Automatic tonearm lifter
AssigneesYa Horng Electronic Co., Ltd., Thorens GmbH
InventorsJin-Yi Huang, Gunter Kuerten
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Abstract
An automatic tonearm lifter for use in a turntable that includes a main body and a tonearm rotatably mounted on the main body. The tonearm lifter includes a casing adapted to be fixedly mounted to the main body of the turntable, a lifting unit adapted to be mounted to the main body, adapted for supporting the tonearm, movable relative to the casing along a vertical axis, and non-rotatable about the axis relative to the casing, and a rotating unit including a threaded seat that is rotatable about the axis and that is threadably engaging the lifting unit, and a driving module that is connected to the threaded seat and that is operable to drive rotation thereof, thereby moving the lifting unit along the axis.
Claims12
An automatic tonearm lifter adapted for use in a turntable, the turntable including a main body, and a tonearm that is rotatably mounted on the main body, said automatic tonearm lifter comprising:
- a casing that is adapted to be fixedly mounted to the main body of the turntable;
- a lifting unit that is mounted to said casing, that is adapted for supporting the tonearm, that is movable relative to said casing along a vertical axis, and that is non-rotatable about the axis relative to said casing;
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- a rotating unit that includes
- a threaded seat rotatable about the axis and threadably engaging said lifting unit, and
- a driving module connected to said threaded seat and being operable to drive rotation thereof, thereby moving said lifting unit along the axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.