Toyota Industries

Japan
Hall 3, Booth D112
The New Generation Electronic Shedding Motion Is Now Available
Toyota provides total weaving solutions with our original technology. The Electronic Shedding Motion (Eshed) was originally developed and produced by Toyota to provide the best solution for customers wanting
to weave value-added fabric with low cost over the past decade.
Now, a new generation Electronic Shedding motion for the Toyota Air Jet Loom JAT710 is available, having
evolved from the fundamental technologies perfected as the world's only E-shed.* Through our unwavering
commitment to customer satisfaction, we have created a more advanced weaving solution, combining higher
speed operation and energy savings with a wide range of new and improved features.

The new Electronic Shedding Motion has these superb features:

High Speed Operation
Maximum speed: 1,000 rpm
A newly developed liquid-cooled drive system enhances the ability to achieve high speed operation for even
up to 16 frames. And further optimization of the drive mechanism reduces frame acceleration which reduces
impact to the frames.
Further Improved Operability
With E-shed, the dwell and cross timing of each frame can be individually set by electronic control which
can prevent slack warp ends and maintain clear shed-opening to achieve high running efficiency even with
intricate fabric designs. Furthermore, a newly developed ICS II (Initital Condition Setting II) provides the
most suitable settings for dwell and cross timing according to the type of fabric. A movable control box for
the new E-shed is located above the driving part for easy access and space reduction.
Energy Saving
The liquid-cooled drive system, the newly designed servo amplifier and the optimized drive mechanism
achieve and energy savings of 10 to 20 percent** compared to the existing E-shed machine.
* Toyota is the world's only manufacturer producing the E-shed weaving machine on a large commercial
basis.
** Depending on fabric design and load of the frame movement.

Electronic Shedding Motion

E-shed (for Air Jet Loom JAT710)

An air-jet loom shedding motion makes a vertical space between the raised and lowered warp threads
through which to insert weft yarn. It allows the weaving of complex-patterned fabrics by controlling the
timing of the raising or lowering of warp threads.
An electronic shedding motion allows the weaving of high difficulty and high quality fabrics, and it realizes
weaving with low-impact for thread and a machine.

Reduction of the electric consumption

Reduction of the inertia moment*1 of decelerators
Our new developed product is equipped with a decelerator of each individual axis in
substitution for our conventional product integrated with 16 axes. It reduces the inertia
moment by approx. 54% than our conventional product.
Equipment of converter integrated with 16 axes
The regeneration energy at the time of the slowdown in an opening movement is stored
in a capacitor.
Regeneration energy increase so that frames increased, however, our conventional
model did not collect nor store a part of it to a capacitor and was consumed by
resistance.
Although the capacitor with built-in amplifier was carried for every axis, since the
capacitor with built-in amplifier is carried in the converter integrated with 16 axes, our
conventional product enabled it to exploit all the regeneration energies with our
developed product.

By these improvement, the electric consumption of the electronic shedding motion is reduced by
approx. 22%*2.
*1

It means the quantity of the inertia over rotation of the object rotated around arbitrary
axes.
It means being hard to generate change of rotational movement, so that this quantity
increase.
*2
This is the comparison of the electric consumption in 800 rpm of the main part of the
loom.

Reduction of the amplifier size

Since our conventional products carried supplier's standard amplifier, they had unnecessary parts.
By carrying the newly developed amplifier integrated with 2 axes, our new developed product is
concentrated parts and eliminated unnecessary parts of the amplifier and reduced volume of it by
aprox. 40%.