Kinematical system of breadth cam profile design

The design solutions for breadth cam mechanism was presented. The main topics of the shape design for breadth cam was to calculate the coordinate at each contact point to determine the cam profile. The proposed method according to velocity and geometric relationships of instant velocity centers can easily determine each contact point at any instant moment. The cam profile was defined by contouring of the contact points. And also a program was developed by using Microsoft Visual C++ program,which can quickly and easily draw a 2D cam profile through the displacement diagram. Finally,the program was used to confirm the accuracy on the breadth cam profile design by computer animation graphically.

Development of a one-axis manipulator for laser-assisted machining

Laser-assisted machining has been considered as a new alternative machining method of difficult-to-cut materials. A laser module with one-axis manipulator is developed to focus on preheating laser beam effectively. First of all, the thermal characteristic analysis was performed to verify the importance of laser module location. Laser module should be moved within 1 mm. Analysis conditions of three positions in driving range of the one-axis manipulator are selected. And a C coupling is used as a connection device for spindle and laser module. An initial model has one C coupling, and the number of C coupling has been increased from 1 to 2 in an improved model. And the analysis is carried out again for the one-axis manipulator. The results of the static analysis, the maximum displacement and the maximum stress are decreased by 22% and 11%, respectively, for the improved model when the laser module is located at farthest away from the spindle unit. As a result of the modal analysis, the first natural frequency mode is increased by 13%, 18% and 12% at these positions of the improved model, respectively. The harmonic analysis of the improved model was performed by analyzing the results of the modal analysis. The maximum deformation was 0.33 mm in driving unit at 222 Hz. And the maximum compliance of the ISO axis direction was 0.23 mm/N. Finally, the one-axis manipulator has been fabricated successfully using the analysis result.

NC code generation for laser assisted turn-mill of various type of clovers and square section members

Laser assisted turning (LAT) is one of the advanced machining technologies,which uses laser power to heat the surface of a workpiece before the material is removed.It has several advantages of low manufacturing costs,high productivity and high qualities to machine difficult-to-cut materials such as silicon nitride,mullite,zirconia and Ni.A large part of studies on LAT have been focused on a round bar.With increasing demands for high quality products and high performance engineering system,the researches on LAT for clover and square section members are necessary.But,these workpieces are impossible to be machined on conventional CNC lathe and to generate NC code with current CAM softwares.As a basic research for combining LAT with a tilting index table type 5-axis machining center,i.e.laser assisted turn-mill,a new method is suggested to generate NC code that can process various types of clover and square section members through development of C++ program.

An Experiment on Power Properties in a Small-Scaled Wind Turbine Generator

This study configures a simple wind tunnel using a blower for generating wind energy, which is equivalent to natural wind, and a test system that measures properties of power. Also, the mechanical and electrical power in a small-scaled wind turbine are empirically measured to analyze the relationship between the mechanical and electrical power.