US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Nov. 25 for "In-wheel motor cooling apparatus and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,181, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"In-wheel motor cooling apparatus and method" was invented by Yeonho Kim (Seoul, South Korea), GwanHyeong Cha (Seoul, South Korea) and Hwanghi Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-wheel motor cooling apparatus may include: a braking data calculation part configured to calculate a braking severity related to a braking data of a braking device of a driving state; a motor temperature measurement part configured to measure a temperature and a temperature change of the in-wheel motor of a dr...