Patents by Inventor Yoon-Cheol Jeon
Yoon-Cheol Jeon 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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Publication number: 20240157799Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a battery pack diagnosis control apparatus, a battery system including the same, and a method thereof. An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a battery system including: at least one battery pack; a flight control apparatus configured to transmit at least one of a battery discharge mode command or a motor discharge command; a battery control apparatus configured to transmit a relay control command for a relay based on receiving the battery discharge mode command, and transmit a diagnosis command based on receiving the motor discharge command; and at least one battery pack control apparatus configured to control the relay based on receiving the relay control command, and diagnose a failure of the at least one battery pack by measuring a current of the at least one battery pack based on receiving the diagnosis command.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Hyun Ki Cho, Yoon Cheol Jeon, Jin Soo Jang
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Patent number: 11664652Abstract: An emergency power management system of a mobility, may include a fuse device connected to a battery and including a first circuit and a second circuit in which a first fuse and a second fuse are respectively provided and are connected in parallel, a pyro switch provided between the first circuit and the second circuit, and configured to establish electric connection with the first circuit in ordinary times and to release electric connection with the first circuit and to establish electric connection with the second circuit in a case of emergency, a determiner configured to determine abnormality of the first fuse based on current applied from the high-voltage battery or voltages at opposite end portions of the first fuse, and a controller configured to operate the pyro switch when abnormality occurs in the first fuse.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Yoon Cheol Jeon, Hyun Woo Jun, Hee Kwang Lee, Hyun Ki Cho, Gwi Taek Kim, Hyun Seok Hong, Woo Suk Jung
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Patent number: 11424496Abstract: A battery module having a plurality of stacked battery module units is provided. The battery module unit includes a cooling fin in which an interval between two cooling plates facing each other is expandable and contractible. A battery cell is in contact with each of the two cooling plates and having lead tabs at each end. Protruding steps extend from both ends of the cooling plates to maximize a contact area with the lead tabs of the battery cell. Lead tab fasteners are coupled to the protruding steps to fix the lead tabs of the battery cell to the protruding steps. The lead tap fasteners include connecting grooves and connecting protrusions relative to each other to be coupled by a linear relative movement with lead tap fasteners of an adjacent battery module unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Yoon Cheol Jeon
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Publication number: 20220204178Abstract: An auxiliary propulsion apparatus of an air vehicle may include an engine mounted in a fuselage of the air vehicle, a generator configured to be driven using power from the engine, a compressor configured to be driven by the engine or the generator, a battery configured to store electricity generated by the generator, an electricity distributor connected to the generator, the battery and the main propulsion apparatus and configured to distribute electricity generated by the generator to the battery and to a main propulsion apparatus, and at least one nozzle device configured to jet high-pressure gas, supplied from the compressor, to an outside of the fuselage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Woo Suk Jung, Gwi Taek Kim, Yoon Cheol Jeon, Hyun Ki Cho
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Publication number: 20220200265Abstract: An emergency power management system of a mobility, may include a fuse device connected to a battery and including a first circuit and a second circuit in which a first fuse and a second fuse are respectively provided and are connected in parallel, a pyro switch provided between the first circuit and the second circuit, and configured to establish electric connection with the first circuit in ordinary times and to release electric connection with the first circuit and to establish electric connection with the second circuit in a case of emergency, a determiner configured to determine abnormality of the first fuse based on current applied from the high-voltage battery or voltages at opposite end portions of the first fuse, and a controller configured to operate the pyro switch when abnormality occurs in the first fuse.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Yoon Cheol JEON, Hyun Woo JUN, Hee Kwang LEE, Hyun Ki CHO, Gwi Taek KIM, Hyun Seok HONG, Woo Suk JUNG
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Patent number: 11245155Abstract: A battery module for a vehicle includes: a plurality of battery cells which are stacked; a first end plate located on an outer surface of the battery cell located on one outermost side among the plurality of battery cells; a second end plate located on an outer surface of the battery cell located on the other outermost side among the plurality of battery cells; and one or more support bars located between the first and second end plates. The one or more support bars connect the first and second end plates to each other, include an elastic body, and absorb a load generated when the plurality of battery cells is swollen.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventor: Yoon Cheol Jeon
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Publication number: 20210328285Abstract: A battery module having a plurality of stacked battery module units is provided. The battery module unit includes a cooling fin in which an interval between two cooling plates facing each other is expandable and contractible. A battery cell is in contact with each of the two cooling plates and having lead tabs at each end. Protruding steps extend from both ends of the cooling plates to maximize a contact area with the lead tabs of the battery cell. Lead tab fasteners are coupled to the protruding steps to fix the lead tabs of the battery cell to the protruding steps. The lead tap fasteners include connecting grooves and connecting protrusions relative to each other to be coupled by a linear relative movement with lead tap fasteners of an adjacent battery module unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventor: Yoon Cheol Jeon
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Patent number: 11038233Abstract: A battery cooling device for a vehicle is provided. The battery cooling device generates a continuous phase change of the refrigerant within an entire area of a refrigerant channel having a refrigerant flowing for cooling a battery module to maximize a cooling performance of all battery cells of the battery module, and enable even cooling of the battery cells.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Yoon Cheol Jeon
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Publication number: 20200350538Abstract: A battery module for a vehicle includes: a plurality of battery cells which are stacked; a first end plate located on an outer surface of the battery cell located on one outermost side among the plurality of battery cells; a second end plate located on an outer surface of the battery cell located on the other outermost side among the plurality of battery cells; and one or more support bars located between the first and second end plates. The one or more support bars connect the first and second end plates to each other, include an elastic body, and absorb a load generated when the plurality of battery cells is swollen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2019Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventor: Yoon Cheol Jeon
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Patent number: 10790558Abstract: A battery module includes: a cell cover close to a battery cell and having one surface emitting heat of the battery cell; and a cooling channel portion having a cooling channel that a refrigerant flows formed therein and having one surface of the cooling channel close to the one surface of the cell cover to absorb heat of the battery cell. In a contact region of the cell cover and the cooling channel portion, the cell cover has a protrusion portion protruded in the direction of the cooling channel, and the cooling channel has a penetration hole for inserting the protrusion portion into an inner portion that the refrigerant flows.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Yoon Cheol Jeon, Min Wook Kim, Dal Kim
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Patent number: 10777862Abstract: A battery cooling device for a vehicle is provided. The device repeats phase changes of a refrigerant to cool a battery due to heat of vaporization when a liquid-state refrigerant is vaporized by thermally coming in contact with a battery heat source. The vaporized refrigerant is changed back into a liquid state by thermally coming in contact with a separate coolant. The effect of cooling all battery cells is maximized throughout the entire refrigerant channel for cooling a battery and the battery cells are cooled uniformly.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Yoon Cheol Jeon, Min Wook Kim, Dal Kim
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Patent number: 10770701Abstract: A battery pack structure of a vehicle, may include a cell module assembly formed by stacking a plurality of cell modules, end plates coupled to both side end portions of the cell module assembly, and support plates coupled to the top and the bottom of the cell module assembly and both side end portions of the end plates to bring the cell modules in contact with each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Min Wook Kim, Beom Joo Kwon, Yoon Cheol Jeon
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Patent number: 10741809Abstract: A vehicle battery case is provided. The battery case includes a lower panel and at least one transverse member that is disposed on the lower panel to increase transverse rigidity. Additionally, at least one longitudinal member is disposed on the lower panel to increase longitudinal rigidity, and a sidewall member is attached to an upper surface of the lower panel along a rim of the lower panel.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Min Wook Kim, Beom Joo Kwon, Yoon Cheol Jeon
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Publication number: 20200222735Abstract: A system and a controlling method for extinguishing a fire in a battery of a vehicle is provided for preventing the vehicle from being completely burned out and protecting consumer's physical assets by injecting cooling water of a water cooling system when a fire occurs in a battery to extinguish the fire of the battery at an early stage and by supplying an external cooling material from outside of the vehicle to extinguish the fire of the battery when the fire of the battery is not extinguished at the early stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Dal KIM, Yoon Cheol JEON
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Publication number: 20200067152Abstract: A battery cooling device for a vehicle is provided to cool a battery cell. The device includes a phase change material (PCM) that cools the battery cell and is disposed to exchange heat with the battery cell and cooling water for cooling the phase change material is disposed to exchange heat with the phase change material. Thus, the phase change material is heated by heat generation of the battery cell and at the same time the phase change material is cooled by heat absorption of the cooling water thereby facilitating continuous phase change of the phase change material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventor: Yoon Cheol Jeon
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Patent number: 10535905Abstract: A cooling device, which cools a battery by effectively dissipating heat generated from the battery, which is used, for example, in eco-friendly vehicles, is provided to increase the rate of battery charging and the reliability of the battery. The cooling device includes a pair of coolant pipes that introduce and discharge a coolant and a cooling channel that connects the coolant pipes to each other to move the coolant from a first coolant pipe to a second coolant pipe. Additionally, a heat transfer plate is coupled to the cooling channel and has a contact surface configured to be in surface contact with a heat-emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Dal Kim, Yoon Cheol Jeon
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Publication number: 20190379014Abstract: A battery cooling device for a vehicle is provided. The battery cooling device generates a continuous phase change of the refrigerant within an entire area of a refrigerant channel having a refrigerant flowing for cooling a battery module to maximize a cooling performance of all battery cells of the battery module, and enable even cooling of the battery cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2018Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventor: Yoon Cheol Jeon
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Publication number: 20190334144Abstract: A vehicle battery case is provided. The battery case includes a lower panel and at least one transverse member that is disposed on the lower panel to increase transverse rigidity. Additionally, at least one longitudinal member is disposed on the lower panel to increase longitudinal rigidity, and a sidewall member is attached to an upper surface of the lower panel along a rim of the lower panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2018Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Min Wook Kim, Beom Joo Kwon, Yoon Cheol Jeon
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Publication number: 20190312313Abstract: A battery apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a basic battery pack that is mounted within the vehicle and an auxiliary battery pack that is selectively mountable within the vehicle. The auxiliary battery pack is connected in series with or in parallel to the basic battery pack.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Dal Kim, Beom Gyu Kim, Yoon Cheol Jeon, Suk Hyung Kim, Jin Ho Park
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Patent number: 10391881Abstract: A high voltage battery apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The battery apparatus is installed in a lower portion of the vehicle and includes a plurality of battery modules and a cooling unit that has a plurality of cavities in which the battery modules are inserted and fixed. The cooling unit has a hollow portion through which cooling water flows, thereby cooling the battery modules using the cooling water.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Min Wook Kim, Jin Han Ahn, Yoon Cheol Jeon