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Structure and Technology of Personal Protection Helmets (인체보호용 헬멧의 구조 및 기술)

  • Hwang, Jae Hyung;Jeong, Won Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.771-781
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    • 2017
  • The helmet is an imperative personal protective equipment. This protective device must be able to guard the human head against potential risks. Helmets are classified according into the purpose of use; therefore, the required performance and specifications depend on the type of products. Military helmets are intended to protect the wearer's head from bullets and shrapnel. Generally, lightweight super fibers and fiber reinforced composite materials are used as helmet shell materials, and NIJ STD of U.S. Department of Justice is most widely used as international standard related to bulletproof helmets. Safety helmets are widely used for industrial application and sports leisure. In general, the performance of shock absorption must be ensured, and various lining systems are applied in material, design, and combination methods. Evaluation standards have also been classified and strictly controlled for each purpose; therefore, it is difficult to certify with the existing standards such as the recently developed convergence helmets. However, it is possible to launch the product through a separate national integrated certification procedure.

Design and Efficacy of Calf EMS Protective Gear for Pain Relief in PARA Taekwondo Athletes (PARA 태권도 선수의 통증 완화를 위한 종아리 EMS 보호대 설계 및 효과)

  • Kookhyun Han;Jinhee Park;Jooyong Kim
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.109-124
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    • 2024
  • The aim of this paper is to design and evaluate calf braces that are equipped with Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) modules. These braces are intended to alleviate calf pain in PARA Taekwondo athletes. The paper also seeks to assess the effects of different textile electrode designs. PARA Taekwondo participants are at a heightened risk of injuries and pain due to the nature of this exercise, which is designed for individuals with disabilities. Additionally, there is a significant risk of strain on the lower limb muscles in PARA Taekwondo compared to regular Taekwondo. To address this issue, calf taping methods are commonly used. In this study, we develop calf EMS protective gear and aim to examine the effects of different textile electrode designs inspired by taping methods. We evaluate the differences in the effects of three different textile electrode designs through visual analog scale (VAS) and range of motion (ROM) measurements. The results show that EMS protective gear has the potential to reduce calf pain among PARA Taekwondo athletes, with electrode designs inspired by kinesiology taping providing the most effective pain relief. This research suggests that these findings may be applicable to other sports disciplines, body areas, and everyday pain relief scenarios.

Laser-Driven Peeling of the Photoresist-Protective Film of a Printed Circuit Board (인쇄회로기판 감광층 보호필름의 레이저 유도 박리)

  • Min, Hyung Seok;Heo, Jun Yeon;Lee, Jee Young;Lee, Myeongkyu
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.261-264
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    • 2015
  • In this paper we show that the photoresist-protective film of a printed circuit board (PCB) can be delaminated from the underlying photoresist layer by a single pulse of a nanosecond laser at 532 nm. After locally peeling the edge of the PCB with a laser beam of 9 mm size, Scotch tape was attached to the irradiated region to peel off the whole protective film. For a certain range of pulse energies the peeling probability was 100%, without leaving any damage. Since the use of a laser in initial delamination is noncontact and nondamaging, it may be more efficiently utilized in the PCB industry than the conventional knurling method based on mechanical pressing.

A Draft Proposal for Functional Pesticide Protection Clothing Using a Cooling Blower Unit (냉각 송풍장치를 이용한 기능성 농약방제복의 구성시안 제안에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Young Soon;Lee, Kyung Suk;Chae, Hye Seon;Kim, Kyung Ran
    • The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.557-566
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    • 2014
  • This study examines he trend in the development of protective clothing for pesticide spraying based on materials with domestic patents and proposes pesticide protection clothing using a cooling blower unit effective for reducing heat stress in pesticide spraying. There was a total of 54 domestic patents on protective clothing related to pesticide spraying, reflecting a sharp increase based on the increasing demand for protective clothing since 2000. Protective clothing with a lower level of heat stress as the core technology accounted for 35.2% of these patents, and recent years have witnessed the increased development of protective clothing supplying cold air to the interior of the clothing through a separate device. However, this may cause some inconvenience in the activity of farmers. Therefore, this study proposes a lightweight cooling blower unit that does not hinder the user's appearance and activity. In the cooling blower unit, contaminated air from outside is purified through a filter and cools down as it passes a cooling device with refrigerant in the copper pipe. This chilled air is supplied to the interior of the clothing through a bidirectional inhaling blower. The proposed protective clothing is an overall with raglan sleeves. Its chill injection site has an area where the most conspicuous change in temperature is selected, and at the back, there is a large pocket for a cooling blower unit.

An Experimental Study on the Fire Risk Assessment & Calculation Breakthrough Time through Permeation Test of Chemical Protective Clothing (화학보호복의 화재위험성 및 화학적 투과시험을 통한 파과시간산정에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Ko, Jae-Sun;Park, Pyoung-Kyu
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.21-30
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    • 2010
  • We have test chemical resistance and flame retardant properties of chemical protective clothing Fabrics by the ASTM and ISO standard methods. The flame retardant test results show that polyethylene is poor in flame resistance but fluoroelastomer add to decabrom is excellent in flame resistance. Especially, nowadays heat protective clothing for firefighters, which is aluminized film layers laminated to aramid fabric, show the excellent flame resistance. However, the chemical resistance test results show that aluminium is high corrosive in 4M NaOH solution alone. The problem of corrosion can be overcome by employing multiple barrier film. Also, based on the result of flame retardant test, duel skin of polymer barrier film add to aluminum film and single skin of fluorinated rubber with flame retardant materials seems to be fit for the chemical protective clothing. Also the thermal protection and heat transfer test results show that TPP and HTI is increased assured that the continued study on fire risk assessment & chemical resistance of chemical protective clothing fabrics will contribute to the upgrade the performances of chemical protective clothing fabrics.

Research about Chemical-Biological Protection Capability of Selectively Permeable Membrane Materials Based on Polyvinyl Alcohol (폴리비닐알코올 기반 선택투과막 재료의 화생방호성능 연구)

  • Kang, Jae-Sung;Seo, Hyeon-Kwan;Kwon, Tae-Geun;Park, Hyen-Bae;Lee, Hae-Wan
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.237-244
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    • 2013
  • We fabricated several composite membranes with selectively permeable performance designed to facilitate water vapor transport and resist DMMP vapor permeation. Materials for selective permeable membrane were based on polyvinyl alcohol and functional polymer containing basic functional group. With these materials, we characterized selectively permeable performance to identify next-generation material with chemical-biological protective capability. Results showed that polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)/polyethyleneimine (PEI) materials possessed performance with superior water vapor permeation ($2,200{\sim}2,900g/m^2/day$) and protective capability against DMMP vapor ($47g/m^2/day$).