Mobile recording-medium playing apparatus
AssigneePioneer Electronic Corporation
InventorsAkira Hayama, Toshiyuki Fukami, Tomohito Mizuno
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a structure in which an operation panel is removably provided on the front surface of a housing having a recording-medium playing mechanism provided therein, so that when the operation panel is separated from the housing, the recording medium is ejected from the housing and a recording medium insertion opening is closed when the recording medium is pulled out, or the opening is closed after the recording medium is reloaded in the case where the recording medium is not pulled out.
Claims9
A mobile recording-medium playing apparatus comprising:
- a player means for playing a recording medium supplied thereto;
- a housing arranged to enclose said player means and having an opening portion formed in a front surface thereof for receiving said recording medium;
- a conveyer means for conveying said recording medium inserted into said opening portion to said player means in accordance with a loading command and for ejecting said recording medium from said player means to the outside of said housing in accordance with an ejection command;
- an operation panel removably provided on said front surface;
- a control means for controlling said player means in cooperation with said operation panel, and for supplying said conveyer means with said loading command and said ejection command, wherein said control means includes a separation detection means for generating a separation detection signal upon detecting separation of said operation panel from said housing, and said playing apparatus;
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- an ejection command generation means for supplying said conveyer means with said ejection command in response to said separation detection signal.
A method of concealing a mobile recording-medium playing apparatus comprising the steps of:
- detecting when an operational panel of the playing apparatus has been removed from said apparatus;
- removing a recording-medium from a loaded position and ejecting said recording-medium from said playing apparatus;
- determining whether or not the recording-medium has been removed from the playing apparatus within a predetermined period of time;
- reloading the recording-medium into said playing apparatus after said predetermined period of time if said medium has not been removed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.