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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2016
Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd., Nagaoka-shi, Niigata, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Takumi Satoh, Nagaoka, JP;
Koji Tohyama, Nagaoka, JP;
Saiichiro Kosuge, Nagaoka, JP;
Munehiro Yasuda, Wako, JP;
Kotaro Takashima, Wako, JP;
NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD., Nagaoka-Shi, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicular pointer-type residual quantity meter comprises: a display panel that has a scale part which allows a driver to recognize a residual quantity, and a non-scale part that differs from the scale part; a pointer unit that is disposed behind the display panel; a pointer driver body unit that carries out a movement of the pointer unit in a real space; and a control unit that controls the pointer driver body unit in so that the pointer unit indicates one of metering regions in the scale part in replay to a current residual quantity. The control part controls the pointer driver body unit so that when the residual quantity decreases to zero, the pointer unit moves from a metering region corresponding to a zero residual quantity in a direction opposite to a metering region corresponding to a residual quantity value greater than zero to the non-scale part of the display panel.