Engaging structure for a mountable/dismountable electronic apparatus used in a vehicle

• US 4,955,678 A
• Filed: 06/30/1989
• Issued: 09/11/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Shigeotshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Falk, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US07/375,244
• Time in Patent Office: 438 Days
• Field of Search: 312/32, 312/274, 312/271, 312/276, 312/333, 312/711, 312/319, 224/281, 224/42, 224/45 R
• US Class Current: 312/332.1
• 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 2011/0045 with visible part, e.g. flush mounted
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0096 Theft prevention of articles

Abstract

An engaging structure for a mountable/dismountable electronic apparatus used in a vehicle, which can facilitate the raise up of a handle, when the apparatus is dismounted from the vehicle, owing to the fact that when an engagement releasing lever is pushed-in to release the engagement of the main body of the apparatus to the vehicle, the handle put in the neighborhood of the main body of the apparatus is pushed-out at the same time towards a user.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

first and second members, said first member being insertable into said second member in a first direction and being removable from said second member in a second direction opposite said first direction;

engaging means operable when said first member is in said second member for releasably coupling said first and second members in a manner preventing movement of said first member in said second direction relative to said second member;

a carrying handle supported on said first member for movement between retracted and carrying positions;

a manually operable releasing part supported on said first member for movement between first and second positions;

first means for causing said engaging means to interrupt said releasable coupling of said first and second members in response to movement of said releasing part from its first position to its second position; and

second means for moving said carrying handle from its retracted position to its carrying position in response to movement of said releasing part from its first position to its second position.

2. An apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein said second means includes a pushing out lever which has first and second ends and which is pivotally supported on said first member at a location between said first and second ends for movement between first and second positions, wherein said releasing part has a thrusting portion which, as said releasing part is moved from its first to its second position, engages said first end of said pushing out lever and pivots said pushing out lever from its first position to its second position, and wherein as said pushing out lever is pivoted from its first position to its second position said second end thereof engages said carrying handle and moves said carrying handle from its retracted position to its carrying position.

3. An apparatus as recited in claim 2, wherein said carrying handle is supported on said first member for pivotal movement between said retracted and carrying positions thereof, and wherein said second end of said pushing out lever engages said carrying handle at a location spaced from a pivot axis of said carrying handle.

4. An apparatus as recited in claim 3, wherein said releasing part moves approximately parallel to said first and second directions relative to said first member, and including means for resiliently urging said releasing part in said second direction.

5. An apparatus comprising:

an electronic unit for a vehicle which is respectively mounted and dismounted by sliding it respectively in backward and forward directions relative to the vehicle;

engaging means disposed on one side of a main body of said unit for releasably coupling said main body of said unit with the vehicle in a state where said unit is mounted on said vehicle;

an engagement releasing lever slidably supported for movement in said forward and backward directions on said side of said main body of said unit, said engaging means releasing said releasable coupling of said main body of said unit with the vehicle when said engagement releasing lever is pushed in said backward direction;

a carrying handle supported rotatably on a front portion of said unit; and

a handle pushing out lever supported rotatably on said side of said main body of said unit, said lever being pushed at one end by and rotated by said engagement releasing lever when said engagement releasing lever is pushed in said backward direction and having a further end which engages and pushes out said handle as said pushing out lever is rotated by said engagement releasing lever.

6. An apparatus according to claim 5, further including a spring which is coupled to and yieldably urges said engagement releasing lever in said forward direction.