Logic for outside temperature display
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsRaj Manakkal, Hirohide Suda
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Abstract
A method for controlling an automobile exterior temperature display during a first period of time following starting the automobile includes comparing an ambient temperature to a display temperature and comparing a speed of the automobile to a threshold speed. If the speed is above the threshold speed and the sensed ambient temperature is more than a predetermined amount above the displayed temperature, the displayed temperature is adjusted at a first rate. The comparisons are continued for a predetermined period of time and, following the predetermined period of time, the displayed temperature is permitted to increase at a second rate. The second rate of increase is slower than the first rate of increase.
Claims6
A method for controlling an automobile exterior temperature display, comprising the steps of:
- sensing an ambient temperature;
- determining whether use the sensed ambient temperature or a stored temperature as the displayed temperature;
- the improvement comprising:
- a) comparing said sensed ambient temperature to said displayed temperature and,
- b) comparing a speed of said automobile to a threshold speed and, if said speed is above said threshold speed and said sensed ambient temperature is more than a predetermined amount above said displayed temperature, adjusting said displayed temperature at a first rate;
- continuing the comparisons of steps a) and b) for a predetermined period of time;
- and,
- following said predetermined period of time, permitting said displayed temperature to increase at a second rate, said second rate being slower than said first rate.
A method for controlling an automobile exterior temperature display, comprising the steps of:
- a) comparing a sensed ambient temperature to a displayed temperature and,
- b) comparing a sensed automobile speed to a threshold speed and, if said sensed speed is above said threshold speed and said sensed ambient temperature is more than a predetermined amount above said displayed temperature, permitting said displayed temperature to be adjusted at a first rate;
- continuing the comparisons of steps a) and b) for a predetermined period of time;
- and,
- following said predetermined period of time, permitting said displayed temperature to increase at a second rate, said second rate being slower than said first rate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.