Patents by Inventor Myung Hee Kwon

Myung Hee Kwon 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: 11958341
    Abstract: A vehicular air-conditioning apparatus includes a photocatalytic module in which light is radiated on a photocatalytic filter to sterilize the photocatalytic filter. In particular, vehicular air-conditioning apparatus incudes: a duct to allow conditioned air to flow therethrough; the photocatalytic filter mounted in the duct and coated with a photocatalytic material to remove harmful substances in reaction to light energy; and a rotation unit rotatably mounted in the duct. In particular, the rotation unit is provided with a light source to radiate light toward the photocatalytic filter. When the rotation unit is rotated, a position of the light source is changed in a rotational direction of the rotation unit such that the light is radiated on the photocatalytic filter over an increased range. Thus, a filter sterilization effect is improved over the entire area of the photocatalytic filter with reduced number of light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jae Seung Lee, Gee Young Shin, Dae Hee Lee, Dong Ho Kwon, Seung Sik Han, Myung Hoe Kim
  • Patent number: 11951804
    Abstract: An air-conditioning device for mobilities and an air-conditioning control system for mobilities using the same, which are capable of performing independent air-conditioning control for each seat when a mobility is heated and cooled, thereby preventing wastage of heating and cooling energy by performing individual air conditioning for each seat depending on whether a passenger is seated, and ensuring comfort of all passengers by providing conditioned air to each seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Su Yeon Kang, Gee Young Shin, Dae Hee Lee, Myung Hoe Kim, Dong Ho Kwon
  • Publication number: 20230322860
    Abstract: An antibody fragment includes only constant regions of an antibody having no variable regions of an antibody is disclosed. The antibody fragment (IgCw-?1?2-4/?) contains heavy chain and light-chain constant regions in which a gamma constant region ((C?1) and an epsilon constant region (C?2-4) are fused; a nucleic acid encoding the antibody fragment; a kit including the antibody or nucleic acid; and use thereof. The recombinant protein IgCw-?1?2-4/? containing only of the constant regions of an antibody can be used as an Fc epsilon receptor inhibitor for inhibiting allergic responses. Therefore, IgCw-?1?2-4/? can be used in various ways in the biomedical science field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Myung-Hee KWON, Minjae KIM, Jeonghyun LEE, Juho CHOI, Youngsil SEO
  • Patent number: 9534040
    Abstract: Provided is an antiviral agent against animal viruses. The antiviral agent contains a protein or a nucleic acid sequence encoding the protein, as an active ingredient, the protein having binding ability and degrading ability to foreign nucleic acid chains invaded in an animal cell and that has no cytotoxicity to the animal cell itself. Also provided is an antiviral animal cell containing the protein according to the present invention, or the nucleic acid sequence encoding the protein. The antiviral agent and antiviral animal cell exhibit advantageous effects in that they selectively degrade foreign nucleic acid chains invaded in an animal cell and have no cytotoxicity to the animal cell, thus causing no death of the animal cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: Sungkyunkwan University Foundation for Corporate Collaboration, Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Invitroplant Co., Ltd., Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency
    Inventors: Suk-Chan Lee, Yong-Sung Kim, Myung-Hee Kwon, Tai-Hyun Kim, Jeong-Sun Kim, Gun-Sup Lee, Hye-Kyung Shim, Eul-Yong Park, Yu-Chul Chung, Ki-Yoon Kim, Yi-Jung Jung, Woo-Ram Lee, Young-Rim Kim, Jong-Nam Sohn, Seung-Hyun Lee, Jae Young Song, Eun Jin Choi
  • Publication number: 20160083455
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an antiviral agent against animal viruses. The antiviral agent contains a protein or a nucleic acid sequence encoding the protein, as an active ingredient, the protein having binding ability and degrading ability to foreign nucleic acid chains invaded in an animal cell and that has no cytotoxicity to the animal cell itself. Disclosed herein is further an antiviral animal cell containing the protein according to the present invention, or the nucleic acid sequence encoding the protein. The antiviral agent and antiviral animal cell exhibit advantageous effects in that they selectively degrade foreign nucleic acid chains invaded in an animal cell and have no cytotoxicity to the animal cell, thus causing no death of the animal cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Suk-Chan Lee, Yong-Sung Kim, Myung-Hee Kwon, Tai-Hyun Kim, Jeong-Sun Kim, Gun-Sup Lee, Hye-Kyung Shim, Eul-Yong Park, Yu-Chul Jung, Ki-Yoon Kim, Yi-Jung Jung, Woo-Ram Lee, Young-Rim Kim, Jong-Nam Sohn, Seung-Hyun Lee, Jae Young Song, Eun Jin Choi
  • Patent number: 8492343
    Abstract: There are provided a Kringle domain structure, comprising: inducing artificial mutations at amino acid residues except for conserved amino acid residues that are important to maintain the structural scaffold of a Kringle domain; and protein scaffold variants, based on the Kringle domain structure, which modulate the biological activities of a variety of target molecules derived from the protein scaffold library by specifically binding to the target molecules. Also, there is provided a method for constructing homo-/hetero-oligomers which allow multi-specificity binding to multiple targets by the tandem assembly monomeric Kringle domain variants using a linker. Additionally, there is provided a method for preparing multispecific monomers and multivalent monomers by grafting target-binding loops of a Kringle domain variant into non-binding loops of another Kringle domain variant with the same or different target binding specificity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Yong-Sung Kim, Myung-Hee Kwon, Chang-Han Lee
  • Publication number: 20120021993
    Abstract: There are provided a Kringle domain structure, comprising: inducing artificial mutations at amino acid residues except for conserved amino acid residues that are important to maintain the structural scaffold of a Kringle domain; and protein scaffold variants, based on the Kringle domain structure, which modulate the biological activities of a variety of target molecules derived from the protein scaffold library by specifically binding to the target molecules. Also, there is provided a method for constructing homo-/hetero-oligomers which allow multi-specificity binding to multiple targets by the tandem assembly monomeric Kringle domain variants using a linker. Additionally, there is provided a method for preparing multispecific monomers and multivalent monomers by grafting target-binding loops of a Kringle domain variant into non-binding loops of another Kringle domain variant with the same or different target binding specificity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Yong-Sung Kim, Myung-Hee Kwon, Chang-Han Lee
  • Patent number: 8097704
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antibody specifically binding to death receptor 5 (DR5), which is selected from the group consisting of: an antibody comprising a heavy chain variable region (VH) having the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 3 at complementary determining regions (CDRs) and a light chain variable region (VL) having the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 4 to 6 at CDRs; and an antibody comprising a (VH) having the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 7 to 9 at CDRs and a (VL) having the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 10 to 12 at CDRs, and a composition for preventing or treating a cancer comprising the same. The antibody of the present invention can be effectively used for the prevention or treatment of various cancers, through inducing autophagic cell death of TRAIL-sensitive cancer cells as well as TRAIL-resistant cancer cells by specific binding to DR5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Yong Sung Kim, Myung Hee Kwon, Seung Hyun Lee, Kyung Jin Park, Hae Won Lee
  • Publication number: 20110263829
    Abstract: Disclosed are a cell-penetrating, base sequence-specific, nucleic acid-hydrolyzing antibody, a method of preparing the same, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same. The antibody can be prepared by modifying a particular site of a cell-penetrating, nucleic acid-hydrolyzing antibody which lacks substrate specificity to impart sequence specificity thereto without alteration in nucleic acid-hydrolyzing ability. The antibody, when penetrating into cells by itself or ectopically expressed within cells, binds specifically to single- or double-stranded nucleic acid targets and hydrolyzes them, thus downregulating the expression of the targeted genes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Yong-Sung Kim, Myung-Hee Kwon, Woo Ram Lee
  • Publication number: 20110201104
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an antiviral agent against animal viruses. The antiviral agent contains a protein or a nucleic acid sequence encoding the protein, as an active ingredient, the protein having binding ability and degrading ability to foreign nucleic acid chains invaded in an animal cell and that has no cytotoxicity to the animal cell itself. Disclosed herein is further an antiviral animal cell containing the protein according to the present invention, or the nucleic acid sequence encoding the protein. The antiviral agent and antiviral animal cell exhibit advantageous effects in that they selectively degrade foreign nucleic acid chains invaded in an animal cell and have no cytotoxicity to the animal cell, thus causing no death of the animal cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicants: Sungkyunkwan University Foundaton for Corporate Collaboration, Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Invitroplant Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suk-Chan Lee, Yong-Sung Kim, Myung-Hee Kwon, Tai-Hyun Kim, Jeong-Sun Kim, Gun-Sup Lee, Hye-Kyung Shim, Eul-Yong Park, Yu-Chul Jung, Ki-Yoon Kim, Yi-Jung Jung, Woo-Ram Lee, Young-Rim Kim, Jong-Nam Sohn, Seung-Hyun Lee
  • Publication number: 20110159569
    Abstract: There are provided an anti-nucleic acid antibody inducing cell death of cancer cells by invading normal cells; and a composition for preventing or treating cancers comprising the anti-nucleic acid antibody, which shows anticancer effect of an anti-nucleic acid antibody that shows cytotoxicity by damaging nucleic acid strands, that is, genetic information of a cancer cell when the anti-nucleic acid antibody, which has binding activity and degrading activity to the nucleic acid strands in cells at the same time, is overexpressed in the cancer cell, or flows in the cancer cell. Therefore, the composition for treating cancers may be useful to induce the selective cell death in cancer cells than in normal cells since the anti-nucleic acid antibody very easily permeates into the cancer cells due to the excellent selectivity, compared to the normal cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: Ajou University IndustryAcademic Cooperation Found
    Inventors: Myung-Hee Kwon, Yong-Sung Kim, Ji-Young Jang
  • Publication number: 20090317396
    Abstract: The present invention provides an antibody specifically binding to death receptor 5 (DR5), which is selected from the group consisting of: an antibody comprising a heavy chain variable region (VH) having the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 3 at complementary determining regions (CDRs) and a light chain variable region (VL) having the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 4 to 6 at CDRs; and an antibody comprising a (VH) having the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 7 to 9 at CDRs and a (VL) having the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 10 to 12 at CDRs, and a composition for preventing or treating a cancer comprising the same. The antibody of the present invention can be effectively used for the prevention or treatment of various cancers, through inducing autophagic cell death of TRAIL-sensitive cancer cells as well as TRAIL-resistant cancer cells by specific binding to DR5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Yong Sung Kim, Myung Hee Kwon, Seung Hyun Lee, Kyung Jin Park, Hae Won Lee