• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.4108-4114
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• 2010

The automation of the machining and manufacturing process of press die is designed to shorten the working time by avoiding unnecessary repetitive works and to obtain subject articles with standard quality. Automation as used in this paper includes 3-D die design, machining center, wire-cut electrical discharge machining, and drawing works. This paper deals with research work on the automation of the machining and manufacturing process of the press die after 3-D die design using the Irp bracket for the control box sensor. The research was conducted under the same setting as that of die design.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.322-328
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• 2002

In wire-electrical discharge machining (W-EDM), the dielectric plays an important role as the working fluid. It affects the material removal rate and the properties of the machined surface. This paper deals with the effects of the electrical conductivity of dielectric and cobalt percentage of sintered carbides on the machining characteristics and the machined surface integrities with deionized water as dielectric. A series of experiments have been performed on sintered carbides having different cobalt contents. Experimental results show that a higher cobalt content of WC decreases the metal removal rate and worsens the surface quality. Lower electrical conductivity of the dielectric results in a higher metal removal rate as the gap between wire electrode and workpiece reduced. Especially, the surface integrities of rough-cut workpiece, wire electrode, and debris were analyzed also through scanning electron microscopy(SEM) and surface roughness tester. By energy dispersive spectrometry(EDS), it is confirmed that micro cracks and some of electrode material are found on the workpiece surface.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.42-49
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• 2004

Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is one of the most extensively used non-conventional material removal process. The recent trend in reducing the size of product has given micro EDM a significant amount of research attention. Micro EDM is capable of machining not only micro holes and micro shafts as small as a few micrometers in diameter but also complex three dimensional micro cavities. But, longitudinal tool wear by electrical discharge is indispensable and this affects the machining accuracy in micro EDM process. Therefore, newly developed tool wear compensation strategy called round trip method is suggested and verified by experiment. In this method, machining depth of cut, overlap effect and critical travel length are also considered.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.1902-1906
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• 2003

Micro-milling is an efficient method for fabricating micro structures because of its high machining rate compared with other non-conventional micro machining processes. But it is not easy to make a micro milling tool with less than 50 $\mu\textrm{m}$ in diameter by conventional machining. In this study, the characteristics of a micro milling tool fabricated by wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) were studied. The workpiece is copper and stainless steel. The effects of some machining conditions such as feed rate, depth of cut, and a shape of tool were studied. The tools with D-shape and square shape in cross section were tested for machining micro grooves and 3D structures.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.314-317
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• 2003

높은 정밀도와 고품위 가공이 요구되는 금형제작 등에서 사용되는 고정밀 와이어컷 방전가공기가 고속, 고정밀 가공특성을 갖기 위해서는 무엇보다도 제어와 출력특성이 우수한 고성능의 전원장치가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 고정밀 와이어컷 방전가공기용 스위칭모드 보조 전원장치로 사용되는 200W 280Vdc 영전압 포워드 컨버터 개발에 대해 기술하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.1259-1261
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• 2003

고정밀 와이어컷 방전가공기는 높은 정밀도를 갖는 금형제작에 사용되고 있는 공작기계로서 최근 나노단위의 가공기술이 요구되는 산업추세에 발맞추어 고속, 고정밀 가공특성을 갖추도록 전반적인 성능개선이 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 Thyristor를 이용한 위상제어 방식보다 우수한 특성을 갖는 스위칭모드 방식의 10kW급 직류 전원장치의 개발에 대해 기술하고있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.367-372
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• 2002

Experimental study was conducted for lapping process after WEDMed specimen. In order to decide the lapping depth of the specimen, the number of the grain size was increased from 400, 600 to 800 to obtain the better surface. Observation of scanning electron microscope, hardness test, surface roughness test and energy dispersive spectrum(EDS) analysis were used for this experimental study. From the comparison and analyses of the results of between the wire-cut electrical discharge machining and the lapping, the following results were obtained. The surface roughness after lapping was found to be improved as increasing the number of lapping process like 1st, 2nd, 3rd lapping and the number of grain size such as 400, 600, 800. The surface hardness after increasing the lapping depth of the specimen was slowly increased. It was found that after 3rd lapping process the hardness was reached the hardness of original base material. It was found that the small amount of coating components within 3% was remained after the 1st lapping process, compared to that approximately 16% after WEDM process.