Sewing machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12258694-B2
Application number	US-202318522105-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 28, 2023
Priority date	Nov 29, 2022
Publication date	Mar 25, 2025
Grant date	Mar 25, 2025

Abstract

A sewing machine that suppresses sewing defects is provided. The sewing machine includes: a sewing needing, held by a needle bar and moving back and forth while holding an upper thread: a shuttle, configured to hold a bobbin which is housed in a bobbin case and around which a lower thread is wound, and cooperating with the sewing needle to form a seam; a presser foot member, configured to press a to-be-sewn article at a sewing position directly below the sewing needle: a pressure adjustment portion, adjusting pressure applied to the to-be-sewn article by the presser foot member; a feeding mechanism, where endless feeding belts for feeding the to-be-sewn article from the sewing position to a first direction are disposed on two sides of a second direction orthogonal to a first direction with respect to the sewing position, the feeding mechanism is provided with a belt drive portion, and the belt drive portion independently drives the feeding belts on one side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position and the feeding belts on another side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position; and a control portion, configured to control the pressure adjustment portion to make a pressure of the presser foot member be corresponding to a difference between a feeding amount of the feeding belts on one side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position and a feeding amount of the feeding belts on another side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A sewing machine, comprising:
a sewing needle, held by a needle bar, and moving back and forth while holding an upper thread;
a shuttle, configured to hold a bobbin around which a lower thread is wound and which is housed in a bobbin case, and cooperating with the sewing needle to form a seam;
a presser foot member, configured to press a to-be-sewn article at a sewing position directly below the sewing needle;
a pressure adjustment portion, adjusting pressure applied to the to-be-sewn article by the presser foot member;
a feeding mechanism, wherein endless feeding belts for feeding the to-be-sewn article from the sewing position to a first direction are disposed on two sides of a second direction orthogonal to a first direction with respect to the sewing position, the feeding mechanism is provided with a belt drive portion, and the belt drive portion independently drives the feeding belts on one side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position and the feeding belts on another side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position; and
a control portion, configured to control the pressure adjustment portion to make a pressure of the presser foot member be corresponding to a difference between a feeding amount of the feeding belts on one side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position and a feeding amount of the feeding belts on another side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position.

2. The sewing machine of claim 1 , wherein
the control portion controls the pressure adjustment portion to make the greater the difference between the feeding amount of the feeding belts on the one side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position and the feeding amount of the feeding belts on the another side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position, the less the pressure of the presser foot member.

3. The sewing machine of claim 1 , wherein
the feeding mechanism is provided at least below the to-be-sewn article provided at the sewing position.

4. The sewing machine of claim 1 , wherein
the feeding mechanism comprises a plurality of the feeding belts on one side with respect to the sewing position and another side with respect to the sewing position.

5. The sewing machine of claim 1 , further comprising:
an upper thread tension adjustment mechanism, adjusting a tension of the upper thread,
wherein the control portion controls the upper thread tension adjustment mechanism to make the greater the difference between the feeding amount of the feeding belts on the one side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position and the feeding amount of the feeding belts on the another side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position, the greater the tension of the upper thread.

Assignees

• Juki Kk

Inventors

• Ogawa Tatsuya
• Sato Kuniaki
• Nakayama Hajime
• Zhang Juan

Classifications

• D05B57/10

  Shuttles · CPC title

• D05B47/04

  Automatically-controlled tensioning devices · CPC title

• D05B27/10

  with rotary circular feed members · CPC title

• D05B1/08

  for making multi-thread seams · CPC title

• D05B29/02 Primary

  Presser-control devices · CPC title