Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hirokazu Takeuchi

Etsuzo Nomura

Shigeru Suzuki

Hirosumi Itoh

Hirosumi Ito

Kohichi Akahane

Kazunori Irie

A fabric position correcting device detects the position of at least one of an outer profile line and a pattern of a fabric portion corresponding to one of pressers, corrects the position of the fabric portion while holding the same whose position has been detected, and presses the fabric portion with the presser after the position thereof has been corrected. The aligning process composed of the above three steps is carried out four times successively with respect to fabric portions corresponding to the respective pressers from the leading end of the fabric in the direction in which it is fed. Then, the positionally corrected fabrics are fed to the sewing start position. Therefore, the positional correction of the fabrics relative to at least one of the outer profile line and the pattern thereof can be accurately, reliably, and automatically carried out from the leading end to trailing end of the fabrics.

Method of positioning and feeding fabric in sewing machine

A processing device for processing a sheet material with a pattern of the present invention is such as a sewing machine with pattern matching operation. The processing device has a detecting unit for detecting a color state of the pattern of the sheet material and producing a color state signal indicative of the color state. The processing device processes the sheet material on the basis of the color state signal produced by said detecting means. According to the present invention, the processing device is provided with an automatic adjusting unit for adjusting the detecting unit to allow the detecting unit to produce a desired color state signal with respect to a reference color state. Therefore, the white balance or the dynamic range is properly adjusted simply and reliably for the processing device.

Device for processing sheet material with colored pattern

A fabric position correcting device for correcting relative position of two fabrics in terms of alignment in at least one of outer profile lines and patterns of the fabrics. A pair of fabric holders are provided which respectively hold first and second fabrics. The holders are movable in X, Y directions, and angularly rotatable about a vertical axis for moving the respective fabrics. A pair of image sensors are provided for picking up at least one of outer profiles and patterns of the respective fabrics. Data from the image sensors are utilized for computation of moving distance and angular rotation angle of the holders in order to eliminate misalignment between two fabrics in terms of at least one of the profiles and patterns.

Fabric position correcting device

A pattern matching sewing machine comprises a sewing means for sewing two superposed sheets of cloth having substantially identical patterns thereon, a feeding means for feeding the two cloth sheets into the sewing means, a detecting means for detecting a mismatch distance between the patterns on the two cloth sheets, and a transport means to transport the two cloth sheets relatively. The pattern displacement amount detected by the pattern mismatch distance amount detecting means may be reduced. A determining means is provided for determining whether pattern matching is possible or not based on the information relating to the mismatch distance obtained by the detecting means.

Pattern matching sewing machine

A pattern-matching sewing machine for sewing two sheets, (e.g. two cloths) having the same patterns with their patterns matching. The sewing machine has a plurality of mismatch calculation modes. The operator selects one of the calculation modes appropriate to the type or characteristics of the pattern to be sewn and the mismatch distance is calculated according to the selected mode.

Pattern-matching sewing machine

A pattern-matching sewing machine having a feed-correcting means for accurately adjusting feed amount using a correction factor with three values which are set according to various sewing conditions such as species of cloths and a speed of a main motor. When the feed amount for pattern matching is calculated based on only a mismatch distance detected by a photo-sensor, the accurate pattern matching is not achieved due to the various sewing conditions. Therefore, the feed-correcting means selects the optimum one of the three values to accurately correct the feed amount for a good pattern matching.

A pattern-matching sewing machine that constantly samples photo-intensity data during calculation of a mismatch distance and during adjustment of the feeding mechanism based on the calculated mismatch distance. When the adjustment is finished, a new mismatch-distance calculation is quickly started, not by waiting for sampling new photo-intensity data of a predetermined number, but by using photo-intensity data of the predetermined number including the data thus sampled during the previous calculation and adjustment, and the previously stored data which have been used in the previous calculation.

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Aichi, Japan

Hirokazu Takeuchi