Virtual instrument panel
CA 2306915 A1 · Owner: Hall, Douglas · Inventors: Ayres, Craig A.; Hall, Douglas
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
An instrument panel (10) having easy-to-read instruments is disclosed and which in certain embodiments allows for more efficient use of space behind the instrument panel (10) by providing a partially reflective screen (16) in the instrument panel (10) and mounting certain instruments or instrument elements in the brow (14) of the dashboard over and in front of the screen (16) so that images of the instruments or elements in the brow (14) are reflected off the screen (16). Other instruments or instrument elements may be located behind the screen (16), and from a viewing location the instruments or elements , combine into an integral display.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed November 3, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 3, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 3, 2020.
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