Patents by Inventor Hye Man Jung

Hye Man Jung 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: 9426857
    Abstract: An LED driving circuit package includes a rectification unit to receive an AC power voltage and rectify the AC power voltage to generate a ripple voltage, an LED driving switching unit including a plurality of switch units and a plurality of current control units. The LED driving circuit package further includes a low voltage control unit including a circuit power supply unit to generate low voltage power, a voltage detection unit to detect a magnitude of the ripple voltage, a reference frequency generation unit to generate a reference frequency, and a reference pulse generation unit to generate a reference pulse for controlling the operation of the LED driving switch unit according to the reference frequency and a magnitude of the voltage detected by the voltage detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Do Jong, Hyun Gu Kang, Hye Man Jung, Kang Nyung Lee
  • Publication number: 20160234891
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus of a high efficiency light emitting element and a driving circuit of a light emitting element controlling a series and parallel connection relationship between light emitting groups according to a voltage level of a driving voltage and controlling a sequential driving of the light emitting groups at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventor: Hye man JUNG
  • Patent number: 9378701
    Abstract: A backlight driving apparatus that drives a backlight unit having a plurality of LEDs is provided, which includes a rectifying unit rectifying an AC voltage and generating a driving voltage for the plurality of LEDs, a plurality of connection changing units changing connection relations between the plurality of LEDs depending on a level of the driving voltage, and a light output compensation unit generating a compensation voltage using the driving voltage and selectively supplying the compensation voltage to the plurality of LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hye Man Jung, Hyun Gu Kang, Oh Seok Kim, Young Eun Yang
  • Patent number: 9357605
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a light emitting diode (LED) driving apparatus and driving method for continuously driving an LED. According to the present invention, an LED driving apparatus and driving method for continuously driving an LED capable of compensating for a light output of an LED lighting using an energy chargeable and dischargeable element and/or circuit are proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hye Man Jung, Hyun Gu Kang, Sang Wook Han
  • Patent number: 9345085
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus of a high efficiency light emitting element and a driving circuit of a light emitting element controlling a series and parallel connection relationship between light emitting groups according to a voltage level of a driving voltage and controlling a sequential driving of the light emitting groups at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hye Man Jung
  • Publication number: 20160128153
    Abstract: A sequential driving type alternating current (AC) LED lighting apparatus includes a rectification unit connected to an alternating current (AC) power source and outputting a first rectified voltage as a first drive voltage to a light-emitting diode (LED) light-emitting unit through full-wave rectification of an AC voltage, and an LED drive controller configured to detect an LED drive current flowing through the LED light emitting unit or a constant current switch connected to the LED light emitting unit and configured to control sequential driving based on the detected LED drive current. The LED drive controller is configured to set an LED drive current in each of operation sections, such that a difference between light output of the LED light-emitting unit in each of the operation zones does not exceed a predetermined light output deviation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventor: Hye-man JUNG
  • Publication number: 20160050731
    Abstract: According to the present invention, provided is an LED driving circuit comprising: a first rectification module, connected to an alternating current power source, for full-wave rectifying an applied alternating current voltage and for supplying a first rectification voltage which has been full-wave rectified to an LED light emitting module as a first driving voltage; and a second driving voltage supply module, connected to the alternating current power source in parallel with the first rectification module, for full-wave rectifying an applied alternating current voltage to generate a second rectification voltage, for charging energy using the generated second rectification voltage at a charging section, and for supplying a second driving voltage to the LED light emitting module at a compensating section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventor: Hye Man JUNG
  • Patent number: 9220143
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) dimmer for an LED lighting device, including a power switch, a drive voltage supply, and a LED light-emitting unit. Operating zones of the LED lighting device are changed in accordance with the switching of the power switch, and a dimming level for a next operating zone is determined on the basis of the dimming level and time while the power switch was on during the previous operating period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hye Man Jung, Hyun Gu Kang, Jin Cheol Shin, Sang Wook Han
  • Publication number: 20150334792
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus of a high efficiency light emitting element and a driving circuit of a light emitting element controlling a series and parallel connection relationship between light emitting groups according to a voltage level of a driving voltage and controlling a sequential driving of the light emitting groups at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventor: Hye Man JUNG
  • Publication number: 20150312977
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) driving circuit configured to drive LED units includes a rectification circuit unit to receive an alternating current (AC) power voltage and rectify the AC power voltage to output a unidirectional ripple voltage, a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal generation unit to generate PWM decision signals. The PWM signal generation unit is configured to sequentially drive the LEDs according to the PWM decision signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Young Do JONG, Hyun Gu KANG, Hye Man JUNG, Kang Nyung LEE
  • Publication number: 20150305098
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment discloses a light-emitting diode (LED) driving circuit including an LED driving module configured to provide a first driving voltage to an LED light emitting module including a first LED group to an n-th LED group, n is an integer which is equal to or larger than 2, and sequentially drive the first LED group to the n-th LED group depending on a voltage level of the first driving voltage and a second driving voltage providing module configured to store some of the first driving voltage and selectively provide a second driving voltage to some of the LED groups other than at least the first LED group to an m-th LED group among the LED groups in a Vfm compensation section, 1?m?n?1, according to a control of the LED driving module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Hye Man JUNG, Hyun Gu KANG, Sang Wook HAN
  • Publication number: 20150296582
    Abstract: An LED luminescence apparatus is provided, which includes a rectifying unit rectifying an AC voltage and generating a rectified voltage; a plurality of LEDs connected in series to an output terminal of the rectifying unit; a plurality of switches having drain terminals connected to cathodes of the plurality of LEDs, respectively; and a switch control unit sensing current through a plurality of resistors connected to source terminals of the plurality of switches, respectively, comparing the sensed current with a set reference current, and outputting a voltage corresponding to a difference between the sensed current and the set reference current to a gate terminal of each of the plurality of switches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Hye Man JUNG, Hyun Gu KANG, Snag Wook HAN, Young Do JUNG
  • Publication number: 20150288453
    Abstract: An optical communication device including a plurality of groups of light emitting diode (LED) groups that are turn on according to a control of a lighting and communication control module. The lighting and communication control module is configured to receive an AC input voltage, generate a rectified voltage from the AC input voltage, determine a voltage level of the rectified voltage, sequentially drive the plurality of LED groups according to the voltage level of the rectified voltage, and perform optical communication through the plurality of LED groups only when the voltage level of the rectified voltage is greater than or equal to a preset threshold voltage level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventor: Hye Man Jung
  • Publication number: 20150245427
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a light emitting diode (LED) driving apparatus and driving method for continuously driving an LED. According to the present invention, an LED driving apparatus and driving method for continuously driving an LED capable of compensating for a light output of an LED lighting using an energy chargeable and dischargeable element and/or circuit are proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: SEOUL SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hye Man Jung, Hyun Gu Kang, Sang Wook Han
  • Patent number: 9107262
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus capable of controlling current amounts of LEDs and enabling various electrical connections is provided. An applied driving voltage is divided, and a divided voltage is compared with a reference voltage to generate sampling signals. A logic operation is performed on the sampling signals to generate a switch control signal and a current control signal. The switch control signal controls electrical connection of LEDs to which the driving voltage is applied. Also, the current control signal may select LEDs that are to perform light emitting operations. A target voltage is set by processing the sampling signals and used to determine driving currents of the LEDs that are to perform the light emitting operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hye Man Jung
  • Patent number: 9101019
    Abstract: An LED luminescence apparatus includes a plurality of LED units connected in series which are configured to receive a unidirectional ripple voltage, a plurality of switch units, one end of each being connected to the cathode of one of the plurality of LED units, a plurality of constant current control circuit units, one end of each being connected to an another end of a respective switch unit to receive a current from the respective switch unit, each of the constant current control circuit units being configured to output a current control signal to the respective switch unit to control a magnitude of the received current to have a specific value, and a current comparison unit to receive currents flowing from the plurality of switching units, and generate a plurality of switching control signals for the respective switch units to sequentially drive the plurality of constant current control circuit units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Do Jong, Hyun Gu Kang, Hye Man Jung, Kang Nyung Lee
  • Publication number: 20150181659
    Abstract: Disclosed is an LED driving apparatus capable of removing a non-light-emitting section and extending device life span by adding an optical power compensation circuit to a driving circuit of a multi-stage current driving mode. The design is more efficient with respect to a forward voltage of an LED array driven by the multi-stage current driving circuit and the unique operational characteristics of the optical power compensation circuit. The LED driving apparatus drives a plurality of LED groups and includes a rectification unit for rectifying an AC voltage to generate a ripple voltage at an output, an optical power compensation unit to supply a pre-stored compensation voltage to the LED array when the ripple voltage is less than a minimum forward voltage in the plurality of LED groups, and a constant current driving unit connected the plurality of LED groups to sequentially drive each LED group with a constant current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Gu Kang, Hye Man Jung
  • Publication number: 20150154917
    Abstract: A display device includes a power rectifying unit for rectifying alternating power, a power factor correction unit correcting the power factor of the alternating power and outputting a power factor corrected voltage containing a direct current voltage component having at least a predetermined size, a display module driven by the power factor corrected voltage, a backlight unit, and a driving unit supplying the main driving voltage to a backlight unit, receiving the power factor corrected voltage when the size of the rectified voltage is smaller than a preset threshold value to generate a supplementary driving voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hye Man Jung, Oh Sug Kim, Hyun Gu Kang, II Kyung Suh, Young Eun Yang
  • Publication number: 20150084541
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) dimmer for an LED lighting device, including a power switch, a drive voltage supply, and a LED light-emitting unit. Operating zones of the LED lighting device are changed in accordance with the switching of the power switch, and a dimming level for a next operating zone is determined on the basis of the dimming level and time while the power switch was on during the previous operating period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hye Man Jung, Hyun Gu Kang, Jin Cheol Shin, Sang Wook Han
  • Publication number: 20140375224
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus capable of controlling current amounts of LEDs and enabling various electrical connections is provided. An applied driving voltage is divided, and a divided voltage is compared with a reference voltage to generate sampling signals. A logic operation is performed on the sampling signals to generate a switch control signal and a current control signal. The switch control signal controls electrical connection of LEDs to which the driving voltage is applied. Also, the current control signal may select LEDs that are to perform light emitting operations. A target voltage is set by processing the sampling signals and used to determine driving currents of the LEDs that are to perform the light emitting operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Hye Man Jung