Patents by Inventor Wook Hyun Kim

Wook Hyun 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: 20250096429
    Abstract: Proposed is an apparatus for manufacturing a battery module that welds at least one electrode tab of a plurality of battery cells and at least one bus bar that are included in the battery module, the apparatus including a vision sensor configured to create an image by photographing a state in which the electrode tab of the battery cell is inserted in the bus bar, and a controller configured to recognize a first reference mark formed close to the hole of the bus bar in the image and determine a start point for welding the bus bar and the electrode tab on the basis of the first reference mark. Since the apparatus determines a start point of welding by recognizing a reference mark formed on a bus itself, it is possible to determine a welding position regardless of variation of lamps or the surrounding environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Kwan Yong KIM, Wook Hyun KIM, Ju Hwan SUNG, Yong Hun JUNG
  • Publication number: 20250079580
    Abstract: A battery module includes a cell assembly including a plurality of battery cells including a case containing an electrode assembly, a sealing portion formed by sealing the case, and an electrode lead exposed to an outside of the case, a bus bar assembly electrically connected to the electrode lead, a plate portion covering the cell assembly and the bus bar assembly, and at least one heat blocking member disposed to face the sealing portion and the bus bar assembly. The heat blocking member is solid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Yong Hun JUNG, Wook Hyun KIM, Ju Hwan SUNG
  • Publication number: 20240383717
    Abstract: Proposed is an apparatus for removing release paper, the apparatus including a removal part that grips and removing release paper attached to a surface of a battery cell and is provided with a gripping detection sensor, a recovery part that collects the release paper removed from the surface of the battery cell and is provided with an input detection sensor, and a detection part that detects the release paper remaining not removed by performing vision measurement on the surface of the battery cell. In addition, proposed is a method of removing release paper from a battery cell using the above-described apparatus, while determining a removal state of the release paper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Wook Hyun KIM, Kwan Yong KIM, Yun U CHANG
  • Publication number: 20240363882
    Abstract: An assembly guide according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is used to align cell tabs to couple a bus bar assembly to the cell tabs protruding from a plurality of battery cells stacked, and the assembly guide includes: a base portion contacting the bus bar assembly as the bus bar assembly is coupled to the cell tabs; a cell tab accommodating portion including a plurality of a plurality of grooves formed at one end of the base portion to face the cell tabs; and a load cell disposed on the base portion to measure a load applied to the assembly guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Wook Hyun KIM, Kwan Yong KIM, Yun U CHANG, Yong Hun JUNG
  • Publication number: 20240363971
    Abstract: A battery module manufacturing method comprising according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: coupling a guide with cell tabs, the guide aligning the cell tabs of each of a plurality of battery cells with the cell tabs; and coupling a bus bar assembly with the cell tabs, in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the cell tabs protrude from the battery cells, the bus bar assembly that electrically connects the cell tabs to each other, wherein, while the bus bar assembly is being coupled with the cell tabs, the bus bar assembly pushes out the guide in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the cell tabs protrude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Wook Hyun KIM, Kwan Yong KIM, Yun U CHANG
  • Publication number: 20230143801
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a battery module including a) aligning a first base material and a second base material, which are welding objects and housing members that are combined with each other to form an internal accommodating space in which a plurality of battery cells are accommodated and b) forming a welding joint portion including a bonding region and a surface region covering the bonding region by irradiating a contact surface between the first base material and the second base material with a laser, the bonding region and the surface region forming the welding joint portion having different microstructures due to different thermal history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Hoemin CHEONG, Wook Hyun KIM, Tae Hyun KIM, HYUNJOON PARK, Majid ABBASI GHARACHEH
  • Publication number: 20230146342
    Abstract: Provided is a battery module including a housing having an internal accommodating space and a plurality of battery cells located in the internal accommodating space, wherein the housing includes a welding joint portion in which a first base material of a first alloy and a second base material of a second alloy are welded, the welding joint portion includes a bonding region in which the first base material and the second base material are melt-bonded and a surface region covering the bonding region, and the bonding region and the surface region have different microstructures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Hoemin CHEONG, HyunJoon PARK, Majid ABBASI GHARACHEH, Wook Hyun KIM, Tae Hyun KIM
  • Publication number: 20210320363
    Abstract: Provided are a battery module housing welding method capable of solving a problem that a battery cell accommodated therein is damaged due to heat that occurs during welding, and a battery module manufactured thereby, and according to the battery module housing welding method of the present invention, a gap portion formed during assembling of a battery module housing is welded by lasers with different powers and sizes a plurality of times, thereby preventing damage to a battery cell due to high temperatures during welding of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventor: Wook Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 10014511
    Abstract: Provided are a battery module and an electrode tab ultrasonic wave welding method. The present invention relates to a battery module and an electrode tab ultrasonic wave welding method by forming the electrode tab in a zigzag form in which the electrode tab extending upwardly is bent downwardly and then, again bent upwardly to allow the electrode tab formed in the zigzag form to absorb vibrations even when a welding portion formed in parallel with a battery cell is fused by ultrasonic wave vibrations, thereby minimizing damage to the battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: SK Innovation Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wook Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 9954256
    Abstract: Provided are a method for welding a battery module and a welded structure, and more particularly, a method for welding a battery module and a welded structure, in which a plurality of battery cells provided with electrode tabs are assembled to form a module and a voltage measurement portion of a voltage measurement means is welded to the electrode tabs so as to secure stability against vibrations and external shocks, thereby increasing reliability of voltage measurement and the voltage measurement portion is welded to the electrode tabs using the same kind of materials so as to facilitate an operation and improve productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SK Innovation Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wook Hyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20170062882
    Abstract: Provided are a method for welding a battery module and a welded structure, and more particularly, a method for welding a battery module and a welded structure, in which a plurality of battery cells provided with electrode tabs are assembled to form a module and a voltage measurement portion of a voltage measurement means is welded to the electrode tabs so as to secure stability against vibrations and external shocks, thereby increasing reliability of voltage measurement and the voltage measurement portion is welded to the electrode tabs using the same kind of materials so as to facilitate an operation and improve productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Wook Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 9583797
    Abstract: Provided are a method for welding a battery module and a welded structure, and more particularly, a method for welding a battery module and a welded structure, in which a plurality of battery cells provided with electrode tabs are assembled to form a module and a voltage measurement portion of a voltage measurement means is welded to the electrode tabs so as to secure stability against vibrations and external shocks, thereby increasing reliability of voltage measurement and the voltage measurement portion is welded to the electrode tabs using the same kind of materials so as to facilitate an operation and improve productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SK Innovation Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wook Hyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20150194708
    Abstract: Provided are a method for welding a battery module and a welded structure, and more particularly, a method for welding a battery module and a welded structure, in which a plurality of battery cells provided with electrode tabs are assembled to form a module and a voltage measurement portion of a voltage measurement means is welded to the electrode tabs so as to secure stability against vibrations and external shocks, thereby increasing reliability of voltage measurement and the voltage measurement portion is welded to the electrode tabs using the same kind of materials so as to facilitate an operation and improve productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventor: Wook Hyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20130280587
    Abstract: Provided are a battery module and an electrode tab ultrasonic wave welding method. The present invention relates to a battery module and an electrode tab ultrasonic wave welding method by forming the electrode tab in a zigzag form in which the electrode tab extending upwardly is bent downwardly and then, again bent upwardly to allow the electrode tab formed in the zigzag form to absorb vibrations even when a welding portion formed in parallel with a battery cell is fused by ultrasonic wave vibrations, thereby minimizing damage to the battery cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SK INNOVATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wook Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 7091016
    Abstract: Carbonyl reductase (CR) of a yeast strain, Kluyveromyces marxianus, and its isolation and purification method thereof is provided. The reduction reaction by the reductase obtained in the present invention is more stereospecific and requires less cost and time than the reduction reactions by the microorganisms or by the reducing enzymes obtained from a chemical synthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Hun-Yeong Koh, Ye-Sun Han, Joo-Hwan Cha, Wook-Hyun Kim, Jong-Soo Lee, Hong-Chul Yun
  • Patent number: 6955904
    Abstract: The invention is a gene coding for a quinone oxidoreductase from Kluyveromyces marxianus and a protein having an amino acid sequence expressed therefrom, which can be advantageously used in a reduction reaction of a quinone compound and synthesis of intermediates for a biologically active compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Ye Sun Han, Hun Yeoung Koh, Hyewhon Rhim, Joo Hwan Cha, Wook Hyun Kim, Jung Ho Back
  • Publication number: 20030199070
    Abstract: There are disclosed a crystal of complex of RRF with a detergent, its crystallization method and a method for identifying an inhibitor for RRF by using the three-dimensional structure of RRF analyzed from the crystal. In the present invention, a crystal of RRF complexed with a detergent is obtained in the presence of the detergent, and the three-dimensional structure of RRF is analyzed from the crystal. There are identified an active site forming hydrophobic cleft and binding site of RRF to A-site of ribosome in the three-dimensional structure of RRF. The three-dimensional structure of RRF, specifically, the active site and binding site can allow an inhibitor for RRF to be designed and identified efficiently. RRF is essential for viability in prokaryotes, but is not essential in eukaryotes. From this fact, the inhibitor for RRF can be used as an antibiotic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Inventors: Se Won Suh, Kyeong Kyu Kim, Kyeong Sik Min, Sung Chul Ha, Soo Hyun Eom, Wook Hyun Kim, Jung Min Yun
  • Publication number: 20030175886
    Abstract: The invention is a gene coding for a quinone oxidoreductase from Kluyveromyces marxianus and a protein having an amino acid sequence expressed therefrom, which can be advantageously used in a reduction reaction of a quinone compound and synthesis of intermediates for a biologically active compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventors: Ye Sun Han, Hun Yeoung Koh, Hyewhon Rhim, Joo Hwan Cha, Wook Hyun Kim, Jung Ho Back
  • Publication number: 20030170844
    Abstract: Carbonyl reductase (CR) of a yeast strain, Kluyveromyces marxianus, and its isolation and purification method thereof is provided. The reduction reaction by the reductase obtained in the present invention is more stereospecific and requires less cost and time than the reduction reactions by the microorganisms or by the reducing enzymes obtained from a chemical synthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Applicant: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Hun-Yeong Koh, Ye-Sun Han, Joo-Hwan Cha, Wook-Hyun Kim, Jong-Soo Lee, Hong-Chul Yun
  • Patent number: D655746
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Inventor: Wook Hyun Kim