Patents by Inventor Kwan Ko

Kwan Ko 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: 20250034324
    Abstract: A copolymer polyester resin and an adhesive composition containing the copolymer polyester resin are disclosed. The copolymer polyester resin has a low glass transition temperature and improved hydrolysis resistance and solution storage stability. Therefore, the adhesive composition containing the copolymer polyester resin is superb in terms of hydrolysis resistance, solution storage stability, water heat resistance, and adhesiveness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: SK CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-Kwan KO, Soon-Ki KIM, Hyung-Gon KIM
  • Publication number: 20250030369
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus includes a motor having a plurality of windings, a dual inverter including a first inverter connected to first ends of the plurality of windings and a second inverter connected to second ends of the plurality of windings and configured to drive the motor through at least one of the first inverter or the second inverter according to a motor driving mode, and a controller configured to determine whether flux weakening control is performed according to an available voltage level of the dual inverter when a switching condition of the motor driving mode is satisfied and to perform the flux weakening control by linearly adjusting an output voltage level of the dual inverter for a preset time interval for which the flux weakening control is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Young Ho CHAE, Young Kwan KO, Hyun Jae LIM, Young Gi LEE, Joo Young PARK, Yong Jae LEE
  • Publication number: 20240424930
    Abstract: An electrified vehicle may include: a main battery and an auxiliary battery; a motor system including a dual inverter connected to the main battery and driving a motor depending on a motor driving mode, and a transfer switch for switching between first and second driving modes included in the motor driving mode; and a charging switch connected between the motor system and the auxiliary battery, and configured to form a boost charging path connected from the auxiliary battery to the main battery through the motor system when the first driving mode switches to a charging mode while driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Jae LEE, Young Kwan KO, Byung Kwan SON, Jang Yoon JEONG, Ho Tae CHUN, Yoo Jong LEE
  • Patent number: 12176826
    Abstract: An inverter driving apparatus includes an inverter having a plurality of legs respectively corresponding to each of a plurality of phases and the control unit generating space vector modulation signals based on a phase voltage command, each of the space vector modulation signals corresponding to each of the plurality of phases, respectively, determining whether an output voltage of the inverter corresponding to at least one space vector modulation signal of the space vector modulation is in a non-linear region by determining whether each voltage of the space vector modulation signals is included in a predetermined range, generating a terminal voltage command by determining whether or not to apply an offset voltage to each of the space vector modulation signals based on the determination of the non-linear region, and controlling a turn-on state of at least one switch included in each of the plurality of legs by modulating the terminal voltage command based on pulse width modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyun Jae Lim, Yong Jae Lee, Young Ho Chae, Young Kwan Ko, Young Gi Lee
  • Patent number: 12143041
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus driving a motor that has a plurality of windings respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases includes a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements and connected to a first end of each of the windings, a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements and connected to a second end of each of the windings, and a controller determining a voltage command of the first inverter based on a voltage command of the motor and the active vector corresponding to a duty of the second switching elements and controlling the first switching elements through pulse width modulation based on the voltage command of the first inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Young Kwan Ko, Yong Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 12119768
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus driving a motor including a plurality of windings corresponding to each of phases, includes a mode change switch and a plurality of inverters that operate the motor in a closed end winding mode or an open end winding mode; and a controller configured for controlling the mode change switch and the plurality of inverters according to a first mode determination result based on a reverse magnetic flux and a second mode determination result according to an output power limit for each mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Jung Mo Yu, Yong Jae Lee, Hyun Jae Lim, Young Ho Chae, Young Kwan Ko, Jang Yoon Jeong
  • Publication number: 20240305219
    Abstract: An inverter driving device includes an inverter including a plurality of legs corresponding to a plurality of phases, and a controller that generates a plurality of pole voltage commands from a plurality of space vector modulation signals corresponding to the plurality of phases and modulates the pole voltage commands through pulse width modulation to control a turn-on state of switches included in the legs, wherein the controller is configured to generate a plurality of discontinuous modulation signals by applying an offset voltage for discontinuous modulation to the plurality of space vector modulation signals if at least one of a maximum voltage and a minimum voltage of the space vector modulation signals is not included in a predetermined linearity range, adjusts at least one of a maximum voltage and a minimum voltage of the discontinuous modulation signals, and outputs the adjusted discontinuous modulation signals as the pole voltage commands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Jae LIM, Joo Young PARK, Young Kwan KO
  • Publication number: 20240217162
    Abstract: A pouch molding apparatus includes a die plate, a first stripper, a punch part, and a second stripper. The die plate has a flat plate shape so that a pouch film is seated on an upper portion thereof and has a molding hole having a shape passing through top and bottom surfaces of the die plate. The first stripper is configured to press and fix the pouch film to an upper side of the die plate and has a punch hole at a position at a position corresponding to the molding hole. The punch part is drawn in and out of the punch hole of the first stripper and the molding hole of the die plate to mold the pouch film. The second stripper protrudes from a bottom surface of the first stripper along a circumference of the punch hole in order to press and fix the pouch film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Chul Kim, Sung Chul Park, Byung Kwan Ko
  • Publication number: 20240194179
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for synthesizing the voice based on brain waves during imagined speech. The method for synthesizing the voice based on brain waves during imagined speech according to an embodiment of the present invention may include the following steps: a step to obtain the user's brain waves during imagined speech; a step to convert the above-mentioned brain waves of imagined speech into embedding vectors; a step to generate the mel-spectrograms based on the above-mentioned embedding vectors; a step to generate the voice using the above-mentioned mel-spectrograms; a step to output the above-mentioned voice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Seong Whan LEE, Young Eun LEE, Seo Hyun LEE, Soo Won KIM, Sang Ho KIM, Byung Kwan KO, Ji Won LEE, Jung Sun LEE
  • Publication number: 20240190294
    Abstract: An electrified vehicle includes a motor including a plurality of windings corresponding to each of phases; an inverter including a DC terminal connected to a main battery, and a plurality of legs connected to each end of the windings; a charging switch connected between one electrode of an auxiliary battery and a neutral terminal of the motor, and a controller configured to turn on the charging switch and to apply a DC offset to each of phase currents of the motor having the phases when the charging mode is performed while driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Jae LEE, Young Kwan KO, Byung Kwan SON, Jang Yoon JEONG, Ho Tae CHUN, Yoo Jong LEE
  • Publication number: 20240190274
    Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a main battery and an auxiliary battery, a motor system including a motor and an inverter, and a controller which is configured to control an external voltage to be applied to the main battery or the auxiliary battery according to a level of the external voltage when a charging mode for charging the main battery and the auxiliary battery is performed, wherein the motor system is configured to step down and output a voltage of the main battery to the auxiliary battery when the external voltage is applied to the main battery, and is configured to boost and output a voltage of the auxiliary battery to the main battery when the external voltage is applied to the auxiliary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Jae LEE, Young Kwan KO, Byung Kwan SON, Jang Yoon JEONG, Ho Tae CHUN, Yoo Jong LEE
  • Publication number: 20240097580
    Abstract: An inverter driving apparatus includes an inverter having a plurality of legs respectively corresponding to each of a plurality of phases and the control unit generating space vector modulation signals based on a phase voltage command, each of the space vector modulation signals corresponding to each of the plurality of phases, respectively, determining whether an output voltage of the inverter corresponding to at least one space vector modulation signal of the space vector modulation is in a non-linear region by determining whether each voltage of the space vector modulation signals is included in a predetermined range, generating a terminal voltage command by determining whether or not to apply an offset voltage to each of the space vector modulation signals based on the determination of the non-linear region, and controlling a turn-on state of at least one switch included in each of the plurality of legs by modulating the terminal voltage command based on pulse width modulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Jae LIM, Yong Jae LEE, Young Ho CHAE, Young Kwan KO, Young Gi LEE
  • Publication number: 20240039447
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus driving a motor that has a plurality of windings respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases includes a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements and connected to a first end of each of the windings, a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements and connected to a second end of each of the windings, and a controller determining a voltage command of the first inverter based on a voltage command of the motor and the active vector corresponding to a duty of the second switching elements and controlling the first switching elements through pulse width modulation based on the voltage command of the first inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Young Kwan KO, Yong Jae LEE
  • Patent number: 11876468
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus which drives a motor having a plurality of windings corresponding to a plurality of phases includes: a first inverter having a plurality of first switching elements and connected to a first end of each winding; a second inverter having a plurality of second switching elements and connected to a second end of each winding; and a controller configured to control pulse width modulation, by distributing a preset voltage command of the motor into a voltage command of the first inverter and a voltage command of the second inverter at the same rate and by generating duties of the first switching elements, wherein the controller determines the duties of the second switching elements and determines the duties of the first switching elements on and the duties of the first switching elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yong Jae Lee, Joo Young Park, Young Kwan Ko
  • Publication number: 20230373152
    Abstract: A pouch shaping apparatus includes a support unit configured to allow a laminate sheet to be disposed on an upper surface thereof, a stripper located above the support unit, the stripper configured to be movable upwards and downwards and to press and fix an outer periphery of the laminate sheet disposed on the upper surface of the support unit when being moved downwards, and a punch located above the support unit, the punch configured to be movable upwards and downwards and to form an electrode assembly receiving portion in the laminate sheet while being inserted into a shaping portion located at the center of the support unit when being moved downwards. The support unit includes an upper support and a support plate, and the pouch shaping apparatus includes a core member located between the upper support and the support plate, the core member having a predetermined thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Chul Park, Shin Chul Kim, Tae Won Kang, Yong Nam Kim, Byung Kwan Ko
  • Publication number: 20230253905
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus driving a motor including a plurality of windings corresponding to each of phases, includes a mode change switch and a plurality of inverters that operate the motor in a closed end winding mode or an open end winding mode; and a controller configured for controlling the mode change switch and the plurality of inverters according to a first mode determination result based on a reverse magnetic flux and a second mode determination result according to an output power limit for each mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Jung Mo YU, Yong Jae Lee, Hyun Jae Lim, Young Ho Chae, Young Kwan Ko, Jang Yoon Jeong
  • Publication number: 20230023016
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus which drives a motor having a plurality of windings corresponding to a plurality of phases includes: a first inverter having a plurality of first switching elements and connected to a first end of each winding; a second inverter having a plurality of second switching elements and connected to a second end of each winding; and a controller configured to control pulse width modulation, by distributing a preset voltage command of the motor into a voltage command of the first inverter and a voltage command of the second inverter at the same rate and by generating duties of the first switching elements, wherein the controller determines the duties of the second switching elements and determines the duties of the first switching elements on and the duties of the first switching elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Jae LEE, Joo Young PARK, Young Kwan KO
  • Publication number: 20220386607
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel nicotinamide compound, a method for preparing the same, and a herbicide comprising the compound. The compound of the present invention is useful as a herbicide for foliar treatment or soil treatment because it has high safety for wheat or corn and has excellent herbicidal activity against grassy weeds, sedge weeds or broadleaf weeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Young Kwan KO, Eun Ae KIM, Ill Young LEE, Hee Nam LIM, Jung Sub CHOI, Jee Hee SUH, Nack Jeong KIM, Dong Wan KOO, Hyun Jin KIM, Gyu Hwan YON, Jae Deok KIM, Seungae OH, So-Young LEE, Chan Yong PARK, Yun Kyoung HWANG, Byung Hoon AHN, Ah Reum KIM, Hye Ji HAN, Sungjun PARK, Junhyuk CHOI, Jisoo LIM, Mi Sook HONG
  • Patent number: 11301717
    Abstract: A method of measuring an interaction force includes: generating feature maps corresponding to a plurality of sequential images; generating pooling maps respectively corresponding to feature map groups including a predetermined number of feature maps among the feature maps; generating attention maps corresponding to the pooling maps; and sequentially receiving feature maps modified based on the attention maps and outputting interaction force information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignees: AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, Dongguk University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Won Jun Hwang, Ho Chul Sin, Dong Yi Kim, Soo Chul Lim, Dae Kwan Ko
  • Patent number: 11292475
    Abstract: A control system for reducing drive shaft vibration of an environment-friendly vehicle includes: a drive shaft speed extraction unit that extracts an actual drive shaft speed of a motor and extracts a drive shaft speed from which a forced vibration component that is to be transferred by an engine to the drive shaft is removed; a model speed computation unit that calculates a model speed of the drive shaft; a free vibration computation unit that computes a free vibration component on the basis of deviation between the drive shaft speed and the calculated model speed; and a first torque computation unit that calculates, from the free vibration component, a free vibration reduction compensation torque for reducing the drive shaft vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Young Kwan Ko, Jun Mo An, Byung Hoon Yang, Hyung Souk Kang