Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Eun-Sik Kim

Jeong-Seop Lee

Yang-Rae Cho

Chang-Ho Ham

Hee-Soo Yang

Jeong-Seon Min

Jee-Hyuck Choi

Bum-Jun Kim

Sug-Jun Youn

A multifunctional electronic gear shift lever for simultaneous manipulation includes a cylindrical lever rotatably inserted into a support which is disposed in a center fascia surface or a console surface of a vehicle and having an entrance opening that penetrates the cylindrical lever in a longitudinal direction. A start button is disposed at a lower side of the entrance opening, connected with a controller via a spring, and moving in a vertical direction. A display is disposed on the center fascia surface or the console surface, and displays a gear shift stage of the vehicle and a state of the vehicle. The gear shift stage is changeable by rotating the cylindrical lever while simultaneously starting an engine of the vehicle by operating the start button.

Multifunctional electronic gear shift lever for simultaneous manipulation and method of controlling the same

A motion demonstration electronic gear shift apparatus may include a motion demonstration device having a gear shift stage selection device configured to change a gear shift stage of a vehicle, and movably mounted in the vehicle, a controller configured to recognize an operation of the gear shift stage selection device to move the motion demonstration device, and to transmit a signal generated by the gear shift stage selection device to a transmission control unit (TCU) of the vehicle to change the gear shift stage, and a movable device configured to move the motion demonstration device forward and rearward by receiving a signal from the controller.

Motion demonstration electronic gear shift apparatus and method of controlling the same

The present disclosure provides a pedalthat includes a left bracket and right bracket that are combined such that a portion coupled to a hinge of a pedal arm and another portion fixed to a vehicle body are fitted to each other in an X-shape. A cover bracket is welded to the left and right brackets and over the X-shaped portion. A fixing pin welded to the left and right brackets and at a cross-point of the X-shape. The pedal arm is separated due to deformation in an impact direction in an oblique collision as well as a front, offset, or small overlap collision of a vehicle. Thus, the pedal makes it possible to prevent a driver from being injured by the pedal.

Impact separation type pedal

A cube type electronic shift lever including a shift lever panel mounted on a console surface or a center fascia of a vehicle, and having a seating unit including a plurality of position fixing magnets, a plurality of cube type buttons including metallic plates coupled to lower portions of the plurality of cube type buttons, the plurality of cube type buttons being detachably installed on the seating unit of the shift lever panel, an operating unit embedded in each of the plurality of cube type buttons, and sending operational signals generated by the each of the plurality of cube type buttons, and a control unit configured to transmit the operational signals sent by each of the plurality of cube type buttons to a transmission control unit (TCU) or an electronic control unit (ECU) of the vehicle, in which shapes and functions of the cube type buttons are arbitrarily selected.

Cube-type electronic automatic transmission

A unified electronic shift lever may include a first selection unit installed on a dashboard of a vehicle, and on which various selectable options including a gear shift option of the vehicle are indicated, a second selection unit installed on an upper portion of the first selection unit, and on which sub-options of the various selectable options selected at the first selection unit are indicated, a display unit disposed on an upper portion of the second selection unit and displaying options selected at the first selection unit and the second selection unit, and a control unit disposed below the dashboard, identifying operations of the first selection unit and the second selection unit to control various types of options of the vehicle, and changing indication on the second selection unit and the display unit.

Unified electronic automatic transmission lever

A sliding operation type electronic auto shift lever may include a console part disposed on a console of a vehicle, provided with a quadrangular recess, and provided with a slot portion dented inside the quadrangular recess, and a lever part slidably coupled to an upper portion of the quadrangular recess, wherein the lever part includes a magnetic lever pin part, which protrudes downwardly and includes a magnet, on a lower surface thereof, and the magnetic lever pin part is inserted into the slot portion.

Sliding operation type electronic auto shift lever

A flap type electronic automatic transmission lever apparatus may include a console, a shift flap unit electrically connected to a transmission control unit (TCU) of a vehicle at a center of the console, and having at last four or more shift flaps, touch sensor units, each including a shift sensor disposed at a center of a corresponding shift flap, a forward-turn sensor disposed at an upper portion of the corresponding shift flap, and a rearward-turn sensor disposed at a lower portion of the corresponding shift flap, a shafts, each connected to a bottom of the corresponding shift flap to enable the corresponding shift flap to turn, step motors, each connected to one end of corresponding shaft, and shaft-fixing portions, each connected to an opposite end of the corresponding shaft.

Flap type electronic automatic transmission lever

A control board having an integrated structure of a steering wheel and an accelerator pedal may include a control board that may be disposed ahead of a driver's seat in a vehicle, an accelerator pedal lever that moves up/down on the control board, a steering wheel that may be turnably mounted by a coupling hole at an upper portion of the accelerator pedal lever, a shift button unit and a start button unit that may be formed in types of buttons on the control board, and a shock-absorbing member that may be disposed at a lower end of the control board, wherein the control board may be connected to a cylinder rod in a dashboard, so the control board pops up in use and returns not in use.

Control board having steering wheel and accelerator pedal integrated structure

A flap type electronic automatic transmission lever control method may include a step of turning on a start-up of a vehicle by control unit, a step of detecting a touch by a transmission stage recognition sensor, a step of detecting a touch by forward or backward rotation recognition sensor, a step of detecting the touch by a transmission stage recognition sensor when the forward rotation recognition sensor detects the touch, or detecting the touch by a transmission stage recognition sensor when the backward rotation recognition sensor detects the touch, a step of rotating the transmission stage flap and the upper transmission stage flap forward or rotating the transmission stage flap and the lower transmission stage flap backward by a step motor, a step of outputting transmission signal of the transmission stage corresponding to upper or lower transmission stage flap by the control unit, and a step of turning OFF the start-up.

Flap type electronic automatic transmission lever control method

A urea solution after-treatment system may include a controller which receives urea solution detection information of a urea solution storage tank () storing a urea solution supplied to an SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) () for removal of NOx, the controller classifying the urea solution detection information into urea solution state information and then classifying the classified urea solution state information into output signals corresponding thereto, the controller outputting the classified output signals as pattern signals of urea solution shortage, urea solution exhaustion, and urea solution failure, and an accelerator pedal () which generates touch recognition patterns varying according to the pattern signals when the pattern signals are input, and transfers the touch recognition patterns using a touch felt by a driver's foot.

Urea solution after-treatment system, and method and controller for warning of urea solution state using touch

Disposed is an organ type electronic shift lever formed on a console surface at a periphery of a driver seat in a vehicle. The electronic shift lever may include a step motor coupled to the console surface and having both ends to which motor rotation shafts are connected, a pair of lever arms each having one end rotatably coupled to one or each of the motor rotation shafts, a pair of lever pins each rotatably coupled to the other end of one or each of the lever arms, a shift lever having side portions rotatably connected to the lever arms by the lever pins and a rear end to which a magnetic unit is coupled, a display unit formed on the shift lever, and a recognition sensor formed in the console surface and sensing a position of the magnetic unit. When the shift lever is moved forward or rearward while forming an inclination angle with the console surface, a gear shift stage of the vehicle is changed.

Organ type electronic shift lever

A folding fan type electronic shift lever may include a plurality of gear shift units disposed on a console surface of a vehicle, a console fixing pin penetrating a hole formed at a side of each of the plurality of gear shift units, an operating unit connected to one or more gear shift units of the plurality of gear shift units, and operated to allow the plurality of gear shift units to be rotated about the console fixing pin, and a control unit disposed on a lower portion of the console surface of the vehicle, receiving operational signals sent from the plurality of gear shift units through the console fixing pin, and transmitting the operational signals to a transmission control unit (TCU) of the vehicle.

Folding fan type electronic shift lever

A pop-up type electronic auto shift lever is disposed in a console of a vehicle and interworks with an automatic transmission control unit of an automatic transmission. The pop-up type electronic auto shift lever may include a pop-up lever, a pop-up part and a controller which controls the pop-up lever and the pop-up part. The controller controls the pop-up lever to be inserted into the console of the vehicle when the pop-up lever is not used, and controls the pop-up lever to protrude outside the console of the vehicle when the pop-up lever is used.

Pop-up type electronic auto shift lever

A driver's injury prevention type pedal may include a pedal arm which is rotatably coupled, at an upper portion to a pedal arm hinge which acts as a center of rotation of a pedal stroke, and a universal reverse rotation member which reversibly rotates the pedal arm about the pedal arm hinge and away from a driver which may include a mounting bracket to which the upper portion of the pedal arm is fitted and coupled, and a reverse rotation lever which presses the upper portion of the pedal arm by counterclockwise direction rotation formed by pushing of the pedal arm. In particular, the driver's injury prevention type pedal may be converted into a brake pedal, a clutch pedal, or an acceleration pedal, thereby allowing pedal manufacturing costs to be significantly reduced.

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Kwangmyong-shi, South Korea

Eun-Sik Kim