ON-VEHICLE ACOUSTICS APPARATUS

• US 20090154724A1
• Filed: 07/14/2006
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Inventors: Mori, Naoki, Shimizu, Akari, Matsumoto, Yasuhiko, Iguchi, Fukuya, Takahashi, Shinnosuke, Yahiro, Takao
• Granted Patent: US 8,130,975 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/86
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 31/003 with radio receiver
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/022 Cases
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/027 Covers G11B33/022 takes precedence; with means for guiding the record carrier G11B17/34
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/12 Disposition of constructional parts in the apparatus, e.g. of power supply, of modules

Abstract

There is provided an acoustic apparatus whose front-side exterior appearance construction can be freely changed and which can be easily added with a new function.

A freely detachable control panel 2 is provided to an acoustic apparatus body 1 mounted on a vehicle 101, and audio units Au-1, Au-2, Au-3 which are connected to the acoustic apparatus body 1 through the control panel 2 are freely detachably provided to the control panel 2.

Claims

1. An on-vehicle acoustic apparatus characterized in that a freely detachable control panel is provided to an acoustic apparatus body mounted in a vehicle, and an audio unit is freely detachably provided to the control panel so as to be connected to the acoustic apparatus body through the control panel.

2. The on-vehicle acoustic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control panel has a rail to which the audio unit is freely secured.

3. The on-vehicle acoustic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the rail is designed so that plural audio units having different audio functions are freely secured to the rail.

4. The on-vehicle acoustic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein an insertion portion for inserting the audio unit along the rail is formed on the side surface of the control panel, and the control panel is fitted to a fitting portion provided to the acoustic apparatus body so as to hide the insertion portion.

5. The on-vehicle acoustic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control panel is equipped with a projecting portion which is projected from the control panel to the audio unit by the urging portion, and when the audio unit is located at a fixed position on the control panel, the projecting portion is hooked to a receiving portion provided to the audio unit to fix the audio unit.

6. The on-vehicle acoustic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control panel and the audio unit have magnets so that counter poles of the magnets face each other, and the audio unit is fixed to the control panel by magnetic force of the magnets.

7. The on-vehicle acoustic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control panel has an interface portion which is electrically connected to the acoustic apparatus body, and the audio unit is electrically connected to the acoustic apparatus body through the interface portion.

8. The on-vehicle acoustic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control panel has a common connector having plural control panel side terminals adaptable to any connectable audio unit, and the audio unit has an individual connector having audio unit side terminals corresponding to at least some of the plural control panel side terminals.

9. The on-vehicle acoustic apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the control panel has an interface portion which is electrically connected to the acoustic apparatus body, and the common connector is electrically connected to the acoustic apparatus body through the interface portion.