• 센서학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.259-265
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• 2014

When raining or snowing, windshield wiper system is very important for safety of driver. However, manual wiper system frequently needed to be controlled for sufficient visibility and it was very uncomfortable. So, rain sensor which controls automatically was developed. This rain sensor technology uses optical sensing technique sensed the rainfall by receiving reflected light of rain dropped on the windshield. The technology used optical sensor was simple and easy to implement as a rain sensing system in the car. However, it is sometime shown low accuracy to measure rainfall on the windshield when affected by ambient lights from surroundings. It is also given inconvenience to the driver to control the car. To solving these problems, we propose a rain sensing system using image sensor and the fuzzy wiper control algorithm.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.134-140
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• 2003

The film sensor is used for measuring pressure distribution at planar area, especially at a small space or gap. The present paper deals with the development of film type sensors and system for pressure distribution measuring. The developed system is consist of (1)film sensor with 40/sup */40 array, (2)PCI interface card with maximum sampling rate of 100㎐, and (3)software for data processing and real-time display. The contact pressure test of wiper blade and front glass of vehicle was performed with wiper blade by 40cm. Generally spring force of wiper arm is designed at 0.7∼1kN. Test results of total force was 9.4N and 7.1N in each driver and passenger toward. The paper suggested possibility for base definition in wiper design. A windshield wiper blade experiment revealed that the system successfully measured the contact force distribution during static state, showing the usefulness of the developed system.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.102-107
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• 2011

In this paper, pole-changing induction motor has been studied. To control the speed of the induction motor, many various methods can be used. Compared to the other speed control method, pole changing method is simple, cost effective, and reliable. From this research, pole changing induction motor with 2 and 4 pole windings are analyzed and designed, of which rated torque is about 2Nm. A real induction motor is also fabricated and some experiment has been performed showing that the analysis and experiment results are similar.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.204-210
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• 2016

This study analyzed the amount of displacement of window wipers according to pressure by using finite element analysis (FEA) with KS standards for aluminum alloy window wipers manufactured by die-casting method. The product design was changed over four steps considering the die-casting process to achieve strength greater than that of the conventional steel window wiper. According to the FEA results, the strength of final aluminum alloy window wiper improved by 55% over that of a steel window wiper, and the weight of the former was less by approximately 45%. Therefore, there is the possibility of module downsizing for driving motor capacity. Further, the cost competitiveness improved, and the manufacturing process of aluminum alloy window wipers was simplified.

• 한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.195-218
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• 2009

Wiper motors are used in every automobile. They are exposed to a very diverse environment and consists of several components and, therefore needs careful approach to the enhancement and assessment of reliability of the item. In this article reliability standards for wiper motors are established in terms of quality certification test and failure rate test.

• 오토저널
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.46-54
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• 1987

자동차의 외형을 설계하는 과정에서 미적인 관점을 떠나 역학적으로 고려할 때에는 공기역학이 매우 중요하게 된다. 이 분야에서 연구하는 전문가에게는 잘 알려진 내용이 될지는 모르겠으나 자동차의 설계 및 개발에 종사하는 일반연구자에게는 공기역학에 관한 문헌 및 전문서적 또한 주 위에서 쉽게 얻을 수는 있으나 부담없이 인식되기에는 그리 쉬운 일은 아니다. 이와 관련하여 Car Stying Volume 50+1/2의 별책으로 간행된 특집호에 여러 가지 흥미있는 내용이 기술 설명 되어 있다. 이는 1985년 발행되었으며 일본자동차연구소에 재직중인 무능진리씨가 해설하였다. 이후 본 내용은 여기서 발췌함을 밝혀둔다. 자동차에 관한 공기역확은 주로 다음과 같은 성능 향상을 위하여 필요하다. (1) 주행연료비 절약 (2) 최고속도의 향상 (3) 고속주행시 조종안정성의 향상 (4) 횡풍에서 주행안전성 향상 (5) 엔진이나 제동장치 등의 냉각성능 향상 (6) 바람에 의한 소음의 감소 (7) 환기성능의 향상 (8) 제상성능의 향상 (9) 공기 조화성능의 향상 (10) 먼지 또는 오물의 부착방지 및 억제 (11) 창문 와이퍼의 작동 등이다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.133-146
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• 2021

오늘날 도로의 기상정보를 제공하기 위해 기상청에서 관리하는 기상관측 지점의 관측데이터를 활용하여 기상관측 지점 인근의 도로 기상상태를 도로관리자와 도로이용자에게 제공하는 방식을 취하고 있다. 하지만, 강수량 수집지점과 기상정보 제공 대상 도로와의 거리와 자연지형으로 인해 현실적으로 정확한 기상정보의 제공이 어려운 실정이다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 고속도로 C-ITS로부터 수집되는 PVD(Probe Vehicle Data)에 포함되어있는 수집시간, 좌표정보, 와이퍼 정보 등을 활용하여 노선 전체에 걸쳐 실시간 강우 정보를 추출함으로써 기존 지점 단위의 기상청 강우 정보제공의 한계를 극복해 보고자 한다. C-ITS 기반 PVD로부터 추출된 와이퍼 정보와 기상청 기반 정보를 비교해본 결과 강우강도에 관계없이 두 정보는 대체로 유사함을 알 수 있었으며, 시간당 누적강수량이 많아질수록 일치 확률이 높아지는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구는 기존 도로의 기상정보 제공방법의 한계점을 극복하기 위해 C-ITS 기반 PVD를 활용했다는 점과 향후 다양한 지역에서 수집될 것으로 예상되는 PVD의 새로운 활용방안을 제시했다는 측면에서 의의가 있다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제10권7호
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• pp.649-657
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• 2004

A windshield wiper system plays a key part in assurance of driver's safety at rainfall. However, because quantity of rain and snow vary irregularly according to time and velocity of automotive, a driver changes speed and operation period of a wiper from time to time in order to secure enough visual field in the traditional windshield wiper system. Because a manual operation of wiper distracts driver's sensitivity and causes inadvertent driving, this is becoming direct cause of traffic accident. Therefore, this paper presents the basic architecture of vision-based smart wiper system and the rain sensing algorithm that regulate speed and interval of wiper automatically according to quantity of rain or snow. Also, this paper introduces the fuzzy wiper control algorithm based on human's expertise, and evaluates performance of suggested algorithm in the simulator model. Especially the vision sensor can measure wider area relatively than the optical rain sensor, hence, this grasps rainfall state more exactly in case disturbance occurs.

• 한국신뢰성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신뢰성학회 2011년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.107-113
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• 2011

The windshield wiper consists of 4 parts: a blade, an arm, a linkage and a motor. The wiper blade makes contact with the windshield and is designed to be operated normally at an angle of 30~50 degrees to the front glass. If the contact pressure between the wiper blade and windshield surface is too high, noise and wear of the rubber will result. On the other hand, if the contact pressure is too low, the performance will do badly, since foreign substances such as dust and stains will not be removed well. The pressure and friction of the wiper blade has a great influence on its effectiveness in cleaning the front window. This is due to the contact of the rubber with the window. This paper presents the dynamic analysis method to estimate the performance of the flat type blade of the wiper system. The blade has a nonlinear characteristic since the rubber is an incompressible hyper-elastic and visco-elastic material. Thus, Structural dynamic analysis using a complex contact model for the blade is performed to find the characteristics of the blade. The flexible multi-body dynamic model is verified by the comparison between test and analysis result. Also, the optimization using the central composite design table is performed.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.755-760
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• 2007

The research will be essential that the method for strengthening safety are safe installations in a hardware portion, a safe running ceremony of the vehicle employee (an engine driver) and the estimate of the situation which is accurate. In railway car the window wiper which is auxiliary equipment for safe operation is changed the existing manual control method with automatic correspondence precipitation used raindrops censor which can assure the vision of driving. It can be easy to safe driving as might have expected the object. We carried out studies technical review investigation which can accomplish the best suited wiping speed in maintaining an introduction existing system in the manual control system applied the existing train and corresponding to precipitation. The observation fact in the studies can be possible to ensure safety operation. That is, Manual operation method (of the driver) to add the automatic speed adjust function can operate improved window wiper drive system when it rains and, as was expected, it is able to ensure the range of a good railroad driver's vision and to concentrate in working at rainfall.