Automobile efficiency meter

• US 6,600,413 B1
• Filed: 03/04/2002
• Issued: 07/29/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jui-Yang Lo
• Original Assignee: Jui-Yang Lo
• Inventors: Lo, Jui-Yang
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Daniel J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LAI, ANNE VIET NGA
• Application Number:
  US10/086,705
• Time in Patent Office: 512 Days
• Field of Search: 340/439, 340/441, 701/99, 701/110
• US Class Current: 340/439
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/004 Indicating the operating range of the engine economical driving B60R16/0236, F02B77/084; measuring liquid fuel of an engine G01F9/00

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an automobile efficiency meter which is capable of defining an optimistic efficiency zone by analyzing a speed-frequency (S-hz) variable and an engine revolution-frequency (R-hz) variable The driver is then informed about the vehicle condition by a pointer type or a digital type metering instrument, an indicator lighting unit, or a sounder thereby enabling him/her to keep the automobile in the best efficient condition so as to save fuel consumption and prolong the vehicle life.

Claims

1. An automobile efficiency meter comprising:

a vehicle speed signal pick up device for picking up said signal with a speed sensor and inputting it into a microprocessor;

an engine revolution speed signal pick up device for picking an engine revolution speed signal with an engine revolution speed sensor and inputting it into said micro processor;

the microprocessor for receiving said speed signal and said engine revolution signal and outputting an evaluation signal to a conversion and driving circuit after comparative analysis with a referential slope;

the conversion and driving circuit for inputting said evaluation signal and exhibiting the resultant analyzed information on a display device so as to remind the driver of the present automobile efficiency;

the display device for displaying said resultant analyzed information; and

a power supplier for providing a DC power for the aforesaid devices

wherein, a speed frequency variable (s-hz) and an engine revolution speed frequency variable (R-hz) are individually defined as a general parameter and inputted into said microprocessor to obtain a referential slope(f=s-hz/R-hz), an actual slope value obtained from an actual speed and an actual engine revolution speed and added with a time axis parameter is compared with said referential slope value thereby obtaining an evaluated resultant value which is then displayed on said display device by said conversion and driving circuit.

2. The automobile efficiency meter in claim 1, wherein said display device is a pointer, a digital metering instrument, or an indicating light unit.

3. The automobile efficiency meter of claim 2, wherein the surface of said, pointer metering instrument is divided into three zones, a low efficiency zone extending upwards from the initiation position (zero position) of the pointer, a medium efficiency zone immediately after said low efficiency zone, and a high efficiency zone immediately following said medium efficiency zone, a scribing line between said medium efficiency zone and said high efficiency zone is defined as a threshold line of the best automobile efficiency, the pointer goes up and down following increase and decrease of the automobile efficiency so as to assist the driver to know about the vehicle working condition from time to time.

4. The automobile efficiency meter of claim 2, wherein lamp signals including ↑

,=, and ↓

symbols are added to said pointer metering instrument so as to facilitate the driver understanding the variation of automobile efficiency.

5. The automobile efficiency meter of claim 2, wherein said indicating light unit is composed of several different colored indicator lamps.