Patents by Inventor Kyu Beom Ko
Kyu Beom Ko 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).
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Patent number: 11884164Abstract: A system for controlling charging of a battery of an eco-friendly vehicle includes: an on-board charger (OBC) mounted in the vehicle, setting a required charging current based on available charging current information received from a power supply unit supplying power for charging the battery, transmitting the required charging current to the power supply unit, and converting the power supplied from the power supply unit to charge the battery; and a controller determining whether charging of the battery is completed, and when it is determined that charging of the battery is abnormally terminated in a state where charging is not completed, changing the required charging current to charge the battery based on first information supplied from the power supply unit upon abnormal termination of charging and based on second information supplied from the power supply unit upon normal completion of charging.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Kyu Beom Ko
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Publication number: 20230159036Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling a vehicle includes a driveshaft that transmits a drive torque generated by a drive motor to a wheel, a sensor that obtains a speed of the vehicle, and a controller that monitors the drive torque to determine a change amount of the drive torque, determines a change in a torsion angle of the driveshaft based on the change amount of the drive torque, and determines whether wheel slip occurs based on an amount of speed change of the drive motor according to the change in the torsion angle of the driveshaft. Accordingly, it is possible to accurately determine wheel slip according to the friction of a road surface, providing safe driving to the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2022Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Woo Cheol CHO, Kyung Han MIN, Kyu Beom KO, Hyo Jun KWAK
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Patent number: 11560063Abstract: A charging connector control system may include a charging control unit of a charging equipment for supplying a control signal for charging; and a vehicle control unit for changing a sensing control signal to a normal control signal by executing a variable resistor control according to whether the sensing control signal, which is generated by sensing the control signal transmitted through a charging connector for connecting the charging equipment and a vehicle, is normal.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Kyu-Beom Ko, Ik-Jun Choi
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Patent number: 11378626Abstract: A system for managing a battery of a vehicle includes a first controller configured to control a power-on (IG ON) state and a power-off (IG OFF) state of a plurality of controllers in the vehicle and to be periodically woken up in the power-off (IG OFF) state to wake up at least some of the plurality of controllers, and a second controller configured to turn off a main relay connecting a first battery in the vehicle and a vehicle system when the power-off (IG OFF) state begins, to monitor a state of the first battery storing energy for generating power of the vehicle by maintaining power during a preset first reference time, to be woken up at a wake-up period of the first controller when the first reference time elapses, and to monitor the state of the first battery.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Ki Seung Baek, Ik Jun Choi, Do Sung Hwang, Kyung Taek Jung, Chang Yu Kim, Dea Ki Cheong, Tae Hyuck Kim, Han Seung Myoung, Ho Joong Lee, Hye Seung Kim, Byoung Jik Ahn, Kyu Beom Ko, Hyo Sik Moon, Jong Seo Yoon, Sung Il Lee, Hong Min Oh, Jin Woo Cho
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Publication number: 20220176843Abstract: Disclosed is a method for supplying electric power of an electric vehicle, which includes when an operation mode of the electric vehicle is a power supply mode, transmitting, by a controller, information of the electric vehicle to an energy storage system of a power supply place, receiving, by the controller, required power information, calculated based on the information of the electric vehicle, from the energy storage system, and controlling, by the controller, a charging and discharging device of the electric vehicle which discharges a battery of the electric vehicle so as to transmit required power corresponding to the required power information to the energy storage system of the power supply place.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventor: Kyu Beom Ko
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Patent number: 11332119Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes an energy predictor to predict an available energy using a battery energy based on a charging energy in battery charging and a battery energy based on a learned value of a state of health (SOH) of a battery, a distance calculator to calculate a driving range using the predicted available energy and a fuel efficiency which is previously learned, and a controller to update information on the calculated driving range.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Kyu Beom Ko
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Publication number: 20220011369Abstract: A system for managing a battery of a vehicle includes a first controller configured to control a power-on (IG ON) state and a power-off (IG OFF) state of a plurality of controllers in the vehicle and to be periodically woken up in the power-off (IG OFF) state to wake up at least some of the plurality of controllers, and a second controller configured to turn off a main relay connecting a first battery in the vehicle and a vehicle system when the power-off (IG OFF) state begins, to monitor a state of the first battery storing energy for generating power of the vehicle by maintaining power during a preset first reference time, to be woken up at a wake-up period of the first controller when the first reference time elapses, and to monitor the state of the first battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2020Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Ki Seung Baek, Ik Jun Choi, Do Sung Hwang, Kyung Taek Jung, Chang Yu Kim, Dea Ki Cheong, Tae Hyuck Kim, Han Seung Myoung, Ho Joong Lee, Hye Seung Kim, Byoung Jik Ahn, Kyu Beom Ko, Hyo Sik Moon, Jong Seo Yoon, Sung Il Lee, Hong Min Oh, Jin Woo Cho
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Patent number: 11161423Abstract: A method for charging an electric vehicle may include (a) a step of determining, by a vehicle-side controller, whether to exchange cooling fluid between the vehicle and electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE), when a charge port of the vehicle and a connector of the electric vehicle service equipment are connected together, (b) a step of providing, by the vehicle-side controller, a signal for requesting the exchange of the cooling fluid to a charger-side controller when determining to exchange the cooling fluid, and (c) a step of controlling, by the vehicle-side controller, a cooling line of the vehicle through which cooling fluid of the vehicle circulates, to cause the cooling fluid of the vehicle to flow into a cooling line of the electric vehicle service equipment through the charge port.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Kyu Beom Ko
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Patent number: 11084395Abstract: A battery management system for a vehicle, a battery management method thereof and a vehicle including the same, which can vary a state of charge (SOC) of a battery in accordance with a location of a recharging station are disclosed. The battery management system includes: a position information acquisition unit for acquiring position information of a recharging station and the vehicle; a storage for storing a hilly area recharging station list comprising position information of hilly area recharging stations and learned full SOC values; and a controller for controlling the position information acquisition unit and the storage. The controller checks whether a recharging station where recharging of the vehicle is executed is a hilly area recharging station, and restricts a full SOC in order to avoid restriction of regenerative braking according to downhill road travel, thereby enhancing fuel economy and safety.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Jin Cheol Shin, Kyu Beom Ko
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Patent number: 10963930Abstract: An apparatus, a system, and a method are for automatically billing a vehicle left unattended in a charging station. The automatic billing apparatus includes a processor that provides a vehicle charging service at a charging station, determines that a vehicle is unattended after charging is completed, and performs a billing based on an unattended time. The apparatus further includes a storage that stores data obtained by the processor when the billing is performed.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Tae Woo Lee, Seung Myun Chung, Jin Cheol Shin, Ha Young Woo, Kyu Beom Ko, Ik Jun Choi, Deok Keun Shin, Jae Seok You
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Patent number: 10913361Abstract: A battery temperature control system includes: a memory storing a maximum charging current map according to temperature of a battery for an electric vehicle, and an allowable current map according to a control pilot (CP) duty; and a temperature controller comparing a maximum charging current corresponding to a current temperature of the battery with an allowable current corresponding to a current CP duty to determine whether to increase the temperature of the battery.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Kyu Beom Ko, Seung Myun Chung, Tae Woo Lee, Jae Seok You, Deok Keun Shin, Jin Cheol Shin
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Patent number: 10903721Abstract: An apparatus of charging an electric mobility may include a tire wheel having an external surface configured to be coupled to a tire and an internal surface in which an empty space is formed, a battery accommodated in the empty space of the internal surface of the tire wheel and mounted, like the tire wheel, on a rotation shaft fixed to the tire wheel to be rotationally driven, a stopper configured to selectively couple the battery to the rotation shaft, and a controller connected to the stopper and configured to control selective coupling of the rotation shaft to the battery by the stopper, wherein the stopper is controlled by the controller so that the battery is charged using an induced electromotive force generated between a coil wound on the battery and a permanent magnet which is mounted to face the battery.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Kyu-Beom Ko, Jin-Cheol Shin
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Publication number: 20210001746Abstract: A battery management system for a vehicle, a battery management method thereof and a vehicle including the same, which can vary a state of charge (SOC) of a battery in accordance with a location of a recharging station are disclosed. The battery management system includes: a position information acquisition unit for acquiring position information of a recharging station and the vehicle; a storage for storing a hilly area recharging station list comprising position information of hilly area recharging stations and learned full SOC values; and a controller for controlling the position information acquisition unit and the storage. The controller checks whether a recharging station where recharging of the vehicle is executed is a hilly area recharging station, and restricts a full SOC in order to avoid restriction of regenerative braking according to downhill road travel, thereby enhancing fuel economy and safety.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Jin Cheol SHIN, Kyu Beom KO
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Publication number: 20200339006Abstract: A system for controlling charging of a battery of an eco-friendly vehicle includes: an on-board charger (OBC) mounted in the vehicle, setting a required charging current based on available charging current information received from a power supply unit supplying power for charging the battery, transmitting the required charging current to the power supply unit, and converting the power supplied from the power supply unit to charge the battery; and a controller determining whether charging of the battery is completed, and when it is determined that charging of the battery is abnormally terminated in a state where charging is not completed, changing the required charging current to charge the battery based on first information supplied from the power supply unit upon abnormal termination of charging and based on second information supplied from the power supply unit upon normal completion of charging.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventor: Kyu Beom Ko
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Publication number: 20200290591Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes an energy predictor to predict an available energy using a battery energy based on a charging energy in battery charging and a battery energy based on a learned value of a state of health (SOH) of a battery, a distance calculator to calculate a driving range using the predicted available energy and a fuel efficiency which is previously learned, and a controller to update information on the calculated driving range.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventor: Kyu Beom Ko
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Publication number: 20200189408Abstract: A charging connector control system may include a charging control unit of a charging equipment for supplying a control signal for charging; and a vehicle control unit for changing a sensing control signal to a normal control signal by executing a variable resistor control according to whether the sensing control signal, which is generated by sensing the control signal transmitted through a charging connector for connecting the charging equipment and a vehicle, is normal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Kyu-Beom KO, Ik-Jun CHOI
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Publication number: 20200171965Abstract: A method for charging an electric vehicle may include (a) a step of determining, by a vehicle-side controller, whether to exchange cooling fluid between the vehicle and electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE), when a charge port of the vehicle and a connector of the electric vehicle service equipment are connected together, (b) a step of providing, by the vehicle-side controller, a signal for requesting the exchange of the cooling fluid to a charger-side controller when determining to exchange the cooling fluid, and (c) a step of controlling, by the vehicle-side controller, a cooling line of the vehicle through which cooling fluid of the vehicle circulates, to cause the cooling fluid of the vehicle to flow into a cooling line of the electric vehicle service equipment through the charge port.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Kyu Beom KO
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Publication number: 20200136466Abstract: An apparatus of charging an electric mobility may include a tire wheel having an external surface configured to be coupled to a tire and an internal surface in which an empty space is formed, a battery accommodated in the empty space of the internal surface of the tire wheel and mounted, like the tire wheel, on a rotation shaft fixed to the tire wheel to be rotationally driven, a stopper configured to selectively couple the battery to the rotation shaft, and a controller connected to the stopper and configured to control selective coupling of the rotation shaft to the battery by the stopper, wherein the stopper is controlled by the controller so that the battery is charged using an induced electromotive force generated between a coil wound on the battery and a permanent magnet which is mounted to face the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Kyu-Beom KO, Jin-Cheol SHIN
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Publication number: 20200118181Abstract: An apparatus, a system, and a method are for automatically billing a vehicle left unattended in a charging station. The automatic billing apparatus includes a processor that provides a vehicle charging service at a charging station, determines that a vehicle is unattended after charging is completed, and performs a billing based on an unattended time. The apparatus further includes a storage that stores data obtained by the processor when the billing is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Tae Woo Lee, Seung Myun Chung, Jin Cheol Shin, Ha Young Woo, Kyu Beom Ko, Ik Jun Choi, Deok Keun Shin, Jae Seok You
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Patent number: 10549625Abstract: A method for controlling an active air flap (AAF) based on an aerodynamic force gain may include an AAF optimization cooling-related mode in which the AAF is configured to be controlled to operate in an AAF open state or an AAF close state to match a detected ambient temperature and a detected vehicle speed when an operation of a heating device is detected by a controller during vehicle traveling.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jeong-Yeop Woo, Kyu-Beom Ko