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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 1996
Filed:
May. 20, 1994
Mitsuyasu Kyuno, Aichi-ken, JP;
Yukiyoshi Muto, Nagoya, JP;
Masao Futamura, Nagoya, JP;
Masahiro Mizuno, Kasugai, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
Apparatus and process for producing embroidery data to control a sewing machine to form, on a work sheet, an embroidery by sequentially filling with stitches a plurality of closed areas separate from each other. The apparatus includes a memory which stores a plurality of sets of closed-area data each of which represents a corresponding one of the closed areas; and a producing device for producing, based on the sets of closed-area data, the embroidery data to control the sewing machine to embroider each of the closed areas by starting and ending at at least one of (a) a substantially same position and (b) respective positions adjacent to each other. The process includes the step of producing the embroidery data to control the sewing machine to embroider each of the closed areas by starting and ending at at least one of (a) a substantially same position and (b) respective positions adjacent to each other. An embroidering product having an embroidery formed by filling with stitches a plurality of closed areas separate from each other, wherein the improvements include: each of the closed areas being embroidered by starting and ending at at least one of (a) a substantially same position and (b) respective positions adjacent to each other.