• The Optical Journal
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• s.97
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• pp.58-61
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• 2005

복굴절이란 하나의 매질로부터 다른 매질로 진입하는 파동이 그 경계면에서 나가는 방향을 바꾸는 현상으로 등방성 매질에서 이방성 매질로 나아갈 때는 경계면에서 굴절파가 두 개로 나뉘어 굴절하게 되는 것을 말한다. 휴대폰용 카메라모듈 렌즈의 사출성형공정에서 발생하는 렌즈 내의 잔류응력에 의한 복굴절률은 사출공정에서의 렌즈불량 발생의 원인이 되며, 잔류응력은 또한 사출성형 이후에 완화되어 렌즈의 외관 치수의 변형을 가져오게 된다. 그러나 플라스틱류를 사용하는 정밀가공 생산 공정 등 실생활에서는 제품의 제조에 있어서 복굴절은 광학적 특성을 결정하는 가장 중요한 요소 중의 하나로서 성형시 복굴절을 최소화할 필요가 있다. 이를 어느 정도 달성했는가의 수준에 따라 플라스틱 정밀 성형 제품의 등급이 결정되는 중요한 측정요소이다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.298-299
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• 2001

안경렌즈는 유리를 연마하여 제작하거나 단량체를 세라믹 금형에 넣어 캐스팅공법으로 플라스틱 렌즈를 만드는 것이 일반적인 방법이었다. 한편 사출성형에 의한 렌즈 및 안경의 제작은 광학적으로 우수한 재료 및 금형을 개발하지 못하여 국내에서는 시도조차 못하는 형편이다. 구미나 유럽의 일부 국가는 PMMA 및 PC를 이용하여 안경 및 안경렌즈를 개발하고 있으며, 이는 공정을 대폭 줄이기 때문에 대량 생산 및 원가 절감을 이룩할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 PMMA 및 PC를 이용하여 그동안 성형할 때에 가장 문제가 되었던 오목 렌즈를 제작하기 위한 근본적인 금형 설계의 문제점 해결과 이를 이용한 일체형 안경과 고강도 렌즈의 제작을 고찰하였다.

• The Korean Journal of Rheology
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.116-126
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• 1992

본 연구에서는 형내압 파형제어 시스템, 초고속, 사출성형, 그리고 금형진공 시스템 등을 갖춘 사출 성형기를 이용하여 정밀 구면렌즈를 성형하기 위한 실험을 수행하였다. 이 러한 목적을 위해 성형공정 변수인 사출시간 충전압력 그리고 보압시간이 성형품에 미치는 영향을 중량과 곡률반경 구면 정밀도 그리고 구면오차의 간접무늬를 측정하여 연구하였다. 그결과로서 성형품의 중량(칫수)과 곡률반경에 지대한 영향력을 행사하는 변수는 충전압력 이며 사출시간과 보압시간은 곡률반경과는 무관해 보이고 중량의 증가에는 기여하지만 공정 사이클 시간을 증가시키는 문제가 지적된다. 구면정밀도 측정실험 결과 길지도 짧지도 않는 15∼20초 사이의 보압시간 4초이내의 빠른 사출시간 그리고 860kg/cm2 이상의 높은 충전압 력에서 우수한 결과를 보여주었다, 마지막으로 구면의 형상에 대한 간접무늬 측정결과는 성 형공정을 이해하는데 강력한 도구가 됨을 발견하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.43-48
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• 2015

We studied on the injection molding conditions of defect-free PMMA lens for surgical light. When the heat temperature of mold is low, more imperfect molding or weldlines and flow marks have showed. A defective lens depends on low fluidity of the PMMA resin and its temperature is high, a flexural strain has occurred. The longer cooling time of specimens, the more cracks have occurred due to resin crystallization. In this study, optimal molding conditions for defect-free PMMA lens is as follows. The heat temperature of core mold was 110 [$^{\circ}C$] and also the cooling time was 25 [sec]. PMMA materials can realized low expense to produce plastic optical lens and applications.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.10
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• pp.1021-1028
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• 2015

Subminiature lenses are currently widely used in mobile phone cameras and are usually produced by injection molding. The lens molding process has the unique feature of a runner volume that is much larger than the part volume, and this feature should be considered when determining the mold design and molding conditions. In this study, a shell-type runner was proposed as an alternative to the conventional cylindrical runner used for lens molding. An injection molding simulation was performed by applying the proposed shell runner, and the simulation results were compared with those from the cylindrical runner case. It was found that the shell runner could considerably reduce the runner cooling time with only a slight increase in the injection pressure. The effect of the runner thickness was then investigated numerically in terms of the mold filling and cooling characteristics, from which an optimal runner thickness could be determined.

• Clean Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.205-211
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• 2005

There have been many technologies and materials proposed for realizing microlens array, and plastic injection is recognized as the most promising one because of several merits such as optical properties, impact resistance, formability, lightening and environmental adaptability. Since PR reflow for injection template fabrication enables the lens shape control easier, and the sample technology more effective for mass production, it lowers the cost, enhances integration, and reduces process steps, which leads to be environmentally benign. However injection of polymers may face the difficulty of formability depending on their properties. In order to overcome the difficulty, fast heating/cooling technology was introduced in this study, and microlenses were fabricated and evaluated. template obtained by PR reflow method was heated and cooled fast during injection to fabricate microlens array. PC and PMMA polymer materials were compared, and it was realized that PMMA showed much better formability due to its lower melting temperature. Injection parameters of pressures and velocities were driven out for injection optimization.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.501-508
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• 2008

Small injection molded articles such as lens and mobile product parts are usually molded in multi-cavity mold. The problem occurring in multi-cavity molding is flow unbalance among the cavities. The flow unbalance affects the dimensions and physical properties of molded articles. First of all, the origin of flow unbalance is geometrical unbalance of the delivery system. However, even the geometry of the delivery system is well balanced, cavity unbalance occurs. This comes from the temperature distributions in the cross-section of runner. Temperature distribution depends upon injection speed because heat generation near runner wall is high at high injection speed. Among the operational conditions, injection speed is the most significant process variable affecting the filling unbalances in multi-cavity injection molding. In this study, experimental study of flow unbalance has been conducted for various injection speeds and materials. Also, the filling unbalances were compared with CAE results. The dimensions and weights of multi-cavity molded parts were examined. The results showed that the filling unbalances vary according to the injection speeds and resins. Subsequently, the unbalanced filling and pressure distribution in the multi-cavity affect the dimensions and physical states of molded parts.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.341-346
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• 2012

Injection molding is one of the widely used polymer processing operations. It is being used for not only conventional injection molding but gas injection molding, water injection molding, and injection compression molding. Injection compression molding involves injection and compression operation, and it gives uniform physical property and high dimensional quality of product. In this study, injection compression characteristics for various product shapes have been investigated by computer simulation. Product containing side wall showed not much effective in injection compression molding since wall thickness direction was perpendicular to the compression direction. Uniform and low shrinkage was observed in injection compression molding comparing conventional injection molding. Subsequently injection compression molding can be used for molding precise product. Optimal injection compression molding condition was obtained using design of experiment for plastic lens and the results were compared with conventional injection molding.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1993.04b
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• pp.281-286
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• 1993

Projection TV에는 시각 품질을 최종적으로 표시하는 디스플레이 소자인 비구면플라스틱 렌즈를 적용하고 있으나 전량 일본에서 완제품으로 공급 받고 있다. 플라스틱 비구면 렌즈를 성형하기 위해서는 사출 공정에 대한 철저한 이해 와 폴리머의 광탄성 거동에 대한 개념이 핵심이라고 말할 수 있다. 복굴절성 실험은 폴리머의 유변학적 거동을 파악 하는데있어 가장 유용한 실험중의 하나이다. 본 글에서는 이와 관련된 사항인 복굴절성, 잔류 응력 형성 메카니즘, 밀도이완 작용의 상관관계와 비구면 렌즈의 성형 조건 및 공정에대해 기술 하였고, 또한 측정된 수지데이타를 이용 상용 S/W를 사용하여 유동, 냉각, 보압 ( 압축) 및 수축 해석을 실시 하여 각 stage에서 경험한 온도 와 압력의 이력에따라 변화하는 열 응력에 기인한 잔류 응력 계산 Pg을 개발 상용 S/W 와 비교 검증 하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.31 no.11
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• pp.1031-1040
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• 2014

In this paper, a new condition diagnosis algorithm for the lens injection molding process using various features extracted from cavity pressure, nozzle pressure and screw position signals is developed with the aid of probability neural network (PNN) method. A new feature extraction method is developed for identifying five (5), seven (7) and two (2) critical features from cavity pressure, nozzle pressure and screw position signals, respectively. The node energies extracted from cavity and nozzle pressure signals are also considered based on wavelet packet decomposition (WPD). The PNN method is introduced to build the condition diagnosis model by considering the extracted features and node energies. A series of the lens injection molding experiments are conducted to validate the model, and it is demonstrated that the proposed condition diagnosis model is useful with high diagnosis accuracy.