IP Library Granted Patent US 11,993,880
Granted Patent B2
US 11,993,880 · App. 17/487,577 · Granted May 28, 2024

Sewing machine, embroidery sewing method of the same, and embroidery sewing program

Inventor: Kiri Morimoto (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Janome Corporation
D05B19/12D05C13/02G05B19/042G05B2219/2626
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Patent No.
US 11,993,880
App. No.
17/487,577
Granted
May 28, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A sewing machine includes: a pattern data acquisition unit that acquires pattern data in which information on an object corresponding to a unit from a sewing start point to a ravel preventing point or a thread trimming point and information related to a required bobbin thread amount required for sewing the object are associated with each other and registered; a bobbin thread remaining amount acquisition unit that acquires a bobbin thread remaining amount; a determination unit that determines whether or not the object is sewable, based on a difference between a required bobbin thread amount of the object according to the pattern data and the bobbin thread remaining amount; and a decision unit that, based on a determination result of the determination unit, decides whether or not the object is set as a sewing target.

Claims (36)

1. A sewing machine, comprising:

a memory storing a program; and

a processor configured to execute the program to:

acquire pattern data in which information on an object corresponding to a unit from a sewing start point to a ravel preventing point or a thread trimming point and information related to a required bobbin thread amount required for sewing the object are associated with each other and registered, the information on the object and sewing order being associated with each other and registered in the pattern data;

acquire a bobbin thread remaining amount;

set one of the objects as a determination target in accordance with the sewing order;

determine whether or not the object of the determination target is sewable, based on a difference between the required bobbin thread amount of the object of the determination target according to the pattern data and the bobbin thread remaining amount, and

exclude the object of the determination target from sewing targets when the object of the determination target is determined not to be sewable, and set another object in the next sewing order as the object of the determination target without warning for a shortage of the bobbin thread.

2. The sewing machine according to claim 1 ,

wherein information on an object group formed of a plurality of objects whose sewing order is unable to be interchanged and a sewing order in the object group are registered in the pattern data,

wherein the processor is configured to execute the program to:

determine whether or not the object of the determination target is registered as the object group when the object of the determination target is determined not to be sewable, and

exclude, out of objects belonging to the object group, all the objects whose sewing order is set subsequent to the object of the determination target from the sewing targets when the object of the determination target is registered as the object group.

3. The sewing machine according to claim 1 ,

wherein a color layer formed of the objects of the same color and information on the objects forming the color layer are associated with each other and registered in the pattern data,

wherein the processor is configured to execute the program to:

select any of the color layer as a determination target, and in the selected color layer, determines on an object basis whether or not an object is sewable, and

select another unsewn color layer as the determination target when an unsewn object whose required bobbin thread amount is less than or equal to a bobbin thread remaining amount is no longer present in the color layer that is a determination target.

4. An embroidery sewing method of a sewing machine performed by a computer, the method comprising:

acquiring pattern data in which information on an object corresponding to a unit from a sewing start point to a ravel preventing point or a thread trimming point and information related to a required bobbin thread amount required for sewing the object are associated with each other and registered, the information on the object and sewing order being associated with each other and registered in the pattern data;

acquiring a bobbin thread remaining amount;

setting one of the objects as a determination target in accordance with the sewing order;

determining whether or not the object of the determination target is sewable, based on a difference between the required bobbin thread amount of the object of the determination target according to the pattern data and the bobbin thread remaining amount, and

excluding the object of the determination target from sewing targets when the object of the determination target is determined not to be sewable, and set another object in the next sewing order as the object of the determination target without warning for a shortage of the bobbin thread.

5. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for performing the embroidery sewing method of a sewing machine according to claim 4 .

6. A sewing machine, comprising:

a memory storing a program; and

a processor configured to execute the program to:

acquire pattern data in which information on an object corresponding to a unit from a sewing start point to a ravel preventing point or a thread trimming point and information related to a required bobbin thread amount required for sewing the object are associated with each other and registered;

acquire a bobbin thread remaining amount;

determine whether or not the object is sewable, based on a difference between the required bobbin thread amount of the object according to the pattern data and the bobbin thread remaining amount; and

decide whether or not the object is set as a sewing target based on a determination result of the determination unit; and

wherein a color layer formed of the objects of the same color and information on the objects forming the color layer are associated with each other and registered in the pattern data,

wherein the processor is configured to execute the program to:

select any of the color layer as a determination target, and in the selected color layer, determines on an object basis whether or not an object is sewable, and

select another unsewn color layer as the determination target when an unsewn object whose required bobbin thread amount is less than or equal to a bobbin thread remaining amount is no longer present in the color layer that is a determination target.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 15, 2024
From: JANOME SEWING MACHINE CO., LTD
To: JANOME CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066801/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 28, 2021
From: MORIMOTO, KIRI
To: JANOME SEWING MACHINE CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057634/0364 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-170668 · Oct 8, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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