Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Katsuhisa Hasegawa

Midori Magara

Tomoyasu Niizeki

Harumi Kato

Yasuhiko Kawaguchi

Yoshinori Nakamura

Masahiko Nagai

Shin Ota

Kenichi Mizuno

Kiyokazu Sekine

Harumi Kobayashi

Shinya Fujihara

Masayuki Hori

Kayo Hasui

Daisuke Ueda

Daisuke Abe

Mitsuhiro Iida

Junnosuke Matsuda

Keiji Takimoto

An embroidery sewing machine includes a bed portion, a column portion, an arm portion, and a carriage. The bed portion extends in a first direction. The column portion extends upward from an end portion of the bed portion. The arm portion extends in the first direction from an upper end portion of the column portion. The arm portion includes a support portion provided at one side portion of the arm portion in a second direction crossing the first direction. The carriage includes a frame moving portion and a carriage moving portion. The frame moving portion is configured to move an embroidery frame attached to the carriage. The carriage moving portion is configured to move the frame moving portion in the first direction. The carriage moving portion is supported by the support portion. The carriage moving portion extends downward and has a lower end portion connected to the frame moving portion.

Embroidery sewing machine including carriage for moving embroidery frame attached thereto

A plotter includes a mounting portion, a first movement mechanism, a second movement mechanism, a processor, and a memory. The mounting portion is configured to mount with a pen containing a liquid. The first movement mechanism is configured to relatively move the mounting portion and a workpiece in a movement direction. The second movement mechanism configured to relatively move the mounting portion and the workpiece in a direction intersecting the movement direction. The memory is configured to store computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, instruct the processor to perform processes. The processes include acquiring plot data, acquiring information relating to a remaining amount of the liquid of the pen, setting a relative movement speed of the mounting portion and the workpiece, and controlling the first movement mechanism and the second movement mechanism at the set movement speed, and performing drawing on the workpiece.

Plotter, method for drawing with pen containing liquid using plotter, and pen mountable on plotter

A cutting apparatus includes a holding member disposed at a position opposed to a cutting blade and having an adhesive layer removably holding an object, a pressing unit pressing the object held by the holding member and having a contact portion brought into contact with the object, a region specifying unit specifying a region where an adhesive retention of the adhesive layer is insufficient along a cutting line of the object cut by the blade, and a control unit controlling the pressing unit so that when the object is cut by moving the blade and the holding member holding the object relative to each other, at least either an amount of pressing or a pressing force of the contact portion is changed between a case where the region specified by the region specifying unit is cut and a case where any part other than the specified region is cut.

Cutting apparatus and cutting control program therefor

A cutting apparatus includes a housing formed with an insertion hole, a transfer unit configured to transfer an object inserted through the insertion hole, a reading unit configured to read an image of the object, a platen located opposite the reading unit, and a cutting unit. The reading unit includes a light-transmitting plate. The housing encloses the reading unit, the transfer unit, the platen and the cutting unit. The platen includes a part openable and closable so that a surface of the light-transmitting plate is externally exposed. The platen includes a first platen having a flat surface and a second platen which has a flat surface and is opposed to the surface of the light-transmitting plate and is openable and closable. The second platen is engaged with the first platen so that the flat surface of the second platen is flush with the flat surface of the first platen.

Cutting apparatus

A sewing machine includes a needle bar base, a support shaft, an adjustment member, and an urging portion. The needle bar base has a through hole on an upper end portion. The support shaft is inserted through the through hole and pivotably supports the needle bar base. The support shaft includes a leading end portion. The leading end portion includes a first screw portion. The adjustment member is provided on the support shaft and is configured to move along an axial direction of the support shaft. The adjustment member includes a second screw portion and a first contact portion. The second screw portion is screwed into the first screw portion. The first contact portion is in contact with the needle bar base. The urging portion urges the needle bar base toward the first contact portion of the adjustment member.

Sewing machine

A cutting needle rotation device includes a mounting portion, a first member, a moving member, and a rotation mechanism. The mounting portion is removably mounted on a needle bar of a sewing machine. The first member is a member to which a cutting needle is affixed. The moving member is positioned in a first position when the moving member does not receive an external force and moves to a second position when the moving member receives an external force. The rotation mechanism, when the moving member is in the first position, holds the first member such that the cutting needle does not rotate, and when the moving member moves from the first position to the second position and returns from the second position to the first position, rotates the first member such that the cutting needle rotates by a specified angle of rotation in one direction.

Cutting needle rotation device and sewing machine

An embroidery frame includes a mounting portion, an annular portion, a rotation member, a first guide portion, an extending portion, and a drive mechanism. The mounting portion is mounted on a carriage of a sewing machine. The annular portion holds a work cloth. The rotation member is formed in an annular shape and is supported by the annular portion. The rotation member rotates in a circumference direction of the annular portion. The first guide portion is provided on the rotation member and has a first penetrating portion. A through hole is formed in the first penetrating portion. A string-like material to be supplied for sewing is inserted through the first penetrating portion. The extending portion is formed on the annular portion and extends toward the outside in a radial direction of the annular portion. The drive mechanism is provided on the extending portion and rotates the rotation member.

Embroidery frame and sewing machine

A cutting apparatus including a plurality of types of holding members holding a workpiece and a plurality of types of cutting members cutting the workpiece held by the holding member. Each holding member includes a sheet of base, a holding portion disposed on a surface of the base and having a holding capacity suitable for a type of the workpiece to be held, and a holding member indicator capable of distinguishing the types of holding members. Each cutting member includes a cutter having a blade configured to cut the workpiece and having a cutting capacity suitable for a type of the workpiece to be cut, a support portion supporting the cutter, and a cutter indicator provided on the plurality of types of cutting members and capable of distinguishing the types of cutting members, the cutter indicator being similar in configuration as the holding member indicator of corresponding holding member.

Cutting apparatus, holding member, and cutting member

A cutting apparatus includes a cutting unit including a cutting blade, a holding member having an adhesive layer on which an object to be cut is removably held, a wireless tag containing cutting information, a reading unit reading the cutting information from the wireless tag when the holding member has been set on the apparatus, and a control unit controlling the cutting unit based on the cutting information the reading unit has read from the wireless tag. The cutting information includes at least one of a relative moving speed between the blade and the object, a pressing force of the blade against the object and a correction amount which corrects a relative movement amount of the blade relative to the object. The cutting unit includes a pressing unit which presses the object held by the holding member, and the cutting information includes a pressing force of the pressing unit.

Cutting apparatus, holding member for holding object to be cut and storage medium storing cutting control program

A cutter, detachably attachable to a support member, includes a shaft made of a resin and has a smaller-diameter portion and a larger-diameter portion formed integrally with the shaft. The smaller-diameter portion is rotatably supported by a plurality of bearings. The larger-diameter portion has a proximal end surface abutting on an end surface of one of the bearings, with a result that the cutter is locked. The cutter includes a flat blade located on a distal end of the larger-diameter portion. The cutter includes a metal member which can be attracted by a magnet located on the support member. The metal member is located on a distal end of the smaller-diameter portion. Contact portions are located on axially differing portions of the shaft respectively and are capable of contacting the bearings respectively. Thinned parts are located between the contact portions and extend in the axial direction of the shaft.

Cutter, cutting member and cutting apparatus

A sewing machine module mounted in a sewing machine that includes a feed mechanism, a shuttle mechanism, a frame that covers at least a portion of a side face of the feed mechanism, a portion of a side face of the shuttle mechanism, a portion of a bottom face of the feed mechanism, and a portion of a bottom face of the shuttle mechanism and that supports the feed mechanism and the shuttle mechanism in a state in which a top side of the feed mechanism and a top side of the shuttle mechanism are open, a cover member that is formed into a flat plate shape and that covers the top side of the feed mechanism and the top side of the shuttle mechanism that are supported by the frame, and a joining mechanism that joins the frame and the cover member.

Sewing machine module and sewing machine

A sewing machine may comprise a needle bar driving mechanism, a cutting needle rotation mechanism, and an embroidery frame movement mechanism configured to move an embroidery frame comprising a protruding portion. A cam member may be fixed to the needle bar and comprise a plurality of cams. A processor of the sewing machine may set a height of the needle bar to a specific position from a plurality of positions. Each of the plurality of positions may represent that each of the plurality of cams is able to contact with the protruding portion. The processor may instruct the needle bar driving mechanism to move the needle bar to the specific position and instruct the embroidery frame movement mechanism to move the embroidery frame to a position where the protruding portion is able to contact with one of the plurality of cams.

An embroidery frame transport device includes a carriage, a first drive portion, a drive switching portion, and a rotary drive portion. The carriage is provided with an embroidery frame that is rotatable. The first drive portion includes a first transport mechanism and a first drive source. The first transport mechanism transports the carriage in a first direction. The first drive source drives the first transport mechanism. The drive switching portion shuts off transmission of drive power to the first transport mechanism from the first drive source when the first drive portion transports the carriage to a specified position in the first direction. The rotary drive portion causes the embroidery frame to rotate using the drive power of the first drive source, in a state in which the transmission of the drive power from the first drive source to the first transport mechanism is shut off by the drive switching portion.

Embroidery frame transport device and sewing machine

An embroidery frame transport device includes a carriage and a first drive mechanism. The carriage rotatably supports an embroidery frame and that is capable of moving in a first direction. The first drive mechanism is provided separately from the carriage, that transports the carriage in the first direction and that causes the embroidery frame supported by the carriage to rotate.

A cutting apparatus is disclosed in which a cutting blade and an object to be cut are moved relative to each other so that a desired pattern is cutout of the object. The cutting apparatus includes an arranging unit arranging the pattern in a cut-allowable region of the object, a frame setting unit setting a minimum boundary frame which is polygonal or curved in shape and includes a contour of the pattern arranged by the arranging unit, and a cutting data generating unit generating outer line cutting data for cutting an outer line dividing a first region near the pattern within the cut-allowable region and a second region other than the first region, outside the boundary frame, based on the boundary frame. The pattern and the outer line are cut out of the object based on pattern cutting data for cutting the pattern and the outer line cutting data.

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Kasugai, Japan

Katsuhisa Hasegawa