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A Study on the Hydraulic Fall Prevention Device (유압식 추락 방지장치에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Jung-Hun;Koo, Jae-Mean;Seok, Chang-Sung;Huh, Yong;Chang, Sung-Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.27 no.11
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    • pp.78-83
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    • 2010
  • Since a tower crane is too high for a worker to ascend and by the wind in the high altitude, the possibility of a safety accident is very high, a lift assist is used. In this study, the hydraulic fall prevention device using the pressure generation device by Seok, et al. was developed. For this, the effects on the fall prevention performances of factors such as gear clearance, oil viscosity, rotative velocity and so on were evaluated by the analysis of fluid flow using FEM and the prototype was producted and a function test was performed.

Design and Control of a Novel Tendon-driven Exoskeletal Power Assistive Device (새로운 와이어 구동방식 외골격 보조기의 설계 및 제어)

  • Kong Kyoung-chul;Jeon Doyoung
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.11 no.11
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    • pp.936-942
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    • 2005
  • Recently the exoskeletal power assistive equipment which is a kind of wearable robot has been widely developed to help the human body motion. For the elderly people and patients, however, some limits exist due to the weight and volume of the equipments. As a feasible solution, a tendon-driven exoskeletal power assistive device fur the lower body, and caster walker are proposed in this research. Since the caster walker carries the heavy items, the weight and volume of the wearable exoskeleton are minimized. The key control is used to generate the joint torque required to assist motions such as sitting, standing and walking. Experiments were performed for several motions and the EMG sensors were used to measure the magnitude of assistance. When the motion of sitting down and standing up was compared with and without wearing the proposed device, the $25\%$ assistance was acquired.

Design and Evaluation of a Lung Assist Device for Patients with Acute Respiratory Syndrome using Hollow Fiber Membranes (중공사 막을 이용한 급성호흡곤란증후군 환자용 폐 보조 장치의 설계와 평가)

  • Lee, Sam-Cheol;Kwon, O-Sung;Kim, Ho-Cheol;Hwang, Young-Sil;Lee, Hyun-Cheol
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.224-232
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    • 2005
  • The use of the lung assist device (LAD) would be well suited for acute respiratory failure (ARF) patients, combining the simplicity of mechanical ventilation with the ability of extracoporeal membrane oxygenators (ECMO) to provide temporary relief for the natural lungs. This study's specific attention was focused on the effect of membrane vibration in the LAD. Quantitative experimental measurements were performed to evaluate the performance of the device, and to identify membrane vibration dependence on blood hemolysis. We tried to decide upon excited frequency band of limit hemolysis when blood hemolysis came to through a membrane vibration action. The excited frequency of the module type 5, consisted of 675 hollow fiber membranes, showed the maximum gas transfer rate. We concluded that the maximum oxygen transfer rate seemed to be caused by the occurrence of maximum amplitude and the transfer of vibration to hollow fiber membranes. It was excited up to $25{\pm}5$ Hz at each blood flow rate of module type 5. We found that this frequency became the 2nd mode resonance riequency of the flexible in blood flow. Blood hemolysis was low at the excited frequency of $25{\pm}5$ Hz. Therefore, we decided that limit hemolysis frequency of this LAD was $25{\pm}5$ Hz.

Flow Analysis Of Cardio Vascular Assist By Laser Doppler Velocimeter Measure munt (L.D.V 계측에 의한 보조장기의 유동해석)

  • Park, G.M.;Park, S.B.;Kamm, R.D.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1996 no.05
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    • pp.195-198
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    • 1996
  • This paper is studid the flow analysis of cardio vascular assist device. The experimental study is carried out to measure velocity profiles, Shear stress distributions and Velocity Vector for the flowrare of 4l/min, the frequency of 0.5Hz, the stroke volume of 60ml, the inlet and outlet pressure of 100mmHg by the L.D.V and P.I.V system. These results are agreed with the numerical simulations.

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A Self-Reconfigurable System of Contents among Smart Devices

  • Ren, Hao;Kim, Paul;Kim, Sangwook
    • Journal of Multimedia Information System
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.223-232
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    • 2015
  • In this system, mobile devices are not independent, they can communicate with each other, one device's change can affect the whole system or other devices. To achieve the above mentioned A Self-Reconfigurable System of Contents, through discover the device and connect process, to establish the connection between the mobile devices. After user assigns two dimension display type, the user can select content to input the system, contents are portioning and broadcast to devices. The system can self-reconfigure contents rapidly and exactly. This technique supports contents self-reconfiguration for devices remove, addition and position exchange. In this paper, when the user uses the hand contacts device, the device sends a signal to assist the system to detection device's position. The system does not need to get accurate devices moving direction, just according to all changed devices position to judge where the devices destination is. This research develops an application according to this technique, and the real machine tests the application using Android platform. Some communication protocols and mathematical modeling methods are proposed. These methods can also be used in other Internet of Things (IoT) fields, such as Drones Navigation, Smart Home, and Informational City management.

Methods of Extracting and Providing R&D Documentation Guideline for Licensing Medical Device Software

  • Kim, DongYeop;Lee, Byungjeong;Lee, Jung-Won
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.69-75
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    • 2019
  • The safety and performance of medical device software is managed through life-cycle processes, which represent the entire process of research and development (R&D). The life-cycle process of medical device software is represented by an international standard called IEC 62304, ISO/IEC 12207. In order to license the product, the manufacturer must have document artifacts that comply with the IEC 62304 standard. However, these standards only describe the content of the activity and do not provide a method or procedure for documentation. Therefore, this paper suggests R&D documentation guidelines that assist medical device software developers to have R&D documents conforming to the standards. For this purpose, this study identifies the requirements related to documentation among the requirements existing in the standard and extracts them in the form of guidelines showing only the core information of the requirements. In addition, through the Web framework implemented based on this research, the developer can evaluate whether the technical documents are written in accordance with the R&D document guidelines. Medical device software manufacturers can efficiently produce high-quality research and development documents through R&D documentation guidelines, and they can have standards-compliantresearch and development documentation required for licensing procedures.

BioMEMS-EARLY DISEASE DETECTION (BioMEMS 기반의 조기 질병 진단 기술에 관한 연구)

  • Singh, Kanika;Kim, Kyung-Chun
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05b
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    • pp.2781-2784
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    • 2007
  • Early detection of a disease is important to tackle treatment issues in a better manner. Several diagnostic techniques are in use, these days; for such purpose and tremendous research is going on to develop newer and newer methods. However, more work is required to be done to develop cheap and reliable early detection techniques. Micro-fluidic chips are also playing key role to deliver new devices for better health care. The present study focuses on a review of recent developments in the interrogation of different techniques and present state-of-the-art of microfluidic sensor for better, quick, easy, rapid, early, inexpensive and portable POCT (Point of Care testing device) device for a particular study, in this case, bone disease called osteoporosis. Some simulations of the microchip are also made to enable feasibility of the development of a blood-chip-based system. The proposed device will assist in early detection of diseases in an effective and successful manner.

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Red OLEDs containing the dotted-line doped layer structure in its emitting region.

  • Lee, Chang-Min;Han, Jeong-Whan
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.612-615
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    • 2004
  • We present an extremely high efficient red organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) using a fluorescent dye 4-(dicyanomethylene)-2-tert-butyl-6-(1,1,7,7-tetramethyljulolidyl-9-enyl)-4H-pyran (DCJTB) doped into an emitting region which consists of multiple pairs of a doped and an undoped layer. An emitting region of OLEDs composes of a tris-(8-hydroxyquinolinato) aluminum (Alq3) codoped with rubrene of 5% wt. or a mixture of Alq3 and rubrene (1:1). The luminance yield of the codoped device and the mixed device are 6.5 cd/A and 9.2 cd/A at 10 mA/$cm^2$, respectively. We have considerably improved the luminance yields of red OLEDs as much as ${\sim}$90% at 10 mA/$cm^2$ compared with that of the device doped with only DCJTB. We attribute it to both the emitting assist dopant (rubrene) and the dotted-line doping structure in an emitting region of OLED.

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Continued Innovation in Respiratory Care: The Importance of Inhaler Devices

  • Bosnic-Anticevich, Sinthia Zrinka
    • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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    • v.81 no.2
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    • pp.91-98
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    • 2018
  • When it comes to the use in inhalers in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, there are many options, considerations and challenges, which health care professionals need to address. Considerations for prescribing and dispensing, administering and following up, education, and adherence; all of these factors impact on treatment success and all are intrinsically linked to the device selected. This review brings together relevant evidence, real-life data and practice tools to assist health care professionals in making decisions about the use of inhalers in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. It covers some of the key technical device issues to be considered, the evidence behind the role of inhalers in disease control, population studies which link behaviors and adherence to inhaler devices as well as practice advice on inhaler technique education and the advantages and disadvantages in selecting different inhaler devices. Finally, a list of key considerations to aid health care providers in successfully managing the use of inhaler devices are summarized.

Implement of Vehicle Sensor System Using Wireless Communication and Mobile Device (무선통신과 모바일 기기를 이용한 차량용 센서 시스템 구현)

  • Moon, Byung-Hyun;Jin, Yonng-Seok;Ryu, Jeong-Tak
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.51-58
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, a system which uses Bluetooth and Zigbee wireless communication and mobile device is designed. The temperature within vehicle and the distance betweeen the vehicle and the obstacle is measured by ultrasonic sensor system. The measured data is sent to the mobile PDA and displayed to assist safe driving.