Patents by Inventor Soo Cheol Yi

Soo Cheol Yi 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: 9012814
    Abstract: Provided are a cooking appliance, and a system and method for controlling a cooking appliance. The system includes a RF tag and a cooking appliance. The RF tag stores food information about foods as integrants of a dish and the cooking appliance having a RF reader reads the food information stored in the RF tag. The cooking appliance includes a memory, a cooking appliance controller, and a display unit. The memory stores dish information about dishes that can be cooked using the food information. The cooking appliance controller reads dish information from the memory, and the display unit displays at least one of the dish information to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Hyun Park, Soo Cheol Yi
  • Patent number: 8881717
    Abstract: A built-in cooking appliance includes a top plate, a main body provided under the top plate and receiving a heat source, a cabinet on which the top plate is installed, a top cover covering a space defined between a side cover of the top plate and the cabinet, an air outlet formed on the main body, a cover airflow hole provided on the top corner and providing a path along which the air discharged through the air outlet is discharged to an external side, and a storage space provided on a path an airflow path between the air outlet and the cover airflow hole and storing water introduced through the cover airflow hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Soo Cheol Yi
  • Patent number: 8875695
    Abstract: A built-in cooking appliance includes a main body, a top plate provided above the main body, a cabinet supporting the top plate, a support forming an airflow space between a side of the top plate and the cabinet and allowing the top plate to be supported by the cabinet even at the space, and an air outlet allowing internal air of the main body to be discharged through the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Soo Cheol Yi
  • Patent number: 8820624
    Abstract: A cooking system is provided. The cooking system includes: a radio frequency tag; a cooking appliance provided with a radio frequency reader to receive food related data from the radio frequency tag, the cooking appliance comprising at least a heating element; and a server receiving at least the food related data from the cooking appliance, the server transmitting food cooking data for cooking a food suitable for the cooking appliance using the food related data, wherein the cooking appliance operates using the food cooking data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Won Kyoung Park, Soo Cheol Yi, Jung Ho Bae
  • Patent number: 8514084
    Abstract: A cooking system is provided to improve the safety and the reliability of the cooking system, and the convenience of a user. The cooking system includes at least one RF tag, a cooking appliance with an RF reader detecting the RF tag approaching, and an RF tag recognition button in a manipulation unit of the cooking system. The cooking appliance initiates a predetermined mode when the RF tag is detected. The RF tag recognition button determines whether the RF reader initiates an RF tag reading operation to recognize the RF tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Soo Cheol Yi
  • Patent number: 8461488
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide an oven. The oven includes a cavity receiving food; a convection assembly provided in plurality, each convection assembly including a heater that heats the food, and a fan blowing air heated by the heater toward the food; and at least one covering member covering at least one of the fans, wherein the fans have respective shafts that are different in height from a bottom surface of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Eui Seog Jeong, Soo Cheol Yi
  • Patent number: 8367982
    Abstract: Provided is a built-in cooking appliance. According to the built-in cooking appliance, the inside of the cooking appliance is effectively cooled and the inside can be waterproofed without protruding the top plate above the cabinet. Therefore, cooling efficiency, stability in using, convenience in cleaning, esthetic feeling, and reliability of a product can be improved. The built-in cooking appliance includes a top plate, a main body below the top plate, a fan, a cabinet, a gap portion, and a top frame. At least a heating unit is disposed inside the main body. The fan forms a cooling passage inside the main body. The plate is installed on the cabinet. The gap portion defines at least a portion of the cooling passage, and is formed by at least an edge on one side of the top plate and the cabinet separated from each other. The top frame covers the gap portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Soo Cheol Yi, Wang Lim Lee
  • Patent number: 8161960
    Abstract: A built-in cooking appliance includes a top plate, a body frame provided under the top plate and receiving a heat source, a cabinet supporting the body frame and spaced apart from at least one side of the top plate, a support having a first side connected to the cabinet and a second side supporting a top surface of the top plate, a top frame covering a space between the top plate and the cabinet, and an airflow openings formed on the support and the top frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Soo Cheol Yi
  • Publication number: 20100313870
    Abstract: Provided is a built-in cooking appliance including: a top plate; a main body under the top plate, the main body receiving at least a heater; a fan inducing an air flow in the main body; a cabinet including a receiving portion on which the top plate is mounted; and a top frame covering an airflow opening between at least one edge of the top plate and the cabinet, wherein the main body includes at least one edge adjacent to the airflow opening and supported by the cabinet. The built-in cooking appliance can efficiently discharge warm air and prevents an inflow of external water. In addition, convenience in cleaning the built-in cooking appliance can be improved, and operation reliability of the built-in cooking appliance can also be improved by the thermally-stable state in the cooking appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Soo Cheol Yi, Jung-Ho Bae
  • Publication number: 20100282731
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide an oven. The oven includes a cavity receiving food; a convection assembly provided in plurality, each convection assembly including a heater that heats the food, and a fan blowing air heated by the heater toward the food; and at least one covering member covering at least one of the fans, wherein the fans have respective shafts that are different in height from a bottom surface of the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Eui Seog Jeong, Soo-Cheol Yi
  • Publication number: 20100192784
    Abstract: Provided is a controlling system for a cooking appliance. The controlling system includes a cooking appliance, a server and a network. The cooking appliance includes at least a heating unit. The server receives reception information from the cooking appliance and is connected with the cooking appliance to send transmission information processed with reference to the reception information to the cooking appliance. The network includes at least one node to connect the cooking appliance with the server, accordingly, the cooking appliance is controlled properly so that user's satisfaction can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Mi Hwa Shim, Jun Hyun Park, Soo Cheol Yi, Won Kyoung Park
  • Publication number: 20100175678
    Abstract: A built-in cooking appliance is provided. The built-in cooking appliance includes a body frame of a main body, a heating body, a top plate, a cabinet, a support in a contact space between the cabinet and the top plate, and a plurality of channels provided in the support. The top plate is disposed in an upper portion of the body frame to support a dishware to be heated. The cabinet supports the top plate. The plurality of holes are provided in the support to discharge air flowing out from the body frame. A size of each of the channels is small enough to prevent flow of water while allowing flow of air. Accordingly, cooling efficiency, safety and convenience of the built-in cooking appliance in using and cleaning it can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Soo Cheol Yi, Jung-Ho Bae
  • Publication number: 20100170895
    Abstract: A ventilation hooded microwave oven is provided. In the ventilation hooded microwave oven, a pull-up door is attached to a cavity assembly. The pull-up door is supported by a door support device when the pull-up door is pulled to open a cooking chamber of the ventilation hooded microwave oven. Therefore, a place where the ventilation hooded microwave oven is installed can be more efficiently used, and loading and unloading food into and out of the cooking chamber can be carried out more easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: LG Electronics inc.
    Inventors: Soo Cheol Yi, Jung-Ho Bae
  • Publication number: 20100140248
    Abstract: Provided are a cooking appliance, and a system and method for controlling a cooking appliance. The system includes a RF tag and a cooking appliance. The RF tag stores food information about foods as integrants of a dish and the cooking appliance having a RF reader reads the food information stored in the RF tag. The cooking appliance includes a memory, a cooking appliance controller, and a display unit. The memory stores dish information about dishes that can be cooked using the food information. The cooking appliance controller reads dish information from the memory, and the display unit displays at least one of the dish information to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Soo-Cheol Yi, Jun Hyun Park
  • Publication number: 20100134298
    Abstract: A cooking system is provided to improve the safety and the reliability of the cooking system, and the convenience of a user. The cooking system includes at least one RF tag, a cooking appliance with an RF reader detecting the RF tag approaching, and an RF tag recognition button in a manipulation unit of the cooking system. The cooking appliance initiates a predetermined mode when the RF tag is detected. The RF tag recognition button determines whether the RF reader initiates an RF tag reading operation to recognize the RF tag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Soo-Cheol Yi
  • Publication number: 20100132688
    Abstract: A built-in cooking appliance includes a top plate, a main body provided under the top plate and receiving a heat source, a cabinet on which the top plate is installed, a top cover covering a space defined between a side cover of the top plate and the cabinet, an air outlet formed on the main body, a cover airflow hole provided on the top corner and providing a path along which the air discharged through the air outlet is discharged to an external side, and a storage space provided on a path an airflow path between the air outlet and the cover airflow hole and storing water introduced through the cover airflow hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventor: Soo Cheol Yi
  • Publication number: 20100127066
    Abstract: A cooking system is provided. The cooking system includes: a radio frequency tag; a cooking appliance provided with a radio frequency reader to receive food related data from the radio frequency tag, the cooking appliance comprising at least a heating element; and a server receiving at least the food related data from the cooking appliance, the server transmitting food cooking data for cooking a food suitable for the cooking appliance using the food related data, wherein the cooking appliance operates using the food cooking data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC
    Inventors: Won-Kyoung Park, Soo-Cheol Yi, Jung-Ho Bae
  • Publication number: 20100108660
    Abstract: Provided is a built-in cooking appliance. According to the built-in cooking appliance, the inside of the cooking appliance is effectively cooled and the inside can be waterproofed without protruding the top plate above the cabinet. Therefore, cooling efficiency, stability in using, convenience in cleaning, esthetic feeling, and reliability of a product can be improved. The built-in cooking appliance includes a top plate, a main body below the top plate, a fan, a cabinet, a gap portion, and a top frame. At least a heating unit is disposed inside the main body. The fan forms a cooling passage inside the main body. The plate is installed on the cabinet. The gap portion defines at least a portion of the cooling passage, and is formed by at least an edge on one side of the top plate and the cabinet separated from each other. The top frame covers the gap portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Soo Cheol Yi, Wang Lim Lee
  • Publication number: 20100101554
    Abstract: A built-in cooking appliance includes a top plate, a body frame provided under the top plate and receiving a heat source, a cabinet supporting the body frame and spaced apart from at least one side of the top plate, a support having a first side connected to the cabinet and a second side supporting a top surface of the top plate, a top frame covering a space between the top plate and the cabinet, and an airflow openings formed on the support and the top frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Soo Cheol Yi
  • Publication number: 20100031948
    Abstract: A built-in cooking appliance includes a main body, a top plate provided above the main body, a cabinet supporting the top plate, a support forming an airflow space between a side of the top plate and the cabinet and allowing the top plate to be supported by the cabinet even at the space, and an air outlet allowing internal air of the main body to be discharged through the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Soo Cheol Yi