• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.17 no.3_4
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• pp.539-556
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• 2004

In this paper, the design, fabrication and characterization of a piezoelectric friction damper are presented. It was sized with the proposed practical procedure to minimize the story drift and floor acceleration of an existing 1/4-scale, three-story frame structure under both near-fault and far-field earthquakes. The design operation friction force in kip was numerically determined to range from 2.2 to 3.3 times the value of the peak ground acceleration in g (gravitational acceleration). Experimental results indicated that the load-displacement loop of the damper is nearly rectangular in shape and independent of the excitation frequency. The coefficient of friction of the damper is approximately 0.85 when the clamping force on the damper is above 400 lbs. It was found that the friction force variation of the damper generated by piezoelectric actuators with 1000 Volts is approximately 90% of the expected value. The properties of the damper are insensitive to its ambient temperature and remain almost the same after being tested for more than 12,000 cycles.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.46-55
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• 2004

This paper presents a high-frequency ZVS-PWM boost chopper-fed DC-DC converter with a single active auxiliary edge resonant snubber in the load-side which can be designed for power conditioners such as solar photovoltaic generation, fuel cell generation, battery and super capacitor energy storages. Its principle operation in steady-state is described in addition to a prototype setup. The experimental results of ZVS-PWM boost chopper-fed DC-DC converter proposed here, are evaluated and verified with a practical design model in terms of its switching voltage and current waveforms, the switching v-i trajectory, the temperature performance of IGBT module, the actual power conversion efficiency and the EMI of radiated and conducted emissions. And then discussed and compared with the hard switching scheme from an experimental point of view. Finally, this paper proposes a practical method to suppress parasitic oscillation due to the active auxiliary resonant switch at ZCS turn off mode transition with the aid of an additional lossless clamping diode loop, and reduced the EMI conducted emission in this paper.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07b
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• pp.1009-1011
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• 2001

This paper presents a new hybrid control scheme using Active-Clamped Class-E (ACCE) inverter of induction heating(IH) jar for high power applications. The proposed hybrid control scheme has characteristics, which act as class-E inverter at lower switch voltage and ACCE inverter at higher switch voltage than reference voltage of the main switch by feeding back voltage one as well as advantages of conventional ACCE inverter such as zero-voltage switching(ZVS) of the main switch and the reduced switch voltage due to the clamping circuit. Moreover, the proposed control method makes higher output power than conventional ACCE inverter control one since ACCE inverter is operated like class-E inverter at low voltage condition. The principle of the proposed control are explained in detail and the validity of the proposed control scheme is verified through the several interesting simulated and experimental results.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.18-30
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• 1972

Renal pathways for excretion of sulfadiazine has been studied by standard clearance technique in the rabbit. 1. Large part of sulfadiazine filtered in the glomeruli is reabsorbed in the tubules, as visualized from the fact that Csd (clearance of sulfadiazine) amounts only a fraction of simultaneously measured Ccr (GFR). 2. Csd changed linearly with the rate of urine flow, whether it is increased by the duir etics or decreased by clamping u reter. 3. Csd remained unchanged until the plasma level of the Csdremained unchanged drug reached 10.0 mg%, and the amount transported in the tubules increased linearly with the increase in the load, exhibiting No maximum capacity for transport. 4. Csd was increased by 2,4-dinitrophenol which is an uncoupling agent of oxidative phosphorylation and decreased by probenecid which is on uricosuric agent. 5. During sodium bicarbonate infusion net secretion of sulfadiazine by tubules observed. All the evidences obtained in the rabbit indicated that sulfadiazine was reabsorbed by active, energy-requiring, or passive, simple diffusion, process, and secreted simultaneously by a probenecid-sensitive, active procss.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.55-55
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 능동 클램프 회로를 적용한 전류 유입형 푸쉬풀 저전압 컨버터를 제안한다. 1차측에는 공통의 클램핑 커패시터를 사용하였으며 2차측에는 L-C 직렬 공진형 풀브릿지 정류기를 사용하였다. 1차측의 클램핑 커패시터는 변압기의 누설 인덕턴스 성분과 스위치의 기생 커패시터 성분의 공진으로 발생하는 링잉 현상을 완화시켰다. 제안된 능동 클램핑 회로는 효율은 200W에서 97.06%로 나타났으며 PSIM으로 시뮬레이션을 통하여 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.24-27
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 수 kW급 이상의 연료전지 응용을 위한 고효율 전압원 3상 DC-DC 컨버터를 제안한다. 제안한 컨버터는 전압원 컨버터임에도 작은 턴비를 가지며 입 출력 전류 리플이작다. 또한 클램프 회로의 동작으로 다이오드 서지전압 제거는 물론 저전압측 순환전류를 큰폭으로 감소시켜 스위치의 도통손실과 변압기의 동손을 최소화하였고 전 부하영역에서 하측스위치의 ZVZCS를 성취하여 스위칭 손실을 최소화 하였다. 또한 유효 듀티를 증가시켜 누설인덕턴스에 의한 듀티 손실을 보상하였다. 제안하는 컨버터의 동작원리를 설명하였고 기존 컨버터와의 비교분석을 수행하였으며 시뮬레이션을 통해 본 방식의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.467-472
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• 2005

In this paper, design and control of the novel SEPIC-Flyback converter(SF converter) is developed as a possible converter for fuel cell system. This output characteristic of SF converter is similar to Buck-Boost converter in that it can step-up or step-down the voltage. With the small signal equivalent circuit modeling of SF converter, control-to-output transfer function is obtained. SF converter couples up the inductive type converter to capacitive type converter with one transformer, which has less ripple current than its respective one does. To verify the validity of the proposed converter, 500W, 100kHz converter is designed and tested. ZVS switching and active clamping are also tested in practice.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.929-939
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• 2009

This paper presents a new soft-switching boost converter based on the LC resonance and passive clamping technique without additional active switches. The circuit achieves high efficiency and low voltage stress by adopting a soft switching method using LC resonance. This paper gives a mathematical analysis of each mode and a detailed design procedure of the proposed boost converter. First of all, the operational principles are verified through simulation results. Then, according to the design procedure, we designed and built a 1.5[kW] prototype soft switching boost converter. Through the experimental results, we demonstrated the validity and usefulness of the proposed boost converter.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.330-334
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• 1999

This paper presents a new transient voltage blocking device (TBD) for commucation facilities with low power and high frequency bandwidth. Conventional protection devices have some problems such as low frequency bandwidth, low energy capacity and high remnant voltage. In order to improve these limitations, the new TBD, which consists of a gas tube, avalanche diodes and junction type field effect transistors (JFETs), was designed and fabricated JFETs were used as an active non-linear element and a high speed switching diode with low capacitance limits high current. Therefore the avalanche diodes with low energy capacity are protected from the high current, and the TBD has a very small input capacitance. From the performance test using surge generator, which can produce 1.2/50${\mu}\textrm{s}$ 4.2 k$V_{max}$, 8/20${\mu}\textrm{s}$ 2.1 kA$\sub$max/, it is confirmed that the proposed TBD has an excellent protection performance in tight clamping voltage and limiting current characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.484-487
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• 2003

In designing AMBs (active magnetic bearings) for high-speed spindle system, the shaft is usually assumed as a rigid rotor. For automatic tool change process, there should be a tool clamping system with drawbar using spring or hydraulic force, and the drawbar in the spindle can be in various condition of support during design and manufacturing error. In this paper, the modal characteristics of drawbar in high-speed milling spindle system due to supporting stiffness between drawbar and shaft are analyzed by numerical method. The result shows enough stiff supports must be provided between shaft and drawbar to prevent occurring drawbar vibration lower than the natural frequency of 1$\^$st/ bending mode of spindle.