Patents by Inventor Seoung-Duk Choi

Seoung-Duk Choi 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: 6945776
    Abstract: An improved method and a skid member for minimizing the temperature difference between a skid-contacting region and other regions in a hot material to be heated such as a slab or billet within a reheating furnace and a skid apparatus using the same. The skid member has at least one ventilation channel for restraining heat transfer toward a lower portion of the skid member for supporting or carrying the hot material in the reheating furnace and allowing passage of hot gas through the same to reduce the temperature difference between a contact region and a non-contact region of the hot material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Posco
    Inventors: Seoung-Duk Choi, Hae-Kwun Chang, Kyung-Zoon Min, See-Woo Yim
  • Publication number: 20040253561
    Abstract: An improved method and a skid member for minimizing the temperature difference between a skid-contacting region and other regions in a hot material to be heated such as a slab or billet within a reheating furnace and a skid apparatus using the same. The skid member has at least one ventilation channel for restraining heat transfer toward a lower portion of the skid member for supporting or carrying the hot material in the reheating furnace and allowing passage of hot gas through the same to reduce the temperature difference between a contact region and a non-contact region of the hot material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Seoung-Duk Choi, Hae-Kwun Chang, Kyung-Zoon Min, See-Woo Yim