Patents by Inventor Hee-Kwang Lee

Hee-Kwang Lee 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).

  • Publication number: 20220340286
    Abstract: A hybrid air mobility system is capable of flying a long distance through effective operation of an engine and batteries. The hybrid air mobility system includes a fuselage configured to supply power to a propeller and electric equipment, the fuselage being provided with a duct including an inlet and an outlet so as to circulate air to the engine and the electric equipment; a deflector rotatably installed at the outlet of the duct so as to convert a discharge direction of exhaust gas generated by the engine and cooling air after cooling the electric equipment; and a controller configured to determine whether or not the engine is driven and to control a rotated position of the deflector depending on an amount of driving of the engine so as to selectively adjust movement of the exhaust gas and the cooling air towards the propeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Woo Suk Jung, Sang Hyun Jung, Byung Wook Chang, Keun Seok Lee, Hee Kwang Lee
  • Publication number: 20220204172
    Abstract: A power management system for an air mobility vehicle includes a plurality of batteries configured to provide power to a propulsion unit of the air mobility vehicle to propel the air mobility vehicle, and a discharge control unit configured to monitor an operation state and a charge state of each battery, determine a discharge mode of each of the plurality of batteries according to the monitored operation state and the monitored charge state, and control whether each of the plurality of batteries is discharged or a discharge rate thereof according to the determined discharge mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Ki CHO, Hyun Woo JUN, Hee Kwang LEE
  • Publication number: 20220200419
    Abstract: A is constructed such that upper and lower shafts, which are coaxial, are rotated in opposite directions using a single coil winding, simplifying the structure of the motor apparatus and reducing the numbers of sensors and controllers to be mounted thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Seok HONG, Sang Hyun JUNG, Hee Kwang LEE
  • Publication number: 20220194566
    Abstract: A noise reduction system for air mobility, may include a plurality of propeller modules provided on the air mobility and each including an inverter, a motor electrically connected to the inverter, and a propeller mounted to the motor; and a control unit configured to perform PWM control of power to be provided to the inverters to reduce noise attributable to carrier frequencies generated by the plurality of inverters or reduce noise attributable to fundamental frequencies generated by the plurality of motors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Hee Kwang LEE, Hyun Seok Hong, Hyun Ki Cho
  • Publication number: 20220200265
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Yoon Cheol JEON, Hyun Woo JUN, Hee Kwang LEE, Hyun Ki CHO, Gwi Taek KIM, Hyun Seok HONG, Woo Suk JUNG
  • Publication number: 20220194618
    Abstract: An air mobility vehicle may include air flaps located under a mounting position of each of rotary wings and rotatably mounted inside openings to guide a flow direction of air flowing to a region under each of the rotary wings or air flowing above the openings to inside of the air mobility vehicle, an actuator coupled to the air flaps and configured to rotate the air flaps to direct the air having passed through the air flaps to a motor, an inverter, or the motor and the inverter of each of the rotary wings, or batteries, and a controller electrically connected to the actuator and configured to control a flow of the air having passed through the air flaps by controlling the actuator depending on a driving state of the air mobility vehicle or temperatures of the motor and the inverter of each of the rotary wings or a temperature of the batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Hyun Jung, Jae Young Choi, Hee Kwang Lee, Chung Sik Yim, Kyu Hoon Cho
  • Publication number: 20220181936
    Abstract: A magnetic gear may include a stator, having a stator core having a plurality of teeth extending toward a rotation shaft and a plurality of coils wound around the plurality of teeth, a rotor, having a rotor core disposed inside the stator and fixed to the rotation shaft and a plurality of permanent magnets attached to the external surface of the rotor core, and a pole-piece unit, having a plurality of first pole pieces and a plurality of second pole pieces arranged radially about the rotation shaft between the stator core and the rotor core such that the plurality of first pole pieces and the plurality of second pole pieces are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Woo JUN, Woo Suk JUNG, Hyun Seok HONG, Hee Kwang LEE
  • Publication number: 20220149456
    Abstract: An air-cooled battery cooling system for an air mobility vehicle may ensure the cooling performance for batteries using air flows during the flight of the air mobility vehicle, since the cooling of the batteries is performed using an air flow in the top-bottom direction due to the hovering of the air mobility vehicle and an air flow in the front and rear direction due to the cruising of the air mobility vehicle, the efficient cooling performance for the batteries is ensured in a variety of flight modes. Furthermore, the batteries are securely fixed while being cooled by air flows via the heat transfer pads within the battery packs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Woo JUN, Woo Suk Jung, Hee Kwang Lee, Hyun Seok Hong
  • Publication number: 20220144443
    Abstract: A hybrid air mobility vehicle can make a long-distance flight through an efficient operation of an engine and a battery, and can reduce discomfort by reducing noise according to flight surroundings. The hybrid air mobility vehicle includes: an engine and a generator; a battery and a drive motor electrically connected to the generator; a first propeller connected to the drive motor and a second propeller connected to the generator through a clutch; and a controller that controls driving of the engine, the clutch, and the drive motor, based on a flight factor including at least one of a flight mode, a required power, a battery charging amount, or a surrounding flight environment of the hybrid air mobility vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hee Kwang LEE, Hyun Seok HONG, Woo Suk JUNG, Keun Seok LEE, Hyun Woo JUN
  • Publication number: 20220126998
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating thrust for air transport includes a main thrust device, and an auxiliary thrust device configured to generate auxiliary thrust so as to enable an aircraft to vertically take off and land. The apparatus further includes: wings fixed to left and right sides of a fuselage of the aircraft, rotors installed on the wings and configured to generate thrust. In particular, the main thrust device provides driving force to the rotors using motors and an engine, and the auxiliary thrust device is installed in the fuselage and has a center of gravity configured to coincide with a center of gravity of the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Woo Suk JUNG, Hee Kwang LEE, Hyun Seok HONG, Hyun Woo JUN
  • Publication number: 20220119100
    Abstract: In an air mobility vehicle, an engine operates as required to provide mechanical driving force or electric energy. A battery is charged with the electric energy from the engine. Main rotors operate using the electric energy of the battery and electric power generated by the engine to perform takeoff, landing, and cruising. Auxiliary rotors are disposed at or adjacent to the center of gravity of a vehicle body and mechanically connected to the engine via a clutch. The auxiliary rotors perform the takeoff, the landing, or the cruising by receiving the mechanical driving force from the engine when the clutch is in an engaged position. A controller monitors the states of the battery and the main rotors and controls the operations of the engine and the clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Woo Suk Jung, Hee Kwang Lee, Hyun Seok Hong, Hyun Woo Jun
  • Publication number: 20220123675
    Abstract: A method for determining a motor angle, may include deriving a sensor weight and a sensorless weight via a cross product of an actual current vector and a model-based sensored current vector and a cross product of the actual current vector and a model-based sensorless current vector; and determining a final motor angle by applying the sensor weight and the sensorless weight to each of a sensored angle and a sensorless angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, POSTECH Research and Business Development Foundation
    Inventors: Hee Kwang Lee, Hyun Seok Hong, Kwang Hee Nam, Tae Yeon Lee
  • Publication number: 20220103042
    Abstract: A motor apparatus has a cooling structure capable of effectively cooling the motor by inducing a fluid flow into the motor. In particular, the motor apparatus includes: a first part having a first flow path and a motor installed thereon; a second part having a second flow path and configured to be rotatably mounted on the first part and connected to the motor; and a turbine portion coupled to the second part and including disks stacked on one another forming spaces therebetween. When the turbine portion is rotated together with the second part, air is drawn through the first flow path or the second flow path and introduced into an opening hole of each of the disks, and the air is discharged into the spaces formed between the respective disks to cool the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyun Seok HONG, Woo Suk JUNG, Hyun Su CHO, Sang Hyun JUNG, Hee Kwang LEE
  • Patent number: 10536215
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for a carrier aggregation (CA) operation using a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) carrier and a Time Division Duplex (TDD) carrier in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving downlink signals via downlink FDD TDD CA using a first carrier operated in an FDD mode and a second carrier operated in a TDD mode and transmitting, via the first carrier, uplink signals corresponding to the downlink signals received via the first and second carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee-Kwang Lee, Il-Won Kwon, Jung-Ah Choi, Jae-Ho Jeon
  • Patent number: 10313004
    Abstract: An apparatus for a terminal in a wireless communication system includes a receiver configured to receive frame configuration information used by a second carrier which is operated using a Time Division Duplex (TDD) scheme and receive downlink data through downlink TDD-Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) Carrier Aggregation (CA) using a first carrier and the second carrier operated using an FDD scheme and a transmitter configured to transmit uplink data via the first carrier. The downlink data received via the second carrier is received through a downlink subframe identified by the frame configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee-Kwang Lee, Il-Won Kwon, Seung-Joo Maeng, Jae-Ho Jeon, Jung-Ah Choi
  • Patent number: 10149170
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling an adaptive flow in a wireless communication system is provided. A method of a master base station in a wireless communication system, in which base stations having different cell sizes coexist, comprises the steps of: receiving load information from at least one other base station, receiving channel information about the at least one other base station from a terminal connected to the master base station, determining a secondary base station capable of load sharing for the terminal on basis of the channel information and the load information, and requesting, from the terminal, a further connection to the secondary base station. Offloading for downlink transmission of the terminal is determined based on the load information of a small cell. Furthermore, a resource distribution ratio for downlink transmission of the terminal is determined based on channel quality information reported from the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Il-Jin Youn, Il-Won Kwon, Hee-Kwang Lee, Jung-Ah Choi
  • Patent number: 9794799
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for performing carrier aggregation (CA) using a plurality of almost blank subframe (ABS) patterns in a macro enhanced Node B (eNB) of a wireless communication system connected to a heterogeneous network. An ABS pattern having a different pattern is determined for each component carrier (CC), when two or more carriers are deployed in each of the macro eNB and at least one small cell eNB. A serving cell for each user equipment (UE) is determined for each CC, from among a macro cell and a small cell. CA is performed for data transmission to each UE using the determined ABS pattern, in accordance with each determined serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hee-Kwang Lee, Il-Won Kwon, Jung-Ah Choi
  • Publication number: 20170215076
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling an adaptive flow in a wireless communication system is provided. A method of a master base station in a wireless communication system, in which base stations having different cell sizes coexist, comprises the steps of: receiving load information from at least one other base station, receiving channel information about the at least one other base station from a terminal connected to the master base station, determining a secondary base station capable of load sharing for the terminal on basis of the channel information and the load information, and requesting, from the terminal, a further connection to the secondary base station. Offloading for downlink transmission of the terminal is determined based on the load information of a small cell. Furthermore, a resource distribution ratio for downlink transmission of the terminal is determined based on channel quality information reported from the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Il-Jin YOUN, Il-Won KWON, Hee-Kwang LEE, Jung-Ah CHOI
  • Patent number: 9699794
    Abstract: Performing scheduling operations by a centralized scheduler in a wireless communication system. Receiving Channel State Information (CSI) about a channel between each of a plurality of Transmission Points (TPs) and each of a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) performing communication with each of the plurality of TPs from each of the plurality of TPs, performing a first scheduling operation for allocating wireless resources to each of the plurality of TPs based on the CSI received from each of the plurality of TPs, and transmitting first scheduling information representing a result of the first scheduling operation to each of the plurality of TPs. The first scheduling information contains transmission power information representing transmission power for each of the wireless resources allocated to each of the plurality of TPs, and is used to perform a second scheduling operation to select a UE to communicate with each of the plurality of TPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee-Kwang Lee, Ho-Joong Kwon, June Moon
  • Publication number: 20170117956
    Abstract: An apparatus for a terminal in a wireless communication system includes a receiver configured to receive frame configuration information used by a second carrier which is operated using a Time Division Duplex (TDD) scheme and receive downlink data through downlink TDD-Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) Carrier Aggregation (CA) using a first carrier and the second carrier operated using an FDD scheme and a transmitter configured to transmit uplink data via the first carrier. The downlink data received via the second carrier is received through a downlink subframe identified by the frame configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Hee-Kwang LEE, Il-Won KWON, Seung-Joo MAENG, Jae-Ho JEON, Jung-Ah CHOI