<(From the left) In-Gyu Kim, CEO of OHSUNG ELECTRONICS, Inside the factory of OHSUNG ELECTRONICS>

 

It is OHSUNG ELECTRONICS Co., Ltd. that takes the lead in the global market of broadly used remote control unit (RCU), where the first place in Korea and the third place in the world.

  

Since Ohsung Electronics started its production in 1975, it has developed the Original Development Manufacturing (ODM) system and mass production and opened up a new overseas market. It also expanded the business to smart home systems, the Internet of things (IoT) devices, and RF communication/sensor modules.

 

The company has specialized in the wireless circuit and antenna design (antenna design, PCB antenna design) for incorporating rapidly expanding IoT products. It also makes progress towards developing wireless modules (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, OCF, OneM2M, etc.) for communication between IoT products.

 

Besides, it continues developing automatic setting technology to improve user convenience when setting RCU for its integration in IoT environment and to create RCU with various biometric recognition (fingerprint, speaker recognition, and motion recognition) functions to differentiate from other companies. In particular, it occupies the No. 1 market share in Korea and No. 3 in the world in the RCU (remote control unit) market through the 'Smart Set' automatic setting technology developed by Ohsung Electronics. 

 

 

 

Currently, OHSUNG ELECTRONICS operates three overseas production subsidiaries (Mexico, Indonesia, and China) to strengthen its global competitiveness. And it has been investing bold R&D expenses (7.4% of sales) and operating research centers for development (run by about 80 people), which are efforts and investments to secure competitiveness for an active response to rapidly changing markets.

 

In-Gyu Kim, the representative, touts the 'Employee’s Invention System' is one of the keys to be recognized in the global market, which allows the core technology development, highest quality, and the continuous investment for the excellent workforce.

 

Since the introduction of the employee’s invention system in 2002, several patents, utility models, and designs have been newly created. From 2014 to the present, the company has been selected as an 'excellent employee’s invention company' certified by the Korean Intellectual Property Office. Such the employee’s invention system had improved employees' initiative and willingness to develop new technologies and new products. It led their patent filing performance to more than three times each year compared to when the system was not implemented.

 

As intellectual property rights are becoming more critical in the era of the 4th industrial revolution, the employee’s invention system is recognized as one of the core management strategies of companies to create and utilize the rights (them) actively. Therefore, institutional support is required to encourage researchers to apply and register their various intellectual property rights ideas. Suppose it is necessary to introduce an employee’s invention system to your company and improve the system's operation. In that case, you may want to take advantage of the employee’s invention system consulting program supported by the Korean Intellectual Property Office and Korea Invention Promotion Association.