Patents by Inventor Sun Cheol Bae
Sun Cheol Bae 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).
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Patent number: 11876465Abstract: A motor driving apparatus includes: an inverter that includes at least one switching element and that is configured to output alternating current power to a motor, a vibration sensor configured to detect vibrations, and a controller (i) comprising a compensation signal generator that is configured to, based on an output value of the vibration sensor, generate a compensation signal and (ii) configured to generate a control signal for controlling the inverter.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: In Woo Han, Sun Cheol Bae, Jung Hun Kim
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Publication number: 20220190763Abstract: A motor driving apparatus includes: an inverter that includes at least one switching element and that is configured to output alternating current power to a motor, a vibration sensor configured to detect vibrations, and a controller (i) comprising a compensation signal generator that is configured to, based on an output value of the vibration sensor, generate a compensation signal and (ii) configured to generate a control signal for controlling the inverter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: In Woo HAN, Sun Cheol BAE, Jung Hun KIM
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Patent number: 10370787Abstract: A control method of a washing machine determines the amount of laundry placed in a drum, verifies whether the measured amount of laundry is accurate, and sets control data in the washing machine based on the verified amount of laundry. Also the control method of the washing machine corrects control data set according to the amount of laundry based on kind of the laundry classified according to absorptance of the laundry.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sun Cheol Bae, Ja In Koo, Jae Hyeok Choi, Han Su Jung, Kyung Hoon Kim
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Patent number: 8938835Abstract: A washing machine and a method of controlling a washing machine are provided. The washing machine may include a drum in which laundry is provided and is rotated. The drum may operate at a first speed such that part of the laundry tumbles within the drum and another part of the laundry adheres to the drum. An unbalance amount or a first speed operation time of the drum, which is detected when the drum operates at the first speed, may be determined. When an abnormality occurs, rotation of the drum may stop or decelerate. Accordingly, at the time of a dehydration cycle, stability of the washing machine and laundry balancing can be ensured.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2009Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sun Cheol Bae, Kyung Hoon Kim, Han Su Jung, Jae Hyeok Choi, Ja In Koo
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Patent number: 8679198Abstract: A washing machine and a method of controlling the washing machine may be provided. The washing machine may include a drum in which laundry are provided and rotated. A laundry amount may be sensed. The drum may operate at a first speed so that a part of the laundry tumbles within the drum and another part of the laundry adheres to the drum or the drum operates at a second speed so that the laundry adheres to the drum according to the sensed laundry amount. Accordingly, at a time of a dehydration cycle, stability of the washing machine and a laundry balancing can be ensured.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2009Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sun Cheol Bae, Kyung Hoon Kim, Han Su Jung, Jae Hyeok Choi, Ja In Koo
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Patent number: 8387272Abstract: The present invention discloses a clogging detecting system for a dryer which can display a clogging degree or state of an air passage to the user through a remote controlling device. The clogging detecting system for the dryer includes the dryer for judging the clogging degree of the air passage, and sending the clogging degree to a remote controlling device, and the remote controlling device for receiving the clogging degree from the dryer, and displaying the clogging degree through a display unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yang-hwan Kim, Kyung-hun Kim, Ja-in Koo, Ju-hyun Kim, Sun-cheol Bae, Ju-young Min, Jin-seok Hu
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Patent number: 8365334Abstract: A washing machine and a method of controlling the washing machine are provided. According to the washing machine and method of controlling the washing machine, the drum is operated at a first speed so that part of laundry within the drum tumbles and another part of the laundry adheres to the drum. When an unbalance amount of the drum operating at the first speed is a first specific value or less, the speed of the drum is increased to a second speed so that all of the laundry adheres to the drum. When an unbalance amount of the drum detected during the increasing to the second speed is a second specific value or more, the rotation of the drum is decelerated. Accordingly, at a time of a dehydration cycle, stability of the washing machine and laundry balancing can be ensured.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2009Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sun Cheol Bae, Kyung Hoon Kim, Han Su Jung, Jae Hyeok Choi, Ja In Koo
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Patent number: 8302232Abstract: The present invention relates to a washing machine and a method of controlling the washing machine. According to a washing machine and a method of controlling the washing machine in accordance with the present invention, a drum operates at a first speed so that part of the laundry tumbles within the drum and another part of the laundry adheres within the drum. The drum operates at a second speed lower than the first speed so that an amount of the tumbling laundry is more increased than at the first speed. Accordingly, at the time of a dehydration cycle, stability of the washing machine and laundry balancing can be ensured.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2009Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sun Cheol Bae, Kyung Hoon Kim, Han Su Jung, Jae Hyeok Choi, Ja In Koo
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Patent number: 8281438Abstract: A washing machine and a method of controlling a washing machine are provided. A drum may be rotated from a stopped state to a specific angle less than 180 degrees. While the drum is rotated, a laundry amount may be sensed based on a current value of a motor that rotates the drum. The laundry amount may be sensed simply and accurately.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2009Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sun Cheol Bae, Kyung Hoon Kim, Han Su Jung, Jae Hyeok Choi, Ja In Koo
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Patent number: 8256138Abstract: A method for controlling an automatic dryer is disclosed, which can determine a dryness level based on information relating the laundry by an initial average value of a sensing means, to thereby achieve stability and reliability in a drying process, the method comprising sensing whether the amount of laundry is small or large by using an average output value in a preset time period of an initial drying stage; detecting a saturation voltage generating point of the sensor; and performing a drying cycle based on each dryness level by using information for the amount of laundry and the saturation voltage generating point.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2006Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Ja In Koo, Sun Cheol Bae, Jin Seok Hu, Yang Hwan Kim
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Publication number: 20120210518Abstract: A control method of a washing machine determines the amount of laundry placed in a drum, verifies whether the measured amount of laundry is accurate, and sets control data in the washing machine based on the verified amount of laundry. Also the control method of the washing machine corrects control data set according to the amount of laundry based on kind of the laundry classified according to absorptance of the laundry.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2010Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Sun Cheol Bae, Ja In Koo, Jae Hyeok Choi, Han Su Jung, Kyung Hoon Kim
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Patent number: 8220093Abstract: The present invention relates to a washing machine and a method of controlling the washing machine. According to a washing machine and a method of controlling the washing machine in accordance with the present invention, a drum operates at a first speed so that part of the laundry tumbles within the drum and another part of the laundry adheres to the drum. The laundry amount within the drum is sensed during the first speed operation. Operation commands for driving the drum after the first speed operation are changed based on the sensed laundry amount. Accordingly, at the time of the dehydration cycle, stability of the washing machine and laundry balancing can be ensured.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sun Cheol Bae, Kyung Hoon Kim, Han Su Jung, Jae Hyeok Choi, Ja In Koo
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Patent number: 8151393Abstract: The present invention relates to a washing machine and a method of controlling a washing machine. According to the washing machine and the method of controlling the washing machine in accordance with the present invention, the drum is operated at a first speed so that laundry tumbles within the drum. A laundry amount within the drum during the first speed operation is sensed. The drum is driven at a second speed so that part of the laundry tumbles within the drum and another part of the laundry adheres to the drum. Operation commands for driving the drum subsequent to the first speed operation are changed based on the sensed laundry amount. Accordingly, at the time of a dehydration cycle, stability of the washing machine and laundry balancing can be ensured.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sun Cheol Bae, Kyung Hoon Kim, Han Su Jung, Jae Hyeok Choi, Ja In Koo
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Patent number: 8136264Abstract: An automatic dry control method is disclosed, enabling exact drying by stabilizing a detection value of a temperature sensor and performing an additional drying according to a first dryness achieving point at an automatic drying washer and a drum type dryer that determines dryness by using the temperature sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2004Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sun Cheol Bae, Dae Woong Kim, Chang Woo Son
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Patent number: 7975338Abstract: An automatic drying method is provided for a drum type washing machine and dryer having an upper temperature sensors A1 and a lower temperature sensor A2 mounted at upper and lower portions of an inside of a duct that is an air circulating passage for drying laundry respectively, for performing a drying cycle by using a difference of temperatures sensed at the upper temperature sensor A1 and the lower temperature sensor A2, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2009Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seung Myun Baek, Sun Cheol Bae, Chang Woo Son, Dae Woong Kim
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Patent number: 7926201Abstract: A clogging detecting apparatus for a dryer is provided that checks and displays a clogging degree of an air passage. The clogging detecting apparatus includes a judgment device for judging the clogging degree of the air passage, a storing device for storing the clogging degree of the air passage, and a display for displaying the clogging degree to the user. The clogging detecting apparatus provides information on the clogging degree, so that the user precisely checks the state of the air passage.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Ju-hyun Kim, Kyung-hun Kim, Sun-cheol Bae, Jin-seok Hu, Yang-hwan Kim, Ju-young Min, Ja-in Koo
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Patent number: 7925976Abstract: A refrigerator is provided having a user avatar display function which can store avatars of each user, identify users, and display the avatars corresponding to the identified users. The refrigerator includes a photographing device that photographs images of users, a storing device that stores user information for identifying the users and avatar information having avatars corresponding to the users and/or user information, a display that displays the avatars, and a controller that reads the user information, compares the user information with the images of the users photographed by the photographing device, reads the avatar information according to the comparison result, and displays the avatars of the users included in the read avatar information on the display.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2006Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jong-Min Shin, Sun-Cheol Bae, Su-Won Lee, Jae-Seng Sim, Eun-Jeong Kim, Eun-Young Park, Deok-Hyun Youn, Yong-Chol Kwon, Byung-Koo Kong, Ku-Young Son
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Patent number: 7900374Abstract: An automatic drying apparatus and a method of controlling the same is disclosed, enabling exact drying by using a humidity sensor (37) provided at a location having a stabilized output characteristic for automatic drying, the automatic drying apparatus including a heating apparatus (31) for heating air supplied into a drum into which a drying object is introduced, a fan (32) for forcibly drawing air into the drum; and a humidity sensor (37) provided between the fan (32) and the heating apparatus (37) such that a sensing surface is positioned to be parallel to a flowing direction of air passed through the fan (32), for outputting a sensing voltage value for determining dryness of the drying object.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2004Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sun Cheol Bae, Dae Woong Kim, Chang Woo Son
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Patent number: 7716935Abstract: Refrigerator for managing food by using RFID including a plurality of storage portions divided in the refrigerator for storing food, RFID devices each having storage information of each kind of food stored in the storage portions, and controller for reading the storage information and setting up the storage portion which maintains a storage condition suitable to the storage information read thus, thereby permitting easy storage of food in a storage portion having the storage condition by using the RFID device.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2006Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yong Tae Kim, Eun Jeong Kim, Jong Min Shin, Sun Cheol Bae, Ku Young Son, Yong Chol Kwon, Jae Seng Sim, Su Won Lee, Deok Hyun Youn, Byung Koo Kong, Eun Young Park
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Publication number: 20100037401Abstract: A washing machine and a method of controlling the washing machine may be provided. The washing machine may include a drum in which laundry are provided and rotated. A laundry amount may be sensed. The drum may operate at a first speed so that a part of the laundry tumbles within the drum and another part of the laundry adheres to the drum or the drum operates at a second speed so that the laundry adheres to the drum according to the sensed laundry amount. Accordingly, at a time of a dehydration cycle, stability of the washing machine and a laundry balancing can be ensured.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2009Publication date: February 18, 2010Inventors: Sun Cheol BAE, Kyung Hoon Kim, Han Su Jung, Jae Hyeok Choi, Ja In Koo