Rotational speed measuring device with economy field

• US 4,523,457 A
• Filed: 08/02/1983
• Issued: 06/18/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Daimler-Benz AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Daimler-Benz AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Inventors: Bayer, Ulrich, Ochs, Siegfried
• Primary Examiner(s): MYRACLE, JERRY
• Application Number:
  US06/519,740
• Time in Patent Office: 686 Days
• Field of Search: 73/113, 73/114, 73/119 A
• US Class Current: 73/114.52
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/174 Economic driving
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/174 Economic driving
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/28 characterised by the type of the output information, e.g. video entertainment or vehicle dynamics information; characterised by the purpose of the output information, e.g. for attracting the attention of the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0236 for economical driving
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/84 Data processing systems or methods, management, administration

Abstract

An installation for the indication of the fuel consumption, especially of heavy truck engines, with a sensor for the position of the drive pedal and with a set of fuel consumption-engine rotational speed-characteristic curves stored in a storage device and dependent on the drive pedal position; a predetermined number of at least single-color light diodes, of which each is coordinated to a predetermined partial range of engine rotational speed and indicates an information about the specific fuel consumption as a function of the instantaneous control rack, respectively, throttle valve position coordinated to the drive pedal position within the engine rotational speed partial range corresponding to the stored set of fuel consumption-engine rotational speed curves, are integrated into the dial of a tachometer corresponding to their coordination to the predetermined engine rotational speed partial ranges.

Claims

1. An installation for indicating fuel consumption, comprising sensor means for the position of a drive pedal and storage means in which are stored a set of characteristic fuel consumption-engine rotational speed curves dependent on drive pedal position,

said installation including a tachometer means having a predetermined number of at least single-color light means, each of which is coordinated to a predetermined engine rotational speed-partial range for indicating information about the specific fuel consumption as a function of the drive pedal position within this engine rotational speed-partial range corresponding to the stored characteristic curves, said light means being integrated into a dial of the tachometer means in a manner corresponding with the coordination thereof to the predetermined engine rotational speed-partial ranges.

2. An installation according to claim 1, wherein each light means is a two-color light diode, whereby the light diode, lighting up in the first color, indicates a very low specific fuel consumption, lighting up in the second color indicates a low specific fuel consumption and when not lighting up, indicates a high specific fuel consumption.