Patents by Inventor Bon Young Gu

Bon Young Gu 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: 20140152203
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a system and a method for controlling a speed of a motor. The method for controlling a speed of a motor includes: receiving a signal from a hall sensor of the motor to measure a current speed of the motor; comparing the current speed of the motor measured with a reference speed to calculate errors; outputting a speed control value of the motor based on the calculated errors; limiting the output speed control value to values within a predetermined range; controlling a duty or a phase of current applied to the motor according to the limited values within the predetermined range; and generating a motor driving signal based on the duty control or the phase control and applying the generated motor driving signal to the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bon Young GU
  • Publication number: 20140152213
    Abstract: There are provided an apparatus and a method for controlling a motor. The apparatus for controlling a motor includes a signal generation unit generating a first signal indicating position information of a rotor, a counter unit sampling the first signal with a second signal different from the first signal for one period to count a sampling frequency, a memory unit storing a section counter value and an error value obtained by sampling a period immediately prior to the first signal with the second signal, and a comparison unit increasing and reducing an output signal when the sampling frequency counted by the counter unit coincides with the section counter value, wherein the comparison unit sums the sampling frequencies corresponding to error values with the sampling frequency of the first signal before the counter unit ends the sampling of one period of the first signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bon Young GU
  • Publication number: 20140152223
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus and a method for controlling a motor. The apparatus for controlling a motor includes a signal detection unit detecting a first signal, a sampling unit acquiring the number of pulses of the first signal included in a predetermined sampling period, and an operation unit dividing the sampling period into a predetermined number of, a plurality of sub periods, and computing a speed of a motor by allocating predetermined weights to the number of pulses of the first signal included in the plurality of respective sub periods, wherein the operation unit computes the speed of the motor by controlling at least one of the weights and the number of sub periods when the number of pulses of the first signal included in the plurality of respective sub periods is different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bon Young GU
  • Publication number: 20140117898
    Abstract: There are provided a circuit and a method for detecting a duty ratio of a PWM signal. The circuit includes: a counting unit counting a PWM signal; a detection indication determining unit determining whether a detection indication signal indicating a start of detection of the duty ratio of the PWM signal has been input; an edge detecting unit detecting a preset PWM edge of the PWM signal; and a duty calculating unit calculating the duty ratio of the PWM signal using a count value during a section from a k-th point in time (T(k)) (k being a natural number of 1 or more) at which the PWM edge is detected after it is determined that the detection indication signal has been input to a k+1-th point in time (T(k+1)) at which the PWM edge is detected after it is subsequently determined that the detection indication signal has been input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Su Yeon HAN, Jung Eun YOUM, Bon Young GU
  • Publication number: 20140062370
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method for controlling a speed of a motor. An apparatus for controlling a spaced of a motor according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a PWM conversion unit detecting a hall sensor signal from a motor to output a pulse width modulated signal corresponding to the detected hall sensor signal; a duty detection unit detecting a duty value of the pulse width modulated signal output by the PWM conversion unit; an error calculation unit comparing a PWM duty input from the outside with a duty detected by the duty detection unit to obtain an error; and a speed control unit controlling a speed of a motor based on an error obtained by the error calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: BON YOUNG GU
  • Publication number: 20140062369
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a speed of a motor, includes: a first duty change detection unit detecting a change in duty of a PWM signal supplied from the outside; a speed conversion unit converting a speed indication (command) having the PWM signal into an actual speed value (RPM value) based on the change in duty detected by the first duty change detection unit; a speed control unit generating a new speed indication value to be applied to a motor and determining the duty value of PWM signal based on the new speed indication value; a second duty change detection unit detecting the change in the duty value of PWM signal determined by the speed control unit; and a PWM generation unit generating the PWM signal actually applied to the motor based on the change in the duty value detected by the second duty change detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Bon Young GU
  • Publication number: 20140055071
    Abstract: There is provided a motor driving device including: a speed detection unit detecting a speed of a motor; a comparison unit comparing the speed of the motor detected by the speed detection unit with an external input speed; and a speed control unit outputting the reference speed as a control signal when the speed of the motor is equal to a reference speed or less and outputting a motor control signal generated based on a comparative value of the comparison unit when the speed of the motor exceeds the reference speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bon Young GU
  • Publication number: 20140046487
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method for controlling a motor speed, in which an actual speed is set to be a targeted speed by considering an order of a speed increase to be meaningless no more if it is determined that a previous error and a current error are unchanged according to a result of comparing errors between the targeted speed and the actual speed upon issuing an order of the speed increase of a motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventor: Bon Young Gu
  • Publication number: 20140028229
    Abstract: There is provided a motor controlling circuit including: a hall signal level detecting unit detecting a hall signal from a hall sensor; and a signal generating unit sensing a change in a level of the hall signal to generate a motor controlling signal according to the change in the level of the hall signal, wherein the signal generating unit determines that the hall signal is maintained at a high level in a case in which a high level maintaining time of the hall signal is equal to or shorter than a preset time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bon Young GU
  • Publication number: 20130314018
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for controlling a motor speed. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for controlling a motor speed including: a speed difference detecting unit for calculating a difference between a motor control speed and a detected motor speed; a duty generating unit for changing a duty according to the speed difference detected by the speed difference detecting unit and duty update time adjustment; and a time adjusting unit for adjusting a duty update time according to a duty variation in the duty generating unit is provided. Further, a method for controlling a motor speed is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bon Young Gu
  • Publication number: 20130264978
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a motor position and velocity detecting system capable of accurately detecting a position and a velocity of a motor without adding a hall sensor or the number of poles of the motor. The motor position and velocity detecting system includes: a hall sensor outputting hall signals from rotation of a motor; an edge detector detecting edge signals for the hall signals to output edge pulse signals; a peak detector detecting peak signals for the hall signals to output peak pulse signals; a position outputter connected to the edge detector and the peak detector and outputting a position of the motor; and a velocity outputter connected to the edge detector and the peak detector and outputting a velocity of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bon Young Gu, Joo Yul Ko
  • Patent number: 8482334
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method for removing a DC offset in a power meter. The apparatus for removing a DC offset in a power meter according to exemplary embodiment includes: an ADC; a HPF removing the DC offset from the signal output from the ADC; a selector receiving the signals passing through the HPF and bypassing the HPF and outputting any one thereof; a determination block receiving a signal output from the ADC or from the selector and determining whether the received signal is a sinusoidal signal; an offset calculation block calculating the DC offset to be compensated from the signal input to the determination block or output from the selector; and an offset compensation unit disposed on a path bypassing the HPF, compensating the calculated DC offset value in the signal output from the ADC and outputting the compensated result to the selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignees: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., Korea Electric Power Corporation
    Inventor: Bon Young Gu
  • Publication number: 20130076427
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method for removing a DC offset in a power meter. The apparatus for removing a DC offset in a power meter according to exemplary embodiment includes: an ADC; a HPF removing the DC offset from the signal output from the ADC; a selector receiving the signals passing through the HPF and bypassing the HPF and outputting any one thereof; a determination block receiving a signal output from the ADC or from the selector and determining whether the received signal is a sinusoidal signal; an offset calculation block calculating the DC offset to be compensated from the signal input to the determination block or output from the selector; and an offset compensation unit disposed on a path bypassing the HPF, compensating the calculated DC offset value in the signal output from the ADC and outputting the compensated result to the selector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventor: Bon Young Gu