D05C 11/00
Devices for guiding, feeding, handling, or treating the threads in embroidering machines
Official title: Devices for guiding, feeding, handling, or treating the threads in embroidering machines; Machine needles; Operating or control mechanisms therefor
D05C11/00 (Devices for guiding, feeding, handling, or treating the threads in embroidering machines) appears on 207 US grants and 154 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D05C- Granted patents
- 207
- Published applications
- 154
- Assignees
- 78
- Inventors
- 324
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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| 2024 | 13 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 6 |
| 2026 | 2 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- D05C 11/16Arrangements for repeating thread patterns or for changing threads61
- D05C 11/02Machine needles36
- D05C 11/24Incorporating devices for dyeing or impregnating the threads35
- D05C 11/08Thread-tensioning arrangements31
- D05C 11/18Shuttles12
- D05C 11/20Arrangements for cutting the needle or lower threads12
- D05C 11/22Arrangements for cutting-out broken threads1
Recent patents
- Thread-cutting mechanism of an embroidery machine and tube embroidery machine applying the same16 Jun 2026US 12,655,558 B2Zhejiang Hehe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd
- Tufting machine and method of tufting7 Apr 2026US 12,595,607 B2Card-Monroe Corp.
- Dyeing apparatus, dyeing unit, dyeing/embroidery system, and adjustment method in dyeing apparatus18 Nov 2025US 12,473,679 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Method for in-line treatment of a thread and a system therefore comprising a treatment unit and a thread speed sensor21 Oct 2025US 12,448,713 B2Coloreel International Holdings Limited
- Embroidery machine thread tension adjusting device15 Apr 2025US 12,276,058 B2Mobase Sunstar Co., Ltd
- A controller, system, and method for generating thread coloring data for at least one thread based on a digital representation27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249620 A1Coloreel International Holdings Limited
- Generating thread stitch coloring data for an in-line thread coloring process26 Mar 2026US 2026/0085459 A1Coloreel International Holdings Limited
- Method for in-line treatment of a thread and a system therefore comprising a treatment unit and a thread speed sensor15 Jan 2026US 2026/0015781 A1Coloreel International Holdings Limited
- Embroidery Machine And Thread Clamping Device4 Dec 2025US 2025/0369168 A1Zhejiang Hehe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd
- Thread-cutting mechanism of an embroidery machine and tube embroidery machine applying the same17 Jul 2025US 2025/0230592 A1Zhejiang Hehe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Embroidering using ink jet printing apparatus84US 6,189,989 B1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2001
- Computerized stitching including embroidering48US 7,308,333 B2Melco Industries, Inc. · 2007
- Stitch distribution control system for tufting machines48US 8,359,989 B2Card-Monroe Corp. · 2013
- Tufted pile fabric formed from spun and filament space-dyed yarn27US 5,413,832 AMilliken Research Corporation · 1995
- Method for deleting and reintroducing yarns to a textile process26US 5,501,250 AE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company · 1996