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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
May. 27, 1997
Shigetoshi Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Clarion Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recorded medium player used in, for example, an automobile for playing a compact disk, a cassette tape, etc. including a pivot lever installed near the front face of the player so that a first end of the lever located inside the player turns on a detection switch when a second end of the lever located outside of the player is contacted by a detachable front panel member when the panel member is mounted on a panel holder that is pivotally installed on the front face of the player. The detection switch is turned off so as to switch off the power of the player when the panel member is removed from the panel holder and the second end of the lever is released from the panel member.