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US 4,901,656 AGranted
Information display apparatus for a sewing machine
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNoriyuki Yoshida
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Abstract
An information display apparatus for a sewing machine is disclosed which comprises an information memory means storing various instructing information on how to use the sewing machine, explanatory information explaining the method of sewing each of a plurality of stitch patterns and the like, an information selecting means, a liquid crystal display of multirow-multicolumn dot-pattern type, and a display controlling means, and is constituted so as to be able to display the above-mentioned various information by characters and images.
Claims7
An information display apparatus for a sewing machine comprising:
- an information memory means for storing various classifications of sewing machine information in a classified manner, each of said various classifications of sewing machine information including a plurality of subclassifications, one of said various classifications of information being general instructing information on methods of using a sewing machine, each said plurality of subclassifications of said general instructing information including information on a name of a method of using the sewing machine, explanatory notes for said method of using the sewing machine and an image for easy understanding of said explanatory notes, said various classifications of information being stored in a form of dot-pattern data,
- a selecting means for selecting one of said various classifications of sewing machine information from said information memory means and for selecting one of said plurality of subclassifications of information of a selected one of said various classifications of sewing machine information,
- a display installed in said sewing machine to display said subclassification of information selected by said selecting means, said display including a liquid crystal display of a multi-row and multi-column dot pattern configuration, and
- a display controlling means which reads said subclassification of information selected by said selecting means from said information memory means and outputs it to said display for display.
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