Patents Assigned to Kia Motor Corporation
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Patent number: 11912109Abstract: A flush glass apparatus includes a fixed glass having an opening, an operation glass configured to open and close the opening of the fixed glass, a lower rail configured to slidably support a lower portion of the operation glass, a sealing member provided below the lower rail to seal a gap between an inner surface of the fixed glass and a vehicle body, one or more upper drain holes provided on the lower rail to discharge rainwater on the lower rail to a buffer area between the lower rail and the sealing member, and a drain induction member interposed between the inner surface of the fixed glass and the sealing member and providing a lower drain hole to discharge rainwater in the buffer area to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Webasto Korea Holdings Ltd.Inventors: Jeong Hyeon Kim, Seong Min Gwak, Su Yun Choi
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Patent number: 11912245Abstract: A device for distributing washer fluid, which includes a case including one or more discharge holes, a rail part located in the case, a pipe assembly moved along the rail part and configured to discharge a washer fluid to the one or more discharge holes, a motor assembly configured to apply a driving force to allow the pipe assembly to be moved along the rail part, a hose engaged with the pipe assembly and integrally moved with the pipe assembly along the rail part, and a controller configured to control the driving force of the motor assembly in response to a cleaning request such that the pipe assembly discharges the washer fluid to a selected discharge hole.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, DY Auto CorporationInventors: Jong Min Park, Nak Kyoung Kong, Seung Sik Han, Ki Hong Lee, Jong Wook Lee
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Patent number: 11913098Abstract: A self-healing alloy contains 5 to 11% by weight of molybdenum (Mo), iron (Fe) as a remainder, and unavoidable impurities. A method for manufacturing the self-healing alloy includes heat treating the alloy or preparing an alloy raw material powder and sintering, homogenizing, and cooling the alloy raw material powder.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, Kookmin University Industry Academy Cooperation FoundationInventors: Kyung Sik Choi, Hoo Dam Lee, Tae Gyu Lee, Byung Ho Min, Young Jun Kwon, Keun Won Lee, Yoon Jung Won, Ki Sub Cho
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Patent number: 11912120Abstract: A battery mounting structure for a vehicle is provided to include a case having a first internal member that is disposed to be spaced parallel to an upper side of a lower panel of the case and a second internal member that is disposed perpendicular to the first internal member, and configured to accommodate a plurality of battery modules therein using the first internal member and the second internal member. An outer side member is provided in a shape protruding toward the outside on an outer side of the case. The battery modules are disposed in a stacking direction of battery cells that is parallel to a longitudinal direction of the first internal member.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Yong Hwan Choi, Yu Ri Oh, Tae Hyuck Kim, Gyung Hoon Shin, Hae Kyu Lim, Ji Woong Jung
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Patent number: 11904832Abstract: A system for controlling vehicle power using big data is provided. The system includes a big data server that receives vehicle driving related data, processes and analyzes the received data to generate a driving power pattern of the vehicle, and stores the driving power pattern. A vehicle controller determines whether to limit charging/discharging power of a battery based on continuous charging/discharging time or an accumulation amount of continuous charging/discharging power of the battery and calculates battery charging/discharging power to be limited based on the driving power pattern received from the big data server when the charging/discharging power of the battery is limited.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Hyun Soo Park
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Patent number: 11904894Abstract: A fire spreading prevention system for a vehicle can prevent a fire breaking out in a battery mounted in the vehicle from spreading throughout the vehicle. The fire spreading prevention system includes a battery state detector that detects battery state information for sensing a battery fire in the vehicle; a controller that outputs a control signal for removing a battery upon determining that the battery fire breaks out; and a battery removal apparatus installed in the vehicle to fix the battery to a vehicle body, and configured to release the battery from the vehicle body and simultaneously to remove the battery from the vehicle in response to the control signal from the controller. When a fire is sensed, the fire spreading prevention system removes the battery from the vehicle and separates and discharges the battery to outside of the vehicle, thereby preventing the fire from spreading throughout the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Hyeon Gi Shin
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Patent number: 11904709Abstract: A battery storage device for an electric vehicle includes a reinforcing panel that reduces impact energy and is disposed between a case and a battery module, whereby, when a car collision occurs, the battery module is protected from impact by the reinforcing panel, damage to the battery module is reduced, stability of the vehicle is secured, and manufacturing costs are reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Jin Won Kim, Jun Seok Choi
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Patent number: 11904900Abstract: An autonomous vehicle for blind people is provided. The autonomous vehicle includes a riding and alighting point search device that searches for a riding point at which a user will ride and an alighting point at which the user will alight, in response to call information received from a terminal of the user, a passenger recognition device that recognizes the user who will ride in the vehicle at the riding point, and an autonomous driving controller that controls an autonomous driving operation of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Sam Yong Kim, Seong Sook Ryu, Byoung Joon Lee
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Patent number: 11904669Abstract: A hemming structure may include a door, in which the door has an internal panel and an external panel made of different materials, the hemming structure being configured such that each of the internal panel and the external panel is provided with a contact area with end portions of the internal panel and the external panel contacting with each other at the contact area, wherein the contact area includes a first contact area with a sealer applied onto a contact surface between the internal panel and the external panel, and a second contact area extending from the first contact area and being bent to be brought into contact with the internal panel at the first contact area, and the second contact area is provided with a bonding portion at which the internal panel and the external panel are mechanically bonded to each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Ki Hyun Choi
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Patent number: 11904227Abstract: An exercise information management system and a method of controlling the exercise information management system are provided. The exercise information management system includes a plurality of smart mirrors and a server that communicates with at least one smart mirror. Exercise-related information of an exercise performed by a user in the at least one smart mirror among the plurality of smart mirrors is stored in the server and remaining smart mirrors among the plurality of smart mirrors is configured to share the exercise-related information stored in the server.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Sung Un Kim, Jeongwoo Nahm
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Patent number: 11905004Abstract: In an air mobility vehicle, an engine operates as required to provide mechanical driving force or electric energy. A battery is charged with the electric energy from the engine. Main rotors operate using the electric energy of the battery and electric power generated by the engine to perform takeoff, landing, and cruising. Auxiliary rotors are disposed at or adjacent to the center of gravity of a vehicle body and mechanically connected to the engine via a clutch. The auxiliary rotors perform the takeoff, the landing, or the cruising by receiving the mechanical driving force from the engine when the clutch is in an engaged position. A controller monitors the states of the battery and the main rotors and controls the operations of the engine and the clutch.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Woo Suk Jung, Hee Kwang Lee, Hyun Seok Hong, Hyun Woo Jun
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Patent number: 11908252Abstract: An apparatus for determining failure of a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a sensor configured to obtain autonomous driving information, and a controller configured to compare the autonomous driving information obtained during autonomous driving with a determination criterion set as failure sound information and to determine whether the failure occurs, based on the comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Min Sang Yu, Jin Su Jeong, Eun Young Choi, Ki Seok Seong, Hyeong Jin Ham, Rosali Sun Pyun, Dong Il Yang, Woo Jin Kim
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Patent number: 11904701Abstract: Apparatus and method of producing a virtual after-burn effect using a controller in an electric vehicle, may include receiving, by the controller, vehicle driving information during vehicle driving, determining, by the controller, virtual variable information in an internal combustion engine on the basis of the input vehicle driving information, determining, by the controller, a virtual after-burn effect characteristic on the basis of the virtual variable information in an internal combustion engine, outputting, by the controller, a control signal for producing the virtual after-burn effect on the basis of the virtual after-born effect characteristic information, and controlling, by the controller, an operation of an effect-production apparatus configured for producing the virtual after-burn effect on the basis of the control signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Ji Won Oh, Dong Chul Park, Tae Kun Yun, Jeong Soo Eo
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Patent number: 11904704Abstract: A system can prevent burning of a vehicle or human injury caused by a fire spread from a battery to a vehicle in the event of a fire in the battery of an eco-friendly vehicle. The system can release a battery from the vehicle such that the battery can be separated and removed from the vehicle when a fire occurs in the battery. The system is operated in response to a control signal of a controller detecting the fire in the battery and by manipulation of a driver, and releases a state of the battery mounted to a vehicle body to release the battery from the vehicle such that the battery can be separated or removed from the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Mu Ryong Jang
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Patent number: 11897285Abstract: A method for manufacturing a vehicle wheel includes: a casting process of manufacturing the wheel in a one-piece body having a forming end and a temporary flange protruding at inner and outer sides of the wheel, respectively, wherein the one-piece body further includes a resonance chamber forming groove; a primary shape machining process of forming a stepped part at an outer circumferential side of the resonance chamber forming groove; a flow forming process of bending the forming end to be seated on the stepped part; a friction stir welding process of integrally bonding a portion where the forming end and the stepped part are in close contact with each other; a fine machining process of removing the temporary flange; and a sound-absorbing hole machining process of forming a sound-absorbing hole for communicating between the resonance chamber and an interior space of a tire in the forming end.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Sungwoo Casting Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Min Lee, Young Chan Kim, Min Soo Kim, Young Rae Jo, Young Il Kim, Sang Bum Park, Chang Hak Yoo
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Patent number: 11897475Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a transmission of a vehicle includes a determination device that determines whether a condition for a regenerative braking based lift foot up shift is satisfied, a controller that performs regenerative brake control and performs a shift by controlling release clutch torque and lock-up clutch torque, when the condition for the regenerative braking based lift foot up shift is satisfied, and a torque compensation device that compensates for the release clutch torque according to an RPM variation during the shift.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Joon Shik Park
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Patent number: 11902210Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving HARQ responses in a communication system are provided. An operation method of a first terminal in a communication system includes receiving configuration information including a first information element indicating a type of a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) codebook from a base station and generating the HARQ-ACK codebook including a downlink (DL) HARQ information bit for downlink communication between the base station and the first terminal and a sidelink (SL) HARQ information bit for sidelink communication between the first terminal and a second terminal. The HARQ-ACK codebook is transmitted to the base station using an uplink channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Hyuk Min Son, Gene Back Hahn, In Yong Jung
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Patent number: 11897365Abstract: A system for controlling electric power of a vehicle having a fuel cell is provided. The system includes a fuel cell that generates electric energy by receiving fuel and oxidizing gas and a battery that receives the electric energy of the fuel cell to charge or discharge the battery for supplying the electric energy. A sensor sense a driving state of the vehicle. A controller controls charging or discharging of the battery based on the driving state sensed by the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Seung Yoon Lee, Byoung Hoon Choi, Jeong Kyu Park, Jae Hoon Jeong, Sae Byeok Seung, Hyo Jun Kim, Dong Hoon Kim, Sang Chul Yeom
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Patent number: 11903040Abstract: A connection establishment method, performed by an electric vehicle (EV) being supplied power from a power supply device, may include scanning beacon broadcast in a low-level communication scheme from a plurality of chargers; selecting a beacon signal having a minimum signal attenuation by calculating signal attenuations for a plurality of scanned beacon signals; and establishing a communication connection with an electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) associated with a charger transmitting the beacon signal having the minimum signal attenuation.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jin Su Jang, Zeung Il Kim, Taek Hyun Jung
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Patent number: 11894586Abstract: A fuel cell system without a high pressure line of a hydrogen supplying system, including a gas charging line formed between a gas charging station and a high pressure vessel charged with gas by the gas charging station, and a gas supplying line formed between the high pressure vessel and a stack, includes: a regulator provided in the gas supplying line; a solenoid valve provided in the gas supplying line between the regulator and the high pressure vessel; and a check valve provided in a bypass line connecting one point of the gas supplying line between the regulator and the solenoid valve and one point of the gas charging line.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Chang Ho Kim, Ji Hyun Shim