US 12,227,018 B2
Dye-deposited base body manufacturing apparatus and dyeing system
Ryoji Shibata, Aichi (JP); Minoru Inuzuka, Aichi (JP); Koji Abe, Aichi (JP); and Motoshi Tanaka, Aichi (JP)
Assigned to NIDEK CO., LTD., Aichi (JP)
Filed by NIDEK CO., LTD., Aichi (JP)
Filed on Nov. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/534,901.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-195583 (JP), filed on Nov. 25, 2020; application No. 2020-195584 (JP), filed on Nov. 25, 2020; and application No. 2020-195585 (JP), filed on Nov. 25, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0161587 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. B41M 5/03 (2006.01); B29D 11/00 (2006.01); B41M 5/035 (2006.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 13/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41M 5/0356 (2013.01) [B29D 11/00923 (2013.01); B29D 11/00259 (2013.01); B41J 3/4073 (2013.01); B41J 3/40731 (2020.08); B41J 11/0085 (2013.01); B41J 13/0009 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A dye-deposited base body manufacturing apparatus for the manufacture of a dye-deposited base body to which a dye to be transferred to a resin body is deposited for use in a dyeing step of dyeing the resin body, the dye-deposited base body manufacturing apparatus comprising:
a printing device that prints a dye on a printing surface of a base body having a sheet-shape;
a conveyance device that conveys a dyeing tray on which the resin body is placed;
a base body placing device that places the dye-deposited base body on which the dye is printed by the printing device at a predetermined position on the dyeing tray in the conveyance device; and
a base body movement device that moves the dye-deposited base body from a printing position by the printing device to a side of the conveyance device by delivering the dye-deposited base body from the printing position to the base body placing device;
wherein the base body placing device has a base body holding unit that holds the base body in a state where the base body holding unit is in contact with a reverse surface of the base body that is opposite to the printing surface; and
wherein a contact surface of the base body holding unit in contact with the reverse surface of the base body is a flat surface.