Patents by Inventor Tae Hwa Kim
Tae Hwa Kim 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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Publication number: 20240353446Abstract: A power module includes a first substrate and a second substrate; a semiconductor chip; a resistor electrically connecting the first substrate and the second substrate while being spaced from the semiconductor chip in the horizontal direction, the resistor including a resistance value greater than a resistance value of the metal layer; a first sensing lead connected to a first end portion of the resistor; and a second sensing lead connected to a second end portion of the resistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Tae Hwa KIM, Jin Myeong YANG, Je Hwan LEE
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Publication number: 20240355705Abstract: A power module includes a first board including an insulation layer, a first metal layer disposed on a first side of the insulation layer, and a second metal layer disposed on a second side of the insulation layer opposed to the first side of the insulation layer, a semiconductor chip disposed on the first metal layer, a heat dissipation plate connected to the second metal layer in a first direction, a housing connected to the heat dissipation plate to form an integral cooling channel therein, and a connecting body made of a clad metal in which a first material, which is connected to the heat dissipation plate and is disposed to face an inside of the cooling channel, and a second material, which is connected to the housing and is different from the first material, overlap each other in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2023Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Tae Hwa KIM
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Patent number: 12027439Abstract: A vehicle power module includes an upper substrate and a lower substrate spaced from each other in a vertical direction, a semiconductor chip connected to one of the upper substrate and the lower substrate, and a spacer formed of a metal material containing copper and connecting the semiconductor chip to the other of the upper substrate and the lower substrate or to connect the upper substrate to the lower substrate, the spacer including a plurality of penetration portions formed to penetrate an inside thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Tae Hwa Kim, Suk Hyun Lim, Nam Sik Kong
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Publication number: 20240120177Abstract: A substrate processing method is provided. The substrate processing method comprises loading a substrate onto a substrate support inside a chamber, forming a plasma inside the chamber, providing a first DC pulse signal to an electromagnet that generates a magnetic field inside the chamber and processing the substrate with the plasma, wherein the first DC pulse signal is repeated at a first period including a first section and a second section subsequent to the first section, the first DC pulse signal has a first level during the first section, and the first DC pulse signal has a second level different from the first level during the second section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Ji Mo LEE, Dong Hyeon NA, Myeong Soo SHIN, Woong Jin CHEON, Kyung-Sun KIM, Jae Bin KIM, Tae-Hwa KIM, Seung Bo SHIM
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Publication number: 20240077199Abstract: A light source module and an air conditioner including the light source module. The light source module includes: at least one light source emitting sterilizing light in a wavelength band capable of sterilizing pollutants; a substrate on which the light source is mounted, the substrate being electrically connected to the light source; and a light guide guiding a traveling direction of the sterilizing light emitted from the light source. The light guide may guide the sterilizing light such that a beam angle of the light source module becomes narrower than a beam angle of the light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Jae Hak JEONG, Ji Won KIM, Tae Hwa KIM
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Publication number: 20240071858Abstract: A vehicle power module includes an upper substrate and a lower substrate spaced from each other in a vertical direction, a semiconductor chip connected to one of the upper substrate and the lower substrate, and a spacer formed of a metal material containing copper and connecting the semiconductor chip to the other of the upper substrate and the lower substrate or to connect the upper substrate to the lower substrate, the spacer including a plurality of penetration portions formed to penetrate an inside thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Tae Hwa KIM, Suk Hyun LIM, Nam Sik KONG
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Publication number: 20230369275Abstract: In a soldering structure, a power module having the same, and a method for manufacturing the power module configured for constantly determining a height of a power module when the power module is manufactured, the soldering structure may include a soldering target portion; a metal layer including a bonding surface having a bonding region in which the soldering target portion is bonded by solder; and at least one wire located in the solder within the bonding region.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Tae Hwa KIM, Myung III YOU
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Publication number: 20230360996Abstract: A direct cooling type power module comprising, an enclosure filled with an insulating fluid, a power semiconductor device disposed inside the enclosure and a bonding unit comprising a porous layer, and a thermally conductive layer to which the power semiconductor device is bonded, and allowing the power semiconductor device to exchange heat with the insulating fluid by the porous layer and the thermally conductive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Suk Hyun LIM, Tae Hwa KIM
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Patent number: 11756915Abstract: In a soldering structure, a power module having the same, and a method for manufacturing the power module configured for constantly determining a height of a power module when the power module is manufactured, the soldering structure may include a soldering target portion; a metal layer including a bonding surface having a bonding region in which the soldering target portion is bonded by solder; and at least one wire located in the solder within the bonding region.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignees: Huyndai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Tae Hwa Kim, Myung Ill You
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Publication number: 20230282549Abstract: A power module for a vehicle includes: a circuit board including a circuit pattern; a semiconductor chip connected to a first side of the circuit board; a lead frame disposed on the circuit board as being spaced apart from the semiconductor chip, and electrically connected to the semiconductor chip; and a cooling channel coupled to a second side of the circuit board and inserted in and jointed to a coolant flow channel of a cooler.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2022Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Nam Sik KONG, Jun Hee PARK, Tae Hwa KIM
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Patent number: 11721613Abstract: A power module includes a power semiconductor device, a first power lead electrically connected to a first power terminal of the power semiconductor device, a second power lead disposed in parallel to the first power lead near the first power lead and electrically connected to a second power terminal of the power semiconductor device, and a conductive plate disposed to be spaced apart from the first power lead or the second power lead by a predetermined distance such that a region overlapping with the first power lead or the second power lead is formed.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Tae Hwa Kim, Myung Ill You, Jin Myeong Yang
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Publication number: 20220068769Abstract: A power module includes a power semiconductor device, a first power lead electrically connected to a first power terminal of the power semiconductor device, a second power lead disposed in parallel to the first power lead near the first power lead and electrically connected to a second power terminal of the power semiconductor device, and a conductive plate disposed to be spaced apart from the first power lead or the second power lead by a predetermined distance such that a region overlapping with the first power lead or the second power lead is formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Tae Hwa Kim, Myung Ill You, Jin Myeong Yang
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Publication number: 20210327842Abstract: In a soldering structure, a power module having the same, and a method for manufacturing the power module configured for constantly determining a height of a power module when the power module is manufactured, the soldering structure may include a soldering target portion; a metal layer including a bonding surface having a bonding region in which the soldering target portion is bonded by solder; and at least one wire located in the solder within the bonding region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicants: Huyndai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Tae Hwa KIM, Myung You, III
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Publication number: 20210265235Abstract: A double-sided cooling type power module according to the present invention includes: an upper substrate including an insulating layer, an upper metal layer bonded to a top of the insulating layer, and a lower metal layer bonded to a bottom of the insulating layer; a lower substrate disposed under the upper substrate and including an insulating layer, an upper metal layer bonded to a top of the insulating layer, and a lower metal layer bonded to a bottom of the insulating layer; a spacer disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate and electrically connecting the upper substrate and the lower substrate; and a semiconductor chip disposed between the spacer and the upper substrate or the lower substrate, in which the insulating layers are made of a material of which a coefficient of thermal expansion is 0.8 or more and 1.2 or less times of coefficients of thermal expansion of the metal layers of the upper substrate and the lower substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Jun Hee Park, Tae Hwa Kim, Hyeon Uk Kim
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Patent number: 11031314Abstract: A spacer structure, which connects an insulating substrate and a semiconductor chip of a double-sided-cooled power module, includes: a conductive material layer which is composed of a composite material; an underlying plating layer disposed on the conductive material layer; and a copper plating layer disposed on the underlying plating layer, in which the copper plating layer is in contact with a joining material that joins the spacer to the semiconductor chip and the insulating substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Sung-Won Park, Hyeon-Uk Kim, Tae-Hwa Kim, Jun-Hee Park, Hyun-Koo Lee
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Publication number: 20200357720Abstract: A spacer structure, which connects an insulating substrate and a semiconductor chip of a double-sided-cooled power module, includes: a conductive material layer which is composed of a composite material; an underlying plating layer disposed on the conductive material layer; and a copper plating layer disposed on the underlying plating layer, in which the copper plating layer is in contact with a joining material that joins the spacer to the semiconductor chip and the insulating substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Sung-Won PARK, Hyeon-Uk KIM, Tae-Hwa KIM, Jun-Hee PARK, Hyun-Koo LEE
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Patent number: 10497597Abstract: Disclosed are an electrostatic chuck assembly and a substrate processing apparatus including the same. The substrate processing apparatus comprises a process chamber including an inner space therein, a gas supply unit supplying a process gas into the process chamber, a top electrode section in the process chamber and generating plasma from the process gas, and an electrostatic chuck assembly below the top electrode section in the process chamber. The electrostatic chuck assembly comprises an electrostatic chuck supporting a substrate, a focus ring surrounding an upper portion of the electrostatic chuck, an electrode ring below the focus ring and including a different material from the focus ring, and a brazed bonding layer brazing the focus ring and the electrode ring together, the brazed bonding layer being between the focus ring and the electrode ring.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jaehyun Lee, Sangdong Kwon, Tae-Hwa Kim, Minjoon Park
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Publication number: 20190319998Abstract: A method of controlling a transmission rate in streaming image from an image transmission device to an image reception device having a system and at least one client includes: receiving, by the system, image information with a first transmission rate from an image transmission device; transmitting, by the system, client image information corresponding to the received image information to the at least one client; receiving, by the system, subsequent image information with a second transmission rate from the image transmission device; and transmitting, by the system, subsequent client image information corresponding to the received subsequent image information to the at least one client, wherein the second transmission rate is determined by the image transmission device based on feedback information provided by the system to the image transmission device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Young Cheul WEE, Tae Hwa Kim
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Publication number: 20180053661Abstract: Disclosed are a plasma etching apparatus and a method of manufacturing semiconductor devices using the same. The plasma etching apparatus includes a process chamber. A source supplier is positioned at an upper portion of the process chamber. The source supplier is configured to supply source gases for an etching process. A substrate holder is positioned at a lower portion of the process chamber opposite to the source supplier. The substrate holder is configured to support a substrate. A first power source is configured to apply a high frequency power to capacitively couple the source gases into a capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) in the process chamber. A second power source is configured to apply a low frequency pulse power at a low duty ratio of less than or equal to about 0.5:1. The low frequency pulse power is configured to guide the CCP toward the substrate supported by the substrate holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: MIN-JOON PARK, TAE-HWA KIM, JAE-HYUN LEE, SANG-DONG KWON
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Publication number: 20180053674Abstract: Disclosed are an electrostatic chuck assembly and a substrate processing apparatus including the same. The substrate processing apparatus comprises a process chamber including an inner space therein, a gas supply unit supplying a process gas into the process chamber, a top electrode section in the process chamber and generating plasma from the process gas, and an electrostatic chuck assembly below the top electrode section in the process chamber. The electrostatic chuck assembly comprises an electrostatic chuck supporting a substrate, a focus ring surrounding an upper portion of the electrostatic chuck, an electrode ring below the focus ring and including a different material from the focus ring, and a brazed bonding layer brazing the focus ring and the electrode ring together, the brazed bonding layer being between the focus ring and the electrode ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Jaehyun LEE, Sangdong KWON, Tae-Hwa KIM, Minjoon PARK