• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제29권8호
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• pp.824-833
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• 2012

The shrinkage and the warpage of the moulded part are influenced by the design of the product and injection mould. In a flat part with a partly thick volume, the warpage of the flat part is created from the difference of the shrinkage between thin and thick regions. The warpage of the flat part with a partly thick volume can be reduced by a proper design of the cooling system in the injection mould. The goal of this paper is to design properly cooling channels of injection mould to manufacture a flat part with a partly thick volume. The conformal cooling channel is adopted to improve cooling characteristics of a region with the thick volume. The linear cooling channels are assigned to the other region. The proper design of the conformal cooling channels is obtained from three-dimensional injection molding analysis for various design alternatives. The moulding characteristics of the designed mould with both conformal and linear cooling channels are compared to those of the mould with linear cooling channels from viewpoints of temperature, shrinkage and warpage of the moulded part using numerical analysis. Injection mould with both conformal and linear cooling channels for the flat part with a partially thick volume is fabricated. In addition, injection moulding experiments are performed using the fabricated mould. From the results of the injection moulding experiments, it has been shown that the designed mould can successfully fabricate the flat part with a partially thick volume.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제34권10호
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• pp.1487-1492
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• 2010

본 논문의 목적은 3 차원 사출성형해석을 통한 냉장고 플라스틱 서랍 제작용 사출성형 금형의 형상적응형 냉각수로 설계이다. 바람직한 형상적응형 냉각수로의 설계를 얻기 위하여 형상적응형 냉각수로의 직경과 위치가 사출성형 특성과 제품의 품질에 미치는 영향을 정량적으로 고찰하였다. 해석결과로부터 제품의 균일 냉각과 변형 최소화가 가능한 최적의 형상적응형 냉각수로의 설계를 도출할 수 있었다. 본 연구에서 제안된 사출성형 금형과 기존의 직선형 냉각수로의 사출성형 금형을 냉각/제품 제작 시간 및 제품 품질 측면에서 비교한 결과, 형상적응형 냉각수로를 가진 사출성형 금형이 제품의 생산성과 품질을 동시에 향상시킬 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.93-98
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• 2012

The injection molding process is suitable for manufacturing complicated plastic products. As the customer request higher quality products increase, realization of the precise dimensional and shape controls is getting more important. For this purpose it is important to obtain uniform cooling procedure over the whole surface of the high temperature molded plastic. Failure to this may lead to different shrinkage speed, internal stresses and unwanted shape deformations. It is necessary to distribute coolant flow rates to the main channel and to the sub-channels properly to insure uniform cooling process when there are parallel cooling channels. In this study, three-dimensional turbulent flow simulations for representative parallel cooling channels were performed. To insure the intended flow rate to each sub-channels, various shape designs for the channel system were investigated. The results show that as the Reynolds number increases the effect of shape design is more profound. Through the proper flow distribution, uniform cooling effects would be expected.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.53-57
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• 2012

Design of the cooling channels of a plastic injection mold affects the quality and the productivity of the injection processes. In the injection process, the melted resin with high temperature enters the mold cavity, and just after the cavity is filled the heat should be dissipated through the cooling channels simultaneously. The purpose of this study is to analyse the heat transfer phenomenon and to estimate the temperature distribution in the mold to evaluate the cooling effect of the channels. The injection mold is assumed to have cooling channels of circular cross section and each channel has the same coolant flow rate. and The cavity has a rectangular shape. The results show that as the cooling channels get closer to the cavity surface, the cooling efficiency increases as might easily be guessed. However, due to the final hot resin flow from the gate an intensive cooling is required in that region.

• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.370-373
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• 2008

It is known that the temperatures of die, punch, holder and punch pad need to be kept different to get better formability in Mg sheet forming processes. Heating and cooling channels are usually equipped in each tool to assign different temperature. This study focused on the optimal design of the heating and cooling channels for a cross-shaped deep drawing die set. While the die and blankholder were heated to and kept at $250^{\circ}C$ by using heat cartridges, the punch and punch pad were kept at much lower temperature than that of the die and blankholder by water circulating through cooling channels. All the approaches were done by numerical analyses, aiming to maximize the cup height and to minimize the punch corner radius without any failure.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회B
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• pp.2426-2431
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• 2007

The microchannel waterblock has a good capability in the cooling of electronic devices. The object of this paper is to estiblish the scheme of design for the microchannel waterblock. The effects of flow rate and channel size on the cooling performances are investigated. It was found that the optimum flow rates were ragned from 0.7 lpm to 1.4 lpm. The thermal resistance at 2.0 lpm and 100 W was 0.13 $^{\circ}C$/W. Decrease in the width of channels is more effective for the improvement in the cooling performances of microchannel waterblock than increase in the height of channels. The increase of pressure drop resulted from decrease in the width of channels can be decreased by increasing the hight of channels.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.147-154
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• 2018

본 논문은 흔히 핫스탬핑 공법으로 알려진 냉각수로가 있는 핫폼 금형의 설계 데이터를 신속히 생성하는 지원 시스템 개발에 초점을 둔다. 현장에서의 핫폼 금형의 설계조건과 설계 프로세스 분석을 통해 설계지원 시스템의 핵심기능들을 도출하고, 이를 기반한 새로운 핫폼 금형의 설계 프로세스를 제안 한다. 개발한 설계 지원 시스템은 핫폼 금형의 3차원 형상 모델과 2차원 도면을 생성하는 두 개의 모듈로 구성된다. 핫폼 금형의 3D 모델링 자동화 모듈은 CATAI V5 Knowledgeware를 기반한 CATAI 템플릿 모델 형태로 구현하였다. 이 모듈은 성형 곡면형상, STEEL(금형 Product를 구성하는 파트) 개수와 냉각수로의 개수에 대응하여 냉각수로를 포함한 핫폼금형의 3D 모델을 자동으로 생성한다. 또한 냉각수로의 위치와 자세를 편집하는 기능과 성형곡면과 냉각수로 사이의 거리에 대한 구속조건 만족여부를 판별하는 기능을 제공한다. 두 번째 모듈인 2D 가공도면을 자동 생성하는 모듈은 CAA(CATIA SDK)와 Visual C++를 활용하여 CATIA CAD시스템에 이식 가능한 플러그인 형태로 개발 하였다. 제안하는 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 사용자 정의 시나리오 기반 소프트웨어 테스트를 수행하였다. 실험결과 제안하는 방법은 수작업 기반의 전통적인 방법에 비해 설계 오류 없이 약 29배 빠르게 핫폼 금형 3D모델과 홀테이블을 포함하는 가공도면을 생성하였다.

• 한국소성가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소성가공학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.361-364
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• 2009

The cooling system optimization for injection molds was studied with a response surface method in the previous research. It took so much time to find an optimum solution for a large product due to an extensive amount of calculation time for the CAE analysis. In order to use the optimization technique in the actual design process, the calculation time should be much reduced. In this study, we tried to reduce the number of design variables with the concept of the close relationship between the depth and the distance of cooling channels. The optimum ratio of the distance to the depth of cooling channels for a 2-dimensional problem was 2.0 so that the optimum ratio was again sought out for 4 industrial products. The major cooling effect of the injection molds for large products rely on baffle tubes. The optimum ratio of the distance to the depth for baffle tubes was 2.0 for the large products. The result enables us to reduce the number of the design variables by half in the cooling system optimization problem.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.373-373
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• 2009

Relative humidity, membrane conductivity and water activity are critical parameters of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) for high performance and reliability. These parameters are closely related with temperature. Moreover, the ideal values of these parameters are not always identical along the channels. Therefore, the cooling channel design and its operating condition should be well optimized along the all location of the channels. In the present study, we have performed a numerical investigation on the effects of cooling channels on performance of a PEMFC. Three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations are solved with the energy equation including heat generated by the electrochemical reactions in the fuel cell. The present numerical model includes the gas diffusion layers (GDL) and serpentine channels for both anode and cathode gas flows, as well as cooling channels. To accurately predict the water transport across the membrane, the distribution of water content in the membrane is calculated by solving a nonlinear differential equation with a nonlinear coefficient, i.e., the water diffusivity which is a function of water content as well as temperature. Main emphasis is placed on the heat transfer between the solid bipolar plate and coolant flow. The present results show that local current density is affected by cooling channels due to the change of the oxygen concentration and the membrane conductivity as well as the water content. It is also found that the relative humidity is influenced by the generated water and the gas temperature and thus it affects the distribution of fuel concentration and the conductivity of the membrane, ultimately fuel cell performance. Unit-cell experiments are also carried out to validate the numerical models. The performance curves between the models and experiments show reasonable results.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.92-98
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• 2020

In this study, an injection mold with conformal cooling channels was designed and manufactured for use in the production of a thick plastic cosmetic container that required high gloss surfaces. A cooling analysis verified the design of the conformal cooling channel for the cosmetic container, and also showed that the cooling efficiency was superior to that of the straight cooling channel. Slide cores designed with the conformal cooling channel were manufactured using the Layers Parting method and vacuum diffusion bonding. Subsequent test injection and quality inspection showed no problem in the appearance and dimensional accuracy of the produced product. The cycle time for product production was about 110 seconds, sufficient for mass production.