Patents by Inventor Sang-Ok Park
Sang-Ok Park 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: 11994693Abstract: Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a bobbin in which a lens is mounted, a first coil and a magnet configured to electromagnetically interact with each other so as to move the bobbin, a housing configured to accommodate the bobbin therein, an elastic member including an inner frame coupled to the bobbin, an outer frame coupled to the housing, and a frame connection portion configured to connect the inner frame and the outer frame to each other, and a support member connected to the elastic member and configured to support the housing, and the outer frame includes a first coupling portion coupled to the housing, a second coupling portion coupled to the support member, the second coupling portion being spaced apart from the first coupling portion, and a single connection portion configured to connect the first coupling portion and the second coupling portion to each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2023Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min
-
Patent number: 11988892Abstract: Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a bobbin including a first coil disposed on an outer circumferential surface thereof, a housing provided with first and second magnets for moving the bobbin by interaction with the first coil, upper and lower elastic members each coupled to both the bobbin and the housing, and a first position sensor for detecting a sum of intensities of magnetic fields of the first and second magnets, wherein the first position sensor is disposed in a space between the first magnet and the second magnet when the bobbin is disposed at an initial position.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Jun Taek Lee, Byung Wook Son, Sang Jun Min, Kyoung Ho Yoo
-
Patent number: 11988893Abstract: A lens moving apparatus is disclosed. The lens moving apparatus includes a bobbin equipped with at least one lens, a coil and a driving magnet arranged opposite to each other for moving the bobbin in an optical axis direction of the lens through interaction therebetween, a first circuit board for supplying electric current required by the coil, and a cover can and a base coupled to, contacted to, supported at, fixed to, or temporarily fixed to each other for forming a space in which the bobbin, the driving magnet, and the first circuit board are received, wherein the cover can is connected to a second circuit board having an image sensor mounted thereon.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Seong Min Lee, Jun Taek Lee
-
Publication number: 20240157747Abstract: Provided are a driving apparatus and an operating method thereof. The driving apparatus includes a body part; driving parts configured to drive the body part along a driving route; actuating parts configured to provide an actuation force to the driving parts to drive the body part; and an information collection part configured to collect vibration information on vibrations produced on the driving route according to driving of the driving parts, wherein the information collection part is configured to provide vibration cancellation information for canceling the vibration information on the basis of the vibration information and a plurality of driving parts are provided on the body part and perform a first response operation in the body part to respond to the vibrations on the driving route on the basis of the vibration cancellation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Seung Chan LEE, Sang Ok PARK
-
Patent number: 11982820Abstract: A lens moving apparatus includes a bobbin including a first coil disposed therearound, a first magnet disposed to face the first coil, a housing for supporting the first magnet, upper and lower elastic members each coupled to both the bobbin and the housing, a base disposed to be spaced apart from the housing by a predetermined distance, a second coil disposed to face the first magnet, a printed circuit board on which the second coil is mounted, a plurality of support members, which support the housing such that the housing is movable in second and/or third directions and which connect at least one of the upper and lower elastic members to the printed circuit board, and a conductive member for conductively connecting the upper and lower elastic members.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min
-
Patent number: 11985404Abstract: An embodiment comprises: a housing; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a first coil disposed on the bobbin; a magnet disposed on the housing; a first sensing coil, disposed on the housing, for generating a first induced voltage by interacting with the first coil; a first circuit board connected to the first coil and the first sensing coil; and a first amplifier, disposed on the first circuit board, for amplifying the first induced voltage of the first sensing coil and outputting a first amplified signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Tae Bong Park, Sang Ok Park
-
Publication number: 20240152131Abstract: Provided is an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) and semiconductor manufacturing equipment including the same, the AMR including an autonomous mobile module capable of autonomously moving along a certain autonomous motion path between a plurality of semiconductor manufacturing apparatuses disposed in semiconductor manufacturing equipment for manufacturing semiconductor devices, to supply materials to or perform maintenance on any one of the plurality of semiconductor manufacturing apparatuses in the semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and a loading module provided as a transferable structure including a manipulator for supplying materials to or performing maintenance on any one of the plurality of semiconductor manufacturing apparatuses, and docked to and transferred by the autonomous mobile module, wherein, in the autonomous mobile module, a male coupler rotatably protruding from a docking surface of the autonomous mobile module so as to be inserted into a female coupler of the loading module is flexibly suppType: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: SEMES CO., LTD.Inventors: Hoyoung LEE, Seungchan LEE, Sang Ok PARK
-
Publication number: 20240155775Abstract: A lend moving apparatus includes a circuit board including a mounting groove, an image sensor arranged within the mounting groove of the circuit board, and a first epoxy arranged within the mounting groove. The mounting groove includes a first side surface and a second side surface that face each other, and a third side surface and a fourth side surface that face each other. The circuit board includes at least one application groove provided on the first side surface and/or the second side surface of the mounting groove. The at least one application groove includes an opening opened toward the upper surface of the circuit board. At least a portion of the first epoxy is arranged in the at least one application groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO.,LTD.Inventors: Do Yun KIM, Seong Min LEE, Eun Mi KIM, Sang Ok PARK
-
Publication number: 20240134146Abstract: Disclosed is a lens driving apparatus. The lens driving apparatus includes a base formed at a center thereof with a first opening; a housing coupled with the base and having a second opening corresponding to the first opening; a yoke installed on the base and including a horizontal plate having a third opening corresponding to the first opening and a vertical plate protruding upward from the horizontal plate; a bobbin movably installed in the yoke and coupled with a lens module; a coil fixedly disposed around the bobbin; a plurality of magnets provided at the vertical plate of the yoke to face the coil; and a spring installed on at least one of upper and lower portions of the yoke to return the bobbin, which has moved up due to interaction between the magnet and the coil, to its initial position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Sang Ok PARK, Sang Jun MIN, Sang Hee LEE
-
Publication number: 20240129612Abstract: A camera module according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure is proposed, the camera module including a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) mounted with an image sensor, a housing member arranged at an upper surface of the PCB, a bobbin movably positioned at an inner side of the housing member, an upper elastic member connected to an upper surface of the housing member and to an upper surface of the bobbin, and a space forming part formed at one side of the housing member to provide a moving space to the upper elastic member when the bobbin makes a relatively vertical movement to the housing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Sang Ok PARK, Seong Min LEE, Jun Taek LEE
-
Publication number: 20240121490Abstract: An embodiment includes: a base; a circuit board which is disposed on the base and which includes first and second terminals; a housing disposed on the circuit board; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a first coil disposed on the bobbin; a sensing magnet disposed on the bobbin; a magnet disposed in the housing; a first position sensor which is disposed in the housing and which corresponds to the sensing magnet; a second coil disposed between the base and the magnet; and a second position sensor which is disposed on the circuit board and which includes a first sensor and a second sensor, wherein each of the first sensor and the second sensor is a driver integrated circuit including a hall sensor and a driver, a clock signal is provided to the first terminal of the circuit board, a data signal is provided to the second terminal of the circuit board, and the driver of each of the first position sensor, the first sensor, and the second sensor transmits/receives the clock signal through the first terminal of the ciType: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Yong Nam Choi
-
Patent number: 11947183Abstract: An embodiment includes: a housing including an upper surface, a lower surface, an inner surface, and an outer surface located at the side opposite to the inner surface; a bobbin accommodated in the housing; a first coil disposed at an outer surface of the bobbin; a first magnet disposed at the outer surface of the housing; a second magnet disposed in the housing so as to be spaced apart from the first magnet; and a first position sensor disposed at the outer surface of the bobbin, wherein a first part of the housing is positioned between the second magnet and the inner surface of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min, Kyoung Ho Yoo, Hyune O Yoo
-
Publication number: 20240103250Abstract: A lens moving apparatus can include a cover member comprising an upper plate and a lateral plate extending from the upper plate, a bobbin disposed in the cover member, a coil disposed on the bobbin, a driving magnet disposed between the coil and the lateral plate of the cover member, and a sensing magnet disposed on the bobbin. Also, the lens moving apparatus can further include a circuit board disposed on the lateral plate of the cover member, and a position sensor disposed on the circuit board and configured to sense the sensing magnet, in which a part of the coil is disposed between the sensing magnet and the circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Seong Min LEE, Sang Ok PARK, Hyune O YOO, Byung Wook SON, Jun Taek LEE
-
Patent number: 11940665Abstract: A lens driving device is provided, the lens driving device includes: a housing; a bobbin disposed inside of the housing; a support member coupled to the bobbin and the housing; and a sensor sensing a position of at least one of the bobbin and the housing, wherein the support member may include a first support unit, and a second support unit disposed not parallel to the first support unit, wherein the sensor may be disposed more adjacent to the first support unit than to the second support unit, and wherein an elastic modulus of the first support unit may be lower than an elastic modulus of the second support unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min, Jun Taek Lee
-
Patent number: 11936971Abstract: Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a first magnet, a housing, a bobbin, around which a coil is wound and which moves in a first direction in the housing, an upper elastic member disposed on upper surfaces of the bobbin and the housing, a lower elastic member disposed under lower surfaces of the bobbin and the housing, and a damping member disposed between the upper or lower elastic member and the bobbin.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Seong Min Lee, Jun Taek Lee, Byung Wook Son
-
Patent number: 11921347Abstract: An embodiment comprises: a housing comprising side parts, a first corner part, a second corner part, a third corner part, and a fourth corner part, in which each of the first corner part, the second corner part, the third corner part and the fourth corner is disposed between two adjacent side parts; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a first coil disposed on an outer surface of the bobbin; first magnets disposed on the side parts of the housing; a first circuit board disposed on the first corner part and comprising a first pad, a second pad, a third pad, a fourth pad, a fifth pad and a sixth pad; a first location sensor disposed on the first circuit board and electrically connected to the first pad, the second pad, the third pad, the fourth pad, the fifth pad and the sixth pad; first, second, third and fourth upper springs disposed apart from each other on the housing; and first and second lower springs coupled to a lower portion of the housing, electrically connected with the first coil, and coupled to the fiType: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min, Byung Wook Son
-
Patent number: 11924529Abstract: A camera actuator according to an embodiment can comprise: a housing; a prism unit disposed inside the housing; a driving part for tilting the prism unit; and a rotation unit for tilting the prism unit about a first axis or a second axis. The rotation unit can comprise: a rotation housing; a rotation guide disposed inside the rotation housing; and a guide pin member coupled to the rotation guide.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sung Guk Lee, Seong Min Lee
-
Patent number: 11921349Abstract: An embodiment comprises: a housing; a bobbin, disposed in the housing, for mounting a lens; a first coil arranged on an outer circumferential surface of the bobbin; a magnet arranged in the housing; a second coil arranged in the housing; and a magnetic member, which is attached to the second coil and increases the strength of an induction voltage induced to the second coil by means of an interaction according to a movement of the first coil.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Kap Jin Lee, Sang Ok Park, Seung Taek Shin
-
Patent number: 11921346Abstract: Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including housing to support a driving magnet, a bobbin provided at an outer circumferential surface thereof with a coil located inside the driving magnet, the bobbin being moved in a first direction parallel to an optical axis within the housing via electromagnetic interaction between the driving magnet and the coil, a lower elastic member to connect a lower portion of the housing and a lower portion of the bobbin to each other, both ends of the coil being electrically connected to the lower elastic member, the lower elastic member having a first terminal electrically connected to an external power source so as to supply external power to the ends of the coil, and a printed circuit board provided at one side surface of the housing, the printed circuit board having a second terminal electrically connected to the external power source.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Taek Lee, Sang Ok Park, Byung Wook Son, Seong Min Lee
-
Patent number: 11906809Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention a rotor including a lens and formed with a first driving unit, a stator formed with a second driving unit driving the rotor in response to electromagnetic interaction with the first driving unit, and a base on which the stator is fixed, wherein the rotor is brought into contact with the base, in a case the lens is in a UP posture, and the rotor is distanced from the base, in a case the lens is in a DOWN posture.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Hyun Rae Cho, Seong Min Lee, Jun Taek Lee