Abstract: A reinforcing sheet for wind power generator blades includes a resin layer and a restricting layer laminated on the resin layer.

Abstract: A vibration damping sheet for wind power generator blades includes a resin layer and a restricting layer laminated on the resin layer.

Abstract: Steel-plate-reinforcement resin composition that can provide improvement in both of adhesiveness and handleability in a wide temperature range around room temperature, a steel plate reinforcing sheet using the steel-plate-reinforcement resin composition, and a method of reinforcing the steel plate using the steel plate reinforcing sheet. After the steel-plate-reinforcement resin composition comprising an epoxy resin, an acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, a curing agent, and a foaming agent is prepared, the steel-plate-reinforcement resin composition is rolled to form a resin layer 2. Then, a reinforcing layer 1 is laminated on the resin layer 1 to obtain a steel plate reinforcing sheet. After the steel plate reinforcing sheet is adhesively bonded to a steel plate 4, the steel plate reinforcing sheet is foamed and cured, to reinforce the steel plate 4.

Abstract: A sewing machine includes a holder including an embroidery frame holding a workpiece cloth and a striking holder holding an engraving workpiece which is to be engraved by striking, a transfer mechanism detachably attached to either the embroidery frame or the striking holder to transfer the embroidery frame or the striking holder on a sewing machine bed, a striking needle which is struck against the engraving workpiece to engrave the engraving workpiece, a drive mechanism reciprocally driving the striking needle upward and downward, and a control device controlling at least one of execution of an embroidery sewing operation onto the workpiece cloth and execution of an engraving operation in which the striking needle is moved upward and downward so that the striking needle is struck against the engraving workpiece held by the striking holder while the striking holder is moved by the transfer mechanism.

Abstract: A vibration-damping composition for high temperature includes a heat-fusion resin containing a first polymer having a melting point of a normal temperature or more, a tackifier, and a filler, wherein the heat-fusion resin has vibration-damping characteristics at a temperature around its melting point.

Abstract: In the disclosed sewing machine, when a needle threading switch is operated when sewing operation is stopped, a needle bar drive mechanism is activated, a needle threading hook is moved forward to a threading position, and a thread take-up is lowered by predetermined distance by driving a sewing machine motor in reverse rotation after threading a hook portion with a needle thread. Thus, a thread engaging portion of a check spring absorbs loss of required thread amount at the thread take-up and moves from a spring force operable position to a spring force inoperable position. Thus, the needle threading hook retracts to a loop cancel position and the needle thread reliably threads the sewing needle with secure engagement with the needle threading hook when a needle thread end is pulled off from a first thread retaining portion since needle thread is stabilized by absence of needle thread tension.

Abstract: A vibration-damping reinforcement composition contains 30 to 300 parts by weight of butyl rubber, 30 to 300 parts by weight of acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, 100 parts by weight of epoxy resin, and 0.5 to 30 parts by weight of an epoxy resin curing agent.

Abstract: A punch data generating device that generates punch data used in an embroiderable sewing machine for punch engraving a pattern on a workpiece by attaching a punch needle that punch engraves a surface of the workpiece in dot-by-dot strokes on a needle bar of the embroiderable sewing machine and moving the punch needle up and down while transferring the workpiece in two predetermined directions by a transfer mechanism. The punch data generating device includes a data generator that generates the punch data so that when punch engraving a plurality of patterns, the patterns are sequentially punch engraved one by one.

Abstract: A workpiece holder is usable with an embroidery sewing machine including a needle bar movable upward and downward and a transfer mechanism transferring the workpiece in two directions. The workpiece holder holds the workpiece when the workpiece is engraved by striking the workpiece by a striking needle attached to the needle bar while the workpiece is transferred by the transfer mechanism. The workpiece holder includes a pair of connecting portions detachably attached to the transfer mechanism, a placement member on which the workpiece is placed and a holding mechanism which is located on the placement member to hold a part of the workpiece other than a worked surface of the workpiece which is engraved, so that the part is fixed.

Abstract: A multi-needle sewing machine including a plurality of needle bars including a specific needle bar allowing detachable attachment of a punch needle that punch engraves a surface of a punch workpiece in dot-by-dot strokes; a transfer mechanism that allows detachable attachment of a punch workpiece holder a detector that detects the attachment of the punch workpiece holder on the transfer mechanism; and a controller that when the attachment of the punch workpiece holder is detected by the detector, executes a punch engraving operation on the punch workpiece with the punch needle by selecting the specific needle bar and by controlling a needle-bar selector/driver mechanism and the transfer mechanism based on punch engraving pattern data which is pre-stored or given by external components.

Abstract: A cap-frame setting frame to which a cap frame holding a cap with a part on which embroidery is sewn by an embroidery sewing machine is detachably attached. The cap-frame setting frame includes a base frame having a distal end and a proximal end and including a fixing mechanism which is located at the proximal end side and is to be fixed to a predetermined work table, a rotating frame located at the distal end side of the base frame and having a cylindrical mount portion to which the cap frame is mounted so as to be positioned, a disc-shaped support located on the base frame to rotatably support the rotating frame, and a fitting portion located on the base frame to be fitted with an outer periphery of the disc-shaped support, thereby being rotatably supported on the base frame.

Abstract: A printer comprises: an inkjet head including nozzles for discharging ink; a holding member which holds a print medium; a moving mechanism which moves the holding member and/or the inkjet head so as to move the inkjet head relative to the holding member in a main scanning direction and a sub scanning direction for printing by the inkjet head on the print medium; and a print control unit which controls the inkjet head and the moving mechanism so as to execute flushing printing on the print medium for preventing clogging of the nozzles while moving the inkjet head relative to the holding member in a first printing direction in the main scanning direction and to execute pattern printing on the print medium according to pattern printing data while moving the inkjet head relative to the holding member in a second printing direction in the main scanning direction.

Abstract: A controller of a sewing machine configured to execute a pre-positioning operation including controlling a needle bar driving mechanism, based on a thickness of a workpiece cloth detected by a thickness detection mechanism and a vertical position of a needle bar detected by a needle bar position detection mechanism, to stop a needle bar at a preset position immediately before a tip of a sewing needle pierces the workpiece cloth, controlling a pressure adjustment mechanism to adjust a pressure of a presser foot at a predetermined pressure that allows movement of the workpiece cloth, and controlling a feed dog switching mechanism to switch a feed dog to an inoperative state.

Abstract: A printer comprises: an inkjet head including nozzles for discharging ink; a holding member which holds a print medium; a moving mechanism which moves the holding member and/or the inkjet head so as to move the inkjet head relative to the holding member in a main scanning direction and a sub scanning direction for printing by the inkjet head on the print medium; and a print control unit which controls the inkjet head and the moving mechanism so as to execute flushing printing on the print medium for preventing clogging of the nozzles while moving the inkjet head relative to the holding member in a first printing direction in the main scanning direction and to execute pattern printing on the print medium according to pattern printing data while moving the inkjet head relative to the holding member in a second printing direction in the main scanning direction.

Abstract: A cylindrical frame unit of an embroidery sewing machine including a cylinder bed, an X-directional drive mechanism and a Y-directional drive mechanism, the cylindrical frame unit including a body frame connected to the Y-directional drive mechanism and driven parallel to the cylinder bed; a cylindrical rotary frame pivoted on the body frame and having an inner cylindrical surface; a cylinder frame holding a workpiece and being attachably/detachably attached to the rotary frame; a rotary mechanism connected to the X-directional drive mechanism and driven perpendicularly relative to the body frame to rotate the rotary frame and the cylinder frame attached thereto; a position regulating element that slidably contacts an upper surface of the cylinder bed and an upper inner cylindrical surface of the rotary frame; and a mount element securing the position regulating element to the body frame to allow adjustment in vertical positioning relative to the body frame.

Abstract: A printer for printing a pattern, design, etc. on fabric comprises a vertical driving unit and a fabric thickness detecting mechanism. The vertical driving unit moves a printing unit including a print head in the vertical direction to let the print head move toward and away from the fabric held by a fabric holding frame. The fabric thickness detecting mechanism includes an idle roller which is attached to the printing unit to be on the preceding side of the printing unit in the printing direction of the print head to rotate freely while contacting the print surface of the fabric. The fabric thickness detecting mechanism detects the height of the print surface of the fabric based on the position of the idle roller. The vertical driving unit is controlled to drive the printing unit vertically according to the height of the print surface detected by the fabric thickness detecting mechanism.

Abstract: A complex data processing device that processes embroidery data representing an embroidery pattern to be formed on fabric by a sewing machine capable of embroidering and print data representing print pattern to be printed on the fabric by a printer. The complex data processing device includes a data acquiring unit that acquires the embroidery data and the print data, an overlapped region detecting unit that detects an overlapped region at which an embroidery region represented by the embroidery data and a printing region represented by the print data overlap based on the embroidery data and the print data acquired by the data acquiring unit, and a data modifying unit that deletes data corresponding to the overlapped region detected by the overlapped region detecting unit from at least one of the embroidery data and the print data.

Abstract: Provided are an image display device reinforcing sheet capable of reinforcing image display devices easily and effectively, and an image display device provided with the image display device reinforcing sheet, and further provided is a method for reinforcing the image display device using the image display device reinforcing sheet. In the image display device provided with an image display unit and a casing, using the image display device reinforcing sheet including a resin layer and a restricting layer laminated thereon, the resin layer is adhesively bonded to the image display unit and/or the casing and then heated. This allows the resin layer after heating to be firmly stuck to the portion to ensure rigidity, so that the strength of this portion can be improved.

Abstract: A sewing machine includes a sewing controller that controls sewing machine components, an imaging element capable of capturing facial images of a sewing machine user; a settings storage that stores settings for preset modes, the settings comprising items pertaining to sewing machine functions; a user information storage that stores facial image data of the user captured by the imaging element with mapping to the settings of the mode registered with the user; a verifier that verifies whether or not image data that matches the facial image data captured by the imaging element at sewing operation start exists in the user information storage; and an instruction controller that reads the settings from the user information storage when receiving a positive verification result from the verifier, and that instructs the sewing controller to control the sewing machine components based on the settings read.