Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Kia Corporation

Lg Electronics Inc.

Cj Cheiljedang Corporation

Kang Hoon Lee

Seung Wook Park

In Yong Jung

Min Byeong Lee

Yoon Soo Kim

Wan Jae Lee

Jae Young Jeon

Jae Hong Lee

Dong Hwan Hwang

Sang Min Lee

Eun Jin Choi

Dong Ha Lee

Dong Hyun Sung

Tae Young Lee

Eung Seo Kim

Suk Ki Min

Yong Seok Kwon

Sung Hoon Park

Hae Ryong Lee

Ji Un Kim

Won Seok Oh

Jaeik Kim

Yong Bum Seo

Do Hoon Kim

Hyung Min Kim

Yoon Ho Jang

Young Chul Oh

Jae Kwang Kim

Sung Woo Choi

Jun Young Jung

Ki Cheol Shin

Jun-Woo Kim

In Sung Lee

Il Chul Kim

Jae Hun Yu

Wonseok Oh

Se-Hee Jo

Jaekwang Kim

Jin Won Seok

Yoonho Jang

Woo Joong Kim

Min Kyung Kwon

Yeong Hoon Kim

Seongsu Im

Seung Hoon Kang

Seung-Je Lee

Min Sup Kim

Chungkwon Lee

An apparatus includes a front detection sensor detecting presence of a pedestrian on a driving lane of the vehicle, gaze information of the pedestrian, and a distance and a relative speed between the pedestrian and the vehicle; a vehicle sensor detecting at least one of a speed, an acceleration, a steering angle, a steering angular velocity, or a pressure of a master cylinder of the vehicle; an electronic control unit activating a function of a pedestrian detection and collision mitigation system based on information detected by the front detection sensor and the vehicle sensor; and a warning unit operated to inform a driver of a collision of the pedestrian with the vehicle by controlling the electronic control unit.

Sensor integration based pedestrian detection and pedestrian collision prevention apparatus and method

A transmission apparatus may include a planetary gear set including three rotation elements, a dog clutch provided to selectively fix one rotation element of the planetary gear set, input and output shafts connected to two remaining rotation elements, a friction clutch provided to vary frictional force between two arbitrary rotation elements, a linear actuator provided to form linear displacement, a push member provided to receive the linear displacement and to apply pressure to the friction clutch to increase frictional force thereof, a return spring elastically supporting the push member in a direction of releasing the frictional force of the friction clutch, a one-way interlocking structure provided between a sleeve and the push member, and a release spring provided to elastically support the sleeve with respect to the push member in a direction of releasing the dog clutch.

Transmission

A traveling control system of an autonomous vehicle includes a 2D LIDAR sensor, a wheel speed sensor for detecting a speed of the vehicle, a yaw rate sensor for detecting a rotational angular speed of the vehicle, and an error corrector for determining a straight-line situation using a LIDAR point detected by the 2D LIDAR sensor, extracting a straight lateral distance value according to the result of determination, accumulating the LIDAR point according to the trajectory of traveling of the vehicle detected by the wheel speed sensor and the yaw rate sensor, estimating an error between the accumulated point and the extracted straight line, and calculating and feeding back an offset correction parameter of the yaw rate sensor when the estimated error value is greater than a predetermined threshold value to automatically correct an error parameter of the yaw rate sensor.

Traveling control system and method of autonomous vehicle

The present disclosure relates to granules comprising an L-amino acid and a method for preparing the same. The method may comprise: (a) preparing a fermentation liquid of L-amino acid; (b) removing moisture from the fermentation liquid of L-amino acid such that the solid content of the fermentation liquid of L-amino acid is in a range of 20% to 90%; (c) forming granulated particles with a moisture content of 0% to 40% by mixing the concentrated fermentation liquid of L-amino acid with a seed; (d) drying the granulated particles formed in Step (c); (e) sieving the granulated particles dried in Step (d); and (f) pulverizing or circulating the particles left in step (e) to be recycled as the seed in step (c).

Granules comprising L-amino acid and method for preparing the same

A clutch unit of an automatic transmission having first and second rotation elements may include a spline gear connected to the first rotation element, a clutch drum having an internal circumference spline-engaged with the spline gear to be movable in an axial direction, a clutch hub fixedly connected to a second rotation element, a plurality of clutch plates spline-engaged with the clutch drum, a plurality of clutch disks alternatingly disposed between the plurality of clutch plates and spline-engaged with the clutch hub, a supporting portion fixed to a transmission housing of the automatic transmission and configured to support the plurality of clutch plates, and a piston disposed in an interior of the transmission housing to form a hydraulic pressure chamber with the transmission housing, configured to have a rolling contact with the clutch drum interposing a bearing, and configured to transmit a pressurizing force to the plurality of clutch plates and the clutch disks through the clutch drum.

Clutch unit for automatic transmission

An apparatus for recognizing a location in an autonomous vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor that generates a LiDAR contour of a fixed structure located at the roadside and a LiDAR contour of a variable structure. A controller then detects a location of the autonomous vehicle based on the LiDAR contour of the fixed structure and the LiDAR contour of the variable contour, generated by the LiDAR sensor.

Apparatus and method for recognizing location in autonomous vehicle

An automatic transmission includes: first, second, and third planetary gear sets each having three rotating elements; seven coupling elements variably providing a frictional force; and seven shafts. In particular, a first shaft is fixedly connected to a second rotating element of the third planetary gear set and an input shaft, a third shaft is fixedly connected to a third rotating element of the second planetary gear set, a fourth shaft is fixedly connected to a first rotating element of the second planetary gear set and a third rotating element of the third planetary gear set, a sixth shaft is directly connected to a first rotating element of the third planetary gear set and a transmission casing, a seventh shaft is fixedly connected to a third rotating element of the first planetary gear set and an output shaft, and remaining two shafts are selectively fixed to the transmission casing.

Automatic transmission for vehicle

A vehicle localization method includes obtaining a stereo image while a vehicle is driven, extracting a matching vector from the stereo image while the vehicle is driven, loading a map vector of a current location based on GPS information in previously constructed map data, matching the extracted matching vector with the map vector, and estimating a positioning coordinate corresponding to the extracted matching vector as a current location of the vehicle when the extracted matching vector and the map vector meet a condition.

Vehicle localization apparatus and method

An apparatus for operating a pedestrian detection and collision mitigation system (PDCMS) function of a vehicle includes: a front detection sensor detecting a presence of a pedestrian on a driving lane of the vehicle and a distance and a relative speed between the pedestrian and the vehicle; a vehicle sensor detecting a speed of the vehicle; an electronic control unit operating a PDCMS function based on information detected by the front detection sensor and the vehicle sensor; and a warning unit operated to inform a driver of a collision of the pedestrian with the vehicle by a control of the electronic control unit.

A security method and apparatus for an electric vehicle (EV) power transfer system can prevent abuse of privacy information or financial information which is stored in an in-vehicle controller, and block fee charging and authentication. A security method for the EV power transfer system, performed by a charging controller installed in an EV, includes steps of: receiving an authentication request from a communication controller installed in the EV; authenticating second key information included in the authentication request based on first key information which is learned or stored beforehand; and when the authentication succeeds, starting a charging process.

Security method and apparatus for electric vehicle power transfer system

A method for providing sound detection information includes steps of: sensing sound around a host vehicle to generate sound data; generating a result of sound detection based on the sound data; calculating a rate of change based on the result of sound detection; generating a result of tunnel detection by comparing the rate of change with a threshold; and controlling at least one peripheral apparatus in the host vehicle according to the result of tunnel detection.

Method for providing sound detection information, apparatus detecting sound around vehicle, and vehicle including the same

A return spring common structure of an automatic transmission may include a second plate set and a third plate set provided to be transversely movable in a retainer connected to a first rotating element, a second disc set and a third disc set configured to be rubbed against each plate set to connect between the first rotating element and a second rotating element, a second piston and a third piston configured to press each plate set to be rubbed against each disc set, and a common return spring configured to separate the second piston or the third piston from the second plate set or the third plate set.

Return spring common structure of automatic transmission

Disclosed herein is a system and method for providing information about a parking space through communication between vehicles the method including broadcasting, by a controller, a parking space information request message within a predetermined range, using the communication adapter, when a request signal is input by a driver; receiving, by the controller, information about an available parking space received by unicast communication in response to the broadcasted request message; and outputting, by the controller, the information about an available parking space to the driver.

Method and system for providing information about parking space through communication between vehicles

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

Kang Hoon Lee