• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.86-89
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• 2005

Design and estimation of a spindle system which was composed of grinding spindle and regulating spindle for the centerless grinding of ferrule was performed and prototypes of each spindle were manufactured. Loop stiffness of the spindle system was 130 N/${\mu}m$. Although the value was lower than the target value of 150 N/${\mu}m$, as there included 20% of the safety factor, it was enough to machine the ferrule. Rotational accuracies of each spindle were about 0.2${\mu}m$ at the primary speed of 2,300 rpm(grinding spindle) and 300 rpm(regulating spindle). Temperature rises at the same speed were about $4.4\;\~\;4.7^{\circ}C$ in the case of grinding spindle and $1.8^{\circ}C$in the case of regulating spindle, which were well agreed with the designed value. From these results, it was estimated that the prototype of spindle system had a enough performances for the centerless grinding machine to machine the ferrule.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.143-150
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• 2004

In this paper, resonant ultrasound spectroscopy(RUS) was used to determine the natural frequency of a ceramic ferrule and a ball lens. The ceramic ferrules are cylinderical shape with $\phi$ 2.56mm diameter and l0mm in length. Crack lengths of these ferrules are 10.40$\mu$m, 21.18$\mu$m and 32.35$\mu$m. The spherical ball lens was made of BK-7 glass, one's diameter in 2mm and 5mm. RUS system is consisted of spectrum analyzer, power amplifier, PZT sensor and support frame. The principle of RUS is that the mechanical resonant frequency of the materials depends on density and the coefficient of elasticity. Rus system is based on that given resonant frequency of the materials can be represented by the function of density and the coefficient of elasticity, and it is applied to excite specimen and to inspect the difference of natural frequency pattern between acceptable specimen and defective ones. Defect evaluation by RUS are performed to investigate the natural frequency measure of ferrule and ball lens.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.162-167
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• 2003

In order to evaluate the properties of the sintered zirconia for optical ferrule, specimens were prepared at 1350, 1400 and $1450^{\circ}C$ using starting materials supplied by A, B and C providers. Crystallinity, microstructure and mechanical strength were tested as a function of sintering temperature. Crystallinity of the sintered specimens was determined by X-ray diffraction analysis. A field emission-scanning electron microscope was used for studying the microstructure after sintering. Bending strength and Vickers' hardness were also examined by universial tester and Vickers' hardness tester, respectively. The specimen B sintered at $1350^{\circ}C$ was favorable because of its high tetragonality and good mechanical strength for practical usage.

• 대한치과보철학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1994.12a
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• pp.37-37
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• 1994

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.68-74
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• 2003

Any one of the high precision spindle systems and guide way systems, the high stiffness of structure, the error compensation during assembly, high accuracy control system is inevitable technology for development of high precision machine tools. Especially, among these, design of spindle system is one of the most important technologies leading high precision of machine tool and high quality of manufactured products. A high speed and high precision spindle system, which will be used for final machining of ferrule, is designed considering the effect of heat cutting torque, cutting fore, and work-piece materials. The detailed design and analysis process are presented.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.22 no.12 s.177
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• pp.175-183
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• 2005

In recent years, as the demands of VBNS and VDSL increase, the development of kernel parts of optical communication such as PLC(Planar Light Circuit), Coupler, and WDM elements increases. The alignment and the attachment technology are very important in the fabrication of optical elements. In this Paper, the optical alignment characteristic of multi-axis ultra precision stage is studied. The alignment algorithms are studied for applying to the ultra precision multi-axis stage. The alignment algorithm is comprised of field search and peak search algorithms. The contour of optical power signals can be obtained by field search and the precise coordinate can be found out by peak search. Three kinds of alignments, such as 1 ch. input vs. 1 ch. output optical stack, 1 ch. input vs. 8 ch. output PLC stacks, and ferrule vs. ferrule, are performed for investigating the alignment characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.468-472
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• 2005

This paper is to investigate the influence of the endface quality on the loss characteristics of a plastic optical fiber connector for in-car network service. Using the parameters of the surface roughness and applied load, insertion loss of connector is measured. Due to scattering and change of refractive index, an optimal condition for low-loss coupling exists. We present the optimal condition as surface roughness $R_{rms}$ = 8 nm and contact load up to 50 N.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.250-264
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• 1998

The purpose of the thesis is to develop simulation program for forecasting of optical connector. So we can achieve the time and the money saving for making the optical connector. Optical performance (insertion loss) of optical connector mainly relies on 3 misalignment factors-ferrule factor due to mis-manufacture from design, auto-centering effect that is fiber behavior phenomena between hole and fiber, fiber misalignment factor. Simulation use experimental data with auto-centering effect and fiber factor and use pseudo data with ferrule through random number generation because it is developing stage. In this study we a, pp.y kernel density estimation method with experimental data in order to know whether it belong to or not specific parametric distribution family. And we simulate to forecast insertion loss of optical multifiber connector under specific design model using nonparametric bootstrap resampling data and parametric pseudo samples from uniform distribution. We obtain the tolerance specifications of misalignment factors satisfying not exceed in maximum 1.0dB and choose optimal hole diameter.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.20-25
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• 2003

21세기 초고속 통신시스템 구축의 핵심 부품인 고정밀도의 광페룰(Fig. 1)의 수요는 획기적으로 증가할 것으로 전망된다. 전 세계 광페룰 생산량의 90% 정도를 일본에서 생산하고 있으며, 현재 국내 업체들도 일본산 가공설비를 대부분 도입하여 광페룰을 생산하고 있으나 품질 수준이나 생산량에서 아직 미미한 형편이다. 광페룰의 품질수준은 통신 품질의 향상 욕구에 따라 점점 높은 정밀도와 동심도가 요구되고 있으며 정밀도에 따른 가격의 차는 수배에 달하고 있다.(중략)

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.7-12
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• 2003

각광을 받고 있는 광통신 분야의 핵심부품인 페룰은 일본이 전 세계의 95%를 장악하고 있다. 국내에서도 일부 업체에서 양산을 하고 있으나, 핵심 연삭공정에 사용되는 연삭 가공장비는 전량 수입되고 있는 실정이다. 페룰은 0.1∼0.3$\mu\textrm{m}$의 동심도, ${\pm}$ 0.2$\mu\textrm{m}$의 외경치수, 0.1$\mu\textrm{m}$대의 진원도와 원통도, 10nm의 표면 거칠기를 구현해야 세계적 경쟁력을 갖출 수 있는 초미세, 초정밀 기계가공 부품이다.(중략)