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Investigation Into the Development Of Automatic VLM-ST (VLM-STA) Process and Its Apparatus  

양동열 (한국과학기술원 기계공학과)
안동규 (조선대학교 공과대학 기계공학과)
이상호 (한국과학기술원 기계공학과)
김효찬 (한국과학기술원 기계공학과)
박승교 (㈜ 메닉스엔지니어링)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering / v.21, no.4, 2004 , pp. 109-119 More about this Journal
Abstract
Rapid prototyping (RP) technologies have been widely used to reduce the lead-time and development cost of new products. $VLM-_{ST}$ process has been developed to overcome the currently developed RP technologies such as a large building time, a high building cost, an additional post-processing and a large apparatus cost. $VLM-_{ST}$ process requires an additional human interaction due to the manual stacking and bonding. Hence, building time, building cost and the part quality are dependent on the skill of labor. A novel RP process, fully automated $VLM-_{ST}$ process ($VLM-_{ST}$), has been developed to improve building efficiency of the process and the human dependency of the part. The objective of this work is to propose a $VLM-_{ST}$ process and to develop an apparatus for implementation of the process. $VLM-_{ST}$ process and its apparatus have various technical novelties such as two step cutting using a rotating table, an automatic stacking method using two pilot holes and two reference shapes, a concept of automatic unit shape layer (AUSL), and an automatic bonding using the bonding roller and building magazine. In order to examine the efficiency and the applicability of the proposed process, various three-dimensional shapes, such as a piston, a human head shape and a human bust shape, were fabricated on the apparatus.
Keywords
Rapid prototyping; VLM-ST; Fully automated process; Process design; Two-step cutting; Two reference shapes; Apparatus design; Three-dimensional prototypes;
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