US 11,987,913 B2
Yarn carrier device with yarn tension control function for flat knitting machine, and yarn tension control method
Honglian Cong, Wuxi (CN); Gaoming Jiang, Wuxi (CN); Zhijia Dong, Wuxi (CN); Guangjun Wu, Wuxi (CN); and Yuxian Li, Wuxi (CN)
Assigned to JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY, Wuxi (CN)
Filed by JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY, Wuxi (CN)
Filed on Dec. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/061,041.
Application 18/061,041 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2021/120634, filed on Sep. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 202110790210.5 (CN), filed on Jul. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0100197 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. D04B 15/44 (2006.01); B65H 59/00 (2006.01); D04B 15/48 (2006.01); D04B 27/12 (2006.01)
CPC D04B 15/44 (2013.01) [B65H 59/005 (2013.01); D04B 15/48 (2013.01); D04B 27/12 (2013.01); B65H 2701/31 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A yarn tension control method of a yarn carrier device for a flat knitting machine, comprising:
1) connecting a carriage and a carriage connector, and outputting, by a contact sensor, a contact signal of the carriage and the yarn carrier device to a carriage control system;
2) after the carriage drives the yarn carrier device to knit a course of a yarn, driving, by the carriage, the yarn carrier device to move from a knitting area to a yarn guide stop, separating the carriage from the yarn carrier device, and at this moment, stopping the yarn carrier device from moving;
3) when the carriage turns, connecting the carriage to the yarn carrier device again, such that the yarn carrier device is driven by the carriage to enter the knitting area again;
feeding, by the contact sensor, a contact signal of the carriage and the yarn carrier device back to the carriage control system,
emitting, by a signal emitter, an ascending instruction of a fixing frame, and
after a signal receiver on the fixing frame receives the ascending instruction emitted by the signal emitter, driving, by the fixing frame, a bobbin to ascend along vertical sliding grooves to tension an unknitted portion of the yarn; and
4) after the carriage turns to enter the knitting area again, driving the fixing frame to descend along the vertical sliding grooves to enable the unknitted portion of the yarn to be uniformly distributed on knitting needles participating in knitting;
wherein, the yarn carrier device for a flat knitting machine comprises the carriage connector, and the carriage connector is connected to the carriage, such that the carriage is able to drive the yarn carrier device for a flat knitting machine to move leftwards and rightwards;
the carriage connector is installed on a Uz seat, a yarn guide sliding rod is fixed on the Uz seat, and a lower portion of the yarn guide sliding rod is connected to a yarn guide, wherein the Uz seat is a seat with two horizontally projected arms at a top end of the seat when in use;
the fixing frame is slidably disposed on the yarn guide sliding rod, the bobbin and the signal receiver are installed on the fixing frame, and the signal receiver is used for receiving a control signal for controlling the fixing frame to ascend or descend;
the contact sensor is disposed on the carriage connector, a signal output end of the contact sensor is connected to the carriage control system, and the contact sensor is used for outputting the contact signal of the carriage and the yarn carrier device; and
the carriage control system comprises the signal emitter, which transmits the ascending or descending instruction of the fixing frame to the signal receiver, and after the signal receiver receives the ascending or descending instruction, the fixing frame ascends or descends along the vertical sliding grooves.