Patents by Inventor Young-Chul Kim

Young-Chul 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: 11710651
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a container for storing a wafer, particularly to a container for storing a wafer in which a plurality of purging areas is vertically partitioned in the interior of a storage chamber, and a purge gas is sprayed into the plurality of purging areas, thereby allowing not only uniform purging of the wafer to be assured but also efficient purging of the wafer without waste of the purge gas to be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignees: PICO & TERA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bum Je Woo, Seok Mun Yoon, Jang Heo, Young Chul Kim
  • Publication number: 20230173885
    Abstract: A vehicular thermal management system includes: a refrigerant circulation line including a compressor, a high-pressure heat exchanger, an outdoor heat exchanger, a plurality of expansion valves and a low-pressure heat exchanger; an air conditioning mode branch line configured to allow a refrigerant passing through the compressor and the high-pressure heat exchanger to circulate in the order of the outdoor heat exchanger and the low-pressure heat exchanger in an air conditioning mode; a heat pump mode branch line configured to allow the refrigerant passing through the compressor and the high-pressure heat exchanger to circulate by bypassing the outdoor heat exchanger and the low-pressure heat exchanger in a heat pump mode; and a refrigerant/oil recovery part configured to, when one of the branch lines is used, recover the refrigerant and oil in the other unused branch line to the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Jae Min LEE, Young Man KIM, Young Chul KIM, In Hyeok KIM, Kyeong Cheol LEE
  • Publication number: 20230125914
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display and a supporter. The supporter being mounted on the display and configured to support the display and rotate the display module between a first position and a second position. The supporter including a drive motor, a first gear, and a detection sensor. The drive motor configured to supply a driving force to rotate the display. The first gear configured to rotate together with the display by receiving the driving force from the drive motor. The detection sensor configured to detect a rotation amount of a second gear configured to rotate in with the first gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Yong CHOI, Young Chul KIM, Ji Su KIM, Hun Sung KIM, Sung Yong PARK, Jin Soo SHIN, Dae Sik YOON, Yong Yeon HWANG
  • Patent number: 11628706
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coolant heater comprising: a heating element for heating coolant; a first housing for accommodating the heating element; a cover plate for sealing the first housing in which the heating element is accommodated; a temperature fuse provided in an external space formed by coupling the first housing and the cover plate, and disposed to be adjacent to the cover plate; and a second housing for pressing the temperature fuse so as to pressurize the same toward the cover plate, wherein overheat sensing responsiveness of the heating element is improved such that the overheat of the heating element can be prevented, and failure factors in a part in which the temperature fuse is coupled are reduced such that a durability is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: Hanon Systems, DAEWOO ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kil Sang Jang, Ji Hoon Park, Jeong Hyun Son, Man Ok Lee, Bok Sun Kang, Young Chul Kim, Hak Kyu Kim, Yong Jin Moon, Seung Ho Lee, Hyun Seok Jung, Kyung Seok Cho, Yong Ha Chae
  • Patent number: 11613244
    Abstract: A hybrid electric vehicle and a method for compensating a motor torque thereof, may include a hybrid control unit (HCU) including a processor and a non-transitory storage medium containing instructions executed by the processor. The processor is configured to start motor torque intervention upon entering a predetermined shift phase during shifting, to determine a motor torque compensation amount by reflecting engine torque according to engine torque reduction control, and to perform motor torque compensation control based on the motor torque compensation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Hyun Jeong, Hae Seung Lee, Weon Jae Lee, Kyoung Joo Kim, Yoon Sung Koo, Jung Hyun Lee, Young Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 11582877
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a display and a supporter. The supporter being mounted on the display and configured to support the display and rotate the display module between a first position and a second position. The supporter including a drive motor, a first gear, and a detection sensor. The drive motor configured to supply a driving force to rotate the display. The first gear configured to rotate together with the display by receiving the driving force from the drive motor. The detection sensor configured to detect a rotation amount of a second gear configured to rotate in with the first gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Yong Choi, Young Chul Kim, Ji Su Kim, Hun Sung Kim, Sung Yong Park, Jin Soo Shin, Dae Sik Yoon, Yong Yeon Hwang
  • Patent number: 11541718
    Abstract: A thermal management system for a vehicle and method for controlling a water-heating type PTC heater thereof by controlling a PTC heater that uses water for heating, in which a heat source for heating is secured by operating the water-heating type PTC heater and thereby additionally heating a coolant, while charging a battery, in a thermal management system for a vehicle, during a heating mode, in which: refrigerant circulates through a second heat exchanger, a waste heat recovery chiller, a compressor and an indoor heat exchanger; and the coolant passes through a water-cooling type battery module, the water-heating type PTC heater, a battery chiller, electric parts and the waste heat recovery chiller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Seung Ho Lee, Young Chul Kim, Seo-Jun Yoon, Jae Min Lee
  • Patent number: 11458798
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermal management system for a vehicle, which can provide various effects, such as a reduction of weight, a cost reduction, and a reduction of a package size due to a reduction in the number of components. The thermal management system for a vehicle, which includes a refrigerant circulation loop circulating refrigerant and exchanging heat between the refrigerant and inside air of an air-conditioning case in order to perform air-conditioning inside the vehicle, includes: a first coolant loop for cooling electric parts of the vehicle; and a second coolant loop for cooling a battery of the vehicle, wherein the first coolant loop and the second coolant loop are configured independently, and coolant flowing in the first coolant loop selectively circulates in the second coolant loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Jae Min Lee, Young Chul Kim, Seo Jun Yoon, Seung Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20220258558
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a heat management device for a vehicle and a heat management method for a vehicle, which use a branch line and a flow control means to use heat generated from a battery module of a vehicle or a heat generated from an electrical component of the vehicle as a heat source for an air conditioning device installed in the vehicle. Therefore, the heat management device for a vehicle and the heat management method for a vehicle may improve heating performance and quality by selectively using waste heat from the electrical component module and the waste heat from the battery depending on the mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Jae Min LEE, Young Chul KIM, In Hyeok KIM, Kyeong Cheol LEE
  • Patent number: 11413935
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coolant heater. The purpose of the present invention, a coolant heater which effectively heats coolant of a vehicle by means of a heating unit, is to provide a coolant heater having improved sensitivity and responsiveness to over-heating and assured stability by utilizing a temperature fuse to prevent over-heating. Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a coolant heater having enhanced durability of the temperature fuse coupling part by improving the structure by which the temperature fuse is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: Hanon Systems, DAEWOO ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Ha Chae, Ji Hoon Park, Jeong Hyun Son, Man Ok Lee, Bok Sun Kang, Young Chul Kim, Hak Kyu Kim, Yong Jin Moon, Seung Ho Lee, Kil Sang Jang, Hyun Seok Jung, Kyung Seok Cho
  • Publication number: 20220190682
    Abstract: A motor-cooling apparatus is constructed such that coils constituting a stator are cooled using cooling fluid supplied from a first channel pipe and a second channel pipe, and the ends of the coils, which are difficult to sufficiently cool when cooling of the motor, are efficiently cooled, thereby ensuring the durability of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Jae Hyeok Song, Young Chul Kim, Young Jin Shin
  • Publication number: 20210387610
    Abstract: A hybrid electric vehicle and a method for compensating a motor torque thereof, may include a hybrid control unit (HCU) including a processor and a non-transitory storage medium containing instructions executed by the processor. The processor is configured to start motor torque intervention upon entering a predetermined shift phase during shifting, to determine a motor torque compensation amount by reflecting engine torque according to engine torque reduction control, and to perform motor torque compensation control based on the motor torque compensation amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Hyun JEONG, Hae Seung LEE, Weon Jae LEE, Kyoung Joo KIM, Yoo Sung KOO, Jung Hyun LEE, Young Chul KIM
  • Patent number: 11162721
    Abstract: A gas-liquid separation device for a vehicle includes: a housing of which an upper surface is opened and a lower surface is closed; a cover disposed on the upper surface of the housing, and the cover having an outlet disposed at a center region of the cover and an inlet disposed at a portion spaced apart from the center region; an exhaust pipe of which an upper end is connected to the outlet; a guide pipe having a cylinder shape with an upper surface opened and having a gas refrigerant flow space; a mounting cap disposed on the lower surface of the housing; and a refrigerant guider disposed on the cover inside the housing to prevent a liquid refrigerant from flowing into the gas refrigerant flow space among a refrigerant flowing into the inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, DOOWON CLIMATE CONTROL CO., LTD., HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Wan Je Cho, Namho Park, Jae Yeon Kim, Yeon Ho Kim, Seoyoung Oh, Chul Min Kim, Young Chul Kim, Jae Min Lee
  • Patent number: 11136032
    Abstract: A vehicle and a method for controlling the same are provided to induce inertial driving of a driver by guiding the inertial driving of the vehicle and controlling an accelerator pedal so that a pedal effort is applied to the accelerator pedal. The vehicle includes a display configured to display an object guiding the inertial driving, and a controller configured to apply a pedal effort to an accelerator pedal when guiding the inertial driving to induce the inertial driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Joon Kim, Young Chul Kim, Leehyoung Cho, Dong Ho Yang
  • Publication number: 20210257240
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a container for storing a wafer, particularly to a container for storing a wafer in which a plurality of purging areas is vertically partitioned in the interior of a storage chamber, and a purge gas is sprayed into the plurality of purging areas, thereby allowing not only uniform purging of the wafer to be assured but also efficient purging of the wafer without waste of the purge gas to be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Bum Je WOO, Seok Mun YOON, Jang HEO, Young Chul KIM
  • Patent number: 11075100
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a container for storing a wafer, particularly to a container for storing a wafer in which a plurality of purging areas is vertically partitioned in the interior of a storage chamber, and a purge gas is sprayed into the plurality of purging areas, thereby allowing not only uniform purging of the wafer to be assured but also efficient purging of the wafer without waste of the purge gas to be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignees: PICO & TERA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bum Je Woo, Seok Mun Yoon, Jang Heo, Young Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 11040723
    Abstract: A vehicle can include: a sensing device configured to acquire driving information of the vehicle; and a controller configured to determine whether a current driving mode of the vehicle is changeable based on the driving information, to identify a driving mode among a plurality of driving modes which corresponds to the driving information upon determining that the current driving mode is changeable, and to control an operation of the vehicle so as to change the current driving mode to the identified driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Joon Kim, Young Chul Kim, Leehyoung Cho, Dong ho Yang
  • Patent number: 11007442
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for sharing user activity information comprises: receiving a user action history generated in one service among a first service and a second service through an application executed in an electronic device; mapping and storing account information at the first service, account information at the second service, and the user action history with respect to a user of the electronic device; and transmitting, to the application, information on the user action history or an event corresponding to the user action history, such that the event corresponding to the user action history is provided to the user through another service among the first service and the second service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: NAVER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wonkuym Kim, Changhoon Yang, Gyeong Hwan Jo, Hyun Tae Cho, Jinwoo Yoo, Jeff Lee, Gil Do Kim, Jong Un Chae, SeHyung Kim, Sujin Jeong, GunPyo Park, Byung Yong Song, Young Chul Kim, Joohwan Bae, Jungseob Lee
  • Patent number: 10946721
    Abstract: Vehicular heat management system includes a refrigerant circulation line including a compressor, a high pressure side indoor heat exchanger, a heat pump mode expansion valve, an outdoor heat exchanger, an air conditioning mode expansion valve, low pressure side indoor heat exchanger and a refrigerant-cooling water heat exchanger; an air conditioning mode branch line branched from the refrigerant circulation line and configured to, in an air conditioning mode, form a cooling loop by circulating a refrigerant through the compressor, the high pressure side indoor heat exchanger, the outdoor heat exchanger, the air conditioning mode expansion valve and low pressure side indoor heat exchanger. Heat pump mode branch line branched from the refrigerant circulation line is configured, in heat pump mode to form a heating loop by circulating the refrigerant through the compressor, the high pressure side indoor heat exchanger, the heat pump mode expansion valve and the refrigerant-cooling water heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Hanon Systems
    Inventors: Jae Min Lee, Young Chul Kim, In Hyeok Kim, Seo Jun Yoon, Kyeong Cheol Lee, Seung Ho Lee, Sung Ho Kang, Jung Jae Lee
  • Publication number: 20210070147
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coolant heater. The purpose of the present invention, a coolant heater which effectively heats coolant of a vehicle by means of a heating unit, is to provide a coolant heater having improved sensitivity and responsiveness to over-heating and assured stability by utilizing a temperature fuse to prevent over-heating. Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a coolant heater having enhanced durability of the temperature fuse coupling part by improving the structure by which the temperature fuse is fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Yong Ha Chae, Ji Hoon Park, Jeong Hyun Son, Man Ok Lee, Bok Sun Kang, Young Chul Kim, Hak Kyu Kim, Yong Jin Moon, Seung Ho Lee, Kil Sang Jang, Hyun Seok Jung, Kyung Seok Cho