• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2009년도 제40회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1301_1302
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• 2009

Recently, there has been increased incessantly an interest in research area on micro-fluidic pump for electronic and biological applications. The proposed pump takes an unobtrusive operation into the simple displacing mechanism using peristaltic traveling waves without the physical moving valves. And, this piezopump makes up a panel type design. The ATILA simulation was performed to estimate the operating frequency of the vibrating wave mode, to optimize the design conditions of piezopump such as structure, elastic body material, piezoelectric ceramics, and to analyze the distribution of vibration displacement. The best measured value of the pumping rate is about $118{\mu}l$/min under the following parameters : 4-wave mode, 50kHz operating frequency, $200V_p$.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.92-98
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• 2023

Purpose: To propose a new infusion rate monitoring technique based on the 2D image marker tacking to improve patient safety by preventing syringe pump-related medication accidents due to decreased infusion rate control accuracy. Materials and Methods: The infusion rate of the syringe pump and drug residue in the pump-equipped syringe were monitored in real time by tracking the movement of the 2D image markers attached to the syringe pump. Results: The error rate between the set and the estimated infusion rates was 1.03, 0.66, 1.95, 0.23, and 1.05% when the infusion rate setting was 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 mL/H, respectively. In addition, the error rate between the actual and the estimated drug residues was 1.04, 0.47, 0.60, 3.66, and 0.00% when the infusion rate setting was 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 mL/H, respectively. Conclusion: Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed technique can increase the efficiency of the safety management system for seriously ill inpatients by decreasing a possibility of syringe pump-related medication accidents in hospitals.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.449-454
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• 2007

An electrohydraulic (EH) pump-driven closed-loop blood pressure regulatory system was developed based on flow-mediated vascular occlusion using the vascular occlusive cuff technique. It is very useful for investigating blood pressure-dependant physiological variability, in particular, that could identify the principal mediators of renal autoregulation, such as tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF) and myogenic (MYO), during blood pressure regulation. To address this issue, renal perfusion pressure (RPP) should be well regulated under various experimental conditions. In this paper, we designed a new EH pump-driven RPP regulatory system capable of implementing precise and rapid RPP regulation. A closed-loop servo-controlwas developed with an optimal proportional plus integral (PI) compensation using the dynamic feedback RPP signal from animals. An in vivo performance was evaluated in terms of flow-mediated RPP occlusion, maintenance, and release responses. Step change to 80 mmHg reference from normal RPP revealed steady state error of ${\pm}3%$ during the RPP regulatory period after PI action. We obtained rapid RPP release time of approximately 300 ms. It is concluded that the proposed EH RPP regulatory system could be utilized in in vivo performance to study various pressure-flow relationships in diverse fields of physiology, and in particular, in renal autoregulation mechanisms.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1996년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.199-202
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• 1996

Artificial hearts are intended for use in patients with severe forms of heart disease for which no surgical repair is possible. The moving-actuator pump was developed to decrease the overall volume size of the electromechanical total artificial heart (TAH) by eliminating the occupied space of the fixed-actuator in the conventional pusher-plate type pump. In our pump, the actuator moves back and forth for alternative ejections of left and right ventricles. The problem of fitting the TAH to atrial remnants and arterial vessels could also be improved by circular or penduluous mot ion of the actuator instead of linear mot ion of the pusher-plate in the conventional pumps. We have evaluated two types of moving- actuator pump; one is a rolling cylinder type, and the other a pendulum type pump. In the rolling cylinder pump, frictional energy loss exists between the pump housing's guide bars and the actuator's end caps, while the bottom rack under the cylindrical actuator increases the height of the pump, the pump is therefor not implantable inside the small chest of human-sized animals with a body weight of less than 70kg. The new human type pump has a penduluous mot ion actuator to correct the above problems while maintaining the advantage of the moving- actuator's small total volume. The totally implantable TAH is composed of a blood pump, a control system and pheriperal equipments. The blood pump, which is constructed by a moving actuator, a right and left blood sac, and four artificial valves, is implanted in the thoracic. In 1988, the first implantation of the rolling cylinder TAH was performed into a female calf weighing 100kg, and the cal f recovered to the degree of voluntary standing and eat ing and survived to 100 hrs. We then survived two female sheep weighing about 63kg with the new human type TAH for three days.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.310-315
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• 2007

The axial-flow type blood pump(XVAD) which has been developed in our group consists of mechanical parts (an impeller, a diffuser and a flow straightener) and electrical parts (a motor and a magnetic bearing). The magnetic bearing system fully levitates the impeller to remove mechanical coupling with other parts of the pump with constant gap, which needs non-contact type gap sensing. Conventional gap sensors are too large to be adopted to the implantable axial -flow type blood pump. Thus, in this paper, the compact eddy current type gap sensor system proper for the implantable axial-flow type blood pump was developed and its performance was evaluated in vitro. The developed eddy current type gap sensor system is a transformer type and has a differential probe. Sensor coil(probe) has small dimensions(6 mm diameter, 2 mm thickness) and its optimal inductance was determined as 0.068 mH for the measurement range of $0\sim3mm$. It could be manufactured with 130 turns of the 0.04 mm diameter copper coil. The characteristics of the developed eddy current type gap sensor system was evaluated by in vitro experiment. At experiment, it showed satis(actory performance to apply to the magnetic bearing system of the XVAD. It could measure the gap up to 3mm, but the linearity was decreased at the range of $1.8\sim3.0mm$. Moreover, it showed no difference in different media such as the water and the blood at the temperature range of $35\sim40^{\circ}C$.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.57-64
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• 2004

최근 심장질환에 의한 사망자 수는 놀랄 만큼 빠른 증가세를 보이고 있다. 인공심장은 혈액의 흐름에 따라 크게 박동류형과 무박동류형으로 나뉘며, 무박동류형 펌프는 비용적형으로 박동류형에 비해 소형화가 가능하다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 무박동류형 혈액펌프는 다시 구동방식에 따라 축류형과 원심형으로 구분되어지며, 그중 축류형 혈액펌프는 같은 무박동류형인 원심형 혈액펌프와 비교하였을 때 훨씬 간단한 구동장치와 제어장치를 가진다. 혈구가 파괴되어 헤모글로빈이 혈구 밖으로 빠져나가는 것을 용혈이라 하며 혈액이 응고하여 혈관을 막게되는 혈전현상은 이러한 용혈이 주된 원인이다. 따라서 혈액펌프가 구동함에 따라 발생하게 되는 용혈의 수치를 낮추는 것은 혈액펌프를 개발하는데 있어서 중요한 조건 중에 하나이다 이러한 용혈을 평가하기 위한 방법으로는 현재 in-vitro실험이 가장 널리 사용되어지고 있으나, 이러한 체외실험을 하기 위해선 상당한 비용과 장기간의 연구기간이 요구되어진다. 이러한 in-vitro실험의 단 전을 보완하기 위해 개발되어진 CFD해석법은, 엔지니어로 하여금 in-vitro실험을 실시하지 않고 용혈이 발생하는 지역과 용혈발생예측치를 추정할 수 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 in-vitro실험의 결과데이터와 CFD해석의 예측결과데이터의 여러 가지 비교를 통해 CFD해석의 정확성을 검증하고, 또한 이러한 정확성이 검증된 CFD해석법을 현재 개발되어지고 있는 축류형 혈액펌프의 개발단계에 적용하기 위함이다.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 2000년도 THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY ENGINEERING. V.II
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• pp.498-505
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• 2000

Performance of a hydraulic system is influenced by its working temperature. Therefore, it is very important to make the system perform uniformly in an entire range of the working temperature. In this study a simulation of a hydraulic control system for the powershift transmission of tractors was conducted and the effect of the temperature was investigated in terms of design conditions of the system. Results of the simulation are as follows. The hydraulic control system with a spring accumulator was found to be more convenient to control the shifting time than that with a gas accumulator. By returning the oil from the clutches to the system through a path between the filter and pump, the time delay due to the pressure difference between the low and high temperatures could be reduced. Therefore, it was recommended that the hydraulic control system for the powershift transmission of tractors must be equipped with a spring accumulator and a circuit to return oil from the clutches to the system through a path between the filter and pump.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.291-295
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• 2015

Various types of implantable drug delivery devices have attracted significant attention for several decades to improve drug bioavailability and reduce side effects, thus enhancing therapeutic efficacy and patients' compliance. However, when implanted into the body, the devices may be influenced by the changes in physiological condition, such as temperature, pH or ionic concentration. Thus, the drug release rates could be also altered concurrently. Therefore, in this work, we employed an implantable ALZET$^{(R)}$ Osmotic Pump, which has been widely used to locally deliver various therapeutic agents and examined the effect of pH, temperature and ionic concentration on its drug release rate. For this, we performed in vitro cell tests to simulate the condition of local tissues influenced by the altered drug release rates, where we used diclofenac sodium as a model drug.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.33-38
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• 1998

심장내 이식형 축류 혈액 펌프의 개발을 시도하였다. 이 펌프는 해부학적인 적합성이 좋고, 혈액과 접촉하는 면적이 적으며, 심장판막의 위치에 이식할 수 있어 이식술이 용이한 등의 이점이 있다. 축류혈액펌프는 입펠러와 소형 모터에 의해 구성되었으며, 모터축과 펌프의 본체의 밀봉은 자성유체 축봉이 이용되었다. 본 연구에서 개발한 혈액펌프의 펌프 특성은 4매 임펠러의 경우 회전수 7091[rmp], 6매 임펠러의 경우 회전수 6402[rpm]에서 유량 5[l/min], 차압 100[mmHm]을 얻을 수 있었으며, 자성유체 축봉의 내압 특성은 회전수 7000[rpm], 압력ㄹ 150[mmHg]에서 24시간 이상의 내구성을 얻을 수 있었다. 그리고, 용혈에 대하여 검토한 결과 4매 임펠러의 1H 는 0.0561[g/100L]이고, 6매 임펠러의 경우는 1H=0.214[g/100L]을 얻을 수 있었다. 이상의 실험결과는 심장내 이식 축류형 혈액펌프의 실현 가능성을 보여 주는 것으로 앞으로 큰 기대를 걸수 있다고 생각된다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1998년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.317-318
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• 1998

The purpose of this study is to design and develop the circuit of the dual mode syringe pump. Syringe pump is used in intensive care unit, delivery room, pediatric room, operating theater and other fields of hospital at present. Normally the syringe pump delivers one medicine in one case, but in case of intensive care unit, it is necessary to deliver more than two kinds of medicines at a time. Therefore we have designed dual mode syringe pump. We used RISC type microcontroller, PIC17C44 as master controller, and PIC16C73 as slave cpu using for the low power consumption. The performance of system is evaluated by analysis of the linearity and accuracy which is the most important factors in application. While the proposed system shows a acceptable linearity and accuracy, a further research about reducing the errorr should be done.