Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Kia Corporation

Jin Hwan Jung

Ki Young Jang

Bum Sik Kim

Young Kook Lee

Sung Kyu Kim

Gyu Yeong Choe

Jung Hong Joo

Woo Young Lee

Sang Cheol Shin

Beom Sik Kim

Ki Jong Lee

Won Kyoung Choi

Dong Sup Ahn

Sang Hyeon Moon

Jae Won Lee

Ji Woong Jang

Shin Hye Chun

Sihun Yang

Tae Hwan Chung

Woo Yong Jeon

Chul Woo Kim

Youngkook Lee

Mu Shin Kwak

Hyeon Uk Kim

Su Hyun Bae

Young Jin Kim

Byeong Cheol Song

Jeong Yun Lee

Hyung Bin Ihm

Hyong Joon Park

Seong Yeop Lim

Byeong Seob Song

Jongpil Kim

Hong Seok Song

JinYoung Yang

Hyun-Wook Seong

In Pil Yoo

SeungHyun Han

Sanghyeon Moon

DongGyun Woo

A charging apparatus for an electric vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes an AC power input terminal receiving one AC input power from among single-phase AC power and multi-phase AC power. A power factor corrector having full bridge circuits receives the AC input power through the AC power input terminal. A link capacitor is charged through the power factor corrector. A first switch connects any one of an AC power input line and a neutral line of the AC power input terminal to the power factor corrector and a second switch selectively connects the AC power input terminal to the power factor corrector, or the link capacitor. The power factor corrector and the switch network operate based on a condition of received AC input power. The second switch includes a third switch and a fourth switch that connect each full bridge circuit to a positive battery electrode.

Charging apparatus for electric vehicle

An inverter system for a vehicle includes: an energy storage device configured to store electrical energy, a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements and configured to convert the electrical energy stored in the energy storage device into alternating-current (AC) electric power, a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements different from the plurality of first switching elements, a motor configured to be driven by receiving the AC power converted by the first inverter and the second inverter, current sensors disposed between the first inverter and the motor and the second inverters and the motor, respectively, and configured to detect a current input to the motor, and a controller configured to generate a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal for controlling driving of the motor.

Inverter system for vehicle

An inverter system for a vehicle may include an energy storage device configured to store electrical energy; a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements, and converting the energy into AC power; a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements different from the first switching elements, being connected to the energy storage device in parallel with the first inverter, and converting the energy into AC power; a motor driven by receiving the AC power; a PWM signal generating device configured to generate a reference Pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal for controlling driving of the motor; and a PWM signal converting device configured to convert the reference PWM signal into both a first PWM signal input into the first inverter to drive the first switching elements, and a second PWM signal input into the second inverter to drive the second switching elements.

An inverter system for vehicles according to the present disclosure may include: an energy storage storing electrical energy; a first inverter which includes a plurality of first switches and converts the energy stored in the energy storage into AC power; a second inverter which includes a plurality of second switches, which are different from the first switches, is connected in parallel with the first inverter to the energy storage and converts the energy stored in the energy storage into AC power; a motor driven by receiving the AC power converted through the first inverter and the second inverter; and a controller for controlling operations of the first inverter and the second inverter based on power requirements of the motor.

Inverter system for vehicle and control method thereof

A wireless power transfer (WPT) method for an electric vehicle (EV) may include a vehicle controller or a vehicle assembly (VA) controller connected to the vehicle controller performing communications, for charging of a battery of the EV, with a ground assembly (GA) controller of a charger connected to a primary coil or a primary pad located outside the EV; and connecting the battery to a field winding of a driving motor of the EV before starting the WPT. The battery is charged by a power magnetically induced at the field winding from the primary coil.

Wireless power transfer method using field winding and vehicle assembly and electric vehicle using the same

A system and a method of controlling charge of a vehicle battery are provided. In particular, when a voltage of the vehicle battery is different from an output voltage of a commercially available quick charger, a compatibility problem is solved through a converter, thereby allowing an inverter, an electric motor, and a connector to have an increased efficiency and to maximize a reduction in size, weight, and material cost thereof.

System and method of controlling charge of vehicle battery

An electric vehicle includes: a battery configured to be charged with a first voltage; and a converter configured to boost, when power of a second voltage that is lower than the first voltage is received, the power of the second voltage to the first voltage, and to transfer the first voltage to the battery, so that the battery is charged with power of the first voltage, wherein when the power of the first voltage is received, the power of the first voltage is transferred to the battery to charge the battery.

Electric vehicle

A fail-safe method and apparatus for high voltage parts in a hybrid vehicle is provided. In the fail-safe method, it is determined whether or not a high voltage main relay is turned off. Here, when the high voltage main relay is turned off, a voltage is charged into a direct current (DC) link using a counter electromotive force generated in a motor generator linked with a revolution of an engine. Voltage control is performed such that the voltage of the DC link is uniformly maintained using an inverter for the motor generator.

Fail-safe method and apparatus for high voltage parts in a hybrid vehicle

A method for controlling a permanent magnet synchronous motor includes detecting an absolute angular position and using the angular position to calculate a rotational speed of the motor; detecting a voltage of a battery as a power source; calculating a compensated speed from a rotational speed of the permanent magnet synchronous motor based on a torque command, the rotational speed of the permanent magnet synchronous motor, and the battery voltage; generating a d-axis current command and a q-axis current command corresponding to the torque command and the compensated speed; calculating a d-axis voltage command and a q-axis voltage command based on the d-axis current command and the q-axis current command; converting the d-axis voltage command and the q-axis voltage command into three-phase voltage commands based on the detected absolute angular position; and controlling the operation of the permanent magnet synchronous motor based on the three-phase voltage commands.

Method for controlling permanent magnet synchronous motor

The present invention provides a method for measuring the temperature of a motor for a hybrid electric vehicle. In preferred embodiments, the method of the present invention can preferably ensure the stability and reliability of motor control by extending the linearity of a temperature sensor attached to the motor within a required measurement range. The present invention preferably provides a method for measuring the temperature of a motor for a hybrid electric vehicle, in which a required measurement range of motor temperature is divided into high and low temperature ranges and a hardware gain circuit is divided into first and second gain blocks such that the first gain block measures the temperature of the high temperature range and the second gain block measures the temperature of the low temperature range.

Method for measuring temperature of motor for hybrid electric vehicle

The present invention provides a method for compensating nonlinearity of a resolver to control a motor in hybrid and fuel cell vehicles, thereby stably controlling the motor current during high-torque and high-speed operation. In preferred aspects, the present invention provides a method for compensating nonlinearity of a resolver to control a motor in hybrid and fuel cell vehicles, the method including collecting resolver position data; determining whether to perform resolver position correction in the corresponding vehicle; and compensating nonlinearity of the resolver based on the collected resolver position data, if it is determined that the resolver position correction is not performed.

Method for compensating nonlinearity of resolver for hybrid and fuel cell vehicles

A power cable breaking detection method for a vehicle includes detecting currents of respective phases supplied to a three-phase motor from an inverter through at least a power cable, and a driving speed of the motor, determining whether the respective currents and the driving speed of the motor satisfy power cable breaking detection conditions, determining whether various conditions are satisfied with respect to a cable breaking sensing reference value of a current command performing cable breaking timer counting when the conditions are satisfied, and determining whether a predetermined period has elapsed such that a cable is considered broken when the predetermined period has elapsed.

Power cable breaking detection method of motor

The present invention provides an emergency control apparatus, and method which maintains the power flow between a battery and an inverter and the operation state of an electric vehicle in the event of failure of a bidirectional DC-DC converter connected between the battery as a power source and the inverter for operating a drive motor.

Emergency control apparatus and method for use

The present invention provides a motor drive system for a hybrid vehicle and a method for controlling the same in the event of a failure in a voltage converter, in which high voltage stored in a DC-link capacitor is discharged to a 12V electrical load through a DC-DC converter, of which the output voltage is increased.

Motor drive system for hybrid vehicle and method for controlling the same in the event of failure

The present invention is directed to methods for forming an inverter circuit for operating a drive motor of an electric vehicle, which can more effectively reduce the switching noise generated by a power module during the operation of an inverter.

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Jin Hwan Jung