Patent Publication Number: US-2017369001-A1

Title: Vehicle-mounted electronic apparatus

Description:
BACKGROUND 
     1. Technical Field 
     The present disclosure relates generally to a vehicle-mounted electronic apparatus, and more particularly to a vehicle-mounted electronic apparatus having a containing groove formed on a back surface for containing a remote control. 
     2. Description of Related Art 
     With the development of electronic products, more and more vehicle owners install vehicle-mounted electronic products in their vehicles. Accordingly, the vehicle-mounted electronic products can provide entertaining and enjoyable services during a vehicle ride. However, the vehicle-mounted electronic product is generally controlled via a remote control by the user. The remote control is arbitrarily put in different locations in the vehicle after being used to operate the vehicle-mounted electronic product. Hence, it is troublesome to find the remote control once the remote control is left in inconspicuous places and inconvenient to store the remote control in a narrow space in the vehicle. 
     SUMMARY 
     An objective of the present disclosure is to provide a vehicle-mounted electronic apparatus to solve the storage problem of a remote control of the vehicle-mounted electronic apparatus. 
     In order to achieve the above-mentioned objective, the vehicle-mounted electronic apparatus includes a holder, a casing, and a remote control. The holder is disposed on a vehicle seat. The casing is connected to the holder and has a back surface and a side surface, a containing groove, at least one through hole, and at least one magnet. The containing groove is formed on the back surface and adjacent to the side surface, and the containing groove has an inner wall surface. The at least one through hole is formed on the inner wall surface. The at least one magnet is disposed in the casing, is adjacent to the containing groove, and is exposed from the at least one through hole. The remote control is contained in the containing groove and has a side wall and at least one magnetic element disposed on the side wall; wherein the at least one magnetic element is magnetically attracted by the at least one magnet. 
     Accordingly, the vehicle-mounted electronic apparatus provides the following advantages: 
     1. The containing groove is used to conveniently contain the remote control with less occupied space. 
     2. The displacement-limiting parts are used to prevent the remote control being disengaged from the back surface of the casing. 
     3. The magnets and the corresponding magnetic elements are used to fix the remote control in the containing groove. 
     4. The buffering element is used to prevent wear between the remote control and the containing groove and firmly fix the remote control in the containing groove. 
     It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary, and are intended to provide further explanation of the present disclosure as claimed. Other advantages and features of the present disclosure will be apparent from the following description, drawings and claims. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS 
       The features of the present disclosure believed to be novel are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The present disclosure itself, however, may be best understood by reference to the following detailed description of the present disclosure, which describes an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: 
         FIG. 1  is a schematic exploded view of a vehicle-mounted electronic apparatus according to the present disclosure; 
         FIG. 2  is a schematic perspective view of the vehicle-mounted electronic apparatus according to the present disclosure; 
         FIG. 3  is a partial cross-sectional view of the vehicle-mounted electronic apparatus according to the present disclosure; 
         FIG. 4  is a partial schematic exploded view of a remote control according to the present disclosure; and 
         FIG. 5  is a partial cross-sectional view of the remote control according to the present disclosure. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     Reference will now be made to the drawing figures to describe the present disclosure in detail. 
     As shown in  FIG. 1  and  FIG. 2 , a vehicle-mounted electronic apparatus of the present disclosure includes a holder  10 , a casing  20 , and a remote control  30 . The holder  10  has two clamping arms  11  and a connecting part  12 , and the two clamping arms  11  and the connecting part  12  are disposed on two side surfaces of the holder  10 , respectively. The two clamping arms  11  are separately disposed on two ends of the holder  10 . Also, the two clamping arms  11  are used to correspondingly clamp two connecting elements between a backrest and a headrest of a vehicle seat so that the holder  10  is fixed on the vehicle seat. The connecting part  12  has two ends, wherein one end of the connecting part  12  is connected to the holder  10  and the other end of the connecting part  12  is connected to the casing  20 . 
     The casing  20  is connected to the holder  10  by the connecting part  12 . The casing  20  is square-shaped and has a back surface  21  and a side surface  22 . A containing groove  23  is rectangular, and is formed on the back surface  21  and adjacent to the side surface  22  for containing the remote control  30 . In the embodiment shown in  FIG. 1 , the containing groove  23  is formed adjacent to, but not limited to, a left side surface of the casing  20 . 
     The casing  20  has two displacement-limiting parts  24 , wherein the two displacement-limiting parts  24  are arc-shaped and arranged opposite each other. The two displacement-limiting parts  24  laterally extend from an inner wall surface  231  of the containing groove  23  at two inner corners of the containing groove  23 . After the remote control  30  is contained in the containing groove  23 , the two displacement-limiting parts  24  block the remote control  30 , thus preventing the remote control  30  being disengaged from the back surface  21  of the casing  20 . 
     As shown in  FIG. 1  and  FIG. 3 , at least one magnet  25  is disposed in the casing  20 . In the embodiment shown in  FIG. 1 , two through holes  26  are formed on the inner wall surface  231  of the containing groove  23 . Also, two magnets  25  are provided to penetrate through the corresponding through holes  26  on the inner wall surface  231  so that the two magnets  25  are exposed from the two through holes  26 . 
     As shown in  FIG. 3  and  FIG. 4 , the remote control  30  has a side wall  31 , and at least one containing hole  32  is formed on the side wall  31 . Each containing hole  32  has an inner diameter at an interior of the side wall  31  and an outer diameter at an exterior of the side wall  31 . In particular, the inner diameter of the containing hole  32  is less than the outer diameter of the containing hole  32 . Further, two protrusion elements  33  are formed spaced apart on an inner surface of the side wall  31  and adjacent to the at least one containing hole  32 . In addition, a connecting groove (not shown) is formed between the two protrusion elements  33  to communicate with the containing hole. In this embodiment, two containing holes  32  are formed on the side wall  31  and corresponding to the two through holes  26 . 
     In addition, at least one magnetic element  34  is disposed on the side wall  31  of the remote control  30 . In this embodiment, two magnetic elements  34  are correspondingly provided to the two magnets  25 . The two magnetic elements  34  are disposed in the two containing holes  32 , respectively. Each magnetic element  34  has a head part  341  and a shank part  342  connected to a bottom of the head part  341 . A concave groove  343  is formed on an end surface of the shank part  342  which is away from the head part  341 . 
     A C-shaped retainer  36  is fixed on the concave groove  343  of the shank part  342 . A spring  35  is sleeved on the shank part  342  and one end of the spring  35  is pressed on the C-shaped retainer  36 . 
     Each magnetic element  34  is correspondingly inserted into the containing hole  32  and is movable with respect to the containing hole  32 . The head part  341  of the magnetic element  34  is disposed in the corresponding containing hole  32 , the shank part  342  and the spring  35  are mounted through the connecting groove, and the C-shaped retainer  36  is disposed out of the connecting groove. The C-shaped retainer  36  moves toward the containing hole  32  to compress the spring  35  when the head part  341  outwardly moves with respect to the containing hole  32 . In this embodiment, a diameter of the C-shaped retainer  36  is greater than a hole diameter of the connecting groove so that the C-shaped retainer  36  can be pressed on the two protrusion elements  33 , thus preventing the shank part  342  of the magnetic element  34  being disengaged from the containing hole  32 . In addition, the head part  341  can be restored to its original position by an elastic force when the spring  35  is released. 
     As shown in  FIG. 5 , the remote control  30  is inserted into the containing groove  23 . Also, the remote control  30  is fixed in the containing groove  23  by magnetically attracting the magnets  25  and the magnetic elements  34  to prevent the remote control  30  being disengaged from the containing groove  23  because of vibration or shake on the moving vehicle. When the remote control  30  is inserted into the containing groove  23  and the magnetic elements  34  move closer to the magnets  25 , the head parts  341  of the magnetic elements  34  are attracted by the magnets  25 . Accordingly, the side wall  31  of the remote control  30  is adjacent to the inner wall surface  231  of the containing groove  23  so as to reduce gaps between the remote control  30  and the containing groove  23  and reduce noise generated from vibration of the remote control  30  and the containing groove  23 . In addition, the C-shaped retainer  36  is forced away from the two protrusion elements  33  by the elastic force of the spring  35  when the remote control  30  is drawn from the containing groove  23  so that the head part  341  of the magnetic element  34  is to restore to the containing hole  32 , as shown in  FIG. 3 . 
       FIG. 1  further shows that a buffering element  27  is disposed on the inner wall surface  231  of the containing groove  23 . When the remote control  30  is inserted into or drawn from the containing groove  23 , the buffering element  27  is used to reduce friction between the remote control  30  and the containing groove  23 , thus preventing wear from the friction. In addition, the buffering element  27  is used to reduce gaps between the remote control  30  and the containing groove  23 , thus increasing the effect of fixing the remote control  30  in the containing groove  23 . Further, the buffering element  27  is used to prevent wear between the remote control  30  and the containing groove  23  caused by vibration or shake on the moving vehicle. 
     In conclusion, the present disclosure has the following advantages: 
     1. The containing groove is used to conveniently contain the remote control with less occupied space. 
     2. The displacement-limiting parts are used to prevent the remote control being disengaged from the back surface of the casing. 
     3. The magnets and the corresponding magnetic elements are used to fix the remote control in the containing groove. 
     4. The buffering element is used to prevent wear between the remote control and the containing groove and firmly fix the remote control in the containing groove. 
     Although the present disclosure has been described with reference to the preferred embodiment thereof, it will be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the details thereof. Various substitutions and modifications have been suggested in the foregoing description, and others will occur to those of ordinary skill in the art. 
     Therefore, all such substitutions and modifications are intended to be embraced within the scope of the present disclosure as defined in the appended claims.