Patents by Inventor Seon Chae Na

Seon Chae Na 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: 11970090
    Abstract: A railess variable seatback type rear seat includes: a linear movement device configured to convert a rotation of a motor into a linear movement; a sliding movement device configured to convert the linear movement into a sliding movement in which a seat cushion is pushed forward or backward; and a reclining angle change device configured to convert the sliding movement into a reclining movement, and to fold a seatback, which is connected to the seat cushion, forward or to recline the seatback backward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Kia Corporation, Daechang Seat Co.,LTD-Dongtan, Hyundai Transys Inc.
    Inventors: Seung-Hyun Kim, Sang-Hyun Lee, Min-Ju Lee, Byung-Yong Choi, Chan-Ho Jung, Seon-Chae Na, Young-Woon Choi, Jae-Jin Lee, Dong-Hwan Kim, In-Chang Hwang
  • Patent number: 11872919
    Abstract: A seat headrest includes: a pad assembly; a main cover surrounding a rear side of the pad assembly; an upper guide coupled to the main cover and provided with an upward/downward movement guide groove formed in the upper guide and elongated upward/downward; a post stay including an upper portion inserted in the upward/downward movement guide groove; and a post holding guide, in which the lower portion of the post stay is inserted and held and which is held to a seat back frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Hyundai Transys Inc., Woobo Teck Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Hyun Kim, Seon Chae Na, Byung Yong Choi, Min Ju Lee, Sang Hyun Lee, Hyun Sung Kim, Jin Mun Park, Kyeong Hyun Lee, Jae Sung Lee, Hae Il Jeong
  • Patent number: 11850977
    Abstract: A device for folding a seat may include: a lower arm stopper fixed to a predetermined radial position with respect to a reclining hinge shaft of a seatback as a center; a lock plate configured to rotate about a rotation shaft as a center while being hooked to the lower arm stopper in a process of reclining forward together with the seatback with respect to the reclining hinge shaft as the center; and a folding link limited to rotate by being hooked to the lock plate and configured to make folding rotation together with the seatback with respect to a folding hinge shaft, as a center, located at a part above the reclining hinge shaft, by being released from being hooked to the lock plate according to the rotation of the lock plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, DAYOU A-TECH CO., LTD., DAEWON PRECISION INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD, HYUNDAI TRANSYS INC.
    Inventors: Sang Uk Yu, Seok Hwan Kim, Seon Hyeok Lee, Sung Young Bok, Seon Chae Na, Hae Won Lee, Ui Bo Shim, Dae Keon Jang, Ji Sung Bae
  • Patent number: 11827126
    Abstract: A power supply and signal transmission device for a vehicle seat rail is provided. The device includes a contact-type power supply unit configured to supply power to an electrical device mounted on a seat, and a contact-type signal transmission unit configured to transfer seat drive control signals. The contact-type power supply unit and the contact-type signal transmission unit are directly mounted on the seat rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Kia Corporation, Daechang Seat Co., LTD-Dongtan
    Inventors: So Young Yoo, Hyeong Jong Kim, Han Su Yoo, Seon Chae Na, Sang Ho Kim, Seok Hwan Kim, Tae Hong Han, Sang Yeong Park
  • Patent number: 11820256
    Abstract: A seat for a vehicle including support links enabling a rotating motion and a sliding motion between a seat frame and seat rails, the support links being mounted so that the seat may be rotated in the forward and rearward directions as in a seesaw motion about a shaft of a vehicle in a width direction of the vehicle, so as to easily implement a facing mode posture, in which passengers sit facing each other, a relaxed comfort posture, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Chan Ho Jung, Deok Soo Lim, Bong Ku Kim, Hyun Kyu Moon, Mu Young Kim, Seon Chae Na, Sang Do Park, Sang Soo Lee
  • Publication number: 20230361505
    Abstract: A power supply device of a motor-driven child seat for a vehicle is provided. The motor-driven child seat can be easily mounted and fixed to a rear seat by adopting a method where a latch of the motor-driven child seat is fastened to an anchor of the rear seat, and power can be easily supplied to power consuming components, i.e., an electric mechanism including a motor, a ventilation system, and a heating system, by automatically fastening male-female connectors for supplying power, especially when the motor-driven child seat is fixedly mounted on the rear seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Byeong Seon Son, Tae Hoon Lee, Seung Hyun Kim, Ji Hwan Kim, Sang Hoon Park, Sang Ho Kim, Seon Chae Na, Hyun Tae Lee, Won Ho Chang, Jeong In Baek, In Ju Lee
  • Publication number: 20230356635
    Abstract: A ventilation and heating apparatus for a child seat is provided. A ventilation mat with an embedded heating wire is mounted on a body of the child seat, so ventilation air is discharged toward a child's body through the ventilation mat in summer or when ventilation is required, and heating wire embedded in the ventilation mat is driven in winter, thus providing a comfortable seating environment for a child sitting on the child seat, and improving the sitting comfort of a child.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Byeong Seon Son, Tae Hoon Lee, Seung Hyun Kim, Ji Hwan Kim, Seon Chae Na, Sang Ho Kim, Sang Hoon Park, Jeong In Baek, Yong Chul Jang, In Ju Lee
  • Publication number: 20230356633
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a motor-driven child seat for a vehicle capable of making it more convenient to sit a child in the child seat and to switch the seat to a comfortable posture by enabling swiveling adjustment of the child seat using the swivel-driving device and reclining adjustment of the child seat using the reclining-driving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Byeong Seon Son, Tae Hoon Lee, Seung Hyun Kim, Ji Hwan Kim, Seon Chae Na, Sang Ho Kim, Sang Hoon Park, Jeong In Baek, Yong Chul Jang, In ju Lee
  • Publication number: 20230294574
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a motor-driven child seat for a vehicle, may easily allow a seat control unit to perform the power supply and drive control for various electric parts of the motor-driven child seat by connecting between the seat control unit configured to control various electric parts of a vehicle seat and various electric parts of the motor-driven child seat using a connector so that power supply and control signals may be exchanged therebetween when the motor-driven child seat is mounted on the vehicle seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Byeong Seon SON, Tae Hoon LEE, Ji Hwan KIM, Seon Chae NA, Sang Ho KIM, Sang Hoon PARK, Won Ho CHANG, Hyun Tae LEE
  • Publication number: 20230293762
    Abstract: An air cleaning apparatus of a ventilation seat, may include a housing including a flow path configured to allow air to move therethrough; a photocatalyst located in the flow path of the housing and rotatably coupled to the housing to be rotatable with respect to the housing; and a UV LED fixed at the housing and configured to emit light of a light source toward the photocatalyst when power is supplied to the UV LED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Hyundai Transys Inc., WOORY INDUSTRIAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Han Su YOO, Jung Sang YOU, Seon Chae NA, Byung Yong CHOI, So Young YOO, Sun Woo KIM, Ho Sub LIM, Hwa Jun LEE, Bum Jin KIM, Byung Wuk KIM, Do Young GOO
  • Patent number: 11752905
    Abstract: A device for providing a fatigue-reducing position of a vehicle seat is provided. A first latch unit is mounted on a rear seat cushion such that a first striker mounted on a front seatback is fastened thereto in a lockable manner. A second latch unit is mounted on a rear surface portion of a rear seatback. A sliding-locking unit is mounted on a package panel disposed behind a rear seat in a height adjustable manner. A second striker is provided on a front end of the sliding-locking unit to be fastened to the second latch unit in a lockable manner. A seat in a second or third row in the cabin of a vehicle is detachable from the original position to be fixedly placed like a hammock between a front seat and a package panel to provide a fatigue-reducing position in which an occupant comfortably rests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Kyu Moon, Sang Do Park, Sang Uk Yu, Deok Soo Lim, Hyo Cheol Kang, Ju Yeol Kong, Hyung Jin Park, Seon Chae Na, Chan Ho Jung, Seong Mun Yun
  • Patent number: 11731547
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle seat having a legrest with a seat cushion function, which may mount a legrest on a back portion of a front seatback to be deployable such that a passenger seated on a rear seat may place and support a calf and a foot on the deployed legrest, and recline a front seatback forward to use the deployed legrest as a seat cushion on which the passenger may be seated while facing a passenger seated on the rear seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, DAS Co Ltd
    Inventors: Sang Ho Kim, Dong Woo Jeong, Seon Chae Na, Dong Man Lee
  • Publication number: 20230202369
    Abstract: A wing-out headrest for a vehicle is disclosed. The headrest for a vehicle includes: a main frame mounted on a stay; a first frame assembly mounted on the main frame to reciprocate in a back and forth direction of the vehicle; a second frame assembly mounted on the main frame to reciprocate in a back and forth direction of the vehicle; and a wing-out frame mounted on the second frame assembly, and including a center frame and a pair of first and second lateral frames rotatably mounted on respective sides of the center frame, wherein the second frame assembly and the wing-out frame may move back and forth as the first frame assembly moves, and the one pair of lateral frames of the wing-out frame may be rotated as the second frame assembly moves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Sang Ho Kim, Tae Jo Kim, Seon Chae Na, Yong Jun Shin
  • Patent number: 11685319
    Abstract: A device for automatically adjusting an angle of a monitor on a vehicle seat back includes: a fixation bracket on a front seat back upper-frame; a first rotation bracket on an upper portion of the fixation bracket; a second rotation bracket on a lower portion of the fixation bracket; a monitor on a front surface of the first rotation bracket; a motor on a bottom surface of the second rotation bracket; an angle adjustment bar integrally combined with a rear surface of the first rotation bracket; a lead screw, whose lower portion is connected to an output shaft of the motor, and whose upper portion passes through the second rotation bracket; and an ascending and descending member having a threaded hole such that the ascending and descending member fastened to the lead screw while being fastened to an end portion of the angle adjustment bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, HYUNDAI TRANSYS INC.
    Inventors: Sang Ho Kim, Byeong Seon Son, Tae Hoon Lee, Ji Hwan Kim, Seon Chae Na, Sang Hoon Park, Yun Ho Kim, Won Kee Kim
  • Publication number: 20230191969
    Abstract: Disclosed is a headrest having a speaker, the headrest including: a headrest frame having a rear surface to which a driving module is coupled so that the headrest frame is movable forwards, rearwards, or vertically in response to operation of the driving module, the headrest frame having a front surface formed with a mounting space recessed rearwards; a speaker, inserted into the mounting space in the headrest frame, provided with an output portion facing forwards and outputting sound, the speaker having a rear side closed by the headrest frame; a foam pad, mounted on the front surface of the headrest frame so as to cover the headrest frame and the speaker, having formed therein a first through hole outputting sound forwards at a position corresponding to the output portion; and a covering configured to cover the front surface of the foam pad and forming the front exterior of the headrest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, HYUNDAI TRANSYS INC.
    Inventors: Byeong Seon Son, Tae Hoon Lee, Young Sun Choi, Ji Hwan Kim, Seon Chae Na, Sang Ho Kim, Sang Hoon Park, Jae Ho Song, Won Kee Kim
  • Publication number: 20230173955
    Abstract: Proposed are a vehicle seat monopost assembly and a vehicle seat mounted thereon. In one aspect, a drive part includes a housing mounted on a lower frame connected to a vehicle body and a first engagement part configured to be rotated by a drive source. A second engagement part suitably may include a thread configured to be engaged with the first engagement part and a cylindrical body configured to be fixed to a vehicle seat frame. A connecting sleeve part is seated on the drive part and has an inner space into which the lead screw part is fitted. The connecting sleeve part is configured to restrict a rotation in response to an operation of a rotation restricting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Dong Woo Jeong, Sang Ho Kim, Seon Chae Na, Jae Hwan Lee, Ji Yong Park
  • Publication number: 20230173954
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a seat structure for a vehicle, in which a swivel upper plate module is configured by integrating and modularizing a swivel upper plate part, a swivel reinforcing member part, and set bracket parts, the swivel upper plate module is coupled to a seat cushion frame, and left, right, and rear sides of the swivel upper plate module are positioned inward from left, right, and rear sides of a seat bracket coupled to a seat, such that a design of a lower side of the seat may be slim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Dong Woo Jeong, Sang Ho Kim, Seon Chae Na, Do Wan Kim, Jae Hwan Lee
  • Publication number: 20230171904
    Abstract: An armrest touch screen device with a water discharge function applied to a vehicle according to the present disclosure includes one or more of: a water discharge part defined by a touch screen panel and a screen body; a fitting coupling part defined by the touch screen panel and the screen body; a bolting fastening part defined by the touch screen panel, the screen body, a circuit board, and a screen casing; and a hook engaging part defined by the screen body and a screen casing. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent water permeation into the touch screen panel, reduce the weight and the material costs by reducing the number of screws, implement the robust touch screen design, and minimize the assembly dimension error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Ji-Hwan Kim, Tae-Hoon Lee, Byeong-Seon Son, Seon-Chae Na, Sang-Ho Kim, Sang-Hoon Park, Sang-Kil Park
  • Publication number: 20230166651
    Abstract: In one aspect, an armrest lighting control device of a vehicle according to the present disclosure comprises a switch controller configured to produce a lighting color change effect or produce a fade-in/fade-out effect or an effect of turning off lighting by outputting a lighting-off signal from a lighting turning-off position of a switch lighting unit on the basis of a sensor signal from an acceleration sensor made by detecting a change in upward/downward armrest change angle of an armrest having the switch lighting unit directed toward a rear seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Ji-Hwan Kim, Tae-Hoon Lee, Byeong-Seon Son, Seon-Chae Na, Sang-Ho Kim, Sang-Hoon Park, Seong-Youn Jo, Yeong-Gil So
  • Patent number: 11637473
    Abstract: A seat ventilation blower may include a first housing; a second housing coupled and assembled to the first housing; an impeller inserted inside the first housing or the second housing, the impeller configured to rotate; and a circuit board body having a motor assembly coupled to the impeller to rotate the impeller wherein the circuit board body is configured to control operation of the motor assembly and installed in the housing when the first and second housings are coupled and assembled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, INZICONTROLS CO., LTD., Hyundai Transys Inc.
    Inventors: Ju-Hyun Kim, Sang-Uk Yu, Doo-Ri Kim, Yo-Han Kim, Byung-Jae Lee, Byung-Yong Choi, Seon-Chae Na, Ho-Sub Lim, Jin-Hyuk Kim, Young-Dae Hong, You-Jeong Jeong, Sang-Kyung Koh