Patents by Inventor Hyun Seok Hong

Hyun Seok Hong 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: 11939049
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Woo Suk Jung, Hee Kwang Lee, Hyun Seok Hong, Hyun Woo Jun
  • Patent number: 11942615
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Woo Jun, Woo Suk Jung, Hee Kwang Lee, Hyun Seok Hong
  • Publication number: 20240098172
    Abstract: A method and electronic device for executing application concurrently with other devices are provided. An address of an external electronic device and a location of an application is obtained. A connection is established with a device using a short-range communication protocol. The application is obtained and executed in conjunction with the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Chang-Ryong HEO, Hyun-Seok SHIN, Ji-Hyun PARK, Sung-Hyuk SHIN, Myung-Gon HONG
  • Patent number: 11905004
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Woo Suk Jung, Hee Kwang Lee, Hyun Seok Hong, Hyun Woo Jun
  • Patent number: 11711001
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Seok Hong, Sang Hyun Jung, Hee Kwang Lee
  • Patent number: 11705769
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Woo Jun, Woo Suk Jung, Hyun Seok Hong, Hee Kwang Lee
  • Patent number: 11670982
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyun Seok Hong, Woo Suk Jung, Hyun Su Cho, Sang Hyun Jung, Hee Kwang Lee
  • Patent number: 11664652
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignees: 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
  • Patent number: 11591082
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Woo Suk Jung, Hee Kwang Lee, Hyun Seok Hong, Hyun Woo Jun
  • Patent number: 11581834
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: 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: 20230020198
    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: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Woo Suk Jung, Hee Kwang Lee, Hyun Seok Hong, Hyun Woo Jun
  • Patent number: 11512973
    Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance device includes: a sensing unit configured to capture a front image of a running vehicle; a processor configured to detect a lane by using the front image and estimate the lane by detecting objects around a road, on which the vehicle is running, by using the sensing unit; and an output unit configured to output the estimated lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventors: Sahng-gyu Park, Hyun-seok Hong, Myung-sik Kim
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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