• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권5호
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• pp.862-867
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• 2016

In this study, the embroidery textile conductive wire of conductive yarn was designed into the wearable integrated clothing for sensing the infant's body temperature. To develop a high quality of the stable fiber-based textile conductive wire, firstly the five types of conductive yarns were twisted or covering polyester yarns and the coated conductive fiber with silver(Ag) or iron(Fe). As a result of comparative conductivity in conductive yarns of yarn processing, the 250 denier of conductive yarns with $0.74{\Omega}$/1~5cm were proposed and used for the integrated embroidery textile conductive wire for sensing. During experiments using the proposed embroidery textile conductive wire, measured resistance of thermistor according to the body temperature was correctly delivered to amplifier module, and showed feasible reliability of temperature sensing. As a wearable application, conductive yarns which takes forms of embroidery textile conductive wire would seems to be reliable as a conductive wire and could be replaced by the conductive metal wires.

• 한국염색가공학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.287-291
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• 2013

Nowadays, terms such as 'Smart Textile', 'Intelligent Textile' and 'Wearable Computing' are commonly used in everyday contexts. And radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of a wireless non-contact system that uses radio-frequency electromagnetic fields to transfer data from a tag attached to an object, for the purposes of automatic identification and tracking. These products are required technologies which are textile treatments, printing, ink, etc. Durability of textile substrates is an essential marker for conductive ink printing process. Especially, heat stability is important, since conductive ink should be processable (annealing, curing) at temperatures below $150^{\circ}C$. This study was application of RFID on textiles. The textile pre-treatment processes should be carried out to use RFID antenna on textiles.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.616-620
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• 2018

Recently, many researches have been conducted to improve the performance and wearability of smart wearables. In this study, we designed and fabricated the signal and power transmission textile cables for smart wearables which have excellent wearability, durability and reliability. For the signal transmission textile cables, conductive yarns for the signal line and the ground line were developed. Three types of signal transmission textile cables have been developed using the conductive yarns. Linear density, tensile properties, electrical resistance and RF characteristics were tested to characterize the physical and electrical properties of three signal transmission textile cables. The conductive yarns have the very low resistance of $0.05{\Omega}/cm$ and showed excellent uniformity of electric resistance. Therefore, the electrical resistance of the signal transmission fiber cable can be reduced by increasing the number of conductive yarns used in signal and ground lines. However, the radio frequency (RF) characteristics of the signal transmission textile cables were better as the number of strands of the conductive yarns used was smaller. This is because the smaller the number of strands of conductive yarn used in signal transmission textile cables, the narrower and more parallel the distance between the signal line and the ground line. It is expected that the signal and power transmission textile cable for signal and power transmission will be utilized in smart wearable products.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.651-660
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• 2023

This study aimed to research the local production of conductive composite yarn, a source material used in textile-type electrodes and circuits. The physical properties of an internationally available conductive composite yarn were analyzed. To manufacture the conductive composite yarn, we selected one type of conductive yarn with Ag-coated polyamide of 150d 1 ply, along with two types of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) with circular and triangular cross-sections, both with 150d 1 ply. The conductive composite yarn samples were manufactured at 250, 500, 750, and 1000 turns per meter (TPM). For both conductive composite yarn samples manufactured from two types of PET filaments, the twist contraction rate of the sample with a triangular cross-section was stable. Among the samples, the tensile strength of the sample manufactured at 750 TPM was the highest at approximately 4.1gf/d; the overall linear resistance was approximately 5.0 Ω/cm, which is within the target range. It was confirmed that the triangular cross-section sample manufactured with 750 TPM had a similar linear resistance value to the advanced product despite the increase in the number of twists. In future studies, we plan tomanufacture samples by varying the twist conditions to derive the optimal conductive yarn suitable for smartwear and smart textile manufacturing conditions.

• 센서학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.186-191
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• 2018

Smart textile industries have been precipitously developed and extended to electronic textiles and wearable devices in recent years. In particular, owing to an increasingly aging society, the elderly healthcare field has been highlighted in the smart device industries, and pressure sensors can be utilized in various elderly healthcare products such as flooring, mattress, and vital-sign measuring devices. Furthermore, elderly healthcare products need to be more lightweight and flexible. To fulfill those needs, textile-based pressure sensors is considered to be an attractive solution. In this research, to apply a textile to the second layer using a pressure sensing device, a novel type of conductive textile was fabricated using vapor phase polymerization of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT). Vapor phase polymerization is suitable for preparing the conductive textile because the reaction can be controlled simply under various conditions and does not need high-temperature processing. The morphology of the obtained PEDOT-conductive textile was observed through the Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM). Moreover, the resistance was measured using an ohmmeter and was confirmed to be adjustable to various resistance ranges depending on the concentration of the oxidant solution and polymerization conditions. A 3-layer 81-point multi-pressure sensor was fabricated using the PEDOT-conductive textile prepared herein. A 3D-viewer program was developed to evaluate the sensitivity and multi-pressure recognition of the textile-based multi-pressure sensor. Finally, we confirmed the possibility that PEDOT-conductive textiles could be utilized by pressure sensors.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.145-152
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• 2014

The usage of textile-based sensors has increased due to their many advantages (compared to IT sensors) when applied to body assessment and comfort. Textile-based sensors have different detecting factors such as pressure, voltage, current and capacitance to investigate the characteristics. In this study, textile-based sensor fabrics with sheath-core type conductive yarns were produced and the relationship between capacitance changes and applied load was investigated. The physical and electric properties of textile-based sensor fabrics were also investigated under various laminating conditions. A textile based pressure sensor that uses a sheath-core conductive yarn to ensure the stability of the pressure sensor in the textile-based sensor (the physical structure of the reaction characteristic of the capacitance) is important for the stability of the initial value of the initial capacitance value outside the characteristic of the textile structural environment. In addition, a textile based sensor is displaced relative to the initial value of the capacitance change according to pressure changes in the capacitance value of the sensor due to the fineness of the high risk of noise generation. Changing the physical structure of the fabric through the sensor characteristic of the pressure sensor via the noise generating element of laminating (temperature, humidity, and static electricity) to cut off the voltage output element to improve the data reliability could be secured.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제12권11호
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• pp.387-393
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• 2014

본 연구는 가축을 대상으로 이표용 맥파 압력센서, 전도성 섬유센서, 광센서 중 사육 가축에 적용 할 최적의 맥파 센서를 분석하기 위하여 소10마리, 돼지 10마리를 대상으로 맥파 압력센서, 전도성 섬유센서, 광센서를 적용한 결과, 소는 광센서가 압력센서와 전도성 섬유센서에 비하여 평균값에 대한 표준편차가 작은 것으로 나타나 광센서가 가장 안정적인 것으로 나타났고, 돼지는 압력센서, 전도성 섬유센서, 광센서 모두 안정적인 맥파수를 나타냈다. 따라서 소와 같이 신체부의의 굴곡이 많고 털이 길고 조밀한 가축의 경우, 광센서를 이용한 맥파 측정에 가장 효율적인 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국염색가공학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2011

Electrically conductive yarn coated with silver particles are widely used to make smart wear but recent studies on smart fabrics are focused on measuring method of electrical characteristics and improving technologies of its electric properties. Also durability of conductive yarn with environmental change was also important work to make smart fabric. We compared resistance changes of silver coated conductive yarns under various physical and chemical conditions such as repeated strain, heat exposure and pH for basic informations on smart wear manufacturing process. And we deduct that repeated strain among the physical conditions was most effective factors on yarn resistance change and the low resistance change was observed with increasing the number of filaments in identical yarn fineness.

• Composites Research
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.290-295
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• 2021

지구 온난화 억제를 위한 전 세계적인 연비규제에 발맞춘 해결책으로 자동차에 경량구조복합재료를 적용하는 것이 메가트렌드로 인식되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 수리, 폐기 및 재활용 측면에서 유리한 열가소성 탄소섬유강화플라스틱의 적용을 극대화하기 위해 전도특성이 요구되는 부품 대체 이슈에 대응할 수 있는 기술적 접근을 제공하는 것을 목표로 수행되었다. 저점도 중합 가능한 기지재의 특성을 활용하여 전도성 필러를 파우더 믹싱 방법으로 균일하게 혼입하면서도 우수한 함침 특성을 나타내는 열가소성 탄소섬유강화플라스틱 제조방법에 기초하여 카본블랙, 탄소나노튜브, 그래핀 나노플레이틀렛, 흑연, 피치계 탄소섬유 등 다양한 탄소기반 전도성 필러를 최대 함량까지 혼입하여 전기저항 및 열전도도를 비교하여 고찰하였다. 전도성 탄소 필러의 종류나 형태보다는 최대 혼입량이 시편의 전도 특성을 제어하기 위해 가장 중요한 인자임을 확인하였고, 전기전도 특성을 향상시키기 위해서는 1차원 형태의 전도성 탄소필러를 적용하는 것이 유리할 수 있는 반면 열전도 특성을 향상시키기 위해서는 2차원 형태의 전도성 탄소필러를 적용하는 것이 유리 할 수 있다는 실험 결과를 확인하였다. 본 연구의 결과들은 열가소성 탄소섬유강화플라스틱의 전도 특성을 제어하기 위한 최적 구조 설계에 잠재적인 통찰력을 제공할 수 있다.

• 감성과학
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.81-90
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 전기 근육 자극(electrical muscle stimulation, EMS)에 사용되는 기존의 하이드로겔 패드의 단점인 사용 편의성, 쾌적성 등을 보완할 수 있는 e-textile (electronic textile)을 이용한 전기 근육 자극(electrical muscle stimulation, EMS) 패드인 EMSCT (electrical muscle stimulation conductive textile)를 연구를 하고자 하였다. SWCNT (Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube)와 H₂O의 농도 및 함침 공정 횟수를 변수로 하여, EMSCT는 5가지 직물(라디론, 네오프렌, 스판쿠션, 폴리100%, 베르가모)에 전도성을 부여하여 실험이 진행되었다. SWCNT (Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube)와 H₂O을 이용한 패딩 공정을 거쳤으며, 교류 측정 결과 하이드로겔과 가장 유사한 교류를 나타내는 것은 SWCNT:H₂O = 2:1의 베르가모 원단이라는 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 또한, 편의성, 사용성, 심리적 만족성에 관한 사용성 평가를 통해 기존 하이드로겔 패드에 비해 EMSCT가 좋은 사용성을 가진다는 결과를 얻을 수 있다.