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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1989
Ikuo Tajima, Kasugai, JP;
Hideo Hasegawa, Kasugai, JP;
Tokai Kogyo Mishin Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
Control data such as data designating the order of changing color of thread, conversion parameter data designating reducing or enlarging of an embroidery design and data designating the number of repetition of the same design are set to desired states and these control data are stored in a memory in correspondence to storage of stitch data of a desired embroidery design. By designating a desired embroidery design when this embroidery design should be embroidered, the control data stored in correspondence to this design are read from the memory and controlling of the embroidering operation and changing of stitch data are made in accordance with the read out data. When stitch data of an embroidery design is input from an external memory device to an internal memory device, stitch data of plural embroidery designs can be combined into stitch data of a single embroidery design and this combined stitch data can be stored in the internal memory device. For this purpose, 'end code' which is last function data in stitch data for each embroidery design is converted to 'stop code' to indicate that this code does not designate the end of the embroidery design. Furthermore, the embroidering machine can be provided with a function to communicate with an external device and stitch data and control data can be transmitted and received by utilizing this communication function.