Video player versatile mounting, particularly for vehicles
First Claim
1. A vehicle having a substantially rectilinear passenger compartment with front, rear, side, top and bottom surfaces plus seats, and an audiovisual system with at least one aperture for receiving media and a screen for showing video, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT a substantially rectilinear base portion of the audiovisual system having two co-parallel major surfaces and at least four side surfaces one of which side surfaces contains the aperture for receiving media, is mounted upon one of its major surfaces to any of the front, rear, side, top or bottom surfaces of the passenger compartment so that the aperture selectively faces to the front, rear, left, right, up or down as the compartment surface to which mounting is effected otherwise permits;
- while a substantially rectilinear hat portion of the audiovisual system having on one major surface a selectively positioned screen is mounted upon the other of its major surfaces to the remaining major surface of the base portion at a selected orientation so that the screen may face towards any of the front, rear, left side, right side, top or bottom of the passenger compartment as the mounting otherwise permits;
wherein both the spatial orientation of the aperture of the audiovisual system for receiving media, and also the screen of the audiovisual system, are independently selected nonetheless to the front, rear, side, top or bottom surface of the passenger compartment of the vehicle to which the audiovisual system is mounted.
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Abstract
A vehicle 2 has (1) a substantially rectilinear passenger compartment with front, rear, side, top and bottom surfaces plus seats, and (2) an audiovisual system 1 with at least one aperture for receiving media and a screen for showing video, The audiovisual system 1—preferably a Digital Versatile Disk (DVD) player—has both a base portion 11 and a hat portion 12, each of which portions 11, 12 is substantially rectilinear and rectangular, The base portion 11 mounts upon one of its major surfaces to any suitable front, rear, side, top or bottom surface of the passenger compartment so that its aperture for receiving media 121 faces to the front, rear, left, right, up or down, all as is desired and permitted by the mounting, Meanwhile, the hat portion 12 of the audiovisual system 1 mounts upon one of its major surfaces to the remaining major surface of the base portion 11 at a selected 0 degree, 90 degree, 180 degree or 270 degree angular orientation relative thereto so that the screen 131 may face towards any of the front, rear, left side, right side, top or bottom of the passenger compartment, all is desired and permitted. Accordingly, both the spatial orientation of (1) the aperture of the audiovisual system 1 for receiving media 121, and also (2) the screen 131, are independently selected nonetheless to the particular front, rear, side, top or bottom surface of the passenger compartment of the vehicle to which the audiovisual system 1 is mounted.
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10 Claims
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1. A vehicle having
a substantially rectilinear passenger compartment with front, rear, side, top and bottom surfaces plus seats, and an audiovisual system with at least one aperture for receiving media and a screen for showing video, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT a substantially rectilinear base portion of the audiovisual system having two co-parallel major surfaces and at least four side surfaces one of which side surfaces contains the aperture for receiving media, is mounted upon one of its major surfaces to any of the front, rear, side, top or bottom surfaces of the passenger compartment so that the aperture selectively faces to the front, rear, left, right, up or down as the compartment surface to which mounting is effected otherwise permits; - while
a substantially rectilinear hat portion of the audiovisual system having on one major surface a selectively positioned screen is mounted upon the other of its major surfaces to the remaining major surface of the base portion at a selected orientation so that the screen may face towards any of the front, rear, left side, right side, top or bottom of the passenger compartment as the mounting otherwise permits;
wherein both the spatial orientation of the aperture of the audiovisual system for receiving media, and also the screen of the audiovisual system, are independently selected nonetheless to the front, rear, side, top or bottom surface of the passenger compartment of the vehicle to which the audiovisual system is mounted. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A vehicular audiovisual system comprising:
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a substantially rectilinear base portion, having two co-parallel major surfaces and at least four side surfaces one of which side surfaces contains the aperture for receiving media, mounted upon one of its major surfaces to any of front, rear, side, top or bottom surfaces of the passenger compartment of a vehicle so that the aperture faces to the front, rear, left, right, up or down as the surface of the passenger compartment to which mounting is effected otherwise permits; and
a substantially rectilinear hat portion having on one major surface a selectively positioned screen and mounted upon the other of its major surfaces to a remaining major surface of the base portion at a selected orientation so that the screen faces towards any of the front, rear, left side, right side, top or bottom of the passenger compartment as the mounting otherwise permits;
wherein both the spatial orientation of the aperture of the audiovisual system for receiving media, and also the screen of the audiovisual system, are independently selected during mounting of the audiovisual system in both its base and its hat portions. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. A method of assembling a vehicular audiovisual system having (I) at least one aperture for receiving media and also (ii) a screen for showing video to, and within, a substantially rectilinear passenger compartment of a vehicle, the method comprising:
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first-orienting a substantially rectilinear base portion of the audiovisual system having two co-parallel major surfaces and at least four side surfaces one of which side surfaces contains the aperture for receiving media so that one of its major surfaces is proximate to some one of the front, rear, side, top or bottom surfaces of the passenger compartment and so that the aperture faces to the front, rear, left, right, up or down as the compartment surface to which mounting is effected otherwise permits; and
thensecond-orienting a substantially rectilinear hat portion of the audiovisual system having on one major surface a selectively positioned screen so that the other of its major surfaces is proximate to the remaining major surface of the base portion at an orientation where the screen may face towards any of the front, rear, left side, right side, top or bottom of the passenger compartment as the mounting otherwise permits; and
thencollectively securing the hat portion upon the base portion to the one of the front, rear, side, top or bottom surfaces of the passenger compartment;
wherein both the spatial orientation of the aperture of the audiovisual system for receiving media, and also the screen of the audiovisual system, have been independently selected respectively during the first-orienting and during the second-orienting nonetheless to the particular front, rear, side, top or bottom surface of the passenger compartment of the vehicle to which the audiovisual system is mounted. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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