Cassette adaptor

#The present invention relates to a cassette adaptor for inputting from an external equipment a signal in a recording medium other than a compact cassette tape (hereinafter referred to as "the cassette tape") used for a cassette tape reproduction apparatus mounted on the vehicle or the like.

#Among the vehicle-mounted audio equipment, the cassette tape reproduction apparatus is used on many vehicles as an audio equipment as popular as a radio tuner. In recent years, with the extended use of a compact disc (CD), demand for a compact disc reproduction apparatus has increased as a vehicle-mounted sophisticated audio equipment. The compact disc reproduction apparatus, however, has so far been hard to be mounted on an automobile unless included in the standard equipment of the new automobile. Also, the compact disc reproduction apparatus is expensive as compared with the cassette tape reproduction apparatus. For these reasons, the widespread use of the compact disc reproduction apparatus for use on automotive vehicles has been hampered.

#Therefore, for listening to a music etc. from a compact disc in a vehicle not equipped with a compact disc reproduction apparatus, a portable compact disc reproduction apparatus has been brought into the vehicle and connected with a cassette tape reproduction apparatus of the vehicle-mounted audio equipment for reproduction. Generally, the vehicle-mounted audio equipment has no input terminal for additional equipment, and therefore a signal output method uses a cassette adaptor as output means of a signal from the compact disc reproduction apparatus to the vehicle-mounted audio equipment. In this signal output method using a cassette adaptor, the output signal from the compact disc reproduction apparatus is input to the cassette adaptor constituting a cassette-type output unit. And this cassette adaptor has been inserted into a cassette tape insertion hole of the cassette tape reproduction apparatus constituting a vehicle-mounted audio equipment. As a result, the output signal of the portable compact disc reproduction apparatus has been input to the vehicle-mounted audio equipment through the cassette adaptor.

#FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an internal structure of a housing of a cassette adaptor according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

#FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing an internal structure of the housing of the cassette adaptor according to the first embodiment.

#FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view showing a structure of the cassette adaptor according to the first embodiment.

#It should be noted that part or the whole of the drawings are drawn in a schematic representation intended for illustration and does not necessarily faithfully plot the actual relative sizes and positions of the component elements shown.

#Preferred embodiments of a cassette adaptor according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

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