Patents Assigned to Coavis
  • Patent number: 10773728
    Abstract: Provided are a signal processing system and a signal processing method for sensors of a vehicle. More particularly, the signal processing system includes: a vehicle sensor unit 100 including the plurality of sensors previously provided in the vehicle and transmitting sensing information acquired through the sensors; an arithmetic and control unit 200 receiving sensing information from the vehicle sensor unit 100, and comparing and analyzing the received sensing information to discriminate only normal sensing information from the sensing information and set and transmit the normal sensing information as output information; and a display unit 300 including a plurality of displays previously provided in the vehicle, transmitting the output information received from the arithmetic and control unit 200 to the matched display of the plurality of displays, and outputting the output information through the matched display of the plurality of displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Young Sub Jang, In Seok Sohn
  • Patent number: 10634532
    Abstract: Provided are a system and a method for optimizing driving of an ultrasonic sensor. The system for optimizing driving of an ultrasonic sensor includes: an ultrasonic sensor unit provided on an inner bottom surface of a fuel tank for a vehicle and obtaining a time of flight (TOF) for calculating a distance from the inner bottom surface of the fuel tank to a fuel surface; and a central processing unit calculating liquid level information of the fuel tank using the TOF transferred from the ultrasonic sensor unit and controlling a driving voltage of the ultrasonic sensor unit using the liquid level information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Se Jin Kim, In Gon Kim, Jong Hyuk Yoon
  • Patent number: 10605645
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel tank for a vehicle in which a fuel measure bar provided in a vertical direction in a fuel storing body in which a fuel combusted in an engine is stored and capable of measuring a fuel amount using an ultrasonic wave includes a first fuel measure bar fixed to a bottom surface of the fuel storing body and a second fuel measuring bar easily coupled to the first fuel measuring bar to easily enter the fuel storing body and exit from the fuel storing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: In Gon Kim, Se Jin Kim, Jong Hyuk Yoon
  • Patent number: 10605644
    Abstract: Provided is a complementary apparatus for measuring a level of urea water includes an ultrasonic measurement unit installed inside a urea water tank to measure a level of urea water using an ultrasonic wave, an inductance measurement unit including a winding coil wound in a vertical direction inside the urea water tank and having a winding density varied toward one side, and measuring a level of urea water using inductance measured as a current is applied to the winding coil, a temperature measurement unit installed in the urea water tank and measuring a temperature, and a controller determining whether to operate the ultrasonic measurement unit or the inductance measurement unit according to the temperature measured by the temperature measurement unit or selectively outputting a level of urea water measured by the ultrasonic measurement unit and the inductance measurement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Dong Heon Mo, Jin Hwa Jung, In Seok Sohn, Hyun Tae Lee
  • Patent number: 10598065
    Abstract: Provided is a urea solution pump module including: a flange portion coupled to cover an opened mounting hole of a urea solution tank; a pump disposed near an upper surface of the flange portion; a filter formed to surround the pump, disposed to be spaced apart from the pump, and coupled to the flange portion; an internal heater disposed between the pump and the filter and coupled to the flange portion; and a first fin having one side connected to the internal heater and the other side disposed near the pump. If the urea solution received in the urea solution tank is frozen, the pump and the urea solution frozen around the pump may be quickly and efficiently thawed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Tae Hoon Lee, Ji Ho Jung, Jong Hyuk Yoon, Yong Soo Jeon
  • Patent number: 10598538
    Abstract: Provided are a system and a method for measuring a liquid level of a vehicle fuel tank, and more particularly, to a system for measuring a liquid level of a vehicle fuel tank including an ultrasonic sensor unit provided on a bottom surface in the vehicle fuel tank to acquire measurement data for calculating a distance from the bottom surface in the fuel tank to a fuel surface and a central processing unit using the measurement data transmitted from the ultrasonic sensor unit by a preset number of times for a preset time to calculate liquid level information of the fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Se Jin Kim, In Gon Kim, Jong Hyuk Yoon
  • Patent number: 10533888
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel pump module for measuring a height of fuel using an ultrasonic wave, and more particularly, a fuel pump module for measuring a height of fuel using an ultrasonic wave, where an ultrasonic wave sensor for measuring the height of the fuel contained in a fuel tank is integrally installed in the fuel pump module provided in the fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Jong Hyuk Yoon, Se Jin Kim, In Gon Kim
  • Patent number: 10498187
    Abstract: Provided is a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor applied to a fuel pump for a motor vehicle, and more particularly, a BLDC motor of a fuel pump for a motor vehicle in which an end of a shaft of a rotor is coupled to a stator side to be rotated such that a length of the shaft is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Wan Sung Pae, Hyun Tae Lee, Jin Woo Han
  • Patent number: 10483883
    Abstract: Provided is driving control method of Brushless DC (BLDC) motor, including: a step of initial driving command input, initially inputting a driving command to the BLDC motor; a step of the first position alignment, compulsively aligning rotor of the BLDC motor at a predetermined position; a step of forced driving, compulsively driving the rotor of the BLDC motor compulsively aligned by accelerating the rotor of the BLDC motor; a step of feedback control, performing feedback control of the BLDC motor; a step of driving off, inputting a stop command to the BLDC motor; and a step of the second position alignment, compulsively aligning the rotor of the BLDC motor at the predetermined position again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Suk Min Yoon, Young Sub Jang
  • Patent number: 10447121
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel pump for vehicle supplying power to a commutator and an armature through a brush to prevent the brush from shake, which comprises the brush, a spring mounted on a top of the brush, the commutator contacted to a bottom of the brush, a brush holder surrounding the brush and the spring, and a first hole formed for fuel flow at a front side of the brush holder in a rotational direction of the commutator based on the brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Hyun Tae Lee, Gyu Sang Yu, In Seok Sohn
  • Patent number: 10436161
    Abstract: Provided is a strainer including: a filter paper filtering fuel and having a space part disposed therein; an inner rib disposed inside the filter paper; protruding parts protruding up and down from the inner rib to be disposed inside the filter paper; and a communicating pipe combined with the filter paper to communicate with the space part. The filter paper and the inner rib are partially folded up longitudinally. The folded portion is formed in a rounded form, and the upper and lower portions of the filter paper are formed not to contact each other at the folded portion. Widths of the protruding parts are each formed differently and distances between the protruding parts are each formed differently. The width and the distance are more narrowly formed at the portion at which the filter paper is folded than at the portion at which the filter paper is not folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Jeong Sik Kim, Woo Keun Lee, Du Hyun Kim, Eun Ju Lee
  • Patent number: 10197432
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid level sensor for a fuel tank including: a case having a filled liquid filled therein and closed; a resistor substrate provided in the case and a wiper contacting the resistor substrate; and a damper provided in the case and absorbing a pressure change of an inner portion of the case. The liquid level sensor for a fuel tank is configured to absorb a pressure change of the inner portion of the case, thereby making it possible to prevent leakage of the filled liquid that may occur due to the pressure change of the inner portion of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Dong Heon Mo, Hae Seong Kim
  • Patent number: 10145341
    Abstract: Provided are a strainer and a fuel pump module having the same, and more particularly, a strainer capable of preventing filter paper from stopping since the filter paper contacts each other at a portion at which the strainer is folded, in the strainer connected to an inlet of a fuel pump or a fuel pump module to filter fuel sucked thereinto, and a fuel pump module having the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Jeong Sik Kim, Woo Keun Lee, Du Hyun Kim, Eun Ju Lee
  • Patent number: 10119509
    Abstract: A multi-stage fuel pump includes a casing having a fuel intake formed on one side thereof and a fuel discharge port formed on the other side thereof, and a plurality of impellers provided within the casing, having a plurality of blades disposed on a circumferential surface in an outward direction of the circumferential surface and having blade chambers formed between the blades and penetrating through upper and lower surfaces of the impellers to allow fuel to be discharged and introduced to and from upper and lower sides of the blades, and formed in multiple stages, wherein fuel intaken through the fuel intake according to rotation of the impellers is discharged to the fuel discharge port through the blade chambers of the impellers, and the numbers of the blades of each of the impellers are different, thereby reducing blade passage frequency (BPF) noise generated according to rotation of the impellers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Gyu Sang Yu, Won Young Choi, In Seok Sohn
  • Patent number: 10020696
    Abstract: Provided is a DC motor for a fuel pump for a vehicle. The DC motor for a fuel pump for a vehicle includes: a housing whose inside is hollow; a stator coupled to the inside of the housing and having a first permanent magnet whose N pole is disposed inwardly in a radial direction and a second permanent magnet whose S pole is disposed inwardly in a radial direction, the first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet being spaced apart from each other to face each other; and a rotor disposed on an inside of the stator while being spaced apart from the stator, in which a first gap g1 between the first permanent magnet and the rotor is different from a second gap g2 between the second permanent magnet and the rotor, whereby a torque ripple that is a fluctuation width of a cogging torque is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Gyu Sang Yu, Hyun Tae Lee, Wan Sung Pae
  • Patent number: 9581473
    Abstract: The following disclosure relates to a flow rate measuring device and method capable of correcting a gradient. More particularly, the following disclosure relates to a flow rate measuring device and method capable of correcting a gradient that may measure a flow rate having a minimized measurement error by including a sensor unit provided on a bottom surface of an inner portion of a fuel tank in order to accurately measure a flow rate value remaining in the fuel tank to obtain distance information between the bottom surface of the fuel tank and an oil surface and gradient information of the fuel tank itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Suk Min Yoon, Young Sub Jang, Se Jin Kim, In Gon Kim, In Seok Sohn
  • Patent number: 9576715
    Abstract: Provided is a device for magnetizing a ring-shaped magnet for a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor, including: a rotor having a ring-shaped magnet installed on an outer peripheral surface of a rotor core; and a plurality of magnetizing yokes disposed so as to be spaced apart from each other by a predetermined interval while facing an outer peripheral surface of the ring-shaped magnet, magnetizing the ring-shaped magnet to form even-numbered unit magnets, and magnetizing the ring-shaped magnet only in regions except for one end and the other end of the unit magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Seong Hwan Moon, Wan Sung Pae, In Seok Sohn
  • Patent number: 9546666
    Abstract: Provided is an impeller for a fuel pump of a vehicle capable of decreasing a magnitude of high frequency fluid noise due to high speed rotation of the impeller by upper and lower blades of impeller blades positioned between upper and lower casings of the fuel pump and coupled to a shaft of a driving motor to deliver a fuel by rotational force so as to have asymmetrical angles based on the center of a thickness of an impeller body in sucking the fuel from a fuel tank and supplying the fuel to an engine of an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Bong Ju Lee, Hyun Tae Lee, Seong Hwan Moon, Mun Sik Jeon, In Seok Sohn
  • Patent number: 9441585
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for fixing a reservoir body assembly of a fuel pump module into a fuel tank. The apparatus includes: a fixed retainer fixed into the fuel tank to be integrated with the fuel tank; and a moving coupled retainer coupled with the fixed retainer in a state in which a reservoir body assembly pumping fuel in the fuel tank is disposed at an assembling location with the fixed retainer to mount the reservoir body assembly so as to fix the reservoir body assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Jong Keun Lim, Joon Sup Kim, Chan Heum Yoon, Tae Hoon Lee, Yong Hwan Choi
  • Patent number: 9151257
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel pump module for supplying diesel fuel. The fuel pump module in accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention is configured to include a flange assembly fixed to an inlet of a fuel tank and a reservoir body assembly disposed in the fuel tank, wherein the reservoir body assembly includes: a filter that removes foreign objects included in the diesel fuel; a fuel pump that forcibly circulates the diesel fuel passing through the filter to a diesel engine; and a pump connection return passage that supplies fuel toward a diesel engine through a supply line of fuel but supplies the diesel fuel that is returned without being consumed by the diesel engine between the filter and the fuel pump to supply the fuel to the fuel pump without passing through the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Munsik Jeon, Chanheum Yoon, Dong-Heon Mo