Developing cooling system application for the immobile patients

본 연구의 목적은 Display 산업의 중요성에 주목하여 옥외 광고를 위한 LCD 패널용 콘솔(이하 'LCD 콘솔'이라 한다.)을 개발하는데 있다. 본 연구의 핵심 과제는 LCD 콘솔의 내부온도를 제어할 수 있도록 해주는 냉각시스템(Cooling System)을 개발하는 것이다. 냉각시스템은 상용화되어 있는 냉각휀(Cooling Fan), 히트싱크(Heat sinks), 열전소자(Thermo Electronic Module) 등의 제품들을 시스템적으로 통합시키는 응용기술로서 통계적 검정기법을 적용하여 개발되었다. 본 연구는 먼저 냉각시스템을 설계/제작한 후 실험을 통하여 냉각시스템 제어에 필요한 인자들의 설정 값들을 구하는 과정을 보였다. 이어서 개발된 냉각시스템을 이용하여 46인치 LCD Panel이 탑재된 LCD 콘솔을 설계/제작하고 실험을 통하여 완성품 LCD 콘솔의 성능을 확인하는 과정을 보였다. The development of the console for exterior advertizing LCD Panel(LCD Console) is the purpose of this study with regard to importance of display industry. In this study, the most important point is to develop the cooling system for LCD Console. It is developed by using systematic application techniques and statistical tests and analysis to integrate commercial components, cooling fan, heat sink, thermo electronic modules etc, of it. This study, at first, shows design/manufacturing process of the cooling system and the setting process of control factors to control through experimentation. Next, after constructing the complete console, 46 inch LCD Panel and the cooling system are built in, the performance test of it is shown through experimentation.

We report on the development of an automated visual inspection system for liquid crystal display (LCD) modules. The system comprises a highly graphical software program, a unique image processing algorithm, a PC interface card for driving different types of LCD modules, and a universal test jig for holding these modules. The system is able to detect faulty or malfunctioning LCD modules with minimum intervention from human operator; allows testing to be carried out for evaluating the display quality such as contrast ratio; is able to create new test databases for new LCD modules; allows permanent storage/backup of test databases for each individual LCD module; and provides a friendly user interface for ease of operation. In addition, the system has the following features: different access levels for different users; an editor for creating software drivers for driving different types of LCD modules; and a graphical help facility.

Reviewed by: The TVs of Tomorrow: How RCA's Flat-screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs by Benjamin Gross Michael Aaron Dennis (bio) The TVs of Tomorrow: How RCA's Flat-screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs By Benjamin Gross. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 288. We live surrounded by LCD (liquid crystal display) screens; Ben Gross's volume explains the origins of this technology at RCA and how the iconic American firm failed to deliver it to the world. This fascinating story of industrial research, corporate politics, and technological change blends science, technology, and business histories. Gross locates the emergence, efflorescence, and decline of LCD screens at the intersection of three distinct axes—the material logic of LCDs, that is their physical chemistry and often recalcitrant behavior plus the infrastructure for their creation and use; RCA's strategic goals as well as the Sarnoff Laboratory's role in fulfilling them; and the interactions among researchers, their managers, and other RCA divisions. One of the many interesting things readers learn is that the technology dominating our lives received so little support from RCA management. Indeed, they ultimately seemed to value LCD patents more than developing televisions based on this novel display technology. Noteworthy are Gross's discussions about the problem of finding the sources needed to write the history of late twentieth-century corporate R&D. RCA's quest for a follow-up to its color television came in 1951, with legendary founder David Sarnoff's challenge to develop a light amplifier. Efforts ensued to find alternatives to the standard display technology, the CRT (cathode ray tube). RCA pioneered the mass production of these glass bubbles, and it proved hard to break from this anchoring technology. Only after it became clear that CRTs could not be flattened in order to hang from walls and display a quality picture did researchers and management explore and develop alternatives. By 1964, the company's research included liquid crystals and their chemistry; however, as Gross points out, it was never really a large research group. Compared to the well-studied RCA video disc, called a "Manhattan Project," RCA's work on LCDs was a modest effort. Although [End Page 1240] public relations people hyped the research and its potential, this was never a corporate moon shot. Gross rightly highlights the problems in manufacturing the new technology once researchers overcame problems at the bench. Using laboratory notebooks, he delineates how researchers solved the issue of LCDs working at room temperature. Building bridges with RCA's manufacturing divisions became as vital as laboratory research to keep LCD work alive, while management paid more attention to a struggling computer effort and the firm's traditional color television business. Even once the multiple manufacturing problems were solved, the LCDs produced by RCA were for watch displays, not the wall-hanging televisions of the future. The initial secrecy surrounding LCD research demonstrated how highly it was valued, yet RCA soon viewed patents as the real source of value compared to physical products, given the costs and difficulties of profitably manufacturing LCDs in America. Gross's interviews and archival work display the full range of skills required to move lab products to the factory, including individuals with the requisite social skills to borrow resources from other groups. This social aspect of intra-laboratory relations is especially well portrayed. Gross plays with Clayton Christensen's ideas of disruptive innovation in explaining why RCA failed to capitalize on its role as a pioneer in LCD research. He follows LCD researchers at RCA to a new start-up, Optel that fails to take advantage of new LCD chemistry, instead sticking to RCA-based technologies. Small size did not prevent an aversion to change. In his final eloquent chapter, Gross explains that it was only once LCD technology had left RCA that it really grew and developed—as multiple firms, first on the West Coast and then in Japan, invested in significant R&D with specific products in mind. Seiko developed a watch-sized LCD television more advanced than Dick Tracy's, while Sharp demonstrated a fourteen-inch color display in 1988. Ironically, Sharp had approached RCA in 1970 about...

The Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) module in a high power TEA CO2 laser is easy to couple with electromagnetic interference, so as to affect the normal work of the laser. Therefore, this paper explores the prediction method of Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) for the LCD module under transient irradiation in an electromagnetic field. The coupling mechanism of electromagnetic interference received by the LCD module integrated in the laser system was analyzed. On the basis of the coupling of field and line, the field line electromagnetic interference of the LCD module was analyzed and calculated by using the BLT equation in the Taylor form, then, the prediction results were verified by several experimentally. The experimental results show that the interference voltage produced by connect cables coupled with electromagnetic fields on the data lines of LCD display module is 1 V, and exceeds the noise margin of the circuit. So the EMC control measures must be taken to ensure the performance of the LCD module. Moreover, the verification experiments indicate that prediction results for the EMC has correctly reflected the actual EMC performance of LCD module. The method has a guiding significance for prediction and design of EMC of electrical equipment in high-power TEA CO2 lasers.

Using image analysis techniques to enhance TFT-LCD manufacturing yield through timely detection of PI alignment layer defects

An in-plane switching (IPS) liquid crystal display (LCD) containing the zero-azimuth anchoring layers formed only on the electrodes and rubbed polyimide (PI) covered on the other areas was successfully developed. This configuration was realized using photoreactive PI with photo-radical generation units and the mask exposure technique. The maximum transmittance (Tmax) of this LCD was 1.12 times higher than that of a conventional IPS LCD. This was attributed to a large aperture in the voltage-on state because the nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) on the electrodes were barely anchored to the surface, such that the NLCs could be rotated by applying a small in-plane electric field above the electrodes, and by an elastic torque caused by the twisted NLCs between the electrodes. Furthermore, the response times of this LCD were equivalent to those of a conventional IPS LCD because the NLCs between the electrodes quickly recovered to their initial orientation after removing the electric field, and the NLCs on the electrodes followed this movement. This novel LCD is termed a ‘partially zero-azimuth anchoring IPS (PZ-IPS) LCD’, which is the first practical LCD utilizing these weak anchoring characteristics in the history of LCDs.

Background Five-megapixel (MP) displays are recommended as soft copy devices for digital mammogram. An 8-MP liquid crystal display (LCD) (two 4-MP displays within one display) might offer the advantage of being able to view biplane mammography more easily than the dual planes of 5-MP LCDs. Purpose To compare detectability of Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) category 3 or higher lesions and reading time on mammography between 5- MP and 8-MP LCDs. Material and Methods The mammograms of 240 breasts of 120 patients including 60 breasts with BI-RADS category 3 or higher lesions and 180 breasts with normal or category 2 lesions were enrolled. All bilateral mammograms were displayed on bifacial 5-MP LCDs or an 8-MP LCD (two 4-MP displays within one display). Six radiologists assessed 240 breasts on each display. The observations were analyzed using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. A jack-knife method was used for statistical analysis. We employed a paired t-test to determine whether any significant differences existed in the reading time between two different displays. A P value < 0.05 was considered significant. Results The mean areas under the ROC curve obtained using 5-MP and 8-MP LCDs were 0.925 and 0.915, respectively, and there was no significant difference ( P = 0.46). There was also no significant difference in the reading time between two types of displays (57.8 min. vs. 51.5 min, P = 0.39). Conclusion The detectability of BI-RADS category 3 or higher lesions and reading time using an 8-MP LCD were comparable to those using a 5-MP LCD.

Liquid crystal display (LCD) devices are well known to have slow response due to the physical limitations of the liquid crystals. Therefore, fast moving objects in a scene are often seen blurred on an LCD. In order to reduce motion blur, an accurate LCD model and an efficient deblurring algorithm are needed. However, existing LCD models are inadequate to reflect the human eye tracking limitation. Also, the spatial-temporal equivalence in LCD models is widely used but not proven directly in the 2D discrete spatial domain. In this paper, we study the human eye tracking limit by reviewing a number of papers in the cognitive science literature. We provide both theoretical and experimental arguments to support our findings. Also, we prove the spatial-temporal equivalence rigourously and verify the results using real video sequences.

Dual-panel liquid crystal displays with wide colour gamut and high luminance

How human perceptions of Mura affect LCD market values

The present work describes methods to reduce the thickness of glass substrate used in a liquid crystal display (LCD). Reduction of the thickness improves a thin and ligh-weight performance of LCDs. For this purpose, a fluoride-base chemical was introduced as an etchant of the LCD glass. The new etchant was tested and evaluated by comparing it with the conventional etchant, hydrofluoric acid. An apparatus was also introduced. In the apparatus, rollers were used to remove the reaction products of the etchant and glass. Operation of a pilot-scale equipment showed that the total thickness variation and surface roughness, Ra, was less than 1.0 μm and 0.01 μm, respectively, when the LCD glass plate of 550×650mm was thinned from 0.8 mm to 0.61 mm. This indicates that the thinning process developed in the present work can be directly applied to make small-sized LCD modules such as PDAs, cellular phones, digital cameras, etc., using the 0.6 mm thick glass without any additional process like polishing. Improvement of yield is expected due to remarkable improvement of thickness uniformity. Modification of the present process is needed for making large-sized LCD modules for notebook computers using the 0.4 mm or thinner glass.

To improve angular dependence of liquid crystal displays(LCDs), three LCD configurations are proposed. Two of these configurations correspond to transmissive LCDs and the remaining one to reflective LCDs. Each configuration includes negative Δ n compensators whose optical axes take the similar liquid crystal director profile.

The most common electronic paper technology is E‐ink, which enables many novel applications such as e‐readers, watches and electronic shelf labels. However, due to the TFT backplane driving and complex production processes, the cost of this technology is high, which limits its popularity. Recently, a low‐cost π‐bistable twist nematic (π‐BTN) liquid crystal display with a high pretilt angle is proposed. It has the same structure and production method as an ordinary liquid crystal display. Passive driving enables the manufacture of high‐resolution bistable displays without the use of thin‐film transistors. Compared with the current bistable twist nematic display technology, the high pretilt angles structure helps to achieve a low‐voltage and fast‐respond bistable display. This wide viewing angle, high contrast and TFT‐free display is a promising candidate for flexible displays.

Efficiency is one of the most important characteristics of a solar panel. It is the ability of the solar panel to convert light energy to electrical energy. One of the factors that affect the solar efficiency is the temperature. As the temperature increases, the solar panel’s efficiency decreases. Thus, the proponents developed a power effective, sustainable, and cost-effective cooling system that keeps the solar panel’s temperature low by sprinkling water on the surface of the solar panel using an Arduino Microcontroller. After series of testing and evaluation, the cooling system was able to increase the efficiency up to 22.14% with a minimal water loss of 0.31% per hour. The cooling agent used which is the water was also found to be a reliable cooling agent since it only reached 23.49°C after four days of testing.

As the physical properties of nematic liquid crystals vary with respect to temperature, the performances of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are highly dependent on temperature. Additionally, it is well known that the electro‐optic characteristics of LCDs, such as transmittance and threshold voltage, also rely on the LCD switching modes. The temperature dependence of the electro‐optic characteristics of the wide‐viewing‐angle LCD modes, such as in‐plane switching (IPS), multidomain vertical alignment by patterned electrode (PVA), and fringe‐field switching (FFS), have been studied, and the results showed that the FFS mode has lower temperature dependence compared to the IPS and PVA modes. Since the liquid crystal (LC) reorients in different ways in each mode, this result is associated with the temperature dependence of LC's bend and twist elastic constants, and also with the position of the main reorientation, either in the middle or on the surface of the LC layer.