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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. 01, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ronald P Russ, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P / ; G01P / ; G01P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324166 ; 324144 ; 364565 ; 364572 ;
Abstract
A vehicle speed measurement system (8) and method for driving a vehicle speed display responsive to a vehicle speed signal (300-334). A vehicle speed signal having a period corresponding to distance traveled by a vehicle is counted each first predetermined time period to provide a count (300-314); a preselected number of the counts are summed (316), the sum is filtered (318); the filtered sum is converted to the measurement of vehicle speed and a control signal for driving the vehicle speed display in response to the measurement is generated (320).