Patents by Inventor Wan-Gyu Hahm

Wan-Gyu Hahm 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: 11255025
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spinning nozzle apparatus for manufacturing a high-strength fiber. The spinning nozzle apparatus for manufacturing a high-strength fiber according to the present invention is designed to optimize a heating method for the spinning region of a spinning nozzle in the melt spinning process. The heat transfer method is optimized by disposing the spinning nozzle holes of spinning nozzle commercially available on the outside of, directly under the pack body and heating the spinning nozzle holes with a heating body. In addition, an instantaneous heat treatment at high temperature is adopted to control the molecular entanglement structure in the melted polymer, which enhances the drawability of the thermoplastic resin and hence improves the mechanical properties such as strength and elongation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wan Gyu Hahm, In Woo Nam, Seung Jin Lee, Ki Sub Lim
  • Publication number: 20220002922
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method manufacturing a melt-spun nonwoven fabric and a microfiber nonwoven web manufactured therefrom The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a melt-spun nonwoven fabric, in which fibers obtained by melt-spinning a thermoplastic polymer through a spinning nozzle including at least one nozzle hole are collected by high-speed air stream, wherein the melt-spun fibers are subjected to momentary local heating at a high temperature higher than a spinning temperature while same are caused to pass through a nozzle local heating provided directly under the spinning nozzle during spinning, so that the method can lower the melt flow index and spinline elongation viscosity of a thermoplastic resin discharged from the nozzle hole without reducing a molecular weight, thereby providing a microfiber nonwoven web formed by finely thin fibers, compared to the conventional spun-bond nonwoven fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Wan Gyu HAHM, Byeong Jin YEANG, Young Chan CHOI, Hyun Ju OH
  • Publication number: 20210238768
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spinning nozzle apparatus for manufacturing a high-strength fiber. The spinning nozzle apparatus for manufacturing a high-strength fiber according to the present invention is designed to optimize a heating method for the spinning region of a spinning nozzle in the melt spinning process. The heat transfer method is optimized by disposing the spinning nozzle holes of spinning nozzle commercially available on the outside of, directly under the pack body and heating the spinning nozzle holes with a heating body. In addition, an instantaneous heat treatment at high temperature is adopted to control the molecular entanglement structure in the melted polymer, which enhances the drawability of the thermoplastic resin and hence improves the mechanical properties such as strength and elongation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Wan Gyu HAHM, In Woo NAM, Seung Jin LEE, Ki Sub LIM
  • Patent number: 10584430
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a security yarn containing a multi-composite spinning fiber and security products using the same. The multi-composite spinning fiber, according to the present invention, contains, in at least one or more kinds of polymer materials, a first component selected from an IR reactive pigment or an IR absorption pigment, a second component selected from a visible pigment or an invisible UV-reactive fluorescent pigment, and a third component selected from X-ray absorption materials, so that the security yarn containing the multi-component spinning fiber can be identified by infrared and ultraviolet wavelength and easily identified when irradiated with X-rays, thus providing a multi-identification capability and being useful for preventing counterfeiting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Industrial Technology
    Inventors: Wan-Gyu Hahm, Sung Won Byun, Byeong Jin Yeang, In Woo Nam, Seung Jin Lee, Do Gun Kim, Ki Sub Lim
  • Patent number: 10422052
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing high strength synthetic fibers, and high strength synthetic fibers manufactured using the same. More particularly, the method involves a localized heating process by raising the temperature of a molten spinning fiber to a temperature higher than that of a pack body during a short period of time with no degradation through a heating zone located in the immediate vicinity of capillary in the spinning nozzle, so as to effectively control the molecular entanglement structure in the molten polymer without reducing the molecular weight and thus to enhance the drawability of the as-spun fibers, thereby improving the mechanical properties of the as-spun fibers, such as strength, elongation, etc., using the existing processes of melt spinning and drawing and thus enabling a mass production of a high-performance fiber at low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wan Gyu Hahm, In Woo Nam, Seung Jin Lee, Do Kun Kim, Ki Sub Lim, Joo Hyung Lee, Gyu Dong Lee, Yeong Og Choi, Byeong Jin Yeang
  • Patent number: 10266967
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for fabricating a conjugate fiber. Resins having different properties, for example, resins of the same or different components including functional pigments or substances are continuously and alternatively discharged in an endless state by operating a spinning nozzle unit in a melting state, thereby fabricating the conjugate fiber having the different properties in the longitudinal direction of the fiber, and having various surface effects and patterns in the longitudinal direction of the fiber. A conjugate fiber fabricated by the above apparatus and method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wan-Gyu Hahm, Sung Won Byun, Byeong Jin Yeang, In Woo Nam, Seung Jin Lee, Do Gun Kim, Ki Sub Lim
  • Publication number: 20180051392
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing high strength synthetic fibers, and high strength synthetic fibers manufactured using the same. More particularly, the method involves a localized heating process by raising the temperature of a molten spinning fiber to a temperature higher than that of a pack body during a short period of time with no degradation through a heating zone located in the immediate vicinity of capillary in the spinning nozzle, so as to effectively control the molecular entanglement structure in the molten polymer without reducing the molecular weight and thus to enhance the drawability of the as-spun fibers, thereby improving the mechanical properties of the as-spun fibers, such as strength, elongation, etc., using the existing processes of melt spinning and drawing and thus enabling a mass production of a high-performance fiber at low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Wan Gyu HAHM, In Woo NAM, Seung Jin LEE, Do Kun KIM, Ki Sub LIM, Joo Hyung LEE, Gyu Dong LEE, Yeong Og CHOI, Byeong Jin YEANG
  • Patent number: 9333721
    Abstract: A multiple fiber spinning apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The apparatus includes an extruding unit, a spin block unit and a spinning nozzle unit. The extruding unit includes extruders that melt, extrude and transfer polymer materials. The spin block unit includes a gear pump unit which has gear pumps connected to each of the extruders. The gear pumps receive the polymer materials from the corresponding extruders and discharge the polymer materials. The spin block unit further includes a flow passage unit which has flow passages connected to the respective gear pumps. The spinning nozzle unit includes spinning nozzles, each of which is connected to one of the gear pumps of each extruder by the corresponding flow passage, so that each spinning nozzle receives the molten polymer materials and spins the polymer materials into a fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Industrial Technology
    Inventors: Wan-Gyu Hahm, Sung Won Byun, Dae Young Lim, Min Sun Kim, Byeong Jin Yeang
  • Publication number: 20150329996
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a security yarn containing a multi-composite spinning fiber and security products using the same. The multi-composite spinning fiber, according to the present invention, contains, in at least one or more kinds of polymer materials, a first component selected from an IR reactive pigment or an IR absorption pigment, a second component selected from a visible pigment or an invisible UV-reactive fluorescent pigment, and a third component selected from X-ray absorption materials, so that the security yarn containing the multi-component spinning fiber can be identified by infrared and ultraviolet wavelength and easily identified when irradiated with X-rays, thus providing a multi-identification capability and being useful for preventing counterfeiting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Wan-Gyu Hahm, Sung Won Byun, Byeong Jin Yeang, In Woo Nam, Seung Jin Lee, Do Gun Kim, Ki Sub Lim
  • Publication number: 20150240385
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for fabricating a conjugate fiber. Resins having different properties, for example, resins of the same or different components including functional pigments or substances are continuously and alternatively discharged in an endless state by operating a spinning nozzle unit in a melting state, thereby fabricating the conjugate fiber having the different properties in the longitudinal direction of the fiber, and having various surface effects and patterns in the longitudinal direction of the fiber. A conjugate fiber fabricated by the above apparatus and method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wan-Gyu Hahm, Sung Won Byun, Byeong Jin Yeang, In Woo Nam, Seung Jin Lee, Do Gun Kim, Ki Sub Lim
  • Publication number: 20130200544
    Abstract: A multiple fiber spinning apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The apparatus includes an extruding unit, a spin block unit and a spinning nozzle unit. The extruding unit includes extruders that melt, extrude and transfer polymer materials. The spin block unit includes a gear pump unit which has gear pumps connected to each of the extruders. The gear pumps receive the polymer materials from the corresponding extruders and discharge the polymer materials. The spin block unit further includes a flow passage unit which has flow passages connected to the respective gear pumps. The spinning nozzle unit includes spinning nozzles, each of which is connected to one of the gear pumps of each extruder by the corresponding flow passage, so that each spinning nozzle receives the molten polymer materials and spins the polymer materials into a fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Korea Institute of Industrial Technology
    Inventors: Wan-Gyu Hahm, Sung Won Byun, Dae Young Lim, Min Sun Kim, Byeong Jin Yeang