to output the compensated digital image data based on an input image data and the final compensation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Rok Kim, Hyuckjun Kim, Min Kim
  • Patent number: 12345981
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a backlight unit, a display device, and a driving method. A sensing MUX circuit senses a voltage of a first light emitting node and a voltage of a second light emitting node, and then, detects whether a first light source connected between the first light emitting node and the second light emitting node is defective, whereby it is possible to specify and detect a defective light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changwoo Lee, SunYoon Kim, Min Kim, Sanggoo Jeong, Juyoung Noh
  • Patent number: 12199314
    Abstract: An electrode assembly including a positive electrode sheet having a positive electrode active material portion that is an area on which a positive electrode active material is stacked on a positive electrode collector and a positive electrode non-coating portion, a positive electrode tab disposed on the positive electrode non-coating portion, a negative electrode sheet having a negative electrode active material portion that is an area on which a negative electrode active material is stacked on a negative electrode collector and a negative electrode non-coating portion; a negative electrode tab disposed on the negative electrode non-coating portion, and a separator insulating the positive electrode sheet and the negative electrode sheet from each other is provided. The positive electrode non-coating portion includes a first positive electrode non-coating portion and a second positive electrode non-coating portion, which are provided on two portions spaced apart from each other on the positive electrode sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Hae Jin Lim, Min Kim, Sang Uck Kim
  • Publication number: 20240397179
    Abstract: A camera module including a substrate having a first region, a second region disposed upper than the first region, and a first connection part connecting the first region and the second region; a lens unit disposed on the first region of the substrate and including a lens; a heat sink part disposed on the first region of the substrate; and a light source element disposed on the second region of the substrate. The heat sink part is disposed between the first region of the substrate and the second region of the substrate in an optical axis direction of the light source element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min KIM
  • Publication number: 20240379966
    Abstract: Disclosure is a secondary battery including: a positive electrode current collector to which a cathode mixture containing a cathode active material is applied; a negative electrode current collector to which an anode mixture containing an anode active material is applied; a separator interposed between the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector, and having magnetism; and an accommodating layer provided between the negative electrode current collector and the separator, and accommodating ceramic powder including a magnetic material to move toward one side of the separator based on the magnetism of the separator. Thus, the ceramic powder having the magnetic material is arranged along the longitudinal direction of the separator as the accommodating layer moves close to the separator based on increase in the volume of the anode active material, thereby preventing dendrites from coming into contact with the separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Dongkon HAM, Min KIM, Seungmin YOO
  • Publication number: 20240340536
    Abstract: A camera module according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a magnet disposed in a mover for moving at least one lens; a first sensor unit for sensing the position of the magnet in correspondence to a first region in a moving region of the mover; a second sensor unit for sensing the position of the magnet in correspondence to a second region in the moving region of the mover; and a driving driver for receiving a first sensing signal of the first sensor unit and a second sensing signal of the second sensor unit, wherein the first sensor unit and the second sensor unit are connected in parallel to the driving driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Min KIM, Young Seop MOON
  • Patent number: 12081852
    Abstract: The present embodiment relates to a camera module comprising: a substrate having a first region, a second region, and a first connection portion between the first region and the second region; a lens unit disposed in the first region of the substrate and including a lens holder in which a lens a lens barrel are disposed; a heat sink part disposed adjacent to the lens unit in the first region of the substrate; and a light source element disposed above the heat sink part and disposed in the second region of the substrate, wherein the lens unit is disposed on a first surface of the substrate, the light source element is disposed on a second surface of the substrate, the first connection portion is bent at the side surface of the heat sink part so as to connect the first region and the second region, the first connection portion includes a flexible substrate, and the flexible substrate is disposed between the first surface and the second surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min Kim
  • Patent number: D1055892
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyeongchul Cho, Jongho Kim, Min Kim, Myungwhoon Lee
  • Patent number: D1055893
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyeongchul Cho, Jongho Kim, Min Kim, Myungwhoon Lee
  • Patent number: D1066289
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyeongchul Cho, Jongho Kim, Min Kim, Myungwhoon Lee
  • Patent number: D1076866
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyeongchul Cho, Jongho Kim, Min Kim, Myungwhoon Lee