Odometer data computing apparatus

Patent 4875167 Issued on October 17, 1989. Estimated Expiration Date:

June 28, 2008. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Mileage Validator, Inc.

Application

No. 214919 filed on 06/28/1988

US Classes:

701/35, With data recording device346/33D, Speed346/33RCOMBINED WITH EXTERNAL RECORDER OPERATING MEANS

Examiners

Primary: Chin, Gary

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Hubbard, Thurman, Turner & Tucker

International Class

G06F 015/74

Abstract

An odometer data computing apparatus includes an odometer data computer device and a printer. The computer device includes a keypad, liquid crystal display, microcomputer electronics and continuous memory to record beginning and end of trip time, dates, and odometer readings, to separate pleasure trip mileage, from business mileage, to compute the business mileage for each trip up to sixty business trips at a given time, to accumulate the total business trip mileage for the year, to end the yearly record promptly at the end of the year by indicating a need to print out the trip information for the year, to store the total mileage for the previous year, and to continue the trip recording for the next year. Trip information, including total mileage information for the previous year, may be printed out at any time during the current year. Also, trip information for each trip currently in memory may be printed out at any time.