Patents Assigned to Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 9439475
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a shoe upper capable of producing a shoe upper having a double structure with high productivity. A tubular inner side knitted fabric portion (19) to become an inner side portion of the shoe upper and a tubular outer side knitted fabric portion (11) to become an outer side portion of the shoe upper are knitted with the inner side knitted fabric portion (19) and the outer side knitted fabric portion (11) lined on left and right on the needle beds and with foot insertion opening corresponding portions (110, 190) of the knitted fabric portions (11, 19) connected (process ?). In this case, at least one of the inner side knitted fabric portion (19) and the outer side knitted fabric portion (11) is knitted using a fusible knitting yarn including a heat fusible yarn. The inner side knitted fabric portion (19) is tucked in an interior of the outer side knitted fabric portion (11) to form a shoe upper having a double structure (process ?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masamitsu Ikenaka
  • Publication number: 20160255913
    Abstract: There is provided an instep cover in which various designs can be provided on a side surface portion of the instep cover even when a shoelace holding section is provided, and a shoe upper including the instep cover. In a shoe upper (100) configuring a shoe, an instep cover (1) that covers a portion on an instep side of a wearer includes a slit (5S) extending from a foot insertion opening for the wearer to insert a foot toward a toe, and a shoelace holding section (4) that holds a shoelace for adjusting a spacing of the slit (5S). The shoelace holding section (4) includes a holding unit (4U) configured by a hole (4h) formed in a slit edge region (11) that shapes the slit (5S), and an annular strap (4s) being formed to an annular shape by connecting one end and the other end of a lace-like body to the slit edge region (11) and having a length that can be pulled out from the hole (4h) when an intermediate portion of the lace-like body is brought to a position of the hole (4h).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa UCHIKAWA, Masamitsu IKENAKA
  • Publication number: 20160213097
    Abstract: An instep cover knitted there-dimensionally in advance, and a method for knitting the same are provided. An instep cover 1, out of a shoe upper configuring a shoe, which is a seamless knitted fabric knitted using a flat knitting machine including at least a pair of a front and a back needle bed, the instep cover 1 covering a portion on an instep side of a wearer is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD
    Inventors: Yoshihisa UCHIKAWA, Masamitsu IKENAKA
  • Publication number: 20160198798
    Abstract: A shoe upper that suppresses a partial stretch of an upper main body with a means different from an inlay knitting yarn is provided. A shoe upper (100) including an upper main body (1) configured by a sole cover (2) and an instep cover (3) is provided, the shoe upper including a right side additional knitted fabric (4R) connected to a part of an edge portion (5e) of the shoe opening (5) in the instep cover (3) by knitting, which part is on a right side of a centerline dividing the shoe opening (5) to right and left, and a left side additional knitted fabric (4L) connected to a part of the edge portion (5e) on a left side of the center line by knitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu IKENAKA, Kenta TERAI
  • Publication number: 20160198797
    Abstract: There is provided a footwear having a three-dimensional shape that fits a foot of a wearer regardless of a stretchability of a knitted fabric. A seamless footwear (1) including an instep cover section (3) and a sole cover section (2) is provided. The sole cover section (2) is divided to a heel portion (20) and a sole main body portion (21). A setup portion (1S) or a knitting end portion is formed at a heel side end of the footwear (1), and such setup portion (1S) or the knitting end portion is extended in a height direction of the footwear (1) and also connected to the heel portion (20). The heel portion (20) is formed by a knitting of stacking a stitch row for plural tiers in a wale direction, and gradually differing the number of stitches in a knitting width direction of the stitch row when stacking tiers of the stitch row. The heel portion (20) is formed to a tongue shape in which a width gradually becomes narrower toward a heel side of the footwear (1) according to the change in the number of stitches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masamitsu IKENAKA
  • Publication number: 20160143394
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a shoe upper capable of producing a shoe upper having a double structure with high productivity. A tubular inner side knitted fabric portion (19) to become an inner side portion of the shoe upper and a tubular outer side knitted fabric portion (11) to become an outer side portion of the shoe upper are knitted with the inner side knitted fabric portion (19) and the outer side knitted fabric portion (11) lined on left and right on the needle beds and with foot insertion opening corresponding portions (110, 190) of the knitted fabric portions (11, 19) connected (process ?). In this case, at least one of the inner side knitted fabric portion (19) and the outer side knitted fabric portion (11) is knitted using a fusible knitting yarn including a heat fusible yarn. The inner side knitted fabric portion (19) is tucked in an interior of the outer side knitted fabric portion (11) to form a shoe upper having a double structure (process ?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masamitsu IKENAKA
  • Publication number: 20160128428
    Abstract: There is provided a shoe upper with high productivity in which a reinforcing section can be easily formed at the position of the heel or the toe, and a method for producing the same. A shoe upper (1) in which an instep cover section (3) and a sole cover section (2) are integrally knitted in a seamless manner is provided. The shoe upper (1) includes a pocket section (4) formed extending over a left side portion and a right side portion of the shoe upper (1) at least at a position of a heel or a toe of the shoe upper (1). The pocket section (4) is configured by an outer side knitted fabric portion (40) configured with a part of the instep cover section (3), and an inner side knitted fabric portion (49) directly connected to the sole cover section (2) and entered to the inner side of the outer side knitted fabric portion (40). A pocket opening (4i), which is an opening of the pocket section (4), opens at the side of the sole cover section (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamitsu IKENAKA, Kenta TERAI
  • Publication number: 20160122913
    Abstract: There is provided a method for knitting a knitted fabric, different from a conventional method, of forming a suppressing section for suppressing a stretch in the knitting width direction of the knitted fabric in the knitting process of the knitted fabric. One side in a longitudinal direction of needle beds (FB, BB) is assumed as a moving direction (DR). A suppressing section (4) is formed by repeating performing of a bind-off process, in which a first stitch (11) held on one needle bed (FB) is overlapped with a second stitch (12) that is proximate in the moving direction (DR) and a retaining stitch (15) is knitted following in a wale direction of a double stitch (13) of the first stitch (11) and the second stitch (12), and forming of a new base stitch (14) branched from at least one of the first stitch (11) and the second stitch (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi KINO, Masamitsu IKENAKA
  • Publication number: 20160066651
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a shoe upper with which a shoe upper can be produced with high productivity, and a shoe upper obtained with the method for producing the shoe upper. An instep cover section (3) and a sole cover section (2) are integrally knitted in a seamless manner by carrying out process ? and then carrying out process ? or by carrying out process ? and then carrying out process ? with a flat knitting machine including at least a pair of a front and a back needle bed. [Process ?] Knitting a main body left portion (3L), which is a left side portion of the instep cover section (3), with one needle bed of the flat knitting machine and knitting a main body right portion (3R), which is a right side portion of the instep cover section (3), with the other needle bed of the flat knitting machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta TERAI, Takashi KINO, Masamitsu IKENAKA
  • Publication number: 20160053415
    Abstract: There is provided a knitted fabric in which a spacing of an open portion can be adjusted as necessary, and a method for knitting the same. An inlay knitting of interweaving a first line (Y1) supplied from a far side line feeder (F1) into a first knitted fabric portion (11) is carried out (process ?). An inlay knitting of interweaving a second line (Y2) supplied from a near side line feeder (F2) into a second knitted fabric portion (12) is carried out, and the second line (Y2) is made intersect the first line (Y1) on the open portion (50) side (process ?). An inlay knitting of interweaving the first line (Y1) into the first knitted fabric portion (11) is carried out, and a state in which the first line (Y1) is entwined around the second line (Y2) and turned back is obtained (process ?). An inlay knitting of interweaving the second line (Y2) into the second knitted fabric portion (12) is carried out, and a turn-back end of the first line (Y1) and a turn-back end of the second line (Y2) are entwined (process ?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu IKENAKA, Chiharu KIYOHARA
  • Publication number: 20160017524
    Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to provide a method for knitting a novel knitted fabric in which a stitch direction on an instep side is orthogonal to a stitch direction on a sole side using a flat knitting machine. In a sole section (4), a pickup stitch (8) in which a cover section (3) continues to a left side and a right side of the sole section (4) is formed while moving a stitch row of a BB, which becomes a part of a toe section (2), toward one side (right) in a knitting width direction. In the cover section (3), a three-dimensional cover section (3) is formed by carrying out a narrowing knitting while forming a new stitch following a stitch row of an FB of the toe section (2), a stitch row of an BB of the toe section (2) in which the pickup stitch (8) is formed on a left side (12) and a right side (13) of the sole section (4) while being moved toward the right, and a stitch row of the pickup stitch (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumi NISHINO, Takashi KINO
  • Publication number: 20150374062
    Abstract: There is provided a method for knitting a shoe upper that can allow the reinforcement degree of the shoe upper to be changed with a small number of yarn feeders. A method for knitting a shoe upper (1) including an instep cover section (3) that covers a portion on an instep side of a wearer and a sole cover section (2) that covers a sole of the wearer is provided. The instep cover section (3) and the sole cover section (2) are three-dimensionally knitted in a seamless manner; and in the knitting process, at least one base section (10) configuring a part of the shoe upper (1) is knitted using a base knitting yarn containing a non-thermal adhesive yarn and a thermal adhesive yarn, and a reinforcement knitting yarn containing a thermal adhesive yarn is interwoven in the base section (10) to reinforce the base section (10). In this case, the number of knitting with the reinforcement knitting yarn with respect to the base section (10) is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD.
    Inventors: Masamitsu IKENAKA, Kenta TERAI
  • Patent number: 9087802
    Abstract: Settings of color parameters relating to a plurality of colors and length parameters relating to lengths of line segments of the respective colors are accepted via a setting image. A Line having the plurality of colors is created by an image processing unit connecting the line segments of the respective colors to each other that respectively have the colors according to the color parameters and the lengths according to the length parameters, and a pattern with multiple lines is created by the image processing unit arranging the created line in a repeated manner in a predetermined area. Effects: Various types of cyclic patterns are automatically created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Shima Seiki Mfg., LTD.
    Inventor: Fumihiro Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20150160005
    Abstract: A lattice is projected multiple times from projectors (P1; P2) onto a measurement target object (1) while being shifted, the measurement target object (1) onto which the lattice is projected is imaged by a camera (C1), and conversion into the three-dimensional shape of the measurement target object (1) is performed. Two projectors (P1; P2) are provided respectively at positions that are close to and far from the camera (C1), and, using phases obtained from images captured during projection from the projector (P1) that is provided at the position close to the camera (C1), phases obtained from images captured during projection from the projector (P2) that is provided at the position far from the camera (C1) are converted into phases by which positions in line of sight directions from the camera (C1) are uniquely indicated. The three-dimensional shape of an object is accurately measured in a short time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazutaka Iwai
  • Publication number: 20140297020
    Abstract: Settings of color parameters relating to a plurality of colors and length parameters relating to lengths of line segments of the respective colors are accepted via a setting image. A Line having the plurality of colors is created by an image processing unit connecting the line segments of the respective colors to each other that respectively have the colors according to the color parameters and the lengths according to the length parameters, and a pattern with multiple lines is created by the image processing unit arranging the created line in a repeated manner in a predetermined area. Effects: Various types of cyclic patterns are automatically created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD.
    Inventor: Fumihiro NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 8661952
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a cutting machine capable of keeping an angle of a cutting edge constant. A support block 14 is provided with two arms 14a, 14b which are spaced at a certain angle, and the arms 14a, 14b have rotation shafts 12a, 13a of rotary whetstones 12, 13, respectively, extending upright from the vicinities of the front ends thereof. The rotary whetstones 12, 13 has, at front ends thereof, flat surfaces 12b, 13b perpendicular to the rotation shafts 12a, 13a to grind the one side 11b and the other side 11c of the cutting edge 11a of the cutting blade 11, respectively. The whetstone holding mechanism 15 can be moved linearly along the guide shaft 16 and can change over grinding states in which the flat surfaces 12b, 13b of the rotary whetstones 12, 13 into contact with the one side 11b or the other side 11c of the cutting blade 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.
    Inventors: Reiji Arikita, Kenji Ikoma
  • Publication number: 20130273331
    Abstract: A three-dimension fabric by which a three-dimension fabric surface can be formed by supporting the fabric edges by a frame member and stretching the fabric, wherein the fabric per se, which constitutes the fabric surface, is provided with at least one heterogeneous portion that is different at least in yarn type and/or fabric structure type from the adjacent portion. Thus, the three-dimension fabric can be easily made into a construct of a desirable shape without using a frame having a complicated shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicants: Toray Industries, Inc., Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Kosui, Hiroaki Date, Ryosuke Yamao, Hiroshi Tsuchikura
  • Patent number: 8434331
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tubular knit glove and method of flatbed knitting. The outward portion of a thumb pouch (7) is knitted while the direction of the wales continues from the end of a four finger body (6) with a reciprocating motion in the direction of the course. Rows of stitches are knit in the center and yarn-overs (8,9) are added on each side as connecting stitches. The inward portion of a thumb pouch (10) forms rows of stitches that link with the yarn-overs (8,9) when knitting back from the end of the outward portion of the thumb pouch (7). After forming a thumb pouch (11), a five finger body (14) is knit as a circularly-knit tube wherein the knitting thread revolves in the course direction completing a glove (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Funaki, Takahiro Yamashita, Isao Yumiba, Takashi Kino
  • Patent number: 8249739
    Abstract: A yarn feeding device for a knitting machine comprises a motor for driving a roller from which a yarn is fed out, and a rotatable arm which intermediately stores the yarn fed out from the roller, and the yarn is fed from the arm to a knitting machine body. A torque generator is provided to apply a variable torque to the arm. A yarn speed is obtained from a loop length of a stitch for each knitting needle and a knitting speed calculated on the basis of knitting data used in the knitting machine body. The yarn speed is converted into a torque to be applied to a buffer using a conversion table at each knitting section in a knitting course so as to correct a yarn tension fluctuation caused by the yarn speed, and the torque generator is controlled in accordance with the torque thus obtained. The yarn tension fluctuation is reduced so that high-speed knitting and knitting using a weak yarn can be facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Nishitani, Yoshiyuki Komura
  • Patent number: 8216029
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a cutting machine capable of sharpening in such a manner that an angle of a cutting edge can be kept constant. A support block 14 is provided with two arms 14a, 14b which are spaced at a certain angle, and the arms 14a, 14b have rotation shafts 12a, 13a of rotary whetstones 12, 13, respectively, extending upright from the vicinities of the front ends thereof. The rotary whetstones 12, 13 has, at front ends thereof, flat surfaces perpendicular to the rotation shafts 12a, 13a to sharpen the one side 11b and the other side 11c of the cutting edge 11a of the cutting blade 11, respectively. The whetstone holding mechanism 15 can be moved in parallel linearly or can swing almost linearly, as mainly indicated by the arrow 15a, to bring the flat surface 12b of the rotary whetstone 12 into contact with the one side 11b of the cutting blade 11, as depicted by a broken line, thereby allowing the switch to the sharpening state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Shima Seiki Mfg., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Ikoma, Reiji Arikita