Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Toshio Hayakawa

Itaru Mitsugi

Naraji Sakamoto

Tatsuo Mitsui

This invention relates to a channel selector suitable for use in a television receiver set. The channel selector comprises a channel selecting shaft which is linked to a variable capacitor shaft through an Oldham coupler. A fine tuning shaft also is linked to the variable capacitor shaft through a coupler incorporating an incremental detent arrangement. Selection of a channel is made by turning the channel selection shaft to move the variable capacitor shaft by a suitable angle (for instance, about 2.degree.). When the channel selection shaft is turned by such an amount, the coupler slips so as to allow the variable capacitor shaft to turn independently of the fine tuning means. Once a channel is selected, fine tuning is made by slightly turning (for instance, within 0.3.degree.) the fine tuning shaft to correspondingly rotate the shaft of the variable capacitor. The channel selector also comprises means for memorizing the results of the fine adjustments for individual channels. The memory means includes several memory cams, each of which memorizes result of adjustment for several neighboring channels. By so designing the arrangement that each of the memory cams serves to memorize the fine tunings commonly for several channels, the memory means can be made compact and simple.

Channel selector

The present invention relates to a multiple push-switch apparatus comprising an exclusion mechanism which includes a plurality of slidably supported operation bodies and a flexible body, any one of said plurality of operation bodies being able to move by means of said flexible body, and a plurality of electric switches which are driven by said plurality of operation bodies, respectively. In addition, there is provided a multiple push-switch apparatus especially suitable as a station selecting apparatus for a television receiver. The apparatus can be operated by the use of a soft touch, permits the employment of various operation body arrangements, and prevents simultaneous operation of a plurality of electric switches by mistake.

Multiple push-switch apparatus having flexible element preventing

A multi-stylus printing head cell in which a plurality of styli or electrodes are placed in and bonded to a plurality of parallel grooves formed in one of the major surfaces of a base in such a way that one end portions of the styli may extended out of the base; the exposed conductors of a flat flexible cable are overlaid upon the styli and made into electrical connection therewith; a retaining plate is placed over the exposed conductors; and the legs or side walls of a U-shaped holder are folded inwards over the retaining plate, whereby the base, the styli, the flat flexible cable, the retainer and the holder may be securely held as a unitary construction.

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