US 4,377,048 AGranted

Display retaining means assembly

AssigneeAlps Electric Co., Ltd.

InventorsSusumu Takagi, Nobuhiko Suzuki

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Abstract

A sheet fixing device for fixing a sheet such as a transparent map film sheet on the display surface of the display surface of a cathode ray tube of an information display apparatus such as an automobile position display apparatus. The device has a sheet pressing member having provided with sheet pressing rubber portions and adapted to be biased toward the display surface by a plurality of independent biasing member spaced from one another. The sheet pressing member is adapted to be driven by sheet pressing member lifting levers which in turn are actuated by cams adapted to be rotated together with a sheet guide. When the sheet guide is rotated to the position for taking out the sheet, the cams actuate the sheet pressing member lifting levers to cause the latter to drive the sheet pressing member away from the display surface of the cathode ray tube.

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Dependent claims

In an information display apparatus in which a sheet made of a light-transmitting material provided on the display surface of a cathode ray tube and information concerning the position of an automobile presented by said cathode ray tube are combined to provide a visible information of the present position of said automobile;

a sheet fixing device characterized by:
a frame means, a sheet pressing member having sheet pressing portions movably mounted on said frame means;
a plurality of independent biasing members spaced from one another and adapted to bias said sheet pressing member toward the display surface of said cathode ray tube;
a sheet guide rotatably connected to said frame means;
cams connected to said sheet guide and adapted to be rotated by said sheet guide;
and sheet pressing member lifting levers pivotally mounted on said frame means and adapted to be actuated by said cams, said lifting levers connected to said sheet pressing member to position said sheet pressing member;
whereby, when said sheet guide is rotated to a sheet take-out position, said cams actuate said sheet pressing member lifting levers to permit said sheet pressing member to be moved away from said display surface of said cathode ray tube.

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