Patents by Inventor Tae Wook Lee

Tae Wook Lee 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: 20120042330
    Abstract: The disk clamp apparatus and a spindle motor having the same according to the present invention has an industrial applicability in that a radial force of a claw on a disk is greater than a radial force of an arm to the disk to prevent the radial force of the arm applying to the disk from affecting the disk, whereby matched center of the clamp body with a center of the disk by the law is not affected by an arm, such that the center of the disk comes to have a relatively smaller deviation from the center and to thereby enhance the reliability of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 8091099
    Abstract: Provided is a spindle motor having a clamping device. The spindle motor includes a bearing housing disposed on a base, a rotation shall rotatably supported by a bearing in the bearing housing, a stator coupled to the bearing housing, a bush directly coupled to the rotation shaft exposed from an upper portion of the bearing housing, a rotor yoke directly coupled to the bush, a magnet fixed on an inner circumference of the rotor yoke, and a clamping device disposed on the rotor yoke. The clamping device includes a body, a stopper, a weight, and an elastic member. The stopper is coupled to the body. The weight is coupled to the stopper. The elastic member elastically supports the stopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 8089186
    Abstract: A spindle motor is provided. The spindle motor includes a base, a bearing housing, a bearing, a rotation shaft, a stator, a bushing, and a rotor. The bearing housing is installed on the base. The bearing is fixed inside the bearing housing. The rotation shaft is installed to be supported by and rotate on the bearing. The stator is disposed around the bearing housing. The bushing is coupled to the rotation shaft. The rotor is coupled to the bushing to rotate through interaction with the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 8076806
    Abstract: A spindle motor is provided. The spindle motor includes a base, a bearing housing, a bearing, a rotation shaft, a stator, a bushing, and a rotor. The bearing housing is installed on the base. The bearing is fixed inside the bearing housing. The rotation shaft is installed to be supported by and rotate on the bearing. The stator is disposed around the bearing housing. The bushing is coupled to the rotation shaft. The rotor is coupled to the bushing to rotate through interaction with the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 8065693
    Abstract: Provided is a clamping device of a spindle motor including a body, a stopper, a weight, and an elastic member. The stopper is coupled to the body. The weight is coupled to the stopper. The elastic member elastically supports the stopper. According to one embodiment, at least a portion of each stopper is coated with a material having a specific gravity higher than the specific gravity of the body. This material provides the weight coupled to the stopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Wook Lee
  • Publication number: 20110148950
    Abstract: A backlight driving apparatus of a liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus including a master trans and a slave trans for supplying a current to a plurality of lamps, and a master driver and a slave driver for driving the lamps, includes an operated condition unit that converts an AC voltage generated in accordance with a phase difference between a master AC voltage and a slave AC voltage fed back from the master trans and the slave trans, respectively, into an analog DC voltage; a protect controller that determines an error is generated during an operation of the lamps using the analog DC voltage and outputs an operating error signal when an error is generated; and a lamp driving controller that stops driving the master driver and the slave driver in response to the operating error signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventor: Tae Wook Lee
  • Publication number: 20110095631
    Abstract: A spindle motor is provided. The spindle motor includes a base, a bearing housing, a bearing, a rotation shaft, a stator, a bushing, and a rotor. The bearing housing is installed on the base. The bearing is fixed inside the bearing housing. The rotation shaft is installed to be supported by and rotate on the bearing. The stator is disposed around the bearing housing. The bushing is coupled to the rotation shaft. The rotor is coupled to the bushing to rotate through interaction with the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tae Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 7915774
    Abstract: A spindle motor is provided. The spindle motor includes a base, a bearing housing, a bearing, a rotation shaft, a stator, a bushing, and a rotor. The bearing housing is installed on the base. The bearing is fixed inside the bearing housing. The rotation shaft is installed to be supported by and rotate on the bearing. The stator is disposed around the bearing housing. The bushing is coupled to the rotation shaft. The rotor is coupled to the bushing to rotate through interaction with the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 7911440
    Abstract: A backlight driving apparatus of a liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus including a master trans and a slave trans for supplying a current to a plurality of lamps, and a master driver and a slave driver for driving the lamps, includes an operated condition unit that converts an AC voltage generated in accordance with a phase difference between a master AC voltage and a slave AC voltage fed back from the master trans and the slave trans, respectively, into an analog DC voltage; a protect controller that determines an error is generated during an operation of the lamps using the analog DC voltage and outputs an operating error signal when an error is generated; and a lamp driving controller that stops driving the master driver and the slave driver in response to the operating error signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Wook Lee
  • Publication number: 20100299686
    Abstract: Provided is a clamping device of a spindle motor including a body, a stopper, a weight, and an elastic member. The stopper is coupled to the body. The weight is coupled to the stopper. The elastic member elastically supports the stopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventor: Tae Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 7830054
    Abstract: A spindle motor, obtaining more accurate shaft perpendicularity and more convenient assembling process, is disclosed, the spindle motor includes: a rotor; a bearing housing into which the rotor is inserted; a base plate fixing the bearing housing; a housing guide fixed to the base plate, the housing guide having at least one vertical portion guiding an outer surface of the bearing housing; a printed circuit board mounted on the base plate; and a stator coupled to an outer surface of the bearing housing and supplied with power from the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Wook Lee
  • Publication number: 20100264767
    Abstract: Provided is a sintered bearing with oil for a spindle motor. The bearing is characterized in that at least one portion of upper and lower sides of the bearing is denser than other portions of the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Chung Hyun Song, Tae Wook Lee
  • Publication number: 20100259116
    Abstract: A spindle motor is provided. The spindle motor includes a base, a bearing housing, a bearing, a rotation shaft, a stator, a bushing, and a rotor. The bearing housing is installed on the base. The bearing is fixed inside the bearing housing. The rotation shaft is installed to be supported by and rotate on the bearing. The stator is disposed around the bearing housing. The bushing is coupled to the rotation shaft. The rotor is coupled to the bushing to rotate through interaction with the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Inventor: Tae Wook Lee
  • Publication number: 20100128178
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for supporting a Hot Plug Detect (HPD) function in a portable terminal using High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) are provided. The apparatus includes an HPD unit for generating an HPD signal using an operation voltage of a first modem upon connecting to a display apparatus through an HDMI cable, the first modem for enabling a second modem upon detecting the HPD signal, and the second modem for outputting video data upon being enabled by the first modem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Ha-Jung YUN, Hae-Jun AN, Tae-Wook LEE
  • Publication number: 20100060555
    Abstract: An LCD device adapted to apply an optimized luminance in correspondence with a brightness of each divisional region of image is disclosed. The LCD device uses dimming curves, which are provided differently from each other, for divisional regions which are divided from one frame and have different pixel numbers. Therefore, the LCD device can a luminance optimized to a brightness of each divisional region of image, thereby preventing a luminance mismatching phenomenon and a luminance nullity phenomenon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Tae Wook Lee, Ji Kyoung Kim
  • Publication number: 20090273558
    Abstract: A backlight driving circuit and a method for driving the same, which are capable of preventing a flicker phenomenon and delay of response, are disclosed. The backlight driving circuit includes a selective filtering unit for comparing dimming signals currently supplied for a current frame with dimming signals previously stored for a previous frame, to determine how abruptly an image of the current frame has varied from an image of the previous frame, and outputting the dimming signals for the current frame after modulating duty ratios of the dimming signals for the current frame selectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventor: Tae Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 7603079
    Abstract: A digital broadcasting data reception unit receives digital broadcasting data. A multimedia module parses the digital broadcasting data into video and audio data to output the video and audio data. A terminal control unit receives the digital broadcasting data from the digital broadcasting data reception unit when it is transmitted to the multimedia module, and parses the received digital broadcasting data into the video and audio data. A memory unit stores the video and audio data into which the digital broadcasting data is parsed by the terminal control unit according to a control operation of the terminal control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tae-Wook Lee, Sung-Gu Kim, Yong-Chul Yoon, Jong-Min Lee, Bong-Seok Choi
  • Publication number: 20090072646
    Abstract: A spindle motor is provided. The spindle motor includes a base, a bearing housing, a bearing, a rotation shaft, a stator, a bushing, and a rotor. The bearing housing is installed on the base. The bearing is fixed inside the bearing housing. The rotation shaft is installed to be supported by and rotate on the bearing. The stator is disposed around the bearing housing. The bushing is coupled to the rotation shaft. The rotor is coupled to the bushing to rotate through interaction with the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventor: Tae Wook Lee
  • Patent number: 7489311
    Abstract: A driving circuit system for a stereoscopic image display device including a central controlling unit outputting control signals and selection signals according to command signals of an external device, a signal-generating unit outputting driving signals according to the control signals, an output signal-controlling unit receiving the driving signals and outputting the driving signals selected according to the selection signals to a light controlling unit of the stereoscopic image display device, and a connector unit connecting the external device and the light controlling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae-Wook Lee
  • Publication number: 20080225434
    Abstract: Provided is a clamping device of a spindle motor including a body, a stopper, a weight, and an elastic member. The stopper is coupled to the body. The weight is coupled to the stopper. The elastic member elastically supports the stopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventor: TAE WOOK LEE