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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186289 | Sewing machine and computer-readable medium storing control program executable on sewing machine A sewing machine includes an embroidery frame moving device that moves an embroidery frame holding a work cloth, an image pickup device that picks up images of an upper surface of a bed portion of the sewing machine, a position information storage device that stores... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8146521 | Sewing machine and computer-readable recording medium with recorded sewing machine control program A sewing machine that enables a user to perform sewing while moving a piece of work cloth, the sewing machine including: a main shaft that drives a needle bar equipped with a sewing needle, a sewing machine motor that rotary-drives the main shaft, a detection device... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8096248 | Embroidery data processing apparatus, embroidery sewing machine and computer-readable recording medium with recorded embroidery data processing program The present disclosure provides an embroidery data processing apparatus that processes embroidery data for sewing an embroidery to a work cloth and to make a cut by a boring knife. The embroidery data processing apparatus an embroidery data acquisition device that a... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8061284 | Stippling pattern stitching apparatus and sewing machine The invention discloses an apparatus for easily stitching a stippling pattern, wherein the stippling pattern 20 is selected and the vertical and lateral lengths XY of an embroidering area 30 are designated. In response to the designation, a pattern num... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8061285 | Sewing machine for stitching a stippling pattern The convex portions 25 are formed as arranged in contact or substantially in contact with the points A1˜A7 of first group respectively that are provided on the upper side limit line 76 and the concave portions 26 are formed as arr... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7971543 | Sewing machine and computer-readable recording medium storing sewing machine operation program A sewing machine includes a needle bar, a needle bar vertical movement mechanism, a sewing machine motor for driving the needle bar vertical movement mechanism as a drive source, an embroidery frame that holds a work cloth, and an embroidery frame movement mechanism... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7908985 | Sewing machine and computer-readable recording medium storing thread amount processing program A sewing machine capable of sewing an embroidery pattern based on embroidery data including at least thread color data and needle drop point data. The sewing machine includes a reader that reads out thread information stored in an RFID tag embedded in each of a plur... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7854207 | Data processing unit and pattern forming method A printing and embroidering system having a positional data appending system that is adapted to append positional data indicating positions of a first image and a second image with respect to each other to first image data representing the first image to be formed b... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7836837 | Embroidery data processing apparatus, embroidery data processing program, and recording medium An embroidery data processing apparatus includes a main data loading device that loads main data, which is original data of a principal pattern, and a main data disposition device that disposes in an embroidery sewing region the main data loaded by the main data loa... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7762202 | Embroidery sewing system An embroidery sewing system includes an embroidery data processing apparatus and a sewing apparatus. The embroidery data processing apparatus generates and processes embroidery data used to sew an embroidery pattern on a work cloth. The embroidery data processing ap... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7392755 | Sewing machine capable of embroidery sewing A sewing machine capable of embroidery sewing is configured to specify a type of embroidery frame by shooting an embroidery frame placed on an upper surface of the bed by a CCD or a CMOS image sensor disposed in an underside of an arm from an obliquely upward direct... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7359760 | Data processing device and data processing method A data processing device processes embroidery data for a sewing machine capable of embroidering and print data for a printer that prints a pattern on at least a portion of an embroidery formed by the sewing machine. The data processing device includes an embroidery ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350472 | Work positioning device A work positioning device for a computer sewing machine includes an auxiliary table and a positioning arm having one end removably and turnably connected to the auxiliary table. The positioning arm has the opposite end provided with a positioning part and may be tur... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7328665 | Embroidery module for a free-arm sewing machine An embroidery module (1) is provided that is attached (docked) to the base plate (29) of a sewing machine (27) and supplied with power and control commands from the machine electronics. A free space (33), which permits the insertion of tu... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325502 | Method and device for controlling the movement of a needle in a sewing machine A method and device for controlling movement of the needle in a sewing machine (1) based on a detection device (27), which detects the movements of the visible surface of the manually displaceable article to be sewn (3) is provided. The stitch f... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7313457 | Embroidery data editor that displays usable embroidery frame A pattern selecting portion selects a desired embroidery pattern from a plurality of embroidery patterns. A pattern editing portion edits the embroidery pattern displayed on the display. A first determining portion determines, before the selected embroidery pattern ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311051 | Sewing machine provided with indication device Sewing machine provided with an indication device including a display that is so large that the lower leftward portion protrudes into the stitch working area of the machine. The display may be moved up and down by of a switch and may be moved up until the lower end ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302308 | Embroidery data processing device There is provided a embroidery data processing device, which includes an extracting system that extracts at least one embroidery region from embroidery data that has a stitch attribute corresponding to at least one predetermined setting, and a print data generating ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293514 | Embroidery unit and auxiliary cover for sewing machine An embroidery unit of the present disclosure is detachably attached to a sewing machine bed including a feed dog mechanism having a feed dog. The embroidery unit includes an X-transfer mechanism and a Y-transfer mechanism moving an embroidery frame to an X-direction... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293515 | Embroidery sewing machine Embroidery sewing machine having a Y-direction drive mechanism including an elongated arm which is normally accommodated in a cutout portion formed at a bed of the machine body and forms a part of that body. The upper side of the arm is continuous with the upper sid... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7278362 | Pattern data producing device for sewing machine and pattern data producing control program A pattern data producing device incorporated in a sewing machine which comprises a sewing mechanism including a needle swing mechanism and a display and in which the sewing mechanism is operated so that a pattern sewing can be carried out, thereby producing pattern ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7268772 | Information processing apparatus operating in touch panel mode and pointing device mode An information processing apparatus comprises a display device and a touch panel disposed in front of the display device. The apparatus further comprises: a unit for switching between a touch panel mode of operation and a pointing device mode of operation in accorda... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7258071 | Embroidery frame transfer device and attachment An attachment 52 comprises: a carriage connecting section 74 connected to a carriage 12 of an embroidery frame transfer device 4; and a metal fastener fixed to an attaching block 32 at the right-hand end portion of the carriage con... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7252044 | Stepped embroidery machine Disclosed is a stepped embroidery machine. The stepped embroidery machine includes a plurality of head units including heads, embroidery frames installed at lower portions of the heads is such a manner that the embroidery frames are movable in X-axis and Y-axis dire... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7239935 | Pluggable external wireless receiver module for a sewing machine A pluggable external wireless receiver module includes a housing, a power terminal unit, a receiver device, and a control terminal unit. The power terminal unit is mounted on the housing and is adapted for connection to a power source. The receiver device is mounted... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7228195 | Embroidery machine and embroidery system An embroidery machine includes a plurality of thread reel stand bars, a plurality of thread reels installed to the thread reel stand bars, respectively, a plurality of needles to which threads are supplied from the respective thread reels, at least two of the needle... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218986 | Sewing machine to which embroidery frame moving device is detachably attachable A sewing machine includes an embroidery frame moving device detachably attachable to a sewing machine body and a control device. An embroidery sewing operation is executable when the embroidery frame moving device is attached to the body, and a normal sewing operati... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7210419 | Sewing machine capable of embroidery sewing and display control program therefor A sewing machine includes an embroidery stitching data storage storing embroidery stitching data of a plurality of divided patterns with respect to large-size embroidery patterns, a pattern display data storage storing pattern display data for displaying each large-... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212880 | Embroidery data processing device and computer program product The invention presents an embroidery data processing device and a computer program product capable of easily forming images of finished state of applique even if the fabric for applique is a pattern fabric. A selected fabric image of fabric for applique is displayed... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7174586 | Operation control apparatus for electric bed An MPU sends pieces of information supplied by the input signals from a hand switch to a semiconductor memory device and the memory device stores these pieces of information. These pieces of information are: input points of an operation start signal and an operation... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7155302 | Embroidery data producing device, embroidery data producing method, embroidery data producing control program stored on computer-readable medium and embroidery method An embroidery data producing device is disclosed producing embroidery data on which an embroidery sewing machine forms an embroidery pattern along another pattern previously formed on cloth held by a cloth holding frame. The embroidery data producing device includes... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7148876 | Input system, program, and recording medium An input system comprising a computer operably associated with a display screen, a first input device, and a second input device. The first input device has an operating region corresponding to an operation region displayed on the display screen. The operation regio... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7120516 | Embroidering device An embroidering device includes plural needles for embroidering plural patterns and an operating portion having a display. The patterns are embroidered by selectively actuating the needles in accordance with a command from the operating portion, the display of the o... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7119791 | Mouse In a mouse connected to a personal computer, a casing body is provided with a space for housing a data storage medium therein. A data processor communicates data between the personal computer and the data storage medium housed in the casing body. A door member cover... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7110615 | Image processing method, program of the same, and image processing apparatus for searching images and producing realistic images An image processing method by which image information of a variety of artifacts can be easily searched through in accordance with attributes of the artifacts and the image information combined to easily produce a realistic image close to reality, comprising the step... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7100524 | Sewing machine and thread cassette attached thereto A sewing machine includes a sewing machine body formed with a cassette mount, a thread cassette having a supply of thread and detachably attached to the cassette mount, and a moving speed limiting unit limiting a moving speed of the thread cassette when the thread c... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7096394 | Method for protecting software programs from inadvertent execution A method of safeguarding program parts which are critical to safety against inadvertent execution is described. In this method, at least one program part is executed in a predetermined chronological sequence. At a certain time in the execution, a pattern is generate... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7089873 | Embroidery frame carrier for embroidery sewing machine An embroidery frame carrier for an embroidery sewing machine moves an embroidery frame holding work cloth to be embroidered in two mutually perpendicular directions. The embroidery frame carrier includes a carriage, a carrier mechanism freely moving the carriage in ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089079 | Sewing machine and computer program A sewing machine of the present disclosure is provided with a sewing device capable of pattern sewing by controlling a needle swinging mechanism that swings a vertically reciprocating needle bar in a horizontal direction and a cloth feeding mechanism having a feed d... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085617 | Control unit for controlling embroidery sewing machine A control unit for controlling an embroidery sewing machine includes an embroidery-data storing portion, a feed-data extracting portion, and a thread-cutting-data adding portion. The embroidery-data storing portion stores embroidery data defining an embroidery patte... | 08/01/2006 |
