• Design & Manufacturing
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.25-29
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• 2016

Recently, a hyaluronic acid micro needle patch for therapeutic and cosmetic purposes has been used by attaching directly to the skin with a pattern having a micro needle shape of 1/3 thickness of hair. These products are attracting attention as an innovative product that maximizes the effect by activating the active ingredient in the skin in the deep skin without blocking the horny layer because the micro needle shape exists on the patch surface so that it can penetrate effectively to the skin. Currently, DAB (droplet air blowing) or MEMS technology is used to make pattern shapes for patches. Because of this technology, manufacturing time is long and manufacturing cost is high, so we tried to develop the mold technology to machine the microneedle shape directly to the metal. In this study, we first fabricated a needle pattern with a quadrangular pyramid shape and finally produced a conical needle pattern.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.339-345
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• 2012

Electrospun meshed poly-caprolactone PCL was patterned by femtosecond laser with linear grooves. As parametric variables, focus spot size, pulse energy, and scanning speed were varied to determine the affects on groove size and the characteristics of the electrospun fiber at the edges of these grooves. The femtosecond laser was seen to be an effective means for flexibly structuring the surface of ES PCL scaffolds and the width of the ablated grooves was well controlled by laser energy and focus spot size. The ablation threshold was measured to be $14.9J/cm^2$ which is a little higher than other polymers. These affects were attributed to optical multiple reflections inside nano-fibers. By the laser-induced plasma at higher pulse energies, some melting of fibers was observed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.653-657
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• 2000

Machining performance in hard turning of hardened AISI M2 steel has been studied. Ceramic tools were used in the cutting tests without coolants and workpiece was prepared by heat treatment to increase its hardness up to Rc 60. Cutting state parameters such as cutting forces, temperature, and tool wear were measured in the experiments and effects of tool wear on cutting states were investigated.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.169-174
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• 2001

We proposed a new fabrication method using electrochemical process for microshafts. This method is a kind of atomic removal process by chemical reaction. Therefore, it is possible to make thin and long shafts regardless of the stiffness of materials. Because shaping process is simply switched to polishing process by varying process conditions, we can precisely fabricate microshafts with very smooth surface. We also fabricated a very thin shaft with the diameter as small as 10$\mu$m and a microshaft with high aspect ratio.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.5-12
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• 2002

The grinding process has been mainly used fur finishing metal products as final machining stage. But chatter vibration and bum of a workpiece have a bad effect on the machined surface and should be detected in modern grinding process. This paper deals with a fault detection of the cylindrical plunge grinding process by power parameters. During the grinding process the power signals of an induced motor were sampled and used to determine the relationship between fault and change of power parameters. A neural network was used far detecting the grinding fault and an influence of power parameters to the grinding fault was analyzed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.50-55
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• 2004

Because of the development in mold industries, the geometrical form accuracy of the milled surface is getting more and more important. It has been known that the geometrical form accuracy is affected by machine conditions, cutting conditions, tool conditions and tool path and so on. Among them, the tool approaching path causes the change in material removal per tooth at the end of each machining cycle. And, this change generates the geometrical form error around the region where the tool engages the workpiece initially. So, it is impossible to eliminate the geometrical error caused by the tool approaching path. Thus, characteristics of this geometrical error are studied analytically and experimentally to minimize this region.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.224-230
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• 2009

FIB has been commonly used as a very powerful tool in the semiconductor industry. It is mainly used for mask repair, device correction, failure analysis and IC error correction, etc. Currently, FIB is not being applied to the fabrication of the micro and nano-structured mold, because of low productivity. And also sputtering rate has been required to fabricate 3D shape. In the paper, we studied the FIB-Sputtering rate according to mold materials. And surface roughness characteristics had been analysed for micro or nano mold fabrication. Si wafer, Glassy Carbon, STAVAX and DLC that have been normally considered as good micro or nano mold materials were used in the study.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.76-81
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• 1995

MgO single crystal is widely used as a the material of high temperature resistance, but is difficult to grind because of brittleness and crack generation. Therefore, superabrasive diamond wheel is required for mirror like grinding of this material. This study describes a newly proposed optimum in-process electrolytic dressing system for carrying out effective dressing of superbrasive diamond wheel. Using this system the grinding surface of MgO single crystal was improved, the grinding force was very l9ow and crack was removed. In conclusion, this system is good to obtain the efficient grinding and mirror-like grinding without crack of MgO single crystal.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.451-456
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• 2004

The Titanium has many superior characteristics Which are specific strength, heat resistance, corrosion resistance, organism compatibility, non-magnetic and etc. and their quantity are abundant this study performed turning operation of Ti-6Al-4V alloy using the TiAlN Coate Tool which treated PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition). Experimental works are also executed to measure cutting force, chip figuration and surface roughness for different cutting conditions. As a result of study. Tool wear was serious at over 100m/min of cutting speed and cutting condition was excellent at 1.0mm of cutting depth.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.214-220
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• 2009

The spindle is the main component in machine tools. The static and dynamic stiffness of the spindle directly affect the machining productivity and surface integrity of the workpiece. The static and dynamic stiffness of the spindle depend on the shaft size, bearing arrangement, bearing span length, and so on. Therefore, the selection of shaft size and bearing span length are important to improve the spindle stiffness. This paper presents the determination of shaft size and bearing span length in spindle design step. In order to select the optimal bearing and built-in motor locations with constraint conditions, the extreme vertices design was applied. The results show that extreme vertices design is usable for spindle design with design constraints.