• Transactions of the Society of Information Storage Systems
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.66-72
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• 2007

Surface finishing using magnetorheological (MR) fluid is useful to finish small but not too small workpieces such as those in a few millimeter scale. However, due to the high surface hardness, this finishing process does not seem to be suit for applying to a hard disk slider. In this work, a preliminary study is performed on the finishing of the hard disk slider surface with a mixture of an MR fluid and diamond powder. During a wheel type MR finishing process, centrifugal force is found to be a major factor to cause a reduction in material remove rate (MRR), which is supported by a theoretical model. To facilitate this founding, the rotational speed of tool is confined to 500rpm while a rectilinear alternating motion with the mean speed, which is equivalent to the rotational speed, is additionally applied to the workpieces. As a consequence, MRR of about 2 times of the sole rotational case is obtained. This paper shows that MR finishing process can be used to polish a hard material in millimeter scale efficiently by controlling the speeds of the tool and the workpiece.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.17-23
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• 2022

Recently, several studies are being conducted to achieve a curvature of 180° or more for the edge of the display glass. The thermocompression molding process is applied to the manufacture of curved glass, and high hardness G5 graphite is used as the mold material to withstand the impact applied to the mold. G5 graphite has high hardness and strong brittleness, which makes tool wear and surface damage easy during machining. Therefore, the demand for diamond-coated tools with good mechanical properties is increasing in the G5 machining field. In this study, the optimal cutting conditions and machinability of a nanodiamond (NCD) coated ball end mill being developed by a tool manufacturer were analyzed and evaluated. For this purpose, the same test was performed on the microdiamond (MCD) coated ball end mill and compared together. In summary, the machinability of MCD and NCD coated tools showed better cutting performance at a cutting speed of 282 m/min, a feed rate of 1,400 mm/min, and a radial depth of cut of 0.08 to 0.1 mm.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.831-836
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• 2013

This study demonstrates the process of fabricating patterns using tribonanolithography (TNL),with laboratory-made micro polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tools that are attached to an atomic force microscope (AFM). The various patterns are easily fabricated using mechanical scratching, under various normal loads, using the PCD tool on single crystal silicon, which is the master mold for replication in this study. Then, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) replica molds are fabricated using precise pattern transfer processes. The transferred patterns show high dimensional accuracy as compared with those of TNL-processed silicon micro molds. TNL can reduce the need for high cost and complicated apparatuses required for conventional lithography methods. TNL shows great potential in that it allows for the rapid fabrication of duplicated patterns through simple mechanical micromachining on brittle sample surfaces.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.190-195
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• 1997

The requirement of precision products about difficult-to-cut materials such as Cu and Aluminum alloy is becoming more and more. Because of soft materials, the exist narrow groves on surface are difficult to gotten off even on the polishing stage. It has been proved that Magnetic-Electrolytic-Abrasive Polishing (MEAP) is a efficient method to resolve this problem by using the nonwoven-abrasive pads together [1, 2]. In this study, through the experiments, their machining properties of newly developer polishing material of SiC, Al2O3 and diamond nonwoven abrasive pads have been proved. Through the experiments, the optimal machining conditions on larger cylinder shape workpiece of Cu and Aluminium alloy have been found, through the Taguchi[3] method the optimal machining conditions can be selected.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1566-1570
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• 2005

The aspherical lenses are used as optical lens of HMD optical system. The optimum cutting condition of PMMA lens sample with ultra precision SPDT, the diamond tool nose radius, the cutting speed, the feed rate, the depth of cut, and cutting fluid type are found. The demanded surface roughness 10 nm Ra, aspherical form error $1.0\;\mu{m}$ P-V for aspherical lens of optical data storage device are satisfied.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.97-100
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• 2004

In recent years, a demand for micro-structure machining is increasing by the development of information and optics industries. Micro machining technology is in general well known in the field of lithograghy. However, the requirement of producing micro machine and/or micro mechanism with metal materials will be increased since a variety of workpiece configurations can be easily made. In this paper, ultra precision machine is developed to obtain micro groove and mirror surface using single crystal diamond tool. According to the cutting experiment, no burr was found at the edge of V-grooves, and the surface roughness of copper is about 1～3nm Ra. It is verified that ultra precision machine is effective to high precision machining.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.26-32
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• 2010

This paper reports some experimental result in grinding and polishing of silicon cathodes used in semiconductor manufacturing process. Cup shape diamond core wheels were used in experiments and the radial and tangential grinding forces were measured with surface roughness. In polishing experiments, flat type and donut type wool polishing tools were tested. The experimental results indicate that the grinding forces are proportional to the material removal rates and the surface roughness are inversely proportional to the spindle speed. The surface roughness of polished Si decreases with polishing time and higher spindle speed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.355-359
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• 2001

In this study, experiments were carried out to investigate the characteristics of grinding and wear process of diamond wheel grinding ceramic materials. Normal component of grinding resistance of $AI_2O_3$ was less then that of $Si_3N_4$ and $ZrO_2$. It is because the resistance for grain shedding is less then that for layer formation. For the case of $Si_3N_4$ and $ZrO_2$, as the grain mesh number of wheel increases, the surface roughness decreases. For the case of $AI_2O_3$, the surface roughness does not decreases. For the case of $Si_3N_4$ and $ZrO_2$, grinding is carried out by abrasive wear processes. For the case of $AI_2O_3$, grinding is carried out by grain shedding process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.43-47
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• 1995

The ball screw is one of the important mechanical parts for the linear motion feeding systems. The usage of the ball screw has been growing in various industrial fields such as CNC machine tool, industrial robot and automated systems. Because of ever increasing demand for ball screws, increased accuracy and quality of the ball screw is needed,especially the surface roughness of the ball contact area in order to diminish noise and vibration. Therefore to improve the surface roughness of the area,we introduced magnetic assisted polishing which is one of the new potential polishing methods. In this study, diamond slurry and iron powder was used for magnetic assisted polishing of the ball bearing surface. This polishing process was experimentally confirmed to improve the surface roughness of the ball bearing.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.82-88
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• 1997

In this paper, the development of a precision CNC lathe prototype for mirror surface machining is presented. To obtain high precision machining accuracy, a hydrostatically supported precision spindle and a sliding guideway with turcite pad are adopted as the motion elements. The machining accuracy of the prototype machine, and the motional accuracy of its motion elements are tested and evaluated to confirm the validity of the application of these elements on the prototype. The hydrostatic spindle shows 0.09 .mu. m of rotational accuracy and the guideway shows about 0.8 .mu. m/170mm of horizontal straightness. The sur- face roughness of cupper and aluminium cylinder machined by the prototype machine with diamond tool are 0.07 .mu. m and 0.10 .mu. m Rmax respectively. From these results, it is verified that the prototype lathe is avail- able for high precision machining.