• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.79-85
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• 2003

The child restraint system is blown to be excellent to reduce child occupant injury in frontal collisions. The effects of the child restraint system are experimently investigated according to FMVSS 213. A sled simulator is utilized with varying restraint types such as 2point, 3point seat belts, forward-facing types and booster types of child restraint systems. The head and chest injuries for various cases are evaluated based on industrial standards. Also, the maximum displacements of the head and the knees are measured by film analysis. Using the results of the test, the effects of the child restraint system is discussed and reduction of child occupant injury is pursued.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.881-888
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• 2013

A basic study was performed to develop a mini gas generator by using a commercial automotive airbag inflater. The mini gas generator can be used for industrial and military application like a seat belt pretensioner. Some parameters were experimentally investigated to reduce the size of the inflater. Basic combustion tests were performed in the closed chamber and measured the pressure and the temperature behavior according to the design parameters. From the study, essential parameters were determined to design a mini gas generator.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.199-206
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• 2013

최근 차량 내 인포테인먼트 시스템에 대한 다양한 요구가 급격하게 증가함에 따라 보다 편리하고 인간 친화적이고 첨단 기능들을 갖춘 차량용 인포테인먼트 시스템들이 속속 등장하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 차량 내 다양한 멀티미디어 응용에 적용할 수 있는 임베디드 기반 차량용 멀티미디어 인포테인먼트 시스템을 구현하였다. 구현된 시스템은 하나의 프로세서에서 두 개 채널 이상의 멀티미디어 소스들을 각각 독립적으로 디스플레이 할 수 있도록 하여 비용을 절감할 수 있다. 또한 저장장치에 저장된 비디오, 오디오, 영상 등의 콘텐츠뿐만아니라 CAM, T-DMB, DVB-T 등 실시간으로 제공되는 콘텐츠들도 멀티로 디스플레이 될 수 있다. Wi-Fi를 이용한 스마트폰과의 연결성을 지원하여 스마트폰에 저장되어 있는 멀티미디어 콘텐츠 또한 멀티로 디스플레이 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서 구현된 시스템은 AVN(Audio Video Navigation), RSE(Rear Seat Entertainment) 등의 차량용 인포테인먼트 시스템에 저비용으로 다양하게 응용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.115-123
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• 2010

Cool-down performance after soaking is important because it affects passenger's thermal comfort. The cooling capacity of HVAC system determines initial cool down performance in most cases, the performance is also affected by location, and shape of panel vent, indoor seat arrangement. Therefore, optimal indoor designs are required in developing a new car. In this paper, initial cool down performance is predicted by CFD(computational fluid dynamics) analysis. Experimental time-averaging temperature data are used as inlet boundary condition. For more reliable analysis, real vehicle model and human FE model are used in grid generation procedure. Thermal and aerodynamic characteristics on re-circulation cool vent mode are investigated using CFX 12.0. Thermal comfort represented by PMV(predicted mean vote) is evaluated using acquired numerical data. Temperature and velocity fields show that flow in passenger's compartment after soaking is considerably unstable at the view point of thermodynamics. Volume-averaged temperature is decreased exponentially during overall cool down process. However, temperature monitored at different 16 spots in CFX-Solver shows local variation in head, chest, knee, foot. The cooling speed at the head and chest nearby panel vent are relatively faster than at the knee and foot. Horizontal temperature contour shows asymmetric distribution because of the location of exhaust vent. By evaluating the passenger's thermal comfort, slowest cooling region is found at the driver's seat.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.4776-4783
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• 2014

1차 소음원을 저감시키기 위한 많은 연구가 진행되어 왔지만 BSR과 같은 감성품질에 대한 연구는 상대적으로 적다. 본 논문은 다축 가진기를 이용한 시트 프레임의 BSR 시험을 실시한다. 정현파 스윕(sine wave sweep) 테스트를 실시하여 BSR 소음과의 관계를 연구하고 시트 프레임의 진동 내구 시험 전후 BSR 시험을 실시한다. 그 결과 첫 번째 수평(lateral)방향 공진이 고주파의 BSR소음을 발생시키며 또한 레일의 위치에 따라 BSR 소음 특성이 변하는 것을 확인했다. 또한 시트 프레임의 내구 시험 후 시스템 강성이 감소하였고, 그에 따라 BSR 소음이 감소되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.38-45
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• 2004

This paper studies the effects of intake port configuration on the swirl that is key parameter in the flow field of direct injection diesel engines. In-cylinder flow characteristics is known to have significant effects on fuel air mixing, combustion and emissions. To investigate the swirl flow generated by various intake ports, steady state flow tests were conducted to evaluate the swirl. Helical port geometry, SCV shape and bypass were selected as the design parameters to increase the swirl flow and parametric study was performed to choose the optimal port shape that would generate a high swirl ratio efficiently. The results revealed that a key factor in generating a high swirl ratio was to suitably control the direction of the intake air flow passing through the valve seat. For these purposes, we changed the distance of helical and tangential port as well as installed bypass near the valve seat and the effects of intake port geometry on in-cylinder flow field were visualized by a laser sheet visualization method. From the experimental results, we found that the swirl ratio and mass flow rate had a trade off relation. In addition, the result indicates that the bypass is a effective method to increase the swirl ratio without sacrificing mass flow rate.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.2341-2348
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 충돌하중 하에서 스페이스 프레임을 사용하는 경주용 차량의 프레임 변형 및 응력을 분석한다. 충돌 시 변형을 최소한으로 줄이고, 취약부분을 파악하여 운전자의 안전을 확보한다. 탄소강의 물성치를 바탕으로 트러스 구조로 설계된 차량 프레임의 유한요소모델을 만들고, ANSYS 프로그램을 이용하여 정면충돌 시 속도 변화에 따른 충격량 증가가 프레임에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 또한 정면, 측면, 후면 방향에 충돌하중을 적용하여 프레임의\ 변형을 해석한다. 정면 및 후면충돌에서는 운전석에 가해지는 영향이 적지만, 측면충돌 시 충격에 의한 변형이 운전석까지 진행된다. 이러한 변형에 대한 취약부분의 보강을 통하여 프레임의 안전성 설계를 증진시키고 시뮬레이션 해석의 결과를 실제 프레임 제작에 활용한다.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• 제58권1호
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• pp.32-43
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• 2023

The worldwide use of polyurethane foam products generates large amounts of waste, which in turn has detrimental effects on the surroundings. Hence, finding an economical and environmentally friendly way to dispose of or recycle foam waste is an utmost priority for researchers to overcome this problem. In that sense, the glycolysis of waste flexible polyurethane foam (WFPF) from automotive seat cushions using different industrial-grade glycols and potassium hydroxide as a catalyst to produce recovered polyol was investigated. The effect of different molecular weight polyols, catalyst concentration, and material ratio (PU foam: Glycols) on the reaction conversion and viscosity of the recovered polyols was determined. The obtained recovered polyols are obtained as single or split-phase reaction products. Besides, the foaming characteristics and physical properties such as cell morphology, thermal stability, and compressive stress-strain nature of the regenerated flexible foams based on the recovered polyols were discussed. It was observed that the regenerated flexible foams displayed good seating comfort properties as a function of hardness, sag factor, and hysteresis loss compared to the reference virgin foam. With the growing demand for a sustainable and circular economy, a global valorization of glycolysis products from polyurethane scraps can be realized by transforming them into profitable substances.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1879-1882
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• 2005

Due to increase of demands on safety and convenience for automotive vehicle, the use of DC motor, such as power window, seat adjusting, pedal adjusting, sunroof, electric shift motor and so on, is increasing rapidly in the whole world. Worm gear is an important part to transmit torque to another gear in gear mechanism of automotive DC motor. But with current forming process, it has some problems in manufacturing and the quality. Also, the characteristics of automotive parts such as price and mass-production limit the quality improvement. Recently several methods are used in order to reduce a worm screw machining time and to maintain precision. In this paper, we introduce whirling tool machining and side milling cutter machining as effective manufacturing method of worm screw and study on the cutting force of side milling cutter and whirling tool in worm screw machining.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.30-37
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• 2012

Pneumatic Active Engine Mount(PAEM) with open-loop control system has been developed to reduce the transmission of the idle-shake vibration induced by engine effectively and economically. A solenoid valve installed between PAEM and vacuum tank is on-off switched by the Pulse Width Modulate(PWM) control signal to decrease the dynamic stiffness of the engine mount. This paper presents the methodology to identify the optimal values of control parameters of a PAEM, i.e, turn-on timing and duty ratio of PWM signal for 6 different idle driving conditions. A scanning algorithm was first applied to the vehicle test to obtain the approximate optimal control parameters minimizing the vibration at front seat rail and at steering wheel. Then the PAEM system identification was fulfilled to find accurate optimal control parameters by using multi-layer neural networks of Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm with vehicle test data.