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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:
Oct. 11, 1983
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Claude F Ricard, Aix-en-Provence, FR;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07B / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
377 20 ; 235 / ; 364467 ;
Abstract
Electronic taximeter comprising a clock, a distance pick-up, a counter registering the number n1 of clock pulses delivered between two distance pulses, three registers R2, R3, R4 in which are recorded constant numbers n2, p2 and p1, a multiplier circuit, a selector circuit, a totalizing counter and a luminous display unit. Each taxi run is split into successive portions of equal length, and the fixed unit price p2 and the price n1.p1 variable with the speed are worked out for each portion, after what the highest of the two is selected and a total fare is displayed by adding up the partial prices.