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).
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Publication number: 20220340286Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2021Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Kia CorporationInventors: Woo Suk Jung, Sang Hyun Jung, Byung Wook Chang, Keun Seok Lee, Hee Kwang Lee
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Publication number: 20220204172Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Hyun Ki CHO, Hyun Woo JUN, Hee Kwang LEE
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Publication number: 20220200419Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Hyun Seok HONG, Sang Hyun JUNG, Hee Kwang LEE
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Publication number: 20220194566Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Hee Kwang LEE, Hyun Seok Hong, Hyun Ki Cho
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Publication number: 20220200265Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Yoon Cheol JEON, Hyun Woo JUN, Hee Kwang LEE, Hyun Ki CHO, Gwi Taek KIM, Hyun Seok HONG, Woo Suk JUNG
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Publication number: 20220194618Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Sang Hyun Jung, Jae Young Choi, Hee Kwang Lee, Chung Sik Yim, Kyu Hoon Cho
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Publication number: 20220181936Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Hyun Woo JUN, Woo Suk JUNG, Hyun Seok HONG, Hee Kwang LEE
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Publication number: 20220149456Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Hyun Woo JUN, Woo Suk Jung, Hee Kwang Lee, Hyun Seok Hong
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Publication number: 20220144443Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Hee Kwang LEE, Hyun Seok HONG, Woo Suk JUNG, Keun Seok LEE, Hyun Woo JUN
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Publication number: 20220126998Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Woo Suk JUNG, Hee Kwang LEE, Hyun Seok HONG, Hyun Woo JUN
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Publication number: 20220119100Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Woo Suk Jung, Hee Kwang Lee, Hyun Seok Hong, Hyun Woo Jun
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Publication number: 20220123675Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, POSTECH Research and Business Development FoundationInventors: Hee Kwang Lee, Hyun Seok Hong, Kwang Hee Nam, Tae Yeon Lee
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Publication number: 20220103042Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Hyun Seok HONG, Woo Suk JUNG, Hyun Su CHO, Sang Hyun JUNG, Hee Kwang LEE
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Patent number: 10536215Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hee-Kwang Lee, Il-Won Kwon, Jung-Ah Choi, Jae-Ho Jeon
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Patent number: 10313004Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hee-Kwang Lee, Il-Won Kwon, Seung-Joo Maeng, Jae-Ho Jeon, Jung-Ah Choi
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Patent number: 10149170Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Il-Jin Youn, Il-Won Kwon, Hee-Kwang Lee, Jung-Ah Choi
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Patent number: 9794799Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Hee-Kwang Lee, Il-Won Kwon, Jung-Ah Choi
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Publication number: 20170215076Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Il-Jin YOUN, Il-Won KWON, Hee-Kwang LEE, Jung-Ah CHOI
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Patent number: 9699794Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hee-Kwang Lee, Ho-Joong Kwon, June Moon
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Publication number: 20170117956Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2015Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: Hee-Kwang LEE, Il-Won KWON, Seung-Joo MAENG, Jae-Ho JEON, Jung-Ah CHOI