• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.34-42
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• 2009

High-speed air turbine handpieces have been used as a dental cutting tool in clinical dentistry for over 50 years, but little study has been reported on their performance analysis. Therefore, the effect of turbine blade shape on performance characteristics of dental air turbine handpiece were studied using CFD in this paper. Computations have been performed for five different positions of turbine blade by using frozen rotor method that is one of steady-state method. The characteristics of turbine blade for shapes and reflection angles were analyzed. As a result of the computation, torque is increased by increasing the reflection angle of turbine blade.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.55.1-55.1
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• 2011

의료용 고속 에어터빈 핸드피스는 주로 치과에서 치아 절삭 및 치료에 사용하는 도구로써 치의학 분야에서 가장 폭넓게 사용되는 의료장비 중 하나이다. 핸드피스용 소재는 황동 혹은 스테인레스 강이 주로 사용되었으나, 최근 고내식성, 인체친화성이 높은 티타늄을 사용한 가벼운 재질의 핸드피스 제품들이 개발되어 독일 및 일본을 중심으로 출시되고 있다. 티타늄으로 제조되는 부분은 헤드와 바디로써, 본 연구에서는 에어터빈의 케이스에 해당하는 헤드부 제조에 있어서 정밀주조 공정 적용의 타당성을 조사하였다. 티타늄은 특히 용융점이 높고 유동성이 좋지 않을 뿐만 아니라 주형과의 반응성이 높기 때문에 주조 시 제품 내/외 부에 결함발생 빈도가 높다. 이와 같은 주조결함 제어를 위하여 상용 유한요소 프로그램인 ProCASTTM을 사용하여 핸드피스 헤드 제조 시 유동 및 응고해석을 수행하였다. 또한 헤드 부 형상에 따른 주조성을 조사하여 이를 바탕으로 최적 주조방안 도출을 위한 정밀주조 공정해석 연구를 수행하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.80-88
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• 2011

The dental high-speed air turbine handpiece is one of the most popular devices that have been widely used as the main means of cutting tooth structure and restorative material in dentistry. In consideration of usage and marketability of the dental handpiece, it is obviously worthy of investigating it. The goal of this paper is to establish the relationship between the air turbine speed and the supply route inside the handpiece. To do this, the Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) tool, Fine$^{TM}$/Turbo is used and the optimal supply route position is suggested from the simulation results. In addition, as an attempt for domestic product, the reverse engineering process of a high speed dental handpiece by 3D X-Ray CT equipment and wire cutting is presented for the Mark II model in NSK. In doing so, the 3D modeling of the handpiece parts is carried out with CATIA V5, and the interference between parts is examined. Finally, the result of performance test for the prototype produced in this research is presented.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.535-542
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• 2011

To utilizing CFX V12.0.l, internal flow characteristics of denture high-speed air turbine hand-piece unit was identified, in order to analyze the performance of the torque values were compared. In order to find out the difference of torque by mash values, under steady condition, performed grid convergence test. It compared theoretical torque with torque through flow analysis. To describe the motion of turbine blade was used to immerged solid method. Depending on the location of the turbine blade were calculated from five case. Maximum and minimum values of turbine blades was analyzed. To analyze the performance of the torque values were compared with speed of turbine blade.