Patents by Inventor Jin Wook Son

Jin Wook Son 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: 10436080
    Abstract: A multiple variable valve lift apparatus may include a moving cam formed of a hollow cylindrical shape, configured to be moveable in an axial direction of a camshaft while being rotated with the camshaft, and forming a plurality of cams implementing a cam guide protrusion device and different valve lifts from each other; an operation device selectively guiding a cam guide protrusion device to move the moving cam in the axial direction of the camshaft; a controller configured for controlling an operation of the operation device; a valve opening/closing device in contact with any one cam among the plurality of cams; a plurality of stopper grooves formed at an external circumference of the camshaft; and a stopper device provided at the moving cam and inserted to the stopper groove to be rotated at a position after the moving cam is moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Soo Hyung Woo, Jin Wook Son, You Sang Son, Seung Kook Han, Back Sik Kim, Wootae Kim
  • Patent number: 10161289
    Abstract: A cooling system of an engine may include a cylinder liner formed in a hollow cylindrical shape and pressed against an inside of a cylinder of the engine, a block coolant jacket positioned in an outer side of the cylinder liner in a radial direction to cool a cylinder block, the cylinder block provided with the cylinder liner and the block coolant jacket therein, and a cylinder head engaged on the cylinder block, including an exhaust port and an intake port fluidically-communicated with a combustion chamber and respectively formed at an exhaust side and an intake side, and provided with a head coolant jacket inside, in which the block coolant jacket includes an upper coolant jacket and a lower coolant jacket and a division wall is disposed between the upper coolant jacket and the lower coolant jacket to block fluid flow therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Soo Hyung Woo, Kwang Sik Yang, Jin Woo Cho, Seung Kook Han, Jin Wook Son, Wootae Kim
  • Publication number: 20180334933
    Abstract: A multiple variable valve lift apparatus may include a moving cam formed of a hollow cylindrical shape, configured to be moveable in an axial direction of a camshaft while being rotated with the camshaft, and forming a plurality of cams implementing a cam guide protrusion device and different valve lifts from each other; an operation device selectively guiding a cam guide protrusion device to move the moving cam in the axial direction of the camshaft; a controller configured for controlling an operation of the operation device; a valve opening/closing device in contact with any one cam among the plurality of cams; a plurality of stopper grooves formed at an external circumference of the camshaft; and a stopper device provided at the moving cam and inserted to the stopper groove to be rotated at a position after the moving cam is moved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Soo Hyung Woo, Jin Wook Son, You Sang Son, Seung Kook Han, Back Sik Kim, Wootae Kim
  • Publication number: 20170074152
    Abstract: A cooling system of an engine may include a cylinder liner formed in a hollow cylindrical shape and pressed against an inside of a cylinder of the engine, a block coolant jacket positioned in an outer side of the cylinder liner in a radial direction to cool a cylinder block, the cylinder block provided with the cylinder liner and the block coolant jacket therein, and a cylinder head engaged on the cylinder block, including an exhaust port and an intake port fluidically-communicated with a combustion chamber and respectively formed at an exhaust side and an intake side, and provided with a head coolant jacket inside, in which the block coolant jacket includes an upper coolant jacket and a lower coolant jacket and a division wall is disposed between the upper coolant jacket and the lower coolant jacket to block fluid flow therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Soo Hyung WOO, Kwang Sik YANG, Jin Woo CHO, Seung Kook HAN, Jin Wook SON, Wootae KIM
  • Publication number: 20160053694
    Abstract: An engine system of a dual injector includes a first injector directly injecting a first fuel into a combustion chamber. A second injector directly injects a second fuel into the combustion chamber. A first fuel tank is connected to the first injector and stores the first fuel therein. A second fuel tank is connected to the second injector and stores the second fuel therein. The first fuel is in a liquid state and the second fuel is in a gas state at room temperature of atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Soo Hyung WOO, Jin Wook SON, Wonjun LEE, Seung Kook HAN, Ju Hun LEE, Jeong Hwa CHA
  • Publication number: 20150345342
    Abstract: A short duration cam of a variable valve lift apparatus has a cam lift acceleration including a first peak formed before a center of the cam lift acceleration, and a second peak formed after the center of the cam lift acceleration. A relative ratio of a smaller value to a greater value of the first peak and the second peak is 0.8 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Byong Young CHOI, Soo Hyung Woo, Ju Hun Lee, Jin Wook Son, Seung Kook Han
  • Publication number: 20140260244
    Abstract: A centrifugal supercharger includes, a drive pulley connected to receive rotating power from an engine. an electronic blocking the rotating power to be supplied to the drive pulley or supplying the rotating power to the drive pulley. a speed increasing device increasing rotation speed of the drive pulley. a compressor including an impeller receiving rotation power having speed increased by the speed increasing device and flowing and compressing external air and an impeller housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jin Wook SON, Jin Kook KONG, Ju Hun LEE, Byeong Seok LEE, Young Nam KIM, Jeong Hwa CHA
  • Patent number: 8336310
    Abstract: A variable turbocharger including a turbine housing, a first scroll fluidly communicating with a turbine, a second scroll formed along an outside of the first scroll, wherein the first scroll and the second scroll are disposed within the turbine housing for exhaust gas to exhaust through the turbine, a partitioning unit for selectively separating the first scroll and the second scroll, and a a flux control valve disposed at the exhaust gas inflow portion and selectively coupled to the partitioning unit for blocking the exhaust gas from flowing into the second scroll. The variable turbocharger may prevent turbo lag at a low speed and be highly efficient at a high speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Kook Kong, Soo Hyung Woo, Young Nam Kim, Young Jin Won, Young-Ju Kim, Jin Wook Son, Jeong-Hwa Cha
  • Patent number: 8312719
    Abstract: A variable turbocharger including a turbine housing, a first scroll fluidly communicating with a turbine, a second scroll formed along an outside of the first scroll, wherein the first scroll and the second scroll are disposed within the turbine housing for exhaust gas to exhaust through the turbine, a partitioning unit for selectively separating the first scroll and the second scroll, and a flux control valve disposed at the exhaust gas inflow portion and selectively coupled to the partitioning unit for blocking the exhaust gas from flowing into the second scroll. The variable turbocharger may prevent turbo lag at a low speed and be highly efficient at a high speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Kook Kong, Soo Hyung Woo, Young Nam Kim, Young Jin Won, Young-Ju Kim, Jin Wook Son, Jeong-Hwa Cha
  • Publication number: 20120079823
    Abstract: A system for correcting turbo lag may include an engine provided with a plurality of cylinders, an intake manifold for supplying air to the plurality of cylinders, and an exhaust manifold for exhausting exhaust gas generated in the plurality of cylinders, an intake passage connected to the intake manifold so as to supply fresh air to the intake manifold, an exhaust passage connected to the exhaust manifold so as to exhaust the exhaust gas gathered in the exhaust manifold, a turbo charger provided with a turbine mounted at the exhaust manifold or the exhaust passage and rotated by the exhaust gas and a first compressor mounted at the intake passage and connected to the turbine so as to rotate with the turbine and compress the air of the intake passage, a bypass passage branching off at a first point of the intake passage and joining the intake passage at a second point of the intake passage downstream of the first point, a second compressor mounted at the bypass passage and compressing the air passing through
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jin Wook SON, Won Seok Chang, Jeong Hwa Cha, Jin Kook Kong, Soo Hyung Woo, Young Nam Kim
  • Publication number: 20120079824
    Abstract: A system for correcting turbo lag may include an engine provided with a plurality of cylinders, an intake manifold for supplying air to the plurality of cylinders, and an exhaust manifold for exhausting exhaust gas generated in the plurality of cylinders, an intake passage connected to the intake manifold so as to supply fresh air to the intake manifold, an exhaust passage connected to the exhaust manifold so as to exhaust the exhaust gas gathered in the exhaust manifold, a turbo charger provided with a turbine mounted at the exhaust manifold or the exhaust passage and rotated by the exhaust gas and a first compressor mounted at the intake passage and connected to the turbine so as to rotate with the turbine and compress the air of the intake passage, a bypass passage branching off at a first point of the intake passage and joining the intake passage at a second point of the intake passage downstream of the first point, a second compressor mounted at the bypass passage and compressing the air passing through
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jin Wook Son, Jei Choon Yang, Won Seok Chang, Jeong Hwa Cha, Jin Kook Kong, Soo Hyung Woo, Young Nam Kim, Jin Soon Kim
  • Publication number: 20120073528
    Abstract: A cylinder head having a water jacket may include a cylinder head in which a combustion chamber may be formed, and a protruding portion that may be integrally formed with the cylinder head and an exhaust outlet portion may be formed in an outer surface thereof to communicate with the combustion chamber, wherein the water jacket may be formed inside the protruding portion at an upper side and a lower side of an exhaust passage that may be aligned through the exhaust outlet portion, the water jacket having an upper water jacket formed between the upper side of the exhaust passage and an upper surface of the protruding portion, a lower water jacket formed between the lower side of the exhaust passage and a lower surface of the protruding portion, and a connection water jacket connecting the upper water jacket and the lower water jacket in the protruding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Jong Bae KIM, Jin Wook Son, Boyng Seuk Lee, Jay Kee Lee, Jin Kook Kong, Young Nam Kim, Young Jin Won
  • Publication number: 20120017586
    Abstract: A variable turbocharger including a turbine housing, a first scroll fluidly communicating with a turbine, a second scroll formed along an outside of the first scroll, wherein the first scroll and the second scroll are disposed within the turbine housing for exhaust gas to exhaust through the turbine, a partitioning unit for selectively separating the first scroll and the second scroll, and a a flux control valve disposed at the exhaust gas inflow portion and selectively coupled to the partitioning unit for blocking the exhaust gas from flowing into the second scroll. The variable turbocharger may prevent turbo lag at a low speed and be highly efficient at a high speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jin Kook Kong, Soo Hyung Woo, Young Nam Kim, Young Jin Won, Young-Ju Kim, Jin Wook Son, Jeong-Hwa Cha
  • Patent number: 8079214
    Abstract: An engine in which an exhaust manifold is integrally formed with a cylinder head may include the exhaust manifold in which at least one passage, which is connected to at least one exhaust port disposed in a first cylinder, and at least one passage, which is connected to at least one exhaust port disposed in a second cylinder, are formed, wherein the passage at the first cylinder and the passage at the second cylinder join together to communicate with a first single exhaust outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jin Wook Son, Jin Kook Kong, Young Jin Won, Jei Choon Yang, Jin Soon Kim
  • Patent number: 8051648
    Abstract: An engine includes exhaust manifold integrally formed with a cylinder head. The engine may include an exhaust manifold having at least one single exhaust outlet for exhausting exhaust gas that is exhausted from at least two cylinders that are not adjacent with each other, wherein periods during which exhaust valves are open are not overlapped with each other between the at least two cylinders. The exhaust manifold is integrally formed with the cylinder head such that costs can be reduced. Also, the water jacket is formed between the exhaust passages of the exhaust manifold such that the durability of the turbocharger that is affected by a heat load can be improved. Also, the twin scroll turbocharger is directly connected to the exhaust outlet of the manifold such that the compression ratio of the intake air can be effectively improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jin Wook Son, Jin Kook Kong, Soung Jin Lee, Young Jin Won
  • Publication number: 20090241526
    Abstract: An engine includes exhaust manifold integrally formed with a cylinder head. The engine may include an exhaust manifold having at least one single exhaust outlet for exhausting exhaust gas that is exhausted from at least two cylinders that are not adjacent with each other, wherein periods during which exhaust valves are open are not overlapped with each other between the at least two cylinders. The exhaust manifold is integrally formed with the cylinder head such that costs can be reduced. Also, the water jacket is formed between the exhaust passages of the exhaust manifold such that the durability of the turbocharger that is affected by a heat load can be improved. Also, the twin scroll turbocharger is directly connected to the exhaust outlet of the manifold such that the compression ratio of the intake air can be effectively improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jin Wook SON, Jin Kook Kong, Soung Jin Lee, Young Jin Won
  • Publication number: 20090193806
    Abstract: A variable turbocharger including a turbine housing, a first scroll fluidly communicating with a turbine, a second scroll formed along an outside of the first scroll, wherein the first scroll and the second scroll are disposed within the turbine housing for exhaust gas to exhaust through the turbine, a partitioning unit for selectively separating the first scroll and the second scroll, and a a flux control valve disposed at the exhaust gas inflow portion and selectively coupled to the partitioning unit for blocking the exhaust gas from flowing into the second scroll. The variable turbocharger may prevent turbo lag at a low speed and be highly efficient at a high speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Kook KONG, Soo Hyung Woo, Young Nam Kim, Young Jin Won, Young-Ju Kim, Jin Wook Son, Jeong-Hwa Cha
  • Publication number: 20090151343
    Abstract: An engine in which an exhaust manifold is integrally formed with a cylinder head may include the exhaust manifold in which at least one passage, which is connected to at least one exhaust port disposed in a first cylinder, and at least one passage, which is connected to at least one exhaust port disposed in a second cylinder, are formed, wherein the passage at the first cylinder and the passage at the second cylinder join together to communicate with a first single exhaust outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jin Wook SON, Jin Kook Kong, Young Jin Won, Jei Choon Yang, Jin Soon Kim