Patents by Inventor Sanghwa Do

Sanghwa Do 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: 10855136
    Abstract: A cooling unit of a drive motor includes: a fixing member installed on an inner wall surface of a motor housing and configured to fix a stator core of the drive motor, wherein the fixing member has a ring shape, includes a flow path formed therein in order to allow a cooling medium to flow, and includes a cooling medium inlet and a cooling medium outlet formed to be connected to the flow path, the flow path includes a first path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at one side and a second path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at another side, and the first and second paths have different flow cross sections and are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Kyoungbum Kim, MyungKyu Jeong, GaEun Lee, SangHwa Do, Young Jin Seo
  • Patent number: 10855135
    Abstract: A cooling unit of a drive motor includes: a fixing member installed on an inner wall surface of a motor housing and configured to fix a stator core of the drive motor, wherein the fixing member has a ring shape, includes a flow path formed therein in order to allow a cooling medium to flow, and includes a cooling medium inlet and a cooling medium outlet formed to be connected to the flow path, the flow path includes a first path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at one side and a second path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at another side, and the first and second paths have different flow cross sections and are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Kyoungbum Kim, MyungKyu Jeong, GaEun Lee, SangHwa Do, Young Jin Seo
  • Patent number: 10476331
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rotor of the wound rotor driving motor including: a first core body having an outer surface and an inner surface, wherein the first core body forms a space inside of the first core body; a second core body being inserted into inside of the first core body, wherein the second core body contacts with the inner surface of the first core body; and a coil assembly combined to the second core body in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: SangHwa Do, Jae Bum Park, Hee Ra Lee, Kyoungbum Kim
  • Patent number: 10457268
    Abstract: A system and a method of controlling a drive motor for a vehicle is disclosed. The system of controlling a drive motor for a vehicle may include: an engine and the drive motor as power sources; a data detector detecting a state data for controlling the drive motor; and a vehicle controller setting a motor demand power and a gear stage based on the state data. In particular, the vehicle controller generates a motor demand torque based on the motor demand power and the gear stage, checks a motor temperature after driving the drive motor based on the motor demand torque, and changes the gear stage based on the motor temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Young Jin Seo, Hong Seok Yang, Yeonho Kim, Kyoungbum Kim, SangHwa Do, GaEun Lee, Hee Ra Lee, MyungKyu Jeong
  • Publication number: 20190214878
    Abstract: A cooling unit of a drive motor includes: a fixing member installed on an inner wall surface of a motor housing and configured to fix a stator core of the drive motor, wherein the fixing member has a ring shape, includes a flow path formed therein in order to allow a cooling medium to flow, and includes a cooling medium inlet and a cooling medium outlet formed to be connected to the flow path, the flow path includes a first path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at one side and a second path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at another side, and the first and second paths have different flow cross sections and are connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Kyoungbum Kim, MyungKyu Jeong, GaEun Lee, SangHwa Do, Young Jin Seo
  • Publication number: 20190214879
    Abstract: A cooling unit of a drive motor includes: a fixing member installed on an inner wall surface of a motor housing and configured to fix a stator core of the drive motor, wherein the fixing member has a ring shape, includes a flow path formed therein in order to allow a cooling medium to flow, and includes a cooling medium inlet and a cooling medium outlet formed to be connected to the flow path, the flow path includes a first path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at one side and a second path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at another side, and the first and second paths have different flow cross sections and are connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Kyoungbum Kim, MyungKyu Jeong, GaEun Lee, SangHwa Do, Young Jin Seo
  • Patent number: 10333368
    Abstract: A cooling unit of a drive motor includes: a fixing member installed on an inner wall surface of a motor housing and configured to fix a stator core of the drive motor, wherein the fixing member has a ring shape, includes a flow path formed therein in order to allow a cooling medium to flow, and includes a cooling medium inlet and a cooling medium outlet formed to be connected to the flow path, the flow path includes a first path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at one side and a second path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at another side, and the first and second paths have different flow cross sections and are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Kyoungbum Kim, MyungKyu Jeong, GaEun Lee, SangHwa Do, Young Jin Seo
  • Patent number: 10243436
    Abstract: A Wound Rotor Synchronous Motor (WRSM) includes a rotor body that is rotatably installed at a predetermined gap within a stator and a rotor coil that is wound at a plurality of rotor teeth. The WRSM includes: bobbins that are each disposed at both sides of a shaft direction of the rotor body so as to support the rotor coil and that are fixed to the rotor body by the rotor coil; a wedge member that is inserted in a shaft direction between rotor teeth of the rotor body so as to protrude to the outside of both ends of the rotor body, the wedge member supporting the rotor coil; and end coil covers that enclose a protruded portion of the wedge member at both sides of the shaft direction of the rotor body and that are each mounted at the bobbins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Sangjin Park, Hyoungjun Cho, Jungwoo Lee, Yeonho Kim, SangHwa Do, Ki Nam Kim, Yongsung Jang
  • Patent number: 10017076
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus for a vehicle includes a data detector detecting driving data and a vehicle controller controlling a drive motor according to the driving data. The vehicle controller includes an acceleration generator determining a request torque and a request speed using the driving data and generating a request acceleration using the request torque and the request speed; a driving point determinator selecting an inductance control current map or a motor efficiency control current map according to the request acceleration and determining a current driving point according to the request torque and the request speed using the selected current map; and a motor controller controlling the drive motor using the current driving point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: SangHwa Do, Sangjin Park, Young Jin Seo, Kyoungbum Kim
  • Publication number: 20180166936
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rotor of the wound rotor driving motor including: a first core body having an outer surface and an inner surface, wherein the first core body forms a space inside of the first core body; a second core body being inserted into inside of the first core body, wherein the second core body contacts with the inner surface of the first core body; and a coil assembly combined to the second core body in a radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: SangHwa DO, Jae Bum PARK, Hee Ra LEE, Kyoungbum KIM
  • Publication number: 20180126974
    Abstract: A system and a method of controlling a drive motor for a vehicle is disclosed. The system of controlling a drive motor for a vehicle may include: an engine and the drive motor as power sources; a data detector detecting a state data for controlling the drive motor; and a vehicle controller setting a motor demand power and a gear stage based on the state data. In particular, the vehicle controller generates a motor demand torque based on the motor demand power and the gear stage, checks a motor temperature after driving the drive motor based on the motor demand torque, and changes the gear stage based on the motor temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Young Jin SEO, Hong Seok YANG, Yeonho KIM, Kyoungbum KIM, SangHwa DO, GaEun LEE, Hee Ra LEE, MyungKyu JEONG
  • Patent number: 9876400
    Abstract: A rotor of a wound rotor synchronous motor is spaced apart from an interior diameter surface of a stator by a predetermined gap, and includes a plurality of teeth wound by a rotor coil, and circumferentially spaced apart from each other by a distance, where a slot is formed between the teeth, each tooth is formed with a shoe facing an interior diameter surface of the stator, and both ends of the shoe protrude in a direction of both ends of an adjacent shoe, where each tooth includes a first part corresponding to a winding body of the tooth and a second part extending in the direction of both ends of the adjacent shoe from both sides of the first part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Sanghwa Do, Sanghoon Moon, Jung Shik Kim, Woongchan Chae, Yongsung Jang, Sangjin Park, Hyoungjun Cho, Kyoungbum Kim
  • Publication number: 20170353092
    Abstract: A Wound Rotor Synchronous Motor (WRSM) includes a rotor body that is rotatably installed at a predetermined gap within a stator and a rotor coil that is wound at a plurality of rotor teeth. The WRSM includes: bobbins that are each disposed at both sides of a shaft direction of the rotor body so as to support the rotor coil and that are fixed to the rotor body by the rotor coil; a wedge member that is inserted in a shaft direction between rotor teeth of the rotor body so as to protrude to the outside of both ends of the rotor body, the wedge member supporting the rotor coil; and end coil covers that enclose a protruded portion of the wedge member at both sides of the shaft direction of the rotor body and that are each mounted at the bobbins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Sangjin Park, Hyoungjun Cho, Jungwoo Lee, Yeonho Kim, SangHwa Do, Ki Nam Kim, Yongsung Jang
  • Publication number: 20170302137
    Abstract: A cooling unit of a drive motor includes: a fixing member installed on an inner wall surface of a motor housing and configured to fix a stator core of the drive motor, wherein the fixing member has a ring shape, includes a flow path formed therein in order to allow a cooling medium to flow, and includes a cooling medium inlet and a cooling medium outlet formed to be connected to the flow path, the flow path includes a first path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at one side and a second path connecting the cooling medium inlet and the cooling medium outlet to each other at another side, and the first and second paths have different flow cross sections and are connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Kyoungbum Kim, MyungKyu Jeong, GaEun Lee, SangHwa Do, Young Jin Seo
  • Publication number: 20170291505
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus for a vehicle includes a data detector detecting driving data and a vehicle controller controlling a drive motor according to the driving data. The vehicle controller includes an acceleration generator determining a request torque and a request speed using the driving data and generating a request acceleration using the request torque and the request speed; a driving point determinator selecting an inductance control current map or a motor efficiency control current map according to the request acceleration and determining a current driving point according to the request torque and the request speed using the selected current map; and a motor controller controlling the drive motor using the current driving point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: SangHwa DO, Sangjin PARK, Young Jin SEO, Kyoungbum KIM
  • Publication number: 20170271967
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rotor structure of a motor including: a plurality of rotor cores disposed in predetermined directions at a rotating member; a plurality of coils wound around each of the rotor cores; and a crossover portion which is formed at a predetermined region of the rotating member and through which one of the coils wound around one of the rotor cores is passed to another rotor core. The crossover portion may include an inner partition wall, intermediate partition walls and an outer partition wall which are formed at a predetermined distance from each other from the rotation center of the rotating member to the rotor cores, a first groove may be formed between the inner partition wall and the intermediate partition wall, a second groove may be formed between the intermediate partition wall and the outer partition wall, and the second groove may have a larger depth than the first groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Yongsung JANG, SangHwa DO, WoongChan CHAE, Sangjin PARK
  • Patent number: 9614469
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling an electric vehicle are provided. The apparatus includes a battery that is configured to charge electrical energy and a motor that is configured to generate a driving torque from electrical energy charged in the battery. A controller is configured to determine a driving range of the vehicle, perform maximum efficiency control in which efficiency of the motor is maximized when the driving range of the vehicle is a main driving range, and perform minimum torque ripple control in which torque ripple of the motor is minimized when the driving range of the vehicle is a supplementary driving range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jung Shik Kim, Sanghoon Moon, WoongChan Chae, Kyoungbum Kim, SangHwa Do, Hyoungjun Cho
  • Publication number: 20160173013
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling an electric vehicle are provided. The apparatus includes a battery that is configured to charge electrical energy and a motor that is configured to generate a driving torque from electrical energy charged in the battery. A controller is configured to determine a driving range of the vehicle, perform maximum efficiency control in which efficiency of the motor is maximized when the driving range of the vehicle is a main driving range, and perform minimum torque ripple control in which torque ripple of the motor is minimized when the driving range of the vehicle is a supplementary driving range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Jung Shik Kim, Sanghoon Moon, WoongChan Chae, Kyoungbum Kim, SangHwa Do, Hyoungjun Cho
  • Publication number: 20160149444
    Abstract: A stator of an interior permanent magnet synchronous motor is provided. The stator spaced apart from a rotor by a predetermined gap within an interior permanent magnet synchronous motor includes a stator tooth that is circumferentially spaced apart by a predetermined distance while interposing a slot therebetween that corresponds to an exterior diameter surface of the rotor. Additionally, a stator shoe is formed at an end of the stator tooth and includes an interior diameter surface of a predetermined diameter that faces the exterior diameter surface of the rotor. A cross point between a circle has a diameter of (interior diameter of the stator shoe×1.0287×24/slot number) mm and the stator tooth is a tooth end start point of the stator tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Sanghoon Moon, Hyoungjun Cho, Yeonho Kim, Kyoungbum Kim, SangHwa Do, WoongChan Chae, Ki Nam Kim, Jung Shik Kim
  • Publication number: 20160149445
    Abstract: A rotor of a wound rotor synchronous motor is spaced apart from an interior diameter surface of a stator by a predetermined gap, and includes a plurality of teeth wound by a rotor coil, and circumferentially spaced apart from each other by a distance, where a slot is formed between the teeth, each tooth is formed with a shoe facing an interior diameter surface of the stator, and both ends of the shoe protrude in a direction of both ends of an adjacent shoe, where each tooth includes a first part corresponding to a winding body of the tooth and a second part extending in the direction of both ends of the adjacent shoe from both sides of the first part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Sanghwa Do, Sanghoon Moon, Jung Shik Kim, Woongchan Chae, Yongsung Jang, Sangjin Park, Hyoungjun Cho, Kyoungbum Kim