著者
藤 智亮 立石 憲治
出版者
公益社団法人 日本設計工学会
雑誌
設計工学 (ISSN:09192948)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.52, no.4, pp.217-228, 2017 (Released:2017-04-05)
参考文献数
25

In this study, an electric swinging crib was designed to calm crying babies by giving them comfortable swinging stimuli. In addition, the authors examined and verified the usefulness of the designed crib comparing with an existing type of electric baby rack. To test our design, an experiment was carried out with 6 two month old babies at Kyushu University. In the experiment, after crying continuously for 30 seconds, the 6 babies were exposed to two different cases of swinging stimuli, as well as ‘no stimuli’ case for 4 minutes. The two cases of swinging stimuli were as follows; ‘Swing I’ (the swing by the proposed crib), and ‘Swing A’ (the swing by an existing baby rack). Babies calming responses were assessed with both behavioral and physiological indices. Regarding behavioral indices, the results showed that both ‘Swing I’ and ‘Swing A’ were effective to calm babies’ down. As for physiological indices, we analyzed the result of each baby’s heart rate and found out a possibility that ‘Swing I’ is more effective than ‘Swing A’. Furthermore, a declaration result by each baby’s mother also showed the possibility that ‘Swing I’ is more effective than ‘Swing A’.
著者
山崎 祐亮 北山 哲士 高野 昌宏 合葉 修司
出版者
公益社団法人 日本設計工学会
雑誌
設計工学 (ISSN:09192948)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.2017.2784, (Released:2018-06-27)
参考文献数
15

In plastic injection molding (PIM), warpage should be minimized for high product quality whereas cycle time should also be minimized for high productivity. Process parameters such as melt temperature, packing pressure, and cooling time strongly affect both the product quality and the productivity, and it is important to determine the optimal process parameters. This paper proposes a method to determine the optimal process parameters for the warpage and the cycle time minimization. Variable packing pressure profile that the packing pressure varies during the packing phase is adopted. Three dimensional cooling channel is also used for the warpage and cycle time minimization. Numerical simulation in the PIM is so intensive that a sequential approximate optimization is used to identify the pareto-frontier. Based on the numerical result, the experiment using the PIM machine is carried out. Through the numerical and experimental result, it is confirmed that the proposed approach is valid to the warpage and the cycle time minimization.
著者
荒川 俊也 杉森 順子
出版者
公益社団法人 日本設計工学会
雑誌
設計工学 (ISSN:09192948)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.2017.2746, (Released:2017-11-10)
参考文献数
18

This study examines the effect of manufacturing education on mechanical engineering students using an art work based on design thinking. The miniature movable monument of “flexible dimension (by Junko Sugimori)” is developed. Based on many real-monument pictures and the outline of the miniature monuments created using 3D printer, a basic model of miniature monuments is created. To move the miniature monument, the motion data of the finger was captured via Leap Motion technology and the data was transmitted via XBee processing and the angle of rotation was calculated. From this project, which discusses miniature monument development, students learned about the relation between manufacturing and art based on design thinking.
著者
藤本 滋 今井 健嗣 一木 正聡
出版者
公益社団法人 日本設計工学会
雑誌
設計工学 (ISSN:09192948)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.52, no.9, pp.567-582, 2017 (Released:2017-09-05)
参考文献数
17

Electrical power generation devices that use piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate (PZT) have been developed to convert mechanical energy given by structural vibration into electrical energy. This paper describes an analytical and experimental study conducted to clarify the power-generation characteristics of the laminated PZT element doped with Nb 1.0 mol% under vibration loads and to examine optimal layer number of the laminated PZT element. In the analytical study, theoretical formulas on the power generation characteristics of the PZT element under the vibrational loads are derived by considering the equivalent circuit model consisting of the laminated PZT element. Optimal layer number deduced from the theoretical formula is 11 layers, and 11-layers PZT elements are produced in order to investigate the power-generation characteristics. In the experimental study, the effects of the number of layers of the laminated PZT element, the loads and frequencies on the power-generation characteristics of the laminated PZT element are evaluated by vibration tests. The experimentally obtained results are in good agreement with the values obtained theoretically and the validity of the theoretical formulas to vibration force of the laminated piezoelectric element was confirmed. Further, the optimal layer number of the laminated PZT element is confirmed to be 11 layers.
著者
田中 好一 平田 克己 伊澤 悟 堀 三計
出版者
公益社団法人 日本設計工学会
雑誌
設計工学 (ISSN:09192948)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.52, no.1, pp.41-50, 2017 (Released:2017-01-05)
参考文献数
8

The handbell that enjoys performing the bell as a percussion instrument in the group is performed actively in the school, in the church, and in the community circle. Moreover, it is paid to attention as the music therapy. However, many of marketed hand bells are made of the bronze. So, the hand bell in the bass region becomes large, heavy, and expensive. Everyone can not readily enjoy. The researchers study to make the hand bell that is suitable for the purpose of use such as light, easy to use, and comparatively cheap. We also study the suitable material for the use of the hand bell. In the present study, the influence of the processing error on the pitch has been shown using the self-made handbell of pitch of C#7.
著者
今関 一飛 保井 俊之 前野 隆司
出版者
Japan Society for Design Engineering
雑誌
設計工学 (ISSN:09192948)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.51, no.1, pp.51-66, 2015

Wants Chain Analysis (WCA) is a method that analyses relationships between stakeholders. WCA is an intuitive and useful method, however it have not a way to evaluate quantitatively. Therefore it is difficult to use WCA for a decision-making. The proposed method provides a quantitative method for WCA and it can be used for a decision-making. In this method, at first, usual WCA is performed for as-is and to-be system. Next, "overall satisfaction of wants (OSW)" is calculated for all stakeholders and each system. To calculate the OSW, concept of Analytic Hierarchy Process is applied. If the difference of OSW between to-be and as-is system is positive in all stakeholders, the to-be system is valuable. Therefore, by using the proposed method, we can decide whether the system is effective or not. To validate this proposed method, we tried to apply this method to example of real business-model. Through this analysis, effectiveness of proposed method is confirmed.
著者
陳 献平 綿貫 啓一 楓 和憲 大谷 成子
出版者
公益社団法人 日本設計工学会
雑誌
設計工学 (ISSN:09192948)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.2015.2675, (Released:2016-05-19)
参考文献数
17
被引用文献数
1

The on-screen keyboard is widely used for text input in mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets. However, the screen area of such devices is not sufficiently wide for smooth input and poses a difficulty to users. Therefore, this paper proposes a gesture-based text entry method that is based on the property of Japanese Hiragana-50-phonemic-table with two-step finger gesture sequence. The first step gesture is to specify the row, such as “a ka sa ta na”, and the second is to specify the column, “a i u e o”. This method does not require a predetermined input area and can be used anywhere on the screen surface. We conducted experiments with ten test subjects who were accustomed to conventional flick entry and found that the proposed method was easy to learn. The input speed was estimated to about half the speed of the flick entry method. This can be attributed to the need for one stroke in flick entry based on-screen keyboards, while the proposed method requires two strokes. Further, the entry rate accuracy was observed to be 91.5%. The experimental results show that the proposed method is practically applicable as a new text entry method.