Patents Assigned to Kia Motors Corporation
  • Patent number: 11850966
    Abstract: A system for estimating a charging time of a vehicle battery includes: a measuring device configured to measure a temperature and a voltage of the battery; an electrical behavior predictor configured to predict, when a charging current according to the measured temperature and voltage of the battery is applied to the battery, at least one of a terminal voltage of the battery after an amount of unit time has changed, a state of charge (SOC), or an amount of heat generated; a thermal behavior predictor configured to predict, when the charging current is applied to the battery, the temperature of the battery after the amount of unit time has changed over time of the battery and coolant using the amount of heat generated predicted by the electrical behavior predictor; and a controller configured to determine an estimated charging time of the vehicle based on at least one of the predicted terminal voltage, the SOC, the amount of heat generated, or the temperature of the battery after the amount of unit time has ch
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Jaeshin Yi
  • Patent number: 11850930
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery-equipped vehicle body including: a lower panel of a vehicle extending in a planar direction, and having a battery coupled to the upper portion or lower portion thereof; a door opening/closing device located on the side surface of the lower panel, and coupled so that a door of the vehicle is opened and closed; and a cross member extending in a direction parallel to the transverse direction of the vehicle, coupled to the upper portion or lower portion of the lower panel, and located to correspond to the door opening/closing device in the transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Kwang Hee An
  • Patent number: 11853146
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a memory configured to store predetermined points in time at which each of a plurality of tasks is to be performed, the plurality of tasks including a first task and a second task, and a detector configured to determine a malfunction of at least one processor of a plurality of processors performing the plurality of tasks, wherein the detector is configured to control the at least one processor to output trigger signals for the first task and the second task based on whether one of the first and second tasks is completed at its respective predetermined point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Hongyeol Lim, Woo Cheol Kwon
  • Patent number: 11851066
    Abstract: A vehicle and a method for controlling a body thereof are provided. The vehicle may include a processor, and non-transitory memory storing instructions executed by the processor. The processor may be configured to determine a first operation mode of a convenience device based on external environment information obtained by a sensor device when converting to an autonomous driving state; determine a second operation mode of the convenience device based on an input of a convenience device manipulator; compare the first operation mode with the second operation mode; and control the convenience device in the first operation mode or the second operation mode based on a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chan Hee Jung, Jin Su Jeong, Jae Yong Jeon
  • Patent number: 11854236
    Abstract: A fastening tool system for fastening a component part by using a supplied power includes: a camera portion mounted on a fastening tool to photograph a fastening portion of the component part; an image input portion for inputting an image photographed from the camera portion when a distance with the fastening portion measured through a distance measurement sensor is within a predetermined distance; a communication portion for transmitting data by wireless communication; and a fastening portion determining portion that recognizes the fastening portion through machine learning algorithm-based image classification work for an input image of the camera portion and sets a torque value matched with the recognized fastening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, INHA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Tae Mun Hwang, DongHa Jeong, Byung Cheol Song, Dong Yoon Choi
  • Patent number: 11850913
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning system is provided and includes a heating duct through which internal air and external air are introduced and a cooling duct through which internal air and external air are introduced. A condenser is disposed in the heating duct and an evaporator is disposed in the cooling duct and is connected to the condenser. A phase change material (PCM) stores thermal energy of the internal air passing through the heating and cooling ducts. An internal/external air door controls the mixing of the internal/external air introduced into the heating and cooling ducts, and a PMC door controls the external air introduced through the heating and cooling ducts whether to pass through the PCM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Gee Young Shin, Seung Sik Han, Dong Ho Kwon, Myung Hoe Kim
  • Patent number: 11855321
    Abstract: A method of controlling a hydrogen partial pressure can be carried out in a fuel cell system including a stack having a hydrogen electrode and an air electrode. The method includes: determining a point of time to purge the hydrogen electrode using a hydrogen concentration at an outlet of the hydrogen electrode or an accumulated amount of charge generated in the stack; and setting a target supply pressure of hydrogen supplied to the stack, in which the target hydrogen supply pressure is set in consideration of a hydrogen pressure and a partial pressure of nitrogen resulting from crossover in the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Sang Eun Jang
  • Patent number: 11855290
    Abstract: Disclosed are a binder solution for an all-solid-state battery including a binder in the form of particles, and a method of manufacturing the same. The binder solution may include a rubber-based binder, a first solvent for dissolving the rubber-based binder, and a second solvent in which the rubber-based binder is insoluble and which is miscible with the first solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University
    Inventors: Sang Mo Kim, Ju Yeon Lee, Tae Young Kwon, Sung Hoo Jung, Yoon Seok Jung, Kyu Tae Kim, Dae Yang Oh
  • Patent number: 11855311
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electrolyte membrane and a method of manufacturing the same. The electrolyte membrane, in which the continuity of a channel through which protons move is improved, may include ionomer solutions having different viscosities and a porous support having pores therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Byoungsu Kim
  • Patent number: 11855525
    Abstract: A connection structure of a snubber circuit within a semiconductor device includes: a first substrate having a first electrode wiring line; a second substrate facing the first substrate, the second substrate having a second electrode wiring line facing the first electrode wiring line; and a stack ceramic capacitor having connection terminals provided on opposite ends, respectively, of the stack ceramic capacitor installed in an upright position in such a manner that entire surfaces of the connection terminals are connected to the first and second electrode wiring lines, respectively, where the stack ceramic capacitor is installed adjacent to a switching element attached on the first substrate, and the connection terminal and one electrode terminal on the switching element are connected with the first electrode wiring line interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Hiyoshi Michiaki
  • Patent number: 11856494
    Abstract: A subscription service including a number of subscriptions possessed by a device is managed in a machine-to-machine (M2M) system. A method for operating a first device may include: transmitting, to a second device, a first message for requesting a new subscription that uses a first resource for managing subscription; receiving, from the second device, a second message for notifying an update of a second resource associated with the new subscription; and identifying a content of the second resource, wherein the first resource may include at least one of a first attribute indicating a number of subscriptions possessed by the first device, a second attribute indicating, among resources to which the first device is subscribing, a number of resources which are updated but not yet retrieved, or a third attribute indicating an access address of a subscribed resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University
    Inventors: Jae Seung Song, Min Byeong Lee
  • Patent number: 11850932
    Abstract: A structure for fastening a battery to a vehicle includes: a carrier part including a pair of first members that is disposed at a lower portion of the vehicle in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and bonded to both sides of a vehicle body, respectively, and a plurality of second members the pair of first members in contact with the pair of first members; and a battery having a case that houses a plurality of battery cells, in which a part of the case is connected to the first member, and the other part of the case is connected to the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gyung Hoon Shin, Yong Hwan Choi, Yu Ri Oh, Tae Hyuck Kim, Hae Kyu Lim, Ji Woong Jung
  • Patent number: 11853055
    Abstract: A vehicle includes at least one output device; an input device configured to receive at least one in-vehicle input from a user; a communication device configured to receive an operation authentication message including an operation request message, an encryption key, and priority setting information from an external server; and a controller configured to generate a new operation request signal corresponding to the operation request message when the encryption key is identical to an encryption key of the vehicle stored in advance, determine priority between the new operation request signal and at least one existing operation request signal corresponding to the at least one in-vehicle input based on the priority setting information, and control an output device corresponding to a target operation to perform the target operation based on the priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: HyunChul Yun
  • Patent number: 11851071
    Abstract: A system for controlling vehicles using distributed cloud computing is provided. The system includes a first layer cloud server for collecting vehicle status data generated in a vehicle from the vehicle in real time and processing the collected data in real time. A second layer cloud server receives the vehicle status data generated in the vehicle, data collected by the first layer cloud server or data processed in the first layer cloud server, processes the received data, stores the processed data, and provides the stored data to the vehicle directly or via the first layer cloud server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Hyun Soo Park
  • Patent number: 11851039
    Abstract: A system for predicting a negative pressure of a brake booster of a vehicle includes: a driving information detector detecting driving information related to driving of the vehicle; and a controller determining a negative pressure of an intake manifold based on a pressure of the intake manifold and an atmospheric pressure which is the driving information and including a booster negative pressure predictor predicting the negative pressure of the brake booster by integrating over time a change rate according to a charging rate and a discharging rate of the negative pressure determined using a negative pressure of the brake booster determined in a previous cycle according to a logic for predicting the negative pressure of the brake booster and the negative pressure of the intake manifold of a current cycle and an imitated brake pedal force signal of the current cycle imitating an acceleration of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Kefico Corporation
    Inventors: Tae Hun Jung, Hyun Sung Park, Young-Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 11855261
    Abstract: Disclosed are a separator for secondary batteries with enhanced stability and a method of manufacturing the separator. The separator can prevent self-discharge which may occur when a porous non-woven fabric material is used for a separator; can perform a shutdown function at a high temperature of 200° C. or less; and can avoid even under harsh conditions of high temperatures, deterioration in stability caused by internal short-circuit of positive and negative electrodes. In particular, the separator for secondary batteries of the present invention includes a porous non-woven fabric material impregnated with a baroplastic polymer powder and pores of the porous non-woven fabric material are filled with the baroplastic polymer powder by pressing an assembly of the secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Yeol Mae Yeo, Ki Seok Koh, Yoon Sung Lee, Seung Min Oh, Hong Seok Min, Sung Min Choi
  • Patent number: 11855316
    Abstract: A water discharge control system and method for a fuel cell are provided. The water discharge control system includes a fuel cell stack that generates power through an internal chemical reaction, a fuel supply line that recirculates fuel discharged from the fuel cell stack and supplies the fuel to the fuel cell stack, and a water trap that is disposed in the fuel supply line to store water generated in the fuel cell stack. A drain valve is disposed in an outlet port of the water trap to block discharge of the water stored in the water trap to the outside when closed. A drain controller determines whether fuel in the fuel supply line is being discharged through the outlet port when the drain valve is in an open state and closes the drain valve upon determining that fuel is being discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Joon Yong Lee, Dong Hun Lee, Soon Woo Kwon
  • Patent number: 11850545
    Abstract: A system for pressure swing adsorption including: a plurality of beds each performing at least one of an adsorbing process, a pressure equalizing process, a vacuum process, or a pressurizing process; a supply valve provided in each of the beds and connected to a mixed gas supply unit to supply a mixed gas to the bed; a discharge valve provided in each of the beds and connected to a hydrogen gas discharge unit to discharge hydrogen generated in the bed; a vacuum valve provided in each of the beds and connected to a vacuum pump so as to be open to the vacuum pump during the vacuum process of the bed; and a control unit that controls the supply valve, the discharge valve, and the vacuum valve to allow each of the beds to perform the adsorbing process, the pressure equalizing process, the vacuum process, or the pressurizing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Dong Seok Ko
  • Patent number: 11845423
    Abstract: A turning control system of a vehicle includes: a database storing road information; a sensor part to detect a steering angle of a vehicle, a wheel speed of the vehicle, whether the vehicle is accelerated, whether the vehicle is braking, and whether a speed gear of the vehicle is shifted; and a controller that determines whether the vehicle enters a turning section based on one or more pieces of the information detected by the sensor part and the road information stored in the database. In particular, when the vehicle is entering the turning section, the controller sets a target speed of the vehicle and controls a speed of the vehicle to be decelerated to the set target speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sang Joon Kim, Jea Mun Lee, Jae Young Park, Hui Un Son, Young Eun Kim, Joon Young Park, Sung Hoon Yu
  • Patent number: 11848947
    Abstract: A system and a method of providing security to an in-vehicle network are provided. The method efficiently operates multiple detection techniques to maintain robustness against malicious message detection while increasing overall detection efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Seung Wook Park, Seil Kim, Aram Cho