Drum Or Cylinder-type Turret Tuner Patents (Class 334/50)
  • Patent number: 10680317
    Abstract: A vehicle antenna device has a stably held coil element while its winding shape is maintained, and the number of turns of the coil element winding is easily adjusted during production. A coil element is configured by forming a winding around a resin-made bobbin. A guide groove, which is a path of the winding, and a plurality of projections, which are along the path of the winding, are disposed on the outer circumferential surface of the winding barrel of the bobbin. The guide groove spirally extends around the outer circumferential surface of the winding barrel. The projections are disposed in plural numbers in each of a plurality of circumferential positions on the outer circumferential surface of the winding barrel. A winding end portion of the winding is drawn out in the axial direction while being hooked to an arbitrary one of the projections, and electrically connected to an upper terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: YOKOWO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sadao Ohno, Kengo Osawa
  • Patent number: 10431880
    Abstract: A vehicle antenna device has a stably held coil element while its winding shape is maintained, and the number of turns of the coil element winding is easily adjusted during production. A coil element is configured by forming a winding around a resin-made bobbin. A guide groove, which is a path of the winding, and a plurality of projections, which are along the path of the winding, are disposed on the outer circumferential surface of the winding barrel of the bobbin. The guide groove spirally extends around the outer circumferential surface of the winding barrel. The projections are disposed in plural numbers in each of a plurality of circumferential positions on the outer circumferential surface of the winding barrel. A winding end portion of the winding is drawn out in the axial direction while being hooked to an arbitrary one of the projections, and electrically connected to an upper terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: YOKOWO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sadao Ohno, Kengo Osawa
  • Patent number: 4177429
    Abstract: A switching arrangement for VHF-UHF tuners is provided wherein changeover from VHF operation to UHF operation is accomplished by employing wiping action stator contacts and with a minimum of connections between the VHF and UHF tuners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1979
    Assignee: Sarkes Tarzian, Inc.
    Inventor: Alarico A. Valdettaro
  • Patent number: 4128820
    Abstract: In a VHF tuner a stator bar switching arrangement is provided which is particularly suitable for use in combination VHF-UHF tuners. A movable switching member positioned on the main stator bar of a turret type VHF tuner is moved between fixed contacts on the stator bar by engagement with a projection on each of the tuning sticks of the turret in each VHF channel receiving position of the main selector shaft. Various switching arrangements are provided for VHF-UHF operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1978
    Assignee: Sarkes Tarzian, Inc.
    Inventor: James E. Krepps, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3994177
    Abstract: A TV tuner has a housing and a rotating channel selector shaft mounted on the housing. There are a plurality of individual support members positioned by and mounted on parallel flatted areas of the shaft, which flatted areas vary in size to assure correct placement of the support members. Individual coil strips, each carrying a tuning screw, are fixed to the shaft assembly. A simplified clutching arrangement for controlling adjustment of the screws utilizes a coil spring to provide the initial force for moving a pinion gear into operating engagement with the tuning screws. The tuning screws are held by resilient arms which bias the head of the screws toward the shaft to thus firmly maintain the screws in any adjusted position. Each of the coil strips have contacts extending outwardly from one side and positioned to be in electrical and mechanical contact with cantilever spring members fastened to a printed circuit board which in turn is held by the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1976
    Assignee: Oak Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Norman D. Cappelle, Walter Meyer, Henry H. Tap
  • Patent number: 3968464
    Abstract: A tuner comprising a plurality of cylindrically assembled bases supported between a pair of support plates secured to a rotatable shaft, receiving circuit blocks for receiving waves in different frequency bands being provided in groups on the inner side of said bases, whereby it is possible to reduce the space requirement for the whole tuner construction and make ready adjustment of the individual receiving circuit blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1976
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Okada, Terumi Toyoshima, Eizo Mori
  • Patent number: 3964002
    Abstract: A push button VHF television tuner includes a fixedly mounted core, which is a conventional tuner turret cylindrical core having an elongated contact strip for each channel connected to reactive components on switch wafers within the turret. Plungers are arrayed around the circular periphery of the core along each contact element and longitudinally spaced contact rings encircle the core turret and plungers at the location of each contact position on the strips. The plungers carry radially directed contact fingers for bridging between the rings and contacts on the strips upon plunger depression. The loops feed the radio frequency receiving circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1976
    Assignee: Lawrence Peska Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Emmanuel Eugene