US 11,885,052 B2
Braiding machines and carriers for braiding machines
Louis Laberge Lebel, Montreal (CA); Pascal Assi, Montreal (CA); Cristian Stefan Talos, Montreal (CA); Guillaume Villeneuve, Châteauguay (CA); Olivier Chabot, Val-d'Or (CA); Philippe Bousquet, Montreal (CA); and Vincent Delisle, Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot (CA)
Assigned to POLYVALOR, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Montreal (CA)
Filed by POLYVALOR, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Montreal (CA)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/493,242.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/086,871, filed on Oct. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0106716 A1, Apr. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. D04C 3/16 (2006.01); D04C 3/24 (2006.01); D04C 3/48 (2006.01); D04C 3/38 (2006.01); D04C 3/20 (2006.01)
CPC D04C 3/16 (2013.01) [D04C 3/20 (2013.01); D04C 3/24 (2013.01); D04C 3/38 (2013.01); D04C 3/48 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A braiding machine, comprising:
a support structure;
a matrix of gears supported by the support structure, the gears being rotatable about respective rotation axes, the gears engageable to a carrier carrying a yarn for moving the carrier on the support structure, at least some of the gears of the matrix arranged to form a path between a pair of adjacent ones of the gears, wherein the gears of the pairs of adjacent ones have the same number of notches;
bi-directional motors drivingly engaged to at least some of the gears; and
a controller operatively connected to the motors, the controller having a processor and a computer-readable medium operatively connected to the processor and having instructions stored thereon executable by the processor for individually controlling the gears by powering the motors for moving the carriers on the support structure to braid the yarns.