Patents by Inventor Young Ryol Kim

Young Ryol 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: 7601913
    Abstract: A wire harness fixing device designed to enable convenient installation thereof within an inner liner of a refrigerator while effectively preventing leakage of a foam insulation material filled between the inner liner and an outer liner of the refrigerator. The wire harness fixing device includes a housing including an insert part provided at one end of the housing and inserted through a fixing hole formed in the inner liner, and an interior part positioned at the other end within the inner liner. A latch is provided on the insert part that engages an outer surface of the inner liner at the fixing hole when the insert part is inserted into the fixing hole, and a cover of a flexible material integrally formed to the housing at the interior part side to cover the fixing hole, the cover being subjected to elastic deformation to closely contact an inner surface of the inner liner at the fixing hole side when the latch is latched to and supported by the inner liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Ryol Kim, Seung Weon Nam
  • Patent number: 5947330
    Abstract: A raw material sensing apparatus for a vending machine having a coin mechanism, an article selection panel, raw material receptacles, a hot water supply part, a mixing part for mixing raw materials with hot water, a dispensing part for providing a user with a mixture of the hot water and raw materials, including: a raw material output sensing part, monitoring whether or not raw materials are supplied to the mixing part from the raw material receptacles; and a control unit checking if raw materials for a user-desired article are supplied from the raw material receptacles according to an output signal of the raw material output sensing part, and when it determines that the raw materials are not supplied from the raw material receptacles, stopping vending, simultaneously with generating a signal for refunding coins, put into the vending machine, to the coin mechanism, and when it determines that the raw materials are supplied from the raw material receptacles, producing a signal for supplying hot water from the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Kwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-Ryol Kim