¡¡¡¡From of old, the hometown of Sakichi has been known for being rich in silk cotton and a lot of families take weaving as family sideline production, Sakichi¡¯s family was no exception. Since his childhood, Sakichi saw his mother weaving hard after engaging in farming ¡°The efficiency of this work is too low¡±. Filial Sakichi began to think that ¡°Can I make some improvement on loom to reduce the hardship of my mother the other mothers?¡± after visiting the factories and exhibitions in Tokyo and having primary knowledge to Western Technical Civilization. Since then, he was determined to invent convenient and high-efficiency power looms and began to walk up to the endless inventing path.

¡¡¡¡As a common saying goes ¡°All beginnings are hard¡±, while ¡°A thousand mile trip begins with one step¡±. It was almost impossible for Sakichi to reach the inventing and creating stature without receiving any Systematic education of knowledge and professional technical training, so he decided to do from improving the looms available for him. But, his father considered it was a fantastic talk for unscholarly person to conduct creation and invention, father¡¯s objection and lack of research fund made it more difficult to Sakichi¡¯s invention. Finally, Sakichi successfully invented Toyota model manual looms which are cheaper, but better works than the existing looms and obtained his first patent right in 1890. This kind of loom increases the weaving efficiency by from 40% to 50%, reducing the unequal part in textile fabric and improving the quality of textile fabric to a great extent. While, although Sakichi had full confidence in his works, the selling condition of this loom was unsatisfactory, it seemed that only make this kind of improvement still could not meet the demands of people. Herefrom, He went on to focus his efforts on the improvement and invention of looms, including a significant number of excellent motive and automatic machines to improve the work efficiency of looms further.

Crazy Sakichi¡ª¡ª From power looms to automatic looms

¡¡¡¡Although Sakichi Toyoda always suffered from the lack of development capital, however, he still continued to persist in his invention work. Villagers did not understand his behavior and gave him hell, call him ¡°madman¡± or ¡°That mendacious sun of Ikichi Toyoda¡±. Finally, under such severe and formidable situation, Sakichi successfully invented the nationally first power loom-wooden and metal power loom in Japan through 6-year hardworking since his first invention in 1890, and the performance of that machine was widely accepted by the society. It is not a fable for only one employee to operate 3-4 sets of machines simultaneously, the success of new loom enabled the labor efficiency to increase by more than 20 times. People came to loom manufacturing plant of Kiichiro for visiting formed a continuous stream, including many important members of the government. At that time, Japanese prime minister-Shigenobu Okuma inspired Kiichiro ¡°Invention and creation are work to compare intelligence with foreigners, have it done well, don't lose to them¡± and also gave each employee a bonus as a way of rewarding. Sakichi Toyota, only 32 years old, became an eminent person at one swoop in Japan.

¡¡¡¡In after years, Sakichi kept on conducting his research. In 1901, he invented warp shuttle thread feeding device. This device is capable of sending out wefts with a constant force, in this way, the problem considered quite difficult by experts of the day had been solved smoothly. In addition, conventional looms had to be stopped when the weft ran out so that the wooden bobbin on which the weft was wound could be replaced, the work efficiency of the loom was seriously affected. Consequently, Sakichi next concentrated on developing a device for automatically replenishing the weft. Sakichi devoted himself to inventing a device that would automatically replenish the weft and he succeeded in 1903. This new automatic shuttle-changing device yielded excellent results when fitted to narrow-width power looms. The effort made by Sakichi with assiduity paved solid basis for the birth of future famous Toyota automatic loom.

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