Platen Guide Section Nesting for Garment Printing

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Solution Overview

Problem

In inkjet type clothes printing devices, the protruding screw shaft and butterfly nut cause clothes to be caught, leading to damage and hinder smooth setting on the platen.

Innovation Solution

A platen design with a support section, base section, moving section, and guide section where the guide section is integrated to not protrude from the outer shape, using a guide mechanism and engagement mechanism to facilitate smooth movement and prevent clothes from being caught.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If screw shaft and butterfly nut are used to enable relative position adjustment, then adaptability is improved, but clothes are caught on protruding components causing damage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverelative position adjustmentVSAvoidclothes damage

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The guide section is incorporated into the base section such that it does not protrude from the outer shape, nesting the guiding function within the existing structure to eliminate harmful protrusions while maintaining adaptability for position adjustment

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If guide section is incorporated to not protrude, then clothes can be smoothly set without damage, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveclothes damageVSAvoidguide section integration

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The guide section is merged with the base section as an integrated component rather than a separate external element, combining the guiding function into the existing structure to avoid protrusions while managing complexity through functional integration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS20240336075A1Platen, printing device

Publication Date: 2024.10.10 SEIKO EPSON CORP

AI summary

A platen includes a support section configured to support a printing area of a medium; a base section fixed to the support section; a moving section configured to move relative to the base section; and a guide section configured to guide the movement of the moving section, wherein the guide section is incorporated so as to not protrude from the outer shape of the base section and the moving section.