Clarion Co

Takashi Koizumi

Yoshio Tanaka

Yasuhisa Nishikawa

Ryoichi Hasumi

A clutch interlocking mechanism for use in a pushbutton tuner wherein a drive gear provided on a clutch mechanism is meshed with a rack of a memory slide, a support bracket, on which the clutch mechanism is mounted, is supported, at one side thereof, by a frame on a chassis through a fulcrum pin and, at the opposite side thereof, provided with a tension spring to assure positive engagement of the drive gear with the rack. The clutch interlocking mechanism further comprises a resilient member provided for the fulcrum pin to eliminate looseness at the portion of the fulcrum pin.

Clutch interlocking mechanism

A pushbutton tuner formed of a base unit (A) including a memory slide and operating members for displacing the memory slide upon operation of a push button; a coil unit (B) including a movable member provided with cores displaceable relative to coils; a clutch unit (C) including a clutch mechanism and provided with a rotating shaft for manual tuning operation; and an arm unit (D) including a plurality of button slides fitted with push buttons, respectively, and slidably disposed on a top plate. These units are assembled separately from each other and, then, mounted on a baseplate of the base unit (A).

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Toda, Japan

Takashi Koizumi