• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.303-306
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• 2001

To shorten the delivery time for new products, a lot of prototype plastic parts manufacturing technologies have been developed including injection molding, vacuum casting, thermal forming and so on. Among them, RIM is becoming one of a important soft tooling methods to produce prototype and mass production parts within short time. Further more, as the rapid prototyping technology based tooling methods are playing an important role in prototype manufacturing industry, the utility of the RIM is increasing. But few analyses and mold design techniques have been developed so far due to its chemical and mechanical complexity during the packing and curing process. This research suggests mold gate design criteria to prevent bobbles from molded parts through simplified mathematical model and change of bubble sizes according to the geometry of the molded parts through experiments. Also this study shows the differences of bobble generation mechanism between RIM and injection molding.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.651-657
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• 1996

Industrial products are getting more and more complex. The number of parts or components and the variety of manufacturing processes are increasing. This leads to rapid product oriented machine tools. The process integrated CNC lathe is one of the these machine tools which can produce numerous parts and various machining processes and reduce the lead time and non-machining time. Therefore this study deals with the design technique of a process-intergated CNC lathe which can reduce the tact time and production cost by the speed-up of the tooling system and the high-speed machining oriented construction of 2 spindles and 2 turrets.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Laser Processing Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.96-102
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• 2006

In this study, manufacturing of polymer master, PDMS(poly dimethylsiloxane) transfer mold, and mold insert was investigated for laser LIGA(LIthography Calvanoformung Abformtechnik). Initially, ablation by excimer laser radiation was used successfully to make 3-D microstructure of PET. After then, the PDMS transfer mold was replicated using ablated PET. Finally, epoxy resin tooling on replicated PDMS transfer mold was executed for making mold insert. From these facts we can conclude that excimer laser ablation of polymer and fabricaiton of PDMS transfer mold are reasonable tools to substitute for X-ray lithography of LIGA process in microstructuring.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.362-365
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• 2000

Rapid Prototyping(RP) techniques have revolutionized traditional manufacturing methods. These techniques allow the user to fabricate a part directly from a conceptual model before investing in production tooling and help develop new models with significant short time. This paper suggests to new process to manufacture large size hollow shape parts for prototype-car using Rapid Prototyping technology and Vacuum Molding with the reduction of delivery time. In addition, This paper introduces the dividing and combining method to make large size RP master model in spite of the limit of the build chamber dimensions of commercialized RP system and post-processing method to achieve sufficient surface quality.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1243-1248
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• 2007

In recent, rapid manufacturing (RM) technology is widely used to develop an injection mould with a high performance. The objective of this paper is to develop the injection mould with a high productivity using a hybrid RM technology combining Laser-aided Direct Metal Tooling process with a machining process. The geometry decomposition has been utilized to improve the speed of the manufacturing for the mould. Mould with conformal cooling channels has been designed to improve cooling characteristics. Several experiments have been carried out to evaluate characteristics of the mould manufactured from the hybrid RM technology. In addition, injection molding tests have been performed to examine the performance of the manufactured mould. The results of the injection molding tests have been shown that a cooling time and the injection time of the designed mould are reduced to one-fifth and one-second that of the mould with convention cooling channels.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.180-189
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• 1999

Solid freeform fabrication technology, widely known as rapid prototyping an rapid tooling, can create physical part directly from digital model by accumulating layers of a given material. Providing a tremendous flexibility of a part geometry that they can fabricate, these technologies present a opportunity or the creation of new products that can not be made with existing technologies. For this to be possible, however, various design environments including different fabrication processes needs to be considered at the time of design, and finding an appropriate design solution for the new product by combining necessary design communications become increasingly complex as environmental condition become diverse. This paper proposes a geometric modeling paradigm for design and fabrication of a new product, honeycomb structural geometry.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.83-86
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• 1997

Even as many methods and technologies have been introduced on data generation, parts orientation and layer slicing to acquire the rapid prototyping(RP) parts that have useful surface to satisfy customers' needs such as stylingldesign verification directionlindirect tooling directly from the RP machine, these trials continue to suffer from the surface roughness due to the build characteristics of RP technology. A new postprocess finishing method is suggested in this paper to overcome the surface roughness problem on the surface of the RP parts. To prevent deterioration of dimensional accuracy from the conventional grinding-only, and coating-grinding methods, 4-step surface finishing process is applied. To satisfy the various requirements from the RP oriented industrial f elds, effective procedure, coating material, grmd~ng tools and methods are employed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.605-609
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• 1996

In order to ensure that the prototype corresponds as closely as possible to the serial part subsequently to be manufactured, the materials used for the prototye should, wherever possible, be identical to those used in production. In case of metallic parts, however, this demand is still not completely fulfilled by the available Rapid Prototyping techniques. Since only conventional manufacturing processes caan currentlybe used to produce metallic prototypes directly, these are extremely cost and labor intensive. For this reason, work is being undertaken worldwide to develop Selective Laser Sintering (referred to SLS) and Laser Generating for direct manufacture of metallic parts. In this paper the results of both process developments are reported. As the present results show, they have great application potentials in prototyping tools, especially molds and dies.

• CDE review
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.76-79
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• 1997

최근 몇년간 CAD/CAM 분야에서 활동하시는 많은 분들이 'RP'라는 신기술의 등장과 발전과정을 다분히 생경스러운 심정으로 지켜봐 왔을 것으로 생각된다. 주지하다시피 'RP 즉 Rapid Prototyping'은 '컴퓨터에 저장된 3차원 형상모델의 기하학적 자료로부터 그 물리적인 모형형상을 신속하게 조형해 내는 것'으로 주어진 설계 제품의 수학적 모델을 그 이전에 존재하였던 그 어떤 가공방식과도 비교할 수 없는 빠른 시간안에(통상 24시간 이내) 물리적인 모형으로 재현해 낸다는 것이 그 대표적인 장점이라고 하겠다. 우리말로는 '신속조형기술'이라고 명명할 수 있는 이 기술은 설계된 제품 형상의 기하학적인 복잡성이나 반복성에 전혀 구애받지 않고 그 어떤 제품형상도 조형이 가능하다. 물론 초기에 이 기계장치의 발명목적은 'RP'라는 용어가 시사하듯이 컴퓨터나 수작업에 의해 설계된 제품형상을 신속하게 관능(시각 및 촉각) 감각을 통해서 관찰하고 그에 따른 형상설계의 내용을 검증하기 위함이었다. 그러나 이 기술이 최근 그 발전의 행보를 빨리함에 따라 기존에는 상상할 수도 없었던 복잡한 제품 형상의 신속한 모형제작은 물론 가까운 장래에는 이의 주물성형을 위한 주형의 제작이나 플라스틱 사출성형용 금형제작(신속 주형/금형 제작-RT: Rapid Tooling 이라고 호칭)까지도 신속하게 수행해낼 것으로 기대된다.

• Laser Solutions
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.21-28
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• 2000

Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) can produce three-dimensional objects directly from a CAD solid model without part-specific tooling. In this study, a simple rapid prototyping through selective laser sintering on brass powder is investigated using a Nd-YAG laser. Experiments are conducted to produce single lines on a powder-packed bed for various process parameters. Also, temperature distribution in the powder bed and the thickness of a melted line are predicted by finite element analysis. In the numerical analysis, the thermal conductivity of the brass powder which is obtained as a function of state and temperature is used.