Color-changeable warning apparatus of vehicle meter

• US 7,248,176 B2
• Filed: 02/04/2005
• Issued: 07/24/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Shih-Hsiung Wu
• Original Assignee: Shih-Hsiung Wu
• Inventors: Wu, Shih-Hsiung
• Primary Examiner(s): Pope; Daryl C
• Application Number:
  US11/049,983
• Publication Number:
  US 20060187077A1
• Time in Patent Office: 900 Days
• Field of Search: 340/461, 340/438, 340/441, 340/815.4, 340/428, 340/439, 340/458, 340/815.56, 340/815.66, 362/23, 362/61
• US Class Current: 340/815.4
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/188 Displaying information using colour changes
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/188 Displaying information using colour changes
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/29 Instruments characterised by the way in which information is handled, e.g. showing information on plural displays or prioritising information according to driving conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 3/16 Circuits; Control arrangements

Abstract

A color-changeable warning apparatus of a vehicle meter transforms a measured value of the target position into a first digital signal and adopts a setting value as a second digital signal. The first digital signal and the second digital signal are compared by a comparison program, wherein the parameter comparison result is read by a processing unit so as to trigger a light-emitting device of a light-outputting group to change the outputted light color thereby achieving the warning purpose.

Claims

1. A color-changeable warning apparatus of a vehicle meter, wherein an exterior main body of the vehicle meter consists of a meter shell and the color-changeable warning apparatus mounted inside the meter shell is a control loop, the control loop comprising:

a signal transforming circuit formed on the control loop for electrically connecting with a target position of a vehicle and transforming a measured value of the target position into a first digital signal;

a processing unit electrically connected with the signal transforming circuit for receiving the first digital signal and performing operation and prosecution, the processing unit having a comparison program for comparing the first digital signal with a second digital signal to generate a parameter comparison result, the parameter comparison result being read by the processing unit to trigger at least a light-emitting device of a light-outputting group to change the outputted light color;

the light-outputting group electrically connected to the processing unit and comprising the light-emitting device corresponding to a display machine;

the display machine electrically connected to the processing unit and triggered by the processing unit; and

a setting unit electrically connected to the comparison program provided by the processing unit to make an inputted setting value become the second digital signal such that the second digital signal can be set manually, wherein when the first digital signal value is compared with the setting value set in the setting unit, the parameter comparison result is read by the processing unit to trigger the light-outputting group to change the outputted light color for warning a driver.

2. The color-changeable warning apparatus of the vehicle meter of claim 1, wherein the display machine is a LCD panel.

3. The color-changeable warning apparatus of the vehicle meter of claim 2, wherein the LCD panel is a digital simulated pointer type display panel.

4. The color-changeable warning apparatus of the vehicle meter of claim 1, wherein the display machine is a pointer display panel.

5. The color-changeable warning apparatus of the vehicle meter of claim 1, wherein the light-emitting device of the light-outputting group is a RGB light-emitting device.

6. The color-changeable warning apparatus of the vehicle meter of claim 1, wherein the target position is a wheel axle.

7. The color-changeable warning apparatus of the vehicle meter of claim 1, wherein the setting unit is a setting button.