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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7353986 | Electronic pedometer An electronic pedometer has a walk detecting sensor to detect a walking movement of a user and to output a walk signal corresponding to the walking movement. A walk judging circuit judges, based on a walk signal from the walk detecting circuit, whether or not the us... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350693 | Indexing mechanism An indexing mechanism comprising a body (10) mounted so as to be rotatble about an axis; means (3) for rotating said body about said axis; first cam means (9, 10) for displacing said body along said axis away from an axial rest position during r... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7290767 | Action figure game piece and method of playing action figure game An action figure game piece is disclosed. The game piece comprises a game figure character adapted for movement a distance over a surface and a mechanism for indicating the distance of movement over the surface. A method of playing an action figure game on the surfa... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7281714 | Action figure game piece and method of playing action figure game An action figure game piece is disclosed. The game piece comprises a game figure character adapted for movement a distance over a surface and a mechanism for indicating the distance of movement over the surface. A method of playing an action figure game on the surfa... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7104543 | Action figure game piece and method of playing action figure game An action figure game piece is disclosed. The game piece comprises a game figure character adapted for movement a distance over a surface and a mechanism for indicating the distance of movement over the surface. A method of playing an action figure game on the surfa... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7044361 | Walker distance measuring device A walker and/or wheelchair distance measuring device comprising a wheel assembly, a measuring assembly and a display. The wheel assembly is capable of attachment to a walker, and includes a support and a wheel. The measuring assembly comprises a sensor having a trig... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6961671 | System and a method for preventing tampering with a recorded accumulated running distance of a vehicle A system for preventing tampering with recorded accumulated running distance data is provided which comprises a first memory, a tampering prevention control unit, and a third memory. The tampering prevention control unit is configured to output an error message if t... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6490507 | Computer for bicycles and method for obtaining riding information Computer for a bicycle includes a speed change with a chain transmission, including a plurality of front crown wheels (16) which can be driven in rotation by a pair of pedal cranks (18) and a plurality of rear sprockets (20), a first sensor (30) for provi... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6359431 | Golf cart speedometer/odometer A golf-cart speedometer/odometer has a rotation-mark collar (1) on a cart-wheel rim (2) that signals rotation to a rotation sensor (4) on a housing extension (5) from a cart-axle housing (6). Measurement of rotation of the rotation-mark collar from rotati... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6357655 | Golf yardage measuring device A stand-alone, mechanical, measuring wheel apparatus with a wheel and odometer. The apparatus is quickly, easily and removably attached to a golf cart by a simple attachment. The attachment, itself, is comprised of a simple clamp arrangement which is also... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6062080 | Apparatus and method for determining travel data of a travel device The invention is a method and an apparatus for determining travel data of a travel device when wheels or rollers of the travel device intermittently have ground contact. The apparatus has an odometer on at least one measuring roller. For the correct deter... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5912635 | Method and apparatus for calibration of a distance sensor in a vehicle navigation system Method and apparatus for modifying an odometer reading in a vehicle navigation system to compensate for odometer errors. A first distance measurement is obtained from the odometer, and a second distance measurement is obtained from at least one other sens... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5752220 | Method for heading error suppression in dead reckoning systems A method for substantially reducing the error that accumulates in dead reckoning systems. The method includes determining heading changes from a dead reckoning system (10), testing for improbable heading changes (20), and setting to zero any invalid headi... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5721539 | Speedometer for in-line skates An in-line roller skate includes a transducer portion capable of sensing the rotary movement of at least one wheel on the roller skate and transmitting information concerning the same to a receiver worn on a user's wrist. In the preferred embodiment, the ... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5600113 | Golf course distance measuring device A golf course distance measuring device for calculating and recording a distance traveled by a golf cart to indicate a distance between the golf cart and a hole of a golf course. The inventive device includes a sensor assembly for monitoring a wheel of a ... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5578807 | Electromagnetic counter A welded portion is formed by mounting a synthetic resin frame, in which a count display device including character wheels, a driving device for operating the count display device, and a driving source of the driving device, are incorporated, within a cas... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5464970 | Multiple counter assembly A vehicle trip odometer has a central shaft with both ends protruding for coupling of either end or both ends with other odometers. A total distance odometer likewise has both ends available for coupling to a trip odometer. Thus several arrangements of co... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5399843 | Stacked assembly with preset end play and assembly method A mechanical counter having number wheels rotatably mounted on a shaft with interleaved pinion carriers has a drive gear at one end fixed to the shaft and an end wheel rotatably mounted at the other end and retained by a washer press fit on the shaft. The... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5376776 | Number wheel stack assembly for utility meters A number wheel assembly for a counter mechanism has a plurality of hubs with an eccentrically shaped aperture for slideable assembly and orientation on a shaft and eccentric lobe. Each hub having a recess and a pinion spindle in the recess for receiving a... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5304785 | Combination instrument for vehicle A combination meter for vehicle comprises counter device, for displaying a distance traveled by the vehicle, having a plurality of numeral wheels rotatably juxtaposed to a flame provided with the counter device; drive device for driving a pointer provided... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5189286 | Odometer wheel with frangible spokes An odometer type device for recording mileage and changes therein in a vehicle or the like, including a plurality of mileage indicating wheels placed on a shaft for rotation, each wheel being in closely spaced relationship to one another. The wheels each ... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5175415 | Combination drive-wheel mechanism and travel-sensor mechanism Traction apparatus for driving a vehicle and accurately sensing the distance traveled, in which a drive mechanism is encircled by a separate ring-shaped encoder wheel. The encoder wheel, which is part of a travel-sensing mechanism, nests annularly with th... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5131343 | Integrating meter An integrating meter comprising a rotatable masking ring integrally containing elastic members for applying a predetermined thrust pressure to a plurality of less to more significant digit number rings rotatably aligned on a support shaft, the masking rin... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5103413 | Travel detecting apparatus A travel detecting apparatus is disclosed which generates a pulse signal in response to vehicle motion and detects the actual rate of vehicle travel in accordance with the pulse signal. The apparatus comprises a speed or RPM sensor coupled to an automotiv... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5091633 | Unitized odometer roll assembly for vehicles and roll interconnecting method In this arrangement the rolls of an odometer are serially built up on a support shaft and are sequentially interconnected by pinion gears which drivingly mesh with gear teeth internally of the rolls. These pinion gears are operatively mounted on partition... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5046029 | Electronic odo/trip meter for automobiles An electronic odo/trip meter for automobiles has a display for displaying a travel distance, a counter for enumerating the travel distance data, a non-volatile memory which is provided in the counter so as to prevent elimination of the travel distance dat... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4975564 | Odometer An odometer wheel assembly has a retainer cooperating with a groove in an end disc of the assembly to automatically establish end play in the wheel assembly by the difference between two accurately controlled component dimensions.... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4973867 | Stepping motor drive A device for setting a resettable mechanical counter, has a stepping motor (1) which is developed as two-phase stepping motor having a rotor (32) consisting of a permanent magnet (33) with diametrically opposite permanent magnet poles and a coil arrangeme... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4930094 | Vehicle serial bus, mechanical instrument cluster odometer therefor A method and firmware/hardware system for updating an analog odometer using a pulse rate rather than an absolute number of updating pulse signals. The pulse rate is developed from a number that represents an accumulation of a series of pulses that represe... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4906825 | Golf cart range finder This invention relates to a golf cart range finder and, more particularly, to a range finder which makes use of precision gear ratio resulting from the rotation of the golf cart wheels, where the amount of wheel rotation is converted into a numerical read... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4900901 | Tamper proof assembly An assembly to indicate and prevent unauthorized tampering and more specifically, detachment of the odometer cable from the transmission of an automobile, truck or like vehicle. The assembly includes a tamper indicator formed at least partially from a fra... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4887704 | Odometer disabling system and clutch therefor For use with an overland motor vehicle including therewithin a traversal-recording odometer that is actuatably connectable to the vehicular transmission, there is disclosed an odometer disabling system for disabling the odometer during time periods when t... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4842425 | Odometer shaft retainer and support A support and retainer for a shaft to be supported in spaced overlying relation to a base member as found in an odometer assembly, including an upstanding projection or post which has a bearing portion for support purposes and further including an adjacen... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4803646 | Electronic odometer A system for measuring distance traveled by a vehicle periodically updates the accumulated measurements, displays the updated measurements and electronically stores corresponding accumulations of updated distance data in a non-volatile memory device. The ... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4740905 | Rally-oriented meter device for motorcycles A rally-oriented meter device for motorcycles, includes a meter unit, a fixing assembly for fixing the meter unit in the vicinity of a handle bar of the motorcycle, and a sensor for detecting the number of revolutions of a front wheel of the motorcycle. T... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4710888 | Electronic odometer A system for measuring distance traveled by a vehicle periodically updates the accumulated measurements, displays the updated measurements and electronically stores corresponding accumulations of updated distance data in a non-volatile memory device. The ... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4682287 | Electronic odometer In an electronic odometer for a wheeled vehicle, a non-volatile memory circuit includes a main memory having 256 cells in sequence for non-volatilely storing first data indicative of a unit mileage of the vehicle upon each application of the first data to... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4680454 | Odometer for golf cart An odometer for use by a golfer in the measurement of distance covered by each shot. The odometer attaches to the wheel of the cart and counts revolutions or parts of a revolution of the wheel through the use of a magnetic head that rotates past a Hall ef... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4665497 | Electronic odometer An electronic odometer employing a non-volatile memory is used to indicate the total distance traveled by a vehicle such as an automobile. The total distance traveled by the vehicle, calculated by an arithmetic unit 3 from signals from a pulse generator 1... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4532710 | Distance measuring device for golf carts and the like A measuring device for use in golfing is disclosed. The device employs a fixed diameter measuring wheel, a magnetic revolution sensor, and a solar powered digital display to measure and display distance travelled by the wheel. Display and counter are rese... | 08/06/1985 |
