Patents Assigned to HYUNDAI AUTRON CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 10021799
    Abstract: An electronic control apparatus for a vehicle according to the present invention includes: an electronic control board which electrically controls respective parts in the vehicle; a connector which is electrically connected with the electronic control board; an extruded housing which is opened at both sides, and has one side into which the connector connected with the electronic control board is inserted and accommodated in a slot manner; a connector cover which is coupled to the connector and covers the one open side of the extruded housing into which the connector is inserted; and a back cover which covers the other open side of the extruded housing, in which a first potting layer is formed at an upper side of the connector cover, and a second potting layer is formed in the back cover adjacent to the other side of the extruded housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wan Kyu Lee, Man Ho Seok
  • Patent number: 10021796
    Abstract: An electronic control unit according to the present invention includes an electronic control element which includes a printed circuit board that electrically controls respective components of a vehicle, and a heat radiating portion that is provided at one side of the printed circuit board, a housing which accommodates the electronic control element, a connector which connects the electronic control element and the vehicle, a sealing unit which seals a connecting portion between the electronic control element and the connector, and a fixing bracket, and further includes a rivet fastening means in order to fastened the housing and the fixing bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun Jae Yang, Jun Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9989110
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for searching a touch point of a clutch in a dual clutch transmission, including: (a) a step of checking whether a touch point searching condition for a non-driving clutch and a driving clutch is met or not; (b) when the search condition of the step (a) is met, a step of detecting a searching point at which an absolute value of a difference between an acceleration value of an engine and an acceleration value of the driving clutch is larger than a threshold value after applying a position value of the non-driving clutch to the engine; and (c) a step of determining a position of the non-driving clutch corresponding to the searching point as the touch point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: HYUNDAI AUTRON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min-Hyo Kim
  • Patent number: 9991038
    Abstract: The waveform signal output device includes: a signal output unit that reads waveform data recorded in a memory and outputs a waveform signal for driving the solenoid valve according to a waveform renewal signal; a waveform generation unit that generates waveform data for driving the solenoid valve using vehicle driving information and requests renewal of a waveform by outputting the waveform data; a waveform distortion determination unit that compares a time point when the renewal of a waveform is requested and a preset communication prohibition section and determines a possibility of distortion of the waveform signal; and a driving command unit that renews waveform data of the memory using the waveform data generated by the waveform generation unit and outputs a waveform renewal signal if it is determined that there is no possibility of distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: HYUNDAI AUTRON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong-Hyeon Kim
  • Patent number: 9992882
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic control unit. The present invention provides an electronic control unit including: a housing which has an opening opened at one side of the housing; a printed circuit board which is accommodated in the housing and has electronic control elements mounted on the printed circuit board in order to perform a control operation; and a connector which is connected with the printed circuit board and coupled to the opening of the housing, in which a pressure correcting means, which connects an interior of the housing and an exterior of the housing and corrects pressure in the housing, is provided in the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Gi Lee
  • Patent number: 9984444
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for correcting image distortion of a lens, including an input unit for receiving image information, a segmentation unit for segmenting the image information into one or more image subdivision units, a setting unit for setting a center of the image information, a controller for shifting each of the one or more image subdivision units by a variation ratio with respect to the center of the image information, an interpolation unit for inserting one or more image subdivision units corresponding to the shifted image subdivision units into an interpolation space generated between the shifted image subdivision units, and an output unit for outputting corrected image information. According to an embodiment of the present invention, by shifting one or more image subdivision units by a variation ratio, operation logic for coordinate calculation and internal memory logic may be minimized, and implementation complexity may be lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kee-Beom Kim
  • Patent number: 9970492
    Abstract: A T-S curve correction method for a clutch system may include: detecting differences between actual positions of a clutch in first and second torque regions and a position on a T-S curve; determining whether the difference between the actual position in the first torque region and the position on the T-S curve is equal to or more than a first reference value; determining whether the difference between the actual position in the second torque region and the position on the T-S curve is equal to or less than a third reference value, when the difference of the actual position in the first torque region is equal to or more than the first reference value; and correcting the slope of the T-S curve in the increasing direction, when the difference of the actual position in the second torque region is equal to or less than the third reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Hyo Kim, Jin Won No
  • Patent number: 9956889
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a battery discharging apparatus and a method thereof of a battery management system and an exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a battery discharging apparatus, including: a battery module including a plurality of battery cells; a discharging element which is connected to the battery cells through switches to discharge a voltage of the battery cells; a detecting unit which detects an abnormal state of a vehicle; and a control unit which is connected to the battery module to monitor a charged/discharged status of the battery cells of the battery module and controls the switches to balance the battery cells, in which when the control unit receives a vehicle abnormal state signal from the detecting unit, the control unit controls the switches to be turned on/off at a predetermined duty ratio to discharge the battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-Seong Park
  • Publication number: 20180105139
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a rain sensor of a vehicle and a control method thereof to solve a problem that a measurement result of rainfall varies according to a glass specification of a windshield even under the same rainfall condition by tuning sensitivity of the rain sensor in accordance with the glass specification of the windshield. For this, a method of determining the glass specification of the rain sensor according to the present disclosure includes determining the glass specification of the windshield from a light-receiving signal obtained by receiving light reflected by the windshield of the vehicle, and eliminating a deviation between light-receiving signals by glass specification, which is caused by a difference in the glass specification, by applying parameter tuning according to a glass specification to the light-receiving signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, HYUNDAI AUTRON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Min Park, Nak Kyoung Kong, Keun Sig Lim, Ki Hong Lee, Illsoo Kim, Byung Seob Yu, KyungTaek Kim, WonBok Hong, Taewang Kim
  • Publication number: 20180106893
    Abstract: Provided is an ultrasonic sensor device and a sensing method thereof. The device includes a driving unit for providing a transmission pulse to a transducer which transmits an ultrasonic wave and receives an echo of the ultrasonic wave; an amplifier for amplifying an electrical signal for the echo; an analog-to-digital converter for converting the amplified electrical signal into an original digital signal; a signal processor for performing an envelope extraction processing of the original digital signal to generate an extracted signal; and a control unit for outputting a distance signal with respect to an external object based on the original digital signal and the extracted signal, wherein the control unit includes: a test frequency generator for applying a test frequency signal to the transducer, and an excitation frequency measuring unit for measuring the excitation frequency generated in the transducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: HYUNDAI AUTRON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyun KIM
  • Patent number: 9945911
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring impedance for fuel cell diagnosis may include: a current measurement unit configured to measure a current flowing to a load from a fuel cell stack; a voltage measurement unit configured to measure a voltage of the fuel cell stack; and a calculation unit configured to monitor a variation of the current measured through the current measurement unit, perform a frequency analysis operation at each sampling while sampling the current and voltage of the fuel cell stack, and calculate impedance based on the analyzed voltage and current of the fuel cell stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Hong Min
  • Patent number: 9947144
    Abstract: An error variance detection method of CAN communication system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include storing an error information that corresponds to the communication error in a network management start message, if an communication error is occurred in the CAN communication system, by at least one of a plurality of slave ECU, transferring the network management start message to a master ECU, by at least one of a plurality of slave ECU, determining whether there is or is not the error information in response to the network management start message, by the master ECU, detecting the error information from the network management start message, if there is the error information, by the master ECU, and transmitting the error information detected by a demand of a diagnosis device to the diagnosis device, by the master ECU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Tae Kim
  • Publication number: 20180100921
    Abstract: Provided is an ultrasonic sensor device and a sensing method. The device includes a first ultrasonic sensor that transmits an ultrasonic wave to an object in a transmission mode and receives an echo of the ultrasonic wave reflected from the object in a reception mode; at least one second ultrasonic sensor that is disposed near the first ultrasonic sensor and receives an echo of the ultrasonic wave reflected from the object; and a control unit that calculates a shortest distance signal with respect to the object by using a first distance signal outputted based on the echo received by the first ultrasonic sensor and a second distance signal outputted from the second ultrasonic sensor with the first ultrasonic sensor in the reception mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung Hoon Bang
  • Patent number: 9941533
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating injection current for a fuel cell stack includes a first converter configured to convert direct current of a voltage corresponding to a battery for a vehicle, into direct current of a predetermined voltage; a second converter configured to convert the converted direct current into alternating current; a filter configured to filter a signal of a predetermined frequency band from the converted alternating current; and a control unit configured to perform a feedback control to allow the filtered alternating current to be injected without being distorted when injecting the filtered alternating current into the fuel cell stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: HYUNDAI AUTRON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Seok Park, Sun-Doo Kang, Jin-Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 9932926
    Abstract: Disclosed is an injector controlling method using an opening duration. The injector controlling method using an opening duration converts a target fuel quantity into an opening duration and sets relationship between the opening duration and an injector actuation signal in order to control the fuel quantity of injectors more accurately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongha Kim, Youngjae Kim, Hyunjae Cho
  • Patent number: 9932026
    Abstract: A shift control method and apparatus for a vehicle is described. The shift control method for a vehicle having an oil pump includes determining whether the vehicle satisfies an Idle Stop and Go (ISG) learning condition, measuring, when the vehicle satisfies the ISG learning condition, a shift time of a transmission when a driving state of the vehicle is changed from an idling state to a restart state, comparing the measured shift time with a predetermined reference shift time, and adjusting a pressure of oil supplied to a solenoid of the transmission from the oil pump according to the compared result. Thus, it is possible to reduce a variation in shift time required when the ISG vehicle using a mechanical oil pump in place of an electrical oil pump is restarted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Autron, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Young Park, Jun-Hyung Kim
  • Patent number: 9905681
    Abstract: Provided is a power semiconductor device comprising a pair of gate electrodes respectively disposed in a first trench and a second trench spaced apart from each other in a substrate; a body region having a first conductivity type disposed between the first trench and the second trench; a pair of floating regions having a first conductivity type spaced apart from each other and surrounding a bottom surface and at least one side surface of the first trench and the second trench, respectively; and a drift region having a second conductivity type which extends from below the pair of floating regions through a region between the pair of floating regions to the body region, wherein, in the drift region, the doping concentration of a second conductivity type between the pair of floating regions is higher than the doping concentration of a second conductivity type below the pair of floating regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: HYUNDAI AUTRON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Joon Kim, Hyuk Woo, Tae Yeop Kim, Han Sin Cho, Tae Young Park, Ju Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 9897198
    Abstract: An apparatus for calculating a filling time in an automatic transmission and a method thereof are disclosed. The apparatus includes an oil temperature detection unit for detecting an oil temperature of a transmission oil, a control duty input unit for receiving a control duty for controlling a solenoid valve that discharges or fills the transmission oil supplied from an oil pump from or to an oil flow path corresponding to a gear shifting stage to form a hydraulic pressure, a storage unit for storing a filling time table in which a relationship between a remaining flow and a filling time according to the oil temperature is mapped, and a calculation control unit for receiving the control duty of the solenoid valve from the control duty input unit to calculate the remaining flow on the basis of a variation interval of the remaining flow and an elapsed time, and calculating the filling time depending on the filling time table stored in the storage unit on the basis of the remaining flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung Wook Jung
  • Publication number: 20180034459
    Abstract: The isolated gate driver according to the present invention comprises a low voltage part including a PWM transmission unit for receiving a PWM signal from a microcontroller unit and outputting a low voltage PWM signal, and a low voltage logic block for receiving a control signal from the microcontroller unit and outputting a low voltage control signal; an insulation part for boosting the low voltage PWM signal and the low voltage control signal into a high voltage PWM signal and a high voltage control signal, respectively; and a high voltage part including a high voltage logic block for outputting a slew rate control signal in accordance with the high voltage control signal, and a slew rate controller for controlling a slew rate of a gate voltage of a power device external to the isolation gate driver such that the gate voltage of the power device has the slew rate depending on the slew rate control signal at a rising edge or a falling edge, wherein the high voltage part is insulated from the low voltage part
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: HYUNDAI AUTRON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Soon Seob LEE
  • Publication number: 20180034456
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided an isolated gate driver comprising: a low voltage part including a PWM transmission unit for receiving a PWM signal from a microcontroller unit and outputting a low voltage PWM signal, and a low voltage logic block for receiving a control signal from the microcontroller unit and outputting a low voltage control signal; an insulation part for boosting the low voltage PWM signal and the low voltage control signal into a high voltage PWM signal and a high voltage control signal, respectively; and a high voltage part insulated from the low voltage part by the insulation part, wherein the high voltage part including: a high voltage logic block for outputting a slew rate control signal in accordance with the high voltage control signal; a slew rate controller for controlling a slew rate of a gate voltage of a power device external to the isolated gate driver such that the gate voltage of the power device has the slew rate depending on the slew rate control signa
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: HYUNDAI AUTRON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Soon Seob LEE