Patent ID: 7487672

Claim:
A fuel oil amount indicator and measuring apparatus comprising: a plurality of fueling nozzles, each one of said plurality of fueling nozzles having one of a plurality of colors, and the fueling nozzles having different colors from each other; a fueling mechanism delivering a plurality of fuel types respectively to said plurality of fueling nozzles, each of said colors respectively corresponding to one of said plurality of fuel types, and said fueling mechanism delivering each of said fuel types respectively only to said fueling nozzles having a color corresponding to the color corresponding to said fuel type; an indicator in which a plurality of light emitting elements are arrayed, wherein the light emitting elements have a plurality of luminous colors predetermined to correspond to each of said colors corresponding to said fuel types; a selection mechanism configured for a user to select one of said fuel types; and a controller controlling operation of said fueling mechanism and said indicator and responsive to said selection mechanism so as to control said indicator to illuminate said light emitting elements to present a display in said color corresponding to the selected one of said fuel types and concurrently control said fueling mechanism to deliver the selected one of said fuel types via one of said fueling nozzles having said color corresponding to the selected one of said fuel types such that a same color is presented on said display and said one of said fueling nozzles for the selected one of the fuel types.