Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Eiichi Ito

Yutaka Nomura

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Masaru Jimbo

Chikahisa Noguchi

Yoshinori Nakamura

Yoshio Nishimura

Shinji Kobayashi

Hiroshi Takami

Koji Sugiyama

Eiichi Hamajima

Haruna Kato

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Masayuki Iwata

Toshihide Fujikawa

Takaaki Kato

Shinichi Nishida

Teruyo Katsuno

Naohito Asai

Toshihiro Hanai

Takashi Morita

Naoki Igushi

A sewing machine includes a spool pin stand having spool pins to which thread spools are attachable and seats corresponding to the spool pins, respectively, thread passage defining members located on a thread passage, a sewing data storage unit storing sewing data including at least thread color information about colors of the needle threads, thread supply display units which are located on the spool pin stand so as to correspond to the spool pins respectively, the thread supply display units being configured to produce light which transmits through at least ones of the spool pins and the seats and displaying the thread colors in a color-variable manner, respectively, and a thread color information control unit controlling the thread supply display units based on the thread color information so that thread colors corresponding to the spool pins are displayed by the thread supply display units, respectively.

Sewing machine and spool pin stand therefor

A sewing machine including a needle bar that has a sewing needle attached in a lower end thereof; a needle-bar vertical drive mechanism that vertically moves the needle bar by a sewing machine motor via a sewing machine motor main shaft; an imaging unit that captures image of at least the sewing needle and a moving object that is in close proximity of the sewing needle; a distance calculating portion that calculates a distance between the sewing needle and the moving object based on image data captured by the imaging unit; a judging portion that makes a judgment that the distance calculated by the distance calculating portion is equal to or less than a predetermined distance; and a control portion that controls execution of a predetermined safety operation based on a judgment result of the judging portion.

Sewing machine

A sewing machine including a needle-swing mechanism that swings a needle bar; a cloth-feed mechanism that feeds a workpiece cloth by a feed dog; an imaging unit that captures an image of a baseline drawn on a surface of the workpiece cloth; a baseline-color detection portion that detects a baseline color of the baseline based on an image data of the baseline captured by the imaging unit; a first storage portion storing a mapping of a plurality of baseline colors to stitch data of a plurality of normal patterns; and a control portion that forms normal pattern stitches along the baseline by reading stitch data corresponding to the baseline color detected by the baseline-color detection portion from the first storage portion and controlling the needle-swing mechanism and the cloth-feed mechanism based on the stitch data read.

Sewing machine and sewing machine capable of embroidery sewing

A slip printing system which can be employed in a service management system is configured to include a host computer, a mobile terminal device, and a mobile printer that is capable of receiving data from the mobile terminal device. The mobile terminal device includes a service information input module. The service information input through the service information input module is transmitted to the host computer. A print data generating module of the host computer generates print data to in accordance with the service information. The print data generated by the print data generating module is transmitted to the mobile terminal device. The mobile terminal device transmits the print data which has been transmitted from the host computer, and the mobile printer prints an image on a slip in accordance with the print data transmitted from the mobile terminal device.

Slip printing system

A sewing machine capable of embroidery sewing is configured to specify a type of embroidery frame by shooting an embroidery frame placed on an upper surface of the bed by a CCD or a CMOS image sensor disposed in an underside of an arm from an obliquely upward direction and obtaining an X-directional size and a Y-directional size of the embroidery frame, an embroiderable area size, and further a height-directional size of the embroidery frame by calculation based on image data shot by the image sensor.

Sewing machine capable of embroidery sewing

A personalized product producing system enables customers to order a personalized product, such as a name card, a stamp, or a sticker/label, inexpensively and conveniently. Customers operate their own cellular phones to send personalized information to be engraved in a stamp or printed on a name card or sticker/label in the form of e-mail to a host computer. The host computer edits the information and sends personalized product producing data to a stamp personalized product producing device. The personalized product producing device produces a personalized product based on the received data.

Methods for automatically providing a personalized product

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Kasugai, Japan

Eiichi Ito