• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.245-246
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• 2006

For developing 5-axis laser cutting systems, many problems such as rotating of laser head or table, 5-axis tool path generation and collision avoidance between laser head and product should be solved. In this paper, a five-axis laser cutting machine with table swivel and rotary type configuration is developed. The five axes (X,Y,Z,A,B) are controlled and interfaced to PC via MMC board. Two kinds of CAM S/W such as commercial 5-axis CAM S/W(Euclid) and UG-API are engaged to generate NC code for the developed 5-axis laser cutting machine.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.7-13
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• 2009

Five-axis laser cutting has great advantages when it is applied to 3-dimensional machining requiring high cutting quality. For developing 5-axis CNC laser cutting systems, however, many problems such as rotating a laser head or a working table, 5-axis servo-control mechanism, tool path generation and post processing, and collision avoidance between a laser head and a work-piece should be solved. In this paper, we deal with developing a dedicated CAM system based on UG-NX3 for 5-axis laser cutting machine. Two essential modules such as post-processor and cutting motion simulation was developed. The developed system was applied to cutting curve defined on 3-D workpiece in order to show the validity of the proposed methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.335-336
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• 2008

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2003

A novel Solid Freeform Fabrication System, which makes prototype by cutting tapes at the boundary of object and accumulating the tapes, has been developed. In order to overcome the staircase shape at the surface of prototype, the laser beam is irradiated tangent to the surface. Five axis cutting system and the tangent cutting trajectory generation algorithm have been developed.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.260-262
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• 2002

제품의 소재를 미리 테입 형태로 만들어 단면의 경계면을 따라 레이저로 절단하여 적층하는 방식은 제품의 표면에 계단 모양의 무늬가 생기므로 정밀한 제품을 제작하는데 어려움이 있었다. 이를 극복하기 위하여 단면의 경계선을 절단할 때 수직으로 절단하는 것이 아니라 경사면을 따라 절단하여 전체적인 제품의 옆면이 부드럽게 연결되는 경사절단형 임의형상가공시스템을 개발하였다. 이를 위하여 레이저 5축 경사절단기를 개발하였는데, x축과 y축은 상용화되어 있는 x-y table을 이용하였고 z축은 한 개의 z축 이송대를 이용하였다. 롤과 피치를 위하여는 서보모터 두 개를 이용하여 작업대가 회전할 수 있도록 하였다. 이와 같은 레이저 5축 경사절단기를 개발함으로써 시편의 어느 위치에서든 어느 각도로도 절단이 가능하게 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.36-43
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• 2007

Dieless CNC forming is an innovative technology which can form various materials with complex shape by numerically controlled incremental forming process. In order to apply the technology to industrial parts, however, many problems such as spring-back, rising of material, and trimming difficulty must be solved. In this paper a new dieless CNC forming method to improve forming quality is proposed, which consists of how to modify its original shape in CAD and how to generate its CNC tool path in CAM. The effectiveness of the proposed procedures is tested with a brake dust shield of a vehicle. The results shows that the method proposed enhances the forming quality up to 48% compared to traditional method.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.157-162
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• 2015

A large five-axis gantry-type machine performs cutting operations by moving the gantry, along with a bed. During operation, there are three sources of position (zig-zag) errors: 1) the position difference between two control motors on the X axis, 2) friction difference from the different column weights, and 3) torque of the rotating spindle. This study improved the performance of a gantry-type machine by analyzing these three error sources. We changed the mass of a column in the gantry structure and measured the effect on the friction result. We also studied the spindle torque influences on the movement performance of the gantry in relation to the spindle rotation.