US 7,889,090 B2 · Sewing machine and computer readable medium

Abstract

A sewing machine including a maintenance information storage that stores maintenance information; an alert element that communicates maintenance information; a cumulative data storage that stores cumulative data of at least either of a sew time or a stitch count; a determiner that determines whether or not a predetermined timing for communicating the maintenance information has been reached based on the cumulative data; an alert count storage that stores an alert count of the maintenance information communicated; and an alert controller that, when determined by the determiner to have reached the predetermined timing for communicating the maintenance information, controls the alert element to communicate the maintenance information for a predetermined number of times based on the alert count.

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Dependent claims

A sewing machine comprising:

a maintenance information storage that stores maintenance information;
an alert element that communicates the maintenance information;
a cumulative data storage that stores cumulative data of at least either of a sew time or a stitch count;
a determiner that determines whether or not a predetermined timing for communicating the maintenance information has been reached based on the cumulative data;
an alert count storage that stores an alert count of the maintenance information communicated;
and
an alert controller that, when determined by the determiner to have reached the predetermined timing for communicating the maintenance information, controls the alert element to communicate the maintenance information for a predetermined number of times based on the alert count.

4 more elements

A computer readable medium storing a maintenance information communicating program for use in a sewing machine including a maintenance information storage that stores maintenance information, an alert element that communicates the maintenance information, a cumulative data storage that stores cumulative data of at least either of a sew time or a stitch count, an alert count storage that stores an alert count of the maintenance information communicated, the computer readable medium storing the maintenance information alert program, comprising:

instructions for storing the cumulative data to the cumulative data storage;
instructions for determining whether or not a predetermined timing for communicating the maintenance information has been reached based on the cumulative data;
instructions for storing the alert count of the maintenance information communicated to the alert count storage;
and
instructions for communicating the maintenance information for a predetermined number of times based on the alert count when determined to have reached the predetermined timing for communicating the maintenance information.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Sewing machine and computer readable medium

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