Patents by Inventor Myung-Soo Kim

Myung-Soo 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: 12371770
    Abstract: A hot-dip galvanized steel sheet according to one aspect of the present invention comprises a base steel sheet and a hot-dip galvanized layer formed on the surface of the base steel sheet, wherein the difference between the average of the Mn/Si values of surface oxides present on a surface portion, which is the region from the interface between the hot-dip galvanized layer and the base steel sheet to a depth of 15 nm, and the average of the Mn/Si values of internal oxides, which are present in the region from the interface to a depth of 50-100 nm, can be 0.5 or more. Mn and Si of each oxide mean the amounts (wt %) of Mn and Si components in the oxide, which are measured by EDS, and the average of Mn/Si values means the averaged value of the Mn/Si values measured for each oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ki-Cheol Kang, Tae-Chul Kim, Myung-Soo Kim, Jong-Sang Kim
  • Patent number: 12331405
    Abstract: A galvanized steel sheet including a base steel sheet, and a zinc-based plating layer on the surface of the base steel sheet. The base steel sheet may include a first surface layer region corresponding to a depth of 25 ?m from an interface between the base steel sheet and the zinc-based plating layer in a thickness direction of the base steel sheet, and a second surface layer region adjacent to the first surface layer region and corresponding to a depth of 25 ?m to 50 ?m in the thickness direction of the base steel sheet. A fraction of ferrite contained in the first surface layer region is 55 area % or more, an average grain size of the ferrite contained in the first surface layer region is 2 to 10 ?m, and a fraction of ferrite contained in the second surface layer region is 30 area % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ki-Cheol Kang, Jong-Chan Park, Seul-Gi So, Myung-Soo Kim
  • Publication number: 20250188585
    Abstract: Provided is an aluminum coated steel sheet having excellent anti-corrosion properties and weldability, and a manufacturing method thereof. The aluminum coated steel sheet includes: an austenitic base steel sheet including at least 70 area % of an austenite microstructure; and an aluminum coating layer formed on the base steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet includes at least 80 area % of ferrite in a surface layer portion, which denotes a region extending from the interface with the coating layer to a depth of 100 ?m into the base steel sheet, and the aluminum coating layer may have a composition comprising 2-12 wt % of Si, 5-30 wt % of Zn, and 0.1-5 wt % of Mn, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Suk-Kyu LEE, Jong-Gi OH, Myung-Soo KIM
  • Publication number: 20250163559
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a manufacture for manufacturing an Al—Zn alloy plated steel sheet having high hot workability and corrosion resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Suk-Kyu Lee, Il-Jeong Park, Myung-Soo Kim
  • Publication number: 20250146115
    Abstract: Provided is a zinc alloy-plated steel material having excellent corrosion resistance and surface qualities. The steel material includes: a base steel; a zinc alloy-plating layer formed on the base steel, wherein the zinc alloy-plating layer comprises, by weight %, 8 to 25% of aluminum (Al), 4 to 12% of magnesium (Mg), and a balance of zinc (Zn) and inevitable impurities; and a polygonal solidification phase formed in a surface of the zinc alloy-plating layer and having a substantially straight boundary line between the polygonal solidification phase and a microstructure surrounding the polygonal solidification phase. The substantially straight boundary line forms an angle with an adjacent substantially straight boundary line, and an area fraction occupied by the polygonal solidification phase on the surface of the zinc alloy-plating layer is 20 to 90%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Heung-Yun KIM, Do-Kyeong HAN, Myung-Soo KIM
  • Patent number: 12270108
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a plated steel sheet having excellent corrosion resistance, workability and surface quality, and at the same time, capable of reducing occurrence of liquid metal embrittlement (LME).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Il-Ryoung Sohn, Sung-Joo Kim, Tae-Chul Kim, Bong-Hwan Yoo, Myung-Soo Kim, Jong-Sang Kim, Sang-Tae Han, Kwang-Won Kim
  • Patent number: 12241161
    Abstract: Provided are an aluminum-zinc alloy plated steel sheet having excellent hot workability and corrosion resistance, and a method for manufacturing same. The plated steel sheet has an Al—Zn hot-dip aluminized coating layer on a base steel sheet, wherein: the coating layer is composed of a lower layer part and an upper layer part; the lower layer part comprises 40-50% of Fe, 50-60% of Al, 1% or less of Si, and other unavoidable impurities, on the basis of wt % of the lower layer part itself; the upper layer part comprises 10-30% of Zn, the balance of Al, and 0.05% or less of at least one of Cr, Mo, and Ni as an impurity, on the basis of wt % of the upper layer part itself; and the thickness of the upper layer part accounts for 30% or less of the total thickness of the coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Suk-Kyu Lee, Il-Jeong Park, Myung-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 12221700
    Abstract: Provided is an aluminum coated steel sheet having excellent anti-corrosion properties and weldability, and a manufacturing method thereof. The aluminum coated steel sheet includes: an austenitic base steel sheet including at least 70 area % of an austenite microstructure; and an aluminum coating layer formed on the base steel sheet, wherein the base steel sheet includes at least 80 area % of ferrite in a surface layer portion, which denotes a region extending from the interface with the coating layer to a depth of 100 ?m into the base steel sheet, and the aluminum coating layer may have a composition comprising 2-12 wt % of Si, 5-30 wt % of Zn, and 0.1-5 wt % of Mn, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Suk-Kyu Lee, Jong-Gi Oh, Myung-Soo Kim
  • Publication number: 20250034692
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet having excellent workability and corrosion resistance and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet includes a base sheet, and an alloy-plated layer formed on the base sheet. Interfacial roughness between the alloy-plated layer and the base steel sheet is 25 ?m or less. Such an aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet prevents microcracks generated during hot forming and has excellent seizure resistance and corrosion resistance. A method for manufacturing such an aluminum alloy-plated steel is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: POSCO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suk-Kyu Lee, Hyeon-Seok Hwang, Myung-Soo Kim, Jong-Gi Oh, Kwang-Tai Min
  • Publication number: 20250034658
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a primer set for discrimination of bacterial species in a probiotic composition and a method for discriminating bacterial species using the same. Specifically, in the present invention, a primer set targeting the ITS (internal transcribed spacer) region between the 16S rRNA and 23S rRNA of probiotic species and pathogenic bacterial species has been constructed, it has been confirmed that 21 probiotic species and 4 pathogenic bacterial species can be discriminated with high resolution and accuracy by performing metagenomic analysis of a probiotic composition using the same, and the primer set can be usefully used to discriminate bacterial species in a probiotic composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Myung-Soo KIM, Eun Young KANG, Jong-Hyun LIM, Byung-Yong KIM
  • Publication number: 20250003029
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plated steel sheet having excellent in corrosion resistance and surface appearance and a method for manufacturing the same. And more specifically, the present invention provides a Zn-Mg-Al-based plated steel sheet having excellent in corrosion resistance, surface appearance and image clarity after painting, and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tae-Chul Kim, Sung-Joo Kim, Myung-Soo Kim, Bong-Hwan Yoo, Yong-Kyun Cho, Il-Ryoung Sohn
  • Patent number: 12152305
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet having excellent workability and corrosion resistance and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet that includes a base sheet, and an alloy-plated layer formed on the base sheet. Interfacial roughness between the alloy-plated layer and the base steel sheet is 25. ?m or less. Such an aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet prevents microcracks generated during hot forming and has excellent seizure resistance and corrosion resistance. A method for manufacturing such an aluminum alloy-plated steel is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Suk-Kyu Lee, Hyeon-Seok Hwang, Myung-Soo Kim, Jong-Gi Oh, Kwang-Tai Min
  • Publication number: 20240368736
    Abstract: The present invention provides a plated steel sheet excellent in corrosion resistance and excellent in at least one of weldability and phosphatability, and a manufacturing method therefor. And more specifically, the present invention provides a Zn—Mg—Al-based plated steel sheet excellent in corrosion resistance, weldability and phosphatability, and a manufacturing method therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Sung-Joo Kim, Tae-Chul Kim, Myung-Soo Kim, Bong-Hwan Yoo, Yong-Kyun Cho
  • Publication number: 20240360541
    Abstract: The present invention provides a Zn—Mg—Al plated steel sheet having excellent in corrosion resistance and bendability, and a method for manufacturing same. And more specifically, the present invention provides a Zn—Mg—Al-based plated steel sheet having excellent in corrosion resistance, bendability, and plating adhesion, and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tae-Chul Kim, Sung-Joo Kim, Myung-Soo Kim, Bong-Hwan Yoo, Yong-Kyun Cho, Il-Ryoung Sohn
  • Publication number: 20240360540
    Abstract: The present invention provides a Zn—Mg—Al-based plated steel sheet having excellent in corrosion resistance and whiteness, and a method for manufacturing the same. And more specifically, the present invention provides a Zn—Mg—Al-based plated steel sheet having excellent in corrosion resistance, whiteness and bendability, and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tae-Chul Kim, Sung-Joo Kim, Myung-Soo Kim, Bong-Hwan Yoo, Yong-Kyun Cho, Il-Ryoung Sohn
  • Publication number: 20240344191
    Abstract: Provided are a plated steel sheet and a method for manufacturing same, the plated steel sheet comprising: a base steel sheet; a Zn—Mg—Al plating layer provided on at least one surface of the base steel sheet; and an Fe—Al inhibition layer provided between the base steel sheet and the Zn—Mg—Al plating layer. The plating layer comprises, by weight %, 4 to 10% of Mg and 5.1-25% of Al and the remainder being Zn and unavoidable impurities with respect to components not including iron (Fe) diffused from the base steel sheet. The plating layer comprises a 24-50% MgZn2 phase in phase fraction. In the MgZn2 phase, an Al single phase is present in the ratio of 1-30% relative to the cross-sectional area of the total MgZn2 phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicants: POSCO CO., LTD, STEEL & CONVERGENCE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, POSCO COATED & COLOR STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Joo Kim, Kyung-Kwan Park, Moon-Hi Hong, Heung-Yun Kim, Tae-Yeul Park, Myung-Soo Kim, Il-Ryoung Sohn, Tae-Chul Kim, Dae-Young Kang
  • Publication number: 20240263291
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides a plated steel sheet and a manufacturing method therefor, the plated steel sheet comprising: a base steel sheet; a Zn—Mg—Al-based plated layer provided on at least one surface of the base steel sheet; and an Fe—Al-based inhibition layer provided between the base steel sheet and the Zn—Mg—Al-based plated layer, wherein, on the surface of the Zn—Mg—Al-based plated layer, the total area fraction of an Al single phase and MgZn2 phase is 45-60%, and the area ratio of the MgZn2 phase to the Al single phase is 1.2-3.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Sung-Joo Kim, Il-Ryoung Sohn, Tae-Chul Kim, Kwang-Won Kim, Sang-Tae Han, Myung-Soo Kim, Yong-Kyun Cho
  • Patent number: 12054829
    Abstract: Provided are a plated steel sheet and a method for manufacturing same, the plated steel sheet comprising: a base steel sheet; a Zn—Mg—Al plating layer provided on at least one surface of the base steel sheet; and an Fe—Al inhibition layer provided between the base steel sheet and the Zn—Mg—Al plating layer. The plating layer comprises, by weight %, 4 to 10% of Mg and 5.1-25% of Al and the remainder being Zn and unavoidable impurities with respect to components not including iron (Fe) diffused from the base steel sheet. The plating layer comprises a 24-50% MgZn2 phase in phase fraction. In the MgZn2 phase, an Al single phase is present in the ratio of 1-30% relative to the cross-sectional area of the total MgZn2 phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignees: POSCO, STEEL & CONVERGENCE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, POSCO COATED & COLOR STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Joo Kim, Kyung-Kwan Park, Moon-Hi Hong, Heung-Yun Kim, Tae-Yeul Park, Myung-Soo Kim, Il-Ryoung Sohn, Tae-Chul Kim, Dae-Young Kang
  • Patent number: 12006576
    Abstract: Provided are a plated steel sheet and a method for manufacturing same, the plated steel sheet comprising: a base steel sheet; a Zn—Mg—Al plating layer provided on at least one surface of the base steel sheet; and an Fe—Al inhibition layer provided between the base steel sheet and the Zn—Mg—Al plating layer. The plating layer comprises, by weight %, 4 to 10% of Mg and 5.1-25% of Al and the remainder being Zn and unavoidable impurities with respect to components not including iron (Fe) diffused from the base steel sheet. The plating layer comprises a 24-50% MgZn2 phase in phase fraction. In the MgZn2 phase, an Al single phase is present in the ratio of 1-30% relative to the cross-sectional area of the total MgZn2 phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: POSCO, STEEL & CONVERGENCE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, POSCO COATED & COLOR STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-Joo Kim, Kyung-Kwan Park, Moon-Hi Hong, Heung-Yun Kim, Tae-Yeul Park, Myung-Soo Kim, Il-Ryoung Sohn, Tae-Chul Kim, Dae-Young Kang
  • Publication number: 20240052495
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet having excellent workability and corrosion resistance and a method for manufacturing the same, and more particularly, to an aluminum alloy-plated steel sheet that prevents microcracks generated during hot forming and has excellent seizure resistance and corrosion resistance, and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: POSCO
    Inventors: Suk-Kyu Lee, Hyeon-Seok Hwang, Myung-Soo Kim, Jong-Gi Oh, Kwang-Tai Min