Textile Printing Tray with Visual Positioning Guides
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing ink jet textile-printing apparatuses face challenges in precisely setting small or large fabrics due to reliance on user sense for positioning, leading to unevenness and difficulty in perceiving relative positions, especially when printing small images on varying fabric sizes and shapes.
Innovation Solution
A tray with a frame portion and setting guide displays, such as marks, scales, or a rotary arm, that serve as criteria for determining the fabric's position on the main body, allowing for objective and precise alignment regardless of fabric size or shape, including the use of a transparent sheet for visibility and a detachable tape measure for measurement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a second platen is used to facilitate setting work with respect to small fabric, then the setting work becomes easier, but the setting position determination remains imprecise because users still rely on their sense without objective criteria
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a setting guide display as an intermediary element between the user and the fabric positioning process. This display provides objective visual criteria (marks, scales, patterns) that mediate the positioning action, allowing users to align fabric accurately without relying solely on their sense. The setting guide display acts as a mediator that translates the abstract concept of 'correct position' into concrete visual references.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the subjective mechanical sense-based positioning method with an objective visual information system. Instead of relying on users' tactile or spatial sense to determine fabric position, the system uses visual displays with marks, scales, and patterns that provide objective measurement criteria, substituting the mechanical sense-based approach with an information-based visual guidance system.
2Ease of manufacture
If the main body is covered with a large fabric, then the fabric can be printed, but it becomes difficult to perceive the relative position between the fabric and the main body
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing setting guide displays at specific locations (frame portion) rather than uniformly across the entire system. The setting guide display is strategically positioned in the frame portion where it remains visible even when large fabric covers the main body, creating a localized reference area that maintains its function regardless of the fabric size covering the printing surface.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent moves the setting guide display to a different spatial dimension - the frame portion surrounding the main body - rather than placing it on the main body surface itself. This dimensional relocation ensures the guide display remains accessible and visible from above even when large fabric covers the printing area, allowing position perception without removing or moving the fabric.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the size of the image to be printed is small with respect to the feasible printing area, then selective printing is possible, but the setting of the printing position with respect to the fabric becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by providing setting guide displays that enable precise fabric positioning and image position setting before the actual printing process begins. The guide displays with their marks, scales, and patterns allow users to pre-establish accurate reference points and measurements, ensuring precise printing position setting is achieved in advance rather than during or after printing.
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AI summary
A tray includes a main body having a setting surface to set a material to be textile-printed, a frame portion that is fit in the main body in a state of setting the material to be textile-printed on the setting surface, and maintains the setting state of the material to be textile-printed, and a setting guide display that is provided in the frame portion and used as a criterion at the time of determining a setting position of the material to be textile-printed on the main body. A plurality of setting guide displays are provided in the frame portion.