Patents by Inventor Yeon Ku

Yeon Ku 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: 20250062706
    Abstract: A forced discharge apparatus for a high-voltage component may include a component unit connected to a power supply unit through a connector. The forced discharge apparatus may also include a forced discharge circuit connected between the power supply unit and the component unit. The forced discharge apparatus may also include a control unit configured to discharge the component unit through the forced discharge circuit such that a voltage of the component unit becomes below a target voltage in response to a detection that a back electromotive force generated from the component unit when the connector is separated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Do Yeon Ku, Taewoong Lim, ChanWoong Jo, Ji Wan Son, Chang Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12199322
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus according to an example embodiment includes an abnormal state determiner configured to determine a maximum output of a fuel cell by determining whether there is an abnormality in the fuel cell, a fuel cell controller configured to control output power of the fuel cell within the maximum output based on demand power of a load, an energy storage configured to charge with power by receiving the power from the fuel cell and supply the power to the load, a charging state determiner configured to determine a charging state of the energy storage based on a charging amount of the energy storage, and a storage controller configured to control charging and discharging of the energy storage based on a difference between the demand power of the load and the output power of the fuel cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sewan Heo, Tai-yeon Ku, Wan Ki Park
  • Patent number: 12166347
    Abstract: Provided is a capacity design method and apparatus for performing solar power generation of a residential complex that may calculate a capacity of a solar power generator and an energy storage device to achieve energy independence of a residential complex including a plurality of housings and reduce burden affecting a grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sewan Heo, Tai-yeon Ku, Wan Ki Park
  • Publication number: 20240305495
    Abstract: A method and system for managing energy blockchain transactions in plus energy are disclosed. The energy blockchain transaction management method includes obtaining message data generated by collecting messages including energy-related data of respective households from collectors installed respectively in the households; analyzing the message data and correcting the message data based on an analysis result obtained by the analyzing; and generating an energy blockchain transaction based on the corrected message data and transmitting the generated energy blockchain transaction to a blockchain system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Chang-Sic CHOI, Tai-yeon KU, Wan Ki PARK
  • Publication number: 20240220351
    Abstract: An event management method based on thermal energy data is disclosed. The event management method generates profiles in real time for a single error, a composite error, and a history error, respectively, and detects, from the respective generated profiles, an error in thermal energy data that may occur at every stage of thermal energy data supply, distribution, and consumption to manage an event to execute measures in response to the detected error in the thermal energy data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Chang-Sic CHOI, Tai-yeon KU, Wan Ki PARK
  • Patent number: 11824359
    Abstract: A power management apparatus and a housing complex combination method for trading surplus power for a housing are provided. Influencing factors in analyzing a consumption pattern of an individual housing and various correlations between the influencing factors are analyzed, and an optimal sustainable housing complex through supply of new renewable energy is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Tai-Yeon Ku, Wan Ki Park
  • Publication number: 20230178771
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus according to an example embodiment includes an abnormal state determiner configured to determine a maximum output of a fuel cell by determining whether there is an abnormality in the fuel cell, a fuel cell controller configured to control output power of the fuel cell within the maximum output based on demand power of a load, an energy storage configured to charge with power by receiving the power from the fuel cell and supply the power to the load, a charging state determiner configured to determine a charging state of the energy storage based on a charging amount of the energy storage, and a storage controller configured to control charging and discharging of the energy storage based on a difference between the demand power of the load and the output power of the fuel cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Sewan HEO, Tai-yeon KU, Wan Ki PARK
  • Publication number: 20220230244
    Abstract: An energy trading system and method for performing energy trading between blockchain-based servers are disclosed. Specifically, in the energy trading method, a blockchain transaction table is divided and operated into an energy channel and a trading channel for energy prosumer power trading, and a procedure for processing a transaction is provided through servers divided into an energy prosumer blockchain server, a power trading blockchain server, and an operator blockchain server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Chang-Sic CHOI, Tai-yeon KU, Dae Geun PARK, Wan Ki PARK
  • Publication number: 20220187349
    Abstract: Provided is a missing data correction method and apparatus, and more particularly, a missing data correction method that estimates missing power and energy from an electricity meter in consideration of a case in which power data and energy data collected from the electricity meter are missing and generates continuous power data according to the estimated power and energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sewan HEO, Tai-yeon KU, Wan Ki PARK
  • Publication number: 20220109728
    Abstract: A composite energy sensor is disclosed. The composite energy sensor may support decision-making by identifying a situation related to overall energy use, and provide sensor precision that is at a level of replacing a high-cost sensor through combination of low-cost sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Tai-yeon KU, Wan Ki PARK
  • Publication number: 20220085605
    Abstract: Provided is a capacity design method and apparatus for performing solar power generation of a residential complex that may calculate a capacity of a solar power generator and an energy storage device to achieve energy independence of a residential complex including a plurality of housings and reduce burden affecting a grid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Sewan HEO, Tai-yeon KU, Wan Ki PARK
  • Publication number: 20210257836
    Abstract: A power management apparatus and a housing complex combination method for trading surplus power for a housing are provided. Influencing factors in analyzing a consumption pattern of an individual housing and various correlations between the influencing factors are analyzed, and an optimal sustainable housing complex through supply of new renewable energy is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Tai-yeon KU, Wan Ki PARK
  • Publication number: 20190162761
    Abstract: A method of generating an energy map and an apparatus using the same. The method of generating an energy map includes acquiring a plurality of energy events and a situation event, arranging the plurality of energy events and the situation event temporally in an energy map in an order of occurrence, calculating a weight of the plurality of energy events and the situation event, and determining a correlation between the plurality of energy events and the situation event based on the weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Tai-yeon KU, Wan Ki PARK, Chang-Sic CHOI
  • Patent number: 9992300
    Abstract: Disclosed is an adaptive cache transformation architecture for a cache deployed forward to minimize duplicated transmission, by automatically storing content in a subscriber network area. The system for adaptively deploying a cache positioned at a subscriber network includes a cache service group configured to store all or a part of pieces of content serviced from one or more content providing apparatuses to one or more terminals and including a plurality of caches deployed at a subscriber network between the content providing apparatus and the terminal in a distributed manner, and a resource manager configured to transform a deployment structure of the plurality of caches forming the cache service group, based on at least one of an increase rate in the number of pieces of contents requested by the one or more terminals and a reutilization rate for each content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Inventors: Tai Yeon Ku, Jong Youl Park, Young sik Chung
  • Patent number: 9748095
    Abstract: A method of controlling a growth crystallographic plane of a metal oxide semiconductor having a wurtzite crystal structure by using a thermal chemical vapor deposition method includes controlling a growth crystallographic plane by allowing the metal oxide semiconductor to grow in a non-polar direction by using a source material including a thermal decomposition material that reduces a surface energy of a polar plane of the metal oxide semiconductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-jun Park, Jung-inn Sohn, Seung-nam Cha, Ji-yeon Ku
  • Patent number: 9386131
    Abstract: A method of performing a function by combining one or more blocks including sensing whether the one or more blocks are connected, determining indexes respectively corresponding to the connected one or more blocks, deciding, by using the indexes, a function to be performed based on the sensing, the function being one of a plurality of functions, each function associated with a respective set of function blocks, and generating a control signal for performing the decided function may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-yeon Ku, Sang-hyun Lee, Sung-woo Hwang
  • Publication number: 20160172193
    Abstract: A method of controlling a growth crystallographic plane of a metal oxide semiconductor having a wurtzite crystal structure by using a thermal chemical vapor deposition method includes controlling a growth crystallographic plane by allowing the metal oxide semiconductor to grow in a non-polar direction by using a source material including a thermal decomposition material that reduces a surface energy of a polar plane of the metal oxide semiconductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-jun PARK, Jung-inn SOHN, Seung-nam CHA, Ji-yeon KU
  • Publication number: 20160162818
    Abstract: A system for recommending data analysis services is provided. The system comprises: a service catalog storing a list of analysis services; a data catalog storing a list of data of targets for analysis; an algorithm catalog storing a list of analysis algorithms; an interactive analytic tool receiving a user requirement in a word form; an analysis helper receiving the user requirement and extracting an analysis service corresponding to the user requirement from the service catalog; an analysis job generator receiving the user requirement, extracting data and an analysis algorithm corresponding to the user requirement from the data catalog and the algorithm catalog, respectively, and defining the extracted data and the extracted analysis algorithm to one job to generate a job, wherein the analysis job generator transmits the generated job to the analysis helper to deliver the job as recommendation analysis service information to a user through the interactive analytic tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Tai-Yeon KU, Hee-Sun WON
  • Patent number: 9305778
    Abstract: A method of controlling a growth crystallographic plane of a metal oxide semiconductor having a wurtzite crystal structure by using a thermal chemical vapor deposition method includes controlling a growth crystallographic plane by allowing the metal oxide semiconductor to grow in a non-polar direction by using a source material including a thermal decomposition material that reduces a surface energy of a polar plane of the metal oxide semiconductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-jun Park, Jung-inn Sohn, Seung-nam Cha, Ji-yeon Ku
  • Publication number: 20150341458
    Abstract: Disclosed is an adaptive cache transformation architecture for a cache deployed forward to minimize duplicated transmission, by automatically storing content in a subscriber network area. The system for adaptively deploying a cache positioned at a subscriber network includes a cache service group configured to store all or a part of pieces of content serviced from one or more content providing apparatuses to one or more terminals and including a plurality of caches deployed at a subscriber network between the content providing apparatus and the terminal in a distributed manner, and a resource manager configured to transform a deployment structure of the plurality of caches forming the cache service group, based on at least one of an increase rate in the number of pieces of contents requested by the one or more terminals and a reutilization rate for each content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Tai Yeon KU, Jong Youl PARK, Young sik CHUNG