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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2023
Juki Corporation, Tama, JP;
Artnature Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Honoka Iimura, Tama, JP;
Jiro Obama, Tama, JP;
Masaki Sasaki, Tama, JP;
Shogo Kamada, Tama, JP;
Naoki Kurita, Tama, JP;
JUKI CORPORATION, Tama, JP;
ARTNATURE INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A hair planting apparatus includes a mounting portion for mounting a base material, and including a work opening for planting, a hair planting unit for binding hair for planting to the material in the work opening, a transport mechanism for positioning the hair planting unit relative to each mesh hole of the material mounted on the mounting portion, an imaging unit for capturing images of a plurality of mesh holes of the material mounted on the mounting portion, a tilt detection unit for obtaining, from the image captured by the imaging unit, an alignment direction of the mesh holes of the material, and a correction mechanism for correcting the orientation of the material on the mounting portion according to a tilt angle of the alignment direction of the mesh holes of the material with respect to a predetermined direction.