• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.670-676
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• 2008

While the matrix converter has many advantages that include bi-directional power flow, a size reduction, a long lifetime, and sinusoidal input currents, it is vulnerable to the input voltage disturbances, because it directly exchanges the input voltage to the output voltage. So, in this paper, a critical evaluation of the effect of various abnormal voltage conditions like unbalanced power supply, balanced non-sinusoidal power supply, input voltage sags and short time blackout of power supply on matrix converter fed induction motor drives is presented. The operation under various abnormal conditions has been analyzed. For this, a 230V, 250VA three phase to three phase matrix converter (MC) fed induction motor drive prototype is implemented using DSP based controller and tests have been carried out to evaluate and improve the stability of system under typical abnormal conditions. Digital storage oscilloscope & power quality analyzer are used for experimental observations.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.9-17
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• 1990

This paper deals with a FOQ( ; fixed-order quantity) model for spare-part inventory control. In a spare-part inventory problem, stock depletion arises not from external market demand but from internal demand resulting from failures of parts in use. The problem differs from the classical inventory problem in that the demand for a failed part never arises more during stockout period, since the unit remains inoperative when stockout occurs until the failed part is replaced by new one. In the problem under consideration, n identical units are operating simultaneously and failed one is replaced immediately by new one if on-hand spares remain. In order to replenish spares, an order with quantity Q is placed whenever the number of on-hand spares falls to levels. The average annual cost of operating the spare-part inventory system is derived under the assumption that both lifetime of a part and replenishment lead-time distributions are exponential.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.107-109
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• 2007

LED is expected as an environmentally friendly light source with its good reliability and long lifetime. A few ten mW white LED can substitute for the indicator light source, and it is required to study several watt multi-chip semiconductor light sources in order to replace the light sources for general illumination such as incandescent lights and fluorescent lamps. Since the optical technology used for several mW white LED light source uses only 30% to 50% of the light, it is required to develop the design technology of optical system and lens to improve the efficiency more than 80% for insuring the high power of white LED. In this paper, we designed and fabricated new structure reflector to increase the efficiency.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.169-184
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• 2015

Purpose: This paper is concerned with optimally designing accelerated degradation test (ADT) plans based on a gamma process for the degradation model. Methods: By minimizing the asymptotic variance of the MLE of the q-th quantile of the lifetime distribution at the use condition, the test stress levels and the proportion of test units allocated to each stress level are optimally determined. Results: The optimal plans of ADT are developed for various combination of parameters. In addition, a method for determining the sample size is developed, and sensitivity analysis procedures are illustrated with an example. Conclusion: It is important to optimally design ADT based on a gamma process under the condition that a degradation process should be always nonnegative and strictly increasing over time.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.814-816
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• 2003

Remote sensing allows automatic and continual spatial data acquisition. However, it is powerless to accumulate spatial data from the past. On the other hand, social and human scientists have already created rich academic descriptions of the past with fragmentary images, but without accurate geo-references. Such a legacy of information will eventually become useless, regardless of its importance or the researcher's passion. There is thus an urgent need to help assemble the lifetime research results of social scientists, so that future generations can easily access them.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.96-102
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• 2000

The finishing process for dies and molds is an important process because it has influence on final quality of products. And it is difficult to automatize finishing process so that the process has depended on expert's skill until now. However, recently a study on development of die automatic finishing machine has been progressed, and actually this machine is applied to fabrication of die. But the research about tooling system is not enough and finishing tool must have high machining efficiency and adaptability of curved surface. So, this study investigated the application of conductive elastic tool which is composed of metal-resin bonded pellet and elastic backing material. The metal-resin bonded pellet is used to finish the surface by conventional mechanical grinding or electro-chemial grinding method. And elastic backing material is used to follow the curved surface. So conductive elastic tool has long lifetime, uniform removal rate and adaptability of curved surface.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.339-346
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• 1993

Inproving laser efficiency, optimum content of Nd3+ which is active ion and effect of Cr3+ as a sensitizer are investigated in 60SiO2.30Li2O.10CaO host glass. The glasses are fabricated with the addition of Nd3+, Cr3+ and then optical properties such as absorption spectrum, fluorescence spectrum and fluorescence lifetime were studied. Finally, lasing efficiency was measured. From this study, optimum content of Nd2O3 appeared to be 3.5wt% and it was observed that the energy absorbed by optical exicitation of the Cr3+ is transfered to the Nd3+. Addition of Cr2O3 tend to improve characteristic of laser oscillation for the laser glass.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.22 no.12
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• pp.1033-1038
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• 2009

Recently, Light Emitting Diode (LED) has many advantages in comparison with conventional light sources; low power consumption, long lifetime, and less environmental pollution. Therefore, the use of LED is increasing rapidly. In general, however, spherical lens is used in LED-lighting which cause many problems induces by optical aberration of spherical lens; low illumination, yellow belt, unpleasant feeling in human eye. As a solution of these problem, aspherical lens can be employed. This study reported the improvement of LED-lighting performance by adopting aspherical lens. From the commercial program, $LightTools^{TM}$, the optical problem were ensured. And then, to improve these problem, optimum aspheric form was designed using Code $V^{TM}$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10e
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• pp.25-27
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• 2002

Ad-hoc 무선 네트워크에서는 기존의 유선 네트워크 망에서와는 달리 휴대용 기기들만으로 네트워크 망이 형성 되어있고 이때 휴대용 기기들은 대부분 배터리를 에너지원으로 사용한다. 그러므로 무한의 에너지를 갖고 있다고 볼 수 있었던 종전의 유선 네트워크에서와는 달리 배터리를 에너지원으로 사용하는 Ad-Hoc 네트워크에서는 효율적인 에너지 자원 관리가 중요한 이슈가 된다. 이러한 특성을 고려한 연구 중 전체 휴대용 단말기에서 일부를 선출하고 이렇게 선출된 coordinator들만 데이터의 전송에 참여하게 하고 나머지 단말기들은 수면 모드로 전환시킴으로 인해 시스템의 전력소비를 줄이는 방법에 대한 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 선행 연구에서는 수면 모드의 노드를 최대화함으로써 전체 네트워크의 전력소비를 최소화 하려는 노력을 하고 있으나, 선출되는 coordinator 수의 최소화가 항상 시스템 활동시간의 증가를 보장하지는 않는다. 본 논문에서는 각 단말기에서 데이터 전송에 필요한 에너지와 노드들의 연결성을 함께 고려해서 coordinator를 선출함으로써 네트워크의 시스템 활동시간을 기존의 방법 보다 더 증가시키는 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.1
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• pp.78-81
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• 2008

A hollow cathode which has extremely stable discharge characteristic has been developed. This is composed of the two separated lanthanum hexaboride(LaB6) of a disk type in the tube as the electron emitters. The way of design is of great advantage to extend the surface discharge area of the LaB6, which is also useful for optimal fixing of the LaB6. The hollow cathode is capable of producing 30 kW(100 V, 300 A) of power continuously. Because the generated plasma beam with the high temperature(above $3000^{\circ}C$) from the hollow cathode passes through the center hole of the two intermediate electrodes, it is designed with the high temperature material of the tungsten and the suitable structure of the water cooling. The combinations of the hollow cathode and the two intermediate electrodes are practically useful for the ion plating plasma beam source.