International Journal of Rotating Machinery
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 63214, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/IJRM/2006/63214

Noise Source Identification of Small Fan-BLDC Motor System for Refrigerators

Yong-Han Kim,1 Bo-Suk Yang,2 and Chang-Joon Kim3

1CRC for Integrated Engineering Asset Management, School of Engineering Systems, Queensland University of Technology, 2 George Street, Brisbane 4001, QLD, Australia
2School of Mechanical Engineering, Pukyong National University, Yondang-dong Nam-gu, Busan 608-739, South Korea
3Digital Appliance Research Laboratory, LG Electronics Inc., Kuro 3 dong, Kuro-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Received 1 June 2006; Revised 4 September 2006; Accepted 6 September 2006

Copyright © 2006 Yong-Han Kim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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