Patents by Inventor Kyu Beom Ko

Kyu Beom 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).

  • Patent number: 11884164
    Abstract: A system for controlling charging of a battery of an eco-friendly vehicle includes: an on-board charger (OBC) mounted in the vehicle, setting a required charging current based on available charging current information received from a power supply unit supplying power for charging the battery, transmitting the required charging current to the power supply unit, and converting the power supplied from the power supply unit to charge the battery; and a controller determining whether charging of the battery is completed, and when it is determined that charging of the battery is abnormally terminated in a state where charging is not completed, changing the required charging current to charge the battery based on first information supplied from the power supply unit upon abnormal termination of charging and based on second information supplied from the power supply unit upon normal completion of charging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Kyu Beom Ko
  • Publication number: 20230159036
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling a vehicle includes a driveshaft that transmits a drive torque generated by a drive motor to a wheel, a sensor that obtains a speed of the vehicle, and a controller that monitors the drive torque to determine a change amount of the drive torque, determines a change in a torsion angle of the driveshaft based on the change amount of the drive torque, and determines whether wheel slip occurs based on an amount of speed change of the drive motor according to the change in the torsion angle of the driveshaft. Accordingly, it is possible to accurately determine wheel slip according to the friction of a road surface, providing safe driving to the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Woo Cheol CHO, Kyung Han MIN, Kyu Beom KO, Hyo Jun KWAK
  • Patent number: 11560063
    Abstract: A charging connector control system may include a charging control unit of a charging equipment for supplying a control signal for charging; and a vehicle control unit for changing a sensing control signal to a normal control signal by executing a variable resistor control according to whether the sensing control signal, which is generated by sensing the control signal transmitted through a charging connector for connecting the charging equipment and a vehicle, is normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Kyu-Beom Ko, Ik-Jun Choi
  • Patent number: 11378626
    Abstract: A system for managing a battery of a vehicle includes a first controller configured to control a power-on (IG ON) state and a power-off (IG OFF) state of a plurality of controllers in the vehicle and to be periodically woken up in the power-off (IG OFF) state to wake up at least some of the plurality of controllers, and a second controller configured to turn off a main relay connecting a first battery in the vehicle and a vehicle system when the power-off (IG OFF) state begins, to monitor a state of the first battery storing energy for generating power of the vehicle by maintaining power during a preset first reference time, to be woken up at a wake-up period of the first controller when the first reference time elapses, and to monitor the state of the first battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ki Seung Baek, Ik Jun Choi, Do Sung Hwang, Kyung Taek Jung, Chang Yu Kim, Dea Ki Cheong, Tae Hyuck Kim, Han Seung Myoung, Ho Joong Lee, Hye Seung Kim, Byoung Jik Ahn, Kyu Beom Ko, Hyo Sik Moon, Jong Seo Yoon, Sung Il Lee, Hong Min Oh, Jin Woo Cho
  • Publication number: 20220176843
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for supplying electric power of an electric vehicle, which includes when an operation mode of the electric vehicle is a power supply mode, transmitting, by a controller, information of the electric vehicle to an energy storage system of a power supply place, receiving, by the controller, required power information, calculated based on the information of the electric vehicle, from the energy storage system, and controlling, by the controller, a charging and discharging device of the electric vehicle which discharges a battery of the electric vehicle so as to transmit required power corresponding to the required power information to the energy storage system of the power supply place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventor: Kyu Beom Ko
  • Patent number: 11332119
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes an energy predictor to predict an available energy using a battery energy based on a charging energy in battery charging and a battery energy based on a learned value of a state of health (SOH) of a battery, a distance calculator to calculate a driving range using the predicted available energy and a fuel efficiency which is previously learned, and a controller to update information on the calculated driving range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Kyu Beom Ko
  • Publication number: 20220011369
    Abstract: A system for managing a battery of a vehicle includes a first controller configured to control a power-on (IG ON) state and a power-off (IG OFF) state of a plurality of controllers in the vehicle and to be periodically woken up in the power-off (IG OFF) state to wake up at least some of the plurality of controllers, and a second controller configured to turn off a main relay connecting a first battery in the vehicle and a vehicle system when the power-off (IG OFF) state begins, to monitor a state of the first battery storing energy for generating power of the vehicle by maintaining power during a preset first reference time, to be woken up at a wake-up period of the first controller when the first reference time elapses, and to monitor the state of the first battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Ki Seung Baek, Ik Jun Choi, Do Sung Hwang, Kyung Taek Jung, Chang Yu Kim, Dea Ki Cheong, Tae Hyuck Kim, Han Seung Myoung, Ho Joong Lee, Hye Seung Kim, Byoung Jik Ahn, Kyu Beom Ko, Hyo Sik Moon, Jong Seo Yoon, Sung Il Lee, Hong Min Oh, Jin Woo Cho
  • Patent number: 11161423
    Abstract: A method for charging an electric vehicle may include (a) a step of determining, by a vehicle-side controller, whether to exchange cooling fluid between the vehicle and electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE), when a charge port of the vehicle and a connector of the electric vehicle service equipment are connected together, (b) a step of providing, by the vehicle-side controller, a signal for requesting the exchange of the cooling fluid to a charger-side controller when determining to exchange the cooling fluid, and (c) a step of controlling, by the vehicle-side controller, a cooling line of the vehicle through which cooling fluid of the vehicle circulates, to cause the cooling fluid of the vehicle to flow into a cooling line of the electric vehicle service equipment through the charge port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Kyu Beom Ko
  • Patent number: 11084395
    Abstract: A battery management system for a vehicle, a battery management method thereof and a vehicle including the same, which can vary a state of charge (SOC) of a battery in accordance with a location of a recharging station are disclosed. The battery management system includes: a position information acquisition unit for acquiring position information of a recharging station and the vehicle; a storage for storing a hilly area recharging station list comprising position information of hilly area recharging stations and learned full SOC values; and a controller for controlling the position information acquisition unit and the storage. The controller checks whether a recharging station where recharging of the vehicle is executed is a hilly area recharging station, and restricts a full SOC in order to avoid restriction of regenerative braking according to downhill road travel, thereby enhancing fuel economy and safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Cheol Shin, Kyu Beom Ko
  • Patent number: 10963930
    Abstract: An apparatus, a system, and a method are for automatically billing a vehicle left unattended in a charging station. The automatic billing apparatus includes a processor that provides a vehicle charging service at a charging station, determines that a vehicle is unattended after charging is completed, and performs a billing based on an unattended time. The apparatus further includes a storage that stores data obtained by the processor when the billing is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tae Woo Lee, Seung Myun Chung, Jin Cheol Shin, Ha Young Woo, Kyu Beom Ko, Ik Jun Choi, Deok Keun Shin, Jae Seok You
  • Patent number: 10913361
    Abstract: A battery temperature control system includes: a memory storing a maximum charging current map according to temperature of a battery for an electric vehicle, and an allowable current map according to a control pilot (CP) duty; and a temperature controller comparing a maximum charging current corresponding to a current temperature of the battery with an allowable current corresponding to a current CP duty to determine whether to increase the temperature of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyu Beom Ko, Seung Myun Chung, Tae Woo Lee, Jae Seok You, Deok Keun Shin, Jin Cheol Shin
  • Patent number: 10903721
    Abstract: An apparatus of charging an electric mobility may include a tire wheel having an external surface configured to be coupled to a tire and an internal surface in which an empty space is formed, a battery accommodated in the empty space of the internal surface of the tire wheel and mounted, like the tire wheel, on a rotation shaft fixed to the tire wheel to be rotationally driven, a stopper configured to selectively couple the battery to the rotation shaft, and a controller connected to the stopper and configured to control selective coupling of the rotation shaft to the battery by the stopper, wherein the stopper is controlled by the controller so that the battery is charged using an induced electromotive force generated between a coil wound on the battery and a permanent magnet which is mounted to face the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Kyu-Beom Ko, Jin-Cheol Shin
  • Publication number: 20210001746
    Abstract: A battery management system for a vehicle, a battery management method thereof and a vehicle including the same, which can vary a state of charge (SOC) of a battery in accordance with a location of a recharging station are disclosed. The battery management system includes: a position information acquisition unit for acquiring position information of a recharging station and the vehicle; a storage for storing a hilly area recharging station list comprising position information of hilly area recharging stations and learned full SOC values; and a controller for controlling the position information acquisition unit and the storage. The controller checks whether a recharging station where recharging of the vehicle is executed is a hilly area recharging station, and restricts a full SOC in order to avoid restriction of regenerative braking according to downhill road travel, thereby enhancing fuel economy and safety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Cheol SHIN, Kyu Beom KO
  • Publication number: 20200339006
    Abstract: A system for controlling charging of a battery of an eco-friendly vehicle includes: an on-board charger (OBC) mounted in the vehicle, setting a required charging current based on available charging current information received from a power supply unit supplying power for charging the battery, transmitting the required charging current to the power supply unit, and converting the power supplied from the power supply unit to charge the battery; and a controller determining whether charging of the battery is completed, and when it is determined that charging of the battery is abnormally terminated in a state where charging is not completed, changing the required charging current to charge the battery based on first information supplied from the power supply unit upon abnormal termination of charging and based on second information supplied from the power supply unit upon normal completion of charging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventor: Kyu Beom Ko
  • Publication number: 20200290591
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes an energy predictor to predict an available energy using a battery energy based on a charging energy in battery charging and a battery energy based on a learned value of a state of health (SOH) of a battery, a distance calculator to calculate a driving range using the predicted available energy and a fuel efficiency which is previously learned, and a controller to update information on the calculated driving range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventor: Kyu Beom Ko
  • Publication number: 20200189408
    Abstract: A charging connector control system may include a charging control unit of a charging equipment for supplying a control signal for charging; and a vehicle control unit for changing a sensing control signal to a normal control signal by executing a variable resistor control according to whether the sensing control signal, which is generated by sensing the control signal transmitted through a charging connector for connecting the charging equipment and a vehicle, is normal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Kyu-Beom KO, Ik-Jun CHOI
  • Publication number: 20200171965
    Abstract: A method for charging an electric vehicle may include (a) a step of determining, by a vehicle-side controller, whether to exchange cooling fluid between the vehicle and electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE), when a charge port of the vehicle and a connector of the electric vehicle service equipment are connected together, (b) a step of providing, by the vehicle-side controller, a signal for requesting the exchange of the cooling fluid to a charger-side controller when determining to exchange the cooling fluid, and (c) a step of controlling, by the vehicle-side controller, a cooling line of the vehicle through which cooling fluid of the vehicle circulates, to cause the cooling fluid of the vehicle to flow into a cooling line of the electric vehicle service equipment through the charge port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Kyu Beom KO
  • Publication number: 20200136466
    Abstract: An apparatus of charging an electric mobility may include a tire wheel having an external surface configured to be coupled to a tire and an internal surface in which an empty space is formed, a battery accommodated in the empty space of the internal surface of the tire wheel and mounted, like the tire wheel, on a rotation shaft fixed to the tire wheel to be rotationally driven, a stopper configured to selectively couple the battery to the rotation shaft, and a controller connected to the stopper and configured to control selective coupling of the rotation shaft to the battery by the stopper, wherein the stopper is controlled by the controller so that the battery is charged using an induced electromotive force generated between a coil wound on the battery and a permanent magnet which is mounted to face the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Kyu-Beom KO, Jin-Cheol SHIN
  • Publication number: 20200118181
    Abstract: An apparatus, a system, and a method are for automatically billing a vehicle left unattended in a charging station. The automatic billing apparatus includes a processor that provides a vehicle charging service at a charging station, determines that a vehicle is unattended after charging is completed, and performs a billing based on an unattended time. The apparatus further includes a storage that stores data obtained by the processor when the billing is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tae Woo Lee, Seung Myun Chung, Jin Cheol Shin, Ha Young Woo, Kyu Beom Ko, Ik Jun Choi, Deok Keun Shin, Jae Seok You
  • Patent number: 10549625
    Abstract: A method for controlling an active air flap (AAF) based on an aerodynamic force gain may include an AAF optimization cooling-related mode in which the AAF is configured to be controlled to operate in an AAF open state or an AAF close state to match a detected ambient temperature and a detected vehicle speed when an operation of a heating device is detected by a controller during vehicle traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jeong-Yeop Woo, Kyu-Beom Ko