Development of Single Slide-Rail System for Reduction of Unbalanced Sliding Motion

좌우유동 방지를 위한 대용량 단일 슬라이드 레일 시스템 개발

  • Kim, Min-Hoon (Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National Univ.) ;
  • Park, Ki-Hong (Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National Univ.) ;
  • Jeong, Won-Chul (LG Electronics) ;
  • Ye, Sung-Bong (Factory automatic system part, Ok-Chang Co.) ;
  • Park, Sang-Hu (ERC/NSDM, School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National Univ.)
  • 김민훈 (부산대학교 기계공학부 대학원) ;
  • 박기홍 (부산대학교 기계공학부 대학원) ;
  • 정원철 (LG 전자 냉장고사업부) ;
  • 예성봉 (옥창산업) ;
  • 박상후 (부산대학교 정밀금형 및 금형가공연구소/기계공학부)
  • Received : 2010.10.27
  • Accepted : 2011.01.18
  • Published : 2011.04.01

Abstract

A slide-rail system is widely used in home appliances, furniture, mechanical rigs, and so many other applications; due to its high strength and performance for easy moving heavy objectives. In general, a pair of side slide-rails is set on both sides of a drawer to support and move it. So an unbalanced sliding motion can occur during opening and closing a drawer with pull and push force. To settle this problem, single central slide-rail having three collapsible rail-bodies was firstly proposed in this work. 'H'-beam shaped rail-body was newly designed to have enough bending and twisting strength. The experimental test showed that the proposed rail could be applied to large-size home appliances for easy moving drawer with heavy weight.

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