• Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 2000

Objectives: The sensitivity and accuracy of thermistor airflow signal has been debated. The purposes of this study were to compare apnea-hypopnea index(AHI) detected from a conventional thermistor signal and a nasal pressure transducer of airflow(NPT), to evaluate the value of NPT for the diagnosis of upper airway resistance syndrome(UARS), and to measure airway pressure fluctuations which produced respiratory arousals in UARS by naso-oro-esophageal manometer catheter. The subjects were 30 patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome [mild(540), 10), and 6 UARS patients. Airway resistance arousal in this study was defined as arousals which were not associated with apnea or hypopnea of thermistor signal, but showed significant decrease of nasal airflow pressure just before arousal and a prompt recovery of nasal airflow pressure after arousal. The airway pressure fluctuations were measured during 260 airway resistance arousals observed in 10 patients with OSAS, 2 with UARS. Results: Mean AHIs of patients with OSAS were 33.4 by thermistor and 48.4 by NPT. The AHIs of mild, moderate and severe OSAS groups were 10.2, 32.1, 65.4 respectively by thermistor and 23.1, 45.9, 76.4 by NPT. The mean AHI of patients with UARS was 3.2 by thermistor and 10.8 by NPT. The mean AHI of patients with nonspecific arousals was 2.7 by thermistor and 4.4 by NPT. The mean airway pressure changes during respiratory arousals of different groups were $8.7\;cmH_2O$ in mild OSAS, $11.4\;cmH_2O$ in moderate OSAS, $24.7\;cmH_2O$ in severe OSAS and $6.6\;cmH_2O$ in UARS. Conclusion: The nasal pressure transducer of airflow was more sensitive and accurate for assessing respiratory disturbances of patients with OSAS and was extremely helpful for the diagnosis of UARS without esophageal pressure monitoring. From the results, we would like to propose carefully the NPT diagnostic criteria for sleep disordered breathing as follows: NPT-AHI 5-15 $\rightarrow$ UARS, 15-35 $\rightarrow$ mild OSAS, 35-55 $\rightarrow$ moderate OSAS and >55 $\rightarrow$ severe OSAS.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.177-181
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• 2012

This paper introduces a thermal compensation circuit with improved compensation characteristic for amplifiers to provide stable output power regardless environmental temperature. The proposed thermal compensation circuit is composed of two branchline couplers having two diodes between them. And, the thermistor whose resistance varies significantly with temperature inversely and a operational amplifiers, so called as OP-amp, control the diodes in the compensations circuit to realize more effective thermal compendation characteristic compared with conventional circuit.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.6
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• pp.1165-1169
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• 2007

In this study, a novel sensor system for measuring the temperature inside an oral cavity is proposed. With this aim, a small size of thermistor was used for resolving the cavity's temperature with the resolution of $0.1^{\circ}C$. To evaluate effectiveness of our sensor system, the temperature and its output voltage characteristic, and the specifications of response are investigated. It turned out to be that our sensor system has a linear property in terms of temperature variations for a healthy subject's body temperature range and has a good response time within 3 seconds. Also, in order to investigate the medical application, our sensor system is sought to measure the real temperature variations of a subject's oral cavity and ark shell especially for 'before' and 'after' exercise mode.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.256-260
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• 2001

본 연구에서는 Sbrk 치환된 BaTiO$_3$에 그라파이트를 첨가하고 고상반응법을 이용하여 PTC 소자를 제조한 후, 저항-온도 특성을 조사하였으며 미세구조 분석을 통하여 그라파이트 첨가로 인한 PTC 특성 변화를 고찰하였다. 시편의 저항-온도 특성은 자체 제작한 저항-온도 특성 자동 측정 시스템을 사용하였으며 미세구조 고찰은 주사 전자 현미경을 사용하였다. 상온 저항값은 그라파이트를 1.5 mol% 첨가한 시편이 8.8Ω.cm로 가장 낮은 저항값을 나타내었고 저항-온도 계수는 그라파이트를 3.0 mol% 첨가한 시편이 22.4%/$^{\circ}C$로 가장 좋은 PTC 효과를 보였다. 미세구조 고찰 결과 그라파이트를 1.5 mol% 첨가한 경우 90$^{\circ}$ 및 180$^{\circ}$전계구조가 상당히 발달되었음을 볼수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.66-72
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• 2010

Recently a large number of electronic control devices are abruptly increasing in vehicles as the electronic industry advances. Also the number of wiring harnesses and complexity of wiring is proportionally increased to the devices. A newly developed connector named bridge connector is introduced in this study for the purpose of the wiring structure changes. A wiring structure among distributed control systems by using serial communication is proposed with the bridge connector in this paper. The bridge connector contains a auto-recovery fuse made by PTC thermistor material for the protection of the over-currents on local control devices. The auto-recovery function of the fuse is needed for the maintenance free system in the distributed controls. The PTC fuse characteristics organized in this study is tested and the results are showed in detail for the real application.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.3A
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• pp.319-323
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• 2007

In this paper, the automatic precision measurement of RF voltage has been done using the power and impedance standards [1] in the frequency range of 50 to 1000 MHz. A coaxial microcalorimeter and an automatic network analyzer were used for the determination of the RF-DC differences and the total uncertainty is about 1.0 %. A HP computer, a commodore computer and IEEE-488 interface bus were used for measuring the effective efficiency of thermistor mount and the RF-DC difference of thermal voltage converter, All processes of measurement were accomplished by self-developed program automatically.

• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.3 no.4 s.9
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• pp.15-21
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• 2000

An anemometer employing the bulk PTC thermistor as the sensing element is investigated in this study. The numerical and experimental works are carried out to improve the sensitivity problem of the element by focusing fluid dynamics point of view. The typical shape of the sensing element has been used as a rectangular type, but this shape has a sensitivity problem because of flow separations on the sharp edge when the flow direction is different from that of the sensing element. In order to reduce the reading error, the installer has to be very careful about the flow direction. The reading error fluctuation by time as well as the sensitivity problem can be improved considerably through this study. It can be concluded that the small change of the sensor shape can improve the performance of the flow sensor.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.53 no.10
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• pp.727-732
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• 2004

TCXO is one of the most important component in communication systems. We present a analytic method approach to design the Temperature Compensated Circuit. The conventional method for extracting the circuit parameters, which are for thermistor, Colpitts and frequency control circuit is the trial and error correction. In this paper, we analyse the temperature compensating circuit to extract TCXO circuit parameter. In order to show the validity of this paper, we have designed and implemented the 10MHz TCXO. The fabricated TCXO shows 1ppm frequency drift characteristic over the temperature range of -40℃∼85℃.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07d
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• pp.1493-1494
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• 1998

We have investigated the influence of Ti/Ba mole ratio in the characteristics of the modified $BaTiO_3$ systems with Ca addition. The specimens were fabricated with variations in Ti/Ba mole ratio between 0.995 and 1.01, and sintered in the temperature range between $1325^{\circ}C$ and $1375^{\circ}C$. When Ti/Ba mole ratio was 1.005 and sintering temperature was $1350^{\circ}C$, the breakdown voltage shows 260[V /mm].

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.03b
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• pp.468-471
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• 2008

We have developed a breath flow sensor that is cheap, robust and has reasonable accuracy. It based on using two thermistors implanted in a breath nozzle, apart by a small but known distance. The sensors detect the small time interval when the breath tidal wave passes by. Therefore the speed of the breath gas can be determined in a given pipe of known diameter. The sensors are calibrated for a few parameters and their accuracy has been estimated.