US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on March 31 for "Hairpin coil flattening control system and method therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,421, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Hairpin coil flattening control system and method therefor" was invented by Taeuk Cha (Changwon-Si, South Korea) and Taekyun An (Hwaseong-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for processing a rectangular material from a coil is provided. The system may include an unwinding unit configured to unwind a rectangular material from a coil wound on a bobbin, a flattening device configured to flatten the unwound rectangular material, a shaping device configured to transform the flattened rectangular materia...