Patents by Inventor Yong-jae Lee

Yong-jae Lee 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: 20250030369
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus includes a motor having a plurality of windings, a dual inverter including a first inverter connected to first ends of the plurality of windings and a second inverter connected to second ends of the plurality of windings and configured to drive the motor through at least one of the first inverter or the second inverter according to a motor driving mode, and a controller configured to determine whether flux weakening control is performed according to an available voltage level of the dual inverter when a switching condition of the motor driving mode is satisfied and to perform the flux weakening control by linearly adjusting an output voltage level of the dual inverter for a preset time interval for which the flux weakening control is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Young Ho CHAE, Young Kwan KO, Hyun Jae LIM, Young Gi LEE, Joo Young PARK, Yong Jae LEE
  • Patent number: 12184213
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus of driving a motor including a plurality of windings respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases is disclosed. The motor driving apparatus includes a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements and connected to a first end of each of the windings, a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements and connected to a second end of each of the windings, and a controller electrically connected to the first switching elements and the second switching elements and configured to generate limited pole voltage commands for space vector pulse width modulation based on preset voltage commands of the motor and to distribute the limited pole voltage commands to generate first pole voltage commands for switching of the first switching elements and second pole voltage commands for switching of the second switching elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yong Jae Lee, Jung Mo Yu, Jang Yoon Jeong
  • Publication number: 20240424930
    Abstract: An electrified vehicle may include: a main battery and an auxiliary battery; a motor system including a dual inverter connected to the main battery and driving a motor depending on a motor driving mode, and a transfer switch for switching between first and second driving modes included in the motor driving mode; and a charging switch connected between the motor system and the auxiliary battery, and configured to form a boost charging path connected from the auxiliary battery to the main battery through the motor system when the first driving mode switches to a charging mode while driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Jae LEE, Young Kwan KO, Byung Kwan SON, Jang Yoon JEONG, Ho Tae CHUN, Yoo Jong LEE
  • Patent number: 12176826
    Abstract: An inverter driving apparatus includes an inverter having a plurality of legs respectively corresponding to each of a plurality of phases and the control unit generating space vector modulation signals based on a phase voltage command, each of the space vector modulation signals corresponding to each of the plurality of phases, respectively, determining whether an output voltage of the inverter corresponding to at least one space vector modulation signal of the space vector modulation is in a non-linear region by determining whether each voltage of the space vector modulation signals is included in a predetermined range, generating a terminal voltage command by determining whether or not to apply an offset voltage to each of the space vector modulation signals based on the determination of the non-linear region, and controlling a turn-on state of at least one switch included in each of the plurality of legs by modulating the terminal voltage command based on pulse width modulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyun Jae Lim, Yong Jae Lee, Young Ho Chae, Young Kwan Ko, Young Gi Lee
  • Patent number: 12154346
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for detecting objects by utilizing uncertainties. In some aspects, a process can include steps for receiving, by an autonomous vehicle system, a frame of a scene with a detected object; estimating, by the autonomous vehicle system, an overall probability of the detected object in the frame; estimating, by the autonomous vehicle system, covariances for each state of at least one bounding box; and balancing, by the autonomous vehicle system, confidence values of the at least one bounding box based on the overall probability of the detected object and the covariances of each state of the at least one bounding box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Pranay Agrawal, Yong Jae Lee, Chiyu Jiang
  • Patent number: 12143041
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus driving a motor that has a plurality of windings respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases includes a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements and connected to a first end of each of the windings, a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements and connected to a second end of each of the windings, and a controller determining a voltage command of the first inverter based on a voltage command of the motor and the active vector corresponding to a duty of the second switching elements and controlling the first switching elements through pulse width modulation based on the voltage command of the first inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Young Kwan Ko, Yong Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 12119768
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus driving a motor including a plurality of windings corresponding to each of phases, includes a mode change switch and a plurality of inverters that operate the motor in a closed end winding mode or an open end winding mode; and a controller configured for controlling the mode change switch and the plurality of inverters according to a first mode determination result based on a reverse magnetic flux and a second mode determination result according to an output power limit for each mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Jung Mo Yu, Yong Jae Lee, Hyun Jae Lim, Young Ho Chae, Young Kwan Ko, Jang Yoon Jeong
  • Patent number: 12051455
    Abstract: A variable resistance memory device includes active regions apart from each other, common bit line contacts in the active regions, first active source contacts on first active regions near one edge of each of the common bit line contacts, second active source contacts on second active regions near another edge of each of the common bit line contacts, word lines between the first active source contacts and the common bit line contacts and between the common bit line contacts and the second active source contacts, bit lines on the common bit line contacts, variable resistance layers connected to the second active source contacts, the word lines, and the bit lines, spin-orbit torque (SOT) layers connected to the first active source contacts on the variable resistance layers, the word lines, and the bit lines, source line contacts on the SOT layers, and source lines connected to the source line contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Jae Lee, Jihun Byun
  • Patent number: 12034392
    Abstract: An apparatus configured for driving a motor, includes a first inverter including a first switching elements and connected to a first end of each of a windings respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases of the motor, a second inverter including a second switching elements and connected to a second end of each of the windings, a switches including first ends respectively connected to nodes to which the windings and the second switching elements are respectively connected and second ends connected to each other, and a controller configured to drive the motor in one of a first driving mode for driving the motor by maintaining the second switching elements in an open state and performing pulse width modulation control for the first switching elements and a second driving mode for driving the motor by performing pulse width modulation control for the first switching elements and the second switching elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Yong Jae Lee, Kang Ho Jeong, Young Seul Lim, Jae Hoon Shim, Jung Ik Ha
  • Publication number: 20240190294
    Abstract: An electrified vehicle includes a motor including a plurality of windings corresponding to each of phases; an inverter including a DC terminal connected to a main battery, and a plurality of legs connected to each end of the windings; a charging switch connected between one electrode of an auxiliary battery and a neutral terminal of the motor, and a controller configured to turn on the charging switch and to apply a DC offset to each of phase currents of the motor having the phases when the charging mode is performed while driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Jae LEE, Young Kwan KO, Byung Kwan SON, Jang Yoon JEONG, Ho Tae CHUN, Yoo Jong LEE
  • Publication number: 20240190274
    Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a main battery and an auxiliary battery, a motor system including a motor and an inverter, and a controller which is configured to control an external voltage to be applied to the main battery or the auxiliary battery according to a level of the external voltage when a charging mode for charging the main battery and the auxiliary battery is performed, wherein the motor system is configured to step down and output a voltage of the main battery to the auxiliary battery when the external voltage is applied to the main battery, and is configured to boost and output a voltage of the auxiliary battery to the main battery when the external voltage is applied to the auxiliary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Jae LEE, Young Kwan KO, Byung Kwan SON, Jang Yoon JEONG, Ho Tae CHUN, Yoo Jong LEE
  • Patent number: 12002162
    Abstract: A method for providing virtual contents in a virtual space based on a common coordinate system includes: detecting a base marker for identifying a fixed point of an actual operation space, and a target marker for identifying an actual operation object, from initial image data indicating an initial state of the actual operation object in the actual operation space; calculating an initial model matrix of a target marker expressing an initial position and orientation of the target marker, and a model matrix of the base marker expressing a position and an orientation of the detected base marker in a virtual operation space having a common coordinate system which has the detected base marker as a reference; and calculating a current model matrix of the target marker expressing a current position and orientation of the target marker by using the calculated model matrix of the base marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Byoung Hyun Yoo, Yong Jae Lee
  • Publication number: 20240097580
    Abstract: An inverter driving apparatus includes an inverter having a plurality of legs respectively corresponding to each of a plurality of phases and the control unit generating space vector modulation signals based on a phase voltage command, each of the space vector modulation signals corresponding to each of the plurality of phases, respectively, determining whether an output voltage of the inverter corresponding to at least one space vector modulation signal of the space vector modulation is in a non-linear region by determining whether each voltage of the space vector modulation signals is included in a predetermined range, generating a terminal voltage command by determining whether or not to apply an offset voltage to each of the space vector modulation signals based on the determination of the non-linear region, and controlling a turn-on state of at least one switch included in each of the plurality of legs by modulating the terminal voltage command based on pulse width modulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Hyun Jae LIM, Yong Jae LEE, Young Ho CHAE, Young Kwan KO, Young Gi LEE
  • Patent number: 11936314
    Abstract: A motor drive device is proposed. The motor drive device is configured to drive a motor having a plurality of windings respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases, and includes: a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements, and connected to a first end of each of the plurality of windings; a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements, and connected to a second end of each of the plurality of windings; and a controller configured to generate phase voltage commands of the first inverter and phase voltage commands of the second inverter based on preset voltage commands of the motor so that the phase voltage commands of the first inverter and the phase voltage commands of the second inverter are respectively represented as vectors of different angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yong Jae Lee, Jung Hwi Kim, Jun Mo An
  • Patent number: 11936321
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for suppressing torque generation of a three-phase motor, includes a torque determination device that determines a second torque value for suppressing a first torque value due to a zero phase sequence component current of the three-phase motor, a control amount determination device that determines a voltage control amount for generating the determined second torque value, and a controller that is configured to control the three-phase motor according to the determined voltage control amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Jae Lee, Jung Hwi Kim, Hyun Jae Lim
  • Publication number: 20240076606
    Abstract: The present invention relates to HS-LZ microalgae of the genus Chlorella (Chlorella sp. HS-LZ), which are novel microalgae characterized by being able to produce zeaxanthin and lutein, and uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: ASK LABS
    Inventors: Hee Sik Kim, Yong Jae Lee, Su Bin Park
  • Patent number: 11908202
    Abstract: For one embodiment of the present invention, a method of object detection and part segmentation is described. The method includes generating a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud including a plurality of points in a volume of a space of the point cloud based on receiving point cloud dat. The method further includes obtaining, with a global transformer, a set of global feature tokens and local feature points of the 3D point cloud, enforcing with an attention mechanism information flow across the set of global feature tokens and local feature point, and generating, with the global transformer, a set of new global feature tokens and new local feature points with modeled global context information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Yong Jae Lee, Haotian Liu
  • Publication number: 20240039447
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus driving a motor that has a plurality of windings respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases includes a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements and connected to a first end of each of the windings, a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements and connected to a second end of each of the windings, and a controller determining a voltage command of the first inverter based on a voltage command of the motor and the active vector corresponding to a duty of the second switching elements and controlling the first switching elements through pulse width modulation based on the voltage command of the first inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Young Kwan KO, Yong Jae LEE
  • Patent number: 11876468
    Abstract: A motor driving apparatus which drives a motor having a plurality of windings corresponding to a plurality of phases includes: a first inverter having a plurality of first switching elements and connected to a first end of each winding; a second inverter having a plurality of second switching elements and connected to a second end of each winding; and a controller configured to control pulse width modulation, by distributing a preset voltage command of the motor into a voltage command of the first inverter and a voltage command of the second inverter at the same rate and by generating duties of the first switching elements, wherein the controller determines the duties of the second switching elements and determines the duties of the first switching elements on and the duties of the first switching elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yong Jae Lee, Joo Young Park, Young Kwan Ko
  • Patent number: 11863095
    Abstract: A motor driving device drives a motor having a plurality of windings corresponding to a plurality of phases. The motor driving device includes: a first inverter configured to include a plurality of first switching elements and connected to first stages of the plurality of windings; a second inverter configured to include a plurality of second switching elements and connected to second stages of the plurality of windings; and a controller configured to fix switching states of the second switching elements and switch the first switching elements to compose target voltage vectors if the motor is driven in an open end winding type by operating the first inverter and the second inverter in a space vector pulse width modulation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Seoul National University R & DB Foundation
    Inventors: Kang Ho Jeong, Sang Cheol Shin, Yong Jae Lee, Jung Ik Ha, Hyeon Gyu Choi, Jae Hoon Shim