Patents by Inventor Wan-Soo Kim

Wan-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: 7910861
    Abstract: A cooking device including a cooking cavity, a fan located in the cooking device, the fan being configured to force air into the cooking cavity, and at least one optical heater to supply optical wave energy to heat the forced air provided by the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyeon Sik Nam, Wan Soo Kim, Dong Seong Kwag, Seong Ho Cho
  • Publication number: 20110017722
    Abstract: Provided are a heater supporter and an electric hob including the heater supporter. A tube heater is supported by the heater supporter, and at least a portion of the heater supporter is formed of a ceramic containing material. Therefore, food can be cooked more rapidly, and the tube heater can be easily installed. Furthermore, damages caused by heat generated from the tube heater can be minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Young Jun Lee, Byeong-Wook Park, Yang-Kyeong Kim, Wan-Soo Kim, Dong-Seong Kwag
  • Publication number: 20110008027
    Abstract: A cooker and a controlling method for the same are provided. A carbon heater has a wavelength bandwidth of 1.5˜2.5 ?m where a radiant energy is maximum, and the carbon heater provides the radiant energy into a cavity in order to heat food disposed therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Wan Soo Kim, Yang Kyeong Kim, Young Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 7867125
    Abstract: In one aspect, a real wheel drive apparatus is provided for a four wheel drive hybrid electric vehicle includes: a motor generator for driving rear wheels; a reduction gear set for reducing an output speed of the motor generator and transmitting the reduced output speed; a differential gear set interposed between the reduction gear set and right and left wheel shafts of the rear wheels and a clutch unit interposed between the differential gear set and the wheel shaft to perform a differential limiting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Yeon Ho Kim, Wan-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 7847219
    Abstract: An electric oven includes a door and a compartment having an internal space that is selectively closed by the door. The door has a cooling air opening oil a surface facing the compartment, and the compartment has an intake opening configured to receive air exhausted through the cooling air opening. A shield element prevents foreign matter from entering into the door through the cooling air opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wan Soo Kim, Yong Woo Lee, Seong Ho Cho
  • Publication number: 20100276412
    Abstract: A cooking range is disclosed. The range includes: a cook top section having a heating body configured to cook foods; an oven section having internal walls defining a cavity, a rack and a door, wherein the cavity is configured to accommodate the foods placed on the rack and the door is configured to open or close the cavity; a heating source configured to provide heat to the cavity when the cooking range is operated; and an air circulation mechanism having an exhaust slot and at least one suction slot and configured to suck air into the cooking range through the at least one suction slot and to discharge the air to the outside through the exhaust slot, wherein the at least one suction slot is positioned around the exhaust slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyeun Sik NAM, Dong Seong KWAG, Wan Soo KIM
  • Publication number: 20100276413
    Abstract: A cooking range includes a cook top section having a heating body configured to cook foods; an oven section having a cavity and a door, wherein the cavity has a rack configured to accommodate foods and the door is configured to open or close the cavity; a heating source configured to provide heat to the cavity when the cooking range is operated; and an air circulation mechanism having a first duct, a second duct and a fan and configured to discharge air provided from the first duct positioned at a surface of the cavity through the second duct in response to rotation of the fan, wherein the air circulation mechanism is configured to discharge air from the top section through the second duct while the air provided from the first duct is discharged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyeun Sik NAM, Dong Seong KWAG, Wan Soo KIM
  • Publication number: 20100276414
    Abstract: A cooking range includes a cook top section. The cooking range also include an oven section having walls defining a cavity and a door, wherein the cavity being configured to accommodate food and the door being configured to open or close the cavity. The cooking range further include a heating source configured to provide heat to the cavity when the cooking range is operated. In addition, the cooking range include a rack member coupled to the cavity, and configured to support a food container placed thereon, wherein at least a part of the rack member is configured to be rotated to rotate the food thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyeun Sik NAM, Dong Seong KWAG, Wan Soo KIM
  • Patent number: 7806114
    Abstract: An electric oven includes a cavity, a door rotatably installed at a front surface and including an air suction hole formed at one side of the outside thereof and an air discharge hole formed at one side of the inside thereof; and an air suction/discharge member mounted outside the cavity and allowing the indoor air to be sucked through the air suction hole and to be discharged to a lower side of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Woo Lee, Wan Soo Kim, Yong Soo Lee, Seong Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 7766792
    Abstract: Disclosed are a power train structure that can operate hybrid vehicles in an electric mode at its startup and/or lower speed stages and a method of operation of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Hee-Ra Lee, Yeon-Ho Kim, Tal-Chol Kim, Kyung-Ha Kim, Wan-Soo Kim, Gwang-Seob Shin, Joo-Woong Yoon, Seong-Jae Song, Kyung-Won Hwang, Jong-Hyun Kim, In-Pil Yoo
  • Patent number: 7769278
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a carbon heater. The carbon heater comprises a carbon filament disposed in a tube for serving as a heating element. The carbon filament has support parts integrally formed at the carbon filament while being protruded from the carbon filament in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the carbon filament such that the support parts are supported inside the tube. Consequently, the carbon filament is more stably supported in the tube by the support parts, whereby the service life of the carbon heater is increased, and easy and convenient design and assembly of the carbon heater is accomplished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wan Soo Kim, Yang Kyeong Kim, Young Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 7745741
    Abstract: A liquid crystal dispensing apparatus determines an amount of liquid crystal remaining within a liquid crystal container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyug-Jin Kweon, Hae-Joon Son, Wan-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 7731059
    Abstract: A liquid crystal dispensing apparatus determines an amount of liquid crystal remaining within a liquid crystal container. The apparatus includes a liquid crystal dispensing unit for containing dispensable liquid crystal, capable of be dispensed directly onto a substrate and a main control unit for determining a total amount of liquid crystal dispensed onto the substrate based on a unitary amount of liquid crystal dispensed and the number of times the unitary amount was dispensed, and determining an amount of liquid crystal remaining by deducting the determined total amount dispensed from an initial amount of liquid crystal contained within the liquid crystal dispensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyug-Jin Kweon, Hae-Joon Son, Wan-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 7707969
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for inducing artificial hibernation of marine animal, wherein the temperature of sea water with marine animals is gradually lowered in stepwise process, while the sea water temperature is kept as is for a predetermined period of time at each step of lowering temperature, whereby the predetermined period of time maintained for each step of the lowered temperature is gradually increased to a point where changes of oxygen consumption by the marine animals greatly decreased or the changes of oxygen consumption is reached almost zero, and starting from this point, the time of constantly maintaining the sea water temperature at each step is gradually reduced to thereby ensuring a long survival rate (viability) of marine animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute
    Inventor: Wan Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 7710534
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for fabricating a liquid crystal display using liquid crystal dropping and a method of fabricating a liquid crystal display using the same. The present invention includes a liquid crystal forming line dropping liquid crystals on the first substrate, a sealant forming line forming the sealant on the second substrate, and a bonding and hardening line bonding the two substrates to each other and hardening the sealant, printing a sealant, bonding the substrates each other, and hardening the sealant and an inspection process line of cutting the bonded substrates into panel units and grinding and inspecting the unit panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Sang Byun, Moo Yeol Park, Sung Su Jung, Sung Chun Kang, Jong Woo Kim, Young Hun Ha, Sang Seok Lee, Sang Ho Park, Hun Jun Choo, Hyug Jin Kweon, Kyung Su Chae, Hae Joon Son, Sang Sun Shin, Jong Go Lim, Wan Soo Kim, Young Hun Jeung, Joung Ho Ryu, Ji Heum Uh, Im Su Lee
  • Patent number: 7705526
    Abstract: A lamp including a hermetic tube and a filament configured to radiate thermal energy within the tube. Further, the filament extends along a length direction of the tube and is spaced apart from an inner wall of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young Jun Lee, Yang Kyeong Kim, Wan Soo Kim
  • Publication number: 20100059035
    Abstract: Provided is a cooker. A carbon heater used as a convection heater is supported by a heater bracket and heater supporters, and light and heat generated from the carbon heater are transferred to the inside of a cooking chamber through convection, conduction, and radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Hyeun Sik NAM, Dong Seong Kwag, Wan Soo Kim
  • Publication number: 20090321035
    Abstract: Disclosed is a casting roll for a twin roll strip caster, and particularly, a casting roll for a twin roll strip caster, in which a continuous gas channel, for preventing the generation of dents in the surface of a strip when casting TWIP steel in order to improve the mechanical properties of the strip, including increasing the tensile strength and elongation, is formed in the surface of the casting roll, thus discharging gas mixed when the strip is cast, thereby preventing the generation of dents in the surface of the strip when casting the TWIP steel, in particular, a continuous gas channel is formed, thereby decreasing a conventional dent index and discouraging the generation of dents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Man-Jin Ha, Seong-In Jeong, Ju-Tae Choi, Wan-Soo Kim, Tae-Wook Kang, Oh-Duck Kwon
  • Patent number: 7632554
    Abstract: A wallpaper having a thermochromic material layer and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed where colors of a wallpaper having a thermochromic material layer change by a surrounding or human body temperature so information concerning surrounding temperature or human body health state is provided, and a user does not feel tedious about colors of a wallpaper. The manufacturing method of a wallpaper having a thermochromic material layer comprises forming a wallpaper substrate; forming at least one plane heater on the wallpaper substrate; forming at least one thermochromic material layer on the wallpaper substrate or the plane heater; forming at least one protection layer on the wallpaper substrate so that the thermochromic material layer and the plane heater are substantially covered; and forming a power supply and control means on the wallpaper substrate for supplying power to the plane heater and controlling temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Dong-A University Research Foundation for Industry-Academy Cooperation
    Inventors: Wan Soo Kim, Sung Il Woo, Si Jae Kim, Jong Heon Lee, Jae Woo Yang
  • Publication number: 20090242542
    Abstract: An electric oven has an air passage structure that is designed to effectively cool down electric components. The air passage structure quickly cools down a variety of electric components on a top surface of a cavity using air introduced from outside the oven. The oven has a series of passages and openings allowing the effective movement of air past the electric components and through the oven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Dong Seong KWAG, Hyeun Sik NAM, Wan Soo KIM, Seong Ho CHO, Jae Kyung YANG