Vehicle performance monitoring system

• US 3,099,817 A
• Filed: 12/19/1958
• Issued: 07/30/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/1958
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hugh C. Kendall
• Original Assignee: Hugh C. Kendall
• Inventors: Kendall, Hugh C.
• Application Number:
  US03/781,678
• Time in Patent Office: 1,684 Days
• US Class Current: 346/81
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/12 in graphical form

Claims

1. A SYSTEM FOR MONITORING THE OPERATION OF A VEHICLE HAVING AN ODOMETER, COMPRISING A RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECEIVING CHARACTERISTIC DATA, DATA PRODUCING MEANS EFFECTIVE WHEN OPERATED TO RECORD DISTINCTIVE INDICATIONS ON SAID RECORDING MEDIUM, A PLURALITY OF DATA SELECTION MEANS FOR SELECTING THE DISTINCTIVE INDICATIONS OF SAID DATA PRODUCING MEANS, CIRCUIT MEANS ELECTRICALLY CONNECTING EACH OF SAID PLURALITY OF DATA SELECTION MEANS TO SAID DATA PRODUCING MEANS EFFECTIVE WHEN ACTIVATED SELECTIVELY TO OPERATE SAID DATA PRODUCING MEANS TO RECORD INDICATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A RESPECTIVE ONE OF SAID DATA SELECTING MEANS, FIRST ACTIVATING MEAN OPERABLE TO ACTIVATE MOMENTARILY ONE OF SAID CIRCUIT MEANS, A SECOND ACTIVATING MEANS EFFECTIVE WHEN OPERATED REPETITIVELY TO ACTIVATE ANOTHER OF SAID CIRCUIT MEANS AT SPACED INTERVALS, AND MEANS CONNECTING OPERATIVELY SAID ODOMETER TO SAID SECOND ACTIVATING MEANS AFTER THE OPERATION OF SAID FIRST ACTIVATING MEANS TO CAUSE THE OPERATION OF SAID SECOND ACTIVATING MEANS UPON THE INITITAL MOVEMENT OF THE VEHICLE AND THE REPEATED OPERATION OF SAID SECOND ACTIVATING MEANS TO CORRESPOND TO INCREMENTS OF DISTANCE TRAVELED BY SAID VEHICLE.