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Digital Orthodontics using Customized Appliance System (개인 맞춤형 장치를 이용한 디지털 교정치료)

  • Kim, Yoon-Ji R.;Ha, Hye-Jung;Lee, Sung-Jong;Lee, Eon-Hwa;Ryu, Jae-Jun
    • The Journal of the Korean dental association
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    • v.54 no.2
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    • pp.134-141
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    • 2016
  • Use of ready-made orthodontic appliance can lead to inefficiencies in the final stages of the orthodontic treatment. Because patients' teeth have anatomic variations, brackets that have been designed to fit on average tooth surface may result in positional discrepancies when leveling and alignment is completed. As a result, additional steps such as rebonding, wire bending and use of auxiliaries may be needed. Even in patients who have normal tooth anatomy and proper tooth size relationships, precise bracket placement is crucial in order to efficiently control the tooth positions. Digital models can provide advantages in clinical orthodontics as virtual tooth setup could be performed, and clinicians can easily visualize the predicted final occlusion. Through this setup model, customized brackets with individualized prescription and archwires that optimally fit with the patients' dental arches can be produced using CAD/CAM technology. Also, the brackets can be accurately placed with an aid of 3D-printed jigs. The purpose of this article is to introduce the commonly used labial and lingual customized orthodontic appliance systems using digital technology.

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Line Start Linear Compressor without Stroke Controller (Line Start 형 리니어 압축기)

  • Hong, Eon-Pyo;Park, Kyeong-Bae;Choi, Ki-Chul;Lee, Hyeong-Kook
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.12a
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    • pp.697-702
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    • 2004
  • LG Electronics developed linear compressors for a household refrigerator which can reduce energy consumption up to $24\%$ by only Drop-ln instead of a conventional reciprocating compressor. The linear compressor is composed of a linear oscillating motor, a piston directly coupled with the linear motor, a cylinder and the specific discharge system of LG. Because of this free-piston structure, the position of the piston can be changeable according to the voltage variation, load variation and so on. By this reason, LG linear compressor has been in need of an additional unit to control the position of the free-piston stably. In this paper we will introduce the innovative technology which is able to operate the linear compressor without controlling the piston position like a conventional reciprocating compressor.

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The Experimental Study on Performance Improvement under frost conditions of the Heat Pump with Corrugate Shaped Fin and Two Compressors (저 착상 휜과 두 대 압축기 사이클을 이용한 히트펌프 난방성능 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang Yoon-Jei;Cho Eun-Jun;Chung Baik-Young;Lee Gam-gue
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.201-208
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    • 2005
  • This study presents the experimental study on improvement of frost/defrost performance in an heat pump system with newly developed fin and multiple compressors. As multiple compressors system, the variable and single speed compressor combinations has been introduced and compared with single speed 1-compressor system in a view point of improvement of frost/defrost performance. Also, newly developed corrugate shaped fin has been compared with conventional louver shaped fin. The frost/defrost performance is defined and some parameters are compared to discuss the effect of each combination. From this experimental study, it is known that if the variable and single speed compressor combination system equipped with corrugate shaped fin, the system performance has greatly improved not only for heating capacity, but also for frost performance.

Power Savings of a Refrigerator with 3D-PTV Measurements (3D-PTV에 의한 냉장고 소비전력 저감)

  • Hwang Tae-Gyu;Doh Deog-Hee;Park Seong-Ryong;Bang Yoon-Seok;Yang Min-Cheol;Jang Gyu-Seob;Kim Suk-Roh;Lee Yeon-Won
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.17 no.12
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    • pp.1145-1153
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    • 2005
  • 3D-PTV measurement has been carried out for the inner flows of a refrigerator. To visualize the air flows three-dimensionally, a helium bubble generator has been used for the 3D-PTV measurements. Three-dimensional flow field of the refrigerator's compartments have been reconstructed by the results obtained by the 3D-PTV Measurements on the electric power-consumption was also carried out in order to evaluate the improvements of the flow characteristics. It was verified that $3\%$ of power consumption was saved by improving the flow passages and characteristics.

A Study of the Home Appliance Control Characteristics of the Elderly (고령자의 생활가전제품 조작행동 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Ho-Soong
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.617-626
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    • 2011
  • Home appliance proposes the experience of new lifestyle to consumers, together with digital technology-applied highly advanced functions, beyond its natural quality like the basic function of reducing the burden of housework. However, under the current circumstances that populations are rapidly aging, the number of elderly consumers, who feel it inconvenient to smoothly use even the basic function of home appliance, is increasing in proportion to populations. Therefore, the necessity for developing home appliance with improved usability in consideration of the elderly is rising up. This study analyzed the elderly's pattern of using home appliance and illustrated the procedure of their using home appliance, putting its focus on the home appliance that the elderly highly depend on in keeping their daily life and that they feel it inconvenient to control. And based on the illustrated procedure, this paper substituted various kinds of home appliance that were not surveyed by this study and found out 4 user behavioral models for home appliance. Same as the concept of universal design, product designs, which are convenient to use by the elderly whose physical functions are reduced, are expected acceptable to various user classes. The found user behavioral models purport to give references to design process for product planning and design solutions.

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Three Phase Switched Reluctance Motor for 100W rated Dryer Blower (건조기 팬용 3상 SRM(100W급))

  • Lim Jun-young;Kim Sang-young;Choi Yong-won
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2004.07a
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    • pp.195-195
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    • 2004
  • Conventional dryer systems use one induction motor to drive drum and fan. However, nowadays, dryer systems are necessary to use extra fan motor for reducing a drying-time. This fan motor should be variable-speed controlled motor to control drying-time according to the volume of clothes. This paper proposes 3-phase SRM(Switched Reluctance Motor) having 12/8 structure for variable-speed fan motor of dryer system.

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Measurements of a microchannel flow using micro-PIV

  • Lee Inwon;Choi Jayho;Lee In-Seop
    • 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.12a
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    • pp.44-52
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    • 2001
  • A micro-PIV(particle image velocimetry) measurement has been conducted to investigate flow fields in such microfluidic devices as microchannels and micronozzle. The present study employs a state-of-art micro-PIV system which consists of epi-fluorescence microscope, 620nm diameter fluorescent seed particles and an 8-bit megapixel CCD camera. Velocity vector fields with a resolution of $6.8\;\times\;6.8{\mu}m$ has been obtained, and the attention has been paid on the effect of varying measurement conditions of particle diameter and particle concentration on the resulting PIV results. In this study, the microfluidic elements were fabricated on plastic chips by means of MEMS processes and a subsequent molding process. Flow fields in a variety of microchannels as well as micronozzle have been investigated.

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