Recorded medium playback device with removable panel and having a lever contacting panel and detection switch

• US 5,953,302 A
• Filed: 05/27/1997
• Issued: 09/14/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Shigetoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Letscher, George J.
• Application Number:
  US08/863,802
• Time in Patent Office: 840 Days
• Field of Search: 369/75.1, 369/75.2, 369/77.1, 369/77.2, 361/814, 361/826, 361/681
• US Class Current: 720/647
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 25/00 Apparatus characterised by the shape of record carrier employed but not specific to the method of recording or reproducing , e.g. dictating apparatus; Combinations of such apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/027 Covers G11B33/022 takes precedence; with means for guiding the record carrier G11B17/34
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/123 Mounting arrangements of constructional parts onto a chassis
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/082 to be used in vehicles H04B1/086 takes precedence; holding or mounting accessories B60R11/02

Abstract

A recorded medium player used in, for example, an automobile for playing a compact disk, a cassette tape, etc. including a pivot lever installed near the front face of the player so that a first end of the lever located inside the player turns on a detection switch when a second end of the lever located outside of the player is contacted by a detachable front panel member when the panel member is mounted on a panel holder that is pivotally installed on the front face of the player. The detection switch is turned off so as to switch off the power of the player when the panel member is removed from the panel holder and the second end of the lever is released from the panel member.

Claims

1. A recorded medium playback device comprising:

a main body case having on a front face thereof an insertion opening into which a recorded medium is inserted, said main body case being provided therein with a playback mechanism which plays back said recorded medium,

a panel member provided with an operating section on a front face thereof so as to be used to operate said playback mechanism, and

a panel holder provided with an anchoring member for anchoring said panel member thereon, said panel holder being pivotally supported on one end of a front surface of said main body case with respect to a direction of height of said main body case so as to allow said panel member opens and closes a front of said main body case,

said device further comprising;

a detection switch installed inside said main body case for detecting a mounting and removal of said panel member with respect to said panel holder by way of an ON/OFF action thereof, and

a lever movably installed in said main body case so that one end of said lever contacts said panel member anchored to said anchoring member of said panel holder and another end of said lever contacts said detection switch, so that when said panel member is anchored to the anchoring member, said lever is moved as a result of one end of said lever being contacted by said panel member, thus switching said detection switch by said another end of said lever.

2. A recorded medium playback device according to claim 1, wherein said lever is provided in said main body case by a fastening means so as to be pivotable in a horizontal direction about said fastening means.

3. A recorded medium playback device according to claim 1, wherein said lever is provided in said main case so as to be slidable in a horizontal direction.

4. A recorded medium playback device according to claim 1, wherein a projection is formed on one end of said lever so that said projection contacts said panel member while said panel member is anchored to said anchoring member of said panel holder, regardless of a pivoting motion of said panel holder.

5. A recorded medium playback device comprising:

a main body case having on a front face thereof an insertion opening into which a recorded medium is inserted, said main body case being provided therein with a playback mechanism which plays back said recorded medium,

a panel member provided with an operating section on a front face thereof so as to be used to operate said playback mechanism, and

a panel holder provided with an anchoring member for anchoring said panel member thereon, said panel holder being pivotally supported on one end of a front surface of said main body case with respect to a direction of height of said main body case so as to allow said panel member to open and close a front of said main body case,

said device further comprising;

a first terminal group provided on a front face of said main body case,

a second terminal group provided on a back face of said panel member, said second terminal group connectable to said first terminal group,

a detection switch installed inside said main body case for detecting a mounting and removal of said panel member with respect to said panel holder by way of an on/off action thereof,

a lever movably installed in said main body case so that one end of said lever contacts said panel member anchored to said anchoring member of said panel holder and another end of said lever contacts said detection switch, so that when said panel member is anchored to the anchoring member, said lever is moved as a result of one end of said lever being contacted by said panel member, thus switching said detection switch by said another end of said lever, and

an opening formed in said panel holder so as to expose said second terminal group, and wherein

said first terminal group and second terminal group are electrically connected when said panel member is closed while said panel member is mounted on said panel holder.