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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1998
Eduard Bastian, Kaiserslautern, DE;
Wilfried Halfmann, Kaiserslautern, DE;
Bernd Maue, Kreimbach-Kaulbach, DE;
G. M. Pfaff Aktiengesellschaft, Kaiserslautern, DE;
Abstract
A sewing or embroidering machine with an electronic control device including a microcomputer. Access authorization for the individual modes of operation of the sewing and embroidering machine can be changed by the buyer of the machine. The assignment of access authorization to individual modes of operation of the sewing machine is stored in a first write-read memory in the form of a table, access authorization table. The first write-read memory is connected with the microprocessor and with a first input device such that after a corresponding operating function is called up or requested by a person authorized to do so, the access authorization can be correspondingly changed for the mode of operation in question by the input means.