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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1982
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1980
Kouichi Kogawa, Yokohama, JP;
Teruo Kawasaki, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyuki Nomura, Fujisawa, JP;
Hiroshi Yano, Higashiyamato, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A multifunction electronic meter for a vehicle can display selectively plural measured informations of fuel amount, cooling water temperature, oil pressure, battery voltage and the like of a vehicle on a single display section, the displayed informations being accompanied respectively with combinations of symbolmarks and surrounding frames thereof for identifying and warning those informations. The principal information of, for instance, fuel amount is ordinarily displayed, while the remaining informations are displayed selectively as occasion demands, for instance, in response to the occurrence of an emergency. When plural emergencies are simultaneously caused, the information corresponding to the lastly caused emergency is displayed intermittently together with the symbolmark, while only the symbolmarks and the frames of the informations corresponding to the previously caused emergencies are displayed continuously. Consequently, the most requisite measured information can be ordinarily noticed by a driver, as well as the remaining informations which are noticeable as occasion demands, regardless of the desired simplicity of configuration of an instrument panel of the vehicle.