• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.328-333
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• 2006

In this paper, we developed a pressure measurement apparatus with the parallel structure to improve the measurement efficiency of pressure sensors by reducing the measurement time of pressure. The developed system has two parallel positions for loading Silicon pressure sensor and has a dual valve structure. The semiconductor pressure sensors prepared by Copal Electronics were used to confirm the performance of the developed measurement system. Two stage differential amplifier circuit was employed to amplify the weak output signal and the amplified output signal was improved utilizing a low-pass filter. New apparatus shows the measurement time of pressure two times shorter than that of conventional one with the serial structure, while both structures show the similar linear output versus pressure characteristics.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2010년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.587-588
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• 2010

• 한국화재소방학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국화재소방학회 2005년도 춘계학술논문발표회 논문집
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• pp.138-144
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• 2005

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제39권9호
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• pp.62-71
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 용량형 압력센서의 비선형성 문제를 해결하기 위한 적분형 C-V 변환기를 제안하였다. 이 변환기는 스위치 커패시터 적분기와 스위치 커패시터 차동증폭기로 구성되어 있으며 인가된 압력에 반비례하는 센서용량을 전압으로 변환하여 선형적으로 출력한다. 제안된 적분형 C-V 변환기는 PSPICE 시뮬레이션에서 초기 전극간격의 90%에 해당하는 큰 변위에 대해서 0.01%/FS 이하의 매우 낮은 비선형도와 오프셋 용량 및 기생용량에 둔감한 우수한 특성을 보였다. 또한 센서신호처리의 필수기능인 오프셋 보정 및 이득조정이 적분형 C-V 변환기에서 용이하게 구현됨을 보였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.479-486
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• 2001

호흡 측정기는 기도를 통해 환자의 폐에 드나드는 기체의 양을 측정하여 호흡에 관련된 기능을 판단하는 의료기기이다. 수술실에서 전신 마취시 사용하는 마취기용 인공호흡기는 미미한 양의 마취제 과용으로도 환자의 생명을 앗아갈 수 있으므로 정확한 호흡량 측정이 특히 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 호흡량 측정에 영향을 주는 요인들로부터 정확한 유량을 산출해내는 방법에 대해 고찰하고. 마취용 인공호흡기에 적용하여 수술환자의 호흡특성을 알아내는 호홉측정기를 구현하였다. 인공호흡기에 많이 사용되고 있는 차동압력형 유량센서를 이용하여 압력, 온도, 가스구성의 상관관계에 따라 유랑을 계측하였으며 유량-타동압력의 비선형적 관계를 선형화하였다. 또한, 휴대형 기기에 적합하도록 전력 효율을 최대화 할 수 있게 시스템을 설계하였다

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.390-396
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• 2004

A double-inlet pulse tube refrigerator was fabricated as a U-shape with $\Phi$19.0 mm${\times}$125 mm regenerator packed by #200 stainless steel mesh and $\Phi$12.7 mm${\times}$125 mm pulse tube. A pressure sensor was installed at the inlet of the regenerator and a differential pressure sensor was installed across the bypass. Amplitude of the pulsating pressure was independent of the opening of the orifice and the bypass valves. Helium flow through the orifice and the bypass was calculated based on the measured pressure. Energy loss through the orifice and the bypass was evaluated with the measured pressure and the calculated helium flow rate. The energy loss, which is equivalent to the refrigeration capacity at the cold end of the ideal pulse tube refrigerator, was mainly generated through the orifice. It was proportional to the opening of the orifice valve, but the real refrigerator displayed the best performance at the optimized opening of the orifice valve. This optimized performance of the tested pulse tube refrigerator can be explained by additional refrigeration losses. As an example, the shuttle heat transfer loss of the pulse tube was calculated from the measured experimental data.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.119-124
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• 2014

A Ventricular assist device (VAD) is one of the most efficient treatments to raise the survivability of the end stage heart failure patient. However, some of LVAD patients have died for the failures and improper control of LVAD. To detect critical dangers in LVAD, the monitoring methods of LVAD outflow have been requested, because it can be affected by patient's hemodynamic states and abnormal conditions of LVAD. In the case of an external pulsatile LVAD, the air movement through the air line can be used to estimate LVAD outflow. In this study, the air movement in the air-line of the extracorporeal pulsatile LVAD was measured with a differential pressure sensor between different points. The precise estimation of air movement could be achieved by additional measurement of air pressure. In a series of in-vitro experiments, the LVAD outflow were changed according to the afterload of LVAD and the differential pressure of LVAD didn't have close correlation with the LVAD outflow that were measured with an ultrasonic flowmeter at the same time. However, new precise estimation with the data from differential pressure and one point pressure in the air-line showed higher correlations with LVAD outflow.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.135-142
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 디지털 방식으로 측정된 맥파의 파형으로부터 최대 높이와 최소 높이의 차이, 즉 맥파의 차동값을 이용하여 혈압을 측정하는 측정 기법을 제시한다. 이를 위하여 본 연구에서는 적분 방식의 디지털 압력 센서와 블루투스, 스마트폰으로 구성되는 맥파 측정 시스템을 이용하여 맥파 데이터를 수집하였다. 수집된 맥파 데이터들은 고혈압, 정상, 저혈압의 군으로 분류되고, 각 맥파 파형의 최고 값과 최저 값의 개인별 차동값 평균을 도출한다. 맥파 측정시 동시에 혈압계로 측정한 최고혈압과 최저혈압의 값과 맥파 데이터로부터 도출된 차동값의 평균값들을 회귀 분석하면 맥파 차동값과 혈압과의 상관관계인 혈압상관관계식을 도출할 수 있다. 이 혈압상관관계식을 이용하여 임의의 실험자의 맥파 측정을 통한 혈압 추정 실험을 수행한 결과 실험자들의 혈압값들을 용이하게 추정할 수 있었다. 기존의 혈압계를 사용한 측정치에 대하여 제안된 기법은 최저혈압의 경우는 최대 66 %의 오차를 보이므로 그다지 높은 정확성을 보이지 못하지만, 최고혈압의 경우에는 10 % 이하의 오차로 혈압값을 추정할 수 있었다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.373-381
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• 2005

The respiratory and heart beat signals are the fundamental physiological signals for sleep monitoring in the home. Using the air mattress sensor system, the respiration and heart beat movements can be measured without any harness or sensor on the subject's body which makes long term measurement difficult and troublesome. The differential measurement technique between two air cells is adopted to enhance the sensitivity. The concept of the balancing tube between two air cells is suggested to increase the robustness against postural changes during the measurement period. With this balancing tube, the meaningful frequency range could be selected by the pneumatic filter method. The mathematical model for the air mattress and balancing tube was suggested and the validation experiments were performed for step and sinusoidal input. The results show that the balancing tube can eliminate the low frequency component between two cells effectively. This technique was applied to measure the respiration and heart beat on the bed, which shows the potential applications for sleep monitoring device in home. With the analysis of the waveform, respiration intervals and heart beat intervals were calculated and compared with the signal from conventional methods. The results show that the measurement from air mattress with balancing tube can be used for monitoring respiration and heart beat in various situations.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1991년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.66-69
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• 1991

This paper describes a design of transducer for non-invasively detecting pressure radial pulse wave in aterial system and a recording system that for the studing the aterial pulse diagnosis of korean traditional medicine. The mechanism of transducer is composed of sensing mechanism, pressure sensor, conditioning amplifier. The variation of radial pulse pressure in the sensing mechanism is converted to the electric signal by piezo-resistive pressure sensor and it converted to the digital signal after preprocessing via A/D converter. The converted signals inputed to the computer as data files and then it display to the monitor for waveform watching and this datas can be used as the aterial pulse diagnosis data. This system effectively detect non-differential radial pulse wave and we conside that if analizing the recorded radial pulse wave, compared each other, it can be helpful in quantify radial pulse wave diagonosis of the Korean traditional medicine.