Patents by Inventor Young Bok Kim

Young Bok 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).

  • Patent number: 10984740
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display driving device. The display driving device may include: a buffer circuit including a positive output amplifier and a negative output amplifier; a switch circuit including output switches connected in series between the positive output amplifier and a first source output terminal, between the positive output amplifier and a second source output terminal, between the negative output amplifier and the first source output terminal, and between the negative output amplifier and the second source output terminal, respectively; and a reset circuit configured to reset output terminals of the positive output amplifier and the negative output amplifier to a middle voltage immediately before switching of the switch circuit for polarity inversion of the first and second source output terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Bok Kim, Hyun Kyu Jeon, Joon Ho Na
  • Patent number: 10941072
    Abstract: The disclosed fluorophosphate glasses for an active device include: a metaphosphate composition including Al(PO3)3; a fluoride composition including BaF2 and SrF2; and a dopant composed of ErF3 and YbF3, and have thermal and mechanical properties to be able to be used as a glass base material for an active device (e.g., optical fiber laser), have a high emission cross-section characteristic, have a reinforced upconversion and downconversion emission characteristic, and have high sensitivity S in a cryogenic environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: KOREA PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Ju Hyeon Choi, Jung Whan In, Yeon Hwang, Young Bok Kim
  • Publication number: 20210066692
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a separator and an electrochemical device including the same. The separator includes a porous coating layer formed on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate, wherein the porous coating layer includes, as a binder polymer, an amorphous adhesive binder polymer, and at least one fluorinated binder polymer. It is possible to provide a separator which shows low resistance and significantly improved adhesion to an electrode, and an electrochemical device including the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: So-Mi JEONG, Young-Bok KIM, Je-An LEE
  • Publication number: 20200358065
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a separator for electrochemical devices, configured to guarantee electrical insulation between a positive electrode and a negative electrode, wherein the separator includes no polyolefin substrate, and includes inorganic particles, a binder for coupling between the inorganic particles, and a crosslinking agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Min Ji KIM, Kwan Woo NAM, Kyung Ho AHN, Je An LEE, Young Bok KIM, Chul Haeng LEE, Jung Hoon LEE, Sol Ji PARK
  • Patent number: 10832606
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display driving device capable of determining whether a display panel is shorted, based on a voltage level shared by data lines. The display driving device may include: a data driving unit configured to provide source driving signals to data lines of a display panel in a data output period, and control the data lines to share charges in a charge sharing period; and a short monitoring unit configured to detect a voltage level shared in the charge sharing period, and compare the voltage level with a reference voltage that varies according to the voltage level to monitor whether the display panel is shorted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Bok Kim, Beom Rak Choi
  • Publication number: 20200335024
    Abstract: A display driving device includes sensing lines configured to sense pixel signals of a display panel; and a voltage limiter provided for each of the sensing lines. The voltage limiter senses a voltage variation of the sensing line, and limits a voltage level of the sensing line to a reference voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Bok Kim, Won Kim
  • Publication number: 20200287187
    Abstract: A method for improving physical properties of a separator in which is capable of increasing insulation, tensile strength and elongation. The separator also has improved physical properties through the above method. Particularly, the present invention is applied to a separator that has already manufactured. After forming a double bond in the separator that has already manufactured, crosslinking may be formed through the double bond or by adding a separate crosslinking initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Young Bok KIM, Min Ji KIM, Kwan Woo NAM, Je An LEE
  • Publication number: 20200274128
    Abstract: A flame retardant separator for secondary batteries having an asymmetric structure, and more particularly, a flame retardant separator for secondary batteries having an asymmetric structure in which a hydroxide-based inorganic flame retardant is coated on only a surface facing a positive electrode. The present invention provides a separator, which is capable of preventing the risk of lithium ions predominantly precipitated from a negative electrode in a lithium secondary battery, enhancing the flame retardant effect, and maintaining electrochemical properties in contrast with a conventional separator coated with inorganic matters, and a lithium secondary battery including the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Min Ji KIM, Kwan Woo NAM, Je An LEE, Young Bok KIM
  • Patent number: 10692418
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a low power driving system and timing controller for a display apparatus. The low power driving system may include: a timing controller configured to divide a display pattern into a static pattern and a dynamic pattern based on a difference between previous line data and current line data, and transmit a packet into which one of first option information corresponding to the static pattern and second option information corresponding to the dynamic pattern is applied; and a source driver configured to receive the packet, and perform a low power mode corresponding to the static pattern according to the first option information or perform adaptive charge sharing corresponding to the dynamic pattern according to the second option information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nam Seok Seo, Young Kwang Kim, Young Bok Kim, Hyun Mo Yang, Hae Won Lee, Ju Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10644706
    Abstract: A data and clock recovery circuit includes a first selecting circuit, a high speed phase detector, a low speed phase detector, a charge pump, a voltage control oscillator and a frequency divider. The high speed phase detector generates a first phase difference signal according to the first reference clock signal and a divided clock signal or according to the data signal and the divided clock signal. The low speed phase detector generates a second phase difference signal according to a second reference clock signal and the divided clock signal. The charge pump generates a control voltage according to the first phase difference signal or the second phase difference signal. The voltage control oscillator receives the control voltage, and generates a recovered clock signal. The frequency divider receives the recovered clock signal, and generates the divided clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Faraday Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Young-Bok Kim, Andrew Chao
  • Publication number: 20200002218
    Abstract: The disclosed fluorophosphate glasses for an active device include: a metaphosphate composition including Al(PO3)3; a fluoride composition including BaF2 and SrF2; and a dopant composed of ErF3 and YbF3, and have thermal and mechanical properties to be able to be used as a glass base material for an active device (e.g., optical fiber laser), have a high emission cross-section characteristic, have a reinforced upconversion and downconversion emission characteristic, and have high sensitivity S in a cryogenic environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Ju Hyeon CHOI, Jung Whan IN, Yeon HWANG, Young Bok KIM
  • Patent number: 10467948
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display driving device capable of reducing an output response delay of an output buffer. The display driving device may include: a first DAC configured to load a first grayscale voltage corresponding to first digital data as a first DAC signal; a second DAC configured to load a second grayscale voltage corresponding to second digital data as a second DAC signal; and an output buffer configured to alternately select the first DAC signal loaded to a first input terminal and the second DAC signal loaded to a second input terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Bok Kim, Taiming Piao, Hyun Kyu Jeon, Joon Ho Na
  • Publication number: 20190156716
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display driving device capable of determining whether a display panel is shorted, based on a voltage level shared by data lines. The display driving device may include: a data driving unit configured to provide source driving signals to data lines of a display panel in a data output period, and control the data lines to share charges in a charge sharing period; and a short monitoring unit configured to detect a voltage level shared in the charge sharing period, and compare the voltage level with a reference voltage that varies according to the voltage level to monitor whether the display panel is shorted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Bok KIM, Beom Rak CHOI
  • Patent number: 10297232
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and a source driver. The source driver may perform a power down mode in response to any one of a vertical blank period, a horizontal blank period, a state in which the load of a panel is maintained at a preset value or less, a state in which a current supplied to the panel is maintained at a preset value or less, or a state in which resolution is maintained at a preset value or less. The source driver can realize the power down mode using various power options, thereby reducing power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang Il Oh, Soo Woo Kim, Myung Yu Kim, Young Bok Kim
  • Patent number: 10204589
    Abstract: Disclosed are a source driver and a display device including the same. The source driver may include: an output buffer unit including a pair of output buffers controlled by a first power down signal and another pair of output buffers controlled by a second power down signal; and a charge sharing unit configured to control output buffers to share charge when the first or second power down signal is enabled, the output buffers being driven in the same driving range among the pair of output buffers and the other pair of output buffers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Bok Kim, Young Tae Kim, Joon Ho Na
  • Publication number: 20190043409
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a low power driving system and timing controller for a display apparatus. The low power driving system may include: a timing controller configured to divide a display pattern into a static pattern and a dynamic pattern based on a difference between previous line data and current line data, and transmit a packet into which one of first option information corresponding to the static pattern and second option information corresponding to the dynamic pattern is applied; and a source driver configured to receive the packet, and perform a low power mode corresponding to the static pattern according to the first option information or perform adaptive charge sharing corresponding to the dynamic pattern according to the second option information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nam Seok SEO, Young Kwang KIM, Young Bok KIM, Hyun Mo YANG, Hae Won LEE, Ju Ho LEE
  • Publication number: 20180122291
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display driving device capable of reducing an output response delay of an output buffer. The display driving device may include: a first DAC configured to load a first grayscale voltage corresponding to first digital data as a first DAC signal; a second DAC configured to load a second grayscale voltage corresponding to second digital data as a second DAC signal; and an output buffer configured to alternately select the first DAC signal loaded to a first input terminal and the second DAC signal loaded to a second input terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Bok Kim, Taiming Piao, Hyun Kyu Jeon, Joon Ho Na
  • Patent number: 9916807
    Abstract: An output circuit of a display driving device may include: an output buffer unit configured to buffer a pair of input signals having different polarities and output a pair of output signals; and a switching unit configured to transmit the pair of output signals to a pair of output terminals through a direct path or a cross path during an output period, and charge-share the pair of output terminals using a middle voltage of a pull-up voltage and a pull-down voltage of the output buffer unit during a charge-sharing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Bok Kim, Young Tae Kim, Joon Ho Na
  • Patent number: 9842560
    Abstract: Provided are a source driver and a display device. The source driver may include: a gamma voltage generation unit configured to select and provide one or more of the gamma voltages in response to a first power down signal; an output buffer unit configured to provide a data voltage to a output terminal in response to a second power down signal; and a selection unit configured to provide the gamma voltage to the output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Bok Kim, Young Tae Kim, Joon Ho Na
  • Publication number: 20170309217
    Abstract: A display driving device may include: a source driving channel configured to provide a source driving signal corresponding to image data; a precharge unit configured to precharge a data output line of the source driving channel by selecting one of precharge voltages; and a precharge controller configured to decide whether to perform a precharge operation on the source driving channel depending on a variation of the image data, and control the precharge unit to select one of the precharge voltages when the performance of the precharge operation is decided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Bok KIM, Hyun Kyu Jeon, Joon Ho Na