Patent ID: 7476798
Filing Date: 2009-01-13
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. A combined audio jack and battery-access cover system, directed to musical instruments, particularly a host stringed musical instrument requiring an on-board battery power source for on-board electronic circuitry, comprising: a cap assembly including (a) a cover cap, located external to the musical instrument, made and arranged to interface an exterior surface region of the instrument surrounding a battery-access opening and thus serve to cover the opening for normal use of the instrument, and (b) an audio phone jack including a jack housing attached inside the cover cap, made and arranged to make electrical contact with an audio cable phone plug inserted through a central jack opening configured in the cover cap; and cap-fastening/removal means made and arranged to enable a user to deploy said cap assembly in a working disposition wherein said cap assembly is held attached to the instrument with the battery-access opening covered for normal use of the instrument, and to enable the user to readily redeploy said cap assembly in a non-working disposition wherein the battery access opening is uncovered for purposes of battery replacement.