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Deformation Analysis Considering Thermal Expansion of Injection Mold (사출금형의 열팽창을 고려한 변형 분석)

  • Kim, Jun Hyung;Yi, Dae-Eun;Jang, Jeong Hui;Lee, Min Seok
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.39 no.9
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    • pp.893-899
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    • 2015
  • In the design of injection molds, the temperature distribution and deformation of the mold is one of the most important parameters that affect the flow characteristics, flash generation, and surface appearance, etc. Plastic injection analyses have been carried out to predict the temperature distribution of the mold and the pressure distribution on the cavity surface. As the input loads, we transfer the temperature and pressure results to the structural analysis. We compare the structural analysis results with the thermal expansion effect using the actual flash and step size of a smartphone cover part. To reduce the flash problem, we proposed a new mold design, and verified the results by performing simulations.

PIV Measurements of the Pressure Driven Flow Inside a T-Shaped Microchannel Junction (T헝 마이크로채널 연결부 압력구동 유동의 PIV계측)

  • Choi Jayho;Lee In-Seop
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.75-81
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    • 2003
  • A custom micro-PIV optics assembly has been used to measure the flow fold inside a T-junction of a microchannel. The micro-PIV system consists of microscope objectives of various magnifications, a dichroic cube, and an 8-bit CCD camera. Fluorescent particles of diameters 620 nm have been used with a Nd:YAG laser and color filters. A programmable syringe pump with Teflon tubings were used to inject particle-seeded distilled water into the channel at flow rates of 2.0, 4.0, 6.0 mL/hr. The micro-channels are fabricated with PDMS with a silicon mold, then O$_{2}$ -ion bonded onto a slide glass. Results show differences in flow characteristics and resolution according to fluid injection rates, and magnifications, respectively. The results include PIV data with vector-to-vector distances of 2 $\mu$m with 32 pixel-square interrogation windows at 50$\%$ overlap.

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PIV Measurements of the Pressure Driven Flow Inside a T-Shaped Microchannel (T형 마이크로채널 내부 압력구동 유동의 PIV 계측)

  • Choi Jayho;Lee In-Seop
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.423-426
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    • 2002
  • A custom micro-PIV optics assembly has been used to measure the flow field inside a T-shaped microchannel. The micro-PIV system consists of microscope objectives of various magnifications, a dichroic cube, and an 8-bit CCD camera. Fluorescent particles of diameters 620nm have been used with a Nd:YAG laser and color filters. A programmable syringe pump with Teflon tubings were used to inject particle-seeded distilled water into the channel at flow rates of $420,\;40,\;60{\mu}L/hr$. The microchannels are fabricated with PDMS with a silicon mold, then $O_2-ion$ bonded onto a slide glass. Results show differences in flow characteristics and resolution according to fluid injection rates, and magnifications, respectively. The results show PIV results with vector-to-vector distances of $2{\mu}m$ with 32 pixel-square interrogation windows at $50{\%}$ overlap.

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Numerical Method for Improving the Accuracy of Molten Metal Flow (주조유동의 정확도 개선을 위한 수치기법 연구)

  • Choi, Young-Sim;Hong, Jun-Ho;Hwang, Ho-Young
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.253-258
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    • 2012
  • The Cartesian grid system has generally been used in casting simulations, even though it does not represent sloped and curved surfaces very well. These distorted boundaries cause several problems, and special treatment is necessary to resolve them. A cut cell method on a Cartesian grid has been developed for the simulation of threedimensional mold filling. Cut cells at a cast/mold interface are generated on Cartesian grids, and the governing equations are computed using the volume and areas of the cast at the cut cells. In this paper, we propose a new method based on the partial cell treatment (PCT) that can consider the cutting cells which are cut by the cast and the mold. This method provides a better representation of the surface geometry, and will be used in the computation of velocities that are defined on the cell boundaries in the Cartesian gird system. Various test examples for several casting process are computed and validated.

A Simulation Study on the Development of Injection Mold for the Parts of Phone Camera Lens Module (시뮬레이션을 활용한 폰카메라 렌즈모듈 부품용 사출금형개발)

  • Kim, Hye Jeong;Kim, Jae Hoon;Kim, Yeong Gyoo;Song, Jun Yeob;Moon, Dug Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.83-92
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    • 2013
  • The demand of a camera-lens-module which is installed in mobile phone has been increased explosively as the increase of mobile phone market. Recently, two missions are given to the parts manufacturer of lens module, and they are how to keep the quality of injection moulding process as the increase of resolution, and how to decrease manufacturing cost. In this paper, a simulation study is introduced which is used for developing barrel and shield considering the double-cassette type of mould. At first, the simulation for injection process using Mold Flow$^{TM}$ is applied in the phase of mould design, and mechanical simulation using DPM Assembly$^{TM}$ is applied for collision detection between picking robot and mould. As a result, the productivity increased more than 300%.

Numerical Modeling of Injection/Compression Molding for Center-gated Center-gated Disk (Part I) (Center-gated 디스크에 대한 사출/압축 성형공정의 수치적 모델링-압축성을 고려한 점탄성유체 모델의 사출성형-)

  • Kim, Ilhwan;Park, Seong-Jin;Chung, Seong-Taek;Kwon, Tai-Hun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.289-301
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    • 1998
  • The present study attempted to numerically simulate the process in detail by developing an appropriate physical modeling and the corresponding numerical analysis for precision injection and injection/compression molding process of center-gated disk. In part I, a physical modeling and associated numerical analysis of injection molding with a compressible viscoelastic fluid model are presented. In the distribution of birefringence, the packing procedure results in the inner peaks in addition to the outer peaks near the mold surface, and values of the inner peaks increase with the packing time. Also, values of the density in the core region increase with the packing time. From the numerical results, we also found that birefringence becomes smaller as the melt temperature gets higher and that it is insignificantly affected by the flow rate and the mold temperature. As far as the density distribution is concerned, mold temperature affected the distribution of density especially near the wall. But it was not significantly affected by flow rate and melt temperature. Numerical results of birefringence coincided with experimental data qualitatively but didn't quantitatively.

Analysis of defects caused by halo defects during injection molding (사출성형 중 달무리 현상에 의한 불량에 대한 분석)

  • Lee, Soon-Young;Park, Eun-Min;Kim, Do-Hun;Kim, Yong-Chul;Yang, Chul-Seung;Jin, Gyeong-Min;Kim, Sun-Kyoung
    • Design & Manufacturing
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.57-62
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    • 2019
  • In this study, we investigated the halo surface defection of various phenomenon occurred during the injection molding process which is caused by the thinning of the product thickness and the importance of the appearance. Surface analysis was performed to observe the difference between the surface where defects appeared and the surface which did not appear. Based on these results, we analyzed the phenomenon of halo surface defects was caused by unstable flow of resin generated in injection molding and velocity change of flow front. Furthermore, we will conduct a clear analysis of halo surface defects through observations through optical microscopy and subsequent observations with atomic force microscope. It has been analyzed that halo in PP is due to the rheological difference between the crystalline and amorphous regions while that in PC/ABS is due to shear separation of PC and ABS.

피라미드 크기가 PDMS Mold 구조에 미치는 영향

  • Pyo, Dae-Seung;Gong, Dae-Yeong;Jeon, Seong-Chan;O, Jeong-Hwa;Hong, Pyo-Hwan;Kim, Bong-Hwan;Lee, Jong-Hyeon;Jo, Chan-Seop
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2013.02a
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    • pp.294-294
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    • 2013
  • 소수성을 띄는 표면은 자연으로부터 시작된 연구이다. 연잎, 소금쟁이 다리, 매미 날개 등 많은 자연의 표면은 150o보다 높은 접촉각을 지니기 때문에 물에 대한 반발이 심해져 약간의 기울임에도 쉽게 물방울이 굴러 떨어지고 이때 먼지를 제거할 수 있다. 자연현상을 이용해 물질 표면의 소수성 제어에 대한 다양한 연구가 진행 중이다. 친수성과 소수성은 일반적으로 표면에서 물방울의 contact angle 측정으로 확인 할 수 있다. Contact angle이 $90^{\circ}$ 작을 경우 친수성, $90^{\circ}$보다 클 경우 소수성이라고 한다. 이러한 기술을 이용해서 solar cell, 자동차 유리, 건물외벽, 등 다양한 분야에서 사용하고 있으며, 소수성 구조를 만드는 방법으로는 laser ablation, wet etching, 리소그라피 공정이 있는데, laser ablation의 경우 가격이 비싸다는 단점을 가지고 있으며, 반면 가격이 저렴한 wet etching의 경우 제어가 힘들다는 단점을 지니고 있다. 리소그라피 공정은 비싼 비용과 시간을 소비해야 하는 단점을 지니고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 단점들을 개선하기 위해 공정 시간의 감소와, 저 비용으로 제작이 가능한 RIE (Recative Ion Etching)로 피라미드 구조를 만들었다. 형성된 구조물에 투명하고 균일하며, 낮은 계면에너지를 갖고 있는 PDMS (polydimethelsiloxine)로 mold을 수행하였다. RIE를 이용한 표면 구조는 Gas, Flow rate, Pressure, Power, Time 등을 조절하여 단결정 실리콘 기판 위에 피라미드의 크기를 조절하였다. 피라미드의 크기가 커짐에 따라 물과 PDMS가 닿는 면적이 줄어들면서 높은 소수성을 가지게 되는데, 높은 소수성 구조를 가지는 피라미드 형상을 찾기 위한 실험을 진행하였다. RIE 조건은 Flow rate: 30 sccm, Temperature: $10^{\circ}C$ Pressure: 100 mTorr, Power: 200 W, Process Time: 5~50 min으로 조절하며 공정을 수행하였고 RIE공정 후 SAMs (Self-Assembly Monolayers)을 진행하였으며, 마지막으로 PDMS를 이용하여 mold공정을 진행하였다. 그리고 SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope)장비를 이용하여 Etching된 단면을 관찰하였으며, 접촉각을 측정하였다. Process Time을 50 min로 공정하였을 때, 측정된 접촉각은 $134^{\circ}$였다.

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