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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7243882 | Gauge display assembly An assembly for attaching gauges or other accessories to vehicles provides a rampart member for securing the assembly to a vehicle surface and a gauge display member secured to the rampart member for receiving and displaying gauges and other instruments. ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7206720 | Computer-controlled auxiliary fuel tank system with multi-function monitoring system and user calibration capabilities This invention is directed toward a computer-controlled auxiliary fuel tank system that works with both gas and diesel-fueled vehicles, and can operate independently, or in combination with an auxiliary fuel tank, auxiliary fuel pump, sending unit, check valves, inl... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7167787 | Method for controlling the speed of a motor vehicle in accordance with risk and system for carrying out the method A method controls the speed of a motor vehicle in accordance with risk. Each risk element of a road segment is evaluated for the specific risk potential thereof by taking into consideration the perils and the actual speed of the driver of the motor vehicle. An integ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7078891 | Speedometer gear output structure A speedometer gear output structure includes a gearbox installed in a motorcycle and holding a driven gear and an output gear for synchronous rotation with the wheels of the motorcycle, an annular magnetic device fastened to the gear shaft of the output gear for syn... | 07/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5146158 | Externally adjustable stopper plate in a cross-coil type meter The cross coil type meter has a magnet rotor and a stopper plate inside a coil bobbin. The magnet rotor is driven by a combined magnetic field produced by a cross coil wound on the coil bobbin. A pointer on a dial plate is attached to the magnet rotor's s... | 09/08/1992 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4970377 | Odometer An odometer having a reset mechanism with a single spring that has a torsion section acting on the reset mechanism to bias pinions into engagement with the odometer wheels and a compression section for biasing the pinions into a predetermined axial positi... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4970378 | Gearing for reset trip odometer Geared drive for reset trip odometer in which a transfer tooth on each of the rotatable odometer wheels is immediately ahead of the tooth space in the circular track on the wheels for tracking the wide teeth of the associated transfer pinion gear and late... | 11/13/1990 |
| 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 |
| 4918295 | Combination hubodometer protective housing and step A combination hubodometer protective housing and step assembly having a cylindrical metal housing, to which the hubodometer is mounted, and a cylindrical metal adapter, which couples the housing and hubodometer to the axle of a wheel for rotation therewit... | 04/17/1990 |
| 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 |
| 4889976 | Tamper-proof odometer A tamper-proof odometer having an odometer register including a plurality of sequentially driven odometer dials carried on a common shaft with a pinion gear supported on an individual bracket disposed between each adjacent pair of dials to engage gears fo... | 12/26/1989 |
| 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 |
| 4841130 | Odometer A disk on a wheel-tpe odometer assembly is provided with a integral spring pawl that operates with the normally provided transfer teeth on the highest number wheel to effect a positive detent that prevents this last wheel from backward droop.... | 06/20/1989 |
| 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 |
| 4629870 | Tamper proof odometer A tamper resistant and tamper-proving odometer construction. Driving of the odometer mechanism in the reverse direction to lower the count is prevented by a one-way locking mechanism associated with the lowest order digit wheel. A marking mechanism is ass... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4563574 | Hub odometer A hub odometer having a protective case adapted to be mounted axially on an axle cap of a vehicle with a substantially cylindrical carrier plate rotatably mounted in the case for supporting a counting mechanism having figure wheels. The shaft of the figur... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4543475 | Antireverse means for an odometer An antireverse rotation means which includes a resilient arm provided on and protruding from a side face of a pinion holder and an engagement portion formed on a side face of a digit wheel at a position corresponding to an end of said resilient arm. The r... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4510379 | Control device for recording distance measuring instrument attached to a vehicle hub A control device for an instrument (10) attached to a vehicle wheel hub for recording the distance covered by the vehicle comprises a counting mechanism with several number-carrying wheels (25), a stamping mechanism (29,30) for stamping cards, a means (14... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4507549 | Odometer reset mechanism A reset mechanism for an odometer is provided. The reset mechanism operates by means of manually rotatable structure which causes rotation of a reset shaft provided in an odometer. Means are provided for permitting manual rotation of the odometer reset sh... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506147 | Hubodometer adapted for selectable gear ratios A hubodometer having a wide range of selectable gear ratios so that the same basic structure can be used to indicate distance traveled by wheels of greatly different wheel diameters in either miles or kilometers. The hubodometer has an elongated bore exte... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4493987 | Counter A counter including a housing which is made from a continuous plastic extrusion. End caps which rotatably support the counter barrel shaft fit telescopically within the housing extremities. The extrusion includes detail for mounting a pane in the viewing ... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4493988 | Odometer using an electric motor disposed within annular figure wheels In a highly compact odometer an electric motor which drives a mechanical display thereof, is disposed within the set of annular figure wheels used in the display and drivingly connected to said wheels through a worm and worm wheel drive train. In the case... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4454411 | Odometer mounted between roller skate wheels A roller skate has an odometer supported on a bracket located in the space between the rear wheels of the rear truck, the bracket being affixed on the truck by a U shaped shackle and shackle nuts. The odometer may be electronic, with digital display in a ... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4431910 | Distance recorder having a planetary reducing mechanism for a two-wheeled vehicle or the like The reducing mechanism comprises rings stacked one inside the other, namely an annular planet gear having two superimposed sets of teeth having different numbers of teeth. One set of teeth is engaged with a fixed ring gear formed in the case of the record... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4430561 | Hubodometer A hubodometer having a casing supported solely by, and balanced on, its mounting bracket by a ring-like shock mount. Additionally, an odometer mechanism assembly is carried by, and balanced on, a drive-gear shaft located within the casing on the axis of r... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4356388 | Odometer A tamper proof odometer wherein elastic arms are mounted on a driving gear, teeth in the inner circumference of a recess formed in one side of the least significant digit wheel engage with the front end of the elastic arm to prevent reverse rotation, and ... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4354097 | Odometers An odometer for displaying the speed of a vehicle and the distance travelled, comprising an input shaft driven at a speed proportional to that of the vehicle, a speedometer unit connected to the input shaft, a mileage recording unit comprising a plurality... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4350880 | Automatic fuel-cost monitoring system A system for budgeting fuel costs and for emitting an unwarranted-cost alarm based on instantaneous consumption, in a motor vehicle using liquid, gaseous, solid (or with adaptation, electrical) fuel includes an input drive to a counting meter showing accu... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4314149 | Daily mileage recording unit A daily mileage recording unit, of the type comprising a plurality of drums mounted side by side on the same shaft and supported in rotation by a frame, a swinging member mounted to pivot with respect to the frame, a series of gears carried by the swingin... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4308453 | Odometer for a vehicle An odometer i.e. a distance recorder, for a vehicle has a counting mechanism driven by a stepping mechanism which is in turn driven with rotation of a vehicle wheel. The stepping mechanism has a plurality of pawls which reciprocate with wheel rotation and... | 12/29/1981 |
