Kienzle Apparate Gmbh

Hans-Peter Scholl

Jurgen Adams

Eduard Schuh

Ulrich Warkentin

Manfred Saufferer

Alfons Heimburger

Gunther Bartholoman

Taximeter

An arrangement for the control of the quantity of the functions to be called in an electronic taximeter. In order to be able to adapt the device to the most multipurpose of demands, a greater or fewer number of recesses with keys A1 to A8 or with corresponding fill-in pieces can be provided in a key strip in a taximeter housing. A switch K1 through K8 is assigned to each key A1 through A8; the key information is supplied to the electronics and releases different key interrogation programs according to the number of keys present. With a smaller quantity of keys, several functions are assigned to the keys partially; with a larger quantity of keys, each key preferably releases only one function.

Arrangement for controlling an electronic taximeter

A taximeter assembly including an electronic calculating module with data memory, an operating keyboard, as well as a data indicating device, consists of two flat housing panels which are joined by detent devices and which are secured together by a lead-sealable screw connection. An electronic taximeter circuit wired on a single printed circuit board is installed between the housing panels and feed-in of all electrical transmitter lines and supply lines is effected, as desired, from the rear or from below, wherein the latter are guided directly to connectors on the printed circuit board. The rear wall of the rear housing panel is constructed, at the same time, as a mounting plate for installation in a vehicle. A compact, extremely flat taximeter device having its circuitry in a single printed circuit board system enables arrangement of the device in an optimal installation position within or on the outside of the dashboard of a vehicle.

Taximeter assembly

A taximeter housing is securable to a vehicle part in such a manner that only two seals are required to prevent unauthorized tampering with the input connections, the interior components of the taximeter and the taximeter mount, and that only a single seal need be broken when it is necessary to gain access to the interior components to readjust the taximeter for a tariff change.

Taximeter and mounting arrangement

A digital taximeter provides a visual read out of a first and a second multi-digit number. Instead of a plurality of discrete one-digit illuminated-digit display units arranged together to be capable of displaying multi-digit numbers, use is made of a single multi-digit illuminated-digit display unit having a row of equal-size digit zones. One or more of the middle ones of the digit zones are blocked from view to form a first and a second group of digit zones respectively adapted for the display of the first and the second multi-digit numbers and located to either side of the digit zones which are blocked from view. Although the digit zones are actually all of the same size, those of the first group are made to appear larger than those of the second group, in correspondence to the greater importance of the fare indication compared to the extra-charge indication.

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Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

Hans-Peter Scholl