Motorcycle audio system

• US 6,647,121 B2
• Filed: 03/08/2002
• Issued: 11/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Road Tunes, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Road Tunes, Inc.
• Inventors: Stanberry, Thomas M., Burian, James E., Garner, Russell K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Isen, Forester W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCCHESNEY, ELIZABETH A
• Application Number:
  US10/093,895
• Publication Number:
  US 20020131606A1
• Time in Patent Office: 613 Days
• Field of Search: 381/86, 455/345, 296/96.21, 280/288.4, 224/413
• US Class Current: 381/86
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 17/04 Windscreens
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 45/10 Arrangement of audio equipment; Supports therefor

Abstract

A motorcycle audio system characterized by a housing for receiving a conventional or specially-designed radio, compact disc and/or tape player, CB radio or combination thereof, which housing is mounted to the windshield assembly of a motorcycle and includes an upwardly-oriented speaker on each end thereof. In a preferred embodiment, the housing is chrome-plated and, along with the speakers and the enclosed radio, compact disc player and/or tape player, CB radio or combination thereof, is easily viewed for safety and can be removed from the windshield assembly of the motorcycle and re-attached thereto, as desired, to facilitate maintenance work on, and/or cleaning of, the motorcycle. In some motorcycles, the windshield assembly can be conventionally removed from the motorcycle with the mounted audio system in place and unplugged, for cleaning and/or maintenance purposes. A conventional wedge-shaped storage pouch may be wedged between the windshield assembly and the housing for storing tapes, compact discs and like accessory items for operating and maintaining the motorcycle audio system.

Claims

1. A motorcycle audio system for mounting an audio player on a motorcycle having a windshield assembly, said motorcycle audio system comprising:

a housing for receiving the audio player, said housing having a pair of spaced-apart housing mount brackets and a mount bracket flange provided on each of said housing mount brackets for mounting said housing on the windshield assembly of the motorcycle; and

at least one speaker provided on said housing.

2. The motorcycle audio system of claim 1 wherein said at least one speaker comprises a pair of speakers.

3. The motorcycle audio system of claim 1 comprising a storage pouch provided on said housing between said housing and the windshield assembly of the motorcycle.

4. The motorcycle audio system of claim 3 wherein said at least one speaker comprises a pair of speakers.

5. A motorcycle audio system for mounting an audio player on a removable windshield assembly of a motorcycle, said motorcycle audio system comprising:

a housing for mounting on said windshield assembly and receiving the audio player; and

a radio antenna attached to said housing; and

a pair of spaced-apart speakers provided on said housing.

6. The motorcycle audio system of claim 5 comprising a pair of housing mount brackets provided on said housing for mounting said housing on said windshield assembly.

7. The motorcycle audio system of claim 5 wherein said a pair of speakers is mounted on the ends of said housing.

8. The motorcycle audio system of claim 7 comprising a pair of housing mount brackets provided on said housing for mounting said housing on said vertical windshield mount bars, respectively, of said windshield assembly.

9. The motorcycle audio system of claim 5 wherein said pair of speakers is mounted on the bottom of said housing.

10. The motorcycle audio system of claim 9 comprising a pair of housing mount brackets provided on said housing for mounting said housing on said vertical windshield mount bars, respectively, of said windshield assembly.

11. A motorcycle audio system for mounting an audio player on a removable windshield assembly of a motorcycle, said motorcycle audio system comprising:

a housing for receiving the audio player;

a pair of housing mount brackets provided on said housing for mounting said housing on said removable windshield assembly;

a radio antenna attached to said housing;

speaker mount openings provided in said housing; and

a pair of speakers provided on said housing at said speaker mount openings.

12. The motorcycle audio system of claim 11 comprising a power plug receptacle provided in said housing for receiving an auxiliary power plug.

13. The motorcycle audio system of claim 11 comprising a headphone receptacle provided in said housing for receiving a headphone plug.

14. The motorcycle audio system of claim 11 comprising:

(a) a power plug receptacle provided in said housing for receiving an auxiliary power plug; and

(b) a headphone receptacle provided in said housing for receiving a headphone plug.