Pot Spinning Pressing Member Suppresses String Yarn

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing pot spinning methods face issues with rewinding defects due to the formation of string yarn, which complicates the machine configuration and increases costs, as described in Patent Document 1, where the use of a pair of aprons results in a large and costly setup.

Innovation Solution

A pot spinning method and machine that incorporates a pressing member with a pressing surface to eliminate string yarn by pressing it in the central axis direction of the pot during or after cake formation, preventing it from contacting the yarn guide or bobbin and thus avoiding rewinding defects.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a pair of aprons is used to guide yarn into the pot, then string yarn formation is suppressed, but the machine configuration becomes complicated and large in scale

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesuppression of string yarn formationVSAvoidmachine configuration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention extracts the essential function of the apron system (guiding yarn into the pot) and implements it through a simplified pressing member that presses the yarn guide against the pot inner wall, eliminating the need for complex apron mechanisms while maintaining the string yarn suppression effect

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The pressing member is designed as a simple, cost-effective component compared to the expensive and complex apron system, achieving the same functional effect with a much simpler and cheaper solution

Inventive Principle:
Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

2Reliability

If a pair of aprons is used to guide yarn into the pot, then string yarn formation is suppressed, but the cost of implementation increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesuppression of string yarn formationVSAvoidimplementation cost
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The pressing member is designed as a simple, cost-effective component compared to the expensive and complex apron system, achieving the same functional effect with a much simpler and cheaper solution

Inventive Principle:
Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention extracts the essential function of the apron system (guiding yarn into the pot) and implements it through a simplified pressing member that presses the yarn guide against the pot inner wall, eliminating the need for complex apron mechanisms while maintaining the string yarn suppression effect

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Ease of operation

If the pot is raised and lowered to shift winding position, then yarn winding position is adjusted, but the machine configuration becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveyarn winding position adjustmentVSAvoidmachine configuration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The pressing member serves multiple functions: it guides the yarn into the pot, suppresses string yarn formation, and enables winding position adjustment by pressing the yarn guide against different positions on the pot inner wall, eliminating the need for separate raising and lowering mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This solution effectively suppresses the occurrence of rewinding defects at a lower cost by simplifying the machine configuration and ensuring proper yarn winding without the need for complex mechanisms like the pair of aprons, maintaining productivity.

Implementation Method 1

the yarn discharged from the yarn guide is wound around the inner wall of the pot while being twisted by the rotation of the pot

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCentrifugal force: Centrifugal Force

Data Source

PatentEP3527699A1Pot spinning method and pot spinning machine
Publication Date: 2019.08.21 TOYOTA INDUSTRIES CORP
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AI summary

A pot spinning method includes a cake-forming step of forming a cake (28) by rotating a pot (12) in a state where a yarn guide (11) is inserted into the pot (12) and moving the yarn guide (11) in a central axis direction of the pot (12) so that yarn (18) discharged from a lower end of the yarn guide (11) is wound around an inner wall (22) of the pot (12), and a rewinding step of rewinding the yarn (18) forming the cake (28) onto a bobbin (25) from the inner wall (22) of the pot (12) by causing the bobbin (25) to advance into the pot (12), wherein string yarn (33) present in a space inside the pot (12) away from the inner wall (22) of the pot (12) is eliminated either during or after formation of the cake (28) by pressing the string yarn (33) in the central axis direction of the pot (12) using a pressing surface (24a) of a pressing member (24).