Radio tuner for coupling with tape recorder
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorMasaaki Sato
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Abstract
A radio tuner is detachably coupled with a cassette tape recorder having a rectangular form. It includes an L-shaped tuner casing which is adapted to mate with two adjacent, mutually perpendicular sides of the tape recorder. A rod antenna is received within a casing portion which extends along the longer side of the recorder while a ferrite bar antenna is received within another casing portion which extends along the shorter side of the recorder.
Claims18
A radio tuner, comprising a casing including a pair of casing portions, attaching means for releasably attaching said radio tuner to a tape recorder so that each of said casing portions abuts a corresponding one of a pair of sides of a tape recorder which is releasably attached to said radio tuner by said attaching means, first antenna means housed within one of said pair of casing portions for receiving a first type of radio signal and second antenna means housed within the other of said pair of casing portions for receiving a second type of radio signal.
In combination, a tape recorder, having a generally rectangular shape, and a radio tuner which is electrically and mechanically connected to said tape recorder, said radio tuner comprising an L-shaped casing, the long leg of said casing being removably positioned adjacent to a long side of said tape recorder and the short leg of said casing being removably positioned adjacent to a short side of the tape recorder;
- a rod antenna retractably received within said long leg of said casing;
- and a bar antenna received within said short leg of said casing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.