Patents by Inventor Ho-Bin Im
Ho-Bin Im 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: 20240154508Abstract: The present invention relates to a brushless motor, and more particularly, to a brushless motor capable of cogging torque and torque ripples of the motor by means of design structures such as a shape of an opposing surface of a pole shoe, a shape of an outer circumferential surface of a rotor, and shapes and arrangement of permanent magnets.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Seong Kook CHO, Hyeon Jae SHIN, Ho Bin IM
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Patent number: 11965684Abstract: An inverter module according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a high voltage circuit unit which generates an inverter control voltage and a motor driving voltage by using a first DC voltage; a high voltage circuit pattern which electrically connects the high voltage circuit unit; a low voltage circuit unit which communicates with an external device by using a second DC voltage having a smaller magnitude than the first DC voltage; and a low voltage circuit pattern which electrically connects the low voltage circuit unit. The high voltage circuit pattern and the low voltage circuit pattern are spaced apart from each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Tae Hyeong Kim, Eun Seok Kang, Sung Jun Park, Chan Song, Seung Hwan Shin, Ho Bin Im, Min Gyo Jung
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Waterproof with inverter housing having connector mounting portion for accommodating sealing members
Patent number: 11496019Abstract: The present invention may provide a motor comprising an inverter housing in which a substrate is disposed, a connector which is mounted on the inverter housing and electrically connects the substrate and a cable and wherein the connector includes a body and a first terminal coupled to the body, one side of the first terminal is in electrical contact with the substrate, the other side of the first terminal is in contact with the cable, wherein the inverter housing includes a connector mounting portion which accommodate the body of the connector, sealing members seal a gap between the connector mounting portion and the connector.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Ho Bin Im, Ho Youn Kim, Hyeon Jae Shin, Jae Won Lee, Kyung Hun Jung, Seong Kook Cho -
Patent number: 11381144Abstract: The present invention relates to a brushless motor, and an objective of the present invention is to provide a brushless motor which can significantly reduce the cogging torque and torque ripple of the motor by minimizing the rate of change of magnetoresistance in accordance with a change in position of a rotor through the optimization of the shape design of the rotor and a stator, and can also reduce the weight of the brushless motor through the optimization of the shape design taking into consideration the materials of the rotor and the stator.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Hyeon Jae Shin, Seong Kook Cho, Ho Youn Kim, Jae Won Lee, Ho Bin Im, Kyung Hun Jung
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Publication number: 20210381737Abstract: An inverter module according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a high voltage circuit unit which generates an inverter control voltage and a motor driving voltage by using a first DC voltage; a high voltage circuit pattern which electrically connects the high voltage circuit unit; a low voltage circuit unit which communicates with an external device by using a second DC voltage having a smaller magnitude than the first DC voltage; and a low voltage circuit pattern which electrically connects the low voltage circuit unit. The high voltage circuit pattern and the low voltage circuit pattern are spaced apart from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2019Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Tae Hyeong KIM, Eun Seok KANG, Sung Jun PARK, Chan SONG, Seung Hwan SHIN, Ho Bin IM, Min Gyo JUNG
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Patent number: 11146148Abstract: The present invention relates to a BLDC motor integrated with an inverter, having a motor and an inverter part that are integrally formed, and to a BLDC motor integrated with an inverter, having an improved arrangement of switching elements mounted on a PCB substrate of an inverter part and three phase terminals of a stator coil such that the inverter part including the PCB substrate can be compactly formed.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Ho Bin Im, Hee Kwon Park, Hyeon Jae Shin, Jae Won Lee, Kyung Hun Jung, Seong Kook Cho, Ho Youn Kim
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Patent number: 11108347Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a motor rotor control device and method capable of reducing noise caused by the alignment of a motor rotor, and securing stability of staring a motor. The motor rotor control device in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a motor having a rotor; an inverter for supplying a three-phase alternating-current voltage to the motor; and a control unit for estimating the initial location of the rotor upon the initial driving of the motor, correcting the location of the rotor by a predetermined angle from the estimated initial location, and then driving the motor.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Pureunsam Park, Ho Bin Im, Sang Hun Kim, Won Seok Kim, Tae Wan Kim, Sung Joon Lee
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Publication number: 20210091690Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a motor rotor control device and method capable of reducing noise caused by the alignment of a motor rotor, and securing stability of staring a motor. The motor rotor control device in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a motor having a rotor; an inverter for supplying a three-phase alternating-current voltage to the motor; and a control unit for estimating the initial location of the rotor upon the initial driving of the motor, correcting the location of the rotor by a predetermined angle from the estimated initial location, and then driving the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2017Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Pureunsam PARK, Ho Bin IM, Sang Hun KIM, Won Seok KIM, Tae Wan KIM, Sung Joon LEE
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Patent number: 10879753Abstract: Disclosed is a BLDC motor, including: a stator which is provided with a plurality of teeth extending toward an inner side of a core and pole shoes each extending to be formed at radial inner end parts of the teeth; and rotors which are disposed at an inner side of the stator surrounded by the pole shoes while being spaced apart from the stator and have a plurality of permanent magnets coupled to cores thereof. Inner circumferential surfaces of the circumferential end parts of the pole shoe may be formed so that a distance of the inner circumferential surfaces of the circumferential end parts of the pole shoe from the outer circumferential surface of the rotor increases as the inner circumferential surfaces of the circumferential both end parts of the pole shoe is far away circumferentially from a central line CL of the pole shoe.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Hyeon Jae Shin, Ho Bin Im, Kyung Hun Jung, Seong Kook Cho, Jae Kyoung Jin
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Patent number: 10749413Abstract: Provided is an inverter built-in BLDC motor including: an inverter housing having one side coupled to a motor, an inside formed to be hollow, and the other side formed to be open, and having a PCB substrate provided in the hollow portion; a bearing mounted in a bearing mounting portion of the inverter housing and having a rotating shaft of a rotor of the motor rotatably coupled thereto; and a bearing cover coupled to a bearing mounting groove of the bearing mounting portion mounted with the bearing and formed to close an opening portion of the bearing mounting groove on an inner bottom surface of the inverter housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Ho Bin Im, Sang Hun Kim, Tae Wan Kim, Hee Kwon Park, Kyung Hun Jung, Seong Kook Cho
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Publication number: 20200091806Abstract: The present invention relates to a brushless motor, and an objective of the present invention is to provide a brushless motor which can significantly reduce the cogging torque and torque ripple of the motor by minimizing the rate of change of magnetoresistance in accordance with a change in position of a rotor through the optimization of the shape design of the rotor and a stator, and can also reduce the weight of the brushless motor through the optimization of the shape design taking into consideration the materials of the rotor and the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Hyeon Jae SHIN, Seong Kook CHO, Ho Youn KIM, Jae Won LEE, Ho Bin IM, Kyung Hun JUNG
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Patent number: 10574120Abstract: Provided is an inverter built-in brushless direct current (BLDC) motor, in which an inverter housing and a cover are coupled to each other by having a connector block interposed therebetween, a sealing portion formed in the connector block seals between a circumference in a height direction and a length direction of the connector block and an inner side surface of the inverter housing and the cover, and a space between an electric wire penetrating through an electric wire through hole and the connector block, thereby simplifying parts for forming a watertight structure, easily sealing between the inverter unit and the connector block and sealing between the connector block and the electric wire, and reducing a package size including a connector block assembling part formed in the inverter unit and the connector block.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Ho Bin Im, Sang Hun Kim, Tae Wan Kim, Hee Kwon Park, Kyung Hun Jung, Seong Kook Cho
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Publication number: 20200052547Abstract: The present invention may provide a motor comprising an inverter housing in which a substrate is disposed, a connector which is mounted on the inverter housing and electrically connects the substrate and a cable and wherein the connector includes a body and a first terminal coupled to the body, one side of the first terminal is in electrical contact with the substrate, the other side of the first terminal is in contact with the cable, wherein the inverter housing includes a connector mounting portion which accommodate the body of the connector, sealing members seal a gap between the connector mounting portion and the connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Ho Bin IM, Ho Youn KIM, Hyeon Jae SHIN, Jae Won LEE, Kyung Hun JUNG, Seong Kook CHO
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Publication number: 20190386547Abstract: The present invention relates to a BLDC motor integrated with an inverter, having a motor and an inverter part that are integrally formed, and to a BLDC motor integrated with an inverter, having an improved arrangement of switching elements mounted on a PCB substrate of an inverter part and three phase terminals of a stator coil such that the inverter part including the PCB substrate can be compactly formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2018Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Ho Bin IM, Hee Kwon PARK, Hyeon Jae SHIN, Jae Won LEE, Kyung Hun JUNG, Seong Kook CHO, Ho Youn KIM
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Patent number: 10483819Abstract: Disclosed herein is a stator assembly for a motor. The stator assembly comprises a stator core having a plurality of teeth around each of which a stator coil is wound, a first insulator coupled to one side of the stator core to provide insulation between one tooth and an adjacent tooth, a second insulator coupled to the other side of the stator core to provide insulation between one tooth and an adjacent tooth, and a three-phase terminal inserted between the stator core and the second insulator and protruded partially to the outside of the second insulator to be electrically connected to an inverter. According to the present invention, there are advantageous effects that since the three-phase terminal is assembled between insulators, breakaway and breakage of the three-phase terminal can be prevented and that insulation effect and assembly capability thereof are enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Ho Bin Im, Eun Seok Kang, Sang Hun Kim, Tae Wan Kim, Hee Kwon Park, Seong Kook Cho, Kyung Hun Jung
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Publication number: 20190245395Abstract: Disclosed is a BLDC motor, including: a stator which is provided with a plurality of teeth extending toward an inner side of a core and pole shoes each extending to be formed at radial inner end parts of the teeth; and rotors which are disposed at an inner side of the stator surrounded by the pole shoes while being spaced apart from the stator and have a plurality of permanent magnets coupled to cores thereof. Inner circumferential surfaces of the circumferential end parts of the pole shoe may be formed so that a distance of the inner circumferential surfaces of the circumferential end parts of the pole shoe from the outer circumferential surface of the rotor increases as the inner circumferential surfaces of the circumferential both end parts of the pole shoe is far away circumferentially from a central line CL of the pole shoe.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2017Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Hyeon Jae SHIN, Ho Bin IM, Kyung Hun JUNG, Seong Kook CHO, Jae Kyoung JIN
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Patent number: 10205354Abstract: A brushless motor includes a rotor in which permanent magnets are provided on an inner circumferential surface of a rotor core, and a stator in which teeth are provided on respective ends of stator cores around each of which a coil is wound. Each of the teeth is formed such that the distance between a facing surface which faces the permanent magnet and an inner circumferential surface of the permanent magnet is increased from the center of the tooth to the end thereof. Therefore, the rate of variation in magnetic resistance in response to variation in position of the rotor can be minimized, whereby cogging torque can be markedly reduced.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: HANON SYSTEMSInventors: Seong Kook Cho, Eun Seok Kang, Ho Bin Im, Kyung Hun Jung
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Publication number: 20180048218Abstract: Provided is an inverter built-in brushless direct current (BLDC) motor, in which an inverter housing and a cover are coupled to each other by having a connector block interposed therebetween, a sealing portion formed in the connector block seals between a circumference in a height direction and a length direction of the connector block and an inner side surface of the inverter housing and the cover, and a space between an electric wire penetrating through an electric wire through hole and the connector block, thereby simplifying parts for forming a watertight structure, easily sealing between the inverter unit and the connector block and sealing between the connector block and the electric wire, and reducing a package size including a connector block assembling part formed in the inverter unit and the connector block.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Ho Bin Im, Sang Hun Kim, Tae Wan Kim, Hee Kwon Park, Kyung Hun Jung, Seong Kook Cho
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Publication number: 20180048219Abstract: Provided is an inverter built-in BLDC motor including: an inverter housing having one side coupled to a motor, an inside formed to be hollow, and the other side formed to be open, and having a PCB substrate provided in the hollow portion; a bearing mounted in a bearing mounting portion of the inverter housing and having a rotating shaft of a rotor of the motor rotatably coupled thereto; and a bearing cover coupled to a bearing mounting groove of the bearing mounting portion mounted with the bearing and formed to close an opening portion of the bearing mounting groove on an inner bottom surface of the inverter housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Ho Bin Im, Sang Hun Kim, Tae Wan Kim, Hee Kwon Park, Kyung Hun Jung, Seong Kook Cho
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Publication number: 20170353070Abstract: Disclosed herein is a stator assembly for a motor. The stator assembly comprises a stator core having a plurality of teeth around each of which a stator coil is wound, a first insulator coupled to one side of the stator core to provide insulation between one tooth and an adjacent tooth, a second insulator coupled to the other side of the stator core to provide insulation between one tooth and an adjacent tooth, and a three-phase terminal inserted between the stator core and the second insulator and protruded partially to the outside of the second insulator to be electrically connected to an inverter. According to the present invention, there are advantageous effects that since the three-phase terminal is assembled between insulators, breakaway and breakage of the three-phase terminal can be prevented and that insulation effect and assembly capability thereof are enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Ho Bin IM, Eun Seok KANG, Sang Hun KIM, Tae Wan KIM, Hee Kwon PARK, Seong Kook CHO, Kyung Hun JUNG