Patents by Inventor Won-Ho Lee

Won-Ho Lee 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: 8287948
    Abstract: An image sensor includes a color filter, an over-coating layer formed on the color filter, and a medium layer formed on the over-coating layer, wherein the medium layer is configured with at least two medium layers of which refractive indices are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures II LLC
    Inventor: Won-Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20120223215
    Abstract: The present invention relates a CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) image sensor capable of improving dynamic range by using an additional driver transistor. The CMOS image sensor according to the present invention has a pixel array which has a plurality of unit pixels each of which includes a photodiode and a fist transistor to act as a source follower buffer amplifier to amplify photogenerated charges accumulated in the photodiode. Also, the CMOS image sensor includes a second transistor for a buffer amplifier to amplify and output a gate input voltage in the unit pixel, wherein an output signal of the first transistor is applied to a gate of the second.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: Intellectual Ventures II LLC
    Inventor: Won-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8194218
    Abstract: An In-Plane Switching (IPS) mode LCD device is disclosed, to prevent the distortion of transverse electric field in a method of decreasing a line width of a common electrode overlapped with a pixel electrode, which includes intersecting gate and data lines that define a pixel region; thin film transistors at an intersection point of the gate and data lines; pixel electrodes formed in the pixel region and connected with a thin film transistor; and common electrodes arranged between the pixel electrodes of the pixel region; wherein, the outermost common electrode, formed adjacent to the data line, is partially overlapped with the pixel electrode, and the line width of the predetermined portion of the outermost common electrode overlapped with the pixel electrode is smaller than the remaining portions of the outermost common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Seok Kang, Won Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8188524
    Abstract: The present invention relates a CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) image sensor capable of improving dynamic range by using an additional driver transistor. The CMOS image sensor according to the present invention has a pixel array which has a plurality of unit pixels each of which includes a photodiode and a fist transistor to act as a source follower buffer amplifier to amplify photogenerated charges accumulated in the photodiode. Also, the CMOS image sensor includes a second transistor for a buffer amplifier to amplify and output a gate input voltage in the unit pixel, wherein an output signal of the first transistor is applied to a gate of the second.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures II LLC
    Inventor: Won-Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20120068294
    Abstract: An image sensor with decreased optical interference between adjacent pixels is provided. An image sensor, which is divided into a pixel region and a peripheral region, the image sensor including a photodiode formed in a substrate in the pixel region, first to Mth metal lines formed over the substrate in the pixel region, where M is a natural number greater than approximately 1, first to Nth metal lines formed over a substrate in the peripheral region, where N is a natural number greater than M, at least one layer of dummy metal lines formed over the Mth metal lines but formed not to overlap with the photodiode, and a microlens formed over the one layer of the dummy metal lines to overlap with the photodiode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES II LLC
    Inventors: Won-Ho Lee, Dong-Heon Cho
  • Patent number: 8130353
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a gate line and a data line crossing each other to define a pixel region on a substrate; a thin film transistor connected to the gate and data lines; a pixel electrode in the pixel region and including a first pixel portion which has a plurality of bent portions and first and second pixel protrusion portions protruding from the bent portions alternately in an opposing direction; and a common electrode in the pixel region and including first and second common portions between which the first pixel portion is located, and first and second common protrusion portions protruding from the first and second common portions, respectively, alternately in a direction toward the bent portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Won-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8114805
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a heteropoly acid catalyst used for the production of methacrylic acid by gas phase oxidation of methacrolein, more precisely a method of preparing a heteropoly acid catalyst comprising the steps of preparing a slurry by adding metal precursors and ammonium salt to protonic acid Keggin-type heteropoly acid aqueous solution and stirring thereof; and drying, molding and firing the slurry to give a catalyst. The present invention provides a method of preparing a heteropoly acid catalyst exhibiting high methacrolein conversion rate and methacrylic acid selectivity without pre-firing process by using high purity protonic acid Keggin-type heteropoly acid and ammonium salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Kuk Noh, Hyun-jong Shin, Won-ho Lee, Byung-yul Choi, Gyo-hyun Hwang, Ju-yeon Park, Duk-ki Kim, Young-hyun Choe, Min-ho Kil, Min-suk Kim, Young-jin Cho, Sung-chul Lim
  • Publication number: 20120007665
    Abstract: A CMOS image sensor includes a photodiode, a plurality of transistors for transferring charges accumulated at the photodiode to one column line, and a voltage dropping element connected to a gate electrode of at least one transistor among the plurality of transistors for expanding a saturation region of the transistor by dropping down a gate voltage inputted to the gate electrode of the at least one transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Intellectual Ventures II LLC
    Inventor: Won-Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20110317092
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrate facing each other; a pixel electrode and a common electrode on the first substrate and generating an electric field substantially parallel to the first substrate; a backlight unit disposed under the first substrate and providing a light to the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules and disposed between the first and second substrates, wherein the liquid crystal molecules are twisted in a helical structure having an axis perpendicular to the first substrate when the electric field is not generated and untwisted along the electric field with maintaining the axis when the electric field is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Hyun-Jin PARK, Dong-Guk KIM, Won-Ho LEE, Jong-Hoon WOO, Dong-Kyu YOON
  • Patent number: 8063423
    Abstract: A CMOS image sensor includes a photodiode, a plurality of transistors for transferring charges accumulated at the photodiode to one column line, and a voltage dropping element connected to a gate electrode of at least one transistor among the plurality of transistors for expanding a saturation region of the transistor by dropping down a gate voltage inputted to the gate electrode of the at least one transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures II LLC
    Inventor: Won-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8053386
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heteropoly acid catalyst which is used for the production of methacrylic acid by gas phase oxidation of methacrolein and a preparing method thereof. The present invention, thereby, provides a novel heteropoly acid catalyst having excellent methacrolein conversion rate, methacrylic acid selectivity and yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Gyo-hyun Hwang, Min-ho Kil, Hyun-kuk Noh, Won-ho Lee, Min-suk Kim
  • Publication number: 20110267571
    Abstract: An array substrate for an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes a gate line on a substrate including a pixel region, the pixel region including a first domain at a lower side with respect to the gate line and a second domain at an upper side with respect to the gate line; a data line crossing the gate line; a thin film transistor in the pixel region and at a crossing portion of the gate and data lines; a plurality of first pixel electrodes in the first domain; a plurality of second pixel electrodes in the second domain, the plurality of first pixel electrodes and plurality of second pixel electrodes sharing the thin film transistor; a plurality of first common electrodes in the first domain and alternately arranged with the plurality of first pixel electrodes; and a plurality of second common electrodes in the second domain and alternately arranged with the plurality of second pixel electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventor: Won-Ho LEE
  • Patent number: 8042316
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fireproof door, which comprises a fire-protection glass and a support means for supporting the fire-protection glass, and the support means comprising an elastic member in contact with both surfaces of an edge portion of the fire-protection glass, a reinforcing frame for supporting the elastic member, and a fixing plate fixed to a support and corresponding to both surfaces of the reinforcing frame. The fireproof door of the present invention has a grade A fireproof performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-Ho Lee, Sang-Ho Shin, Seong-Hoon Yue
  • Patent number: 8030723
    Abstract: An image sensor with decreased optical interference between adjacent pixels is provided. An image sensor, which is divided into a pixel region and a peripheral region, the image sensor including a photodiode formed in a substrate in the pixel region, first to Mth metal lines formed over the substrate in the pixel region, where M is a natural number greater than approximately 1, first to Nth metal lines formed over a substrate in the peripheral region, where N is a natural number greater than M, at least one layer of dummy metal lines formed over the Mth metal lines but formed not to overlap with the photodiode, and a microlens formed over the one layer of the dummy metal lines to overlap with the photodiode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Crosstek Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Won-Ho Lee, Dong-Heon Cho
  • Publication number: 20110198486
    Abstract: An image sensor includes a color filter, an over-coating layer formed on the color filter, and a medium layer formed on the over-coating layer, wherein the medium layer is configured with at least two medium layers of which refractive indices are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: CROSSTEK CAPITAL, LLC
    Inventor: Won-Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20110198716
    Abstract: An image sensor includes a color filter, an over-coating layer formed on the color filter, and a medium layer formed on the over-coating layer, wherein the medium layer is configured with at least two medium layers of which refractive indices are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: CROSSTEK CAPITAL, LLC
    Inventor: Won-Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20110200907
    Abstract: Provided are an ion conductive resin fiber, an ion conductive hybrid membrane, a membrane electrode assembly and a fuel cell. The ion conductive resin fiber comprises an inner layer including an ion conductive resin; and an outer layer including an ion conductive resin having larger EW than the ion conductive resin of the inner layer, and surrounding the inner layer. The ion conductive resin fiber and the ion conductive hybrid membrane are excellent in ion conductivity, polar solvent stability and dimensional stability under low humidity conditions. The fuel cell manufactured using the same has advantages of stable operation and management of a system at ease, removal or reduction of components related to water management, and even in case of low relative humidity, operation at high temperature of 80° C. or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Go-Young Moon, Won-Ho Lee, Sang-Hyun Lee, Young-Il Choi, Hyuk Kim
  • Publication number: 20110189575
    Abstract: Provided are a method for manufacturing a polymer electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell, a membrane electrode assembly and a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. The manufacturing method includes (S1) forming a plurality of grooves on a substrate; (S2) casting an ion exchange resin solution for forming an electrolyte membrane on a surface of the substrate having the plurality of grooves; (S3) drying the ion exchange resin solution to form a polymer electrolyte membrane; and (S4) separating the formed polymer electrolyte membrane from the substrate. The ion conductive electrolyte membrane manufactured by the method has the grooves formed on the surface thereof, so that a contact area with a catalyst is maximized to improve the performance of the fuel cell, and adhesion of electrodes and the electrolyte membrane is improved to enhance the interface stability with the electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Go-Young Moon, Won-Ho Lee, Ja-Hoon Jeong, Hwang-Chan Yoo, Hyuk Kim
  • Publication number: 20110166241
    Abstract: Disclosed are a multi-block copolymer, its producing method and an electrolyte membrane using the same. The multi-block copolymer includes a hydrophobic block having a plurality of repeating units represented as chemical formula 1; and a hydrophilic block having a plurality of repeating units represented as chemical formula 2. The multi-block copolymer is acidified, and can be used to an electrolyte membrane and a fuel cell. The use of the multi-block copolymer as an electrolyte membrane ensures excellent dimensional stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Seong-Ho Choi, Won-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 7892628
    Abstract: An image sensor includes a color filter, an over-coating layer formed on the color filter, and a medium layer formed on the over-coating layer, wherein the medium layer is configured with at least two medium layers of which refractive indices are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Crosstek Capital, LLC
    Inventor: Won-Ho Lee