| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 700136000 |
Sewing
| 57 |
| 700131000 |
Pattern design
| 25 |
| 700141000 |
Knitting
| 10 |
| 700140000 |
Loom control | 5 |
| 20120253501 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATES FOR COATED FABRICS - A system and a method are disclosed for weaving SC fabrics using multiple weft insertion. The system and method may be used to increase the thread count of the SC fabric while reducing fabric costs. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20130166058 | Three-Dimensional Weave-Forming Equipment for Composites - A three-dimensional weave forming equipment for composites mainly comprises a main body portion and a specific numerical control software for three-dimensional weaving process. The main body portion comprises a movement system for a controllable digital template, a movement system for a pickup device and a movement control system for a guiding sleeve. Compared with the existing three-dimensional weave-forming equipment, the three-dimensional weave-forming equipment for composites is highly automatic. Products made by the equipment are smooth at inner and outer surfaces, and have advantages of high precise dimension, low porosity and stable performance. And it can be reinforced partially and have directional property according to requirements of design. So problems of simple cross-section of the finished part and too much pores in the products, which manufactured by the existing three-dimensional weave forming equipment are solved. The three-dimensional weave forming equipment for composites is especially suitable for producing products with large dimension and complex external structure. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130190917 | Three-Dimensional Weaving System - Different weaving materials, apparatuses, and methods are provided for producing woven textiles having different functional and aesthetic characteristics as compared to woven textiles produced using conventional methods. The different weaving materials comprise reactive materials or combined materials produced by an intermittent splicer. The different apparatuses include finishing devices for introducing organically-shaped lateral edges and interior apertures, and three-dimensional effectors for introducing three-dimensional aspects into a product as it is being woven. Weaving methods include simultaneously weaving fine denier panels and coarse denier panels. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20160069003 | AGGREGATING TEXTILES FOR PRODUCTION - Techniques for operating a loom to produce multiple different textiles during a single operation of the loom. Conventionally, a loom produces a single textile during each single operation of the loom. When producing multiple different textiles during a single operation of the loom, a single run of the mill may generate the multiple different textiles for multiple different customers. In some embodiments, during a single operation of a loom, the loom may generate a single piece of loom-finished fabric that includes multiple different textiles for multiple different customers and, following the single run of the mill, the single piece of loom-finished fabric may be cut apart to yield the different textiles, which may be one, two, more than five, more than ten, or any suitable number of different textiles for any suitable number of different customers. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160177481 | MONITORING DEVICE FOR A WEAVING MACHINE, WEAVING MACHINE, AND METHOD FOR MONITORING | 06-23-2016 |
| 700134000 |
Pattern cutting | 5 |
| 20130054000 | Attachment for embroidery and sewing machines for creating crystal/rhinestone patterns and motifs, and software functions to control the attachment - Method for creating a crystal/rhinestone template utilizing a sewing/embroidery machine to perforate a medium in a desired pattern. In the case of a multiple-needle sewing/embroidery machine, the machine's needle is replaced by a perforator blade and perforator blade holder which are attached to machine's needle bar. Machine's needle plate is replaced by perforator plate and waste holder. With a single-needle sewing/embroidery machine, machine's needle is replaced by a pressing tool attached to the machine's needle bar. A contact point, a spring, and an arm are attached to machine's presser foot. Machine's needle plate is replaced by perforator plate. A template medium is placed on a work surface of machine. Machine is operated by software that reads a user-specified pattern/motif outline for filling stones in vector form, using innate rules to move machine frame and control hole placement. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130116815 | APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An apparatus includes a processor and a memory configured to store computer-readable instructions that instruct the apparatus to execute steps comprising acquiring pattern data, identifying needle drop points on a pattern line, identifying, as a corresponding cutting needle for each of the plurality of needle drop points, one of cutting needles configured to be attachable to needle bars of a multi-needle sewing machine in a state in which directions of cutting edges are different from each other, storing needle drop point data and cutting needle data in association with each other in the memory, identifying an extending direction of fibers of the work cloth, replacing the cutting needle data in which an angle between the extending direction and the direction of the cutting edge does not satisfy a predetermined relationship, with other data indicating another cutting needle in which the angle satisfies the predetermined relationship, and generating cut data. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130144424 | GARMENT PRODUCTION SYSTEM - A system for producing a garment on demand according to a selected garment design and a wearer's measurements. The system can cut garment pieces from material according to the selected garment design, and can couple the garment pieces together to assemble the garment. Transport mechanisms can manipulate the garment pieces during cutting and assembly of the garment. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20140288691 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELIMINATING EXTERNAL PIERCING IN NC CUTTING OF NESTED PARTS - This invention pertains to machinery and methods for cutting a workpiece utilizing a cutting tool into at least two parts having prescribed shapes from a metal plate comprising the steps of: identifying each of the parts by one or more contour lines; cutting a workpiece along one of the identifying contour lines into one of the parts; creating at least one path diversion, wherein the diversion has an associated bounded region or opportunity; cutting the workpiece along a contour line associated with the opportunity; resuming the cutting of the part along the identifying contour line with minimal damage to the part being cut; finishing the cutting of the part and then moving the cutting tool to the opportunity and thence to an associated adjacent identifying contour line and then repeating the process until all parts have been manufactured. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20160031108 | AUTOMATIC CREATION OF APPLIQUE CUTTING DATA FROM MACHINE EMBROIDERY DATA - Using an existing embroidery design that has been created for applique, data is automatically created for a cutting machine, which will cut the applique. Currently, the user currently has to cut these by hand—a labor intensive process or use a custom die that can be expensive. The process only requires that the applique steps in the sewing sequence are labeled as such. Generally, the applique steps are so labeled in order for the design creator to be able to let the sewer know what they are doing. | 02-04-2016 |
| 700143000 |
Having monitoring or inspecting (e.g., abnormality detection) | 4 |
| 20090024245 | Apparatus for monitoring and securing danger zones on power-driven textile machines - In an apparatus for monitoring and securing danger zones on power-driven textile machines, in particular spinning room preparatory machines, having movable machine parts, an optical monitoring device monitors a movable danger zone to form a movable protection zone, such that a person and/or an object intruding into the danger zone triggers a switching operation. To produce an apparatus that allows guarding of danger zones in a simple and reliable manner, stationary monitoring device is present, which is selectively activatable and forms a dynamically movable protection zone around the movable danger zone. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20120310404 | METHOD FOR DETECTING THE STRUCTURE OF A TEXTILE MULTI-FILAMENT PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A TEXTILE MULTI-FILAMENT PRODUCT - A method for detecting the structure of a textile multi-filament product and a method for processing a textile multi-filament product includes detecting the structure. In the method for detecting the structure of the textile multi-filament product, a fed multi-filament product is optically detected in a linear/sectioned manner in a detecting direction different than the feeding direction in order to obtain primary detection data. The detection data are evaluated and a parameter and/or a change thereto describing the structure of the multi-filament product is derived therefrom. The parameter or the change thereto is used in the processing method to control a pre-processing step or a processing step. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20140058553 | CONTROL PANEL AND LAUNDRY MACHINE HAVING THE SAME, FURTHER METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - There are disclosed a control panel ( | 02-27-2014 |
| 20150045939 | STICHWORK STATUS CHECKING SYSTEM, STITCHWORK STATUS CHECKING APPARATUS, STITCHWORK STATUS CHECKING METHOD AND STITCHWORK STATUS CHECKING PROGRAM - A stitchwork status checking apparatus includes a stitchwork data receiver unit that receives stitchwork data on a stitchwork pattern selected and currently stitched by a sewing machine, a converter unit that converts the received stitchwork data into a unique code, a status data receiver unit that receives a unique code converted based on the stitchwork data currently stitched by the sewing machine, and a code comparator unit that compares a code converted by the converter unit with a code received by the status data receiver unit. The stitchwork data receiver unit receives the stitchwork data through a transmission protocol that surely transmits data to a transmission destination. The status data receiver unit receives the code through a transmission protocol that transmits data to a transmission destination within a short time. | 02-12-2015 |
| 700139000 |
Spinning or winding (e.g., yarn) | 3 |
| 20080288101 | Characterization of Fancy Yarn - According to the method for characterizing fancy yarn, at least one characteristic of the fancy yarn is scanned along the longitudinal direction of the fancy yarn. Values of the scanning are evaluated and the results of the evaluation are outputted. The results of the evaluation are the fancy yarn parameters such as base yarn mass, base yarn diameter, slub distance, mass increase of a slub, slub diameter increase, slub diameter, slub length and/or slub total mass. On evaluation, a measurement curve is produced from the values of the scanning, and an area (A(x)) between the measurement curve and a previously determined base yarn mass is computed. A permanent increase in the course of the area (A(x)) is used as a criterion for the presence of a slub. Slubs may be differentiated from yarn imperfections in a reliable manner by way of the area (A(x)). | 11-20-2008 |
| 20140094953 | THREAD CUTTING MACHINE - A thread cutting machine for cutting a thread by rotating a main spindle and moving a feed axis includes a main-spindle speed computing section that computes and outputs a rotation speed of the main spindle based on a main-spindle rotation speed instruction for each thread cutting pass, and an acceleration/deceleration time computing section that computes and outputs an acceleration/deceleration delay time of the feed axis for each thread cutting pass so that a product of multiplication of the acceleration/deceleration delay time of the feed axis and the rotation speed of the main spindle is the same for all thread cutting passes. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140107829 | Textile Machine, Especially Spinning Machine or Winding Machine, with a Control and Communication System - A textile machine, especially a spinning machine or winding machine, has numerous identical workstations arranged beside one another along a longitudinal side, with numerous maintenance devices movable along the workstations for servicing the workstations, and with a control and communication system. The maintenance devices are connected to a bus topology component through a maintenance device bus line, in which case at least some of the bus topology components are connected to the control and communication system with a common bus line. The bus topology components are arranged in a middle area of the textile machine, in the longitudinal direction (LR) of the textile machine. | 04-17-2014 |
| 700142000 |
Fiber preparation | 1 |
| 20140081444 | SEQUENCER SYSTEM FOR AN AUTOMATIC TAPE LAYING AND PROJECTION SYSTEM - An integrated system for building a fiber composite part which includes an automatic fiber placement machine and a laser projector for verification of proper fiber placement. The CNC machine is controlled by a build file, with the laser projector being controlled by a part projection file. A sequencer, responsive to both the build and projection files, automatically controls the sequence of operation of the building of the part and the projection of the boundary information. A display shows the fiber placement information and allows the user to select a particular region of the fiber placement for verification of proper placement. | 03-20-2014 |
| 700135000 |
Pattern matching or positioning | 1 |
| 20180020756 | Computer-Implemented Method For Designing A Garment Or Upholstery By Defining Sequences Of Assembly Tasks | 01-25-2018 |
