環状織機の創造性に関する考察

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The Circular loom was invented by Sakichi TOYODA, who is a founder of Toyota group, in 1906. Sakichi's targets were completion of the Automatic loom and the Circular loom. The Automatic loom was improved a hand loom to powered and high performance, but for hitting and moving a shuttle side to side when weaving a cloth, vibration and noise are big, and there is a lot of wastes power. So the Circular loom was born from the idea of “circular motion”, which uses the power ideally when weaving a cloth. The Circular loom was created by the original idea that was no reference example of a hand loom. There are also many creative mechanisms, so it's considered about the creativity.