U.S. patent number D378,500 [Application Number D/037,855] was granted by the patent office on 1997-03-18 for residual battery capacity and electric vehicle range gauge.
This patent grant is currently assigned to Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha. Invention is credited to Morio Kayano, Makoto Kondo, Tomoaki Nakai.
United States Patent |
D378,500 |
Nakai , et al. |
March 18, 1997 |
Residual battery capacity and electric vehicle range gauge
Claims
The ornamental design for residual battery capacity and electric
vehicle range gauge, as shown and described.
Inventors: |
Nakai; Tomoaki (Wako,
JP), Kondo; Makoto (Wako, JP), Kayano;
Morio (Wako, JP) |
Assignee: |
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki
Kaisha (Tokyo, JP)
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Family
ID: |
17300334 |
Appl.
No.: |
D/037,855 |
Filed: |
April 21, 1995 |
Foreign Application Priority Data
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Oct 21, 1994 [JP] |
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6-257000 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
D10/125;
D10/103 |
Current CPC
Class: |
B60L50/51 20190201;
B60L53/305 20190201; B60L3/12 20130101; B60L53/14 20190201;
Y02T90/14 20130101; Y02T10/84 20130101; Y02T10/7088 20130101;
Y02T90/16 20130101; Y02T90/12 20130101; Y02T10/7044 20130101;
Y02T10/7005 20130101; Y02T90/163 20130101; Y02T10/7072 20130101;
Y02T90/128 20130101; Y02T10/705 20130101; Y02T10/70 20130101 |
Field of
Search: |
;D10/102,103,123,125
;D12/192 ;340/438,455,461,462 ;364/424.01,424.03,424.04,424.07 |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
Primary Examiner: Davis; Antoine Duval
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Lyon & Lyon
Description
FIG. 1 is an elevation view of the residual battery capacity and
electrical vehicle range display showing our new design in a
vehicle instrument display panel, with the conventional instruments
shown in dashed lines, and with our display portion having
horizontal lining for one color, such as blue, and vertical lining
for another color, such as red, of lighting for indicating vehicle
range under present operating conditions by the one color (and also
by a triangular cursor at about 25 miles), an additional potential
vehicle range by the another color if operating conditions are
favorably modified, and the residual battery capacity by the
left-hand column in the one color;
FIG. 2 is an elevation view of our new design illustrating the
display of our invention displaying a fully charged residual
capacity of the battery and maximum range, such as while not
operating the electric vehicle or in a conservative operation, by
the one color;
FIG. 3 is an elevation view of our new design illustrating the
display of our invention displaying a residual capacity of the
battery between 1/2 and full and a range of about 40 miles by the
triangular cursor;
FIG. 4 is an elevation view of a second embodiment of our new
design illustrating only the display of our invention, without the
entire vehicle instrument display panel shown in FIGS. 1-3,
displaying a fully charged condition of the battery and with our
display having horizontal lines representing a color of lighting
and the left column of lighted boxes indicating the residual
capacity of the battery, the center column of lighted boxes
indicating vehicle range under present operating conditions and the
right column of boxes indicating vehicle range if vehicle operating
conditions are favorably modified;
FIG. 5 is an elevation view of the second embodiment of our
invention shown in FIG. 4 and illustrating our display displaying a
residual capacity of slightly over 1/2 and a range of slgihtly less
than 20 miles by the cursor, under present operating conditions;
and,
FIG. 6 is an elevation view of a modified form of the second
embodiment of our invention shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 with the
right-hand column having vertical lines representing a different
color of lighting than the horizontal lines in the other two
columns.
The display portion of this invention for each embodiment is flat
and has no appreciable thickness whereby there is no ornamentation
on the sides or back.
The broken line showing of additional vehicle instruments is for
illustrtive purposes only and forms no part of the claimed
design.
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