Operating device of an electronic equipment mounted on a motor vehicle
AssigneePioneer Electronic Corporation
InventorMasaaki Watanabe
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Abstract
A knob for operating a fader as an electronic device of a car stereo is rotatably and axially slidably mounted on a grille detachably attached to a car stereo body. A wall of the car stereo body facing the grille when attached thereto, has an opening through which the knob passes. A manually rotated operating shaft of the fader is disposed inside the body of the car stereo behind the opening. When the knob is pushed into the body through the opening, the knob is connected with the operating shaft of the fader.
Claims3
An operating device of an electronic equipment mounted on a motor vehicle, the electonric equipment having an equipment body secured to a vehicle body of the motor vehicle, and a grille detachably mounted on a front panel of the equipment body, comprising:
- a knob rotatably and axially slidably mounted on the grille;
- a spring for outwardly urging the knob;
- a manually operated electronic device having a manually rotated operating shaft and provided in the equipment body;
- a front end of the manually rotated operating shaft being located slightly inside of an opening formed on the front panel of the equipment body;
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- connecting means for connecting a rear end of the knob with the front end of the operating shaft when the knob is depressed against the spring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.