Patents by Inventor Hoo Taek Cho

Hoo Taek Cho 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).

  • Patent number: 9013211
    Abstract: A head lamp system may include a head lamp that may be provided with a headlight and a spotlight unit including a plurality of optical modules having different irradiation regions in front of a vehicle, wherein an optical module of the plurality of optical modules, which has a irradiation region that corresponds to a position of an obstacle in front of the vehicle, blinks, and a blink period of the optical module may be changed according to a vehicle speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, SL Lighting Corporation
    Inventors: Byoung Suk Ahn, Hoo Taek Cho, Hak Bong Kim, Sun Kyoung Park
  • Patent number: 8720932
    Abstract: A hitch receiver apparatus for a vehicle is provided in which a hitch receiver is disposed without being directly connected with a rear back beam, such that the hitch receiver is kept in the rear back beam when not being used, and the hitch receiver protrudes down under the rear back beam when using the function of a trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Nam Cheol Kim, Seung Mok Lee, Dong Eun Cha, Hoo Taek Cho, Kyoon Soo Lim
  • Patent number: 8696044
    Abstract: A cargo screen of a vehicle luggage room, the cargo screen may include a housing mounted at an upper portion of the vehicle luggage room in a horizontal direction and having a central portion to be foldable, a roller rotatably installed in the housing and having a cut central portion to be foldable, and a screen wound around an outer peripheral surface of the roller in the housing through a cut hole thereof or selectively unwound to the outside of the housing to cover the vehicle luggage room, and having a cut central portion to be foldable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jae Hwan Kim, Seong Hyeon Lee, Yong Chae Kim, Jae Yong Lee, Moon Gyu Park, Min Ho Cho, Sang Woo Park, Eun Jeong Yang, Hyoung Shin, Ah Sal Moon, Jae Hak Joo, Hoo Taek Cho, Jin Ho Hwang, Hak Song Lim, Eun Su Jang
  • Patent number: 8678461
    Abstract: A storage apparatus for a vehicle may include a rear back beam installed to be drawn out from a rear bumper while sliding to a rear side of the vehicle, and a pair of left and right storage boxes installed to be seated on the rear back beam and extending while sliding in a traverse direction of the vehicle when the rear back beam may be drawn out to the rear side of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Dong Eun Cha, Seung Mok Lee, Hun Soo Kim, Hoo Taek Cho, Jeong Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8602467
    Abstract: A storage apparatus for a vehicle can maximize a space use of a vehicle by a structure in which the storage apparatus is mounted by using an inner space of a rear bumper, in particular, greatly improving the value of commodities of the vehicle by using a bumper door as a step or a bench at the time of opening a storage case or using articles while putting the articles on the opened bumper door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Seung Mok Lee, Nae Ung Jang, Hee Chan Yang, Nam Cheol Kim, Kwang Jae Choi, Jo Han Kim, Yong Won Jeong, Seung Hwan Lee, Cheol O Kim, Ki Tae Kim, Myung Eun Kim, Hun Soo Kim, Hoo Taek Cho, Dong Eun Cha, Jeong Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8602439
    Abstract: A hitch receiver apparatus for a vehicle may include a hitch guide-hole formed in a storage box provided in an inner space of a rear bumper, the hitch guide-hole extending in a traverse direction of the vehicle; and a hitch receiver rotatably coupled to the storage box and selectively is received into or taken out through the hitch guide-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Seung Mok Lee, Nae Ung Jang, Dong Eun Cha, Nam Cheol Kim, Hoo Taek Cho
  • Patent number: 8602618
    Abstract: An intelligent head lamp assembly for a vehicle may include a light source to irradiate light, a reflector reflecting the light irradiated from the light source, a beam pattern variable unit having at least a digital micro-mirror device (DMD) that selectively change direction of the light reflected by the reflector to a predetermined angle, and a projection lens optical system irradiating the light selectively reflected by the beam pattern variable unit onto a road surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Byoung Suk Ahn, Hoo Taek Cho, Young Sub Oh, Jong Ryoul Park, Myong Guan Jeong
  • Patent number: 8596507
    Abstract: A storage apparatus for a vehicle may include a rear bumper having a back beam mounted under an inner space thereof, and a storage case provided in a space above the rear bumper, having a portion exposed to the outside formed so as to coincide with an outer surface of the rear bumper, and drawn-out/drawn-in by being slid to the outside in a state in which a load is supported above the back beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Seung Mok Lee, Nae Ung Jang, Hee Chan Yang, Dong Eun Cha, Nam Cheol Kim, Kwang Jae Choi, Jo Han Kim, Yong Won Jeong, Seung Hwan Lee, Cheol O Kim, Ki Tae Kim, Myung Eun Kim, Hun Soo Kim, Hoo Taek Cho, Jeong Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20130147157
    Abstract: A hitch receiver apparatus for a vehicle may include a hitch guide-hole formed in a storage box provided in an inner space of a rear bumper, the hitch guide-hole extending in a traverse direction of the vehicle; and a hitch receiver rotatably coupled to the storage box and selectively is received into or taken out through the hitch guide-hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Seung Mok Lee, Nae Ung Jang, Dong Eun Cha, Nam Cheol Kim, Hoo Taek Cho
  • Publication number: 20130134690
    Abstract: A hitch receiver apparatus for a vehicle is provided in which a hitch receiver is disposed without being directly connected with a rear back beam, such that the hitch receiver is kept in the rear back beam when not being used, and the hitch receiver protrudes down under the rear back beam when using the function of a trailer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Nam Cheol Kim, Seung Mok Lee, Dong Eun Cha, Hoo Taek Cho, Kyoon Soo Lim
  • Publication number: 20130134734
    Abstract: A cargo screen of a vehicle luggage room, the cargo screen may include a housing mounted at an upper portion of the vehicle luggage room in a horizontal direction and having a central portion to be foldable, a roller rotatably installed in the housing and having a cut central portion to be foldable, and a screen wound around an outer peripheral surface of the roller in the housing through a cut hole thereof or selectively unwound to the outside of the housing to cover the vehicle luggage room, and having a cut central portion to be foldable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jae Hwan Kim, Seong Hyeon Lee, Yong Chae Kim, Jae Yong Lee, Moon Gyu Park, Min Ho Cho, Sang Woo Park, Eun Jeong Yang, Hyoung Shin, Ah Sal Moon, Jae Hak Joo, Hoo Taek Cho, Jin Ho Hwang, Hak Song Lim, Eun Su Jang
  • Publication number: 20130119862
    Abstract: A head lamp system may include a head lamp that may be provided with a headlight and a spotlight unit including a plurality of optical modules having different irradiation regions in front of a vehicle, wherein an optical module of the plurality of optical modules, which has a irradiation region that corresponds to a position of an obstacle in front of the vehicle, blinks, and a blink period of the optical module may be changed according to a vehicle speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicants: SL LIGHTING CORPORATION, HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Byoung Suk Ahn, Hoo Taek Cho, Hak Bong Kim, Sun Kyoung Park
  • Patent number: 8418902
    Abstract: A telescopic bicycle carrier installed on a vehicle so as to be able to load a bicycle outside the vehicle, may include a guide rail located inside a bumper of the vehicle and fixed to an end of a body of the vehicle, a guide frame slidably installed on the guide rail along a lengthwise direction of the vehicle, a pair of expansion brackets installed on lateral sides of the guide frame and slidable toward or away from each other with respect to the guide frame in a widthwise direction of the vehicle through the guide frame, bicycle wheel fixtures pivotally installed on the pair of expansion brackets to fix wheels of the loaded bicycle, and bicycle body fixtures pivotally installed on the pair of expansion brackets to fix a body of the loaded bicycle, wherein the pair of expansion brackets may be received inside the bumper along with the guide frame in a retracted state where the expansion brackets slide toward each other into the guide frame, and may be extracted from the bumper along with the guide frame if
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Dong Eun Cha, Seung Mok Lee, Sung Won Kim, Hun Soo Kim, Hoo Taek Cho
  • Publication number: 20130088036
    Abstract: A storage apparatus for a vehicle can maximize a space use of a vehicle by a structure in which the storage apparatus is mounted by using an inner space of a rear bumper, in particular, greatly improving the value of commodities of the vehicle by using a bumper door as a step or a bench at the time of opening a storage case or using articles while putting the articles on the opened bumper door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Seung Mok LEE, Nae Ung JANG, Hee Chan YANG, Nam Cheol KIM, Kwang Jae CHOI, Jo Han KIM, Yong Won JEONG, Seung Hwan LEE, Cheol O KIM, Ki Tae KIM, Myung Eun KIM, Hun Soo KIM, Hoo Taek CHO, Dong Eun CHA, Jeong Ho LEE
  • Publication number: 20130088034
    Abstract: A storage apparatus for a vehicle may include a rear back beam installed to be drawn out from a rear bumper while sliding to a rear side of the vehicle, and a pair of left and right storage boxes installed to be seated on the rear back beam and extending while sliding in a traverse direction of the vehicle when the rear back beam may be drawn out to the rear side of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Dong Eun Cha, Seung Mok Lee, Hun Soo Kim, Hoo Taek Cho, Jeong Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20130087590
    Abstract: A storage apparatus for a vehicle may include a rear bumper having a back beam mounted under an inner space thereof, and a storage case provided in a space above the rear bumper, having a portion exposed to the outside formed so as to coincide with an outer surface of the rear bumper, and drawn-out/drawn-in by being slid to the outside in a state in which a load is supported above the back beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Seung Mok Lee, Nae Ung Jang, Hee Chan Yang, Dong Eun Cha, Nam Cheol Kim, Kwang Jae Choi, Jo Han Kim, Yong Won Jeong, Seung Hwan Lee, Cheol O. Kim, Ki Tae Kim, Myung Eun Kim, Hun Soo Kim, Hoo Taek Cho, Jeong Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8414365
    Abstract: An air intake method and system of an air conditioner for a vehicle may include a temperature measuring step, a speed sensing step, a blower sensing step, and a simultaneous indoor and outdoor air intake step. The air intake system includes a water temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of cooling water of the vehicle, a speed sensor for measuring the speed of the vehicle, a control switch for turning on or off a blower, a control unit and an intake actuator. The control unit receives the temperature measured by the water temperature sensor, the speed measured by the speed sensor and ON/OFF data from the control switch, thus determining whether to simultaneously draw indoor and outdoor air in or not. The intake actuator provides driving force so that an indoor and outdoor air control door simultaneously opens indoor and outdoor air inlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corp.
    Inventors: Hoo Taek Cho, Yong Chul Kim
  • Publication number: 20120141764
    Abstract: A multi-glass fiber bonded high-strength plastic back beam for a vehicle bumper, which may be made of glass fiber and thermoplastic resin, may include a first fiber resin layer in which long fiber or short fiber may be bonded with thermoplastic resin, and a second fiber resin layer in which continuous fiber may be bonded with thermoplastic resin, wherein, when the first fiber resin layer may be independently attached onto the second fiber resin layer by heating, the long fiber or short fiber of the first fiber resin layer may be configured not to permeate between the continuous fibers of the second fiber resin layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, LG Hausys, Ltd., Kia Motors Corp.
    Inventors: Seung Mok Lee, Nae Ung Jang, Dong Eun Cha, Hun Soo Kim, Hoo Taek Cho, Hee June Kim, Gi Hune Jung
  • Publication number: 20120127747
    Abstract: An intelligent head lamp assembly for a vehicle may include a light source to irradiate light, a reflector reflecting the light irradiated from the light source, a beam pattern variable unit having at least a digital micro-mirror device (DMD) that selectively change direction of the light reflected by the reflector to a predetermined angle, and a projection lens optical system irradiating the light selectively reflected by the beam pattern variable unit onto a road surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Byoung Suk AHN, Hoo Taek Cho, Young Sub Oh
  • Publication number: 20120074118
    Abstract: A vehicle heating system using a PTC heater is provided, which includes an input unit for inputting set temperatures of a driver seat and a passenger seat, a control unit outputting PWM control signals so as to control respective outputs of a left heat source portion and a right heat source portion formed in the PTC heater based on the set temperatures input through the input unit, and a power supply unit supplying power to the left heat source portion and the right heat source portion, respectively, in accordance with the PWM control signals output from the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicants: KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Yong Chul KIM, Tae Kun Kim, Hoo Taek Cho