Engine idling stop signal display apparatus
AssigneeTransportation Systems & Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsKatsushi Wakabayashi, Koji Korematsu
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Abstract
An idling stop signal display apparatus is connected to traffic relating equipment for prompting a running automobile to stop. The idling stop signal display apparatus comprises display means for prompting an automobile driver to stop an engine and to restart the stopped engine, and control means, including said display apparatus, which prompts engine stop by determining a preferable period of time based on an input signal from the traffic relating equipment and functions to prompt the stopped engine to restart by determining a preferable timing.
Claims8
An idling stop signal display apparatus connected to a traffic relating equipment for prompting a running automobile to stop, comprising:
- display means for prompting an automobile driver to stop an engine and to restart the stopped engine;
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- control means, including said display apparatus, which prompts engine stop by determining a preferable period of time based on an input signal from the traffic relating equipment, and which functions to prompt the stopped engine to be restarted by determining a preferable timing,
- wherein the timing of the prompts is based on a car's amount of harmful exhaust gases reduced by idling stop exceeding an amount of harmful exhaust gases which are excessively discharged, beyond a normal idling amount, by engine restart.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.