Patents by Inventor Wook Son

Wook Son 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: 11598931
    Abstract: A lens moving apparatus including a housing; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a coil disposed on the bobbin; a magnet disposed on the housing to correspond to the coil; an upper elastic member coupled to an upper portion of the bobbin and an upper portion of the housing; and a damper coupled to the first elastic member and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Taek Lee, Byung Wook Son, Sang Ok Park, Seong Min Lee
  • Publication number: 20230067675
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fuel cell system including a discharge line configured to discharge exhaust gas, which is discharged from a fuel cell stack, to the outside, and a pneumatic branch line having an outlet end connected to the discharge line, and an inlet end connected to a pneumatic supply unit configured to supply air to a pneumatic part of a mobility vehicle, the pneumatic branch line being configured to selectively supply the air from the pneumatic supply unit to the discharge line, thereby effectively reducing a hydrogen concentration in the exhaust gas discharged from the fuel cell stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Dong Wook Son
  • Publication number: 20230021021
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a counseling service. A method of operating a counseling center server interworking with an instant messaging service includes creating, based on an input of a first user requesting counseling for a channel registered in the service, a first counseling ticket corresponding to the channel, determining whether the first counseling ticket is created due to switch to manned counseling during unmanned counseling based on a type of the requested counseling and a second counseling ticket created before the first counseling ticket by a request of the first user, updating an indicator for a counseling status of the channel based on a result of the determination and counseling data stored in correspondence with the second counseling ticket, and providing the updated indicator for the counseling status to a terminal of a second user linked to the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Se Eun PARK, Sung Yong CHANG, Zong Muk YOON, Hyun Soo PARK, Bo Kuk PARK, Yeo Seong YOON, Jung Wook SON, Woo Hyeok JUN, Woo Seong LEE, Jeong Hyeon LEE, Sang Won LEE, Yong Su PARK
  • Publication number: 20230005081
    Abstract: A method of operating a counseling center server interworking with an instant messaging service includes, in response to a request for opening a counseling center of a channel registered in the service, creating a counseling center module corresponding to the channel, receiving a search request based on a message transmitted to a chat room of the channel included in the counseling center module, transmitting a query corresponding to the search request to a search medium interworking with the counseling center module based on an interworking structure of the counseling center module, the search medium comprising at least one of a knowledge database and a chatbot, creating a search result corresponding to the search request based on a response to the query received from the search medium, and requesting an instant messaging server providing the service to transmit the search result through the chat room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Ho Jun LEE, Yu Mi KIM, Zong Muk YOON, Jung Han CHOI, Bo Mi HONG, June Kwon MOON, Ji Soo HWANG, Hye Ryeon LEE, Hyun Soo PARK, Bo Kuk PARK, Yeo Seong YOON, Sang Hyeon SEO, Jung Wook SON
  • Publication number: 20220326474
    Abstract: An embodiment comprises: a housing comprising side parts, a first corner part, a second corner part, a third corner part, and a fourth corner part, in which each of the first corner part, the second corner part, the third corner part and the fourth corner is disposed between two adjacent side parts; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a first coil disposed on an outer surface of the bobbin; first magnets disposed on the side parts of the housing; a first circuit board disposed on the first corner part and comprising a first pad, a second pad, a third pad, a fourth pad, a fifth pad and a sixth pad; a first location sensor disposed on the first circuit board and electrically connected to the first pad, the second pad, the third pad, the fourth pad, the fifth pad and the sixth pad; first, second, third and fourth upper springs disposed apart from each other on the housing; and first and second lower springs coupled to a lower portion of the housing, electrically connected with the first coil, and coupled to the fi
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min, Byung Wook Son
  • Publication number: 20220260803
    Abstract: A lens driving device according to an embodiment comprises: a movable unit on which at least one lens is mounted; a first coil and a driving magnet which face and interact with each other such that the movable unit is moved in the optical axis direction of the lens; a position sensor for sensing the position of the movable unit in the optical axis direction or a driver comprising the position sensor; and a positively magnetized magnet arranged to face the position sensor or the driver, wherein the positively magnetized magnet comprises a first side surface, which faces the position sensor and has a first polarity, and a second side surface, which faces the position sensor, which is arranged to be spaced from the first side surface in a direction parallel with the optical axis direction or arranged to abut the first side surface, and which has a second polarity that is the opposite of the first polarity of the first side surface, and the length of the first side surface in the optical axis direction may be equ
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Byung Wook Son, Seong Min Lee, Jun Taek Lee
  • Patent number: 11409071
    Abstract: An embodiment comprises: a housing comprising side parts, a first corner part, a second corner part, a third corner part, and a fourth corner part, in which each of the first corner part, the second corner part, the third corner part and the fourth corner is disposed between two adjacent side parts; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a first coil disposed on an outer surface of the bobbin; first magnets disposed on the side parts of the housing; a first circuit board disposed on the first corner part and comprising a first pad, a second pad, a third pad, a fourth pad, a fifth pad and a sixth pad; a first location sensor disposed on the first circuit board and electrically connected to the first pad, the second pad, the third pad, the fourth pad, the fifth pad and the sixth pad; first, second, third and fourth upper springs disposed apart from each other on the housing; and first and second lower springs coupled to a lower portion of the housing, electrically connected with the first coil, and coupled to the fi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min, Byung Wook Son
  • Patent number: 11381366
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication device including at least one processor configured to transmit a plurality of test signals generated based on different transmission factors to a reception device, and transmit first data to the reception device based on a transmission factor of a first test signal among the plurality of test signals in response to determining a first acknowledgement signal has been received, the first acknowledgement signal corresponding to the first test signal, the transmission of the first data being via a wireless data channel while second data is contemporaneously transmitted via the wireless data channel by another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jong-hun Han, Young-wook Son, Sung-hyun Choi, Seong-won Kim, Kang-hyun Lee
  • Publication number: 20220206308
    Abstract: An embodiment comprises: a housing including a hole; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a first coil disposed in the bobbin; a magnet disposed in the housing; an upper elastic member coupled to an upper portion of the housing; a support member coupled to the upper elastic member through the hole; and a base disposed under the housing, wherein the housing comprises: a first surface to which the upper elastic member is coupled; a second surface which is disposed at a position higher than a bottom surface of the housing and lower than the first surface; and a sloped surface which is adjacent to the second surface and has a predetermined angle with respect to the second surface, and wherein the hole is formed in the area of at least one of the second surface and the sloped surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Sung Guk Lee, Byung Wook Son, Seong Min Lee
  • Publication number: 20220196968
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including housing to support a driving magnet, a bobbin provided at an outer circumferential surface thereof with a coil located inside the driving magnet, the bobbin being moved in a first direction parallel to an optical axis within the housing via electromagnetic interaction between the driving magnet and the coil, a lower elastic member to connect a lower portion of the housing and a lower portion of the bobbin to each other, both ends of the coil being electrically connected to the lower elastic member, the lower elastic member having a first terminal electrically connected to an external power source so as to supply external power to the ends of the coil, and a printed circuit board provided at one side surface of the housing, the printed circuit board having a second terminal electrically connected to the external power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Jun Taek Lee, Sang Ok Park, Byung Wook Son, Seong Min Lee
  • Publication number: 20220187564
    Abstract: A lens moving apparatus can include a housing; a base disposed below the housing; a bobbin disposed inside the housing and configured to move in a first direction along or parallel with an optical axis within the housing; driving magnets disposed on the housing; a coil provided at an outer surface of the bobbin; an elastic member coupled to the bobbin and supporting the bobbin; a sensing magnet coupled to the bobbin; and a position sensor coupled to a printed circuit board, wherein the position sensor is configured to sense a displacement of the sensing magnet in the first direction, in which the bobbin includes a reception recess formed on the outer surface of the bobbin such that at least a part of the reception recess is located at an inside of the coil, the sensing magnet is disposed in the reception recess, and the position sensor is disposed on another side of the housing than sides on which the driving magnets are disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Min LEE, Sang Ok PARK, Hyune O YOO, Byung Wook SON, Jun Taek LEE
  • Patent number: 11353679
    Abstract: A lens driving device according to an embodiment comprises: a movable unit on which at least one lens is mounted; a first coil and a driving magnet which face and interact with each other such that the movable unit is moved in the optical axis direction of the lens; a position sensor for sensing the position of the movable unit in the optical axis direction or a driver comprising the position sensor; and a positively magnetized magnet arranged to face the position sensor or the driver, wherein the positively magnetized magnet comprises a first side surface, which faces the position sensor and has a first polarity, and a second side surface, which faces the position sensor, which is arranged to be spaced from the first side surface in a direction parallel with the optical axis direction or arranged to abut the first side surface, and which has a second polarity that is the opposite of the first polarity of the first side surface, and the length of the first side surface in the optical axis direction may be equ
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Byung Wook Son, Seong Min Lee, Jun Taek Lee
  • Publication number: 20220165467
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a lens driving device comprising: a housing; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a coil disposed on the bobbin; and a first magnet disposed opposite to the coil in the housing, wherein: the first magnet comprises an inner surface facing the coil, and an outer surface disposed at the opposite side to the inner surface; and the first magnet comprises a first region provided between the inner surface and the outer surface and having a first thickness, and a second region extending from the first region and having a second thickness which is smaller than the first thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Wook SON, Young Ho KIM, Hyun Joong LEE
  • Publication number: 20220159018
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for security of vehicle CAN communication including a security module unit included in each node of a vehicle CAN communication network and configured to monitor an identifier (ID) of each CAN message received through a CAN transceiver to determine whether the CAN message is a malicious CAN message to perform error processing, and a control unit configured to set an ID to be monitored by the security module unit and control the security module unit not to perform monitoring on the ID when the node transmits the CAN message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Korea Automotive Technology Institute
    Inventors: Yong En KIM, Young Wook Son, Chul Soo Kim, Jong Phil Won, Ho Seong Lee, Taek Kyu Lim, Ji Min Kim
  • Patent number: 11327333
    Abstract: An embodiment comprises: a housing including a hole; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a first coil disposed in the bobbin; a magnet disposed in the housing; an upper elastic member coupled to an upper portion of the housing; a support member coupled to the upper elastic member through the hole; and a base disposed under the housing, wherein the housing comprises: a first surface to which the upper elastic member is coupled; a second surface which is disposed at a position higher than a bottom surface of the housing and lower than the first surface; and a sloped surface which is adjacent to the second surface and has a predetermined angle with respect to the second surface, and wherein the hole is formed in the area of at least one of the second surface and the sloped surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Guk Lee, Byung Wook Son, Seong Min Lee
  • Patent number: 11320624
    Abstract: A lens driving device according to an embodiment comprises: a movable unit on which at least one lens is mounted; a first coil and a driving magnet which face and interact with each other such that the movable unit is moved in the optical axis direction of the lens; a position sensor for sensing the position of the movable unit in the optical axis direction or a driver comprising the position sensor; and a positively magnetized magnet arranged to face the position sensor or the driver, wherein the positively magnetized magnet comprises a first side surface, which faces the position sensor and has a first polarity, and a second side surface, which faces the position sensor, which is arranged to be spaced from the first side surface in a direction parallel with the optical axis direction or arranged to abut the first side surface, and which has a second polarity that is the opposite of the first polarity of the first side surface, and the length of the first side surface in the optical axis direction may be equ
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Byung Wook Son, Seong Min Lee, Jun Taek Lee
  • Publication number: 20220120507
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including a plurality of fluid channel plates laminated on each other to form a cooling water fluid channel through which cooling water flows and an air fluid channel through which air flows. The fluid channel plates have a cooling water inlet hole through which the cooling water is introduced and a cooling water outlet hole through which the cooling water is discharged. Beads block the flow of the cooling water, protrude between the cooling water inlet hole and the cooling water outlet hole, are arranged to surround the periphery of the cooling water inlet hole and the cooling water outlet hole, and are spaced apart such that flow resistance of the cooling water decreases as a flow length of the cooling water increases, so that flow distribution of the cooling water can be uniform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Jung Wook SON, Hyeon Geun CHAE
  • Publication number: 20220113494
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a bobbin including a first coil disposed on an outer circumferential surface thereof, a housing provided with first and second magnets for moving the bobbin by interaction with the first coil, upper and lower elastic members each coupled to both the bobbin and the housing, and a first position sensor for detecting a sum of intensities of magnetic fields of the first and second magnets, wherein the first position sensor is disposed in a space between the first magnet and the second magnet when the bobbin is disposed at an initial position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Jun Taek Lee, Byung Wook Son, Sang Jun Min, Kyoung Ho Yoo
  • Patent number: 11300758
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including housing to support a driving magnet, a bobbin provided at an outer circumferential surface thereof with a coil located inside the driving magnet, the bobbin being moved in a first direction parallel to an optical axis within the housing via electromagnetic interaction between the driving magnet and the coil, a lower elastic member to connect a lower portion of the housing and a lower portion of the bobbin to each other, both ends of the coil being electrically connected to the lower elastic member, the lower elastic member having a first terminal electrically connected to an external power source so as to supply external power to the ends of the coil, and a printed circuit board provided at one side surface of the housing, the printed circuit board having a second terminal electrically connected to the external power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Taek Lee, Sang Ok Park, Byung Wook Son, Seong Min Lee
  • Patent number: 11294142
    Abstract: A lens moving apparatus can include a housing; a base disposed below the housing; a bobbin disposed inside the housing and configured to move in a first direction along or parallel with an optical axis within the housing; driving magnets disposed on the housing; a coil provided at an outer surface of the bobbin; an elastic member coupled to the bobbin and supporting the bobbin; a sensing magnet coupled to the bobbin; and a position sensor coupled to a printed circuit board, wherein the position sensor is configured to sense a displacement of the sensing magnet in the first direction, in which the bobbin includes a reception recess formed on the outer surface of the bobbin such that at least a part of the reception recess is located at an inside of the coil, the sensing magnet is disposed in the reception recess, and the position sensor is disposed on another side of the housing than sides on which the driving magnets are disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Min Lee, Sang Ok Park, Hyune O Yoo, Byung Wook Son, Jun Taek Lee