Braiding machines and carriers for braiding machines

• Main Authors: Bousquet, Philippe, Stefan Talos, Cristian, Chabot, Olivier, Laberge Lebel, Louis, Assi, Pascal, Villeneuve, Guillaume, Delisle, Vincent
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.01.2024
• Subjects: BRAID; BRAIDING; BRAIDING MACHINES; BRAIDING OR MANUFACTURE OF LACE, INCLUDING BOBBIN-NET ORCARBONISED LACE; KNITTING; LACE; LACE-MAKING; NON-WOVEN FABRICS; TEXTILES; TRIMMINGS

A carrier for supporting a yarn to be used by a braiding machine, has: a spool carrying the yarn; a motor drivingly engaged to the spool; at least one sensor for producing data about a condition of the yarn in the spool; and a controller operatively connected to the motor and to the at least one sensor, the controller having a processor and a computer-readable medium operatively connected to the processor and having instructions stored thereon executable by the processor for: receiving said data from the at least one sensor; determining operation parameters of the motor based on the received data; and operating the motor per the determined operation parameters to create the desired tension in the yarn.