Motor vehicle radio with an automatic volume control device

• US 5,027,432 A
• Filed: 05/10/1989
• Issued: 06/25/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc. (BorgWarner Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Delco Electronics Corporation (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: Rauth, Walter, Skala, Otto
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Charouel, Lisa
• Application Number:
  US07/349,628
• Time in Patent Office: 776 Days
• Field of Search: 455/238, 455/239, 455/234, 455/232, 381/107, 381/108
• US Class Current: 455/238.1
• CPC Class Codes: H03G 3/10 having semiconductor devices
• CPC Class Codes: H03G 3/32 the control being dependent upon ambient noise level or sound level

Abstract

The invention relates to a motor vehicle radio with an automatic volume control device (20) and a manual volume-setting device (14). The automatic volume control device (20) is fed with a speed signal detected by a speed sensor and delivers a volume signal associated with the detected speed signal. The manual volume-setting device (14) generates a volume signal corresponding to the volume which has been set. A two-position switch (16) is provided for selectively applying the volume signal from the automatic volume control device (20) or from the manual volume-setting device (14) to an output stage (12) which feeds the loudspeakers (13). When the manual volume-setting device (14) is switched on, following a detection signal for a desired vehicle speed, the volume signal corresponding to the volume which has been set can be stored in a storage and control circuit (23) of the automatic volume control device (20).

Claims

1. A motor vehicle radio with an automatic volume control device, to which is fed a speed signal detected by a speed sensor and which delivers a volume signal associated with the detected speed signal, and with a manual volume-setting device which generates a volume signal corresponding to the volume which has been set, characterized by the fact that a two-position switch (16) is provided for selectively transmitting the volume signal of the automatic volume control device (20) or of the manual volume-setting device (14) to an output stage (12) of the radio (10) which feeds loudspeakers (13);

and a storage and control circuit (23) which includes a memory in which the volume signal corresponding to the adjusted volume can be stored when the manual volume-setting device (14) is switched on following a detection signal for a desired vehicle speed.

2. The motor vehicle radio in accordance with claim 1, characterized by the fact that the volume signal of the manual volume-setting device (14) can be applied to the automatic volume control device (20) by means of a momentary-contact switch (18).

3. The motor vehicle radio in accordance with claim 2, characterized by the fact that the volume signal of the manual volume-setting device (14) can be applied to the storage and control circuit (23) of the automatic volume control device (20) by means of an analog-to-digital converter (25).

4. The motor vehicle radio in accordance with claim 3, characterized by the fact that the volume signal applied to the storage and control circuit (23) serves as the detection signal.

5. The motor vehicle radio in accordance with claim 1 characterized by the fact that the volume signal supplied by the storage and control circuit (23) as a function of the speed signal (V) is applied to the two-position switch (16) as a voltage signal by means of a digital-to-analog converter (26).

6. The motor vehicle radio in accordance with claim 5 characterized by the fact that the memory of the storage and control circuit (23) is a write/read memory, the content of whose memory can be overwritten.