Patents by Inventor Chang-Han Kim
Chang-Han Kim 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: 9273645Abstract: A fluid heating device of a vehicle fuel system includes: a case having a fluid inlet for letting in fluid, a fluid outlet for letting out the fluid, and an inner space that communicates with the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet; upper and lower power-supply and heat-radiation plates that are arranged in the inner space to be vertically spaced apart from each other, and supply external power; and one or more PTC elements that are interposed between the upper and lower power-supply and heat-radiation plates to receive the external power, and spaced apart from each other to form one or more fluid flow holes. Accordingly, the combustion of the fuel and the cold start performance of the vehicle can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Chang-Jun Park, Myeong Hwan Kim, Chang-Han Kim
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Publication number: 20150357098Abstract: A fuel sender device for a vehicle may include a resistance substrate having a conductor part, a contact plate having a contact point contacting the conductor part, and a float unit moving up and down according to a variation of an oil surface and angularly rotating the contact plate, wherein the fuel sender device includes a variable contact point that allows the contact plate to variably contact the conductor part while moving up and down and rotating according to the variation of the oil surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2014Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Chang Han KIM, Myeong Hwan KIM, Jae Min LEE
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Patent number: 9163784Abstract: A device for reducing the temperature of a bombe, which stores liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) fuel and may be connected to a fuel supply line for supplying the fuel to an injector, using latent heat of LPG vaporization, may include a fuel pump installed in the bombe and connected to an end of the fuel supply line for pressurizing the fuel, a cut-off valve installed in the fuel supply line for selectively cutting off fuel supply to the injector, a fuel collection line branched from the fuel supply line to the inside of the bombe for collecting the supplied fuel into the bombe when the cut-off valve may be closed, and an injection nozzle connected to the fuel collection line and injecting the fuel collected through the fuel collection line into the inside of the bombe.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Ju Tae Song, Cheol Hun Cho, Myeong Hwan Kim, Chang Han Kim
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Patent number: 9163593Abstract: A fuel heating device may improve cold start performance and solve a number of problems of conventional auxiliary tank and heating systems of a flex fuel vehicle (FFV). The fuel heating device may include a heater having embedded therein a heat emission object for heating fuel, a solenoid valve connected the heater such that a flow path to a first outlet is opened or closed to selectively supply fuel, a temperature sensor installed in the heater, and a controller for turning on and off the heater and opening and closing the solenoid valve according to a temperature of the fuel, in which the outlet of the heater is connected with a cold start injector through a cold start line and an inlet of the solenoid valve is connected with a fuel line connected from the fuel tank.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Chang Han Kim, Myeong Hwan Kim, Jae Min Lee, Chang Jun Park
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Publication number: 20150199066Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display unit; a sensor configured to sense a touch input into the display unit; an eye direction sensor configured to sense an eye direction of a user; and a controller configured to divide a screen of the display unit into a plurality of areas, in response to an eye of the user being sensed toward a first area of the plurality of areas and a first touch input being sensed into the first area, perform a first control operation corresponding to the first touch input, and in response to a second touch input being sensed into the other areas except the first area, not perform a second control operation corresponding to the second touch input. Therefore, whether a function will be executed is determined according to an area in which an eye of a user is sensed and an area in which the eye of the user is not sensed. As a result, a malfunction of a display apparatus is prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2015Publication date: July 16, 2015Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chang-han KIM, In-Ho CHOI, Tae-hwa HONG
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Publication number: 20150199008Abstract: A display apparatus includes an infrared outputter configured to output infrared light toward a user, an image capturer configured to photograph the user to generate a captured image, and a controller configured to detect, from the captured image, a pupil and an iris of the user, and a glint area generated by the infrared light, and to determine, in response to the pupil, the iris, and the glint area being detected, a direction of the user's gaze based on a relation between a location of the pupil, and the glint area, and a size of the iris.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2015Publication date: July 16, 2015Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chang-han KIM, In-Ho CHOI, Tae-hwa HONG, Hong-il KIM, Joo-young SON
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Publication number: 20150192777Abstract: Provided are a wearable display device and a light guide element thereof, the display device including: a display element configured to project a first light forming a virtual image; and a light guide element configured to guide the first light from the display element and a second light input from outside of the wearable display device to a predetermined position. The light guide element includes: a first optical surface facing the display element; a second optical surface and a third optical surface configured to reflect the first light input through the first optical surface; and a fourth optical surface configured to reflect the reflected first light to the predetermined position. The first to third optical surfaces are flat surfaces, and the fourth optical surface is a rotationally asymmetric reflective surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2015Publication date: July 9, 2015Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae-Cheol BAE, Myong-Jo CHOI, Jun-ho KOH, Chang-han KIM, Hyun-jung KIM
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Patent number: 8964066Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and a method for generating an image including multiple people, in which images are photographed, face images are detected from each of the photographed images, a face score for each of the face images detected from the photographed images is calculated, it is determined whether each of the face scores calculated for each of the face images is at least equal to a predetermined threshold, and each of face images having a highest face score for each of the face images is synthesized, to output the synthesized image as a final image, in order to generate a most satisfactory photographed image for a user.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Chang-Han Kim, Tae-Hwa Hong, Chung-Hoon Kim, Sung-Dae Cho
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Publication number: 20140360465Abstract: A cold starting apparatus and a cold starting method for a vehicle may include: a throttle body configured to make air flow in an engine; a heater device installed at the throttle body, and configured to preheat the air passing through the throttle body; and a cold starting injector installed at the throttle body in front of the heater device so that the fuel is preheated while passing through the heater device, and configured to spray the fuel into the throttle body, thereby improving cold starting performance of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2013Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Chang Jun PARK, Myeong Hwan KIM, Chang Han KIM
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Patent number: 8869778Abstract: A fuel supply system of a vehicle, may include a fuel tank storing ethanol therein, a main injector installed at an engine to inject the ethanol from the fuel tank, a heater provided to heat the ethanol supplied from the fuel tank to the engine, a cold-starting injector installed at the engine to inject the ethanol heated by the heater, and a valve unit connected to the main injector and the cold-starting injector and performing a switching operation between a state of the ethanol being supplied from the fuel tank to the main injector and a state of the ethanol heated by the heater being supplied to the cold-starting injector.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Kia Motors Corp.Inventors: Chang Han Kim, Myeong Hwan Kim, Chang Jun Park
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Patent number: 8811744Abstract: A method for determining a frontal face pose by using the symmetry of a face including detecting a face region in an image, detecting an eye region in the detected face region, normalizing the face region, analyzing the symmetry in the normalized face region, and determining whether a face pose is a frontal face pose based on an analysis of the symmetry.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2010Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Tae-Hwa Hong, Young-Min Jeong, Joo-Young Son, Chang-Han Kim, Sung-Dae Cho
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Publication number: 20140182562Abstract: A fuel heating device may improve cold start performance and solve a number of problems of conventional auxiliary tank and heating systems of a flex fuel vehicle (FFV). The fuel heating device may include a heater having embedded therein a heat emission object for heating fuel, a solenoid valve connected the heater such that a flow path to a first outlet is opened or closed to selectively supply fuel, a temperature sensor installed in the heater, and a controller for turning on and off the heater and opening and closing the solenoid valve according to a temperature of the fuel, in which the outlet of the heater is connected with a cold start injector through a cold start line and an inlet of the solenoid valve is connected with a fuel line connected from the fuel tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Chang Han Kim, Myeong Hwan Kim, Jae Min Lee, Chang Jun Park
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Publication number: 20140165973Abstract: A fluid heating device of a vehicle fuel system includes: a case having a fluid inlet for letting in fluid, a fluid outlet for letting out the fluid, and an inner space that communicates with the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet; upper and lower power-supply and heat-radiation plates that are arranged in the inner space to be vertically spaced apart from each other, and supply external power; and one or more PTC elements that are interposed between the upper and lower power-supply and heat-radiation plates to receive the external power, and spaced apart from each other to form one or more fluid flow holes. Accordingly, the combustion of the fuel and the cold start performance of the vehicle can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Chang-Jun PARK, Myeong Hwan KIM, Chang-Han KIM
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Patent number: 8714194Abstract: A fuel pump for LPG (liquefied petroleum gas), may include a main bracket that may be mounted at a fuel tank, an integrated bracket that an end thereof may be fixed to the main bracket, the other end thereof may be extended to an inner side of the fuel tank, and the whole of the bracket may be integrally formed, and a pump unit that may be fixed to the other end of the integrated bracket with a space therebetween so as to pump liquefied fuel to an engine.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2010Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Myeong Hwan Kim, Buyeol Ryu, Chang Han Kim, Pil Seon Chol, Yong-Nam Shin
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Publication number: 20130236162Abstract: A video editing apparatus and method for guiding video feature information are provided. To this end, in video editing, video contents are analyzed to detect at least one video feature information, and video contents sections in which the at least one video feature information is detected are displayed together on an editing screen, thereby providing a video editing guide to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang-Han KIM, Sung-Dae Cho
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Publication number: 20130146145Abstract: A device for reducing the temperature of a bombe, which stores liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) fuel and may be connected to a fuel supply line for supplying the fuel to an injector, using latent heat of LPG vaporization, may include a fuel pump installed in the bombe and connected to an end of the fuel supply line for pressurizing the fuel, a cut-off valve installed in the fuel supply line for selectively cutting off fuel supply to the injector, a fuel collection line branched from the fuel supply line to the inside of the bombe for collecting the supplied fuel into the bombe when the cut-off valve may be closed, and an injection nozzle connected to the fuel collection line and injecting the fuel collected through the fuel collection line into the inside of the bombe.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2012Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Ju Tae Song, Cheol Hun Cho, Myeong Hwan Kim, Chang Han Kim
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Publication number: 20130146025Abstract: A fuel supply system of a vehicle, may include a fuel tank storing ethanol therein, a main injector installed at an engine to inject the ethanol from the fuel tank, a heater provided to heat the ethanol supplied from the fuel tank to the engine, a cold-starting injector installed at the engine to inject the ethanol heated by the heater, and a valve unit connected to the main injector and the cold-starting injector and performing a switching operation between a state of the ethanol being supplied from the fuel tank to the main injector and a state of the ethanol heated by the heater being supplied to the cold-starting injector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2012Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: Kia Motors Corp.Inventors: Chang Han Kim, Myeong Hwan Kim, Chang Jun Park
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Patent number: 8411171Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and a method for generating an image including multiple people, in which images are photographed, face images are detected from each of the photographed images, a face score for each of the face images detected from the photographed images is calculated, it is determined whether each of the face scores calculated for each of the face images is at least equal to a predetermined threshold, and each of face images having a highest face score for each of the face images is synthesized, to output the synthesized image as a final image, in order to generate a most satisfactory photographed image for a user.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Chang-Han Kim, Tae-Hwa Hong, Chung-Hoon Kim, Sung-Dae Cho
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Patent number: 8259397Abstract: A wide angle zoom lens system in a three lens group N-P-P configuration wherein the first lens group, the second lens group, and the third lens group are arranged in an order from an object side to an image side, and wherein, when variable power operation is performed from a wide angle to a telephoto position, the distance between the first lens group and the second lens group is reduced, and the second lens group is moved toward the object side, and the distance between the second lens group and the third lens group is increased, and wherein the zoom lens has a large view angle at the wide angle position.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chang-han Kim
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Publication number: 20120073684Abstract: A fuel pump for LPG (liquefied petroleum gas), may include a main bracket that may be mounted at a fuel tank, an integrated bracket that an end thereof may be fixed to the main bracket, the other end thereof may be extended to an inner side of the fuel tank, and the whole of the bracket may be integrally formed, and a pump unit that may be fixed to the other end of the integrated bracket with a space therebetween so as to pump liquefied fuel to an engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2010Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicants: KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Myeong Hwan KIM, Buyeol Ryu, Chang Han Kim, Pil Seon Choi, Yong-Nam Shin