US 12,258,690 B2
Braiding machines and carriers for braiding machines
Louis Laberge Lebel, Montreal (CA); Pascal Assi, Montreal (CA); Cristian Stefan Talos, St-Lambert (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, Quebec (CA)
Filed by POLYVALOR, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Quebec (CA)
Filed on Dec. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/544,827.
Application 18/544,827 is a division of application No. 17/493,242, filed on Oct. 4, 2021, granted, now 11,885,052.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/086,871, filed on Oct. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0125019 A1, Apr. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. D04C 3/16 (2006.01); D04C 3/20 (2006.01); D04C 3/24 (2006.01); D04C 3/38 (2006.01); D04C 3/48 (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)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A carrier for supporting a yarn to be used by a braiding machine, comprising:
a spool carrying the yarn;
a motor drivingly engaged to the spool;
at least one sensor for producing data about a condition of the yarn in the spool; and
a controller operatively connected to the motor and to the at least one sensor, 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:
receiving said data from the at least one sensor;
determining operation parameters of the motor based on the received data; and
operating the motor per the determined operation parameters to create the desired tension in the yarn, including rewinding the yarn around the spool with the motor to create the desired tension.