Patents by Inventor Young-Keun Kim

Young-Keun 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: 20190358586
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a nano-catalyst filter, which includes depositing through electrodeposition a catalyst precursor inside a porous filter to which an electrode layer is attached. Using this method, a nano-catalyst can be uniformly deposited inside a porous ceramic filter, and high catalyst efficiency can be obtained only using a small amount of the nano-catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Young Keun Kim, Su-Hyo Kim
  • Publication number: 20190339260
    Abstract: A method of preparing an immunological substance detection nanowire complex includes preparing a multilayer nanowire in which a first metal and a second metal are alternately stacked, attaching a polymer, having a carboxyl group and an amine group at both ends of the polymer, to the second metal, attaching a first antibody, treated with a thiol's group, to the first metal of the multilayer nanowire, and attaching a second antibody to the second metal through the carboxyl group of the polymer. The second antibody includes a phosphor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicants: KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION, SNU R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Young Keun KIM, Yoo Sang JEON, Da-yeon NAM, Yu Jin KIM, Hang-Rae KIM, Hyun Mu SHIN
  • Publication number: 20190315191
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an air conditioner for a vehicle having a cover of an improved structure which can prevent foreign matters from being introduced into a sliding door driving part and also prevent the introduced foreign matters from being stuck in the driving part. The air conditioner for a vehicle, which includes an air-conditioning case having a heat exchanger, and a first door and a second door disposed in the air-conditioning case to adjust the degree of opening of an air passageway, further includes: a plurality of driving parts for interlocking and operating the first door and the second door; and a cover part for fixing the driving part to the air-conditioning case. The cover part covers at least one among the plurality of driving parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: In Keun KANG, Jae Woo KO, Young Keun KIM, Jong Min LEE, Gyu Ik HAN
  • Publication number: 20190263221
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an air conditioner for a vehicle, which can prevent misassembly of doors and prevent damage of gears when one rack gear operates two sliding doors and increase the degree of mounting freedom of actuating means. The air conditioner for a vehicle, which includes an air-conditioning case having a heat exchanger, and a door disposed inside the air-conditioning case and sliding to adjust the degree of opening of an air passageway, includes: shafts having a first gear part geared with gear teeth formed on the door. One or more misassembly preventing parts are formed on the shafts and the first gear part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Jong Min LEE, Jae Woo KO, Young Keun KIM
  • Patent number: 10385467
    Abstract: A metal nanolaminate includes a plurality of units stacked in a longitudinal direction of the metal nanolaminate. Each of the units includes a first layer and a second layer stacked in the longitudinal direction. The first layer includes a first metal material formed of a first metallic element and the second layer includes the first metal material and a second metal material formed of a second metallic element. Each of the first layer and the second layer has a thickness of at least 5 nm but less than 100 nm in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignees: Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Insuk Choi, Young Keun Kim
  • Patent number: 10378670
    Abstract: A solenoid valve is provided. The solenoid valve is used to control the flow of fluid in various technical fields and products including a transmission installed in a vehicle. The solenoid valve includes a ventilation passage connecting in flow communication the interior and exterior of an operating chamber, configured to operate an armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: HYUNDAI KEFICO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyung Jun Kim, Young Keun Kim, Ho Yeon Kim, Byung Sam So, Dong Ryul Lee
  • Publication number: 20190211196
    Abstract: Provided are a nanoparticle-polymer fluorescent composite and a method of preparing the same. The method includes preparing magnetite (Fe3O4)nanoparticles, mixing the magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles, an organic polymer having an aliphatic carbon chain, and a solvent for dissolving the organic polymer to prepare a preliminary composite and drying the preliminary composite to form a nanoparticle polymer composite, and irradiating a pulse laser to the nanoparticle polymer composite to change the magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles to Wustite nanoparticles and providing conjugated polymer characteristics to the organic polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Young Keun KIM, Yu Jin KIM, Bum Chul PARK
  • Publication number: 20180347075
    Abstract: Provided are a nanofiber-nanowire composite and a method for producing the same. The method includes preparing a nanoparticle using a dipolar solvent, producing a nanofiber-nanoparticle composite in an electrospinning synthesis solution including the nanoparticle through electrospinning, and growing a nanowire from the nanoparticle by hydrothermally synthesizing a dried nanofiber-nanoparticle composite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Young Keun KIM, Bum Chul PARK, Ji-Beom SHIN
  • Publication number: 20180327919
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a metallic nanospring includes preparing a nanotemplate having a nanopore and including a working electrode disposed on its one surface, preparing a first metal precursor mixture including ascorbic acid (C6H8O6), vanadium (IV) oxide sulfate (VOSO4.xH2O), and a metal precursor solution including a metal desired to be deposited, preparing a second metal precursor mixture by mixing the first metal precursor mixture with nitric acid (HNO3), depositing a metallic nanospring into the nanopore using electrodeposition by dipping the nanotemplate into the second metal precursor mixture and applying current between a counter electrode inserted into the second metal precursor mixture and the working electrode, and selectively removing the working electrode on the nanotemplate with the deposited metallic nanospring and the nanotemplate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Young Keun Kim, Su Hyo Kim, Da-yeon Nam, Yoo Sang Jeon
  • Publication number: 20180326812
    Abstract: Disclosed is an air conditioner for a vehicle. The present invention provides an air conditioner for a vehicle capable of introducing indoor air and outdoor air simultaneously or selectively by forming a double-layer flow in an air conditioner case and capable of separately controlling the temperatures of a front seat and a rear seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Jae Woo KO, Seong Seok HAN, Young Keun KIM, Gyu Ik HAN, In Keun KANG
  • Publication number: 20180190899
    Abstract: A magnetic device includes a conductive layer into which current can be injected in a first direction, the conductive layer causing spin Hall effect or Rashba effect. A ferromagnetic layer is disposed in contact with the conductive layer such that the ferromagnetic layer and the conductive layer are stacked on each other, a magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic layer being switched. A spin filter structure has a fixed magnetization direction, the spin filter structure being disposed on at least one of the opposite side surfaces of the first direction of the conductive layer to inject spin-polarized current into the conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Young Keun Kim, Kyung-Jin Lee, Gyungchoon Go
  • Publication number: 20180166627
    Abstract: A method for forming a multilayer thin film exhibiting perpendicular magnetic anisotropy includes alternately sputtering a CoFeSiB target and a Pd target inside a vacuum chamber to form a [CoFeSiB/Pd] multilayer thin film on a substrate disposed inside the vacuum chamber. The number of times the [CoFeSiB/Pd] multilayer thin film is stacked may be 3 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Young Keun Kim, Yong Jin Kim
  • Publication number: 20180166628
    Abstract: A method for forming a CoFeSiB—Pd alloy thin film exhibiting perpendicular magnetic anisotropy includes: simultaneously sputtering a CoFeSiB target and a Pd target inside a vacuum chamber to form a CoFeSiB—Pd alloy thin film on a substrate disposed inside the vacuum chamber; and annealing the substrate, on which the CoFeSiB—Pd alloy thin film is formed, to exhibit perpendicular magnetic anisotropy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Young Keun Kim, Yong Jin Kim
  • Publication number: 20180003676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic nanoparticle having a Curie temperature which is within a biocompatible temperature range, a method for preparing same, and a nanocomposite and a target substance detection composition comprising the magnetic nanoparticle. As the magnetic nanoparticle of the present invention has a Curie temperature within the temperature range of 0 degrees centigrade to 41 degrees centigrade, the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic properties of the magnetic nanoparticle may be controlled within a biocompatible temperature range at a temperature at which a biological control agent is not destroyed, and the temperature of the magnetic nanoparticle is adjusted to control the magnetic properties thereof such that the properties of the magnetic nanoparticle may be used only when ferromagnetic properties are required, such as in the case of signal amplification in detecting, separating, and delivering biological control agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Young Keun KIM, Jun Hua WU, Ji Hyun MIN, Ji-Sung LEE, Jae-Ho JUNG
  • Patent number: 9843306
    Abstract: A tuner circuit includes a DC (Direct Current) cut-off unit configured to cut off a DC component in a signal received from an antenna, a switching unit configured to transmit the signal by being turned on when a bias voltage is applied, a high pass filter unit configured to pass only a high frequency component in a signal having passed the switching unit, and a low noise amplifier configured to output a signal having passed a high frequency filter by amplifying the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Keun Kim
  • Publication number: 20170314152
    Abstract: A metal nanolaminate includes a plurality of units stacked in a longitudinal direction of the metal nanolaminate. Each of the units includes a first layer and a second layer stacked in the longitudinal direction. The first layer includes a first metal material formed of a first metallic element and the second layer includes the first metal material and a second metal material formed of a second metallic element. Each of the first layer and the second layer has a thickness of at least 5 nm but less than 100 nm in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicants: Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Insuk CHOI, Young Keun KIM
  • Patent number: 9801998
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a structure having a nanoantenna, a method for manufacturing same, a drug delivery body having the same, a thermotherapy complex, a drug therapy device, and a thermotherapy device. The structure of the present invention has a nanoantenna pattern formed on the outer surface of a porous micro-container, thereby enabling wireless control from the outside, and when the structure is used as a drug delivery system and a thermotherapy complex, drug therapy and thermotherapy can be carried out at a desired application region inside a living body at a desired time. Also, the structure of the present invention enables transmission and reception of a wireless signal with an external controller through the nanoantenna, thereby enabling the detection of a signal inside the living body and the transmission of the signal to the external controller, and the discharge of a drug or nanowires according to a response signal transmitted from the external controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sung Hoi Choi, Jung Rae Park, Young Keun Kim
  • Patent number: 9718860
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a complex of a protein comprising zinc oxide-binding peptides and zinc oxide nanoparticles, to the use thereof as a drug delivery carrier for manufacturing medicines, and to a vaccine composition and a contrast agent comprising the composite. The protein comprising zinc oxide-binding peptides significantly improves the in vivo availability of zinc oxide-binding peptides, and therefore the complex of the present invention can be used not only as a drug delivery carrier for in vivo drug delivery or intracellular drug delivery, but also for in vivo imaging or cell imaging. The complex can be used for producing separating agents for effectively separating biological materials, therapeutic agents for hyperthermia, etc., contrast agents for MRI, and beads applicable to biosensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION, SNU R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Nam-Hyuk Cho, Taek-Chin Cheong, Seung-Yong Seong, Ji Hyun Min, Jun Hua Wu, Young-Keun Kim
  • Publication number: 20170095579
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for target substance detection using a magnetic nanoparticle having a Curie temperature which is within a biocompatible temperature range, a target substance detection system, and a method for obtaining an image of a living body or specimen. As the magnetic nanoparticle of the present invention has a Curie temperature within the temperature range of 0° C. to 41° C., the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic properties of the magnetic nanoparticle may be controlled within a biocompatible temperature range at a temperature at which a biological control agent is not destroyed, and the temperature of the magnetic nanoparticle is adjusted to control the magnetic properties thereof such that the properties of the magnetic nanoparticle may be used only when ferromagnetic properties are required, such as in the case of signal amplification in detecting, separating, and delivering biological control agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Young Keun KIM, Jun Hua WU, Ji Hyun MIN, Ji-Sung LEE, Jae-Ho JUNG, Woo Seung HAM
  • Publication number: 20170059056
    Abstract: A solenoid valve is provided. The solenoid valve is used to control the flow of fluid in various technical fields and products including a transmission installed in a vehicle. The solenoid valve includes a ventilation passage connecting in flow communication the interior and exterior of an operating chamber, configured to operate an armature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: HYUNDAI KEFICO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyung Jun Kim, Young Keun Kim, Ho Yeon Kim, Byung Sam So, Dong Ryul Lee