US 11,939,707 B2
Systems and methods for creating topographical woven fabric
Kevin Peter Martin, San Francisco, CA (US); Elizabeth Faith Esponnette, San Francisco, CA (US); Walden Hoi Ming Lam, San Francisco, CA (US); Sarah Marie Lafasto, San Francisco, CA (US); Benjamin Wagner Cloud, San Francisco, CA (US); Brian Joseph Gormley, San Francisco, CA (US); Chase Michael Goodman, San Francisco, CA (US); Simeon Dimitrov Kostadinov, San Francisco, CA (US); Tyler Nathaniel Perkins, San Francisco, CA (US); and Nicholas Anthony Bollen, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to UNSPUN, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by unspun, inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 16, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/655,112.
Application 16/655,112 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2018/030000, filed on Apr. 27, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/491,266, filed on Apr. 28, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0048799 A1, Feb. 13, 2020
Int. Cl. D03C 3/12 (2006.01); D03C 13/00 (2006.01); D03D 3/08 (2006.01); D03D 25/00 (2006.01); D03D 41/00 (2006.01); D03D 49/12 (2006.01); D03D 51/02 (2006.01); D03C 3/20 (2006.01); D03D 13/00 (2006.01)
CPC D03D 25/005 (2013.01) [D03C 13/02 (2013.01); D03D 3/08 (2013.01); D03D 41/004 (2013.01); D03D 49/12 (2013.01); D03D 51/02 (2013.01); D03C 3/205 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An actuator system configured to be used in combination with a loom, comprising:
a. a plurality of motors;
b. a plurality of heddles forming a heddle plane;
c. at least one electronic controller for controlling motion of the plurality of motors to individually effect changes in position of the one or more of the heddles, the at least one electronic controller being configured to output an electrical signal to one motor of the plurality of motors; and
d. a plurality of couplings coupled to the plurality of motors, wherein the plurality of couplings are arranged in a configuration that allows the at least one electronic controller to be configured to individually control one or more of the plurality of heddles of the loom continuously between a plurality of positions located along a longitudinal axis in the heddle plane of the loom to individually raise and lower a warp string, the plurality of positions of successive heddles of the plurality of heddles collectively defining a curved, curvilinear, or non-linear profile of warp strings along the heddle plane, wherein a curvature defined by the curved, curvilinear, or non-linear profile of warp strings is imparted into a final woven product profile when a weft string is passed between the warp strings, each of the one or more heddles being configured to engage at least one of the warp strings.