Patents by Inventor Young-Hyun Kim

Young-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).

  • Patent number: 9994992
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a washing machine, which includes a clutch unit provided to be able to selectively transmit power generated from a drive unit to a drum and a pulsator. The clutch unit includes an outer shaft that is connected to the drum at an upper side thereof and rotates the drum, an inner shaft that is located in the outer shaft, is connected to the pulsator at an upper side thereof, and rotates the pulsator, and a one-way bearing that is installed between the inner shaft and the outer shaft. The one-way bearing selectively transmits a rotating force from the outer shaft to the inner shaft according to a rotating direction of the outer shaft. With this configuration, it is possible to simplify a structure of the clutch unit and to use space efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Hyun Kim, Geun Kang, Jong Woon Park
  • Patent number: 9978727
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a light emitting diode part including a plurality of regularly arranged light emitting diodes, and a thin-film transistor (TFT) panel part including a plurality of TFTs configured to drive the light emitting diodes disposed on the TFT panel part. The light emitting diode part further includes a transparent substrate disposed on the light emitting diodes, and a phosphor layer disposed on the transparent substrate and configured to emit at least one of blue light, green light, and red light by converting at least a portion of a wavelength of light emitted from the light emitting diodes, in which a thickness of the transparent substrate is less than a thickness of the phosphor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motonobu Takeya, Young Hyun Kim, Jong Ik Lee
  • Publication number: 20180139172
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an address generating device of a remote smart meter reading system, and a method therefor, the device including: a first MAC address generation unit expressing, in four bits, respective numbers of a meter ID of a watt-hour meter, and then converting the numbers into hexadecimal numbers so as to generate a first MAC address of 48 bits; a second MAC address generation unit generating a second MAC address of 64 bits by adding bits to the first MAC address; a first IP address generation unit expressing, in four bits, the respective numbers, and then converting the numbers into the hexadecimal numbers and adding bits thereto so as to generate a first IP address of 64 bits being used as an interface ID of IPv6; and a second IP address generation unit generating a second IP address using the second MAC address as the interface ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Young-Hyun KIM, Myong-Soo KIM, Young-Sung LEE, Geum-Young JUNG, Kyung-Seob LEE, Jin-Hee KIM
  • Publication number: 20180138162
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a micro-light emitting diode are disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a first substrate including a light emitting diode part including a plurality of light emitting diodes regularly arranged on the first substrate. The display apparatus is implemented using micro-light emitting diodes formed of nitride semiconductors and thus can provide high efficiency and high resolution to be applicable to a wearable apparatus while reducing power consumption. The micro-light emitting diodes may include a wall element so as to be applied to a display substrate by force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Motonobu TAKEYA, Young Hyun KIM
  • Publication number: 20180124314
    Abstract: An image display apparatus and a method of displaying an image are provided. The image display apparatus includes: a display; a graphics processing unit (GPU); and a processor configured to: determine a copy region of a planar-format image based on information regarding a current viewpoint, control the GPU to generate a sphere-format image by mapping an image corresponding to the copy region to a sphere and to generate an output image by rendering the sphere-format image, and control the display to display the output image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-min BAEK, Young-hyun KIM, Se-hyun KIM, Kwan-sik YANG, Jae-young YOU, Kil-soo CHOI
  • Publication number: 20180074372
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a light emitting part including a plurality of light emitting diodes spaced apart from each other, and a light conversion part configured to convert light emitted from the light emitting part, in which the light emitting diodes include at least one first light emitting diode and at least one second light emitting diode, the light conversion part emits red light through wavelength conversion of light emitted from the at least one first light emitting diode, and the at least one second light emitting diode emits green light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Motonobu Takeya, Young Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 9887184
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a first substrate including a light emitting diode part including a plurality of light emitting diodes regularly arranged on the first substrate; and a second substrate including a TFT panel unit including a plurality of TFTs driving the light emitting diodes. The first substrate and the second substrate are coupled to each other so as to face each other such that the light emitting diodes are electrically connected to the TFTs, respectively. The display apparatus is implemented using micro-light emitting diodes formed of nitride semiconductors and thus can provide high efficiency and high resolution to be applicable to a wearable apparatus while reducing power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motonobu Takeya, Young Hyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20180012949
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same. The display apparatus includes a light emitting part including a plurality of light emitting diodes; and a thin film transistor (TFT) panel part configured to drive the plurality of light emitting diodes. A first side of the light emitting part and a first side of the TFT panel part are coupled to each other so as to face each other. The plurality of light emitting diodes are electrically connected to the plurality of TFTs, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Motonobu TAKEYA, Jong Ik LEE, Young Hyun KIM
  • Publication number: 20170358624
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a light emitting diode part including a plurality of regularly arranged light emitting diodes, and a TFT panel part configured to drive the light emitting diode part. The light emitting diode part includes a transparent electrode, the light emitting diodes regularly disposed on a first surface of the transparent electrode and electrically connected to the transparent electrode, a plurality of first reflective electrodes disposed at sides of the light emitting diodes, surrounding the light emitting diodes, and electrically connected to the transparent electrode, and a plurality of second reflective electrodes electrically connected to the light emitting diodes, respectively, and reflecting light emitted from the light emitting diodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Motonobu TAKEYA, Young Hyun KIM, Jong Ik LEE
  • Publication number: 20170287887
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a first substrate including a plurality of light emitting diodes regularly disposed thereon, a second substrate including a thin-film transistor (TFT) panel part including a plurality of TFTs configured to drive the light emitting diodes, and a third substrate including a light converter configured to convert light emitted from the first substrate, in which the first substrate and the second substrate are coupled to face each other, the light emitting diodes are electrically connected to the TFTs, respectively, the first substrate and the third substrate are coupled to face each other, and light emitted from the light emitting diodes is converted into at least one of blue light, green light, and red light through the light converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Motonobu TAKEYA, Young Hyun KIM, Jong Ik LEE
  • Publication number: 20170250329
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same includes a plurality of light emitting diode modules each including a plurality of light emitting diodes regularly arranged therein, and a substrate including a drive unit driving the plurality of light emitting diodes. The substrate is coupled to the plurality of light emitting diode modules such that they oppose each other; and, the drive unit is electrically connected to the plurality of light emitting diodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Motonobu TAKEYA, Young Hyun KIM, Jong Ik LEE, Kwang Yong OH
  • Publication number: 20170250164
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a light emitting diode part including a plurality of regularly arranged light emitting diodes, and a thin-film transistor (TFT) panel part including a plurality of TFTs configured to drive the light emitting diodes disposed on the TFT panel part. The light emitting diode part further includes a transparent substrate disposed on the light emitting diodes, and a phosphor layer disposed on the transparent substrate and configured to emit at least one of blue light, green light, and red light by converting at least a portion of a wavelength of light emitted from the light emitting diodes, in which a thickness of the transparent substrate is less than a thickness of the phosphor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Motonobu TAKEYA, Young Hyun KIM, Jong Ik LEE
  • Publication number: 20170194304
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light emitting diode part and a thin film (TFT) panel configured to drive the light emitting diode part. The light emitting diode part includes a transparent support substrate, a plurality of light emitting diodes, a plurality of phosphor layers disposed on the support substrate covering at a first portion of the plurality of light emitting diodes and configured to emit light through a conversion of introduced light. Another display apparatus includes a light emitting diode part including a plurality of light emitting diodes and a TFT panel configured to drive the light emitting diode part. The TFT panel includes a panel substrate including a TFT driving circuit and a plurality of grooves formed on the panel substrate. The TFT panel also includes a plurality of phosphor layers the plurality of grooves and configured to emit light through wavelength conversion of introduced light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Motonobu TAKEYA, Young Hyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20170167069
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a water supply device. The disclosed water supply device includes a housing that has an inlet and an outlet, an inflow chamber that is provided inside the housing and communicates with the inlet, a discharge chamber that is provided inside the housing and communicates with the inflow chamber and the outlet, a buffer chamber that is provided inside the housing and communicates with the discharge chamber, and a blocking rib that extends from an inner side of the housing and is provide to partition the discharge chamber from the buffer chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Min CHOI, Young-Hyun KIM, Do Haeng KIM, Min Hwan OH, Won Jae HAN
  • Patent number: 9671430
    Abstract: A tester includes a level controller for independently restricting the central deformation and the peripheral deformation of a probe card. The level controller includes a single upper plate, a single first lower plate and a plurality of second lower plates. A first elastic force is applied to a central portion of the probe card by the first lower plate to restrict the central deformation. Second elastic forces are independently applied to peripheral portions of the probe card by the individual second lower plates to locally restrict the peripheral deformations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young-Hyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20170025399
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a first substrate including a light emitting diode part including a plurality of light emitting diodes regularly arranged on the first substrate; and a second substrate including a TFT panel unit including a plurality of TFTs driving the light emitting diodes. The first substrate and the second substrate are coupled to each other so as to face each other such that the light emitting diodes are electrically connected to the TFTs, respectively. The display apparatus is implemented using micro-light emitting diodes formed of nitride semiconductors and thus can provide high efficiency and high resolution to be applicable to a wearable apparatus while reducing power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Motonobu TAKEYA, Young Hyun KIM
  • Publication number: 20160367195
    Abstract: An electronic device and method for measuring user body information are provided. The method for measuring user body information includes detecting a contact of a user's body portion on at least two spots of a touch screen of the electronic device, upon detecting the contact of the user's body portion on the at least two spots of the touch screen, applying power to a first coil in the electronic device, and measuring the user body information using at least one of a voltage and a second current measured after a first current is induced across the user's body by a first magnetic field generated from the first coil as the power is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Sang-Bae PARK, Do-Yoon KIM, Young-Hyun KIM, Byung-Hun CHOI, Jae-Eun KANG, Chang-Hyun KIM, Kang-Jin YOON, Jeong-Eun LEE
  • Publication number: 20160354036
    Abstract: A portable bio information measuring device is provided. The portable bio information measuring device includes a circuit board placed in the portable bio information measuring device, a housing accommodating the circuit board, an electrode to measure bio information, and a connecting member electrically connecting the circuit board with the electrode. The electrode is configured as at least one of a transparent electrode, a conductive decoration, and a conductive printed electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Seong-Wook JO, Young-Hyun KIM, Jae-Hong KIM, Min-Hyoung LEE, Jea-Hyuck LEE
  • Publication number: 20160335265
    Abstract: A user terminal apparatus is provided. The user terminal apparatus includes a storage configured to store usage history data of an application which is installed in the user terminal apparatus and a processor configured to extract usage history data related to a user interaction from the stored usage history data, and determine whether to inactivate the application based on the extracted usage history data. Accordingly, the efficiency of resources and battery of the user terminal apparatus is improved and thus, user convenience is also enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun-eung PARK, Hyun-cheol PARK, Young-hyun KIM, Dong-ju LEE
  • Publication number: 20160324440
    Abstract: A body fat measuring method of a mobile device includes inputting a predetermined intensity of current to an object via a first electrode in contact with a first surface of the object and a second electrode in contact with a second surface of the object, wherein the first and second electrodes are included in the mobile device; measuring a voltage between a third electrode and a fourth electrode that are included in the mobile device; acquiring impedance information of the object, based on the applied predetermined intensity of current and an intensity of the measured voltage; and acquiring body fat information of the object, based on the impedance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Young-hyun KIM, Hyun-jae BAEK, Kwang-choon KIM, Seong-wook JO