• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.40-44
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• 2010

Thermal comfort inside a passenger car has been receiving large attention in automobile industries. Especially, the performance of windshield defroster is important in the design of a car to ensure passenger comport and safety. Thereby, better understanding on the ventilation flow along the vehicle windshield is essential to evaluate the performance of windshield defroster. However, most previous studies dealt with the defrost flow using CFD (computational fluid dynamics) calculations or scale-down model experiments. In this study, a real commercial automobile was used to investigate the flow discharged from the vehicle defroster and the ventilation flow along the windshield using a PIV velocity field measurement technique. The experimental data would be useful to understand the flow characteristics in detail and also can be used to validate numerical predictions.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.140-147
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 차량 후면 유리에 여러 주파수 대역의 안테나를 집적화할 수 있는 유리접지를 이용한 안테나 급전 방법을 제안하였다. 유리접지가 가능하도록 동축 선로를 유리접지면에 직접 연결할 수 있는 어댑터를 설계하였으며, 차체 접지 방식과 반사 손실을 비교 분석하였다. Azimuth 방향에서 높은 복사 이득을 얻기 위해 유리 접지의 크기와 위치를 최적화 하였으며, 도출된 유리접지면을 이용하여 삼각 패치 형상의 WiBro 안테나를 상용세단의 후면 유리에 인쇄하고 반사 손실과 복사 패턴 성능을 측정하였다. 제안된 유리접지를 이용한 급전 방식은 차체 접지를 이용한 급전 방식과 유사한 반사 손실을 보이며, 2 dB 높은 azimuth 복사 이득이 나타내었다. 측정 결과, 제안된 유리접지면을 이용한 안테나 급전 방식을 이용하면 여러 주파수에서 동작하는 다양한 형태의 온-글래스 안테나를 후면 유리에 효과적으로 적용할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.465-472
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• 2008

An automotive windshield wiper system is modeled mainly for vibration analysis purpose. The model is composed of solid links, ideal joints, imperfect joints to simulate unavoidable manufacturing defects and bushings having stiffness, contact between a wiper blade and a wind screen glass, friction, a spring and an actuator. Main stream of wiper dynamics analysis has been obtaining a closed form of system of equations using Newton's or Lagrange's formula and doing a numerical simulation study to understand and predict the behavior of it. However, the modeling process is complex since a wiper system is of multibody and a contact problem occurs. When imperfection, such as dead zone of a joint and stiffness of a rubber bushing, should be included, the added complexity makes the modeling difficult. Since the imperfection is understood as main cause of problematic vibration, the dynamics model of a wiper system aiming vibration analysis should include such unavoidable manufacturing defects in the model. An open form of dynamic model of a automotive windshield wiper system with imperfect joints using a commercial software is obtained and a simulation analyssis is conducted for vibration reduction study.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.54-61
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• 2016

본 연구는 차량-보행자 사고시 보행자의 신장에 따라 보행자의 두부가 승용차의 전면유리에 닿을 수 있는 최저 속도를 제시하기 위하여 수행되었다. 마디모(MADYMO) 프로그램을 사용하여, NF쏘나타 차량에 대하여 보행자의 신장을 160cm, 170cm 180cm로 구분하여 평가하였다. 평가 결과, 승용차의 최저 속도값은 보행자의 신장이 160cm인 경우 약 49km/h, 170cm일 때 약 41km/h, 그리고 180cm일 때 약 29km/h로 나타났다. 이러한 값은 승용차 대 보행자 교통사고에서 승용차의 전면유리에 보행자 두부의 충돌흔적이 있을 시 속도추정의 중요 자료로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제31권12호
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• pp.1024-1032
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• 2007

The flow characteristics with the impinging angles of defrost nozzle jet inside a commercial vehicle passenger compartment were investigated experimentally by using the two-dimensional duct-nozzle model. The shape of the nozzle contraction was designed according to the curved line of cubic equation to the vertical plan of the flow direction. The impinging angles, defined as the angle between nozzle axis and a vertical line to the windshield, were varied from the $0^{\circ}\;to\;80^{\circ}$. The mean velocity distributions, the half-widths, and the momentum distributions with the cases of both the free jet and the impinging jet onto the dummy windshield were measured. The impinging jet flows similarly with wall jet from $X/b_o=20$, and the impinging angle has an effect on the half-width of the impinging jet. The momentum distributions onto the windshield increased with the increase of impinging angle, and then their inflection point was observed around the impinging angle of $60^{\circ}$.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.789-794
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• 2008

Recently, much attention has been paid in the field of defrosting because clear windshield in vehicle without effecting the thermal comfort is realized essentially. Then in winter, defrosting performance is one of the important factors in vehicle design to make certain driver's view. In this study, the velocity profile, temperature distribution and frost melting pattern on the windshield screen have been predicted in three dimensional geometry of an automobile interior. Numerical analyses predict a detailed description of fluid flow and temperature patterns on the inside windshield screen, utilizing the flow through defroster nozzle. Numerical prediction established a good defrosting performance with the standard distance ratio and the defroster nozzle angle ranging from $30^{\circ}$ to $40^{\circ}$, which satisfy the condition of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) completely.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.974-984
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• 2012

플랫 블레이드 와이퍼의 블레이드의 누름압 분포를 조정하여 역전과정에서 발생되는 진동을 저감하는 방법을 제시하였다. 블레이드와 유리면 사이에 길이방향으로 불균일한 누름압 분포를 도입, 고무스트립에 점진적인 역전을 유도함으로써 역전과정에서 발생하는 충격력을 저감하였다. 블레이드 내의 바디스프링 형상을 이전 연구에서 제시된 방법을 통해 구해진 형태를 적용함으로써 누름압 분포를 조정하였다. 이 방법을 적용하여 전체 길이에 균일한 누름압과 불균일한 누름압을 발생시키는 두 종류의 블레이드를 개발한 다음 누름압을 측정하여 확인하였다. 두 블레이드에서 발생하는 수직방향 및 횡방향 진동을 측정 비교한 결과, 불균일한 누름압을 가진 블레이드가 균일한 누름압의 블레이드에 비해 훨씬 작은 수직방향 진동을 나타냄을 확인하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.259-265
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• 2014

When raining or snowing, windshield wiper system is very important for safety of driver. However, manual wiper system frequently needed to be controlled for sufficient visibility and it was very uncomfortable. So, rain sensor which controls automatically was developed. This rain sensor technology uses optical sensing technique sensed the rainfall by receiving reflected light of rain dropped on the windshield. The technology used optical sensor was simple and easy to implement as a rain sensing system in the car. However, it is sometime shown low accuracy to measure rainfall on the windshield when affected by ambient lights from surroundings. It is also given inconvenience to the driver to control the car. To solving these problems, we propose a rain sensing system using image sensor and the fuzzy wiper control algorithm.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2005년도 추계 학술대회논문집
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• pp.75-80
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• 2005

The present work was undertaken to numerically analyze the defrosting phenomena of windshield glass. In order to analysis the phase change from frost to water on windshield glass by discharging hot air from a defroster nozzle, the flow and the temperature field of the cabin interior, the heat transfer through the windshield glass, and the phase change of frost should be solve simultaneously. In the present work, the flow field was obtained by solving 3-D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, and the temperature field was computed from the incompressible energy equation. The phase change process was solved by the enthalpy method. For the code validation, the temperature and the phase change of the driven cavity were calculated. The calculation showed a good agreement with other numerical results. Then, the present code was applied to the defrosting problem of a real automobile, and a good agreement with the experimental data was also obtained.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.157-163
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• 2003

This work was undertaken for the numerical analysis of defrosting phenomena of automobile windshield. To analyze the defrost, the flow and temperature field of cabin interior, heat transfer through the windshield glass, and phase change of the frost should be analyzed simultaneously. The flow field was obtained by solving the 3-D unsteady Navier-Stokes equation and the temperature field was computed by energy equation. The phase-change process of Stefan problem was solved by enthalpy method. For code validation, the temperature field of the driven cavity was calculated. The result of calculation shows a good agreement with the other numerical results. Then, the present code was applied to the defrosting analysis of a real automobile and, also, a good agreement with experiment was obtained.