• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.50-55
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• 1998

A thermal printing head is used for heat transcription printing of facsimile or printer. The thermal printing head has multilayered thin films and heaters lined up. Thermal analysis of thermal printing head is important for a design of thermal printing head. Since the heating charateristics of thermal printing head is dependent on the thermal conductivities of multilayerd material, this study made numerical analysis for three dimensional transient heat conduction in mutilayered films by the finite difference method and investigated the effect of various thermal conductivities of thin films. The results of this study will be used to design thermal printing head and select the materials for thermal printing head.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.153-158
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• 2023

This research was conducted to reduce the defect rate caused by nozzle clogging of printing heads used in binder jet 3D printers. The binder jet 3D printing technology may adhere to the printing head nozzle by dispersing powder due to mechanical operation such as transferring the printing head and supplying powder, and may cause nozzle clogging by natural curing at the nozzle end depending on the type of binder used. To solve this problem, this study created a cleaning module exclusively for printing heads to check whether the durability of printing heads is improved through analysis of printing results before and after using the cleaning module. To this end, this research used a thermal bubble jet printing head, and the used powder was studied using gypsum powder.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.529-534
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• 2023

고속 및 대면적 인쇄를 위한 라인 프린팅 기술은 늘어난 헤드 길이만큼 헤드 내부로 잉크를 공급하는 유로를 확보해야 하는 구조적 취약점과 제조 과정에서 발생하는 잔류응력에 의한 피드홀 변형으로 인해 노즐층이 파손되거나 잉크가 누출되는 결함이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 견고하고 신뢰할 수 있으며 라인 프린팅 방식에 보다 적합한 열전사 방식의 잉크젯 프린트 헤드 형상을 제안하고자 한다. 먼저 실험을 통해 초기 라인 프린팅 헤드의 변형량을 측정한 후 이를 등가의 하중량으로 변환하였으며 FEA 해석을 통해 하중 추정 방법의 타당성을 검증하였다. 또한 헤드 크기를 증가시키지 않으면서 변형을 최소화할 수 있도록 기둥이나 지지벽으로 단위 노즐을 보강하거나 지지빔이나 건/습식각된 브릿지를 추가하여 내부 강성을 증가시킨 헤드 구조를 설계하였으며, 피드홀 변형이 최대 90% 감소하는 것을 확인하였다. 제안된 형상 중 공정 편의성과 제작비용을 고려하여 건식각된 피드홀 브릿지 형태의 헤드를 선정하였으며 실제 제작을 통해 노즐층 변형이나 잉크 누출 없이 정상 작동하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제32권9호
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• pp.787-792
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• 2015

Recently, 3D printing technology is a hot issue in various industrial fields. According to the user's application, it allows for the free form fabrication method to be utilized in a wide range. The powder based fusion technique is one of the 3D printing methods. When using this method it is possible to apply the various binder jetting techniques such as piezo, thermal bubble jet, dispenser and so on. In this paper, a multi thermal bubble ink jet was integrated for jetting of powder binding material and developing a power fused 3D printing system. For high quality 3D printing parts, it needs an analysis and evaluation of the behavior of the thermal bubble ink jet head. In the experiment, a correlation between jetting binder quantity and layer thickness of powder was investigated, and a 3D part model was fabricated, which was used by measuring the scale factor.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.337-342
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• 2022

최근 프린팅 기술은 디스플레이나 연료전지를 포함한 IT 분야에 폭넓게 사용되고 있지만 핵심 부품인 프린터 헤드의 박막을 적층하는 제조공정에서 발생하는 잔류응력 및 열응력으로 인해 기판이 변형되거나 노즐층이 파손되어 잉크가 새거나 원하는 영역으로 토출되지 않는 문제가 발생하고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 보다 견고하고 신뢰할수 있는 구조를 가진 열전사 잉크젯 프린트 헤드 형상을 제안하고자 한다. 기판과 노즐층의 변형을 줄이기 위해 리브, 기둥, 지지벽 및 개별 피드홀과 같은 다양한 형태의 잉크젯 프린트 헤드 구조가 설계되었으며, FEA 해석을 통해 타당성을 검증하였다. 해석 결과 헤드의 최대 응력 및 노즐층 변형이 최소 40~50%로 급격히 감소하였으며 기둥 및 지지벽 형태의 프린터 헤드를 제작하여 노즐층 변형에 의한 균열 및 잉크 누출이 없는 것을 확인하였다. 따라서 제안된 헤드 형상이 정상 방향의 잉크 토출에 기여하며 대면적 프린팅 기술에도 적용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2011년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.3.2-3.2
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• 2011

In recent years, inkjet printing technology has received significant attention as a micro/nanofabrication technique for flexible printing of electronic circuits and solar cells, as well for biomaterial patterning. It eliminates the need for physical masks, causes fewer environment problems, lowers fabrication costs, and offers good layer-to-layer registration. To fulfill the requirements for use in the above applications, however, the inkjet system must meet certain criteria such as high frequency jetting, uniform droplet size, high density nozzle array, etc. Existing inkjet devices are either based on thermal bubbles or piezoelectric pumping; they have several drawbacks for flexible printing. For instance, thermal bubble jetting has limitations in terms of size and density of the nozzle array as well as the ejection frequency. Piezoelectric based devices suffer from poor pumping energy in addition to inadequate ejection frequency. Recently, an electrohydrodynamic (EHD) printing technique has been suggested and proposed as an alternative to thermal bubble or piezoelectric devices. In EHD jetting, a liquid (ink) is pumped through a nozzle and a strong electric field is applied between the nozzle and an extractor plate, which induce charges at the surfaces of the liquid meniscus. This electric field creates an electric stress that stretches the meniscus in the direction of the electric field. Once the electric field force is larger than the surface tension force, a liquid droplet is formed. An EHD inkjet head can produce droplets smaller than the size of the nozzle that produce them. Furthermore, the EHD nano-inkjet can eject high viscosity liquid through the nozzle forming tiny structures. These unique features distinguish EHD printing from conventional methods for sub-micron resolution printing. In this presentation, I will introduce the recent research results regarding the EHD nano-inkjet and the printing system, which has been applied to solar cell or thin film transistor applications.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.141-150
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• 2007

This paper presents a lumped model to predict crosstalk characteristics of thermally driven inkjet print heads. Using the lumped R-C model, heating characteristics of the head are predicted to be in agreement with IR temperature measurements. The inter-channel crosstalk is simulated using the lumped R-L network. The values of viscous flow resistance, R and flow inertance, L of connecting channels are adjusted to accord with the 3-D numerical simulation results of three adjacent jets. The crosstalk behaviors of a back shooter head as well as a top shooter head have been investigated. Predictions of the proposed lumped model on the meniscus oscillations are consistent with numerical simulation results. Comparison of the lumped model with experimental results identifies that abnormal two-drop ejection phenomena are related to the increased meniscus oscillations because of the more severe crosstalk effects at higher printing speeds. The degree of crosstalk has been quantified using cross-correlations between neighboring channels and a critical channel dimension for acceptable crosstalk has been proposed and validated with the numerical simulations. Our model can be used as a design tool for a better design of thermal inkjet print heads to minimize crosstalk effects.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회A
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• pp.1806-1809
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• 2008

Study that form micro pattern by direct ink jet printing method is getting attention recently. Direct ink jet printing spout fine droplet including nano metal particle by force or air pressure. There is reason which ink jet printing method is profitable especially in a various micro-patterning technology. It can embody patterns directly without complex process such as mask manufacture or screen-printing for existent lithography. In this study, research of a technology that ejects fine droplet form of Pico liter and forms metal micro pattern was carried with inkjet head of piezoelectricity drive system. Droplet established pattern while ejecting consecutively and move on the surface at the fixed speed. Patterns formed in ink are mixed with organic solvent and polymer that act as binder. So added thermal hardening process after evaporate organic solvent at isothermal after printing. I executed high frequency special quality estimation of CPW transmission line to confirm electrical property of manufactured circuit board. We tried a large area printing to confirm application possibility of an ink jet technology.

• 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 유체기계공업학회 2006년 제4회 한국유체공학학술대회 논문집
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• pp.505-508
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• 2006

An electrostatic ink jet head can be used for manufacturing processes of large display systems and printed circuit boards (PCB) as well as inkjet printers because an electrostatic field provides an external force which can be manipulated to control sizes of droplets. The existing printing methods such as thermal bubble and piezo inkjet heads have shown difficulties to control the ejection of the droplets for printing applications. Thus, the new inkjet head using the electrostatic force has been proposed in this study. In order to prove the theory of the developed electrostatic ink jet head, the applicable and basic theory has been studied using distilled water and water with sodium dodecyl surfate (SDS). Also, a numerical analysis has been performed to calculate the intensity of the electrostatic field using the Maxwell's equation. Furthermore, experiments have been carried out using a downward glass capillary with outside diameter of $500{\mu}m$. The gravity, surface tension, and electrostatic force have been analyzed with high voltages of 0 to 5kV. It has been observed that the droplet size decreases and the frequency of the droplet formation and the velocity of the droplet ejection increase with increasing the intensity of the electrostatic field. The results of the experiments have shown good agreement with those of numerical analysis.

• 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국가시화정보학회 2007년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.128-133
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• 2007

An electrostatic inkjet head can be used for manufacturing processes of large display systems and printed circuit boards (PCB) as well as inkjet printers because an electrostatic field provides an external force which can be manipulated to control sizes of droplets. The existing printing methods such as thermal bubble and piezo inkjet heads have shown difficulties to control the ejection of the droplets for printing applications. Thus, the new inkjet head has been proposed using the electrostatic force. A numerical analysis has been performed to calculate the intensity of the electrostatic field using the Maxwell's equation. Also, experiments have been carried out to investigate the droplet movement using a downward capillary with outside diameter of $500{\mu}m$. Gravity, surface tension, and electrostatic force have been analyzed with high voltages for a drop-on-demand ejection. It has been observed that the droplet size decreases and the frequency of the droplet formation and the velocity of the droplet ejection increase with increasing the intensity of the electrostatic field using high-speed camera.