Multi-needle type embroidery sewing machine and computer-readable storage medium including a computer control program for the multi-needle type embroidery sewing machine
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAtsuya Hayakawa, Akira Kaiya
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A multi-needle type embroidery sewing machine and a computer-readable storage medium including a computer program for the multi-needle type embroidery sewing machine that may enable convenient selection and replacement of thread information. The multi-needle type embroidery sewing machine may include a plurality of needle bars, a needle bar thread information storage device, a needle bar selection device that enables the selection of a suite of needle bars selected from the plurality of needle bars, and a control device for changing needle bar thread information that corresponds to a needle bar in the selected suite of needle bars.
Claims20
A multi-needle type embroidery sewing machine comprising:
- a plurality of needle bars;
- a needle bar thread information storage device that stores needle bar thread information about threads which are set to the needle bars;
- a needle bar selection device that selects at least one suite of two needle bars including a first needle bar and a second needle bar selected from the plurality of needle bars;
- and
- a control device that:
- stores in the needle bar thread information storage device needle bar thread information that corresponds to the first needle bar selected by the needle bar selection device as needle bar thread information that corresponds to the second needle bar, thereby changing at least the needle bar thread information that corresponds to the second needle bar;
- stores the needle bar thread information corresponding to the first needle bar as the needle bar thread information corresponding to the second needle bar in the needle bar thread information storage device at the time of being selected by the needle bar selection device;
- stores the needle bar thread information corresponding to the second needle bar as the needle bar thread information corresponding to the first needle bar in the needle bar thread information storage device at the time of being selected by the needle bar selection device;
- and
- changes the needle bar thread information corresponding to the first needle bar and changes the needle bar thread information corresponding to the second needle bar.
A computer-readable storage medium including a computer control program for multi-needle type embroidery sewing machine, where the program comprises:
- needle bar thread information storage instructions for storing needle bar thread information about threads which are set to needle bars;
- needle bar selection instructions for selecting at least one suite of two needle bars including a first needle bar and a second needle bar selected from a plurality of the needle bars;
- needle bar thread information alteration instructions for storing needle bar thread information that corresponds to the first needle bar selected during execution of the needle bar selection instructions, as needle bar thread information that corresponds to the second needle bar, thereby changing at least the needle bar thread information that corresponds to the second needle bar;
- instructions for storing the needle bar thread information corresponding to the first needle bar as the needle bar thread information corresponding to the second needle bar during execution of the needle bar selection instructions;
- instructions for storing the needle bar thread information corresponding to the second needle bar as the needle bar thread information corresponding to the first needle bar during the execution of the needle bar selection instructions;
- and
- instructions for changing the needle bar thread information corresponding to the first needle bar and changing the needle bar thread information corresponding to the second needle bar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.