Sewing machine
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazutaka Imaizumi
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Abstract
A sewing machine includes a bed, a feed unit, a sewing unit, a projector, and a controller. The projector is configured to project a projection image to the bed. The controller is configured to, where the feed unit and the sewing unit do not perform sewing, execute a first control in which the controller causes the projector to project a first image to the bed, the first image including a first object and a second object, the first object indicating a planned sewing position, the second object indicating a reference position to position the workpiece. The controller is configured to, where the feed unit and the sewing unit perform sewing, execute a second control in which the controller causes the projector to project a second image to the bed, the second image including the first object and not including the second object.
Claims7
A sewing machine comprises:
- a bed;
- a projector;
- and
- a controller configured to cause the projector to project a grid pattern and a stitch pattern towards the bed in a first case, and
- project the stitch pattern towards the bed and not project the grid pattern towards the bed in a second case.
A sewing machine control method, comprising:
- projecting, by a projector of a sewing machine, a grid pattern and a stitch pattern towards a bed of the sewing machine in a first case;
- and
- projecting, by the projector of the sewing machine, the stitch pattern towards the bed of the sewing machine without projecting the grid pattern in a second case.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.