Yarn Production System with Bundling Guides for Cooling Uniformity

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing yarn production systems face issues with uneven cooling of filaments spun out from a single spinneret, leading to deteriorated yarn quality due to airflow disturbances between filament groups as they approach oil supply guides.

Innovation Solution

The system incorporates a virtual partitioning plane to divide discharge ports into two groups, with bundling guides placed above the oiling unit to temporally bundle filaments, reducing the space between them and minimizing airflow disturbances, ensuring consistent cooling and efficient oil application.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If filaments are spun out from a single spinneret and divided into groups to form multiple yarns, then production efficiency is improved, but the space between filament groups causes airflow disturbance and uneven cooling

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction efficiencyVSAvoidcooling uniformity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The discharge ports of the single spinneret are divided into multiple groups (first discharge port group and second discharge port group) based on a virtual partitioning plane. This segmentation allows filaments to be divided into separate groups that form different yarns while maintaining controlled spacing, resolving the contradiction by enabling multi-yarn production from one spinneret without causing airflow interference between groups

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The virtual partitioning plane is introduced as a conceptual dividing line extending in the vertical direction, creating a new dimensional framework for organizing discharge ports. This allows filaments to be routed to different oil supply guides on opposite sides of the partitioning plane, eliminating space-related airflow disturbances while maintaining production efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Manufacturing precision

If a virtual partitioning plane is introduced to divide discharge ports into two groups, then filament grouping and oil supply are improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefilament grouping precisionVSAvoidsystem structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The virtual partitioning plane acts as an intermediary conceptual tool that organizes discharge ports and guides filaments to appropriate oil supply guides without requiring physical partitioning structures. This mediator enables precise filament grouping and oil supply routing while avoiding the addition of complex physical components, thus improving manufacturing precision without significantly increasing device complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

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 arrangement allows for proper cooling and oiling of filaments, resulting in improved yarn quality by reducing airflow disturbances and ensuring uniform cooling and oil distribution.

Implementation Method 1

a cooler (4) which is provided below the spinneret (24) and which is configured to cool the filaments (F) by means of cooling wind

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectForced Convection: Forced Convection

Implementation Method 2

a first oil supply guide (51a) which includes a first oil supply surface (52a) with which the running first filament group (F) makes contact

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAdsorption: Adsorption

Data Source

PatentEP4411035A1Yarn production system
Publication Date: 2024.08.07 TMT MACHINERY INC
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AI summary

An object of the present invention is to properly cool filaments in a structure in which the filaments are spun out downward from a single spinneret, divided into two groups, and bundled as two yarns. A yarn production system 1 includes (i) a spinning apparatus 2 including a spinneret 24 provided with discharge ports 26, (ii) a cooler 4 provided below the spinneret 24, and (iii) an oiling unit 5 provided below the cooler 4. A virtual partitioning plane X divides the discharge ports 26 into a first discharge port group 26A and a second discharge port group 26B. The oiling unit 5 includes a first oil supply guide 51a including a first oil supply surface 52a and a second oil supply guide 51b including a second oil supply surface 52b. The yarn production system 1 further includes a first bundling guide 30a and a second bundling guide 30b which are provided below the cooler 4 and above the oiling unit 5. The distance between the first bundling guide 30a and the second bundling guide 30b is shorter than (i) the distance between the first oil supply guide 51a and second oil supply guide 51b of the oiling unit 5 and (ii) the distance between the barycentric position of the first discharge port group 26A and the barycentric position of the second discharge port group 26B.