Audio console system for home and vehicle

• US 4,100,372 A
• Filed: 06/21/1977
• Issued: 07/11/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Louis Hypolite
• Original Assignee: Louis Hypolite
• Inventors: Hypolite, Louis
• Primary Examiner(s): Olms, Douglas W.
• Application Number:
  US05/808,535
• Time in Patent Office: 385 Days
• Field of Search: 179/1 G, 179/1 GA, 179/1 VE, 179/1 E, 325/352, 325/353, 325/355, 325/356, 325/111, 325/117, 181/148, 181/150, 181/173
• US Class Current: 381/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/02 for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0205 for radio sets B60R11/0211 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0211 for record carriers apparatus, e.g. video recorders, tape players or CD players
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0217 for loud-speakers
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0028 Ceiling, e.g. roof rails
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0045 with visible part, e.g. flush mounted
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0061 using key-type connections
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0078 Quick-disconnect two-parts mounting means
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0096 Theft prevention of articles
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/02 Casings; Cabinets ; Supports therefor; Mountings therein H04R1/28 takes precedence ; attachments for microphones H04R1/08; mounting of transducers in earpieces H04R1/1075

Abstract

An audio console system for use in a vehicle and a home and which comprises an audio console unit removably securable at the roof of a vehicle in replacement of the dome light and which is also usable in the home in combination with other components to form a home music system of the stereo type. This audio console unit is removably fixed by a pair of brackets at the roof of the vehicle cabin, forms a recess for a cassette player or other sound reproducing apparatus and has the necessary plugging devices to readily connect the audio console unit and the cassette player for energization of the latter by the wiring otherwise providing the D.C. power supply to the dome light now replaced by this audio console unit. The other system components include a home mounting base on which the audio console unit is operatively mounted in the home, and a pair of stereo speaker units connected to the home mounting base and each carrying a particular music playing apparatus to form an integrated stereo music system.

Claims

1. An audio console system comprising at least one mounting bracket fixedly securable at the roof of a vehicle cabin and an audio console unit removably securable to said one mounting bracket and including a body forming a recess for a sound reproducing apparatus, a light secured to said body, a first electric plugging device outwardly extending relative to said body and connectable to the electric circuit of the vehicle, a second electric plugging device connected to said first electric plugging device and connectable to said reproducing apparatus, and switch means fixed to said body and operatively connecting said light and said second electric plugging device to said first electric plugging device and selectively energizing said light and a sound reproducing apparatus mounted into said recess.

2. An audio console system as defined in claim 1, wherein said audio console unit includes a key lock fixedly secured to said body and operatively locking the sound console unit to said mounting bracket.

3. An audio console system as defined in claim 2, wherein said audio console unit includes a loudspeaker operatively connected to said second electric plugging device and through the latter to the output of the sound reproducing apparatus.

4. An audio console system as defined in claim 3, wherein said audio console unit is elongated, another mounting bracket is fixedly securable at the roof of a vehicle and a mounting pocket in fore and aft alignment with said one mounting bracket, one end of said audio console unit removably engages into said mounting pocket.

5. An audio console system as defined in claim 4, wherein said audio console unit is shallow defining a pair of major opposite faces, one of said major faces rests against said roof over said one mounting bracket, and said recess, loudspeaker, light, and switch means are provided on the other of said opposite major faces and are downwardly accessible to a person in the vehicle cabin.

6. An audio console system as defined in claim 1, further comprising a home mounting base having one face against which said audio console unit is operatively fixed and a third electric plugging device forming an electric plug and socket connection in combination with said first electric plugging device.

7. An audio console system as defined in claim 6, wherein said home mounting base includes an AC plugging device operatively connectable to an ordinary AC house outlet, and an AC to DC voltage transformer circuit connecting said AC plugging device to said third electric plugging device for operation of said sound reproducing apparatus on the same DC power supply both in the vehicle and in the home.

8. An audio console system as defined in claim 7, further including a pair of stereo speaker units each having at least one loudspeaker electrically connected to a particular stereo channel output, and a particular music playing apparatus mounted on each of said stereo speaker units and said home mounting base and each connected to said home mounting base and each connected to said stereo channel outputs and to said AC plugging device for selective playing of each music playing apparatus.

9. An audio console system as defined in claim 8, wherein each of said stereo speacker units and said home mounting base constitutes an independent component of a stereo music system.

10. An audio console system as defined in claim 9, wherein said sound reproducing apparatus constitutes a cassette player.

11. An audio console system as defined in claim 9, wherein said sound reproducing apparatus constitutes a citizen band radio receiver.