Patents by Inventor Young Gak Kweon

Young Gak Kweon 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: 7654223
    Abstract: A cold spray apparatus having a powder preheating device, capable of obtaining high deposition rate and excellent coating layer under the same spray processing conditions by preheating coating powder before a coating process. Also, a manufacturing method of nano-structured super-high hardness WC—Co coating having high abrasive wear resistance and fracture toughness obtained by spraying WC—Co powder using the cold spray apparatus. In the cold spray apparatus, a gas controller controls gas supply amount of main gas and residual gas (gas that is not supplied toward the main gas), and a gas heater heats the main gas supplied under the control of the gas controller. A powder feeder receives the residual gas under the control of the gas controller and supplies a coating powder together with the residual gas. A powder preheating device preheats the coating powder supplied from the powder feeder, and a mixing chamber mixes the heated main gas with the preheated coating powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology
    Inventors: Hyung-Jun Kim, Young-Gak Kweon
  • Patent number: 7322508
    Abstract: A joining portion of an opposed surface of workpieces is heated by generating an induced current due to a change of a magnetic field as well as by applying a frictional heat to the joining portion, so that productivity and quality of welding can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology
    Inventors: Woong Seong Chang, Sook Hwan Kim, Young Gak Kweon
  • Publication number: 20070137560
    Abstract: A cold spray apparatus having a powder preheating device, capable of obtaining high deposition rate and excellent coating layer under the same spray processing conditions by preheating coating powder before a coating process. Also, a manufacturing method of nano-structured super-high hardness WC—Co coating having high abrasive wear resistance and fracture toughness obtained by spraying WC—Co powder using the cold spray apparatus. In the cold spray apparatus, a gas controller controls gas supply amount of main gas and residual gas (gas that is not supplied toward the main gas), and a gas heater heats the main gas supplied under the control of the gas controller. A powder feeder receives the residual gas under the control of the gas controller and supplies a coating powder together with the residual gas. A powder preheating device preheats the coating powder supplied from the powder feeder, and a mixing chamber mixes the heated main gas with the preheated coating powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology
    Inventors: Hyung-Jun Kim, Young-Gak Kweon