Patents by Inventor Kyung-Oun Jang

Kyung-Oun Jang 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: 9502983
    Abstract: A power supply device includes a power switch, a power delivering means configured to convert an input in accordance with switching operation of the power switch and output a result, and a switch control circuit configured to linearly control switching frequency of the power switch in accordance with an output detection voltage corresponding to an output voltage according to the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Fairchild Korea Semiconductor LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung-Oun Jang, In-Ki Park, Hyun-Chul Eum, Sung-Won Yun
  • Patent number: 9461548
    Abstract: Embodiment relates to a switch control circuit, a switch control method, and a power supply using the switch control circuit. The power supply supplies power to a load using an input voltage. The switch control circuit controls a switching operation of the power switch that controls the power supply. The switch control circuit detects a duty of the power switch using a signal for controlling the switching operation of the power switch, detects the load using the feedback voltage, and determines a short-circuit of the sense resistor according to the detected duty and the detected load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Fairchild Korea Semiconductor LTD.
    Inventors: Won-Tae Lee, Kyung-Oun Jang, Sung-Won Yun, Min-Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 9374008
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a switching mode power supply and a driving method thereof. In the present invention, a supply voltage is generated by using a start voltage that corresponds to input power, and a switching operation frequency of a power switch is changed according to an increase/decrease of the supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Fairchild Korea Semiconductor Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-Oun Jang, Gyoung-Soo Park, Hyeong-Seok Baek, Se-Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 9350341
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gate driving circuit, a switch control circuit including the gate driving circuit, and a power supply. The gate driving circuit generates a gate voltage of the power switch. The gate driving circuit includes: a delay control circuit generating a first control signal that controls a rising slope of the gate voltage at a first time after a first delay period is passed from a rising time of the gate voltage and generating a second control signal that controls the rising slope of the gate voltage at a time after a second delay period is passed from the first time; and a temperature compensation circuit that varies the first delay period according to a temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Fairchild Korea Semiconductor LTD
    Inventors: Won-Tae Lee, Kyung-Oun Jang, Sung-Won Yun, Min-Woo Lee
  • Publication number: 20150280581
    Abstract: A power supply device includes a power switch, a power delivering means configured to convert an input in accordance with switching operation of the power switch and output a result, and a switch control circuit configured to linearly control switching frequency of the power switch in accordance with an output detection voltage corresponding to an output voltage according to the output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Kyung-Oun JANG, In-Ki PARK, Hyun-Chul EUM, Sung-Won YUN
  • Patent number: 9035681
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a switch controller, a switch control method, and a power supply using the switch controller. A switch controller controls switching operation of a power switch and receives a sense voltage of a sense resistor to which a drain current flowing in the power switch flows. The switch controller generates a sum signal using the sense voltage and a ramp signal having a cycle that is the same as a switching cycle of the power switch. The switch controller determines short-circuit of the sense resistor by detecting slope variation of the sum signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Fairchild Korea Semiconductor LTD
    Inventors: Min-Woo Lee, Kyung-Oun Jang
  • Patent number: 9001475
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermal shutdown unit, a switch controller including the same, and a method controlling a thermal shutdown protection operation. The present invention determines the operation state of an SMPS to vary a reference temperature for controlling a thermal shutdown protection operation according to an operation state of the SMPS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Fairchild Korea Semiconductor Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Woo Lee, Kyung-Oun Jang, Dae-Woong Cho
  • Publication number: 20140368254
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gate driving circuit, a switch control circuit including the gate driving circuit, and a power supply. The gate driving circuit generates a gate voltage of the power switch. The gate driving circuit includes: a delay control circuit generating a first control signal that controls a rising slope of the gate voltage at a first time after a first delay period is passed from a rising time of the gate voltage and generating a second control signal that controls the rising slope of the gate voltage at a time after a second delay period is passed from the first time; and a temperature compensation circuit that varies the first delay period according to a temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Won-Tae LEE, Kyung-Oun JANG, Sung-Won YUN, Min-Woo LEE
  • Publication number: 20140268925
    Abstract: Embodiment relates to a switch control circuit, a switch control method, and a power supply using the switch control circuit. The power supply supplies power to a load using an input voltage. The switch control circuit controls a switching operation of the power switch that controls the power supply. The switch control circuit detects a duty of the power switch using a signal for controlling the switching operation of the power switch, detects the load using the feedback voltage, and determines a short-circuit of the sense resistor according to the detected duty and the detected load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: FAIRCHILD KOREA SEMICONDUCTOR LTD.
    Inventors: Won-Tae LEE, Kyung-Oun JANG, Sung-Won YUN, Min-Woo LEE
  • Publication number: 20130293270
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a switch controller, a switch control method, and a power supply using the switch controller. A switch controller controls switching operation of a power switch and receives a sense voltage of a sense resistor to which a drain current flowing in the power switch flows. The switch controller generates a sum signal using the sense voltage and a ramp signal having a cycle that is the same as a switching cycle of the power switch. The switch controller determines short-circuit of the sense resistor by detecting slope variation of the sum signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Min-Woo LEE, Kyung-Oun JANG
  • Patent number: 8514591
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a power supply device generating an output power by using an AC line voltage generated through rectification of an AC input, and a driving method thereof. The power supply device controls the switching operation of the power switch by using a sensing voltage corresponding to the drain current flowing to the power switch and the feedback voltage corresponding to the output voltage. The power supply device controls the feedback current every switching cycle to generate a threshold voltage, and compares the sensing voltage and the threshold voltage to control the turn-off of the power switch. The feedback current includes the first current to generate the feedback voltage, and the threshold voltage follows a curved line waveform in which the increasing slope is decreased during the switching cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Fairchild Korea Semiconductor Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Woo Lee, Kyung-Oun Jang, Sung-Won Yun, Dae-Woong Cho
  • Publication number: 20120300506
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a power supply device generating an output power by using an AC line voltage generated through rectification of an AC input, and a driving method thereof. The power supply device controls the switching operation of the power switch by using a sensing voltage corresponding to the drain current flowing to the power switch and the feedback voltage corresponding to the output voltage. The power supply device controls the feedback current every switching cycle to generate a threshold voltage, and compares the sensing voltage and the threshold voltage to control the turn-off of the power switch. The feedback current includes the first current to generate the feedback voltage, and the threshold voltage follows a curved line waveform in which the increasing slope is decreased during the switching cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Min-Woo LEE, Kyung-Oun JANG, Sung-Won YUN, Dae-Woong CHO
  • Publication number: 20120033465
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermal shutdown unit, a switch controller including the same, and a method controlling a thermal shutdown protection operation. The present invention determines the operation state of an SMPS to vary a reference temperature for controlling a thermal shutdown protection operation according to an operation state of the SMPS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventors: Min-Woo LEE, Kyung-Oun JANG, Dae-Woong CHO
  • Patent number: 7960952
    Abstract: A switching mode power supply and a switch thereof are provided. The switch includes a plurality of first transistors, and a second transistor that is turned on/off by a control signal that is equal to that of the plurality of first transistors and in which a second current corresponding to a first current flowing to the plurality of first transistors flows, wherein a ratio of the first current to the second current sequentially changes from a time point at which the second transistor is turned on. Therefore, a switching mode power supply and a switch thereof that can always uniformly sustain a maximum limit current flowing to the switch regardless of a level of an input voltage without including a special additional circuit can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Fairchild Korea Semiconductor, Ltd.
    Inventors: Gwan-Bon Koo, Jin-Tae Kim, Yoo-Woong Hwang, Kyung Oun Jang, Jin-Woo Moon, Sang-Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 7760520
    Abstract: A current controlled switching mode power supply is provided. A turn on/off time of a switching device is adjusted by controlling a leading edge blanking (LEB) time and an external drive current of the switching device by means of a switching controller, thus capable of preventing a switching current from being excessive due to a delay of a turn-off time of the switching device, which is caused by a circuit delay during a soft start of the switching mode power supply. Also, it is possible to prevent a switching current from being excessive due to a failure of accurately controlling a turn-off time of the switching device because of a delay caused when an output voltage (a voltage at a secondary winding of a transformer) of the switching mode power supply is designed to have a high voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Fairchild Korea Semiconductor, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung Oun Jang, Yoo-Woong Hwang
  • Publication number: 20100053999
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a switching mode power supply and a driving method thereof. In the present invention, a supply voltage is generated by using a start voltage that corresponds to input power, and a switching operation frequency of a power switch is changed according to an increase/decrease of the supply voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Kyung-Oun JANG, Gyoung-Soo PARK, Hyeong-Seok BAEK, Se-Hwan KIM
  • Patent number: 7558084
    Abstract: A switching mode power supply includes a power supply, a feedback circuit, and a switching controller. The power supply includes a main switch coupled to a primary coil of a transformer and supplies power to a secondary coil of the transformer according to an operation of the main switch. The feedback circuit generates a feedback voltage corresponding to an output voltage applied to the secondary coil. The switching controller compensates a propagation delay by controlling a duty of the main switch according to a result of comparing a first signal that fluctuates according to a first voltage corresponding with a current flowing through the main switch to a reference voltage corresponding to the feedback voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Fairchild Korea Semiconductor, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung Oun Jang
  • Publication number: 20080258564
    Abstract: A switching mode power supply and a switch thereof are provided. The switch includes a plurality of first transistors, and a second transistor that is turned on/off by a control signal that is equal to that of the plurality of first transistors and in which a second current corresponding to a first current flowing to the plurality of first transistors flows, wherein a ratio of the first current to the second current sequentially changes from a time point at which the second transistor is turned on. Therefore, a switching mode power supply and a switch thereof that can always uniformly sustain a maximum limit current flowing to the switch regardless of a level of an input voltage without including a special additional circuit can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Gwan-Bon Koo, Jin-Tae Kim, Yoo-Woong Hwang, Kyung-Oun Jang, Jin-Woo Moon, Sang-Hyun Lee
  • Patent number: 7289582
    Abstract: In an EMI canceller, a control signal generation unit includes a counter, a second flip-flop, and a multiplexer. The counter outputs first and second output signals and includes first flip-flops in series. An output of the first flip-flop reverses at every cycle of the first and second output signals of a previous first flip-flop. An output of the second flip-flop reverses at every cycle of the first or second output signal of a final first flip-flop. The second flip-flop outputs third and fourth output signals. The multiplexer passes the first output signals of the first flip-flop as a control signal when the third output signal is a first level, and passes the second output signals as the control signal when it is a second level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Fairchild Korea Semiconductor, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-Oun Jang, Eung-Suen Kim
  • Publication number: 20070132438
    Abstract: A current controlled switching mode power supply is provided. A turn on/off time of a switching device is adjusted by controlling a leading edge blanking (LEB) time and an external drive current of the switching device by means of a switching controller, thus capable of preventing a switching current from being excessive due to a delay of a turn-off time of the switching device, which is caused by a circuit delay during a soft start of the switching mode power supply. Also, it is possible to prevent a switching current from being excessive due to a failure of accurately controlling a turn-off time of the switching device because of a delay caused when an output voltage (a voltage at a secondary winding of a transformer) of the switching mode power supply is designed to have a high voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Kyung-Oun Jang, Yoo-Woong Hwang