With Stop Or Positioning Means (e.g., Detents) Patents (Class 334/88)
  • Patent number: 9843879
    Abstract: An acoustic apparatus and a method thereof in a mobile terminal are provided. More particularly, an apparatus and a method for establishing a multi-sound system that provides sounds of sense of reality by connecting with players existing in the neighborhood and reproducing channels of contents using a plurality of players when reproducing the contents including multi-sound channels are provided. The apparatus includes a control player, a server player, and a client player. The control player selects players that reproduce respective channels using information of the channels forming the multi-sound channel contents. The server player analyzes the contents to be reproduced by the players to provide the information regarding the channels to the control player. The client player reproduces the channels of the relevant contents under control of the control player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung-Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 8717126
    Abstract: A stopper structure includes a wall defining an opening. A rotary electronic component has a rotational shaft extending through the opening. A channel stopper has a tubular body and an engagement projection. The tubular body is detachably mounted onto the rotational shaft and is inhibited from rotating relative thereto. The engagement projection extends from an end of the tubular body in an axial direction and a radial direction with respect to the rotational shaft. A rotary operation member is detachably mounted onto the rotational shaft and the tubular body and is inhibited from rotating relative thereto. The rotary operation member has an axial hole in which at least portions of the rotational shaft and the tubular body fit. A limiting portion provided on the wall is engageable with the engagement projection for limiting a range of rotation of the rotational shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood
    Inventors: Tadahiro Yamada, Shoji Ota
  • Publication number: 20110181378
    Abstract: A stopper structure includes a wall defining an opening. A rotary electronic component has a rotational shaft extending through the opening. A channel stopper has a tubular body and an engagement projection. The tubular body is detachably mounted on the rotational shaft and is inhibited from rotating relative thereto. The engagement projection extends from an end of the tubular body in an axial direction and a radial direction with respect to the rotational shaft. A rotary operation member is detachably mounted on the rotational shaft and the tubular body and is inhibited from rotating relative thereto. The rotary operation member has an axial hole in which at least portions of the rotational shaft and the tubular body fit. A limiting portion provided on the wall is engageable with the engagement projection for liming a range of rotation of the rotational shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KENWOOD
    Inventors: Tadahiro Yamada, Shoji Ota
  • Patent number: 7109831
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) tuner includes a housing, a cantilever snap formed in the housing, the cantilever snap being configured to securely couple the housing to a consumer premise component, and a handle formed on an edge of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: General Instrument Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel F. McMiller, William R. Doyle, Nasila Edalatdju
  • Patent number: 5185804
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1993
    Assignee: Pioneer Electronic Corporation
    Inventor: Masaaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4175259
    Abstract: Disclosed is a preset plate for a VHF tuner, having a first and a second rotary bodies which are unitarily mounted on a main shaft of the VHF tuner. The first rotary plate has a plurality of coils corresponding to respective channels to be selected and a number of switching contact pieces, while the second rotary body carries a plurality of fine-adjusting screws for getting into and out of the cavities of respective coils for varying the inductance thereof. Stationary contact members are fixed on the frame of the tuner for engaging the successive switching contact pieces as the preset plate is rotated around the axis of the main shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1979
    Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tasuku Noji
  • Patent number: 4158826
    Abstract: An operator-controllable detent mechanism is provided for a combination VHF-UHF television tuner. Separate torsionally-loaded detent springs are provided for two detent wheels which are mounted on the common station selector shaft of the tuner. A manually-operable control member concentric with the selector shaft is employed selectively to remove the torsional load on one detent member or the other so that the common selector shaft may be detented for combined VHF-UHF reception, VHF only reception or UHF only reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1979
    Assignee: Sarkes Tarzian, Inc.
    Inventor: Alarico A. Valdettaro
  • Patent number: 4128821
    Abstract: The present turret type television tuner comprises a U-shaped chassis having first and second end walls joined by a side wall. A main channel selecting shaft is supported in said end walls. A toothed index wheel is mounted on the selector shaft adjacent the first end wall. A fine tuning shaft is mounted concentrically around the selector shaft. A fine tuning drive includes a first driving gear mounted concentrically on the fine tuning shaft and a second driving gear mounted on a pivotally mounted member on the second end wall. A coupling clutch permits a fine tuning operation. A torsion bar spring member including a bail portion is mounted on the first and second end walls, whereby a first resilient arm of the spring member extends along the first end wall to engage the toothed index wheel, while a second resilient arm portion extends along said second end wall to engage the selector shaft and bias it against its bearing surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1978
    Assignee: New Nippon Electric Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Kato, Michiaki Narihiro
  • Patent number: 4056796
    Abstract: A UHF television tuner utilizes a mechanical fine tuning mechanism that alters the operation frequency of the oscillator of the tuner independently of the position of the main tuning shaft. The mechanical fine tuning mechanism utilizes a tuning slug disposed inside a tunable coil of the oscillator, and a rotary to linear motion translating mechanism is disposed within the fine tuning shaft for converting a rotational motion of the fine tuning shaft to a linear motion of the slug inside the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1977
    Assignee: Sarkes Tarzian, Inc.
    Inventor: Alarico A. Valdettaro
  • Patent number: 4054853
    Abstract: An electrical fine tuning system for a UHF television tuner utilizes a voltage variable capacitor for adjusting the operating frequency of the oscillator. The capacity of the voltage variable capacitor is determined by a potentiometer that is mounted concentrically with the selector shaft and serves as a fine tuning control. An automatic frequency control voltage may be applied to the voltage variable capacitor used for fine tuning or to a second voltage variable capacitor. Circuitry is provided for extending the tuning range of the voltage variable capacitor when a single voltage variable capacitor is used both for fine tuning and automatic frequency control, and an improved mechanical construction is used to couple the voltage variable capacitors to the oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1977
    Assignee: Sarkes Tarzian, Inc.
    Inventors: William A. Tarr, James E. Krepps, Thomas L. Opsahl
  • Patent number: 3973229
    Abstract: A combination UHF and VHF television tuner having a single detented selector shaft for individually selecting each one of the 82 UHF and VHF television channels and a single fine tuning shaft for providing memory fine tuning of channels in both the UHF and VHF bands. A single digital type channel indicator is used for precisely displaying at a single location the channel number of the UHF or VHF channel selected by the common selector shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1976
    Assignee: Sarkes Tarzian, Inc.
    Inventor: Morton L. Weigel
  • Patent number: 3947787
    Abstract: A television tuner includes a rotatable turret and a plurality of coil forms positioned in the turret. There is a pair of tuning coils mounted on each coil form and an adjustable tuning screw extending outwardly from each end of each coil form. The housing mounting the rotatable turret includes means for adjusting the tuning screws at opposite ends of each coil form. The turret is detented within its housing such that there are twice as many detented positions of the turret as there are coil forms and such that at each detented position only one tuning screw can be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1976
    Assignee: Oak Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick R. J. Court
  • Patent number: RE29786
    Abstract: A combination UHF and VHF television tuner having a single detented selector shaft for individually selecting each one of the 82 UHF and VHF television channels and a single fine tuning shaft for providing memory fine tuning of channels in both the UHF and VHF bands. A single digital type channel indicator is used for precisely displaying at a single location the channel number of the UHF or VHF channel selected by the common selector shaft. .Iadd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1978
    Assignee: Sarkes Tarzian, Inc.
    Inventor: Morton L. Weigel