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Indicator for a hybrid electric vehicle
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Inventors: Situ, Lixin; Valascho, Joseph; Sankaran, Venkateswa;
Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, MI)
Primary Examiner: Nguyen; Hung
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Kelley; David B. Brooks & Kushman
An indicator for use with an electric vehicle having an engine and an electric traction motor. The indicator includes a tachometer gauge for displaying engine revolution speed. The indicator further includes an electric only indicator for displaying whether the vehicle is operating in an electric only mode. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION FIG.
1 illustrates instrument cluster 10.
Instrument cluster 10 communicates information to a driver through a number of indicators.
The driver can use the indicators for monitoring and controlling vehicle operation.
Instrument cluster 10 can be used with any electric vehicle having an engine and an electric traction motor where one or both of the engine and motor can be used to drive the vehicle.
One common type of electric vehicle which is suitable for the present invention are so called hybrid electric vehicles and include series hybrid electric vehicles (SHEV), parallel hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), and parallel/series (powersplit) hybrid electric vehicles (PSHEV).
Instrument cluster 10 includes anti-lock braking system (ABS) indicator 18, seat belt indicator 20, air bag indicator 22, traction indicator 24, temperature indicator 26, left turn signal indicator 30, information indicator 32, high beam indicator 36, engine warning indicator 38, right turn signal indicator 40, parking brake indicator 44, service indicator 46, transmission indicator 48, oil change indicator 50, battery indicator 52, and theft indicator 54.
Instrument cluster 10 further includes temperature gauge 60, tachometer gauge 62, speed gauge 64, and oil gauge 66.
These gauges display levels relative to value ranges printed thereon.
Tachometer gauge 62 and speed gauge 64 further include alphanumeric displays 70 and 72 to provide alphanumeric messages.
Alphanumeric gauge 72 includes engine ready indicator 74 and PRND indicators 76.
Indicators 70 and 72 are digitally controlled and provide the display by illuminating light emitting diodes (LEDs) or liquid crystals.
Virtually any message can be provided by the alphanumeric indicators.
Tachometer gauge 62 includes electric only indicator 80.
Electric only indicator 80 is preferably a binary indicator having a graphic shaped like a motor.
Electric only indicator 80 can include a chim (not shown) for chimming upon initial activation of electric only mode
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