Patents by Inventor Sung Min AN

Sung Min AN 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).

  • Publication number: 20240121491
    Abstract: A camera module disclosed to an embodiment includes a lens barrel; and a lens spacer disposed in the lens barrel. The lens spacer includes an opening portion penetrating an upper surface and a lower surface thereof, and a shape of an upper region of the opening portion is different from a shape of a lower region of the opening portion. The upper region of the opening portion comprises a first inner periphery having a curved shape, a second inner periphery having a curved shape and facing the first inner periphery in a first direction, and a third inner periphery connecting one-side ends of the first and second inner peripheries and having a straight-line shape, and a fourth inner periphery connecting the other-side ends of the first and second inner peripheries, which are opposite to the one-side ends thereof, having a straight-line shape, and facing the third inner periphery in a second direction. The lower region of the opening portion may have a circular shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventor: Sung Min MOON
  • Publication number: 20240120477
    Abstract: A positive electrode material for a lithium secondary battery has improved electron conductivity and surface stability because oxidation-treated carbon nanotubes are stably attached to the surface of an active material. According to one embodiment the positive electrode material includes a positive electrode active material core made of a Li—Ni—Co—Mn-M-O-based material (M=transition metal) and an oxidized carbon nanotube coating layer formed on the surface of the positive electrode active material core and including 1% to 3% by weight of oxidation-treated carbon nanotubes (OCNT) relative to 100% by weight of the positive electrode active material core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Seung Min Oh, Sung Ho Ban, Sang Hun Lee, Chang Hoon Song, Yoon Sung Lee, Ko Eun Kim, Van Chuong Ho, Jun Young Mun
  • Publication number: 20240118661
    Abstract: Provided is a holographic optical element printing method using a tunable focus lens and a rotating mirror. According to an embodiment, a holographic printer includes: a first optical engine and a second optical engine configured to adjust a phase of an incident collimated beam and emit the collimated beam; and a first reduction optical system and a second reduction optical system configured to reduce the beam emitted from the first optical engine and the second optical engine and to allow the beam to enter a holographic material, wherein each of the first optical engine and the second optical engine includes: a rotating mirror configured to reflect while adjusting the phase of the incident collimated beam through rotation; and a tunable focus lens configured to refract while adjusting the phase of the incident collimated beam reflected from the rotating mirror through focus tuning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Korea Electronics Technology Institute
    Inventors: Ji Soo HONG, Sung Hee HONG, Young Min KIM, Jin Soo JEONG, Byoung Hyo LEE
  • Publication number: 20240120194
    Abstract: A wafer processing system includes an optical apparatus including a beam splitter configured to receive a laser beam and to split the laser beam into a first beam in a first state of linear polarization and a second beam in a second state of linear polarization; and a beam delayer configured to delay the second beam so that a pulse of the second beam has a delay time with respect to a pulse of the first beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Sang Min LEE, Sang Woo BAE, Sung-Wook JUNG
  • Publication number: 20240119673
    Abstract: Provided is a cognitive experiment method for change in periphery region image quality for parameter determination of a foveated hologram. According to an embodiment, a cognitive experiment method for determining foveated image parameters includes: generating a foveated image which includes a foveal region and a periphery region while reducing image quality regarding the periphery region; displaying the generated foveated image; receiving an input of a response to image quality of the periphery region from a subject; and collecting information regarding appropriate image quality of the periphery region, based on the response inputted by the subject. Accordingly, in applying a foveated hologram generation algorithm for real-time reproduction, various parameters such as a boundary between a foveal region image and a periphery region image in a foveated hologram, and a degree of quality degradation of the periphery region image may be appropriately determined through a cognitive experiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Korea Electronics Technology Institute
    Inventors: Ji Soo HONG, Sung Hee HONG, Young Min KIM, Jin Soo JEONG, Byoung Hyo LEE
  • Patent number: 11956712
    Abstract: Electronic device includes first wireless communication interface; second wireless communication interface; and controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-woo Lee, Chang-heon Yoon, Jong-min Kim, Sang-hun Park, Sung-min So, Wha-seob Sim, Se-young Oh
  • Publication number: 20240109539
    Abstract: A vehicle includes at least one sensor, a controller configured to control operations of the vehicle; and a processor configured to be electrically connected to the at least one sensor and the controller, the processor configured to detect, based on surrounding environment information and vehicle state information collected from the at least one sensor, an event associated with a stop, identify, by the at least one sensor and based on the detected event, an area for the vehicle to stop, determine, based on a size of the identified area, a stop type, and cause, by the controller and based on the determined stop type, the vehicle to stop in the identified area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Jong Hyuck Lee, Jong Sung Park, Chan Jong Jang, Young Bin Min
  • Publication number: 20240112949
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a first interlayer insulating film; a conductive pattern in the first interlayer insulating film; a resistance pattern on the conductive pattern; an upper etching stopper film spaced apart from the resistance pattern, extending in parallel with a top surface of the resistance pattern, and including a first metal; a lower etching stopper film on the conductive pattern, extending in parallel with a top surface of the first interlayer insulating film, and including a second metal; and a second interlayer insulating film on the upper etching stopper film and the lower etching stopper film, wherein a distance from a top surface of the second interlayer insulating film to a top surface of the upper etching stopper film is smaller than a distance from the top surface of the second interlayer insulating film to a top surface of the lower etching stopper film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Sung Jin KANG, Jong Min BAEK, Woo Kyung YOU, Kyu-Hee HAN, Han Seong KIM, Jang Ho LEE, Sang Shin JANG
  • Publication number: 20240111250
    Abstract: Provided is a hologram image normalization method for a holographic printer. In a holographic printing method according to an embodiment, generating, encoding, and normalizing for the (n+1)-th hogel are performed in parallel with loading and recording of a normalized hologram for the n-th hogel, and moving and waiting for the (n+1)-th hogel. Accordingly, a global maximum value and a global minimum value for normalization may be calculated as approximate estimation values, and a hologram generation process and a printing process may be performed in parallel, so that a total printing time may be minimized and memory usage may be optimized when holographic printing is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Korea Electronics Technology Institute
    Inventors: Ji Soo HONG, Sung Hee HONG, Young Min KIM, Jin Soo JEONG, Byoung Hyo LEE
  • Patent number: 11945002
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an automatic metal sorting system using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy. The system may include: a conveyer configured to move waste metals at a constant speed; a shape measurer configured to measure a position and a shape of at least one waste metal on the conveyer; a laser induced breakdown spectroscopic device configured to determine the kind of the waste metal by emitting a laser to the waste metal and receiving and analyzing a plasma spectrum signal generated by the emitted laser; and a discharger configured to separate and discharge the waste metal in accordance with the determined kind of the waste metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GIST(Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
    Inventors: Sung Ho Jeong, Sung Ho Shin, Young Min Moon, Jae Pil Lee
  • Patent number: 11946541
    Abstract: A method of controlling an EOP of a powertrain may include determining, by a controller electrically connected to the EOP, whether an oil sloshing phenomenon in which it is difficult for oil to return to a space where an oil intake port of the EOP is positioned may occur while a vehicle is running; and reducing, by the controller, the revolutions per minute (RPM) of the EOP by a predetermined reduced RPM when it is determined that the oil sloshing phenomenon may occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Sung Sik Choi, Kyung Moo Lee, Seong Min Son, Ki Bum Kim, Se Hwan Jo, Bong Uk Bae
  • Patent number: 11944948
    Abstract: Disclosed is a composite for forming a coacervate interfacial film. The composite for forming the coacervate interfacial film contains a cationic hectorite nanoplate-shaped particle structure containing a hectorite nanoplate-shaped particle and a cationic surfactant coupled to a surface of the hectorite nanoplate-shaped particle, and an anionic cellulose nanofibril containing an anionic functional group in at least a portion thereof, in which the composite may form the coacervate interfacial film at an interface of an oil phase and a water phase through electrostatic interaction between the cationic surfactant and the anionic functional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY, SUNJIN BEAUTY SCIENCE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Woong Kim, Yeong Sik Cho, Ji Woo Bae, Hye Min Seo, Kyoung Hee Shin, Sung Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20240104300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of generating a word embedding library, including: receiving, by a processor, original text composed of Hangul through an input interface; segmenting, by the processor, the original text by morpheme, combining segmented morphemes step by step according to a preset rule, and matching a tag to a combination of step-by-step morphemes according to a morphological attribute or a syntactic attribute of the combination of step-by-step morphemes; and generating, by the processor, a word embedding library by classifying the morphemes included in the original text based on the tag matched to the combination of step-by-step morphemes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Sung Min KIM, Hye Won LIM, Yoon Bo SHIM, Yui HA, Yoon Seok CHOI
  • Publication number: 20240105918
    Abstract: A positive electrode material for a lithium secondary battery and a manufacturing method therefor are provided. The positive electrode material may have carbon nanotubes stably attached to a surface of an active material and may exhibit increased electron conductivity and improved surface stability. The positive electrode material for a lithium secondary battery may comprises: a positive electrode active material core comprising a Li—Ni—Co—Mn-M-O-based material, where M is a transition metal; and a carbon nanotube coating layer on a surface of the positive electrode active material core. Carbon nanotubes (CNT) may be in an amount of 1-5 wt %, based on 100 wt % of the positive electrode active material core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Seung Min Oh, Sung Ho Ban, Sang Hun Lee, Chang Hoon Song, Yoon Sung Lee, Ko Eun Kim, Van Chuong Ho, Jun Young Mun
  • Publication number: 20240101603
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antibacterial peptide and an antibacterial compound targeting the Klebsiella pneumoniae VapBC toxin-antitoxin system, or their use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Sung Min KANG, Bong Jin LEE, Cheng Long JIN, Do Hee KIM
  • Patent number: 11939173
    Abstract: A transportation head for a microchip transfer device capable of minimizing mechanical and chemical damage to a microchip, a microchip transfer device having same, and a transfer method thereby, and the transportation head includes a head body having a pickup area and a dummy area; a first protruding pin disposed in the pickup area of the head body; and a liquid droplet attached to the first protruding pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dahl-Young Khang, Sung-Hwan Hwang, Jia Lee, Sung-Soo Yoon, Su Seok Choi, Kiseok Chang, Jeong Min Moon, Soon Shin Jung, Sungpil Ryu, Jihwan Jung
  • Patent number: 11939425
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyester resin. The polyester resin is useful for bottles, sheets, multilayer sheets, stretched films and fiber applications due to excellent heat resistance and transparency, and in particular, the polyester resin has little deterioration of physical properties such as yellowing, etc., during processing. A process for making the polyester resin includes an esterification reaction between a dicarboxylic acid that includes terephthalic acid and a diol that includes isosorbide in the presence of a catalyst, followed by a polycondensation reaction on a product of the esterification reaction. In some embodiments, an initial mixing ratio of the dicarboxylic acid and the diol is between 1:1.02 and 1:1.04.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SK Chemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoo Jin Lee, Su-Min Lee, Sung-Gi Kim, Min-Young Han, Dong-jin Han
  • Publication number: 20240092148
    Abstract: Vehicular air conditioning system improving the ease of assembly and the maintainability of a photocatalyst module by structural improvement of an intake case and suppressing an air vortex generated at the air intake side during air intake process in a blower and a rumbling noise caused by the air vortex. The vehicular air conditioning system includes an intake part configured to suck indoor or outdoor air and blow air into a vehicle interior, a photocatalyst module purifying the air by emitting superoxide radicals toward the air blown into the vehicle interior from the intake part, which is installed on a downstream outer surface portion of a blower casing of the intake part, and an interference avoidance groove for avoiding interference with the photocatalyst module is formed on an outer surface portion of the intake case corresponding to the periphery of the photocatalyst module installed in the blower casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Chan Young LEE, Sung Jin KIM, Young In KIM, Jun Min LEE
  • Publication number: 20240096420
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the inventive concept, there is provided a nonvolatile memory device comprising: a memory cell region including a first metal pad, a peripheral circuit region including a second metal pad and vertically connected to the memory cell region by the first metal pad and the second metal pad, a memory cell array, in the memory cell region, comprising a plurality of memory cells, a plurality of word lines and a bit line connected to the memory cells, wherein each memory cell is connected to one of the word lines, a voltage generator, in the peripheral circuit region, supplying a plurality of supply voltages to the memory cell array, a control logic circuit, in the peripheral circuit region, programming a selected one of the memory cells connected to a selected one of the word lines into a first program state by controlling the voltage generator, and a verify circuit, in the peripheral circuit region, controlling a verify operation on the memory cell array by controlling the vo
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: SUNG-MIN JOE
  • Publication number: 20240094276
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an untact DC electric-field sensor having improved sensitivity. The untact DC electric-field sensor has a circuit composed of a variable capacitor and an RF generator and improves sensitivity through resonance of the circuit by connecting an inductor to the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: KOREA ELECTROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jeong Min WOO, Sung Man KANG, Jae Bok LEE, Mun No JU