# US 10,246,291 B2 · Yarn feeder

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- Number: US 10,246,291 B2
- Document ID: US10246291B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/664,964
- Filed: 2017-07-31
- Published: 2019-01-31
- Granted: 2019-04-02
- Earliest claimed: 2017-07-31
- Assignees: Sunshine Kinetics Technology Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Shen-Te Feng
- Inventors: Shen-Te Feng
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10246291B2

## CPC

- B65H 59/387: {Regulating unwinding speed}
- B65H 49/26: Axial shafts or spigots
- B65H 49/34: Arrangements for effecting positive rotation of packages
- B65H 49/36: Securing packages to supporting devices (replacing or removing cores, receptacles, or completed packages at paying-out, winding, or depositing stations B65H67/00)
- B65H 75/245: {by deformation of an elastic or flexible material (B65H75/2437 takes precedence)}
- B65H 2701/31: Textiles threads or artificial strands of filaments
- B65H: HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES

## Abstract

A yarn feeder may comprise a driver and a winding wheel. The driver has a front cover, a rear cover, a stator disc and a rotor disc, and the front cover and the rear cover are configured to fit together to form a housing therebetween which accommodates the stator disc and the rotor disc therein. The stator disc has a first through hole, and a plurality of teeth are formed around the first through hole to enable a couple of coils to be wound thereon. The rotor disc has a connecting hole, and a plurality of magnetic members are formed around the connecting hole. A connecting base extended from a first end of the winding wheel is engaged with the connecting hole, and the driver is connected to a tension controller to detect the tension of yarn and further to control the rotational speed of the driver.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A yarn feeder comprising:
a driver having a front cover, a rear cover, a stator disc and a rotor disc, and the front cover and the rear cover configured to fit together to form a housing therebetween; a first axial hole and a second axial hole respectively penetrating through two central portions of the front cover and the rear cover, and the stator disc and the rotor disc installed inside the housing; the stator disc, which has a first through hole at a central portion thereof, secured on the front cover, and a plurality of teeth formed around the first through hole to enable a couple of coils to be wound thereon; the rotor disc having a connecting hole formed at a central portion thereof, and a plurality of magnetic members formed around the connecting hole; and
a winding wheel having two second through holes respectively and axially penetrating through two ends thereof; a shaft configured to sequentially penetrate through the two second through holes of the winding wheel, the second axial hole, the connecting hole, the first through hole and the first axial hole to lock the driver at a first end of the winding wheel; a connecting base, which is extended from the first end of the winding wheel, engaged with the connecting hole of the rotor disc such that when the coils of the stator disc energized by electric current, a magnetic field created to drive the rotor disc and the winding wheel to rotate synchronously.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The yarn feeder of claim 1, wherein at least an engaging block is secured on an inner periphery of the connecting hole, and the connecting base has at least a locating groove formed thereon which is configured to engage with the engaging block, thereby engaging the winding wheel with the rotor disc.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The yarn feeder of claim 1, wherein a plurality of arc-shaped elastic strips are arranged around the winding wheel, and each of the elastic strips has two ends respectively connected to two ends of the winding wheel.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The yarn feeder of claim 1, wherein the driver is connected to a tension controller which is configured to detect the tension of yarn and further to control the rotational speed of the driver.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The yarn feeder of claim 4, wherein the tension controller has two fixed rods, and each of the two fixed rods is pivotally connected to a grooved wheel; the tension controller further comprises a telescopic operating rod formed between the two fixed rods, and a tension pulley is pivotally connected to the operating rod such that when the yarn is simultaneously coupled on the grooved wheels and the tension pulley, the operating rod is configured to measure the tension and torsion of the yarn.