Patents by Inventor Myung-Wouk Kim
Myung-Wouk 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).
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Patent number: 8104853Abstract: Disclosed are a refrigerator and a method of manufacturing a door of the refrigerator. The door includes a door frame formed with at least one opening, at least one front panel coupled to a front surface of the door frame to open or close the opening, a rear panel coupled to a rear surface of the door frame to form a foaming cavity together with the front panel and provided with a rack receiving water bottles, and a decorative member formed at a front surface of the front panel. A chamfer is formed at an edge portion of the door frame.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2007Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Myung Soo Kim, Myung Wouk Kim, Yong Kyung Kim, Jun Seong Lim, Young Jin Seo, Jong Il Lee
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Publication number: 20080143227Abstract: Disclosed are a refrigerator and a method of manufacturing a door of the refrigerator. The door includes a door frame formed with at least one opening, at least one front panel coupled to a front surface of the door frame to open or close the opening, a rear panel coupled to a rear surface of the door frame to form a foaming cavity together with the front panel and provided with a rack receiving water bottles, and a decorative member formed at a front surface of the front panel. A chamfer is formed at an edge portion of the door frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2007Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Myung Soo Kim, Myung Wouk Kim, Yong Kyung Kim, Jun Seong Lim, Young Jin Seo, Jong Il Lee
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Patent number: 7322209Abstract: A refrigerator, and more particularly, a refrigerator equipped with a machinery chamber door, which is provided to open or close a machinery chamber formed at an upper portion of a body of the refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a body with a storage chamber, and with a machinery chamber provided at an upper portion of the body such that the machinery chamber is partitioned from the storage chamber, an opening portion provided at one side of the machinery chamber, a machinery chamber door hingably coupled to the opening portion such that the machinery chamber door can be rotated up and down to open or close the machinery chamber, a recess member provided to the machinery chamber door and defined with a recess, and an insertion member inserted into the recess and fixed to the body.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2005Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji Sick Hwang, Hyun Jong Kim, Myung Wouk Kim
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Patent number: 7293847Abstract: A cabinet for recessed refrigerators, which has an integrated single inner casing. The cabinet has an outer casing to define an appearance of the cabinet, the outer casing being a box-shaped body open at the front thereof, and an integrated single inner casing installed in the outer casing, with a predetermined space defined between the inner and outer casings. The integrated single inner casing defines therein at least two storage compartments open at the fronts thereof, with a partition wall formed between the at least two storage compartments to maintain a predetermined gap between the storage compartments. The cabinet has an improved appearance and a stable structure, in addition to reducing the number of elements thereof, and improving assembly efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2003Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Seung Lee, Myung Wouk Kim, Gi Joong Jeong, Jong Dal Lee, Sang-Gyu Jung, Ji Sick Hwang
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Patent number: 7188490Abstract: A refrigerator including a body provided therein with a storage chamber, an uplifted part projected from a rear portion of a top of the body so that a cooling room is formed to have a space extending above the storage chamber, a machine room provided above a front portion of the top of the body and in front of the uplifted part, a cooling unit removably disposed in the cooling room, an evaporator and a cold air circulating fan provided in a cold air passage of the cooling unit, and circulating passages formed in upper and rear portions of the storage chamber, respectively, to be connected to the cold air passage of the cooling unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2003Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gi Joong Jeong, Jong Dal Lee, Myung Wouk Kim, Jae-Seung Lee
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Patent number: 7185509Abstract: A refrigerator in which a machine room and an air cooling chamber having an evaporator, are placed at a top of a cabinet to maximize the storage capacity of lower sections of storage compartments. The refrigerator includes a cabinet defining a storage compartment therein. A top projection part is formed by projecting a rear portion of a top of the cabinet upward. The top projection part defines the air cooling chamber therein, such that the air cooling chamber extends upward from an upper portion of the storage compartment. The machine room is defined on the top of the cabinet at a position in front of the top projection part, and receives a compressor and a condenser therein.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2003Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Seung Lee, Myung Wouk Kim, Gi Joong Jeong, Jong Dal Lee, Ji Sick Hwang, Sang Gyu Jung
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Patent number: 7137266Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling apparatus including a compressor, a condenser, a first expanding unit, a second expanding unit, a third expanding unit, a first evaporator, and a second evaporator; a first refrigerant circuit containing refrigerant discharged from the compressor and flowing into a suction side of the compressor through the condenser, the first expanding unit, the first evaporator, the second expanding unit and the second evaporator; a second refrigerant circuit containing the refrigerant passing through the condenser flowing into the suction side of the compressor through the third expanding unit and the second evaporator; a flow path control unit installed at a discharge side of the condenser, switching a refrigerant flow path so that the refrigerant passing through the condenser flows through at least one of the first and second refrigerant circuits; and a control unit selectively opening and closing the flow path control unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2005Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoon-Young Kim, Hak-Gyun Bae, Chang-Nyeun Kim, Jae-Seung Lee, Myung-Wouk Kim, Eung-Ryeol Seo
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Patent number: 7036334Abstract: A refrigerator having a temperature-controlled chamber, which stores food to be readily cooked without a thawing process. A cool air inlet port introduces cool air from the freezer compartment into the temperature-controlled chamber. The cool air inlet port is opened or closed by an intake damper. A cooling fan and a temperature sensor are installed in the temperature-controlled chamber. A cool air discharging duct is provided to guide the cool air from the temperature-controlled chamber into the freezer compartment. An inlet of the cool air discharging duct is connected to a portion of the temperature-controlled chamber. A heater is mounted to an outer surface of the outlet of the cool air discharging duct to perform a defrosting operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2003Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung Bok Ko, Myung Wouk Kim, Hak Gyun Bae, Yoon Young Kim
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Patent number: 6973802Abstract: An ice supply device and a refrigerator having the same. The ice supply device includes an ice tray provided with an outlet for discharging ice cubes therethrough at one side thereof, a conveying device installed in the ice tray and rotated to convey the ice cubes toward the outlet, an ice crushing device, installed at the outlet, for crushing the ice cubes conveyed toward the outlet, a pressure device having a hollowed cylindrical structure for pushing the ice cubes to the ice crushing device by applying pressure to the ice cubes, and a catching member, by which the ice cubes outwardly protruded from an inlet of the pressure device are caught. The ice cubes exceeding designated dimensions, which do not pass through the pressure device and are outwardly protruded from the pressure device, are caught by the catching member and are sliced away from main portions of the ice cubes, thereby reducing the sizes of the ice cubes and allowing the ice cubes to be smoothly supplied.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2004Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eung Ryeol Seo, Tae Wan Kang, Sang Gyu Jung, Yo Hyun Song, Myung Wouk Kim
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Patent number: 6945057Abstract: An ice maker capable of efficiently making and removing ice cubes. The ice maker includes first and second pulleys, a drive unit, an ice making conveyor, heat/light generating units, and a reflecting member. The first and second pulleys are spaced apart from each other. The drive unit rotates the first and second pulleys. The ice making conveyor is wrapped around the first and second pulleys, and has a plurality of ice making parts which are concavely formed to contain water therein. The heat/light generating units are located in an interior of the ice making conveyor. The reflecting member covers upper and side portions of the heat/light generating units to downwardly reflect and guide heat and the light generated from the heat/light generating units.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2004Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji Sick Hwang, Myung-Wouk Kim, Jae Seung Lee, Sang Gyu Jung, Gil Hyoung Cho, Sung Jun Hyun
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Patent number: 6935127Abstract: A refrigerator which performs various refrigeration cycles by variously changing refrigerant paths, thus accomplishing refrigerant evaporating temperatures suitable for a refrigerator compartment evaporator and a freezer compartment evaporator, respectively, and which cools a selected one of a refrigerator compartment and a freezer compartment as desired to enhance a cooling efficiency and increasing a cooling speed of the refrigerator.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2003Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: In-Chang Jeong, Hak-Gyun Bae, Myung-Wouk Kim
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Patent number: 6931870Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling apparatus including a compressor, a condenser, a first expanding unit, a second expanding unit, a third expanding unit, a first evaporator, and a second evaporator; a first refrigerant circuit containing refrigerant discharged from the compressor and flowing into a suction side of the compressor through the condenser, the first expanding unit, the first evaporator, the second expanding unit and the second evaporator; a second refrigerant circuit containing the refrigerant passing through the condenser flowing into the suction side of the compressor through the third expanding unit and the second evaporator; a flow path control unit installed at a discharge side of the condenser, switching a refrigerant flow path so that the refrigerant passing through the condenser flows through at least one of the first and second refrigerant circuits; and a control unit selectively opening and closing the flow path control unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2003Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoon-Young Kim, Hak-Gyun Bae, Chang-Nyeun Kim, Jae-Seung Lee, Myung-Wouk Kim, Eung-Ryeol Seo
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Publication number: 20050172665Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling apparatus including a compressor, a condenser, a first expanding unit, a second expanding unit, a third expanding unit, a first evaporator, and a second evaporator; a first refrigerant circuit containing refrigerant discharged from the compressor and flowing into a suction side of the compressor through the condenser, the first expanding unit, the first evaporator, the second expanding unit and the second evaporator; a second refrigerant circuit containing the refrigerant passing through the condenser flowing into the suction side of the compressor through the third expanding unit and the second evaporator; a flow path control unit installed at a discharge side of the condenser, switching a refrigerant flow path so that the refrigerant passing through the condenser flows through at least one of the first and second refrigerant circuits; and a control unit selectively opening and closing the flow path control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2005Publication date: August 11, 2005Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoon-Young Kim, Hak-Gyun Bae, Chang-Nyeun Kim, Jae-Seung Lee, Myung-Wouk Kim, Eung-Ryeol Seo
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Publication number: 20050016202Abstract: A refrigerator having a temperature-controlled chamber, which stores food to be readily cooked without a thawing process. A cool air inlet port introduces cool air from the freezer compartment into the temperature-controlled chamber. The cool air inlet port is opened or closed by an intake damper. A cooling fan and a temperature sensor are installed in the temperature-controlled chamber. A cool air discharging duct is provided to guide the cool air from the temperature-controlled chamber into the freezer compartment. An inlet of the cool air discharging duct is connected to a portion of the temperature-controlled chamber. A heater is mounted to an outer surface of the outlet of the cool air discharging duct to perform a defrosting operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2003Publication date: January 27, 2005Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., LTD.Inventors: Sung Bok Ko, Myung Wouk Kim, Hak Gyun Bae, Yoon Young Kim
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Patent number: 6845545Abstract: An apparatus to automatically close a refrigerator door when the door is opened at a predetermined angle or less. The apparatus includes a hinge mechanism having a first hinge shaft provided at the door, which allows the door to be coupled to a refrigerator cabinet and allows the door to be rotated about the hinge shaft, a tension spring provided at the refrigerator cabinet to apply the door with a tension force for closing the door, and a unit to asborb shock generated when the door is closed by the tension spring, and the a unit to absorb shock includes a housing coupled to the cabinet, and a movable shaft which is received in the housing at its one end and connected to the door at the other end to be linearly moved in the housing, and wherein the tension spring is connected to the cabinet at its one end and connected to the movable shaft at the other end to apply the door with a tension force of closing the door.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2003Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae-Myeong Han, Myung-Wouk Kim, Yong-Pil Park
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Publication number: 20040237566Abstract: An ice maker capable of efficiently making and removing ice cubes. The ice maker includes first and second pulleys, a drive unit, an ice making conveyor, heat/light generating units, and a reflecting member. The first and second pulleys are spaced apart from each other. The drive unit rotates the first and second pulleys. The ice making conveyor is wrapped around the first and second pulleys, and has a plurality of ice making parts which are concavely formed to contain water therein. The heat/light generating units are located in an interior of the ice making conveyor. The reflecting member covers upper and side portions of the heat/light generating units to downwardly reflect and guide heat and the light generated from the heat/light generating units.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ji Sick Hwang, Myung-Wouk Kim, Jae Seung Lee, Sang Gyu Jung, Gil Hyoung Cho, Sung Jun Hyun
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Publication number: 20040139763Abstract: A refrigerator including a body provided therein with a storage chamber, an uplifted part projected from a rear portion of a top of the body so that a cooling room is formed to have a space extending above the storage chamber, a machine room provided above a front portion of the top of the body and in front of the uplifted part, a cooling unit removably disposed in the cooling room, an evaporator and a cold air circulating fan provided in a cold air passage of the cooling unit, and circulating passages formed in upper and rear portions of the storage chamber, respectively, to be connected to the cold air passage of the cooling unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2003Publication date: July 22, 2004Inventors: Gi Joong Jeong, Jong Dal Lee, Myung Wouk Kim, Jae-Seung Lee
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Publication number: 20040107727Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling apparatus including a compressor, a condenser, a first expanding unit, a second expanding unit, a third expanding unit, a first evaporator, and a second evaporator; a first refrigerant circuit containing refrigerant discharged from the compressor and flowing into a suction side of the compressor through the condenser, the first expanding unit, the first evaporator, the second expanding unit and the second evaporator; a second refrigerant circuit containing the refrigerant passing through the condenser flowing into the suction side of the compressor through the third expanding unit and the second evaporator; a flow path control unit installed at a discharge side of the condenser, switching a refrigerant flow path so that the refrigerant passing through the condenser flows through at least one of the first and second refrigerant circuits; and a control unit selectively opening and closing the flow path control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2003Publication date: June 10, 2004Applicant: SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoon-Young Kim, Hak-Gyun Bae, Chang-Nyeun Kim, Jae-Seung Lee, Myung-Wouk Kim, Eung-Ryeol Seo
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Publication number: 20040104654Abstract: A cabinet for recessed refrigerators, which has an integrated single inner casing. The cabinet has an outer casing to define an appearance of the cabinet, the outer casing being a box-shaped body open at the front thereof, and an integrated single inner casing installed in the outer casing, with a predetermined space defined between the inner and outer casings. The integrated single inner casing defines therein at least two storage compartments open at the fronts thereof, with a partition wall formed between the at least two storage compartments to maintain a predetermined gap between the storage compartments. The cabinet according to the present invention has an improved appearance and a stable structure, in addition to reducing the number of elements thereof, and improving assembly efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2003Publication date: June 3, 2004Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Seung Lee, Myung Wouk Kim, Gi Joong Jeong, Jong Dal Lee, Sang-Gyu Jung, Ji Sick Hwang
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Publication number: 20040040338Abstract: A refrigerator in which a machine room and an air cooling chamber having an evaporator, are placed at a top of a cabinet to maximize the storage capacity of lower sections of storage compartments. The refrigerator includes a cabinet defining a storage compartment therein. A top projection part is formed by projecting a rear portion of a top of the cabinet upward. The top projection part defines the air cooling chamber therein, such that the air cooling chamber extends upward from an upper portion of the storage compartment. The machine room is defined on the top of the cabinet at a position in front of the top projection part, and receives a compressor and a condenser therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Jae Seung Lee, Myung Wouk Kim, Gi Joong Jeong, Jong Dal Lee, Ji Sick Hwang, Sang Gyu Jung