• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.16-25
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• 2011

A Turbo-impeller is widely used in industries as well as in aero engines. Its design technology has been developed since the early 20th century. However, the final configuration of the impeller depends on the designers. In this study, a whole design process was introduced and an optimization method to design an impeller was studied in order to design a better impeller without influence by designers. In particular, as the Artificial Neural Network was applied to the optimization, the computational time for the optimization was equivalent to the time consumed by the gradient method and its result was guaranteed as the optimum in the whole design domain. Using this method, any impeller can be improved by selecting design variables after measuring profiles of the impeller.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.83-90
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• 2004

This paper proposes a tool path generation method for machining impellers with 5-axis machining center. The shape of impeller is complex, being composed of pressure surface, suction surface and leading edge, and so on. The compound surface which is made of ruled surface such as pressure surface and suction surface and leading edge such as fillet surface, makes the tool path generation much complicated. To achieve efficient roughing, cutting area is divided into two region and then tool radius of maximum size that do not cause tool intereference is selected for shortening machining time. In finishing, accuracy is improved using side cutting for blade surface and point milling for leading edge.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.48-52
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• 2019

A coolant pump is the device that cools processed articles and tools when using cutting, boring, and grinding machine tools and provides cutting oil for distributing or cleansing the cut chip to the worktable, processing position, etc. In particular, it consumes a large proportion of energy in machine tools, so it plays an important role in terms of energy efficiency. The purpose of this research is to optimize the shape of impeller, which directly affects performance improvements, to determine the capacity of the coolant pump. To do so, we carried out a parametric analysis with the geometric shape of the impeller as the input variable.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.56-62
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• 2022

This study analyzed the output precision of 3D printing methods. The inner impeller of the centrifugal compressor was printed in as a sheet with 100% packing density using two methods: field deposition modelling and stereolithography. Dimensional differences between the initial CAD and printed models were evaluated using a 3D scanner. To investigate the dimensional characteristics of the 3D printed impeller, 3D dimension analysis and point dimension analysis were performed. The point dimension analysis was divided into 3D and 2D for comparative analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.325-326
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.181-182
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• 2012

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.417-418
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• 2007

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.63-70
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• 2020

Two rotational motions of the 5-axis machine tool maximize the degree of freedom of the tool axis vector, which improves tool accessibility; however, this lowers feed speed and rigidity, which impairs machining stability. In addition, cutting efficiency is lowered when compared with a flat end mill because typically, the ball-end mill is used when machining by rotational motion. This study increased cutting efficiency by using a corner radius flat end mill during impeller roughing. Furthermore, we proposed a fixed controlled machining of the rotary motion using geometric shape information to improve the feed speed and machining stability. Finally, we proposed a finishing tool path generation method using a vector net to increase the convenience and practicality of tool path generation. To verify its effectiveness, we compared the machining time, shape accuracy, and surface quality of the proposed method and an existing dedicated module.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.68-73
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• 2009

This paper deals with the dynamic characteristics of the impeller shaft model which is the most important part in developing the resin mixing machine. The can is rotating by air motor in mixing machine. Then the end of shaft is fixed. The bearing support is to increase the fundamental natural frequency. The natural frequency analysis using finite element analysis software are performed on the imported commercial impeller shaft model. This paper presents calculated bearing stiffness of Soda, Harris and modified Harris formula considering contact angle according to bearing supported position. The most important fundamental natural frequency of the impeller shaft except bearing support is around 13.932 Hz. This paper presents one bearing and two bearings support position to maximize the 1st natural frequency. The maximized fundamental natural frequency is around 48.843 Hz in one bearing support and 55.52 Hz in two bearings support.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.52-57
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• 2019

To develop a stirring device that can automatically measure the viscosity of a fluid, the impeller type of the device must be recognized without making contact. In this study, we propose a method to discriminate the type of impellers using the changes in the magnetic field. Permanent magnets are inserted into a hollow hole of the impellers, and the change of the magnetic field is measured by a hall sensor. All experimental results are compared with the FEM analysis results. The results show that with the increase in diameter and length of the magnet inserted into the impeller, the magnitude of the magnetic flux density increases. The magnetic field is more sensitive to the change in the magnet diameter than to the change in magnet length. In order to reduce the machining costs, however, it is advantageous to change the magnet length instead of the magnet diameter.