Patents by Inventor Tae-Pyeong Kim

Tae-Pyeong 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).

  • Publication number: 20250067798
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a monitoring circuit and a semiconductor device, and particularly, to a monitoring circuit including an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal having a rising characteristic or a falling characteristic according to a threshold voltage level and a counter configured to count the number of rises or the number of falls of the oscillation signal, and a semiconductor device including the monitoring circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventor: Tae-Pyeong KIM
  • Patent number: 12174247
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a monitoring circuit and a semiconductor device, and particularly, to a monitoring circuit including an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal having a rising characteristic or a falling characteristic according to a threshold voltage level and a counter configured to count the number of rises or the number of falls of the oscillation signal, and a semiconductor device including the monitoring circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Tae-Pyeong Kim
  • Publication number: 20240168086
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a monitoring circuit and a semiconductor device, and particularly, to a monitoring circuit including an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal having a rising characteristic or a falling characteristic according to a threshold voltage level and a counter configured to count the number of rises or the number of falls of the oscillation signal, and a semiconductor device including the monitoring circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventor: Tae-Pyeong KIM
  • Patent number: 11921153
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a monitoring circuit and a semiconductor device, and particularly, to a monitoring circuit including an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal having a rising characteristic or a falling characteristic according to a threshold voltage level and a counter configured to count the number of rises or the number of falls of the oscillation signal, and a semiconductor device including the monitoring circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Tae-Pyeong Kim
  • Publication number: 20230204658
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a monitoring circuit and a semiconductor device, and particularly, to a monitoring circuit including an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal having a rising characteristic or a falling characteristic according to a threshold voltage level and a counter configured to count the number of rises or the number of falls of the oscillation signal, and a semiconductor device including the monitoring circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventor: Tae-Pyeong KIM
  • Patent number: 11579188
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a monitoring circuit and a semiconductor device, and particularly, to a monitoring circuit including an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal having a rising characteristic or a falling characteristic according to a threshold voltage level and a counter configured to count the number of rises or the number of falls of the oscillation signal, and a semiconductor device including the monitoring circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Tae-Pyeong Kim
  • Patent number: 11550653
    Abstract: A method for operating a memory system includes: performing a first training operation for alignment between a clock and a data strobe signal; performing a second training operation for alignment between the data strobe signal and the data; detecting an error of the second training operation; and adjusting a delay value of the data strobe signal in response to the detection of the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Tae-Pyeong Kim, Jae-Woo Kim, Hyun-Jin Noh, Pyo-Young Han
  • Publication number: 20220188183
    Abstract: A method for operating a memory system includes: performing a first training operation for alignment between a clock and a data strobe signal; performing a second training operation for alignment between the data strobe signal and the data; detecting an error of the second training operation; and adjusting a delay value of the data strobe signal in response to the detection of the error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Tae-Pyeong KIM, Jae-Woo KIM, Hyun-Jin NOH, Pyo-Young HAN
  • Publication number: 20220170981
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a monitoring circuit and a semiconductor device, and particularly, to a monitoring circuit including an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal having a rising characteristic or a falling characteristic according to a threshold voltage level and a counter configured to count the number of rises or the number of falls of the oscillation signal, and a semiconductor device including the monitoring circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventor: Tae-Pyeong KIM
  • Patent number: 11307926
    Abstract: A method for operating a memory system includes: performing a first training operation for alignment between a clock and a data strobe signal; performing a second training operation for alignment between the data strobe signal and the data; detecting an error of the second training operation; and adjusting a delay value of the data strobe signal in response to the detection of the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Tae-Pyeong Kim, Jae-Woo Kim, Hyun-Jin Noh, Pyo-Young Han
  • Patent number: 11287469
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a monitoring circuit and a semiconductor device, and particularly, to a monitoring circuit including an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal having a rising characteristic or a falling characteristic according to a threshold voltage level and a counter configured to count the number of rises or the number of falls of the oscillation signal, and a semiconductor device including the monitoring circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Tae-Pyeong Kim
  • Publication number: 20210011076
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a monitoring circuit and a semiconductor device, and particularly, to a monitoring circuit including an oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal having a rising characteristic or a falling characteristic according to a threshold voltage level and a counter configured to count the number of rises or the number of falls of the oscillation signal, and a semiconductor device including the monitoring circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventor: Tae-Pyeong KIM
  • Patent number: 10804909
    Abstract: A locking detecting circuit of a Phase Locked Loop (PLL) circuit includes an output signal counter performing an output signal counting operation of counting an output signal of the PLL circuit during a counting time period, a period determiner performing a period changing operation of decreasing the counting time period until a difference between a current period counting value and a preceding period counting value becomes smaller than a threshold value, and a locking detector detecting a locking of the PLL circuit when the difference between the current period counting value and the preceding period counting value becomes smaller than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Tae-Pyeong Kim
  • Publication number: 20200201705
    Abstract: A method for operating a memory system includes: performing a first training operation for alignment between a clock and a data strobe signal; performing a second training operation for alignment between the data strobe signal and the data; detecting an error of the second training operation; and adjusting a delay value of the data strobe signal in response to the detection of the error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Tae-Pyeong KIM, Jae-Woo KIM, Hyun-Jin NOH, Pyo-Young HAN
  • Publication number: 20190363720
    Abstract: A synchronization circuit may include: a variable delay circuit configured to delay a first clock signal by a varied delay time according to delay control signals, and configured to output a delayed signal of the variable delay circuit as a second clock signal; a phase detector configured to generate a phase detection signal by detecting a phase difference between the first and second clock signals; and a delay control circuit configured to perform a phase unstable period detection operation according to the phase detection signal, and configured to perform a delay skip operation to adjust the delay control signals such that a phase unstable period, detected in the phase unstable period detection operation, is skipped in a delay time tuning operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Tae Pyeong KIM
  • Patent number: 10483988
    Abstract: A synchronization circuit may include: a variable delay circuit configured to delay a first clock signal by a varied delay time according to delay control signals, and configured to output a delayed signal of the variable delay circuit as a second clock signal; a phase detector configured to generate a phase detection signal by detecting a phase difference between the first and second clock signals; and a delay control circuit configured to perform a phase unstable period detection operation according to the phase detection signal, and configured to perform a delay skip operation to adjust the delay control signals such that a phase unstable period, detected in the phase unstable period detection operation, is skipped in a delay time tuning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Tae Pyeong Kim
  • Patent number: 10386348
    Abstract: A method for measuring an odor in an olfactory sensing device is provided. The method includes sensing an odor using at least one odor sensor, estimating a current temperature using a temperature count coefficient of a monitor sensor, calculating an odor count coefficient variation for the at least one sensor, and measuring the odor by applying a temperature count coefficient variation corresponding to a temperature change to the odor count coefficient variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tae-Pyeong Kim, Si-Hoon Lee, Farah Alnaimi
  • Patent number: 9709540
    Abstract: A cover device including: a rear cover; a front cover rotatable with respect to the rear cover; and an odor detection module mounted to the front cover. The cover device enables miniaturization of an odor detector and ensures portability of an electronic device even through the odor detector is connected to the electronic device, and enhances the outward appearances of the electronic device, and an electronic device having the cover device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Si-Hoon Lee, Tae-Pyeong Kim, Farah Alnaimi
  • Publication number: 20150338385
    Abstract: A cover device including: a rear cover; a front cover rotatable with respect to the rear cover; and an odor detection module mounted to the front cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Si-Hoon LEE, Tae-Pyeong KIM, Farah ALNAIMI
  • Publication number: 20150308996
    Abstract: A method for measuring an odor in an olfactory sensing device is provided. The method includes sensing an odor using at least one odor sensor, estimating a current temperature using a temperature count coefficient of a monitor sensor, calculating an odor count coefficient variation for the at least one sensor, and measuring the odor by applying a temperature count coefficient variation corresponding to a temperature change to the odor count coefficient variation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Tae-Pyeong KIM, Si-Hoon LEE, Farah ALNAIMI