Patents by Inventor Dae-Jong Kim
Dae-Jong 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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Publication number: 20240104195Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for updating an Internet-based malware detection engine using virtual machine scaling. The method may include creating a scaling group and an update group set based on a first virtual machine image, creating a second virtual machine image for a running virtual machine in response to occurrence of a snapshot event in the virtual update group run based on the first virtual machine image, modifying the scale-out image of the scaling group to the second virtual machine image, updating the scaling group by triggering a scale-out event and a scale-in event in the scaling group in response to occurrence of an update event, and modifying the scale-in image of the scaling group to the second virtual machine image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Sang-Min LEE, Ki-Jong KOO, Jung-Tae KIM, Ji-Hyeon SONG, Jong-Hyun KIM, Dae-Sung MOON
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Publication number: 20240105378Abstract: A planar transformer and a converter including the same include a first core unit including a first receiving portion extending in a first direction; a second core unit spaced from the first core unit, disposed in parallel with the first core unit in a second direction thereof, and including a second receiving portion extending in the first direction; a first coil unit including a first through hole formed in a center portion thereof and a first coil pattern passing through the first receiving portion and the second receiving portion around the first through hole to form a turn; and a second coil unit including a second through hole formed in a center portion thereof and aligned with the first through hole in a third direction thereof, and a second coil pattern passing through the first receiving portion and the second receiving portion around the second through hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Dae Woo LEE, Sang Jin KIM, Tae Jong HA, Byung Gu KANG
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Publication number: 20240014423Abstract: An air supply system for fuel cells includes a fuel cell, an air supply line connected to a cathode of the fuel cells to supply external air to the cathode of the fuel cell, an air pressure sensor provided on the air supply line, and configured to measure a pressure in the air supply line, a determiner configured to determine whether correction for the air pressure is necessary, and a controller connected to the determiner and configured to perform the correction for the air pressure sensor by performing voltage control of the fuel cell, upon determining that the correction for the air pressure sensor is necessary.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Jae Ok HA, Dae Jong KIM, Jae Won JUNG
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Publication number: 20230268530Abstract: A system and method for diagnosing a fuel cell includes one or more fuel cell modules each including a fuel cell stack to output power through a first converter and a battery connected to the fuel cell stack through a second converter; and a controller configured to determine whether diagnosis of the fuel cell stack included in the one or more fuel cell modules is required, and to control the one or more fuel cell module to simultaneously or sequentially diagnose the fuel cell stack determined to require diagnosis based on an output demand power of the one or more fuel cell modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2022Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Jae Ho HAN, Dae Jong KIM, Chang Hwa HYUN
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Patent number: 11705561Abstract: A method and system of controlling hydrogen purge are provided. The method includes estimating an air supply rate supplied to a fuel cell stack and then executing hydrogen purge based on the estimated air supply rate.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Dae Jong Kim, Jun Young Park
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Publication number: 20230216074Abstract: A system for determining performance of a fuel cell stack may include a vehicle that collects a current of the fuel cell stack and a current of the fuel cell stack and a server that receives the voltage of the fuel cell stack and the current of the fuel cell stack from the vehicle in real time, determines an average state of health (SOH) of the fuel cell stack for each current section within an effective current range based on the current of the fuel cell stack and the voltage of the fuel cell stack within the effective current range, determines an overall average SOH in the effective current range based on the average SOH of the fuel cell stack for each current section, and determines whether the fuel cell stack has failed based on the overall average SOH.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2022Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Kia CorporationInventors: Doo Hyun KIM, Hyo Jin PARK, Dae Jong KIM, Jong Gyun KIM
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Publication number: 20230170506Abstract: A system and method for controlling power for a fuel cell are disclosed. The system includes: a fuel cell; a load device electrically connected to the fuel cell; a stack controller configured to set a stack limit current on the basis of a current output current of the fuel cell, the stack limit current configured to limit an output current of the fuel cell on the basis of an output voltage of the fuel cell; and a load controller configured to set a consumption limit current on the basis of the set stack limit current, the consumption limit current configured to limit a consumption current of the load device, the load controller being configured to control the consumption current of the load device to a value equal to or lower than the set consumption limit current.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Seong Cheol JEONG, Hyo Jin PARK, Dae Jong KIM, Sang Chul YEOM
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Publication number: 20230170505Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for controlling an operation of a fuel cell system and a method therefor. The present disclosure may include a voltage sensor that measures an output voltage of a fuel cell stack, an air compressor that supplies air to a cathode of the fuel cell stack, a valve driver that adjusts an opening degree of an Airflow Control Valve (ACV), and a controller that, in an idle stop state, drives the air compressor at a lowest level and controls the opening degree of the ACV such that the output voltage of the fuel cell stack maintains a reference range.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Jae Won Jung, Jae Ho Han, Jae Ok Ha, Dae Jong Kim, Sang Wook Han
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Publication number: 20230147324Abstract: Disclosed are a device and a method for controlling a fuel cell system, in which during operation of the fuel cell system, the device and method determine a minimum motoring current limit value applied to a motor for driving a fuel cell vehicle by varying an output current limit threshold value of the fuel cell stack by determining an available output current of the stack and by varying an available voltage lower limit threshold value of the stack by determining an available operating voltage of the stack, thereby preventing the fuel cell vehicle from rattling due to excessive limitation of output current of the stack. They also control the pressures of an anode and a cathode of the stack by monitoring whether the performance of the stack is degraded as limitation of output current of the stack is suppressed, thereby suppressing degradation of the performance of the stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Jun Young Park, Seong Cheol Jeong, Dae Jong Kim, Jae Won Jung
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Patent number: 11631871Abstract: A startup control method for a fuel cell is provided. The method includes calculating available power of a high-voltage battery when a startup of the fuel cell is requested. An air compressor is then driven based on a calculated magnitude of the available power of the high-voltage battery and a low-voltage battery is charged with the power of the high-voltage battery after the driving of the air compressor is completed.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Mi Sun Kim, Dae Jong Kim
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Publication number: 20230054074Abstract: A method of controlling a fuel cell includes collecting, by a control unit, environmental information and state information of a fuel cell stack; determining, by the control unit, a motor output offset value from the collected environmental information and the collected state information of the fuel cell stack; correcting, by the control unit, a default critical output corresponding to a current vehicle operating state based on the determined motor output offset value; determining, by the control unit, the stop or the restart of the fuel cell by comparing a motor output demand determined from current vehicle operating information with the corrected critical output; and controlling, by the control unit, an operating state of the fuel cell to become a state of the determined stop or restart.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Jung Jae LEE, Dae Jong KIM
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Publication number: 20230035889Abstract: A device for controlling compensation for an air flow rate upon discharge of hydrogen off-gas and a method for controlling compensation for an air flow rate using the same is an air flow rate control device configured to control a flow rate of air supplied to a fuel cell cathode through an air supply unit of a fuel cell system, wherein the air flow rate control device is configured to determine whether a fuel discharge valve of the fuel cell system is opened and determine a fuel diffusion amount per unit time, wherein the fuel diffusion amount corresponds to an amount of the hydrogen off-gas discharged through the fuel discharge valve and diffused into an air supply unit through a humidifier, and compensate a target air flow rate depending on an oxygen concentration reduction proportion, determined according to the determined fuel diffusion amount per unit time and flow rate information of the air supply unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Sang Wook HAN, Dae Jong KIM, Jae Won JUNG
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Patent number: 11515549Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of recovering performance of a fuel cell stack in a fuel cell system of a vehicle. The method includes determining whether the fuel cell stack is in a state in which a stack performance recovery operation is possible based on information collected from the vehicle using a predetermined stack state determination criterion, determining whether the vehicle is in a state in which the stack performance recovery operation is possible based on operation information of a fuel cell system, and performing the stack performance recovery operation upon determining that the fuel cell stack is in the state in which the stack performance recovery operation is possible and that the vehicle is in the state in which the stack performance recovery operation is possible.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Seong Cheol Jeong, Jong Gyun Kim, Dae Jong Kim, Jae Won Jung
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Patent number: 11471347Abstract: Provided is an automatically inflatable patient transfer air mattress designed to enable immobile persons, such as patients with mobility difficulty, to be rapidly laid and transferred thereon in the event of a disaster or an accident, prevent an injury to the patient caused by a falling object dropping from a ceiling or any other place, and reduce impact in the case of movement via stairs. The automatically inflatable patient transfer air mattress includes a main mattress portion forming a plate shape having a predetermined thickness when charged and inflated with air, a protective cover portion provided on one side surface of the main mattress portion in a longitudinal direction, and configured to cover one surface of the main mattress portion when deployed, and a cushion wheel unit disposed on a bottom portion of the main mattress portion to absorb impact from below.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Inventor: Dae Jong Kim
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Publication number: 20220190365Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method for controlling a cold start of a fuel cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Jae Ho HAN, Dae Jong KIM
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Publication number: 20220140372Abstract: A power generation control system of a fuel cell includes: the fuel cell generating a power through a chemical reaction between fuel and air; a consuming device connected to an output terminal of the fuel cell and consuming the power output from the fuel cell; a converter connected between the fuel cell and the consuming device in series or parallel and adjusting an output voltage of the fuel cell; a supply device supplying the air to the fuel cell; a voltage controller controlling the converter on the basis of a required power or current of the fuel cell required to be output; and a supply controller controlling the supply device on the basis of the required power or current of the fuel cell required to be output.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Soon Woo Kwon, Dae Jong Kim
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Patent number: 11296341Abstract: A method and a system for controlling startup of a fuel cell are provided. The method includes sensing a startup request signal and boosting a Bi-directional high-voltage DC/DC Converter (BHDC) of a main bus stage when the startup request signal has been sensed by a controller. A valve of an air/hydrogen line is then opened together with the boosting of the BHDC and the startup of the fuel cell is completed by allowing an output of the fuel cell after the valve of the air/hydrogen line is opened.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Dae Jong Kim
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Patent number: 11296344Abstract: An operating control method of a fuel cell stack is provide. The method includes diagnosing performance of a fuel cell stack based on an output current of the fuel cell stack, when an operating voltage of the fuel cell stack is within a predetermined diagnostic voltage range. Whether a recovery operation of the fuel cell stack is required is determined based on the diagnosed performance of the fuel cell stack and the voltage of the fuel cell stack is reduced, when the recovery operation of the fuel cell stack is required to recover performance of the fuel cell stack.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Dae Jong Kim, Hyun Suk Choo
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Publication number: 20220093949Abstract: A start control system of a fuel cell includes: a fuel cell configured to generate power upon receiving air and fuel; an air supply system configured to supply air to a cathode of the fuel cell through an air supply line; a fuel supply system configured to supply fuel to an anode of the fuel cell through a fuel supply line that re-circulates fuel discharged from an outlet of the anode of the fuel cell to an inlet of the anode to supply fuel; an air controller configured to control the air supply system such that air flowing into the air supply line bypasses the cathode of the fuel cell when a start ON signal is input; and a fuel controller configured to supply new fuel to the fuel supply line and to control the fuel supply system to purge fuel of the fuel supply line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Jae Gwang Lee, Dae Jong Kim
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Patent number: D966526Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: GOLDEN HOUR INC.Inventor: Dae Jong Kim