Patents by Inventor Sang Joon Kim

Sang Joon 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).

  • Publication number: 20220072318
    Abstract: Implantable apparatuses are provided, where the implantable apparatus includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an electrode signal transceiver connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, an antenna, a wireless power receiver connected to the antenna, and a conductor case configured to protect the electrode signal transceiver and the wireless power receiver. The antenna be spaced apart from the conductor case and encloses the conductor case, and a plane in which the antenna is disposed is at a same level or at a higher level than a top surface of the conductor case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., POSTECH Research and Business Development Foundation
    Inventors: Jaechun LEE, Sang Joon KIM, Won Ok KANG, Jonghan KIM, Jun Seung MUN, Sung Min PARK, Chisung BAE
  • Publication number: 20220077717
    Abstract: A wireless power relay apparatus includes: a first antenna configured to wirelessly receive an alternating current (AC) power signal of a first frequency from a wireless power transmission apparatus; a rectifier configured to convert the received AC power signal into a direct current (DC) power; a storage device configured to store electric energy of the DC power output from the rectifier; a power oscillator configured to generate an AC power signal of a second frequency based on an output current of the rectifier and electric energy of a DC voltage stored in the storage device; and a second antenna configured to transmit the AC power signal of the second frequency to a wireless power reception apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hankyu LEE, Sang Joon KIM
  • Publication number: 20220063589
    Abstract: Disclosed are a vehicle including an electric motor and a method of controlling the same for providing a notification function to an occupant of the vehicle by controlling a pitching motion of a vehicle body. The method includes calculating a first torque value for providing the pitching motion based on driving state information including a vehicle speed, a driving mode, and an environment of a driving road; calculating a second torque value based on a request of a driver; and calculating a final torque value for controlling the electric motor based on the first torque value and the second torque value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hui Un SON, Joo Young KIM, Sang Joon KIM, Jea Mun LEE, Sung Hoon YU, Joon Young PARK, Kyu Hwan JO
  • Publication number: 20220055604
    Abstract: Disclosed are a vehicle for generating an acceleration profile based on the acceleration cognitive characteristics of the human and a method of controlling the same. The method includes: receiving a manipulation amount of an accelerator pedal and calculating a first torque value, inserting the first torque value to a function that receives force and outputs acceleration feeling, generating a second torque value by inserting an output value of the function into a first filter for stabilizing the output value, generating a target torque value by inputting the second torque value to a second filter for stabilizing the second torque value, and generating a torque command based on the target torque value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lee Hyoung CHO, Ji Won OH, Sang Joon KIM, Seong Ik PARK
  • Publication number: 20220047810
    Abstract: A drug delivery device and a method of operating the drug delivery device are provided. The drug delivery device includes a light emitter disposed in a body to emit light based on a control signal, a drug reservoir configured to react to the light emitted from the light emitter and to release a drug, a photosensor configured to sense light passing through the drug reservoir, and a controller configured to monitor a degree to which the drug reservoir reacts to the light, based on an amount of light sensed by the photosensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kitae PARK, Joonseong KANG, Sang Joon KIM, Young Jun HONG
  • Publication number: 20220032911
    Abstract: A turning control system of a vehicle includes: a database storing road information; a sensor part to detect a steering angle of a vehicle, a wheel speed of the vehicle, whether the vehicle is accelerated, whether the vehicle is braking, and whether a speed gear of the vehicle is shifted; and a controller that determines whether the vehicle enters a turning section based on one or more pieces of the information detected by the sensor part and the road information stored in the database. In particular, when the vehicle is entering the turning section, the controller sets a target speed of the vehicle and controls a speed of the vehicle to be decelerated to the set target speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sang Joon KIM, Jea Mun LEE, Jae Young PARK, Hui Un SON, Young Eun KIM, Joon Young PARK, Sung Hoon YU
  • Publication number: 20220024447
    Abstract: A turning control system for a vehicle having a driving motor to generate driving power may include: an error calculation unit that calculates an error between a lateral acceleration of the vehicle and a reference lateral acceleration; and a reduction torque calculation unit that calculates a torque reduction of the driving motor in order to reduce the error calculated by the error calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sang Joon KIM, Jae Young PARK, Hui Un SON, Young Eun KIM, Jea Mun LEE, Sung Hoon YU
  • Publication number: 20210409072
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus may include: an oscillator including a coil assembly exposed to an outside of the wireless communication apparatus, a variable capacitor, and a negative resistor; and a phase locking circuit connected to the coil assembly and the negative resistor. The phase locking circuit may be configured to generate a control signal to lock an oscillation frequency of the oscillator based on an oscillation signal generated by the oscillator, and provide the generated control signal to the variable capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok Ju YUN, Sang Joon KIM, Joonseong KANG
  • Publication number: 20210402977
    Abstract: A system and a method are configured to control a traction force of a vehicle, for example, an electrified vehicle. The system includes wheel speed sensors mounted on drive wheels, respectively, of the vehicle to measure a drive wheel speed, a disturbance observer for extracting a primary disturbance by comparing an actual vehicle behavior based on a required torque with a vehicle behavior estimated based on the drive wheel speed using a vehicle behavior model in an acceleration situation of the vehicle, a filter for extracting a secondary disturbance in a preset frequency range from the primary disturbance, a compensator for calculating a compensation torque for cancelling the secondary disturbance, a hysteresis circuit for determining whether to compensate for the required torque based on the compensation torque, and a calculator for calculating a compensated required torque using the required torque and the compensation torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Sang Joon Kim, Sung Hoon Yu
  • Publication number: 20210394823
    Abstract: A vehicle and a method of controlling turning thereof are provided. The turning control method of a vehicle includes calculating first compensation torque based on a lateral acceleration variation during turning, determining first compensated demanded torque by applying the first compensation torque to demanded torque, determining second compensation torque for preventing wheel slip of a driving wheel based on the first compensated demanded torque and an actual vehicle behavior, and determining second compensated demanded torque input to a driving source controller by applying the second compensation torque to the first compensated demanded torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sang Joon KIM, Young Eun KIM, Hui Un SON, Jea Mun LEE, Sung Hoon YU
  • Publication number: 20210370909
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling engine idling of a hybrid electric vehicle having an engine, an electric motor and a driving motor includes: an engine target speed determination part to determine an engine target speed when an engine idle speed control is requested; an engine target torque determination part to determine an engine target torque when the engine idle speed control is requested; a speed control part to determine a control torque for maintaining an engine speed at a predetermined speed based on a difference value between the engine target speed and an engine actual speed; a power split part to determine an output torque of the electric motor and an engine compensation torque of the engine based the control torque; and a final engine torque determination part to sum the engine compensation torque and the engine target torque to determine a final engine torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sang Joon KIM, Hui Un SON, Sung Deok KIM, Sung Hoon YU, Joo Young KIM, Kyu Hwan JO
  • Patent number: 11184052
    Abstract: Disclosed is a near-field communication (NFC) system that includes an NFC supporting apparatus. The NFC supporting apparatus includes a dual coil and a first switch. The dual coil includes an NFC band coil and a radio frequency (RF) band coil. An RF amplitude modulation signal is generated at the RF band coil in response to a transmission from an implantable device. The first switch is configured to switch the NFC band coil based on the RF amplitude modulation signal. The NFC band coil is configured to generate an NFC amplitude modulation signal at an NFC band coil of an NFC reader in response to the first switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wonseok Lee, Seok Ju Yun, Sang Joon Kim, Jaechun Lee
  • Publication number: 20210354621
    Abstract: A vehicle including an electric motor has improved operating performance of a brake lamp using regenerative braking. A method of controlling a brake lamp of the vehicle includes determining a tendency of a driver, calculating a corrected mass based on the determined tendency of the driver, and calculating corrected acceleration based on the corrected mass and regenerative braking torque of the electric motor. An on threshold is corrected based on a difference between a requested torque and the regenerative braking torque at a time at which an accelerator pedal is released, and the brake lamp is turned on based on the corrected on threshold and the corrected acceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Hui Un Son, Sang Joon Kim, Sung Hoon Yu, Joo Young Kim, Kyu Hwan Jo
  • Patent number: 11152974
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus may include: an oscillator including a coil assembly exposed to an outside of the wireless communication apparatus, a variable capacitor, and a negative resistor; and a phase locking circuit connected to the coil assembly and the negative resistor. The phase locking circuit may be configured to generate a control signal to lock an oscillation frequency of the oscillator based on an oscillation signal generated by the oscillator, and provide the generated control signal to the variable capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok Ju Yun, Sang Joon Kim, Joonseong Kang
  • Publication number: 20210320527
    Abstract: A wireless power reception apparatus includes: a first electrode including a coil shape; a second electrode including the coil shape; an electrode capacitor connected between the first electrode and the second electrode; an electrode signal transceiver connected to the first electrode and the second electrode; a power receiver connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, separately from the electrode signal transceiver; a resonant capacitor; and first capacitor and a second capacitor configured to connect a conducting line between the first electrode and the power receiver and a conducting line between the second electrode and the power receiver, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are wound in the same direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaechun LEE, Young Jun HONG, Sang Joon KIM
  • Publication number: 20210309196
    Abstract: A vehicle driving control method depending on a baby mode, may include, when the baby mode is activated, receiving information on a state of a vehicle seat, correcting a center state of charge (SOC) value of a battery of the vehicle based on the information on the state of the vehicle seat, determining a state of a transmission of the vehicle, and performing regenerative brake and brake pedal stroke (BPS) scale/filtering correction control or an electric vehicle (EV) mode and accelerator position sensor (APS) scale/filtering correction control based on the state of the transmission of the vehicle and the state of the vehicle seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Hui Un SON, Sang Joon KIM, Sung Hoon YU, Joo Young KIM, Kyu Hwan JO
  • Patent number: 11136032
    Abstract: A vehicle and a method for controlling the same are provided to induce inertial driving of a driver by guiding the inertial driving of the vehicle and controlling an accelerator pedal so that a pedal effort is applied to the accelerator pedal. The vehicle includes a display configured to display an object guiding the inertial driving, and a controller configured to apply a pedal effort to an accelerator pedal when guiding the inertial driving to induce the inertial driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Joon Kim, Young Chul Kim, Leehyoung Cho, Dong Ho Yang
  • Publication number: 20210288527
    Abstract: A method of controlling power on a low-power device and the low-power device for performing the method are provided. The method includes performing a first operation, of acquiring sensing data, using power stored in an internal battery of the low-power device, wherein the first operation consumes a first power consumption from the internal battery; and performing a second operation, with respect to the acquired sensing data, and which consumes a second power consumption, using power wirelessly transmitted from an external device located outside of the low-power device, wherein the second power consumption is greater than the first power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chisung BAE, Sang Joon KIM
  • Patent number: 11109812
    Abstract: An authentication apparatus includes one or more processors configured to temporally implement a neural network, used to extract a feature value from hidden nodes, that is connected to input nodes to which an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is input so as to share a weight set with the input nodes, and to match the ECG signal and the extracted feature value to a user for registration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Chisung Bae, Jin Woo Shin, Sung-Soo Ahn, Sang Joon Kim
  • Patent number: 11099147
    Abstract: Disclosed are a gas sensor member, a gas sensor using the same, and manufacturing methods thereof, and specifically, a gas sensor member using a one-dimensional porous metal oxide nanotube composite material having a double average pore distribution in which mesopores (0.1 nm to 50 nm) and macropores (50 nm to 300 nm) are simultaneously formed on the surface of a nanotube through decomposition of a spherical polymer sacrificial template and continuous crystallization and diffusion of a metal oxide and a nanoparticle catalyst embedded in an apoferritin is uniformly loaded in the inside and on the outer wall and inner wall of a one-dimensional metal oxide nanotube through a high-temperature heat treatment, a gas sensor using the same, and manufacturing methods thereof are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Il-Doo Kim, Ji Su Jang, Sang-Joon Kim, Seon-Jin Choi