Patents by Inventor Yong Woong Cha

Yong Woong Cha 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: 20150184736
    Abstract: Disclosed are a pulley structure and a damper pulley that prevent corrosion. The pulley structure may include a hub part that is fitted on a crankshaft rotated by power from an engine and rotates with the crankshaft and a pulley part coupled with the hub part to rotate with the hub part and connected with a power transmission member. The hub part may include a pulley contact surface facing the pulley part, and pulley coupling portions formed at the pulley contact surface to secure coupling members. The pulley part may include a hub contact surface facing the pulley contact surface of the hub part, hub coupling portions coupled to the pulley coupling portions by securing the coupling members, and coupling grooves recessed from the hub coupling portions to insert the coupling members. Washers made of an insulator may be fitted on the coupling members between the pulley coupling portions and the hub coupling portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Halla Visteon Climate Control Corp.
    Inventors: Yong Woong CHA, Byeong Jun LEE, Man Hee PARK, Jungha PARK, Sung Taeg OH, Suk Jae CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20150167654
    Abstract: A variable capacity compressor may include a drive shaft, a rotating plate connected to the drive shaft and rotatably disposed in a housing, a swash plate hingedly coupled to the rotating plate and rotated together with the rotating plate, pistons connected to an outer circumferential side edge of the swash plate and selectively inserted into compression chambers in the housing and reciprocating in the compression chambers when the swash plate is rotated, a rotating shaft hingedly connected to a center portion of the swash plate and rotated together with the swash plate, a connecting rod connected with the rotating shaft to move the rotating shaft in an axial direction to adjust a slope of the swash plate, and a drive motor connected to the connecting rod and moves the connecting rod in the axial direction of the rotating shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Yong Woong Cha
  • Patent number: 9033321
    Abstract: An active mount structure may include an actuator coupled to an actuator plate coupled to an orifice plate within a housing, wherein the actuator includes a plunger coupled to the actuator plate, a first rod rotatably coupled to a bottom of the plunger and rotated by a first motor unit, wherein the first rod includes a rotating shaft rotatably coupled to the plunger, one side of the rotating shaft extending to form an extending portion, and a rotation retention portion formed at the extending portion, a swash plate defining a center hole therein and having shaft protrusions, wherein the first rod may be disposed in the center hole and the rotation retention portion may be engaged to the swash plate, and a second rod engaged at the swash plate and raised or lowered by a second motor unit, wherein the shaft protrusions may be rotatably coupled to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Dong-Wook Lee, Jang-Ho Kim, Yong-Woong Cha
  • Patent number: 8910489
    Abstract: A heat pump system for a vehicle includes a water cooled condenser that uses a coolant as a heat exchange media and uses waste heat generated from a motor and an electronic device to improve heating performance, efficiency, and dehumidifying performance. A control method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Hyun Choi, Jae Yeon Kim, Yong Woong Cha, Wan Je Cho, Jungha Park, Jaesan Kim, Man Hee Park, Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 8430069
    Abstract: An integrated hybrid heat exchanger with a multi-sectional structure, may include a first radiator and a second radiator, and/or at least a coolant bypass member disposed between the first and second radiators, the coolant bypass member connecting one end portion of the first radiator and the other end portion of the second radiator so as to fluid-communicate between the first radiator and the second radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Halla Climate Control Corp.
    Inventors: Eun Ki Min, Byoung Sun Cho, Yong Woong Cha, Jae Yeon Kim
  • Publication number: 20130061743
    Abstract: An active mount structure may include an actuator coupled to an actuator plate coupled to an orifice plate within a housing, wherein the actuator includes a plunger coupled to the actuator plate, a first rod rotatably coupled to a bottom of the plunger and rotated by a first motor unit, wherein the first rod includes a rotating shaft rotatably coupled to the plunger, one side of the rotating shaft extending to form an extending portion, and a rotation retention portion formed at the extending portion, a swash plate defining a center hole therein and having shaft protrusions, wherein the first rod may be disposed in the center hole and the rotation retention portion may be engaged to the swash plate, and a second rod engaged at the swash plate and raised or lowered by a second motor unit, wherein the shaft protrusions may be rotatably coupled to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Dong-Wook Lee, Jang-Ho Kim, Yong-Woong Cha
  • Publication number: 20130019615
    Abstract: A method for controlling a heat pump system is provided with air conditioning means connected to a controller and including a plurality of valves and expansion valves connected to each other through a refrigerant line and a bypass line, a compressor, an accumulator, an evaporator, an exterior condenser, an interior condenser, and an HVAC module having a PTC heater and a door at a warming mode, a cooling mode, a dehumidification mode, a dehumidification/defrosting mode, or an extremely low temperature dehumidification/defrosting mode according to selection of a driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Yong Hyun Choi, Jae Yeon Kim, Yong Woong Cha, Wan Je Cho, Jungha Park, Jaesan Kim, Man Hee Park
  • Publication number: 20120318012
    Abstract: A heat pump system may include a cooling assembly disposed on a vehicle to circulate electric devices with coolant through a cooling line, wherein the cooling assembly includes a radiator disposed at a front side of the vehicle, uses a water pump to circulate coolant through the cooling line, and cools the supplied coolant through heat exchange with outside air, and a cooling fan that blows wind through the radiator, an air conditioning assembly connected to a refrigerant line connected to the cooling assembly to control heating and cooling, and a heat exchanger connected to the cooling line such that the coolant is circulated therein, selectively uses the waste heat generated from the electric devices according to modes to vary the temperature of the coolant, and is connected to the refrigerant line of the air conditioning assembly such that an inflow refrigerant exchanges heat with the coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: YONG HYUN CHOI, JAE YEON KIM, YONG WOONG CHA, WAN JE CHO, JUNGHA PARK, JAESAN KIM, MAN HEE PARK
  • Publication number: 20120273177
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a vehicle may include a heat radiating portion provided with first and second connecting lines formed alternately by stacking plates, and receiving first and second operating fluids into the first and second connecting lines, a bifurcating portion connecting an inflow hole for flowing one operating fluid of the first and second operating fluids with an exhaust hole for exhausting the one operating fluid, and adapted for the one operating fluid to bypass the heat radiating portion according to a temperature of the one operating fluid, and a valve unit mounted corresponding to the inflow hole and adapted to flow the one operating fluid selectively to the heat radiating portion or the bifurcating portion according to the temperature of the one operating fluid flowing in the inflow hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: JAE YEON KIM, WAN JE CHO, YOUNG JUN KIM, YONG WOONG CHA
  • Publication number: 20120240604
    Abstract: A heat pump system for a vehicle includes a water cooled condenser that uses a coolant as a heat exchange media and uses waste heat generated from a motor and an electronic device to improve heating performance, efficiency, and dehumidifying performance. A control method is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Yong Hyun Choi, Jae Yeon Kim, Yong Woong Cha, Wan Je Cho, Jungha Park, Jaesan Kim, Man Hee Park, Yong Lee
  • Publication number: 20100126692
    Abstract: An integrated hybrid heat exchanger with a multi-sectional structure, may include a first radiator and a second radiator, and/or at least a coolant bypass member disposed between the first and second radiators, the coolant bypass member connecting one end portion of the first radiator and the other end portion of the second radiator so as to fluid-communicate between the first radiator and the second radiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, HALLA CLIMATE CONTROL CORP.
    Inventors: Eun Ki Min, Byoung Sun Cho, Yong Woong Cha, Jae Yeon Kim