Embroidery machine and embroidery system
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSeiichiro Hagino
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Abstract
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 needles being selected to operate, on the basis of an embroidery data, in order for forming a stitch pattern of multiple colors, a wireless tag attached to each of the thread reels an having information related to the thread wound therearound, and a receiving device, for reading the information in the wireless tag, provided at each of the thread reel stand.
Claims4
An embroidery machine comprising:
- 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 needles being selected to operate, on the basis of an embroidery data, in order for forming a stitch pattern of multiple colors;
- a wireless tag attached to each of the thread reels and having information related to the thread wound therearound;
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- receiving means, for reading the information in the wireless tag, provided at each of the thread reel stand bars.
An embroidery system, comprising:
- at least one embroidery machine of automatic thread-changing type including receiving means for receiving an identification of a thread wound around a thread reel from a wireless tag attached thereto;
- a server device connected to the at least one embroidery machine through a network;
- a database, for storing the identification of the thread and associated thread information, provided at one of an internal memory device and an external memory device of the server device;
- and
- searching means provided at the server device and searching the database for the identification of the thread received by the receiving means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.