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http://dx.doi.org/10.9718/JBER.2008.29.4.323

The Study of Mechanical Simulation for Human Respiratory System  

Chi, S.H. (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University)
Lee, M.K. (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University)
Lee, T.S. (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University)
Choi, Y.S. (Oxus Co.)
Oh, S.K. (Oxus Co.)
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.29, no.4, 2008 , pp. 323-328 More about this Journal
Abstract
A patient with respiratory disorders such as a sleep apnea is increasing as the obese patient increase on the modern society. Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) devices are used in curing patient with respiratory disorders and turn out to be efficacious for patients of 75%. However, these devices are required for evaluating their performance to improve their performance by the mechanical breathing simulator. Recently, the mechanical breathing simulator was studied by the real time feedback control. However, the mechanical breathing simulator by an open loop control was specially required in order to analyze the effect of flow rate and pressure after operating the breathing auxiliary devices. Therefore the aims of this study were to make the mechanical breathing simulator by a piston motion and a valve function from the characteristic test of valve and motor, and to duplicate the flow rate and pressure profiles of some breathing patterns: normal and three disorder patterns. The mechanical simulator is composed cylinder, valve, ball screw and the motor. Also, the characteristic test of the motor and the valve were accomplished in order to define the relationship between the characteristics of simulator and the breathing profiles. Then, the flow rate and pressure profile of human breathing patterns were duplicated by the control of motor and valve. The result showed that the simulator reasonably duplicated the characteristics of human patterns: normal, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), mild hypopnea with snore and mouth expiration patterns. However, we need to improve this simulator in detail and to validate this method for other patterns.
Keywords
Human respiratory system; mechanical breathing simulator; breathing pattern; piston motion control; valve coefficient;
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