US 12,221,732 B2
Liquid application unit for linear medium, liquid application apparatus, dyeing embroidery system, control method, and storage medium
Shinya Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP); Yusuke Komine, Kanagawa (JP); Taito Omura, Kanagawa (JP); and Yuuki Gotoh, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Shinya Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP); Yusuke Komine, Kanagawa (JP); Taito Omura, Kanagawa (JP); and Yuuki Gotoh, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/488,313.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-166554 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2020; and application No. 2021-126096 (JP), filed on Jul. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0098778 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. D05C 11/24 (2006.01); D06B 1/02 (2006.01); D06B 23/00 (2006.01); D06P 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC D06B 1/02 (2013.01) [D05C 11/24 (2013.01); D06B 23/00 (2013.01); D06P 1/0004 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
10. A control method for a liquid application apparatus that includes: a supply member including a cylindrical or columnar winding core around which a linear medium is wound; and a liquid application device configured to apply liquid to the linear medium unwound and fed from the supply member, the control method comprising:
detecting or calculating a winding thickness of a remaining amount of the linear medium from an outer peripheral surface of the winding core;
adjusting a liquid application length of the liquid applied by the liquid application device to the linear medium in a feed direction of the linear medium in accordance with the winding thickness of the remaining amount of the linear medium; and
applying, by the liquid application device, the liquid to the linear medium being fed at the liquid application length adjusted in the feed direction.