In-vehicle apparatus
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorKazuo Takasou
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Abstract
An audio-integrated apparatus has a body casing attached in an instrument panel of a vehicle. The body casing contains a media reader, a circuit board having a CPU, a CPU fan for cooling the CPU, and an exhaust fan. A media loading slot is in a front face of the body casing for inserting a media. A movable display section is in front of the body casing to be movable in a back-and-forth direction. A display movement mechanism can move the movable display section in the back-and-forth direction to thereby change an inclination against the front face of the body casing. A gear motor can detect a position of the movable display section. According to the detected position of the movable display section, rotational frequencies of the CPU fan and the exhaust fan are controlled.
Claims9
An in-vehicle apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- a main body containing
- a data read-out section configured to read data from a storage medium,
- a circuit board containing a CPU for processing data read by the data read-out section, and
- a cooling fan to cool the CPU,
- the main body having, in a front face thereof, a loading slot for inserting the storage medium;
- a movable display section arranged in front of the main body and movable in a back-and-forth direction while having a display unit to display information in a front face of the display unit;
- a drive mechanism configured to move the movable display section in the back-and-forth direction while changing, of the movable display section, an inclination state relative to the main body;
- a position detection section configured to detect a position of the movable display section;
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- a control section configured to control a rotational frequency of the cooling fan based on a position of the movable display section detected by the position detection section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.