US 12,077,904 B2
Treatment method and treatment apparatus
Hideki Okada, Shiojiri (JP); Akiko Yamada, Shiojiri (JP); and Kosuke Chidate, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/950,179.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-155724 (JP), filed on Sep. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0098056 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. D06M 10/00 (2006.01); D06P 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC D06M 10/00 (2013.01) [D06P 7/005 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A treatment method comprising:
preparing a vibration applying section including a contact member that has a base and a plurality of protruding portions which are provided so as to protrude from the base and which come into contact with a fabric and including a vibration generation source that applies a vibration to the contact member; and
a vibration applying step of, in a state in which the plurality of protruding portions are made to be in contact with the fabric, driving the vibration generation source such that the plurality of protruding portions vibrate and applying the vibration to the fabric via the plurality of protruding portions,
wherein the fabric is colored by using a pigment before the plurality of protruding portions rotationally come into contact with the fabric,
the contact member rotates to make the plurality of protruding portions rotationally come into contact with the fabric, and a rotational speed of the contact member is in a range of 1 rpm to 100 rpm, and
the vibration generation source generates the vibration having a vibration frequency being in a range of 10 Hz to 10000 Hz.