Patents by Inventor Jin-ho Hwang

Jin-ho Hwang 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: 20210129745
    Abstract: A method of controlling a pattern skin lighting device for a vehicle is provided. The method includes generating a plurality of random numbers and accumulating the number of continuous turn-on times for each lightening cell in an arrangement of the lightening cells configuring a pattern skin lighting device. Additionally, the method includes selecting a turn-on target lightening cell, lightening cells having an accumulative value of the number of continuous turn-on times that is a predetermined reference value or less, among the lightening cells corresponding to the generated random number, and turning on a light emitting element of the selected turn-on target lightening cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Dong Eun Cha, Jin Ho Hwang, Sang Heon Lee, Julliana Cho, Jin Seok Seo, Byoung Oh Choi
  • Publication number: 20210129744
    Abstract: A pattern skin lighting device of a vehicle may include a plurality of lightning cells disposed on a plane while forming a predetermined pattern. Each lightning cell includes a light emitting element, a cell pocket configured to surround the light emitting element, a cell cover configured to be pivotable with respect to the cell pocket while surrounding the light emitting element within the cell pocket, and an actuator engaged to an end of the cell cover and configured to selectively pivot the cell cover with respect to the cell pocket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Eun CHA, Jin Ho Hwang, Sang Heon Lee, Julliana Cho, Jin Seok Seo, Byoung Oh Choi
  • Publication number: 20210114480
    Abstract: A parking guidance system of a parking lot includes: a first license plate number recognizing device recognizing a license plate number of a vehicle entering or exiting from a parking lot; and a server classifying a priority of the vehicle and distinguishing whether the vehicle is a parking or charging use vehicle based on the license plate number, assigning a parking or charging spot based on at least one of the classified priority, information on whether the vehicle is the parking use vehicle or the charging use vehicle, or information on remaining parking spots and remaining charging spots, providing a guidance on a position of the assigned parking spot or charging spot to the vehicle until the vehicle arrives at the position, and determining a parking fee or a charging fee of the vehicle and providing a guidance on the fee when the vehicle exits the parking lot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: SANG HEON LEE, JIN HO HWANG, Dong Eun Cha
  • Publication number: 20210078455
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle may include a plurality of seats rotatably provided on a vehicle floor of the vehicle; a console device rail provided between the plurality of seats and extending in a longitudinal direction thereof; and a console device mounted on the console device rail and configured for sliding between the plurality of seats along the console device rail, the console device mounted on the console device rail via a rotation shaft to be rotatable about the rotation shaft relative to the console device rail, wherein when the console device is slid along and rotated relative to the console device rail during rotation of the seat, the interference by the seats and the console device is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Ho HWANG, Dong Eun Cha, Sang Heon Lee
  • Publication number: 20210019714
    Abstract: A system for providing a vehicle part change service is provided, may include a server provided with part information related to changeable parts for a plurality of vehicle kinds, the server providing kinds of the changeable parts to a user terminal if a part change request for a specific vehicle kind is received from the user terminal, guiding a cost for a change target part through the user terminal if the corresponding part is selected through the user terminal and processing to transport the changed part to a service center, and outputting at least one of vehicle specification information or vehicle control data being changed due to the change of the part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Dong Eun Cha, Jin Ho Hwang, Sang Heon Lee
  • Publication number: 20200391661
    Abstract: A vehicle with an expandable space, may include a fixed floor being a floor of the vehicle; a moving floor slidably inserted into the fixed floor, being slid inside or outside the vehicle by operation of a driving unit, and forming the expanding space outside the vehicle by forming an outside floor connected to the fixed floor when sliding out; and assistant wheel assemblies, each having an assistant wheel that comes in contact with the ground when deployed and that separates from the ground when stowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Gorporation
    Inventors: Sang Heon Lee, Jin Ho Hwang, Dong Eun Cha
  • Publication number: 20200376988
    Abstract: A vehicle with a flat seat may include a floor portion having a leg groove recessed downward from a surface of the floor portion; a seatback disposed on the floor portion and reclining by a rotation of the lower end; a seat cushion disposed on the floor portion ahead of the seatback; and a leg cushion disposed in the leg groove of the floor portion and having a rear portion rotatably coupled to the seat cushion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Eun CHA, Jin Ho HWANG, Sang Heon LEE
  • Publication number: 20200376977
    Abstract: A vehicle battery exchange system includes: a battery charger configured to store multiple batteries therein, and including a first battery locking device that is configured to be unlocked when each of the batteries is withdrawn from the battery charger and is configured to be locked when the batteries are stored in the battery charger, the battery charger charging a battery among the stored batteries when a state-of-charge of the corresponding battery is insufficient; and a server configured to: communicate with the battery charger and a vehicle and guiding the vehicle to a position of the battery charger when a charge request is received from the vehicle, control the first battery locking device to be unlocked when the vehicle is authenticated, and control the first battery locking device to be locked when exchange of batteries between the authenticated vehicle and the battery charger is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Sang Heon Lee, Jin Ho Hwang, Dong Eun Cha
  • Publication number: 20200369126
    Abstract: A roof-storage-type sun visor includes a housing located inside a roof of a vehicle. The housing has a storage recess therein and a sun visor unit configured to be disposed along the storage recess. The sun visor unit includes a sun visor located so as to correspond to a windshield glass and includes multi-stage rails located at opposite sides of the sun visor. The sun visor is configured to be withdrawn outside the storage recess along the multi-stage rails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, Yong San Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Ho Hwang, Dae Ig Jung, Seung Hyeok Chang, Min Ho Cho, Hyung Jin Kim, Sang Hoon Lee
  • Publication number: 20200369122
    Abstract: A roof vent includes a roof disposed on a vehicle and a vent assembly. The vent assembly includes at least one vent unit disposed on the roof and configured to be popped up to the interior of the vehicle, a driving unit driving the vent unit, and at least one rack unit applying driving force of the driving unit to the vent unit. The vent unit is popped up or tilted by the driving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, NIFCO KOREA Inc., DAEHAN SOLUTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Ho Cho, Jin Ho Hwang, Hye Kyung Kim, Seung Hyeok Chang, Choong Ho Kwon, Geun Heung Kim, Woo Hyuk Kim, Soon Kyu Lee
  • Publication number: 20200369127
    Abstract: A withdrawal-type sun visor includes a housing received in a roof panel. The housing has a storage recess therein. The withdrawal-type sun visor also includes a sun visor assembly configured to be received in the housing and to be withdrawn along a windshield glass of a vehicle. The sun visor assembly includes a display unit having a display region and includes a discoloration unit configured to enclose at least a portion of the display unit. The transmissivity of the discoloration unit is adjustable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, Yong San Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Ho Hwang, Dae Ig Jung, Seung Hyeok Chang, Min Ho Cho, Hyung Jin Kim, Sang Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 10843744
    Abstract: A user-assemblable vehicle including: a platform module forming a bottom surface of the vehicle, and including a floor part provided with a power driving part and front and rear wheel parts provided on front and rear parts of the floor part, respectively; a front module coupled to a front part of the platform module to form a front part of the vehicle; a rear module coupled to a rear part of the platform module to form a rear part of the vehicle; and a cabin module having a space for accommodating passengers, being coupled to a rear end of the front module at a front end and coupled to a front end of the rear module at a rear end, and supported by the floor part of the platform module at a lower end when the cabin module slides from a side to an opposite side of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dong Eun Cha, Jin Ho Hwang, Sang Heon Lee
  • Publication number: 20200346574
    Abstract: A vehicle may include a door pivotally mounted to a vehicle body at a lower end portion of the door, to open or close an opening formed at a portion of one surface of the vehicle, while being configured to form a bottom surface connected to a floor of the vehicle in a state of completely pivoting toward an outside of the vehicle in accordance with an opening operation of the door, forming a terrace space connected to an internal compartment of the vehicle, and a seat slidably mounted in the internal compartment of the vehicle, to provide a seating compartment for passengers, while being configured to be slidable outwards toward the opening of the vehicle, providing a seating compartment in the terrace space when the terrace space is used in accordance with the opening operation of the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Dong Eun Cha, Jin Ho Hwang, Sang Heon Lee
  • Patent number: 10825880
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; a semiconductor on the substrate and including a driving channel; a first insulating layer on the semiconductor; a driving gate electrode on the first insulating layer and overlapping the driving channel; a second insulating layer on the driving gate electrode and the first insulating layer and including first and second dielectric constant layers, the second dielectric constant layer having a dielectric constant that is greater than that of the first dielectric constant layer; a storage electrode on the second insulating layer; a passivation layer covering the storage electrode and the second insulating layer; a pixel electrode on the passivation layer; an emission member on the pixel electrode; and a common electrode on the emission member, wherein the storage electrode overlaps the driving gate electrode, and wherein the storage electrode, the driving gate electrode and the second insulating layer therebetween form a storage capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Ho Hwang, Byeong-Beom Kim, Chul Min Bae, Woo-Seok Jeon
  • Publication number: 20200338994
    Abstract: A vehicle connected to a building and a vehicle-building connection system are disclosed. The vehicle includes a door, a vehicle energy storage unit configured to supply driving energy of the vehicle, a vehicle energy connection unit configured to exchange energy between the building and the vehicle energy storage unit, a data connection unit configured to transmit and receive data to and from the building, and a vehicle controller configured to execute any one or more of a connection mode, an energy mode, or a data mode according to an access level with the building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Dong Eun CHA, Jin Ho HWANG, Sang Heon LEE
  • Publication number: 20200338939
    Abstract: A mobility connection system including a left driveshaft and a right driveshaft having an internally hollow shaft shape, and connected to a left wheel portion and a right wheel portion, respectively; a connection shaft having a shaft shape provided inside the left driveshaft or inside the right driveshaft, and slid to the outside of a vehicle to be inserted into and coupled to the inside of the driveshaft of another vehicle which is disposed adjacent to the side thereof when the vehicle is laterally coupled to another vehicle; and a wheel detecting sensor provided at the left side or the right side of the vehicle, and for detecting whether the driveshafts facing each other when the vehicle is coupled to another vehicle have been aligned with each other or the spacing distance therebetween is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Heon Lee, Jin Ho Hwang, Dong Eun Cha
  • Publication number: 20200338993
    Abstract: A mobile carrier includes a carrier controller configured to check an amount of charge of a main battery of a vehicle through communication with a vehicle controller, to check an amount of charge of a carrier battery, to compare the amounts of charge of the main battery and the carrier battery when the carrier is installed in the vehicle and to control mutual charging of the main battery and the carrier battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Jin Ho Hwang, Dong Eun Cha, Sang Heon Lee
  • Publication number: 20200337918
    Abstract: A mobility carrier provided with a vehicle seat and a vehicle provided with the mobility carrier. The mobility carrier includes a carrier body, a seat, an operating portion configured of allowing a user accommodated on the seat to control the mobility carrier or the vehicle, and a carrier controller. The carrier controller communicates with a vehicle controller of the vehicle from outside of the vehicle. If verified through communications with the vehicle controller, the carrier controller controls the carrier wheels so that the carrier body enters a cabin of the vehicle. The carrier controller communicates with the vehicle controller to control a driving unit of the vehicle via the operating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Ho Hwang, Dong Eun Cha, Sang Heon Lee
  • Publication number: 20200324630
    Abstract: A connection system for a house and a vehicle, may include a vehicle door provided in the vehicle to open or close a vehicle entrance through which a passenger enters or exits the vehicle and allowing an internal space of the vehicle to be exposed into the house when authenticated by the house; and a hatch provided in a house entrance on a side wall of the house to selectively couple the house entrance and the vehicle entrance with each other so that an internal space of the vehicle and an internal space of the house are connected to each other in a state that the vehicle door is open when the authenticated vehicle is parked on a side of the house entrance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Eun Cha, Jin Ho Hwang, Sang Heon Lee
  • Publication number: 20200317280
    Abstract: A mobility unit may include a driving portion connected to a driveshaft of a vehicle for providing driving force to the vehicle, a rear glass portion provided at a rear portion of the vehicle to be operable to isolate the rear portion of the vehicle, a front connection portion or a rear connection portion provided at the front or at the rear of the vehicle to be fastened to another vehicle, and an integrated controller for controlling the operation of the front connection portion or the rear connection portion depending on the direction in which the vehicle is coupled to another vehicle and controlling the operation of the rear glass portion and the driving portion when the vehicle is coupled to another vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Heon LEE, Jin Ho HWANG, Dong Eun CHA