• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.657-682
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• 2011

This paper presents the dynamic analysis on the joint torque of a finger for the tip pinch task. The dynamic model on finger movement was developed in order to predict the joint torques of an index finger, and the finger was assumed as a three-link planar manipulator. Analysis of the model revealed that the joint stiffness was one of the most important parameters affecting the joint torque. The stiffness of the finger joint was experimentally measured, and it was used in analyzing the finger joint torque required for performing the tip pinch task. The obtained joint torque for the tip pinch task will be used as the design requirements of the finger exoskeletal orthosis actuated by the polymer actuator whose allowable torque limit is relatively low compared to that of a mechanical actuator.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.42-44
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• 2006

Up to the present, finger replantation patients have complained about various symptoms because of blood circulatory failure. Objective evaluation methods for the level of the blood circulatory failures in fingers were needed other than patient's subjective symptoms and complaints. Photoplethysmogram(PPG) measured from fingers is very useful for evaluation of vascular aging and sclerosis level since the PPG signal represents characteristics of peripheral vascular. Several researchers have reported that second derivative of the finger PPG waveform was useful to evaluate vascular compliance and developed various analysis methods for vascular compliance. However, vascular compliance study for finger replantation patient was never evaluated by using second derivative of PPG. Therefore, we aimed to objectively compare and to assess normal and replanted finger vascular compliance using the second derivative of PPG waveform in this study. The evaluated factors of second derivative of PPG are 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e' and b/a represents vascular compliance. Study found out that when vascular compliance is decreased, b/a is increased, the absolute value of b/a is decreased. For 43 finger replantation patients, the average vascular compliance of replanted finger is lower than the normal finger statistically(p=0.001). we suggested an objective evaluation of finger vascular compliance for finger replantation patients and effect of surgical operation.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2005년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.891-894
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• 2005

This paper describes a human finger model driven by shape memory alloy(SMA) wires. The finger model has three joints that are similar to human finger. Each joint is actuated with two wires in the antagonistic manner and six wires are used to actuate three finger joint. In order to obtain the desirable finger motion, the diameters of the SMA wires are designed with different diameters by considering the required actuating force and response time. The rotary sensors are used to measure the angle positions of the joints and PWM control using PID algorithm is used to achieve desired angle positions of the finger joints. After estimating the control performance of each finger joint for the desired angle position, the antagonistic motion control of the finger model is experimentally evaluated.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.556-559
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• 1999

This paper proposes an hybrid person identification algorithm utilizing finger crease pattern and finger thickness profiles. We have observed that by adding finger thickness profiles as a feature vector, we could improve the performance of the person identification system utilizing only finger crease pattern. We presented the comparative evaluation of the proposed algorithm in detail.

• 센서학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.357-361
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• 2014

This paper describes the evaluation of the effectiveness of rehabilitation therapy for patients with finger paralysis based on a two-finger force measurement system (TFFMS). The paralyzed fingers can be recovered through rehabilitation therapies. The finger pressing force of the patients can be measured utilizing the TFFMS previously developed by the author [7]. The TFFMS, however, has not been fully adopted as a standard method for evaluating the therapy owing to the lack of a standard protocol. The pressing force of healthy volunteers and patients is analyzed with the TFFMS to explore the feasibility of the TFFMS as an evaluation device. The test confirms that the established standard protocol is useful to quantitatively assess the progress of finger rehabilitation therapy.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.155-161
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• 2017

This paper presents a new nonmechanical rehabilitation system driven by magnetic force. Typically, finger rehabilitation mechanisms are complex mechanical systems. The proposed method allows wireless operation, a simple configuration, and easy installation on the hand for active actuation by magnetic force. The system consists of a driving coil, driving magnets (M1), and auxiliary magnets (M2 and M3), respectively, at the finger, palm, and the center of coil. The magnets and the driving coil produce three magnetic forces for an active motions of the finger. During active actuations, magnetic attractive forces between M1 and M2 or between M1 and M3 enhance the flexion/extension motions. The proposed system simply improves the extension motion of the finger using a magnetic system. In this system, the maximum force and angular variation of the extension motion were 0.438 N and $49^{\circ}$, respectively. We analyzed the magnetic interaction in the system and verified finger's active actuation.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to evaluate aging (young and old), gender (male and female), and handle shape effects on grip force, finger force, and subjective comfort. Four handle shapes of A, D, I, and V were implemented by a multi-finger force measurement (MFFM) system which was developed to measure every finger force with different grip spans. Forty young (20 males and 20 females) and forty old (20 males and 20 females) subjects participated in twelve gripping tasks and rated their comfort for all handles using a 5-point scale. Grip forces were calculating by summation of all four forces of the index, middle, ring and little fingers. Results showed that young males (283.2N) had larger gripping force than old males (235.6N), while young females (151.4N) had lower force than old females (153.6N). Young subjects exerted the largest gripping force with D-shape due to large contribution of the index and middle fingers and the smallest with A-shape; however, old subjects exerted the largest with I-shape and the smallest with V-shape due to small contribution of the ring and little fingers. As expected, the middle finger had the largest finger force and the little finger had the smallest. The fraction of contribution of index and ring fingers to grip force differed among age groups. Interestingly, young subjects provided larger index finger force than ring finger force, whereas old subjects showed that larger ring finger forces than index finger force in the griping tasks. In the relationship between performance and subjective comfort, I-shape exerting the largest grip force had less comfort than D-shape producing the second largest grip force. The findings of this study can provide guidelines on designing hand tool handle to obtain better performance as well as users' comfort.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.597-603
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• 2019

임상에서 사용하는 진단 검사 장치인 전산화 단층촬영기(CT)를 이용하여 Dicom 파일을 획득하였습니다. Dicom 파일과 3D 프로그램, 3D 프린터로 손가락 보조기(Finger brace)를 제작하였습니다. 손가락 보조기(Finger brace)는 인체를 대상으로 하기 때문에 형태의 정밀도가 매우 중요합니다. 3D Print는 정밀도가 우수하고, 재료가 다양하고, 출력 시간이 짧은 이점이 있습니다. 임상에서는 알루미늄 보호대나 의료기 업체의 손가락 보호대가 한정적입니다. 3D 프린터로 손가락 보조기(Finger brace)를 제작하면, 환자의 손가락 외상, 질병, 변형의 치료에 이용할 수 있는 정밀한 형태의 맞춤형 손가락 보조기(Finger brace)를 환자에게 적용할 수 있을 것이라고 기대합니다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.503-509
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• 2013

Objective: The purpose of this study is to analyze the individual finger force between dominant hand and non-dominant hand and to investigate an effect of the individual finger on the total grip strength depending on dominant hand and non-dominant hand. Background: Many studies on the ratio of the grip force between dominant hand and non-dominant hand has been researched. While a 10% rule which is a ratio of the grip force between dominant hand and non-dominant hand has been applied in most studies, studies on the rate of the individual finger force between dominant hand and non-dominant hand have been insufficiently researched. Method: The experiment was preceded with 17 subjects (male, mean 25.8 ages). The individual finger force and total grip strength were measured using pliers being able to change the grip span from 45 to 80mm. Results: The difference of total grip strength between dominant hand and non-dominant hand is following 10% rule. However, the difference of individual finger force between dominant hand and non-dominant hand are not same as the difference of total grip strength. Especially in the case of grip span with 50mm, the differences between total grip strength, index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger were $9.87{\pm}14.80%$, $8.95{\pm}37.17%$, $13.71{\pm}28.27%$, $6.77{\pm}24.35%$, $39.29{\pm}42.46%$, respectively, with p=0.018 of statistical significance. Additionally, the results of regression analysis in 50 and 60mm of grip span showed that the difference in ring finger affected the most to the total grip strength; and the effects followed in order of index finger, middle finger, and little finger. Conclusion: Our study suggests that an effect of individual finger and grip span of pliers have to be considered when explaining the difference of the total grip strength between dominant hand and non-dominant hand. Application: This result is expected to be used for designing ergonomic hand tool.

• 생명과학회지
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• 제33권11호
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• pp.956-965
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• 2023

CCCH zinc finger 단백질은 세 개의 시스테인(cysteine, C) 아미노산과 한 개의 히스티딘(histidine, H) 아미노산으로 구성된 아연이온(Zn⁺)에 결합하는 손가락 구조의 zinc finger 모티프를 가졌으며, 식물에는 많은 수의 CCCH zinc finger 단백질 유전자가 존재한다. CCCH zinc finger 단백질은 2개의 CCCH zinc finger 모티프를 가지는 TZF와 그 외 나머지인 non-TZF로 구분이 되지만 지금까지의 CCCH zinc finger 단백질의 기능에 대한 연구는 주로 TZF, 특히 식물 특이적으로 존재하는 RR-TZF를 중심으로 이루어져 왔다. 그러나 최근 들어 non-TZF 유전자에 대한 연구도 활발히 진행되고 있다. Non-TZF는 생물 스트레스와 고염, 건조, 저온, 고온, 산화 스트레스 등 다양한 환경 스트레스 반응에 관여하는 것으로 알려졌다. Non-TZF는 다양한 방식으로 하위 유전자를 조절하여 식물의 스트레스 반응에 관여하는데, 세포질에 위치하며 RNA에 결합하여 RNA의 안정성을 조절하고 전사 후 단계에서 하위 유전자를 조절하거나 핵에 위치하고 전사 활성화 또는 전사 억제를 통해 전사인자로서 기능을 하기도 한다. 그러나 이러한 연구에도 불구하고 non-TZF를 통한 스트레스 신호전달 경로 및 상위 유전자, 하위 유전자는 거의 알려져 있지 않다. 따라서 CCCH zinc finger 유전자에 대한 이해를 넓히기 위해서는 TZF뿐만 아니라 non-TZF 유전자의 스트레스 반응에 관한 지속적이고도 집중적인 연구가 필요하다. 본 총설 논문에서는 지금까지 스트레스 반응 조절에 관여하는 것으로 밝혀진 non-TZF 유전자들과 그 유전자들의 분자적 기능을 서술하였다.