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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 1977
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jun Ohta, Aichi, JA;
Assignee:
Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340414 ; 340 / ; 340380 ;
Abstract
An alarm indicating system, for preferred use in vehicles, having alarm legends carrying indicator elements arranged in layers, by which the occurrence of abnormalities in the operation of specific parts or objects of functional importance are located according to a predetermined order of importance given to the objects. Misreading or illegibility of alarm legends, overlapped in a display, thus is avoided. The system also incorporates a fault finder means to check instantly and automatically if the indicators or drive circuits for the indicators have failed in operation.