Patent ID: 6359431
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: G01C,G01P,Y10S

Abstract:
A golf-cart speedometer/odometer comprising:a rotation-mark collar supported proximate an inside periphery of a cart-wheel rim; at least one rotation marker positioned on the rotation-mark collar; a rotation sensor affixed rigidly to a housing extension that is extended rigidly from an outside periphery of a cart-axle housing; the rotation sensor being positioned predeterminedly proximate an inside peripheral portion of the rotation-mark collar; the rotation sensor being structured and positioned to detect rotational passage of the at least one rotation marker on the rotation-mark collar; a readout console positioned within predetermined cart-driver vision on the golf cart; the readout console having a speedometer, a long-distance odometer and a short-distance odometer; and a communicator of rotation of the rotation-mark collar in communication from the rotation sensor to the readout console for actuation of the speedometer, the long-distance odometer and the short-distance odometer in metering correlation with an outside circumferential perimeter of a tire on a cart wheel on which the cart-wheel rim is positioned.