Patents by Inventor Yun-seok Kim

Yun-seok 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: 20140238355
    Abstract: A variable compression ratio device may include a piston assembly having double pistons of which the volume may be varied, a lifter relatively moving one piston of the double pistons with respect to the other piston of the double pistons, a guide unit engaged with the piston assembly and guiding a movement of the one piston with respect to the other piston, and a locking unit selectively coupling the one piston to the other piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Yoonsik Woo, Eun Ho Lee, Han Sang Kim, Yun Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 8816560
    Abstract: Disclosed is a canned motor for restraining a cogging torque from being generated by inserting magnetic metal pins into slot openings of a stator, thereby reducing noise and vibrations during an operation of the canned motor. The canned motor includes: a can inserted into a housing to seal a coil mounted within the housing; and a stator installed on an outer peripheral surface of the can and inserted along an inner peripheral surface of the housing. A plurality of fixing guides protrude from an outer peripheral surface of the can and metal pins are inserted into the fixing guides to be integral with the fixing guide, such that the metal pins are inserted into and attached to slot openings of the stator when inserted into the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Myunghwa Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Yong Lee, Jea Woong Yi, Chi Myung Kim, Hark Koo Kim, Yun Seok Kim, Yong Sun Park, Bong Sang Lee, Tae Sung Oh, Yu Man Won
  • Patent number: 8791397
    Abstract: The present invention provides an induction heating device for a fuel cell system, which can rapidly heat coolant during cold start-up, control the power consumption depending on the voltage of a fuel cell stack, and ensure the insulation resistance by separating a heating unit, which is in contact with the coolant, from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Seong Kyun Kim, Haeng Jin Ko, Su Dong Han, Gi Young Nam, Yun Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 8764417
    Abstract: An electric pump for a vehicle includes a pump body that is divided into a motor room and a pump room, a shaft that is connected to the motor room and the pump room and a sealing unit is interposed therebetween, and an impeller that is mounted on the shaft in the pump room. More specifically, a leachate exhaust passage for exhausting leachate that is leaked through the sealing unit is formed in the pump body, and the leachate exhaust passage is connected to a reaction gas exhaust portion of a fuel cell stack to aide in the exhaust of the leachate accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Chi Myung Kim, Haenjin Ko, Seung Yong Lee, Harkkoo Kim, Yun Seok Kim, Yong Sun Park
  • Patent number: 8747082
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric water pump having improved performance and durability. The electric water pump may include a stator generating a magnetic field according to a control signal, a rotor rotated by the magnetic field, a pump cover having an inlet and an outlet, a body having a front surface forming a volute chamber, a stator chamber, and a rotor chamber, the stator mounted in the stator chamber and the rotor mounted in the rotor chamber, a shaft having a central axis, fixed to the rotor and mounted in the rotor chamber, and an impeller fixed to the shaft so as to rotate together with the shaft, pressurizing the coolant having flowed in through the inlet, and mounted in the volute chamber, wherein the rotor chamber is fluidly connected to the volute chamber, and the stator chamber is fluidly closed and sealed from the rotor chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Amotech Co., Ltd., Myunghwa Ind. Co., Ltd., Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jeawoong Yi, Seung Yong Lee, Gyuhwan Kim, Yun Seok Kim, Yong Sun Park, Tae-Sung Oh, Kyung-Hwan Kim, Jong-Hoon Lee, Kwang-Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20140109610
    Abstract: A free-standing evaporative air cooling system includes a base, at least one air inlet and at least one cooling pad. A neck extends upwardly relative to the base and includes at least one upwardly-oriented air flow passageway in gaseous communication with the air inlet(s). At least one air outlet is disposed proximate to the upper end of the neck and is in gaseous communication with the air flow passageway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: PORT-A-COOL, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Leon Wulf, Kerry Lyman Shumway, Yun Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 8647081
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric water pump having improved performance and durability. The electric water pump may include a stator generating a magnetic field according to a control signal, a rotor rotated by the magnetic field, a pump cover having an inlet and an outlet, a body having a front surface forming a volute chamber, a stator chamber, and a rotor chamber, the stator mounted in the stator chamber and the rotor mounted in the rotor chamber, a shaft having a central axis, fixed to the rotor and mounted in the rotor chamber, and an impeller fixed to the shaft so as to rotate together with the shaft, pressurizing the coolant having flowed in through the inlet, and mounted in the volute chamber, wherein the rotor chamber is fluidly connected to the volute chamber, and the stator chamber is fluidly closed and sealed from the rotor chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Amotech Co., Ltd., Myunghwa Ind. Co., Ltd., Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jeawoong Yi, Seung Yong Lee, Gyuhwan Kim, Yun Seok Kim, Yong Sun Park, Tae-Sung Oh, Kyung-Hwan Kim, Jong-Hoon Lee, Kwang-Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20130302723
    Abstract: The present invention provides a local hydrophilic gas diffusion layer configured to enhance the water removal performance of a fuel cell For this purpose, the present invention provides a gas diffusion layer in which a region under each of a pair of lands, which receives a clamping pressure of the fuel cell stack, is subjected to local hydrophilic treatment by a simple process, thereby enhancing the water removal performance of the fuel cell stack. In particular, the local hydrophilic gas diffusion layer has a first region under each land of the separator which receives the clamping pressure; and a second region under the gas channel of the separator, wherein the first region is subjected to hydrophilic treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Haeng Jin Ko, Young Bum Kum, Kook Il Han, Yun Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 8562314
    Abstract: An electric water pump apparatus may include a body, a stator disposed in the body, a rotor in the stator, a pump cover having an inlet and an outlet, wherein a front surface of the body and the pump cover form a volute chamber, wherein a stator chamber is formed at an outer portion in the body in a radial direction and the stator is mounted in the stator chamber, and wherein a rotor chamber is formed at an inner portion in the body and the rotor is mounted in the rotor chamber, a shaft rotatably coupled to the front surface and fixed into the rotor, and an impeller fixed to a front portion of the shaft, wherein the shaft includes a first shaft connecting the impeller and a front end portion of the rotor and a second shaft connected to a rear end portion of the rotor along the central axis of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Myunghwa Ind. Co., Ltd., AMOTECH Co., Ltd., Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Soon Il Hong, Seung Yong Lee, Yong Sun Park, Gyuhwan Kim, Yun Seok Kim, Tae-Sung Oh, Kyung-Hwan Kim, Jong-Hoon Lee, Kwang-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8541139
    Abstract: A humidifier includes an inlet assembly provided in an air exhaust pipe, through which water-supersaturated exhaust gas is discharged from a fuel cell stack, to supply water condensed from the exhaust gas to the fuel cell stack and an outlet assembly provided in an air supply pipe, through which a reactant gas to be humidified and supplied to the fuel cell stack passes, to supply the water transferred through a pumping pipe to the air supply pipe such that the reactant gas is humidified. A pumping pipe including a porous material disposed therein along with electrodes are disposed between the inlet assembly and the outlet assembly so that the water is transferred through a capillary path in the porous material via a pumping force by electroosmosis when the electrodes apply a voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Haeng Jin Ko, Young Bum Kum, Young Woo Noh, Yun Seok Kim
  • Publication number: 20130119818
    Abstract: Disclosed is a canned motor for restraining a cogging torque from being generated by inserting magnetic metal pins into slot openings of a stator, thereby reducing noise and vibrations during an operation of the canned motor. The canned motor includes: a can inserted into a housing to seal a coil mounted within the housing; and a stator installed on an outer peripheral surface of the can and inserted along an inner peripheral surface of the housing. A plurality of fixing guides protrude from an outer peripheral surface of the can and metal pins are inserted into the fixing guides to be integral with the fixing guide, such that the metal pins are inserted into and attached to slot openings of the stator when inserted into the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, MYUNGHWA IND. CO., LTD., KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seung Yong Lee, Jea Woong Yi, Chi Myung Kim, Hark Koo Kim, Yun Seok Kim, Yong Sun Park, Bong Sang Lee, Tae Sung Oh, Yu Man Won
  • Publication number: 20130108490
    Abstract: An electric water pump with a canned motor is provided. The electric water pump includes a can-integrated volute body and a rotor support. The can-integrated volute body includes a volute body part disposed between a water power part housing and a motor housing and a can part disposed between a rotor and a stator. The volute body part separates a water power part from a driving motor and the can part separates the rotor from the stator. The volute body part and the can part may be integrally formed as one continuous piece and the rotor support is disposed inside the volute body part and rotatably supports the rotor and a motor shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, MYUNGHWA IND. CO., LTD., KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seung Yong Lee, Jea Woong Yi, Chi Myung Kim, Hark Koo Kim, Yun Seok Kim, Yong Sun Park, Bong Sang Lee, Tae Sung Oh, Kyung Hwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20130011750
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium-air hybrid battery and a method for manufacturing the same, which has a structure in which a liquid electrolyte electrode and a solid electrolyte electrode are stacked on both sides of an ion conductive glass ceramic. That is, disclosed is a lithium-air hybrid battery and a method for manufacturing the same, which has a structure in which a lithium metal negative electrode includes a liquid electrolyte and a porous air positive electrode comprising a carbon, a catalyst, a binder and a solid electrolyte are separately stacked on both sides of an impermeable ion conductive glass ceramic, and the liquid electrolyte is present only in the lithium metal negative electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Dong Hui Kim, Sam Ick Son, Kyoung Han Ryu, Jun Ki Rhee, Yun Seok Kim, Ho Taek Lee
  • Patent number: 8304939
    Abstract: An electric water pump may include a stator generating a magnetic field according to a control signal and a rotor rotated by the magnetic field generated at the stator and pressurizing coolant. According to the electric water pump, the stator may include, a stator core formed by stacking a plurality of pieces made of a magnetic material, an insulator connecting pieces of the stator core to each other, a coil coiling the stator core so as to form a magnetic path, a Hall sensor detecting a position of the rotor, a Hall sensor board controlling the control signal supplied to the stator according to the position of the rotor detected by the Hall sensor, and a stator case wrapping and sealing the stator core, the insulator, the coil, the Hall sensor, and the Hall sensor board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Amotech Co., Ltd., Myunghwa Ind. Co., Ltd., Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Seung Yong Lee, Gyuhwan Kim, Yun Seok Kim, Yong Sun Park, Bong Sang Lee, Tae-Sung Oh, Kyung-Hwan Kim, Jong-Hoon Lee, Kwang-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: D683831
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Port-A-Cool, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Leon Wulf, Kerry Lyman Shumway, Yun Seok Kim
  • Patent number: D688361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Port-A-Cool, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Leon Wulf, Kerry Lyman Shumway, Yun Seok Kim
  • Patent number: D688778
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Port-A-Cool, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Leon Wulf, Kerry Lyman Shumway, Yun Seok Kim
  • Patent number: D688779
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Port-A-Cool, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Leon Wulf, Kerry Lyman Shumway, Yun Seok Kim
  • Patent number: D689174
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Port-A-Cool, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Leon Wulf, Kerry Lyman Shumway, Yun Seok Kim
  • Patent number: D689175
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Port-A-Cool, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Leon Wulf, Kerry Lyman Shumway, Yun Seok Kim