Yazaki Corporation

Kimihiko Ikeda

Kunimitsu Aoki

Kazuyuki Sasaki

Ichiro Kataoka

Shinji Narama

Shozo Ashizawa

A liquid tank includes a tank body forming a reservoir for gasoline G, a flexible partition film 1 arranged in the tank body 1 to divide a space in the tank body into two vertical spaces, a float positioned on the gasoline G, an arm 3 for converting a high and low position of the float 3 into a rotational position of the arm 5, and a potentiometer 5 for detecting a position of the flexible partition film. Since the gasoline G is covered with the partition film, the gasoline G does not vaporize into the air in the tank body an. Even if the gasoline surface is slanted to the tank body an by an acceleration of the vehicle, the flexible partition film serves to restrict the inclination of the surface. Therefore, it is possible to precisely a residual amounts of the gasoline G irrespective of the inclination.

Liquid tank

A combination indicator apparatus including an indicator assembly having plural analog indicators of the same type for independently indicating different information, plural driver circuits of the same type for independently driving the analog indicators; and a single controller containing a CPU and an instruction set, which controller may be disposed remote from the indicator assembly, for receiving various sensor information and transmitting various drive data to the driver circuits in time sharing data transmission mode, to independently indicate various information through the analog indicators.

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Shimada, Japan

Kimihiko Ikeda