OKAMOTO CORPORATION Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140137605 | ROTARY SINKER, KNITTING MACHINE, AND STITCH FORMING METHOD - A rotary sinker enabling stitch formation by a knitting machine using a rotor for forming a stitch, a knitting machine including the rotary sinker, and a stitch forming method are provided. The ring sinkers as rotating bodies are capable of rotating about a rotation axis independently of each other. The rotation times of the ring sinkers are set to be different from each other. Thus, the rotation times are adjusted to be different between the ring sinker that holds an old loop and the ring sinker that holds a new loop. Adjustment of the rotation times prevents application of a large tension to the knitting yarn made of low stretch fiber, and a stitch can be formed even with a knitting yarn made of non-stretch or low-stretch fiber. | 05-22-2014 |
20140053610 | STITCH-SIZE CONTROLLED KNIT PRODUCT - A knit product includes a compression region and is formed by a circular knitting machine which knits first and second stitches having different stitch sizes in the same course by moving sinkers in and out of between reciprocating knitting needles. The second stitch has a smaller stitch size than the first stitch. The circular knitting machine selectively arranges the second stitch on a stitch-by-stitch basis. The knitting needles are arranged on a cylinder thereof at a density of about 14 to about 24 per inch in a circumferential direction of the cylinder. The yarn count of a face yarn of a knitting yarn corresponds to a cotton count larger than 10. A back yarn of the knitting yarn is a covering yarn having a core yarn of polyurethane of about 70 denier or less or a man-made fiber of about 140 denier or less subjected to texturing. | 02-27-2014 |
20130233025 | SOCK - A sock includes a knitted fabric covering at least from a toe portion to a heel portion of a wearer. The knitted fabric, which is arranged in a first region covering at least sections, in a sole, corresponding to phalanges and metatarsal heads of the wearer, is formed by stitches that are knitted only by means of a covering yarn, which is a winding yarn wrapped around a core yarn. | 09-12-2013 |
20130205839 | KNITTED FABRIC WITH DIFFERENT PILE LENGTHS, KNIT PRODUCT AND SOCKS USING THE SAME - A knitted fabric that has a three-dimensional appearance includes a plurality of knitting structures of different pile lengths. The knitting structures include a plain stitch of ground yarn and pile yarn, a low-pile stitch in which a sinker-loop length of the pile yarn is longer than that of ground yarn, and a high-pile stitch in which the sinker-loop length of the pile yarn is longer than that in the low-pile stitch. A pile motif is formed by selectively arranging, in the same course, the low-pile stitch and the high-pile stitch in a region of the plain stitches on a stitch-by-stitch basis or by selectively arranging, in the same course, the high-pile stitch in a region of the low-pile stitches on a stitch-by-stitch basis. | 08-15-2013 |
20130205837 | KNITTING MACHINE CAPABLE OF CHANGING PILE LENGTH AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF KNITTED FABRIC HAVING DIFFERENT PILE LENGTHS - A knitting machine capable of changing a pile length includes a low-pile sinker and a high-pile sinker, a low-pile selector jack arranged on the rear end side of the low-pile sinker, a high-pile selector jack arranged on the rear end side of the high-pile sinker, an actuator operable to, when a pile yarn and a ground yarn are drawn in by a knitting needle, selectively perform the first control in which the actuator acts on the low-pile selector jack, the second control in which the actuator acts on the high-pile selector jack, and the third control in which the actuator does not act on any of the low-pile and high-pile selector jacks, and a cam operable to push out the selector jack subjected to the action of the actuator and the sinker which is in contact with the selector jack to an area between the knitting needles. | 08-15-2013 |
20130205836 | STITCH-SIZE CONTROLLABLE KNITTING MACHINE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF KNITTED FABRIC - A circular knitting machine includes sinkers and selector jacks corresponding thereto that are provided as separate components. The selector jacks are arranged radially outside the sinkers, and are provided with selector butts such that the selector butts of circumferentially adjacent selector jacks are arranged at different radial positions. An actuator that acts on the selector butts is arranged radially outside the cylinder. The circular knitting machine prevents a failure of sinker selection, while increasing a rotation speed of a cylinder holding knitting needles. | 08-15-2013 |
20130178602 | NUCLEIC ACID ENCODING A SILK PROTEIN AND A METHOD OF PRODUCING A SILK THREAD USING SAME - Disclosed are a protein encoded by any one of nucleic acids (i) to (iv): (i) a nucleic acid having a base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; (ii) a nucleic acid encoding a protein having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (iii) a nucleic acid encoding a dragline protein and having a sequence identity of 90% or more with the nucleic acid (i); (iv) a nucleic acid which encodes a dragline protein and hybridizes with a complementary chain of the nucleic acid (i) under stringent conditions, and a silk thread containing the protein. | 07-11-2013 |
20120276590 | RECOMBINANT SILKWORM AND SILKWORM PROTEIN COMPRISING HETEROLOGOUS PROTEIN PRODUCED BY THE RECOMBINANT SILKWORM - The present invention relates to a recombinant organism having any one of nucleic acids (i) to (iv) introduced therein: (i) a nucleic acid having a base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; (ii) a nucleic acid encoding a protein having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (iii) a nucleic acid encoding a dragline protein and having a sequence identity of 90% or more with the nucleic acid (i); (iv) a nucleic acid which encodes a dragline protein and hybridizes with a complementary chain of the nucleic acid (i) under stringent conditions. | 11-01-2012 |
20120198601 | VAPOR-PERMEABLE WATERPROOF SOCK - A vapor-permeable waterproof sock includes a cylindrical main body including a cloth having vapor permeability and that is waterproof. The vapor-permeable waterproof sock covers a range from a foot tip portion to a crus portion. The cylindrical main body includes a plurality of cloth areas, each of which expands and contacts more easily in one direction as compared with other directions. The plurality of cloth areas are joined together, and include a crus cloth area expanding and contracting more easily in a circumferential direction of the crus portion as compared with in a longitudinal direction of the crus portion, the crus cloth area covering the crus portion; and a planta portion cloth area expanding and contacting more easily in a longitudinal direction of the planta portion as compared with a width direction of the planta portion. | 08-09-2012 |
20120079855 | Rotary Sinker, Knitting Machine and Knitting Machine Control Apparatus - The present invention provides a rotary sinker capable of suppressing energy loss and achieving reduction in the driving load, a knitting machine provided with the rotary sinker, and a knitting machine control apparatus. The sinker | 04-05-2012 |
20120079854 | Knitting Element Comprising Rotor and Knitting Machine - The kniting element has a rotor capable of rotating about an axis and makes a knit stitch by using rotational motion of the rotor. The rotor is formed in a circular disk shape. A pair of bearing plates is separated from each other in a radial direction of the rotor. The rotor is supported rotatably by bearing plates support slidably the circumferential surface of the rotor. A plurality of teeth to which rotational drive force is transmitted is formed in a circumference edge portion of the rotor. An engagement recess capable of engaging knitting yarn is formed in the circumferential face of the rotor. | 04-05-2012 |
20120065375 | RECOMBINANT ORGANISM AND PROTEIN PRODUCED BY THE RECOMBINANT ORGANISM - The present invention relates to a recombinant organism having any one of nucleic acids (i) to (iv) introduced therein: (i) a nucleic acid having a base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; (ii) a nucleic acid encoding a protein having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (iii) a nucleic acid encoding a dragline protein and having a sequence identity of 90% or more with the nucleic acid (i); (iv) a nucleic acid which encodes a dragline protein and hybridizes with a complementary chain of the nucleic acid (i) under stringent conditions. | 03-15-2012 |
20120065372 | DRAGLINE PROTEIN - To provide a new natural fiber material with excellent physical properties. Any one of the following nucleic acids (a) to (d): (a) a nucleic acid having a base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or 19; (b) a nucleic acid encoding a protein having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 or 20; (c) a nucleic acid encoding a dragline protein and having a sequence identity of 90% or more with the nucleic acid (a); (d) a nucleic acid which encodes a dragline protein and hybridizes with a complementary chain of the nucleic acid (a) under stringent conditions. | 03-15-2012 |
20120024014 | TUBULAR KNITTED FABRIC FOR CLOTHING AND LEGWEAR - A tubular knitted fabric for clothing has a first stitch and a second stitch smaller than the first stitch. The pattern of the tubular knitted fabric for clothing is obtained by selectively disposing the second stitch in units of one stitch. Selectively driving a sinker of a circular knitting machine controls stitch densities, thereby producing the first stitch and the second stitch smaller than the first stitch. A legwear is formed of this tubular knitted fabric for clothing. | 02-02-2012 |
20110314591 | Leg Garment - A leg garment according to the present invention includes a body portion covering at least an instep, a sole and an ankle of a leg. The leg garment includes a support strip exerting a tightening force larger than that of a portion of the leg garment around the support strip. The support strip is arranged in the shape of an inwardly-wound helix extending from the instep to the ankle through the sole. The support strip includes: a first tightening portion arranged so as to medially extend from the instep to the sole; and a second tightening portion arranged so as to extend obliquely upward from a lateral side to a medial side of a ventral ankle, the second tightening portion compressing the ventral ankle via a surface thereof. | 12-29-2011 |
20110030125 | LEG WEAR FOR SLEEP - The leg wear for sleep according to an aspect of the present invention is leg wear adapted to be worn during sleep and has a double-layered structure in which an inside member and an outside member that do not constrict the foot of a wearer are layered. The inside member has a napped surface, and the outside member has a higher drape and a smoother surface than the inside member. | 02-10-2011 |
20100105992 | Pressure-sensitive conductive yarn and biological information-measuring garment | 04-29-2010 |