Patent · US Expired

Device for playing compact disks

US6178152A · kind A · utility

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6References

6Claims

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Assignee

Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

Volker Becker · Marxzell, DE
Anton Mindl · Hildesheim, DE
Thomas Westendorf · Harsum, DE
Holger Zimmermann · Hildesheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 18, 1999
Grant date	Jan 23, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 18, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG11B17/12
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A device for playing compact disks, particularly for motor vehicles, including a magazine for a plurality of compact disks that is arranged in and is removable from a housing, and a playback unit for playing a compact disk from the magazine, the playback unit being swing-mounted in the housing separately from the magazine and being adjustable by an adjusting mechanism, is characterized in that the magazine includes a swivel mechanism, which enables at least a portion of the compact disks located in holding compartments of the magazine to swivel away from a compact disk positioned on the playback unit, to form an unencumbered swing space between the compact disk to be played that is positioned on the playback unit and the compact disks arranged in the holding compartments of the magazine.

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