Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Pegasus Sewing Machine Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Yoshikazu Kageyama

Mineo Mino

Sakon Nagasaki

Takashi Ichimura

Yoshihiro Asahi

Katsumi Tabuchi

Akira Teranishi

Koichi Okada

Hourin Jo

Tsuguhiro Shimoyama

An apparatus is provided for automatically inserting an elastic tape into a binding tape, and simultaneously sewing the leading and trailing ends of the elastic tape with the binding tape to the hem of a workpiece. A pair of feed rollers and a tensioning device for the elastic tape are provided above a vertical cylindrical guide. An outlet of the vertical cylindrical guide is directed toward the presser foot of a sewing machine, and shifted between positions on and outside the sewing line of the sewing machine. A cutting device for the elastic tape in the direction crossing with the advancing direction is driven by a shaft vertically placed along the vertical cylindrical guide. An advancing speed of the trailing end of the cut elastic tape extending to the presser foot is reduced by a tape pressing device until the trailing end is fed under the presser foot.

Apparatus for sewing an elastic tape on an edge of a workpiece

A cover thread cutter for a multi-needle sewing machine, the hook of the thread cutter retracts at an oblique angle above a curved cover thread laying finger and captures the cover thread at a position above the curved cover thread laying finger. While pulling the captured cover thread up to the cutting position, it is held against a specified needle, as in ordinary seam forming, and the thread end is held in this state after being cut off.

Method and apparatus for cutting cover thread in a multi-needle sewing

An apparatus for selecting one of a number of television channels is operable to be set in a mode whereby an array of miniature pictures corresponding to the respective channels is displayed, with each channel being sequentially selected for a predetermined interval during which image data for the selected channel are repetitively written into one of a set of regions (42 to 50) of a one-field memory, with the entire memory contents being continuously and repetitively read out, whereby the picture for the selected channel appears as a moving picture while those of the other channels are static. The apparatus can then be set in a normal operating mode, with the channel selected at the time of mode changeover being thereafter held fixedly selected and a normal display picture produced.

Television channel selection apparatus employing multi-picture display

A video tape recorder (VTR) including a detection switch for detecting presence and absence of an erasure prevention tab of a video tape cassette, a light emitting element, a control device associated operatively with the light emitting element, and an electronic viewfinder. When a first video tape cassette provided with the erasure prevention tab as been loaded into the VTR, the control device sets the VTR to a recording standby state and turns on the light emitting element. Meanwhile, when a second video tape cassette which is not provided with the erasure prevention tab has been loaded into the VTR, the control device sets the VTR to a stop state, flashes the light emitting element and causes the electronic viewfinder to display on a screen of the electronic viewfinder a warning indicative of loading of the second video tape cassette into the VTR.

Integrated video camera/recorder unit

A battery voltage level detecting apparatus makes possible the detection of the voltage level of a battery and the detection of a minimum operating voltage by means of a single comparison circuit and a single adjustment. A voltage varying with variation of the battery voltage is compared with an output voltage of a counter for counting reference clocks so as to control the counting operation. When a change occurs in the comparison result, a battery voltage level storage command is generated, and then the counter is preset. In response to the command, the count value is stored and displayed.

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Osaka, Japan

Yoshikazu Kageyama