Patents by Inventor Won-ho Kim

Won-ho 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).

  • Publication number: 20200356215
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display unit and an input sensing unit. The display unit includes insulating layers, a signal line, a pad connected to an end portion of the signal line, and circuit elements. The insulating layers include a first insulating layer covering the circuit elements and exposing at least a portion of the circuit elements. The input sensing unit includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer including sensing patterns, and a second insulating layer between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The second insulating layer exposes at least a portion of the first conductive layer. An insulating layer between the end portion of the signal line and the pad is defined as a pad insulating layer. A maximum thickness of the pad insulating layer is greater than a sum of thicknesses of the first and second insulating layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Yanghee KIM, Jeongho LEE, Won Ho KIM, Soyeon PARK, Dong-Hyun LEE, Hyungchul LIM
  • Patent number: 10788719
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first to fourth pixel electrodes neighbored each other in a first direction, a common electrode at least partially overlapping the first to fourth pixel electrodes, and a first data line and a second data line extended in a second direction different from the first direction, and neighbored each other where the first data line is interposed between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, the second data line is interposed between the third pixel electrode and the fourth pixel electrode, and at least one slit defined in the common electrode is interposed between the second pixel electrode and the third pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won Ho Kim, Sung Man Kim, Min Chul Song, Hwa Yeul Oh, Yeon Mun Jeon
  • Patent number: 10651696
    Abstract: A motor is provided. The motor includes a stator, a rotor rotatably disposed in the stator, and a motor shaft provided in the rotor to rotate integrally with the rotor. The rotor includes at least one permanent magnet fixing core, at least one injection fixing core alternately stacked with the at least one permanent magnet core in a direction of the motor shaft, a plurality of permanent magnets inserted at a predetermined interval in the at least one permanent magnet fixing core and the at least one injection fixing core, and an injection ring formed to cover the at least one permanent magnet fixing core, the at least one injection fixing core, and the plurality of permanent magnets. The at least one permanent magnet fixing core is formed to prevent the permanent magnets from becoming separated from the rotor by a centrifugal force, and the at least one injection fixing core is formed to prevent the injection ring from becoming separated from the rotor by the centrifugal force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-ho Kim, Sung-hyuk Park, Seong-taek Lim, Woong Hwang
  • Publication number: 20200144464
    Abstract: An embodiment discloses a semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor structure comprising a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, and an active layer disposed between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer; a first electrode disposed on the first conductive semiconductor layer; a 2-1 electrode disposed on the second conductive semiconductor layer; and a 2-2 electrode disposed on the second conductive semiconductor layer and spaced apart from the 2-1 electrode, wherein the thickness of a part of the second conductive semiconductor layer between the 2-1 electrode and the 2-2 electrode is smaller than the thickness of the second conductive semiconductor layer vertically overlapping with the 2-1 electrode and the 2-2 electrode; the 2-2 electrode is opposite to the 2-1 electrode and comprises a first region that is closest to the 2-1 electrode; the 2-1 electrode is opposite to the 2-2 electrode and comprises a second reg
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Hwan KIM, Won Ho KIM, Chong Cook KIM, Deok Won SEO, Yeo Jae YOON, Kwang Ki CHOI
  • Publication number: 20200058107
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for processing image blurring configured to extract a sample image by calculating a blur generation area through scales of a horizontal length and a vertical length of an original image, read a pixel value corresponding to the blur generation area calculated from the original image and perform a bitwise operation on the sample image, and set, at a pixel of the sample image changed by the bitwise operation, a result value of the bitwise operation. In this case, the bitwise operation performed on the sample image includes applying the same blurring value on n pixel regions adjacent to a corresponding pixel of the sample image to reduce the time for removing image noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Won Ho KIM, Gu Hwan BAE
  • Patent number: 10438758
    Abstract: A trunk switch module for a vehicle includes: a housing, of which a rear side is partially inserted into a trunk lid of the vehicle, having a mounting space at a front side of the housing; a trunk switch disposed in the mounting space to selectively open the trunk lid according to an operation of a user; a cover assembly attached to a front edge of the housing to close the opened front side of the housing, the cover assembly having a button sealing unit which corresponds to the trunk switch; a protection film attached to the front surface of the cover assembly; and an emblem mounted on the cover assembly at a front side of the protection film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Won Ho Kim, Keun Soo Kim, Jong Il Shin
  • Publication number: 20190305010
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area outside the display area, a plurality of pixels located in the display area, a driving circuit driving the pixels, and a pad portion located in the non-display area and electrically connected to the driving circuit through a plurality of outer wirings. The pad portion includes a plurality of pad wirings each electrically connected to corresponding ones of the outer wirings. The pad wirings includes a first pad wiring and a second pad wiring separated from each other. The first pad wiring includes a first electrode layer, an insulating layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode layer on the insulating layer in a stacking direction, the second electrode layer being connected to the first electrode layer. The second pad wiring includes the first electrode layer but not the second electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Yang Hee KIM, Won Ho KIM, Jeong Ho LEE, So Yeon PARK, Hyung Chul LIM
  • Patent number: 10415277
    Abstract: A hood latch assembly for a vehicle is provided. The assembly includes a first latch that is rotated in a first opening direction by a first lever disposed within a driver's seat, to push a striker mounted on a lower surface of a hood to pop up the hood. A second latch restricts or releases the striker to couple or decouple the hood to or from a vehicle body. A second lever rotates the second latch to allow the second latch to release restriction of the striker, and a housing accommodates the first and second latches and the second lever. Additionally, an extendable lever is disposed at a side of the second lever, and extends, when the hood is popped up, to protrude outward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Kyung-Tae Lee, Tae-Young Cho, Jong-Il Shin, Won-Ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20190181361
    Abstract: A flexible organic light-emitting display device may include: a first polymer layer; a first transparent conductive layer over the first polymer layer; a first inorganic layer over the first transparent conductive layer; and a plurality of pixels on the first inorganic layer and each including an organic light-emitting diode, and a driver configured to drive the organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Won Ho Kim, Min Ju Kim, Sang Hun Oh, Keun Soo Lee, Jeong Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10274780
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes: a first type pixel including first liquid crystal molecules aligned approximately in a first direction; a second type pixel including second liquid crystal molecules aligned approximately in a second direction different from the first direction; a first lower polarizer disposed opposite to the first type pixel and having a transmissive axis approximately parallel to the first direction; and a second lower polarizer disposed opposite to the second type pixel and having a transmissive axis approximately parallel to the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won Ho Kim, Tae Hyung Hwang, Young Jin Park, Seong Su Lim, Young Je Cho
  • Patent number: 10259977
    Abstract: Provided is an adhesive composition including: a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based photo-curable resin; and an oxygen-free di-functional diene-based rubber hardener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-Ho Kim, Sle Lee, Chan-Oh Yoon, Jang-Soon Kim, Eun-Kyung Park, Bu-Gi Jung, Min-Jeong Kim, Sang-Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 10227510
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical adhesive film including plate-type inorganic nanoparticles and a curable resin. The optical adhesive film has improved barrier characteristics to moisture and gas, improved light-transmittance, and excellent durability and peel characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chan Oh Yoon, Sung Chan Park, Jang Soon Kim, Eun Kyung Park, Bu Gi Jung, Won Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 10186918
    Abstract: A motor that minimizes demagnetization to improve a force resistant to the demagnetization without increasing a thickness of each permanent magnet and a distance between each permanent magnet and a stator includes a rotor that rotates in one direction and includes cavities configured to hold magnets, flux barriers configured to communicate with first ends of the cavities and formed adjacent to an outer circumferential surface of the rotor, and ribs formed between the outer circumferential surface of the rotor and the flux barriers. Each of the ribs is configured such that a width of one end thereof at an upstream side in a rotational direction of the rotor is wider than that of the other thereof at a downstream side in the rotational direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Il Kim, Won Ho Kim, Seong Taek Lim
  • Patent number: 10174224
    Abstract: Provided is a urethane adhesive composition for a touch panel having a glass transition temperature between ?20° C. to ?50° C., and which, as a cured composition, has an elasticity of 50,000 Pa to 70,000 Pa at 60° C. to 80° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chan Oh Yoon, Eun Kyung Park, Jaegwan Lee, Jang Soon Kim, Bu Gi Jung, Sung Chan Park, Won Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 10144854
    Abstract: Provided are an adhesive composition for a touch panel, including: a hydrophilic functional group-containing monomer and an adhesion promoter, wherein a dielectric constant at a frequency of 100 kHz to 2 MHz is 3.5 or less, and a storage modulus is 1.0×105 Pa to 7.0×105 Pa at 25° C. to 85° C., and an adhesive film including an adhesive layer including a cured product of the adhesive composition for a touch panel. In addition, provided is a touch panel including: a conductive plastic film having a conductive layer formed on one surface; and an adhesive layer attached onto the conductive layer and including a cured product of the adhesive composition for a touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chan Oh Yoon, Eun Kyung Park, Bu Gi Jung, Jang Soon Kim, Sung Chan Park, Won Ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20180247777
    Abstract: A trunk switch module for a vehicle includes: a housing, of which a rear side is partially inserted into a trunk lid of the vehicle, having a mounting space at a front side of the housing; a trunk switch disposed in the mounting space to selectively open the trunk lid according to an operation of a user; a cover assembly attached to a front edge of the housing to close the opened front side of the housing, the cover assembly having a button sealing unit which corresponds to the trunk switch; a protection film attached to the front surface of the cover assembly; and an emblem mounted on the cover assembly at a front side of the protection film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Won Ho KIM, Keun Soo KIM, Jong Il SHIN
  • Patent number: 10024422
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a lock-up clutch of an automatic transmission. The method includes: a detecting step of detecting, by a controller, a current signal applied to a solenoid valve of an engaging element when a gear change operation begins; and a first increasing control step of controlling, by the controller, an amount of current that is applied to a solenoid valve of a lock-up clutch during an initial fill time period when it is determined that the current signal is applied to the solenoid valve of the engaging element. In particular, the solenoid valve of the engaging element is used to form a gear stage, and the controller increases the amount of current to a predetermined level for a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Min Jae Chai, Se Hwan Jo, Kyung Moo Lee, Chang Wook Lee, Won Ho Kim, Bong Uk Bae, Jin Young Hwang
  • Patent number: 10008890
    Abstract: A rotor and an electric motor including the rotor are provided. The electric motor includes a rotor and a plurality of stators. The rotor includes a plurality of main magnets that are disposed spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction with respect to a rotation axis of the rotor, and have a magnetizing direction that is a direction of the rotation axis, a plurality of auxiliary magnetic units that are disposed on both sides of each of the main magnets in the direction of the rotation axis, and have a magnetizing direction that is the circumferential direction, so as to concentrate magnetic flux in each of the main magnets, and a plurality of webs that are disposed between the auxiliary magnetic units so as to generate a reluctance torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-Ho Kim, Seong-Taek Lim, Jin-Woo Cho
  • Patent number: 9910326
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel electrode that includes a first central portion and a first stem portion and sequentially disposed on one side of a reference line extending in a first direction, and a second central portion and a second stem portion sequentially disposed on the other side, where the first stem portion extends at a first oblique angle in which a center line of a line width has a positive sign with respect to the first direction, the first central portion extends from one end of the first stem portion and has a shape in which a center line of the line width is inclined at a second oblique angle having a positive sign with respect to the first direction, and a line width of the first central portion is smaller than the line width of the first stem portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Eun Lee, Sung Man Kim, Won Ho Kim, Tae Hyung Hwang
  • Patent number: D829625
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventors: Won-Ho Kim, Jae-Seung Noh