Receiver having program reserving function

• US 4,403,344 A
• Filed: 06/18/1981
• Issued: 09/06/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Inventors: Yamada, Shigeru, Watanabe, Kazuo, Aramaki, Mitsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Ng, Jin F.
• Application Number:
  US06/274,925
• Time in Patent Office: 810 Days
• Field of Search: 455/171, 455/181, 455/186, 455/231, 358/192.1, 369/19, 369/20, 369/6, 369/7
• US Class Current: 455/181.1
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 15/006 for operating at a number of different times cigar or cigarette receptacles or boxes with means for limiting the frequency of smoking A24F15/005
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/104 characterised by physical layout of switches; switches co-operating with display; use of switches in a special way
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23051 Remote control, enter program remote, detachable programmer
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/16 Circuits

Abstract

A receiver has a program reserving function in which a reserved time previously stored in a program reserving memory is continuously compared with outputs produced by a clock circuit in response to actual time, and accordingly when the actual time coincides with the reserved time, the receiver automatically receives a wave corresponding to a preset number previously stored in the program reserving memory together with the reserved time. The receiver is characterized particularly in that there are further provided a program button for allowing the time adjusting buttons to serve as program input buttons and a memory button for causing the memory to store the data put in by the time adjusting buttons. With this arrangement, the time adjusting buttons are switched to be reserved data input buttons by means of the program button and returned to be buttons for adjusting time means of by the memory button.

Claims

1. A receiver having a program reserving function, comprising a memory for storing a reserved time and a corresponding reserved program number, a clock circuit, a comparator and a synthesizer-type radio receiver, said comparator comparing the reserved time in said memory to the actual time in said clock circuit and causing said receiver to receive radio waves of the program corresponding to the reserved time and number when the reserved time and the actual time coincide, said receiver further including time adjusting means for adjusting the time in said clock circuit, program reserving means, and setting means for causing a reserved time and a corresponding reserved program number defined by the outputs of said time adjusting means to be stored in said memory in response to operation of said program reserving means, said time adjusting means including first, second and third time adjusting buttons and said program reserving means including a program button and a memory button, said first, second and third time adjusting buttons being adapted to respectively adjust hours, minutes and seconds in said clock circuit, said setting means including reference clock signal generating means, a latch, counter means and input key switching means, said input key switching means being responsive to the operation of said program button for causing said counter means, under the control of said time adjusting buttons, to count the clock signals from said reference clock signal generating means and for causing said latch to latch the output of said counter means, said counter means output in said latch being stored in said memory by said setting means in response to operation of said memory button, whereby desired program reserving data can be preset in said receiver.