Patents Assigned to Hyundai Motors Company
  • Patent number: 12005913
    Abstract: A method of controlling vehicle driving, when a plurality of occupants is in the vehicle, by implementing components required for vehicle driving control as holographic images to ensure a maximum space in an autonomous vehicle, may include steps of requesting, by a first occupant currently having no driving control authority, a transfer of the authority by use of a holographic image, accepting, by a second occupant currently having the driving control authority, the transfer of the authority by use of the holographic image, selecting, by the first occupant, a mode by use of the holographic image based on the acceptance by the second occupant, and performing vehicle control in accordance with the mode selected by the first occupant, and the holographic images in the respective steps are displayed to the occupants wearing an HMD device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Myung-Ki Yeom, In-Su Kim
  • Patent number: 12007018
    Abstract: A hydraulic pressure control method for a vehicle transmission includes accumulating factors representing vehicle usage, accumulating factors representing driver's driving tendency, calculating a first line pressure compensation value according to the usage depending on the accumulated values of the factors representing the vehicle usage, calculating a second line pressure compensation value according to the driver's driving tendency depending on the accumulated values of the factors representing the driver's driving tendency, determining a final line pressure by adding the first and second line pressure compensation values according to the usage and the driver's driving tendency to a basic line pressure, and operating a transmission hydraulic system according to the final line pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Young Hwang, Bong Uk Bae, Ki Bum Kim, Se Hwan Jo, Seong Min Son
  • Patent number: 12009703
    Abstract: A rotor-cooling structure is for a drive motor including an inner shaft, a rotor shaft surrounding the inner shaft, a rotor connected to the rotor shaft, and a stator disposed to be spaced apart from the rotor. The rotor-cooling structure includes: a first flow passage formed in the inner shaft; a second flow passage formed in the rotor shaft to receive oil through the first flow passage; a third flow passage formed in a plate disposed at an end of a rotor core, constituting the rotor, to be connected to the second flow passage; and a fourth flow passage formed to be connected to the third flow passage and to penetrate the rotor core in the direction in which core plates constituting the rotor core are stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hong Seok Yang, Tae Ho Kim, Jae Won Ha, Jae Young Choi
  • Patent number: 12006053
    Abstract: A hybrid air mobility vehicle can make a long-distance flight through an efficient operation of an engine and a battery, and can reduce discomfort by reducing noise according to flight surroundings. The hybrid air mobility vehicle includes: an engine and a generator; a battery and a drive motor electrically connected to the generator; a first propeller connected to the drive motor and a second propeller connected to the generator through a clutch; and a controller that controls driving of the engine, the clutch, and the drive motor, based on a flight factor including at least one of a flight mode, a required power, a battery charging amount, or a surrounding flight environment of the hybrid air mobility vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hee Kwang Lee, Hyun Seok Hong, Woo Suk Jung, Keun Seok Lee, Hyun Woo Jun
  • Patent number: 12005847
    Abstract: A vehicle for protecting passengers of the vehicles includes a plurality of passenger protecting apparatuses; first sensors obtaining passenger information related to the passengers of the vehicle; second sensors obtaining vehicle motion information in a situation of a collision of the vehicle with another object; and a processor operatively connected to the passenger protecting apparatuses, the first sensors and the second sensors, and the processor estimates passenger behavior information in the situation of the collision based on the obtained passenger information and the obtained vehicle motion information; and controls operation of at least one of the plurality of passenger protecting apparatuses based on the estimated passenger behavior information; and the passenger information may include at least one of state information on a seat of the passenger and information on whether the passenger is wearing a belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sung Wook Lee, Sung Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 12009500
    Abstract: A power net system of a fuel cell and a method for controlling the same are provided. The power net system includes: a fuel cell to generate electric power through a reaction of a fuel gas and an oxidation gas; batteries to be charged by the electric power generated by the fuel cell or discharged to supply electric power; main lines electrically connecting the fuel cell and the batteries; main relays provided in the main lines to open or allow electrical connections between the fuel cell and the batteries; COD lines branched from the main lines between the fuel cell and the main relays and provided with a COD device to consume input electric power; COD relays provided in the COD lines to open or allow electrical connections to the COD device through the COD lines; and a controller to control the main relays or the COD relays to supply electric power charged in the batteries to the fuel cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jong Hyun Lee, Ju Han Kim
  • Patent number: 12007767
    Abstract: An automated valet parking method includes receiving, by a vehicle, a vehicle return request, receiving, from an infrastructure, a guide route that guides the vehicle from a current parking position to a pickup area to the vehicle, leaving, by the vehicle, the current parking position based on the guide route, autonomously travelling, by the vehicle, to the pickup area along the guide route, and arriving, by the vehicle, at the pickup area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kyung Ho Yoo
  • Patent number: 12005979
    Abstract: A vehicle platform for a vehicle is provided. The platform includes a platform base extending in a longitudinal direction, and a loading system for laterally loading and unloading an upper body structure onto the platform base. The loading system includes first and second fork arms supporting the upper body structure with respect to a vertical direction, and a lifting mechanism coupled to the platform base and the first and second fork arms. The lifting mechanism moves the first and second fork arms relative to the platform base along the vertical direction. The first and second fork arms are spaced apart in the longitudinal direction and each are movable along a lateral direction between a retracted position, in which the fork arms completely overlap with the platform base, and an extended position, in which the fork arms protrude in the lateral direction from a lateral side of the platform base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Bahman Moarefi, Andrew Vaughan, Vincent Laurent, Miroslav Kropac, Jelle Tjebbes, Sebastian Kluh, Ameya Karmarkar, Rolf Verhoeven, Kadir Oguzcan Ger
  • Patent number: 12009536
    Abstract: A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells stacked on each other in a first direction and forming a stacked structure; a pair of end plates in surface contact with a first and a second ends of the stacked structure in the first direction; a pair of bus bar assemblies disposed at the first and second ends of the stacked structure in a second direction and bonding electrodes of the battery cells; a first cover covering a surface of the stacked structure in a third direction; a first clamp including a first and a second ends respectively bonded to the pair of end plates across an outer surface of the first cover; and a second clamp including a first and a second ends respectively bonded to the pair of end plates across a surface, facing a surface on which the first cover is disposed, of the stacked structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Tae Hyuck Kim, Yun Ho Kim, In Gook Son, Jong Wook Lee, Yeon Man Jeong
  • Patent number: 12010767
    Abstract: A glass plate according to the present disclosure includes: a coated area and an uncoated area; a heating layer that is coated on the coated area and includes a conductive material generating heat by receiving power; and two bus bars that extend along an extension direction, that are electrically connected to the heating layer to supply the power to the heating layer, and that are spaced apart from each other along a reference direction orthogonal to the extension direction. The uncoated area includes a plurality of uncoated lines having a length along the reference direction and formed as a single line bent at least once. The plurality of uncoated lines is disposed to be spaced apart along the extension direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, KCC Glass Corporation
    Inventors: Jong Min Park, Nak Kyoung Kong, Jang Suk Hong, Chan Hee Park, Yong Jin Kong
  • Patent number: 12005980
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for supporting a component part in an automated line. The apparatus includes two or more process stations disposed along a component part transport path, a plurality of component part supporting units installed on each of the process stations to be movable to a position depending on a type of the component part, and a component part transport unit installed to be movable forward and backward along the component part transport path and configured to transport the component part to each of the process stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Sung Il Jung, Sungchul Yang
  • Patent number: 12005838
    Abstract: A mount base for a rearview mirror includes: a base body including a first material; and an insert embedded in the base body and including a second material. The base body has a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, the insert has a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, the first material is softer than the second material, and the second material has higher stiffness than the first material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, JAE HWA INDUSTRY CO., LTD, HANKUK SEKURIT LTD.
    Inventors: Gi Heon Jeong, Tae Soo Jung, Ju Hee Park, Nam Sup Kim
  • Patent number: 12009168
    Abstract: A vehicle and a method of controlling the vehicle are provided. The method of controlling the vehicle includes detecting, by an excitation voltage computational measuring device, an excitation voltage applied to an excitation coil of a relay provided to regulate power supply of a battery; calculating, by a logical determination device, a temperature of the relay based on the excitation voltage; and calculating, by the logical determination device, a remaining life of the relay based on the calculated temperature of the relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joongwoo Lee, Man Jae Park
  • Patent number: 12005860
    Abstract: A vehicle and a method are configured to prevent malfunction of a touch sensor in a vehicle door. The vehicle includes a transceiver for transmitting a searching signal to a smart key located outside the vehicle and receiving a response signal to the searching signal, at least one touch sensor mounted in a door of the vehicle to sense a touch input of a user in a capacitive scheme, and a controller that determines an approach direction of the smart key based on the response signal and controls to operate only a touch sensor installed in a door mapped to the approach direction among the at least one touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Dae Sung Jin
  • Patent number: 12009557
    Abstract: Provided are a recovery control system of a fuel cell and a method thereof. The recovery control system includes the fuel cell, a hydrogen supplier configured to supply hydrogen to the fuel cell, an air supplier configured to supply air to the fuel cell, an abnormality sensing unit configured to calculate a difference between a reference cell voltage predetermined depending on an output current of the fuel cell and a measured cell voltage of unit cells and to sense abnormality of air supply to a fuel cell stack based on the calculated difference between the reference cell voltage and the measured cell voltage or change in the difference, and a recovery controller configured to control the air supplier so as to increase a flow rate of air supplied to the fuel cell stack based on the change in the difference, when the abnormality sensing unit senses abnormality of air supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Seung Won Baik, Ki Chang Kim
  • Patent number: 12005883
    Abstract: A control apparatus of a hybrid vehicle includes an input and output module for a driver to select a driving mode, an engine that generates power required for vehicle driving by fuel combustion, a driving motor that generates power required for vehicle driving and operates as a generator, a hybrid starter-generator (HSG) that starts the engine and operates as a generator, and a controller. When the driving mode is inputted to a stopping mode through the input and output module, based on an expected stop time, a current SOC of a battery, a target SOC of the battery, output of the driving motor, and output of the HSG, the controller that performs a first charging mode that charges the power generated by the engine in the battery through the driving motor and a second charging mode that charges the power generated by the engine in the battery through the driving motor and the HSG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mingyun Jo, Jeewook Huh, Hoon Han, Gwangil Du, Jae Young Choi, Hyukjin Lee
  • Patent number: 12006884
    Abstract: Systems and methods for having discrete valve opening and closing timings for different pairs of the combustion cylinders, and transitioning an engine from a Low temperature Combustion (LTC) mode to a Gasoline Compression Ignition (GCI) mode are provided. The method may comprise performing a cold start on an engine, comprising at least two sets of cylinders, in a Spark Ignition (SI) mode. The method may comprise, using a discrete camshaft operation for different pairs of the combustion cylinders to run the at least two sets of cylinders in the LTC mode, and when a load operation point of the engine increases, transitioning a first set of cylinders, of the at least two sets of cylinders, to run in a SI mode, and, after the first set of cylinders is transitioned to run in the SI mode, transitioning the second set of cylinders to run in the GCI mode, and, after the second set of cylinders is transitioned to run in the GCI mode, transitioning the first set of cylinders to run in the GCI mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Shirley, Nicholas Fantin, Shengrong Zhu, Kyoung Pyo Ha, Jeffrey Hollowell, Nahm Roh Joo
  • Patent number: D1030577
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Sam Su Kim, Tae Soon Nam
  • Patent number: D1030578
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Seon-Min Kim, Hong-Seok Choi
  • Patent number: D1030593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Bong-Hun Koh, Yoon-Jung Park