Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Masakazu Kuki

Hiroshi Kitazawa

Yasuhiko Kawaguchi

Tsugio Okamoto

Osamu Takagi

Masaki Shimizu

Atsuya Hayakawa

Motoshi Kishi

Haruna Kato

Noriko Kawabe

Hirokazu Nakashima

A printing and embroidering system having a positional data appending system that is adapted to append positional data indicating positions of a first image and a second image with respect to each other to first image data representing the first image to be formed by one of printing and embroidering and second image data representing the second image to be formed by the other one of printing and embroidering, a first image forming unit with a first fabric holding member, which is adapted to form the first image based on the first image data on a fabric being held by the first fabric holding member, and a second image forming unit with a second fabric holding member, which is adapted to form the second image based on the fabric being held by the second fabric holding member, wherein the first image forming unit is provided with a mark forming system, which is adapted to form a predetermined mark represented by the positional data on the fabric, and wherein the second image forming system is provided with a misalignment eliciting system, which is adapted to elicit a misalignment between a position of the predetermined mark formed on the fabric held by the second fabric holding member and a position represented by the positional data appended to the second image data prior to forming the second image.

Data processing unit and pattern forming method

An embroidery sewing machine with a printing function includes a sewing machine body having a bed, a foot, an arm, and capable of sewing a workpiece cloth by a sewing unit; a cloth holding frame holding the workpiece cloth; a frame drive unit moving the cloth holding frame independently in two mutually perpendicular directions in a horizontal plane; an ink-jet printer having a print head printing the workpiece cloth. The print head of the printer includes nozzle arrays with each nozzle array having a plurality of ink-jet nozzles aligned parallel in the first direction, and the printer prints the workpiece cloth while moving the cloth holding frame in the second direction.

Embroidery sewing machine with printing function

A printer for printing a pattern, design, etc. on fabric comprises a vertical driving unit and a fabric thickness detecting mechanism. The vertical driving unit moves a printing unit including a print head in the vertical direction to let the print head move toward and away from the fabric held by a fabric holding frame. The fabric thickness detecting mechanism includes an idle roller which is attached to the printing unit to be on the preceding side of the printing unit in the printing direction of the print head to rotate freely while contacting the print surface of the fabric. The fabric thickness detecting mechanism detects the height of the print surface of the fabric based on the position of the idle roller. The vertical driving unit is controlled to drive the printing unit vertically according to the height of the print surface detected by the fabric thickness detecting mechanism.

Printer

A cloth holding device including a support frame () made of magnetic material and a presser frame (), clamping a workpiece cloth therebetween, including an attachment unit () that attaches the presser frame () to the support frame () by magnetic attraction; and a positioning unit () that positions the attachment unit () to the presser frame ().

Cloth holding device

An inkjet cloth printing apparatus includes a head moving mechanism moving the print head in a first direction, a cloth holder holding a periphery of a printing area of cloth on which the apparatus prints and including a first holding member and a second holding member fitted with an outer portion of the first holding member, a holder moving mechanism feeding the cloth holder in a second direction below the print head, the holder moving mechanism including a rack, a pinion brought into mesh engagement with the rack, and a drive motor rotating the pinion, and a cloth passage defined below a movement space through which the cloth holder is moved in the second direction by the holder moving mechanism so as to allow movement of part of the cloth located outside the printing area and running out of the cloth holder.

Cloth printing apparatus

An ink-jet printer is provided with a belt conveying mechanism which includes two rollers and a conveyor belt that is wrapped around the two rollers for carrying paper. The surface of the conveyor belt is formed with a recessed portion into which ink is ejected during flushing. The recessed portion has a non-water-repellent region upstream in a traveling direction of the conveyor belt. The non-repellent region functions as an ink retaining portion retaining. On a rear surface of the conveyor belt is disposed an ink absorber for absorbing ink retained in the non-water-repellent region from the rear surface.

Belt conveying mechanism for ink-jet recording apparatus and ink-jet recording apparatus including it

There is provided a embroidery data processing device, which includes an extracting system that extracts at least one embroidery region from embroidery data that has a stitch attribute corresponding to at least one predetermined setting, and a print data generating system that generates print data for the at least one embroidery region extracted by the extracting system based on the embroidery data of the at least one embroidery region extracted by the extracting system.

Embroidery data processing device

An ink-jet printer includes a belt conveyor mechanism, an ink-jet head having at its lower face a nozzle face where many nozzles are formed, and a maintenance unit that maintains the ink-jet head. Within the maintenance unit arranged are a blade, a wiping roller, an ink receiving member, and a purge cap, in this order from the near side to the head. The maintenance unit is first moved to a purge position at which the purge cap confronts the nozzle face of the ink-jet head, where a purge operation is performed. After the purge operation, attendant upon movement of the maintenance unit to get apart from the head, the ink receiving member, the wiping roller, and the blade successively confront the nozzle face in this order. With the movement of the maintenance unit, receiving ink with the ink receiving member and wiping ink up with the wiping roller and the blade are performed in order.

Ink-jet recording apparatus and maintenance method of ink-jet head included in ink-jet recording apparatus

A reference-side longitudinal cutting unit and an other side longitudinal cutting unit are disposed to move separately to the left and right sides of a laminate to be cut. A cutter of the reference-side longitudinal cutting unit and a rotary knob for turning on, for example, a power switch are connected to a link mechanism for linking pivotal movement of the rotary knob According to the mode selection position of the rotary knob the cutters are moved into a retracted position when the rotary knob is in the power OFF or no-mode selection positions and move to a longitudinal cutting position when the rotary knob is in the margin or NO-MARGIN mode selection position.

Laminating device with laminate edge cutting unit

A text processing system includes a text processing device having an outer surface treated with coating, plating, printing, etc., a display device movably supported on the text processing device, a circular rotating member rotatably supported on the display device so as to rotationally contact the outer surface of the text processing device, a device for continuously moving the display device relative to the text processing device, and a device for holding the display device in a desired position relative to the text processing device. it is accordingly possible to prevent the peeling-off of the surface treatment layer such as a coating, plating or printing layer formed on the outer surface of the text processing device due to the contact between the lower end portion of the display device and the outer surface of the text processing device.

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Ichinomiya, Japan

Masakazu Kuki