• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.95-100
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• 2000

Presented in this paper is a scheme for constructing ball rolling blends of a non-uniform B-spline surface(NUBS) patches. Ball rolling blending is a popular technique for blending between parametric surfaces. Along the "common edge" of a pair of "base surfaces" to be blended, a sequence of "ball positions" is sampled. The radius of the ball may vary along the line. At each sampling point, a ball center point and a pair of ball contact points are computed by applying a Jacobian inversion method. Using ball contact points, the constructing scheme of blend NUBS patches consists three steps; 1) determination of intermediate control vertices; 2) determination of boundary vectors; 3) determination of B-spline control vertices. The proposed blending scheme has been tested in a Omega CAM system and found to be working satisfactorily.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.5 s.98
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• pp.66-73
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• 1999

To enhance machining efficiency, tool exchange time have to be reduced. Most automatic tool changer is made up of compound cam and motor. it is not easy to design and manufacture compound cam, and it has no flexibility. But if servo motor is used, it is easy to changer is developed with servo motor, clutch, ball-screw and spline nut. Experimental results show that automatic tool changer designed with servo motor have good faculties.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.66-71
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• 2011

This article proposes a novel shift automation mechanism for an automated manual transmission (AMT). The development of an automated manual transmission is currently being paid considerable attention by vehicle manufacturers, with the prospects of combining the comfort of an automatic transmission and the high efficiency of a manual transmission. In order to automate the shift mechanism of a manual transmission, the proposed shift automation mechanism consists of two electric motors, cross shaped pinion gears, rack type shift rails, and a ball splined hollow shaft. First we describe the shift mechanism and operating principles of a manual transmission to investigate important design criteria for the shift automation device. And a new shift automation mechanism is described with its structure, elements, and operating principles in detail. Using a conventional manual transmission, we develop a full three-dimensional CAD model of an AMT which includes main components of the manual transmission and the designed shift automation mechanism. Finally we investigate the operating performances and feasibility of the designed AMT by a dynamic analysis.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.9 no.2 s.18
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• pp.17-27
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• 2001

Buffering is one of the popular spatial analytical functions widely used in many proximity analyses. The buffeting inevitably entails a new polygon of specified edge that is simulated by rolling a ball around the buffering object. While buffering, the error on the buffering object propagates to the new buffered object. In this paper the error propagation behavior during the buffering operation is analyzed based on a pilot project for two different data models: polyline and spline curve. Thus, the error on the buffered objects are classified, mathematically defined, and measured. For measurements, the pilot project is designed and performed using a test site that is a lake boundary at Wisconsin, USA.