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).
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Publication number: 20150184736Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2014Publication date: July 2, 2015Applicants: 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
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Publication number: 20150167654Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Yong Woong Cha
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Patent number: 9033321Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Dong-Wook Lee, Jang-Ho Kim, Yong-Woong Cha
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Patent number: 8910489Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Yong Hyun Choi, Jae Yeon Kim, Yong Woong Cha, Wan Je Cho, Jungha Park, Jaesan Kim, Man Hee Park, Yong Lee
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Patent number: 8430069Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Halla Climate Control Corp.Inventors: Eun Ki Min, Byoung Sun Cho, Yong Woong Cha, Jae Yeon Kim
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Publication number: 20130061743Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Dong-Wook Lee, Jang-Ho Kim, Yong-Woong Cha
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Publication number: 20130019615Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Yong Hyun Choi, Jae Yeon Kim, Yong Woong Cha, Wan Je Cho, Jungha Park, Jaesan Kim, Man Hee Park
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Publication number: 20120318012Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: YONG HYUN CHOI, JAE YEON KIM, YONG WOONG CHA, WAN JE CHO, JUNGHA PARK, JAESAN KIM, MAN HEE PARK
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Publication number: 20120273177Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: JAE YEON KIM, WAN JE CHO, YOUNG JUN KIM, YONG WOONG CHA
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Publication number: 20120240604Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Yong Hyun Choi, Jae Yeon Kim, Yong Woong Cha, Wan Je Cho, Jungha Park, Jaesan Kim, Man Hee Park, Yong Lee
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Publication number: 20100126692Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2009Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, HALLA CLIMATE CONTROL CORP.Inventors: Eun Ki Min, Byoung Sun Cho, Yong Woong Cha, Jae Yeon Kim