Overhead LCD monitor in combination with a DVD player for a vehicle

• US 20030128183A1
• Filed: 01/04/2002
• Published: 07/10/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Punch Video Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Punch Video Incorporated
• Inventors: Chang, Steven
• Application Number:
  US10/038,938
• Publication Number:
  US 20030128183A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0211 for record carriers apparatus, e.g. video recorders, tape players or CD players
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0235 of flat type, e.g. LCD
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0028 Ceiling, e.g. roof rails
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0082 collapsible, e.g. for storing after use

Abstract

An overhead monitor in combination with a DVD player includes a fixed plate adapted to be mounted in a ceiling of an automobile and provided with a concave area and a recessed area defined in a bottom face defining the concave area to receive therein the DVD player and a moving plate pivotally connected to the fixed plate and having the monitor embedded therein. The DVD player has a cover with a wedge and an extension, a clamp and a hole with a sensor received therein are defined in a face of the concave area to respectively correspond to the wedge and the extension, so that only when the cover securely engages the face of the concave area, can the DVD player be operated normally.

Claims

1. An overhead monitor in combination with a DVD player used in an automobile, the overhead monitor in combination with the DVD player comprising:

a fixed plate adapted to be mounted in a ceiling of the automobile and provided with a concave area and a recessed area defined in a bottom face defining the concave area to receive therein the DVD player;

a moving plate pivotally connected to the fixed plate and having the monitor embedded therein,

wherein the DVD player has a cover with a wedge and an extension,

a clamp and a hole with a sensor received therein are defined in a face of the concave area to respectively correspond to the wedge and the extension, so that only when the cover securely engages the face of the concave area, can the DVD player be operated normally.

2. The overhead monitor in combination with a DVD player used in an automobile as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a gap defined at a joint between the moving plate and the fixed plate and a protective cap pivotally connected to the fixed plate to selectively cover the gap.

3. The overhead monitor in combination with a DVD player used in an automobile as claimed in claim 1, wherein the concave area has a depth equal to a thickness of a combination of the moving plate and the monitor so that after the combination of the moving plate and the monitor is received in the concave area, the moving plate together with the monitor is flush with the fixed plate.