Abstract: A miniature crossed coil gauge is provided having an oriented rare earth magnet fixedly mounted on a rotary shaft for supplying a magnetic flux directed transverse to the shaft axis. The gauge housing provided by an upper and lower bobbin surrounds the magnet and supports the rotary shaft. A first and second coil are wound about the gauge housing in a crossed coil orientation encircling the magnet. A flux ring is disposed around the first and second coils axially aligned with respect to the magnet. The magnet has sufficient strength and the flux ring is mounted in sufficiently close proximity to the first and second coils to redistribute the flux supplied by the magnet so that the magnetic flux measured at the surface of the coils is substantially increased relative to the magnetic flux density measured with the flux ring removed.

Abstract: An on-vehicle display apparatus includes an analog meter mounted with a display surface facing downwardly within a meter hood of an instrument panel of a vehicle. A reflector is disposed below the meter to reflect a display image of the analog meter through an opening of the instrument panel into a driver's eyes so that the driver views a virtual image of the analog meter behind the reflector. The on-vehicle display includes a movement which has a rotating shaft and is positioned such that the movement is above the display surface. A pointer shaft rotatably is eccentric with the rotating shaft and is supported by a bearing. The pointer shaft has a pointer attached to a distal end thereof projecting below the display surface. The pointer angularly moves over the display surface together with the pointer shaft. A rotation transmitting means is provided between the rotating shaft and the pointer shaft for transmitting rotation of the rotating shaft to the pointer shaft.

Abstract: An electro-mechanical induction watt-hour meter bearing system that includes end cap pilot bearings snap fit onto respective opposite ends of the shaft. The bearing system also includes a lower shaft support bearing selectively adjustable in increments for controlled adjustment.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for adjustment of the assembly of an electric power meter which rotates in response to power consumption which enables successive test positions to temporarily support the assembly without marking the bearing, and provides only a single mark on the bearing at the final factory adjustment position with an indication on the bearing of any subsequent tampering with that position.

Abstract: The pointer shaft 1 of a rotary-magnet ratio meter is mounted by means of radial bearings (15 and 20 respectively) one near its pointer 2 and one at the end facing its rotary magnet 4. The lower radial bearing 20 arranged near the rotary magnet 4 is formed by a blind hole 16 into which the pointer shaft 1 engages and in which it rests on a metal ball 19. This metal ball 19 therefore forms a thrust bearing 20.

Abstract: An indicating gauge for automobiles for displaying the amount of a measurement on a gauge board by a movement. The movement comprises a pair of coils for generating a combined magnetic field in response to a predetermined measurement amount, a magnet rotor having a rotation shaft rotating dependent on the generated magnetic field, a counter shaft rotatably disposed in parallel to the rotating shaft, a pointer mounted on the tip of the counter shaft, a rotation gear secured to the rotation shaft and a counter gear secured to the counter shaft. To fix the pointer to 0 position of the gauge board, a stopper is provided in the counter gear. This obviates the another stopper on the gauge board. The number of parts is reduced, and assembling the gauge can be done easily.

Abstract: A moving coil measuring instrument wherein at least one end of the axis (3) of rotation of the moving coil (1) is supported so as to permit adjustment of that end of the axis (3) in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis (3), such adjustment correcting for non-ideal operation of the instrument. The adjustment is effected by rotation of a support member (5, 7), defining the one end, rotatably mounted in a frame member (9) of the instrument, the support member (5,7) defining the one end at a location displaced from the axis (31, 37) of rotation of the support member (5, 7).

Abstract: A cross coil type instrument includes a plurality of coils cross-arranged around a movable permanent magnet, a needle fastened to the movable permanent magnet through a shaft projecting from the movable permanent magnet and penetrating the coils, a reset-to-zero permanent magnet arranged in the vicinity of the movable permanent magnet, and a stopper so as to make contact with the needle at a reference indication position when the movable permanent magnet is driven only by the reset-to-zero permanent magnet.

Abstract: A ferromagnetic measuring apparatus comprising a shaft on which is fixed a needle displaceable over a dial, and a first metallic plate. The shaft is pivotally mounted at its ends, in bearings, within the housing of a coil body, for displacement relative to a second metallic plate fixed within the housing. One of the end bearings is provided at one of the ends of the housing of the coil body while the other bearing is provided in a cap positioned on the housing of the coil body, at the other end thereof. A spiral spring is also provided, which is connected with the needle shaft. The spiral spring is fixed at its inner end to the cap and at its outer end to the needle which is rigid with the shaft.

Abstract: Apparatus for measuring an electrical quantity comprises a fixed body and a movable device having a pivot shaft fixed to an indicator needle which moves in front of a graduated scale. The movable device is pivotably mounted in the fixed body by pivot pins and corresponding bearings. The pivot pins are provided at the ends of the shaft while the bearings face the pins on the fixed body. The movable device is further supported relative to the fixed body by knives and corresponding bearings which receive edges of the knives. The knives are fixed to the movable device and the bearings are provided near the ends of the shaft. The edges of the knives and the pivot pins together with the corresponding bearings are aligned with each other.

Abstract: An exciting unit used in an internal magnet type meter, wherein a spacer, having a thickness corresponding to the length of a gap, is attached to the circumference of a permanent magnet and a screw is fitted in a yoke so that the permanent magnet may be mounted in the yoke by forcing the permanent magnet onto the inner face of the yoke through the spacer by means of the screw.

Abstract: An arrangement for moving coil or iron instruments with an axis and a moving member attached thereto. The moving member is a moving coil or iron designed in the shape of a circular segment and has one or two arms at the axis for retention and for fixing its position. The arm(s) has free ends which exhibit a slit of a particular shape and dimension such that the axis fits into the slit. The free ends are slid in a fork-like manner onto the axis from the side, i.e., approximately perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the axis. The free ends have prongs defining the slit located on opposite sides next to the axis and are connected to the axis directly or by means of intermediate parts.

Abstract: An electric gage driving a pointer has an extended spindle so that the gage movement can be substantially spaced from the pointer. The gage includes a spindle, an armature driving the spindle, a bobbin supporting a bearing for the spindle and electrical coils around the bobbin. An outrigger support remote from the bobbin and adjacent the pointer holds another spindle bearing which may be misaligned with the bobbin. The bearing on the bobbin accommodates the misaligned spindle.

Abstract: A watthour meter frame for an electric watthour meter includes pairs of orthogonal machined plane surfaces against which bearings are urged for accurately positioning the ends of a disk shaft of an electric watthour meter. Clearances are provided in the watthour meter frame for machining all pairs of machined surfaces without either changing the cutting tool or rotating the watthour meter frame. Worm gear bearings are similarly positioned in the watthour meter frame against three machined plane surfaces which may be machined in the same operation, and with the same cutting tool, as used in forming the pairs of machined surfaces for the disk shaft bearings. The worm gear bearings include a cylindrical barrel which is resiliently urged into contact with a pair of plane machined surfaces in a bearing well and a positioning flange having a bearing surface which is resiliently urged into a face surface surrounding the bearing well.

Abstract: A taut band instrument having a moving coil hung by a pair of taut bands to measure electrical current and the like by way of rotating a moving coil in magnetic field. A pair of boss members are provided to hold the moving coil and the boss members include center holes and projections which are provided under the holes respectively, thereby positioning the taut bands at an accurate position. Balance of the moving portion is obtained by cutting off a part of an arm member belonging to the boss member which is made of synthetic resin to be an integral body.

Abstract: A register pointer for an electric utility meter is described as having a weakened section at which fracture can occur to break away the pointer when an attempt is made to tamper with the pointer, such as by manually resetting the pointer's position on the register to show a lower reading of energy consumption. Various forms of breakaway means are described which will permit separation of the pointer portion of the device from its shaft portion when a torque is applied to the pointer end.

Abstract: A magnetic suspension bearing for a rotating body having at least two magnet systems of coaxial permanent magnets arranged sequentially along the axis of rotation of the rotating body. Each magnet system is provided with two permanent magnets disposed on the rotating body and a stator, respectively. Each such permanent magnet is magnetized in a direction perpendicular to a major external surface, the adjacent surfaces of the magnets within a magnet system being of like polarity so as to repel one another. Each of the magnets is constructed so as to form a truncated cone, the axis of which coincides with an axis of rotation of the rotating body. In one embodiment, the apex of the cones are directed towards one another. The apex angle of the cones is advantageously preselected to provide desired axial and orthogonal components of force.

Abstract: The invention contemplates a moving-magnet meter movement wherein frame structure to pivotally support the moving element also includes coil-supporting bobbin structure, so that a fixedly mounted coil can be wound directly on the frame structure after assembly of all moving parts including the needle pointer of the moving element. The frame structure is also so arranged in laterally offset relation to the bobbin region that terminals with separate terminal-strip elements can project laterally further from the bobbin region and outward of the frame structure, whereby coil lead and/or other circuit-element connections within the meter can be made in laterally projecting regions of the terminal-strip elements, thus enabling a single dip-soldering operation to consolidate all electrical connections. Other features are described.

Abstract: A reinforced bobbin which when wound with a sensing winding forms the armature of a D'Arsonval movement measuring instrument. The reinforced bobbin consists of a thin elongated open rectangular bobbin with detent holes centered along the axis of revolution of the bobbin in the measuring instrument. A nonmagnetic low density ball with a diameter slightly larger than the opening in the bobbin is locked in position inside the bobbin by the detent holes to prevent inward deformation of the bobbin when the measuring instrument is subject to rough handling.

Abstract: A liquid-level gauge includes an indicator for indicating an amount of fuel corresponding to a liquid level of the fuel detected by a liquid level detector mounted within a fuel tank of a vehicle. The indicator used is of the leaving pointer type in which a pointer keeps pointing a value immediately before a power supply is shut off. The energization of the indicator continues for a given time enough to complete the pointing operation when a power source switch has been turned on and then is interrupted intermittently.

Abstract: A compact and symmetrically arranged construction for electrical current indicating meters of small size. The novel construction for a meter comprises a unitary frame member combined with concentrically arranged components.

Abstract: Adjustment of an electrical measuring instrument of the D'Arsonval type is achieved by rotation of an annular leaf spring contact mounted to rotate between an annular plate and a flanged eyelet extending through the plate and leaf spring. A conducting coil spring attached to the spring contact transmits rotary orientation of the spring contact to an armature assembly disposed for rotation against the return force of the coil spring in an magnetic field.

Abstract: A flexible pointer is provided for use as a movable indicator, hand or arm on such devices as dial indicators, movable arms for electrical contacting devices, and the like. The pointer is comprised of a pair of strips of spring material joined at their upper ends and spread apart at their lower ends in a generally triangular shape, the outer free end being the indicating portion, while the wider, inner end is connected to a pivot or other movable support. The triangular configuration allows the pointer to bend due to rapid acceleration or overtravel and to return to its original shape without damage.