Patents by Inventor Se Won Min

Se Won Min 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: 11518217
    Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle includes an air conditioning case having a first air passageway and a second air passageway partitioned by a separator therein; a PTC heater disposed in each of the first air passageway and the second air passageway to generate heat by electric energy; and a control unit for controlling operation of the PTC heater. The control unit individually controls discharge temperature of the first air passageway and discharge temperature of the second air passageway of the PTC heater, and if target discharge temperature of the first air passageway and target discharge temperature of the second air passageway are different from each other, the control unit calculates and outputs a compensation value for the PTC heater output of at least one of the first air passageway and the second air passageway. The PTC heater therefore has a reduced output when controlling for dual temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Se Won Min, Sang Jun Yoo, Young Min Kim, Chui Soon Kim, Hong Rae Jung, Chang Hyun Baek, Dae Yeop Jeong
  • Patent number: 11241936
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an air conditioner for a vehicle and a control method thereof, which can calculate the range of discharge temperature to the interior of the vehicle, set the upper limit of the discharge temperature, and control the degree of opening of a temp door such that the discharge temperature to the interior of the vehicle gets lower than the upper limit, thereby preventing air of discharge temperature above the upper limit from being discharged to the interior of the vehicle and preventing displeasure or personal injury that may be caused when air of high temperature is discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Se Won Min, Tae Eun Kim, Chang Hyun Baek, Sang Jun Yoo, Hong Rae Jung, Chul Soon Kim
  • Patent number: 10639966
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for motor vehicles includes a compressor, a condenser, a plurality of air conditioning units connected in parallel with each other with respect to the compressor and the condenser, and a flow rate control unit configured to, when a specific one of the air conditioning units is additionally turned on or is turned off, prevent occurrence of a sudden change in refrigerant amount in the remaining air conditioning units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Chang Hyun Baek, Chul Soon Kim, Tae Eun Kim, Se Won Min, Sang Jun Yoo, Hong Rae Jung, Seo Jun Yoon, Seung Ho Lee, Jae Min Lee, Young Chul Kim, In Hyeok Kim
  • Patent number: 10471805
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for motor vehicles includes a temperature door configured to adjust an opening degree of a hot air path, a PTC heater configured to heat an air introduced into the hot air path, and a control unit configured to control an opening position of the temperature door with respect to the hot air path and to secure a minimum opening degree of the hot air path, so that a minimum amount of air is blown toward the PTC heater regardless of the opening position of the temperature door. The control unit is configured to actively adjust the minimum opening degree of the hot air path depending on an on/off condition of the PTC heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Sang Jun Yoo, Se Won Min, Chang Hyun Baek, Hong Rae Jung
  • Patent number: 10457119
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for motor vehicles includes a blower configured to blow an air into a vehicle room, a PTC heater configured to heat the air blown into the vehicle room, the PTC heater having a heat generation amount adjusted by PWM duty ratio control, a blower air volume change amount measurement unit configured to, when an air volume of the blower is changed, measure a blower air volume change amount per unit time during a predetermined time period from a time point at which the air volume of the blower is changed, and a control unit configured to, when the air volume of the blower is changed, correct a PWM duty ratio of the PTC heater in view of the blower air volume change amount per unit time measured by the blower air volume change amount measurement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Hong Rae Jung, Se Won Min, Sang Jun Yoo
  • Patent number: 10336155
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for hybrid vehicles includes: a heater core receiving engine cooling water from an engine and heat an air blown into a vehicle room; an electric water pump pumping the engine cooling water through the heater core when a motor vehicle is switched from an engine drive mode to a motor drive mode; a discharged air temperature sensing unit sensing a discharged air temperature as a temperature of an air discharged into the vehicle room; and a control unit when the motor vehicle is switched from the engine drive mode to the motor drive mode differentially controls a rotational speed of the electric water pump depending on a temperature difference between the discharged air temperature inputted from the discharged air temperature sensing unit and a target discharge temperature calculated in advance based on internal/external temperature conditions and a user set temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Sang Jun Yoo, Young Min Kim, Tae Eun Kim, Se Won Min, Chang Hyun Baek, Hong Rae Jung
  • Patent number: 10304406
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a switching element connected to a data line and a gate line, a pixel electrode connected to the switching element, a common electrode facing the pixel electrode and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The display apparatus further includes a data driving circuit configured to convert image data to a data voltage. The display apparatus further includes a driving voltage generator configured to generate a common voltage, in response to a voltage control signal from a timing controller, to the common electrode and the data driving circuit, which is configured to output the common voltage to the pixel electrode during an initial setting period when power is turned on to the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-Oh Jin, Hyeok-Tae Kwon, Dongkeon Kim, Seonhye Kim, Se-Won Min, Hyunjung Son, Utah Choi
  • Publication number: 20190001788
    Abstract: An air conditioner for a vehicle includes an air conditioning case having a first air passageway and a second air passageway partitioned by a separator therein; a PTC heater disposed in each of the first air passageway and the second air passageway to generate heat by electric energy; and a control unit for controlling operation of the PTC heater. The control unit individually controls discharge temperature of the first air passageway and discharge temperature of the second air passageway of the PTC heater, and if target discharge temperature of the first air passageway and target discharge temperature of the second air passageway are different from each other, the control unit calculates and outputs a compensation value for the PTC heater output of at least one of the first air passageway and the second air passageway. The PTC heater therefore has a reduced output when controlling for dual temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Se Won MIN, Sang Jun YOO, Young Min KIM, Chul Soon KIM, Hong Rae JUNG, Chang Hyun BAEK, Dae Yeop JEONG
  • Publication number: 20180281564
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for motor vehicles includes a compressor, a condenser, a plurality of air conditioning units connected in parallel with each other with respect to the compressor and the condenser, and a flow rate control unit configured to, when a specific one of the air conditioning units is additionally turned on or is turned off, prevent occurrence of a sudden change in refrigerant amount in the remaining air conditioning units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Chang Hyun Baek, Chul Soon Kim, Tae Eun Kim, Se Won Min, Sang Jun Yoo, Hong Rae Jung, Seo Jun Yoon, Seung Ho Lee, Jae Min Lee, Young Chul Kim, In Hyeok Kim
  • Publication number: 20180117989
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an air conditioner for a vehicle and a control method thereof, which can calculate the range of discharge temperature to the interior of the vehicle, set the upper limit of the discharge temperature, and control the degree of opening of a temp door such that the discharge temperature to the interior of the vehicle gets lower than the upper limit, thereby preventing air of discharge temperature above the upper limit from being discharged to the interior of the vehicle and preventing displeasure or personal injury that may be caused when air of high temperature is discharged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Se Won MIN, Tae Eun KIM, Chang Hyun BAEK, Sang Jun YOO, Hong Rae JUNG, Chul Soon KIM
  • Publication number: 20170190232
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for hybrid vehicles includes: a heater core receiving engine cooling water from an engine and heat an air blown into a vehicle room; an electric water pump pumping the engine cooling water through the heater core when a motor vehicle is switched from an engine drive mode to a motor drive mode; a discharged air temperature sensing unit sensing a discharged air temperature as a temperature of an air discharged into the vehicle room; and a control unit when the motor vehicle is switched from the engine drive mode to the motor drive mode differentially controls a rotational speed of the electric water pump depending on a temperature difference between the discharged air temperature inputted from the discharged air temperature sensing unit and a target discharge temperature calculated in advance based on internal/external temperature conditions and a user set temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Sang Jun Yoo, Young Min Kim, Tae Eun Kim, Se Won Min, Chang Hyun Baek, Hong Rae Jung
  • Publication number: 20170178587
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a switching element connected to a data line and a gate line, a pixel electrode connected to the switching element, a common electrode facing the pixel electrode and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The liquid crystal layer is driven by a difference in voltages between a voltage applied to the pixel electrode and a voltage applied to the common electrode. The display apparatus further includes a data driving circuit configured to convert image data to a data voltage, a driving voltage generator configured to generate a common voltage applied to the common electrode and an analog source voltage applied to the data driving circuit, and a data switching circuit configured to output the common voltage to the data line during an initial setting period when power is turned on to the display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: JEONG-OH JIN, HYEOK-TAE KWON, DONGKEON KIM, SEONHYE KIM, SE-WON MIN, HYUNJUNG SON, UTAH CHOI
  • Publication number: 20150321537
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for motor vehicles includes a temperature door configured to adjust an opening degree of a hot air path, a PTC heater configured to heat an air introduced into the hot air path, and a control unit configured to control an opening position of the temperature door with respect to the hot air path and to secure a minimum opening degree of the hot air path, so that a minimum amount of air is blown toward the PTC heater regardless of the opening position of the temperature door. The control unit is configured to actively adjust the minimum opening degree of the hot air path depending on an on/off condition of the PTC heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Sang Jun Yoo, Se Won Min, Chang Hyun Baek, Hong Rae Jung
  • Publication number: 20150321536
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for motor vehicles includes a blower configured to blow an air into a vehicle room, a PTC heater configured to heat the air blown into the vehicle room, the PTC heater having a heat generation amount adjusted by PWM duty ratio control, a blower air volume change amount measurement unit configured to, when an air volume of the blower is changed, measure a blower air volume change amount per unit time during a predetermined time period from a time point at which the air volume of the blower is changed, and a control unit configured to, when the air volume of the blower is changed, correct a PWM duty ratio of the PTC heater in view of the blower air volume change amount per unit time measured by the blower air volume change amount measurement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Hong Rae Jung, Se Won Min, Sang Jun Yoo