Display device for vehicle

• US 20080163811A1
• Filed: 12/27/2007
• Published: 07/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Nakamichi, Hideaki
• Granted Patent: US 7,726,255 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 116/62.4
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/215 characterised by the combination of multiple visual outputs, e.g. combined instruments with analogue meters and additional displays
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 7/02 Indicating value of two or more variables simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 1/08 Arrangements of scales, pointers, lamps or acoustic indicators, e.g. in automobile speedometers

Abstract

The present invention provides a display device for a vehicle that includes a speed display means that displays a vehicle speed on a speed scale; and a supply-rate display means that displays a supply rate that is a fuel supply amount per a give time on a supply-rate scale. In this display device for a vehicle, the speed scale and the supply-rate scale are arranged in parallel with a constant distance therebetween.

Claims

1. A display device for a vehicle comprising:

a speed display means that displays a vehicle speed on a speed scale; and

a supply-rate display means that displays a supply rate that is a fuel supply amount per a given time on a supply-rate scale,

wherein the speed scale and the supply-rate scale are arranged in parallel with a constant distance therebetween.

2. A display device for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

a position of the supply-rate scale of the supply-rate display means is arranged relative to a position of the speed scale of the speed display means that agrees with a speed of the vehicle calculated from the supply rate and a given fuel consumption.

5. A display device for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

the speed scale is arranged in an arc, and is provided with a speed indicator that moves about an approximate center of the arc.

3. A display device for a vehicle comprising:

a rotation-rate display means that displays on a rotation-rate scale a rotation rate of an engine of the vehicle; and

a supply-rate display means that displays on a supply-rate scale a supply rate that is a fuel supply amount per a given time,

wherein the rotation-rate scale and the supply-rate scale are arranged in parallel with a constant distance therebetween.

4. A display device for a vehicle according to claim 3, wherein

a position of the supply-rate scale of the fuel-rate display means is arranged relative to a position of the rotation-rate scale of the rotation-rate display means that agrees with a rotation rate of the engine of the vehicle calculated from give fuel consumption, a tire diameter and a reduction gear ratio of a reduction gear unit of the vehicle, and the supply rate.