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Car navigation apparatus, PC card for information updating, and information updating method of car navigation apparatus

  • US 20070156328A1
  • Filed: 06/08/2006
  • Published: 07/05/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A car navigation apparatus comprising:

  • a mass storage device;

    an internal controller that reads out and processes information stored in the mass storage device;

    a PC card slot into which a PC card that communicates with an external device through the internal controller may be inserted;

    a PC card controller that controls a PC card inserted into the PC card slot through the internal controller;

    a switch A installed on a storage device signal line that connects the mass storage device and the internal controller;

    a switch B installed on a PC card signal line that connects the PC card controller and the PC card slot;

    a bypass signal line that connects the storage device signal line between the switch A and the mass storage device to the PC card signal line between the switch B and the PC card slot; and

    a switch C installed on the bypass signal line, wherein opening and closing of the switch A, the switch B, and the switch C are controlled according to kind of the PC card that is inserted in the PC card slot and whether the PC card is inserted in the PC card slot.

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