Patents by Inventor Won-Wook Kim

Won-Wook 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: 12258906
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine with a flowpath. This assembly includes a fuel source and an engine component. The engine component forms a peripheral boundary of the flowpath. The engine component includes a component internal passage. The engine component is configured to receive fuel from the fuel source. The engine component is configured to crack at least some of the fuel within the component internal passage thereby cooling the engine component and providing at least partially cracked fuel. The assembly is configured to direct the at least partially cracked fuel into the flowpath for combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Dustin W. Davis, Lance L. Smith, Won-Wook Kim
  • Publication number: 20240093643
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine with a flowpath. This assembly includes a fuel source and an engine component. The engine component forms a peripheral boundary of the flowpath. The engine component includes a component internal passage. The engine component is configured to receive fuel from the fuel source. The engine component is configured to crack at least some of the fuel within the component internal passage thereby cooling the engine component and providing at least partially cracked fuel. The assembly is configured to direct the at least partially cracked fuel into the flowpath for combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Dustin W. Davis, Lance L. Smith, Won-Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 11859535
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine with a flowpath. This assembly includes a fuel source and an engine component. The engine component forms a peripheral boundary of the flowpath. The engine component includes a component internal passage. The engine component is configured to receive fuel from the fuel source. The engine component is configured to crack at least some of the fuel within the component internal passage thereby cooling the engine component and providing at least partially cracked fuel. The assembly is configured to direct the at least partially cracked fuel into the flowpath for combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Dustin W. Davis, Lance L. Smith, Won-Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 11486578
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a gas turbine engine. This assembly includes a multi-walled structure including a cold wall, a hot wall and a cooling cavity vertically between the cold wall and the hot wall. The cold wall includes a plurality of cold wall apertures fluidly coupled with the cooling cavity. The cold wall apertures are configured to subject the cold wall to a cold wall pressure drop vertically across the cold wall. The hot wall includes a plurality of hot wall apertures fluid coupled with the cooling cavity. The hot wall apertures are configured to subject the hot wall to a hot wall pressure drop vertically across the hot wall that is greater than or equal to the cold wall pressure drop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Zhongtao Dai, Won-Wook Kim
  • Publication number: 20220290609
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine with a flowpath. This assembly includes a fuel source and an engine component. The engine component forms a peripheral boundary of the flowpath. The engine component includes a component internal passage. The engine component is configured to receive fuel from the fuel source. The engine component is configured to crack at least some of the fuel within the component internal passage thereby cooling the engine component and providing at least partially cracked fuel. The assembly is configured to direct the at least partially cracked fuel into the flowpath for combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Dustin W. Davis, Lance L. Smith, Won-Wook Kim
  • Publication number: 20210372620
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a gas turbine engine. This assembly includes a multi-walled structure including a cold wall, a hot wall and a cooling cavity vertically between the cold wall and the hot wall. The cold wall includes a plurality of cold wall apertures fluidly coupled with the cooling cavity. The cold wall apertures are configured to subject the cold wall to a cold wall pressure drop vertically across the cold wall. The hot wall includes a plurality of hot wall apertures fluid coupled with the cooling cavity. The hot wall apertures are configured to subject the hot wall to a hot wall pressure drop vertically across the hot wall that is greater than or equal to the cold wall pressure drop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Zhongtao Dai, Won-Wook Kim
  • Publication number: 20210296712
    Abstract: A battery cell assembly includes a battery cell, a cartridge surrounding an edge of the battery cell and having insertion holes on opposite sides thereof, and a strap section disposed across one surface of the battery cell and having an elongated body part, fastening parts on opposite ends of the elongated body part, and a press pin protruding vertically from the elongated body part. A battery module capable of detecting swelling includes the plurality of battery cell assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Won Wook KIM, Dong Hun LIM, Seung Hoon JU
  • Patent number: 10014560
    Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery pack including a plurality of secondary battery modules including a plurality of secondary battery cells stacked in parallel to each other in a vertical direction, a cover, and a switch installed at an upper side of the one end in the horizontal direction of the cover, a housing, a Power Relay Assembly (PRA) including a relay electrically connected to the secondary battery cells and switches, for transmitting charging power supplied from the outside to the secondary battery cells when the relay is in a close state and changing the relay to an open state when the switch is pushed according to pressure applied to an upper side from a lower surface of the cover, and a Battery Management System (BMS) for controlling the Power Relay Assembly (PRA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: SK Innovation Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Hoon Ju, Ji Yoon Lee, Dong Hun Lim, Yun Nyoung Lee, Won Wook Kim, Sang Hyuk Kim, Jeong Woon Ko
  • Patent number: 9546601
    Abstract: The present application provides a clocked combustor can array for coherence reduction in a gas turbine engine. The clocked combustor can array may include a number of combustor cans positioned in a circumferential array. A first set of the combustor cans may have a first orientation and a second set of the combustor cans may have a second orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Won-Wook Kim, Kevin Weston McMahan, Shiva Kumar Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 9506359
    Abstract: The present application provides a combustion system for use with a cooling flow. The combustion system may include a head end, an aft end, a transition nozzle extending from the head end to the aft end, and an impingement sleeve surrounding the transition nozzle. The impingement sleeve may define a first cavity in communication with the head end for a first portion of the cooling flow and a second cavity in communication with the aft end for a second portion of the cooling flow. The transition nozzle may include a number of cooling holes thereon in communication with the second portion of the cooling flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Won-Wook Kim, Kevin Weston McMahan, Jaime Javier Maldonado
  • Publication number: 20160172715
    Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery pack including a plurality of secondary battery modules including a plurality of secondary battery cells stacked in parallel to each other in a vertical direction, a cover, and a switch installed at an upper side of the one end in the horizontal direction of the cover, a housing, a Power Relay Assembly (PRA) including a relay electrically connected to the secondary battery cells and switches, for transmitting charging power supplied from the outside to the secondary battery cells when the relay is in a close state and changing the relay to an open state when the switch is pushed according to pressure applied to an upper side from a lower surface of the cover, and a Battery Management System (BMS) for controlling the Power Relay Assembly (PRA).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Seung Hoon Ju, Ji Yoon Lee, Dong Hun Lim, Yun Nyoung Lee, Won Wook Kim, Sang Hyuk Kim, Jeong Woon Ko
  • Patent number: 9322554
    Abstract: A combustor for a turbine engine includes a first liner defined about an axis with a first row of first combustion air holes, one of the first combustion air holes is defined along each of a multiple of fuel injector zero pitch lines. A second liner defined about the axis with a second row of second combustion air holes, each of the second combustion air holes circumferentially offset relative to each of the multiple of fuel injector zero pitch lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Won-Wook Kim, James B. Hoke, Timothy S. Snyder
  • Publication number: 20150380778
    Abstract: A battery cell assembly includes a battery cell, a cartridge surrounding an edge of the battery cell and having insertion holes on opposite sides thereof, and a strap section disposed across one surface of the battery cell and having an elongated body part, fastening parts on opposite ends of the elongated body part, and a press pin protruding vertically from the elongated body part. A battery module capable of detecting swelling includes the plurality of battery cell assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Won Wook KIM, Dong Hun LIM, Seung Hoon JU
  • Patent number: 9145778
    Abstract: The present application provides a combustor for use with a gas turbine engine. The combustor may include a head end with a non-circular configuration, a number of fuel nozzles positioned about the head end, and a transition piece extending downstream of the head end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Won-Wook Kim, Kevin Weston McMahan
  • Patent number: 9133722
    Abstract: A system for supplying an injection fluid to a combustor is disclosed. The system includes a transition duct comprising an inlet, an outlet, and a passage extending between the inlet and the outlet and defining a longitudinal axis, a radial axis, and a tangential axis. The outlet of the transition duct is offset from the inlet along the longitudinal axis and the tangential axis. The passage defines a combustion chamber. The system further includes a tube providing fluid communication for the injection fluid to flow through the transition duct and into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey Scott LeBegue, Ronnie Ray Pentecost, James Scott Flanagan, Won-Wook Kim, Kevin Weston McMahan
  • Patent number: 8910481
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine is provided. The combustor includes a forward bulkhead, an inner radial combustor wall, and an outer radial combustor wall. The bulkhead includes a plurality of circumferentially disposed injector apertures. The inner radial combustor wall includes a plurality of inner quench aperture sets. Each inner quench aperture set includes a first inner quench aperture and a second inner quench aperture separated from each other by an inner interset distance. Each inner quench aperture set is separated from an adjacent inner quench aperture set by an inner intraset distance. The inner intraset distance is different than the inner interset distance. The outer radial combustor wall includes a plurality of circumferentially disposed outer quench apertures. The outer radial combustor wall is disposed radially outside of the inner radial combustor wall, thereby defining an annular combustion region therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Won-Wook Kim, Timothy S. Snyder
  • Patent number: 8739546
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine has a combustor module including an annular combustor having a liner assembly that defines an annular combustion chamber and includes a circumferential row of a plurality of relatively large combustion dilution air admission holes and a circumferential row of a plurality of smaller quench air admission holes disposed downstream with respect to the flow of combustion gas products. The plurality of quench air admission holes are arranged with respect to the plurality of relatively large dilution air admission holes disposed upstream thereof such that there is associated with each dilution air admission hole a first quench air admission hole and a second quench air hole, the first quench air hole being offset laterally in a first lateral direction and the second quench air hole being offset laterally in a second lateral direction opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy S. Snyder, Won-Wook Kim
  • Publication number: 20140137535
    Abstract: The present application provides a clocked combustor can array for coherence reduction in a gas turbine engine. The clocked combustor can array may include a number of combustor cans positioned in a circumferential array. A first set of the combustor cans may have a first orientation and a second set of the combustor cans may have a second orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Won-Wook Kim, Kevin Weston McMahan, Shiva Kumar Srinivasan
  • Publication number: 20130283804
    Abstract: A system for supplying an injection fluid to a combustor is disclosed. The system includes a transition duct comprising an inlet, an outlet, and a passage extending between the inlet and the outlet and defining a longitudinal axis, a radial axis, and a tangential axis. The outlet of the transition duct is offset from the inlet along the longitudinal axis and the tangential axis. The passage defines a combustion chamber. The system further includes a tube providing fluid communication for the injection fluid to flow through the transition duct and into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Jeffrey Scott LeBegue, Ronnie Ray Pentecost, James Scott Flanagan, Won-Wook Kim, Kevin Weston McMahan
  • Publication number: 20130283802
    Abstract: A combustor includes an end cap that extends radially across at least a portion of the combustor, wherein the end cap comprises an upstream surface axially separated from a downstream surface. A shroud circumferentially surrounds at least a portion of the end cap, wherein the shroud at least partially defines a fuel plenum between the upstream surface and the downstream surface. A combustion chamber downstream from the end cap defines a longitudinal axis. A plurality of tubes extend from the upstream surface through the downstream surface of the end cap to provide fluid communication through the end cap to the combustion chamber. A transition duct circumferentially surrounds at least a portion of the combustion chamber downstream from the end cap and curves tangentially from the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Won-Wook Kim, Jeffrey Scott LeBegue, Kevin Weston McMahan