Patents by Inventor Yang-Kyeong Kim

Yang-Kyeong 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: 20040251251
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heating apparatus in a microwave oven in which one of microwave oven elements, namely a tray in a cavity where a food article to be cooked is usually placed is used as a medium of an ultrasonic oscillator. The heating apparatus in the microwave oven, the apparatus including: a cavity formed inside of a case of the apparatus, wherein the case comprises a means for heating an article; a tray installed inside of the cavity, on which the article to be heated is positioned; and an oscillating means connected to the tray for oscillating the tray and/or the article to be heated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young Min Lee, Yang Kyeong Kim, Wan Soo Kim, Jong Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 6812442
    Abstract: A door of a microwave oven comprising: a door panel which is installed on a front surface of a casing having a cavity corresponding to a cooking space of food to be opened and closed; a door frame which is combined with the door panel to be located at a front of the cavity; a choke cover which is inserted in the door frame, for covering a choke seal; and a frame subsidiary plate which is positioned to opposed to the choke cover and is combined with the door frame to remove a gap formed between the choke cover and a lateral surface of the door frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Eung-Soo Kim, Yang-Kyeong Kim, Young-Min Lee
  • Publication number: 20040144773
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electric oven which increases temperature fast and reduces heat loss in accordance with that a cavity surface generates its own heat by using an induction heating. The electric oven comprises: a case having a door at a front side and having a cavity for receiving food therein; a magnetron installed at one side of an upper portion of the cavity for generating microwave of high frequency and supplying heat to the cavity; an inverter for generating high frequency at a space between the case and the cavity; first, second, third, and fourth heating units installed each side of the cavity for supplying heat. Since temperature of a cooking chamber can be set as wanted uniformly and faster, preheating time and actual cooking time can be reduced. Also, since inner temperature of the cavity rises faster and simultaneously, an automatic cleaning in the cavity using pyrolysis can be performed faster and uniformly, thereby reducing power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc
    Inventors: Wan-Soo Kim, Yang-Kyeong Kim, Young-Min Lee
  • Publication number: 20040094541
    Abstract: Microwave oven including an outer case forming a top and sides of a cabinet, a base plate forming a bottom of the cabinet, a front panel and a rear panel mounted in a front part and a rear part of the base plate for forming a front surface and a rear surface respectively, an inner case forming a cooking chamber on the base plate, first and second transformer mounted at corners of one side of the base plate, a fan above the second transformer for drawing external air, a fan motor connected to the fan for providing a driving power to the fan, a fan housing for protecting the fan, an air duct between the first and second transformers, having one end in communication with the fan housing and the other end branched to first and second branch ducts, and first and second magnetron on an outside surface of the inner case, the first and second magnetron connected to the first and second branch ducts respectively, thereby cooling various components of the microwave oven, smoothly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Heon Lee, Sang Ryul Lee, Yang Kyeong Kim, Wan Soo Kim
  • Publication number: 20040079751
    Abstract: A door of a microwave oven comprising: a door panel which is installed on a front surface of a casing having a cavity corresponding to a cooking space of food to be opened and closed; a door frame which is combined with the door panel to be located at a front of the cavity; a choke cover which is inserted in the door frame, for covering a choke seal; and a frame subsidiary plate which is positioned to opposed to the choke cover and is combined with the door frame to remove a gap formed between the choke cover and a lateral surface of the door frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Eung-Soo Kim, Yang-Kyeong Kim, Young-Min Lee
  • Publication number: 20040056028
    Abstract: A microwave oven comprising: a casing which forms an appearance and has a front surface backwardly slanted and an adjusting portion formed at the slanted part; a cooking chamber formed inside the casing, for cooking food; and a door rotably combined at a side of the casing and slanted correspondingly the casing in order to opening and close the front surface of the cooking chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventors: Eung-Su Kim, Yang-Kyeong Kim, Young-Min Lee
  • Publication number: 20030141298
    Abstract: A microwave sealing structure prevents leakage of microwave to the outside of the cavity in which microwave resonates, in an apparatus using microwave which includes a cavity in which an internal space is formed so that microwave can resonate having an opening, and a door for opening/closing the opening. In the structure, an equivalent impedance circuit, formed with a rim of the opening and a cross-section of the rim of the door to prevent leakage of microwave out of the cavity, is a LC resonant circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Young-Min Lee, Yang-Kyeong Kim, Jong-Kwan Ryu
  • Patent number: 6528773
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a microwave oven including a cavity having a certain area for cooking comprising a flow path formed between a main body and the cavity so as to be connected from a side of the cavity to the upper surface of the cavity, a heater installed on the side of the flow path corresponding to the outer upper surface of the cavity for emitting heat, a discharge hole installed on the upper surface of the cavity corresponding to the lower portion of the heater for discharging the heat of the heater into the cavity, an inlet installed on the lower portion of the side wall of the cavity for making the air inside of the cavity flow in the flow channel, and a circulating fan installed on a certain portion of the flow channel for circulating the air inside of the cavity flown through the inlet to the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Kyeong Kim, Jong Gwan Ryu, Sung Jin Han, Wan Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 6384392
    Abstract: A uniform heating structure for a microwave oven is provided. The structure of the invention includes: a magnetron for generating microwaves, a wave guide for guiding the microwaves generated by the magnetron, a pair of openings for radiating the microwaves guided by the wave guide in the form of circular polarized waves, and a cavity which is shaped in a polyhedron more than a rectangular and in which more than one interior walls constructing the polyhedron slope at a predetermined angle (&thgr;1) excepting a right angle with respect to a neighboring interior wall. With this structure, the microwaves generated by the magnetron are reflected to be delivered to food through a sloping interior wall of the cavity while being radiated to the cavity through the wave guide and the openings, thus ensuring a uniform distribution of the microwaves throughout the food and making the food uniformly cooked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young Min Lee, Yang Kyeong Kim, Sung Jin Han
  • Publication number: 20020023922
    Abstract: A uniform heating structure for a microwave oven is provided. The structure of the invention includes: a magnetron for generating microwaves, a wave guide for guiding the microwaves generated by the magnetron, a pair of openings for radiating the microwaves guided by the wave guide in the form of circular polarized waves, and a cavity which is shaped in a polyhedron more than a rectangular and in which more than one interior walls constructing the polyhedron slope at a predetermined angle(&thgr;1) excepting a right angle with respect to a neighboring interior wall. With this structure, the microwaves generated by the magnetron are reflected to be delivered to food through a sloping interior wall of the cavity while being radiated to the cavity through the wave guide and the openings, thus ensuring a uniform distribution of the microwaves throughout the food and making the food uniformly cooked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Inventors: Young Min Lee, Yang Kyeong Kim, Sung Jin Han
  • Patent number: 6348676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device capable of cooking food products in a short time so as to concentrate the emitted light on the food product using a lamp emitting light in an infrared region. More particularly, it is capable of cooking the food product in a short time by concentrating light in the visible light region within a wavelength range of more than 1.35 &mgr;m on the food product using a luminous unit for emitting light in the infrared light region and a reflecting plate for concentrating the emitted light in the infrared light region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Kyeong Kim, Jong Gwan Ryu, Wan Soo Kim, Sung Jin Han
  • Patent number: 6316757
    Abstract: A halogen heater control apparatus of a microwave oven and a method thereof, comprises a plurality of halogen heaters which are connected to a utility AC power source, and a halogen heater switching unit. The halogen heater and incrementally alters infrared wavelengths from the halogen heater, and a microcomputer controls the operation of the halogen heater switching unit. The present invention is capable of optimum foodstuff heating and cooking by incrementally altering and controlling the infrared wavelengths from the halogen heater by controlling the utility AC power source duty cycle to the halogen heater in accordance with control signals generated by the microcomputer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Kyeong Kim, Jong Gwan Ryu, Sung Jin Han, Wan Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 6297485
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a microwave oven including a cavity having a certain area for cooking, a magnetron installed at the outside of the cavity for generating microwave, a waveguide installed at the side of the magnetron and its end extended inside of the cavity for transmitting the microwave inside of the cavity. The microwave oven comprises a bidirectional flow channel formed inside of the waveguide for transmitting microwave selectively inside of the cavity in accordance with cooking function, a microwave plate combined to inside of the waveguide so as to be rotational for guiding the microwave to selected direction between the two direction of the flow channel, and a plasma lamp installed adjacent to the side of the bidirectional flow channel for generating radiant energy by being heated by the microwave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Kyeong Kim, Jong Gwan Ryu
  • Patent number: 5983520
    Abstract: A microwave dryer for a washing machine is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Kyeong Kim, Hyoung Joo Kang
  • Patent number: 5828042
    Abstract: A uniform heating apparatus for a microwave oven and a method thereof which are capable of more uniformly heating food by generating various resonant modes based on the kind of food. The apparatus includes an oscillator unit having a wave guide tube for guiding microwaves generated by a magnetron to a lower portion of a heating chamber formed in a microwave oven main body, a resonant mode conversion unit for converting the microwaves guided to the lower portion of the heating chamber to have various resonant modes, a plurality of sensors for detecting the characteristics of food when the microwaves, the resonant mode of which is converted by the resonant mode conversion unit, are supplied to the food in the heating chamber, and a controller for controlling the oscillator unit and the resonant mode conversion unit in accordance with the characteristics of the food detected by the sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Joon Sik Choi, Yang Kyeong Kim