Patents by Inventor Myeong-hwan Kim
Myeong-hwan Kim 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).
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Publication number: 20160296876Abstract: A filter unit for a canister, which is disposed in a canister and removes foreign substances or powder in air flowing into or discharged from an air port may include a main filter that is a plate connected in a ring shape between an air port and activated carbon to pass air laterally, and configured to filter foreign substances or powder in air, and a top cover thermally bonded to a top of the main filter and configured to transversely distribute air flowing inside through the air port.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2015Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Chang Han Kim, Jae Min Lee, Myeong Hwan Kim
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Patent number: 9393865Abstract: A misfueling prevention system for a vehicle may include an upper housing disposed at an inlet of a fuel filler neck, a lower housing disposed inside the fuel filler neck, supported by a hinge structure in the upper housing, and rotatable by a center returning spring disposed between the upper housing and the lower housing, a stopper spring and a stopper, the stopper being rotatably disposed at one side of the lower housing in a pin structure and rotatable by a contact with a refueling gun, and a flapper spring and a flapper, the flapper having one end rotatably disposed at another side of the lower housing in a pin structure and another end lockable in a recess part of the stopper and pushed to be opened by the refueling gun when released from the recess part of the stopper.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Myeong Hwan Kim, Bu Yeol Ryu
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Patent number: 9272617Abstract: An anti-misfueling filler neck device includes sliding projections mounted at the bottom of a housing to move laterally to allow a flapper to be opened only when a fuel gun for a diesel vehicle is inserted, thus preventing gasoline from being injected into the diesel vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Bu Yeol Ryu, Myeong Hwan Kim, Bo Sung Lee
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Patent number: 9273645Abstract: A fluid heating device of a vehicle fuel system includes: a case having a fluid inlet for letting in fluid, a fluid outlet for letting out the fluid, and an inner space that communicates with the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet; upper and lower power-supply and heat-radiation plates that are arranged in the inner space to be vertically spaced apart from each other, and supply external power; and one or more PTC elements that are interposed between the upper and lower power-supply and heat-radiation plates to receive the external power, and spaced apart from each other to form one or more fluid flow holes. Accordingly, the combustion of the fuel and the cold start performance of the vehicle can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Chang-Jun Park, Myeong Hwan Kim, Chang-Han Kim
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Publication number: 20150357098Abstract: A fuel sender device for a vehicle may include a resistance substrate having a conductor part, a contact plate having a contact point contacting the conductor part, and a float unit moving up and down according to a variation of an oil surface and angularly rotating the contact plate, wherein the fuel sender device includes a variable contact point that allows the contact plate to variably contact the conductor part while moving up and down and rotating according to the variation of the oil surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2014Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Chang Han KIM, Myeong Hwan KIM, Jae Min LEE
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Publication number: 20150298542Abstract: A misfueling prevention system for a vehicle may include an upper housing disposed at an inlet of a fuel filler neck, a lower housing disposed inside the fuel filler neck, supported by a hinge structure in the upper housing, and rotatable by a center returning spring disposed between the upper housing and the lower housing, a stopper spring and a stopper, the stopper being rotatably disposed at one side of the lower housing in a pin structure and rotatable by a contact with a refueling gun, and a flapper spring and a flapper, the flapper having one end rotatably disposed at another side of the lower housing in a pin structure and another end lockable in a recess part of the stopper and pushed to be opened by the refueling gun when released from the recess part of the stopper.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2014Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Myeong Hwan KIM, Bu Yeol RYU
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Patent number: 9163768Abstract: A return fuel cooling system for LPI vehicle having an engine and a bombe connected to each other through a fuel supply line and a fuel return line in the LPI vehicle using LPG fuel to cool high-temperature LPG fuel returning from the engine to the bombe, may include a heat exchanger mounted on the fuel return line, a bypass line connecting upstream and downstream of the fuel return line, wherein the heat exchanger may be interposed between the upstream and the downstream of the fuel return line to make the LPG fuel returning to the bombe bypass the heat exchanger and supply the LPG fuel to the bombe, and a valve included at a portion in which the fuel return line and the bypass line is connected, and selectively opening or closing the fuel return line connected with the heat exchanger according to a temperature of the bombe.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Jae Yeon Kim, Myeong Hwan Kim, Wan Je Cho
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Patent number: 9163784Abstract: A device for reducing the temperature of a bombe, which stores liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) fuel and may be connected to a fuel supply line for supplying the fuel to an injector, using latent heat of LPG vaporization, may include a fuel pump installed in the bombe and connected to an end of the fuel supply line for pressurizing the fuel, a cut-off valve installed in the fuel supply line for selectively cutting off fuel supply to the injector, a fuel collection line branched from the fuel supply line to the inside of the bombe for collecting the supplied fuel into the bombe when the cut-off valve may be closed, and an injection nozzle connected to the fuel collection line and injecting the fuel collected through the fuel collection line into the inside of the bombe.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Ju Tae Song, Cheol Hun Cho, Myeong Hwan Kim, Chang Han Kim
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Patent number: 9163593Abstract: A fuel heating device may improve cold start performance and solve a number of problems of conventional auxiliary tank and heating systems of a flex fuel vehicle (FFV). The fuel heating device may include a heater having embedded therein a heat emission object for heating fuel, a solenoid valve connected the heater such that a flow path to a first outlet is opened or closed to selectively supply fuel, a temperature sensor installed in the heater, and a controller for turning on and off the heater and opening and closing the solenoid valve according to a temperature of the fuel, in which the outlet of the heater is connected with a cold start injector through a cold start line and an inlet of the solenoid valve is connected with a fuel line connected from the fuel tank.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Chang Han Kim, Myeong Hwan Kim, Jae Min Lee, Chang Jun Park
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Publication number: 20150158380Abstract: A misfuelling prevention system for a vehicle may include an upper housing and an inner housing supported in the fuel filler neck, positioned in a bottom portion of the upper housing, and slidable in a single direction by a center returning spring interposed between the upper housing side and the inner housing, a stopper being rotatably installed at a side of the inner housing and elastically biased by a stopper spring, wherein the stopper is rotatable when a fuelling gun contacts with an end of the stopper, and a flapper having a first end rotatably installed at another side of the inner housing and a second end selectively caught in a groove portion of the stopper, wherein the flapper is opened by being pushed by the fuelling gun when the flapper is released from being caught by the stopper while the fuelling gun contacts with the end of the stopper.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2014Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Myeong Hwan KIM, Bu Yeol RYU
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Publication number: 20140360465Abstract: A cold starting apparatus and a cold starting method for a vehicle may include: a throttle body configured to make air flow in an engine; a heater device installed at the throttle body, and configured to preheat the air passing through the throttle body; and a cold starting injector installed at the throttle body in front of the heater device so that the fuel is preheated while passing through the heater device, and configured to spray the fuel into the throttle body, thereby improving cold starting performance of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2013Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Chang Jun PARK, Myeong Hwan KIM, Chang Han KIM
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Patent number: 8905122Abstract: The heat exchanger may include a pipe unit mounted on a refrigerant line connecting a compressor with an evaporator of an air conditioning and adapted to flow a refrigerant and a LPG fuel returned from the engine, a first connecting member mounted at an end of the pipe unit to connect the pipe unit with the refrigerant line where the refrigerant line is connected to the compressor, and a second connecting member mounted at the other end of the pipe unit to connect the pipe unit with the refrigerant line where the refrigerant line is connected to the evaporator. The heat exchanger is configured so that the high-temperature LPG fuel is capable of exchanging heat with the refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Myeong Hwan Kim, Jae Yeon Kim, Jungha Park, Yong Lee
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Publication number: 20140332529Abstract: An anti-misfueling filler neck device includes sliding projections mounted at the bottom of a housing to move laterally to allow a flapper to be opened only when a fuel gun for a diesel vehicle is inserted, thus preventing gasoline from being injected into the diesel vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2013Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Bu Yeol Ryu, Myeong Hwan KIM, Bo Sung LEE
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Patent number: 8869778Abstract: A fuel supply system of a vehicle, may include a fuel tank storing ethanol therein, a main injector installed at an engine to inject the ethanol from the fuel tank, a heater provided to heat the ethanol supplied from the fuel tank to the engine, a cold-starting injector installed at the engine to inject the ethanol heated by the heater, and a valve unit connected to the main injector and the cold-starting injector and performing a switching operation between a state of the ethanol being supplied from the fuel tank to the main injector and a state of the ethanol heated by the heater being supplied to the cold-starting injector.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Kia Motors Corp.Inventors: Chang Han Kim, Myeong Hwan Kim, Chang Jun Park
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Patent number: 8839768Abstract: A canister for a vehicle is provided with charcoal therein so as to absorb evaporation gas evaporated at a fuel tank, supplies air by pressure difference formed due to engine purge, and thereby releases the absorbed evaporation gas so as to supply the evaporation gas to an engine and to be burned therein again.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Myeong Hwan Kim, Buyeol Ryu, Pil Seon Choi
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Publication number: 20140182562Abstract: A fuel heating device may improve cold start performance and solve a number of problems of conventional auxiliary tank and heating systems of a flex fuel vehicle (FFV). The fuel heating device may include a heater having embedded therein a heat emission object for heating fuel, a solenoid valve connected the heater such that a flow path to a first outlet is opened or closed to selectively supply fuel, a temperature sensor installed in the heater, and a controller for turning on and off the heater and opening and closing the solenoid valve according to a temperature of the fuel, in which the outlet of the heater is connected with a cold start injector through a cold start line and an inlet of the solenoid valve is connected with a fuel line connected from the fuel tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Chang Han Kim, Myeong Hwan Kim, Jae Min Lee, Chang Jun Park
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Publication number: 20140165973Abstract: A fluid heating device of a vehicle fuel system includes: a case having a fluid inlet for letting in fluid, a fluid outlet for letting out the fluid, and an inner space that communicates with the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet; upper and lower power-supply and heat-radiation plates that are arranged in the inner space to be vertically spaced apart from each other, and supply external power; and one or more PTC elements that are interposed between the upper and lower power-supply and heat-radiation plates to receive the external power, and spaced apart from each other to form one or more fluid flow holes. Accordingly, the combustion of the fuel and the cold start performance of the vehicle can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Chang-Jun PARK, Myeong Hwan KIM, Chang-Han KIM
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Patent number: 8714194Abstract: A fuel pump for LPG (liquefied petroleum gas), may include a main bracket that may be mounted at a fuel tank, an integrated bracket that an end thereof may be fixed to the main bracket, the other end thereof may be extended to an inner side of the fuel tank, and the whole of the bracket may be integrally formed, and a pump unit that may be fixed to the other end of the integrated bracket with a space therebetween so as to pump liquefied fuel to an engine.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2010Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Myeong Hwan Kim, Buyeol Ryu, Chang Han Kim, Pil Seon Chol, Yong-Nam Shin
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Publication number: 20140109971Abstract: A return fuel cooling system for LPI vehicle having an engine and a bombe connected to each other through a fuel supply line and a fuel return line in the LPI vehicle using LPG fuel to cool high-temperature LPG fuel returning from the engine to the bombe, may include a heat exchanger mounted on the fuel return line, a bypass line connecting upstream and downstream of the fuel return line, wherein the heat exchanger may be interposed between the upstream and the downstream of the fuel return line to make the LPG fuel returning to the bombe bypass the heat exchanger and supply the LPG fuel to the bombe, and a valve included at a portion in which the fuel return line and the bypass line is connected, and selectively opening or closing the fuel return line connected with the heat exchanger according to a temperature of the bombe.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Jae Yeon KIM, Myeong Hwan KIM, Wan Je CHO
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Publication number: 20130146246Abstract: The heat exchanger may include: a heat radiating portion provided with first, second, and third connecting lines formed by stacking a plurality of plates, and adapted to receive first, second, and third operating fluids respectively into the first, second, and third connecting lines, the first, second, and third operating fluids exchanging heat with each other during passing through the first, second, and third connecting lines and the first, second, and third operating fluids supplied to the first, second, and third connecting lines not being mixed with each other and being circulated; first, second, and third inlets connected respectively to the first, second, and third connecting lines so as to supply the first, second, and third operating fluids respectively to the first, second, and third connecting lines; and first, second, and third outlets connected respectively to the first, second, and third connecting lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2012Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Jae Yeon Kim, Wan Je Cho, Myeong Hwan Kim