• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1630-1635
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• 2005

The microstructure of the parts made by the microcellular injection molding process influence properties, including impact strength, tensile strength and density of material. Microstructure of microcellular plastics is divided into core foaming region and solid skin region. Core foaming region is influenced by pressure drop rate, viscosity and cell coalescence. However, actual mechanism of the skin layers is not known despite its importance. The study on the skin layer is getting important because foaming rate of the plastics is determined by the thickness ratio of the skin layer. Especially in case of large molded part, control of the skin layer is needed because skin layer thickness is changed largely. Therefore it is necessary to study variation in skin layer thickness with processing parameters. In this paper, the influence of temperatures in the mold cavity on the skin layer s thickness was also addressed. In addition, the relationship between the temperature distributions across cavity of the mold with impact strength on parts made with the microcellular injection molding process was addressed. In addition, the method to predict the variation in skin layer thickness with mold temperature is discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1724-1727
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• 2005

Injection molding process is one of the processes that can mold plastic product as low cost. However, manufacturing process of automobile bumper mold has lots of trial and error. Especially, desiging of a huge mold such as bumper mold is needed to establish a design standard for runner system. In this study, CAE was conducted to observe the variation of melt-flow by changing runner and gate type in automobile bumper mold as preceding study for a standard design of runner system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.33-37
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• 2002

A short shot is a molded part that is incomplete because insufficient material was injected into the mold. Remedial actions to control the process conditions can be taken by the injection molding experts based on their knowledge and experience. However, it is very difficult for the non-experts to avoid short shot by finding the proper process conditions such as mold temperature, melt temperature and filling time. In this paper, an intelligent generator of the optimal process conditions based upon fuzzy logic algorithm is proposed so that trial and error can be minimized and the non-experts as well as the experts can also find the optimal process conditions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.350-353
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• 2001

Due to the widen demand of plastic part in automobiles, more accurate numerical simulation works are needed to find optimum molding process like filling fiber orientation pressure control. Therefore, C-mold software was applied for the simulation of injection molding process and cooling process in this research. The purpose of this study is developing a ball seat which made by injection process with PA66 resin and it is applied to the automobile suspension system. It must secure low friction, wear resistance and dimensional accuracy. Specially this study aims to get the quality stabilization of injection molded bass-seat parts.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.346-349
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• 2001

Nowadays the amount of plastic products is increasing in modern industry. Plastic materials are continuously developed to satisfy the mechanical, physical, and chemical properties. The increasing application of plastic parts in automobile and aerospace industries is due to the fact that it can reduce the structural weight and can lessen the environmental contamination. Among many manufacturing technologies for plastic parts, the injection molding process is very attractive because of its low cost and short production time. Through various analyses of resin flow and molding process for the conventional gate and cooling mechanism, a new type of mold was designed which had different gate location and cooling systems. Newly designed ball seat has an excellent performances, i.e. diminished weld-line, residual stress density, higher magnitude less crack propagation and smaller dimensional contractions effect.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.1239-1242
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• 2003

The target of this paper is the manufacturing system of mould plant and the object of system development is the reduction of lead times and the improvement of product quality. From the existing MES framework. we found the module to apply in the mould plant, designed and developed the function of the module. Also. as the environment of development is based on internet, we can check and analysis correctly the status of mould plant from remote site.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.68-74
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• 1998

In this work, we have been concerned with developing an intelligent mold design system for plastic injection molding on the AutoCAD. We have concentrated on building a viable environment, including a mold parts database and a menu-driven user interface. This provides a more interactive and interface for selection of optimal mold-base and mold parts in mold design system. This work presents a method which allows the designer to select the mold parts and mold-base directly within an AutoCAD environment. It can also automatically generate detailed 3D drawings of the mold parts and mold-base. The system shows its potential capability for future enhancement. Since the system is independent of the data, it could easily be extended to other mold-bases and mold parts. In addition, it can be linked to the molding analysis system by creating subtracted 3-D models.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.1601-1604
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• 2003

This paper describes a split operation for generation of core and cavity plates of an injection mold for a pseudo-solid model of a plastic part. Here, a pseudo-solid model means a sheet model that looks like a solid model. but whose boundary is not closed. When a solid model created in a different CAD system is imported through standard data exchange format, a pseudo-solid model is created in most cases as tolerance or some other problems make sewing operation failed. As most existing mold design system based on solid modeling kernels require a complete part solid model, mold designers have to do time-consuming healing operations to convert a pseudo-solid to solid. The essential capability of mold design system is the split operation for generation of core and cavity plates. Thus. we developed a split operation for pseudo-solid part model to eliminate or reduce healing preprocessing for mold design.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.1039-1042
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• 2000

This research will deal with Innovative manufacturing technology for milli-structure manufacturing technology which is located betweon the traditional manufacturing technology for macro-sized structure and the recently emerging manufacturing technology for micro-scaled structure such as MEMS. There are four fields in this research, which are micro-sheet metal forming technology, micro-bulk forming technology micro-molding technology and micro die making technology. As a project for new-technology in next generation, this research will be carried out through three terms and each term and be composed of three years.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.60-67
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• 1989

An automated classification and coding system for structure of injection mold is developed based on the statistical analysis and the critical evaluation of the results for the sample survey of 200 assembly drawings of injection mold. The proposed system is a mixed code system consisting of 15 digits and each digit consists of 10 numerical codes. An interactive computer program is developed by using TURBO PASCAL on IBM PC/AT compatible system. A case study is discussed to show the procedure and the function of the system. The results for applications of the system to real problems show that the system works well and is useful for design, manufacturing and management of injection mold.