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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7145309 | Open loop motor parking method and system Provided herewith is an improved scheme for parking a load such as an indicator pointer and calibrating its position in a system for controlling the position of the load. The system also has a stopper for physically impeding the load when it is to be parked. In one ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 5969224 | Speedometer for vehicle An object of the present invention is to provide a speedometer capable of distinctly indicating traveling speeds in a range of traveling speeds at which a vehicle travels in most of the time. A speedometer has a scale plate provided with a main speed scal... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5081868 | Speedometer conversion A speedometer drive arrangement particularly suitable for use in snowmobiles is readily convertible to give a readout that is in Mph or Kph, while providing only a single scale on the face of the instrument. The change is effected by the interposition of ... | 01/21/1992 |
| 4327940 | Gasoline pump display conversion kit A conversion kit for converting the display wheels of a conventional gasoline pump to increase the money value display is disclosed. The kit comprises numbered adhesive strips which are sized to fit the circumference of one or more of the display wheels o... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4284028 | English/metric conversion mechanism for speedometers A conversion mechanism is attached to a speedometer in such a way that the input into the speedometer can be mechanically altered to establish a conversion ratio between a first system of units and a second system of units and the speedometer is indexed t... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4173147 | Miles to kilometers speed and distance indicators converter This invention is a devise which when installed into its monitoring location in conjunction with vehicles transmission, shall increase the rotation of the speedometer cable and as a result, speedometer dials and odometers indicating speed and distance in ... | 11/06/1979 |
| 4159693 | Article and method for adding markings to a speedometer A flat support includes a first series of markings corresponding to a pre-existing measurement system of an instrument, such as miles per hour of an automobile speedometer. On the same support is a second series of markings corresponding to a second measu... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4054105 | Motor vehicle metric conversion kit A kit for permitting the direct reading from a standard speedometer having a front transparent panel and markings associated therewith in miles per hour to kilometers per hour.... | 10/18/1977 |
