동절기 현장 작업자용 발열 장갑의 발열 성능 인자 연구

초록

The work at railway maintenance sites are performed in outdoor environments at night and early in the morning owing to the operating system. Furthermore, it is an environment that is easily exposed to low-temperatures in winter. Hence, workers are vulnerable to a decrease in the temperature of their hands. This can lead to accidents and a decrease in work efficiency because of reduced agility of manual labor. However, disposable gloves for workers mainly used in industrial fields have limitations in their thermal insulation effect. On the other hand, the previously developed heating gloves are limited to leisure and outdoor products. Furthermore, there is no industrial heating glove that needs to be developed that does not impair the agility of workers. Therefore, in this study, industrial heating gloves that can improve work efficiency and safety by utilizing work gloves used in the field and secure market competitiveness simultaneously were developed. Additionally, the applicability of the developed heating gloves to various industrial sites, including railway maintenance sites, was confirmed through several parametric studies related to the heating performance. If the heating gloves developed in this study are commercialized in industrial fields in the future, it is expected to contribute to the improvement of worker safety and work efficiency.

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