Patent ID: 7640557
Filing Date: 2009-12-29
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A housing for an on-vehicle electronic apparatus, comprising a housing body having a front surface elongate in the left-right direction and a recording medium insertion slit extending in the left-right direction at an upper portion of said front surface, and a front panel assembly detachably attached to said front surface of said housing body so as to openably close said recording medium insertion slit; wherein said front panel assembly has a panel frame detachably attached to said front surface of said housing body, and an upper member and a lower member which are attached to said panel frame; said upper member has an upper panel portion elongate in the left-right direction; said lower member has a lower panel portion being connected to a lower portion of said upper member so as to be swingable about an axis extending in the left-right direction, being elongate in the left-right direction, and being disposed on the lower side of said upper panel portion; said panel frame is provided with a support mechanism which supports said upper member movably in a substantially vertical direction and which moves said upper panel portion between an upper position for closing said recording medium insertion slit and a lower position for opening said recording medium insertion slit; and said panel frame is provided with a conjunction mechanism for ensuring that said lower member is swung in the front-rear direction about said axis according to the vertical movement of said upper member, said lower panel portion is set in an erected position for extending downwards continuously from the lower end of said upper panel portion when said upper panel portion is in said upper position, and said lower panel portion is set in a slant position for being directed slantly upwards, with its upper end located on the front side of a lower portion of said upper panel portion, when said upper panel portion is in said lower position.