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Since the expectations and demand for higher ride comfort of the customers (driver and passengers) have been dramatically increased, new vehicle model launched on the market have not only better performance and design-wise appealing, but also ride comfort has to be increasingly better than its predecessor. Automotive manufactures have focused on the increasing human thermal comfort. To achieve a high thermal comfort, most manufacturers provide a system for their cars to ensure ventilation, heating and cooling air in the passenger compartment. As results, the influence of the seats and situations in the thermal human comfort are considered. And, the temperature distribution pattern on the human face is acquired at natural condition, both warm condition on which seat is managed around 30℃ and hot condition on which seat is managed around 50℃.

Infrared thermography provides the colorful images of concerning area where local changes of surface temperature occurs and can be used to measure the fine temperature of human body. Unlike the radiography technique, it is determined by the presence or absence of existing anatomical principles capable of quantitative evaluation and visible to the physiological and functional state of the human body. In this paper, it was studied the characteristics of dynamic motion conditions in the hands due to physiological changes of temperature distribution. The results showed that the difference between the change in temperature characteristics for the left and right hand.

Nanoimprint lithography is a next generation lithography technology, which enables to fabricate nano to micron-scale patterns through simple and low cost process. Nanoimprint lithography has been applied in various industry fields such as light emitting diodes, solar cells and display. Functional patterns, including anti-reflection moth-eye pattern, photonic crystal pattern, fabricated by nanoimprint lithography are used to improve overall efficiency of devices in that fields. For these reasons, in this study, sub-micron-scaled functional patterns were directly fabricated on Si and glass substrates by thermal imprinting process using ZnO nano-particles dispersion resin. Through the thermal imprinting process, arrays of sub-micron-scaled pillar and hole patterns were successfully fabricated on the Si and glass substrates. And then, the topography, components and optical property of the imprinted ZnO nano-particles/resin patterns are characterized by Scanning Electron Microscope, Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and UV-vis spectrometer, respectively.

In this study, to fabricate a low-resistance and high optical transparency electrode film, the following steps were performed: the design and manufacture of electroforming stamp, the fabrication of a thermal roll-imprinted polycarbonate (PC) patterned films, the filled low-resistance Ag paste using doctor blade process on patterned PC films and spin coating by conductive polymers. As a result of PC films imprinted line width of $26.69{\pm}2\;{\mu}m$, channel length of $247.57{\pm}2\;{\mu}m$, and pattern depth of $7.54{\pm}0.2\;{\mu}m$. Ag paste to fill part of the patterned film with conductive polymer coating and then the following parameters were obtained: a sheet resistance of $11.1\;{\Omega}/sq$ optical transparency values at a wavelength of 550 nm was 80.31 %.

Breathing is a crucial human process that requires easy and accurate monitoring. There are several available breathing monitoring methods which are based on strapping subjects with special sensors for monitoring their breathing rate. The results of these methods have been acceptable but connecting people with such equipment is awkward, especially in the case of monitoring the breathing of infants who have tiny and sensitive bodies. Therefore, providing a noncontact method is a good alternative. Thermal imaging is one of the latest non-contact passive techniques that are used for monitoring and controlling different human processes, including breathing. In this paper, a thermal image feature extraction method with neural network based classification system is developed to be used as part of a breathing monitoring system. The classification is based on matching the entries of mixed breathing images, either breath-in or breath-out images, with their desired values. The extracted breathing image features are used as entries for the neural network classifier. The neural network based model has produced promising classification results. Additionally, it has been possible to calculate the breathing rate of each subject from the classification results.

In this study, the change of optical characteristics was studied according to the micro optical pattern provided by photo lithography followed by thermal reflow process. The shape and luminance variation with micro pattern was evaluated by SEM and spectrometers. Also, we analyzed the luminance characteristics using the 3D-optical simulation (Optis works) program. As a result, we found that the radius of curvature(R) in micro pattern is decreased up to 77%($150^{\circ}C$) compared to the radius of curvature at the condition $100^{\circ}C$, which is caused by efficient reflow of organic material without chemical changes. The highest enhancement of brightness with optimum micro pattern was obtained at the condition of $120^{\circ}C$ reflow process. The brightness gain with optical micro patterns is more than 15% at the condition of R=16.95 um, ${\Theta}=77.14^{\circ}$ compared to original optical source. The results of light simulation with various radius of curvature and side angle of pattern shows the similar result of experiment evaluation of light behavior on optical micro patterns. It is regarded that the more effect on light enhancement was contributed by side angle which is effective factor on light reflection, rather than the curvature of micro-patterns.

A dimeric precursor, $[Cu(dmae)(OCOCH_3)(H_2O)]_2$ for the CVD of copper metal films, (dmaeH = N,N-dimethylaminoethanol) was synthesized by the reaction of copper(II) acetate monohydrate ($Cu(OCOCH_3)_2{\cdot}H_2O$) and dmaeH in toluene. The product was characterized by m.p. determination, elemental analysis and X-ray crystallography. Molecular structure of $[Cu(dmae)(OCOCH_3)(H_2O)]_2$ shows that a dimeric unit $[Cu(dmae)(OCOCH_3)(H_2O)]_2$ is linked to another through hydrogen bond and it undergoes facile decomposition at 300 C to deposit granular copper metal film under nitrogen atmosphere. The decomposition temperature, thermal behaviour, kinetic parameters, evolved gas pattern of the complex, morphology, and the composition of the film were also investigated.

Thermal behavior of Flow Pattern Defect (FPD) and Large Pit (LP) in Czochralski Silicon crystals was investigated by applying high temperature ($\geq$1100$^{\circ}C$) annealing and non-agitation Secco etching. For evaluation of the effect of LP upon device performance / yield, DRAM and ASIC devices were fabricated. The results indicate that high temperature annealing generates LPs whereas it decreases FPD density drastically, and LP does not have detrimental effects on the performance /

Laser speckle patterns were used to monitor variations of thermal voltages of a cathode during a battery discharge. Discharge voltages measured with an oscilloscope were utilized as a figure of merit of thermal voltages in Zn metal. Using an optical imaging system, speckle patterns were taken for zinc metal surface over a time period of 3 minutes. Pixel sum distribution functions (PSDFs) were extracted from speckle patterns. Accumulated pixel sums quantified from PSDFs over an optimized grayscale range strongly correlated with discharge voltages. This suggested that dark matter or particles may have the capability of both absorbing and radiating thermal energies simultaneously. The black body-like properties were able to be validated by identifying coincidences with distinct features of a black body spectrum. The pixels belonging to the grayscale range were confirmed to represent dark matter of a speckle pattern. It was clear that dark matter was part of surface plasmon carriers. The proposed sensing system can be applied to monitor thermal energy variations in any material.

This study discusses a non-contact optical technique (electronic speckle pattern interferometry) that is well suited for thermal deformation measurement without any surface preparation and compensating process. Fiber reinforced plastics ($[0]_{16},\;[0/90]_{8S}$) were analyzed by ESPI to determine their thermal expansion coefficients. The thermal expansion coefficient of the transverse direction of a uniaxial composite is evaluated as $48.78{\times}10^{-6}(1/^{\circ}C)$. Also, the thermal expansion coefficient of the cross-ply laminate $[0/90]_{8S}$ is numerically estimated as $3.23{\times}10^{-6}(1/^{\circ}C)$ that is compared with that measured by ESPI.

기존의 상용화된 Ni-Cr tie-coating 물질은 내열성 시험 후 강도가 저하되고, Cr 성분이 patterning후에 완벽하게 제거 되지 않아서 누설 전류를 만드는 단점을 갖고 있다. 따라서 이 연구에서는 기존의 Ni-Cr 과 삼원계 Ni-Cr-X(X는 Nb, V, Mo, Ti) 물질의 패터닝성과 내열성을 비교하였다.

세계적으로 석유 연료를 대체할 에너지원인 전기에너지에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있고, 전기자동차 뿐만 아니라 항공기에 사용할 고출력 전동기에 관한 연구 및 개발이 진행되고 있다. 고출력 밀도를 갖는 전동기의 경우 방열설계가 잘되어 있지 않으면, 발열로 인한 전동기의 성능과 내구성 및 수명이 단축되게 된다. 본 논문에서는 소형 항공기의 이륙, 상승, 순항구간에 요구되는 출력특성을 만족하도록 설계된 전동기에 대해, 항공 운항 Mission Profile의 출력 및 시간변동에 따른 온도 특성을 분석해 보았다.

3D 프린터를 이용하면 짧은 시간에 복잡한 3차원 형상을 제작하는 것이 가능하며 적층하는 횟수를 조절하여 제작물의 크기와 모양, 두께를 쉽게 조절할 수 있다. 또한, 표면 열처리 기술을 적용하여 열로 표면을 처리하게 되면 매끄러운 표면 도출과 함께 외부 충격에 대한 내구성 및 접착력을 향상시킬 수 있다. 이러한 표면처리 기술은 촉각패턴과 표면과의 접착력의 제어가 가능하기 때문에 종이뿐만 아니라, 플라스틱, 금속, 세라믹 등 다양한 소재로 이루어진 표면에 적용이 가능하다. 따라서 본 연구에서 제안하는 3D 프린팅 기술과 표면 열처리 방식을 이용하면 기존의 점자 제작 방식을 개선할 수 있으며 기존 방법으로 표현하기 어려웠던 교과서 내에 삽입된 다양한 유물이나 동식물의 성장 과정 모델 등의 학습 자료를 입체적으로 만들 수 있다.

In this paper, temperature change properties on the 210kW-class Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (IPMSM) are performed with the cooling performance of a water cooling device through the thermal characteristic analysis of the IPMSM considering a real driving pattern of urban railway vehicles. First, the thermal analysis modeling of 210kW-class IPMSM, which is an alternative to the conventional induction motor, and its water cooling device is conducted. Next, the thermal characteristic analysis of the IPMSM considering a real driving pattern of urban railway vehicles is performed using 2-Dimensional FEM tool. Finally, the calculated characteristic results are analyzed. Consequently, it is confirmed that the internal temperature of the 210kW-class IPMSM may be lowered to about 42~52% by maintaining the coolant flow rate of the water cooling device (Cross sectional shape of the pipe has 220mm width and 10mm height) for 0.2kg/s level.

The study was to analysis the dispersion of the cooling water of Kori atomic power station using thermal infrared data. The dispersion pattern of the cooling water analysis clearly on the LANDSAT TM band 6. It was changed due to tidal current, that is, the cooling water disperses north-eastern direction during the low tide and southweatern direction during the high tide. The relative temperature distribution was mapped through the density slicing method on the images.