Patent ID: 8362893

Claim:
A display device for a cargo-handling vehicle which has a mast located at a front of the vehicle, the mast being capable of tilting a fork forward and backward around a support axis and moving the fork up and down, a tilt-angle detector detecting a tilt angle of the mast, and a cargo weight detector detecting weight of a cargo loaded on the fork, the display device comprising: a display which displays speed of the cargo-handling vehicle, the tilt angle of the mast and the cargo weight; and a control unit which controls the display, wherein the display includes a speed display area displaying the speed of the cargo-handling vehicle and a selection display area which selectively displays the tilt angle and the weight outside the speed displaying area, wherein the control unit controls the display so that contents of the selection display area are changed depending on driving states of the cargo-handling vehicle including an initial driving state from turning on the cargo-handling vehicle to starting the vehicle, a slow driving state from staring the vehicle to reaching a prescribed speed and a normal driving state when the vehicle drives at the prescribed speed or higher, and wherein at least in the initial driving state, the selection display area displays the tilt angle detected when turning on the vehicle, and in the normal driving state, the selection display area displays only error indications.