US 12,089,674 B2
Hair feeding device
Jiro Obama, Tokyo (JP); Hideki Iijima, Tokyo (JP); Toru Ichita, Tokyo (JP); and Honoka Iimura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to JUKI CORPORATION, Tama (JP); and ARTNATURE INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by JUKI CORPORATION, Tama (JP); and ARTNATURE INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 13, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/097,235.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-206745 (JP), filed on Nov. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0145099 A1, May 20, 2021
Int. Cl. A41G 3/00 (2006.01); D05C 15/02 (2006.01); D05C 15/16 (2006.01); D05C 15/20 (2006.01)
CPC A41G 3/0075 (2013.01) [D05C 15/02 (2013.01); D05C 15/16 (2013.01); D05C 15/20 (2013.01); D05D 2207/04 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hair feeding device configured to perform a feeding operation for pulling out flocking hairs one by one from a bundle of flocking hairs, the device comprising:
a feeder configured to hold the bundle of flocking hairs and separate hair ends of a plurality of the flocking hairs in a direction different from that of the bundle;
a detector configured to detect three-dimensional positions of the separated hair ends of the plurality of flocking hairs;
a head for capturing the separated hair ends of the flocking hairs in a state where the separated hair ends of the flocking hairs are oriented in the direction different from that of the bundle;
a conveyance mechanism configured to convey the head to any three-dimensional position; and
a control device configured to perform an operation control of the feeding operation, wherein
the control device controls the conveyance mechanism so that the head captures the separated hair ends of the flocking hairs at three-dimensional positions of the hair ends of one flocking hair among the plurality of hairs detected by the detector.