Patent ID: 7012515

Claim:
A small-sized electrically-driven vehicle having an indicator disposed in front of a driver seat and arranged on which a row of lamps extending transversely are lit up in steps for indicating amount of a battery charge of a vehicle mounted battery with illumination of a corresponding number of the indicator lamps, the vehicle comprising: winkers mounted on the vehicle; a winker switch arranged for selectively activating the winkers to indicate the left turn and the right turn of the vehicle; and an indicator controller arranged operable in response to the action of the winker switch for carrying out a control action in which when the winker switch is operated for indicating the right turn of the vehicle, the lamps are lit up in an incremental sequence from the left to the right and their sequential lit-up action is repeated and when the winker switch is operated for indicating the left turn of the vehicle, the lamps are lit up in an incremental sequence from the right to the left and their sequential lit-up action is repeated in place of indicating the amount of the battery charge, wherein, in said incremental sequence, each lamp, which is lit, remains lit when the next light becomes lit until all lamps are lit, and wherein the indicator is mounted on an operation panel provided at the center of a steering handle of the vehicle, said operation panel being arranged almost horizontally on the top of a steering post arranged at the front of the vehicle, said steering handle having a grip arranged to protrude from both the left and right sides of the operation panel, and the indicator being arranged on the top surface of the operation panel, the top surface being substantially parallel to a plane containing the steering handle.