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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hiromitsu Hirabayashi, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyuki Miyake, Kawasaki, JP;
Sadayuki Sugama, Tsukuba, JP;
Tetsuro Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Miyuki Matsubara, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 3/00 ; B41J 3/407 ; B41J 2/21 ; B05D 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 3/00 ; B41J 3/407 ; B41J 2/21 ; B05D 5/00 ;
Abstract
An ink jet printing apparatus has a station for dyeing a thread for embroidering by discharging ink onto the thread from an ink jet head. According to one aspect of the invention, a printing controller controls the amount of ink discharged per unit time onto the thread according to the speed of relative movement of the thread and the ink jet head. Another aspect of the invention accounts for the length of non-usable thread per unit time between an ink jet printing unit and the tip of an embroidery needle in an embroidery machine.