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Prize news Yoon Chi-won, Chief Researcher of the New Technology Development Team, wins the 2022 ‘Hong Dae-yong Award (Patent Commissioner Award)' for patent technology
Date 22-11-25 13:57
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At the 2022 Patent Technology Awards
organized by the Korean Intellectual Property Office, Yoon Chi-won, a senior
researcher at the New Technology Development Team, won the "Hong Dae-yong
Award (Patent Commissioner Award). The Patent Technology Award is an award
system that bestows awards and prizes for inventions selected as excellent
technologies after recommendation by the examiner and review council among
inventions registered with the Korean Intellectual Property Office to encourage
the inventor's morale and desire to invent.
The
winner, Yoon Chi-won (New Technology Development Team), joined the company in
2002 and has continued to carry out research and development related to door
trim for 20 years, and has applied for more than 80 patents.
The
winning patent is
a "natural fiber insert injection molding device and molding process"
produced by our company, and "a technology that manufactures
molding/trimming/bracket injection/bracket adhesion in a single step when
manufacturing interior materials using natural fibers." This technology
has been applied to Kia K8/K9 and Hyundai G80/G90 models in Korea, and is under
development after receiving orders from global OEMs overseas.
Senior Researcher Yoon
Chi-won said, "These cases of application of mass production seem to have
played an important role in winning this invention, and I would like to express
my sincere gratitude to the related sectors for organically collaborating for
mass production application."
With
this award, the New Technology Development Team said it will make more efforts
in discovering foods of the future and strive for pilot studies and
commercialization that can produce results.