Patents by Inventor Hisaaki Tsukahara

Hisaaki Tsukahara has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5862768
    Abstract: A sewing machine controller comprises sewed cloth (107) moving in a plurality of sewing directions, a sewing machine motor 11 for moving a sewing machine needle (5) up and down for sewing the sewed cloth (107), direction change detection means for detecting a sewing direction of the sewed cloth (107) being changed, operation time detection means for detecting the operation time of the sewing machine motor (11), when the direction change detection means does not detect a change in the sewing direction, stop time detection means for detecting the stop time of the sewing machine motor, when the direction change detection means detects a constant sewing direction, stop time comparison means for comparing the stop time value with a first preset time value, when the sewing direction is constant, operation time comparison means for comparing the operation time value with a second preset time value, when the sewing direction is constant, and display means (35) for displaying the results of the stop time comparison me
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hisaaki Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 5787827
    Abstract: A fabric feed direction reversing device for a sewing machine having a reversing mechanism that switches a sewing object feed direction includes a control means that stops a needle at an upper position or a lower position by controlling a sewing machine drive motor based on a sewing object feed direction reversing command generated from a feed reverse command section, and that operates the reversing mechanism after the needle has stopped, and that operates the sewing machine drive motor after the reversing mechanism operation has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hisaaki Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 5755171
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a sewing machine in which a microcomputer in the control unit of the sewing machine is provided with a sequence control function, and an on-signal for setting and removing a workpiece is incorporated into the sewing data, whereby no PC exclusively used for sequence control is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hisaaki Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 5653186
    Abstract: A sewing machine having a motor drive operating in response to a controller to rotate in forward and reverse rotation directions. A jogging angle may be set and the drive operated automatically for rotation in forward and/or reverse directions as a function of various operating conditions so that the needle is stopped in an optimum position for piercing a material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satomi Yamauchi, Hisaaki Tsukahara, Hiroshi Yamada, Osamu Gouta
  • Patent number: 5581457
    Abstract: A control device for use in a sewing machine and a control method in which the memory contents of a memory element are read when a servo microcomputer generates an interrupt. The control device also changes sewing data by specifying a rewriting format when sewing data are changed, automatically detects the rewriting of the memory contents of a rewritable memory element due to noise, and restores the memory contents to their original state before they have actually been rewritten.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hisaaki Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 5571240
    Abstract: A sewing machine having a motor drive operating in response to a controller to rotate in forward and reverse rotation directions. A jogging angle may be set and the drive operated automatically for rotation in forward and/or reverse directions as a function of various operating conditions so that the needle is stopped in an optimum position for piercing a material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satomi Yamauchi, Hisaaki Tsukahara, Hiroshi Yamada, Osamu Gouta
  • Patent number: 5562059
    Abstract: A sewing machine having a motor drive operating in response to a controller to rotate in forward and reverse rotation directions. A jogging angle may be set and the drive operated automatically for rotation in forward and/or reverse directions as a function of various operating conditions so that the needle is stopped in an optimum position for piercing a material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satomi Yamauchi, Hisaaki Tsukahara, Hiroshi Yamada, Osamu Gouta
  • Patent number: 5474005
    Abstract: A sewing machine having a motor drive operating in response to a controller to rotate in forward and reverse rotation directions. A jogging angle may be set and the drive operated automatically for rotation in forward and/or reverse directions as a function of various operating conditions so that the needle is stopped in an optimum position for piercing a material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satomi Yamauchi, Hisaaki Tsukahara, Hiroshi Yamada, Osamu Gouta
  • Patent number: 5389868
    Abstract: A drive control apparatus for a driven machine is designed to easily check which of a plurality of parameters indicating the control characteristics of the driven machine have been changed from their factory-set initial values. Initial parameter values are stored in a list in a first memory and current parameter values are stored in a second memory. When a display request is given, the initial values of parameters stored in the first list in a control section are compared to the current values of the parameters stored in nonvolatile memory. The identity of the parameters that have been changed from their initial values are displayed on a liquid crystal display. Also, the stored initial value list is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Mikami, Hisaaki Tsukahara, Hiroshi Yamada, Satomi Yamauchi