Service-interval display for motor vehicles

US4630027A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Bayerische Motoren Werke A.G. · DE

Inventors

• Heinz Muhlberger · Unterschleißheim, DE
• Erwin Starmuhler · Munich, DE
• Walter Weishaupt · Munich, DE
• Peter Flohr · Turgi, CH
• Fritz Bourauel · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 8, 1982
• Grant date: Dec 16, 1986
• Expiry date: Feb 8, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16N2260/18
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A service-interval display for motor vehicles, which generates a signal when a limiting parameter value is reached. Total fuel consumption serves as the basic parameter instead of the distance travelled, previously employed. Other parameters may serve to modify the generation of the signal to cause an earlier or later warning to be displayed.