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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1999
Volker Becker, Hildesheim, DE;
Anton Mindl, Hildesheim, DE;
Thomas Westendorf, Harsum, DE;
Holger Zimmermann, Hildesheim, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A device for playing compact disks, particularly for motor vehicles, including a magazine for a plurality of compact disks that is arranged in and is removable from a housing, and a playback unit for playing a compact disk from the magazine, the playback unit being swing-mounted in the housing separately from the magazine and being adjustable by an adjusting mechanism, is characterized in that the magazine includes a swivel mechanism, which enables at least a portion of the compact disks located in holding compartments of the magazine to swivel away from a compact disk positioned on the playback unit, to form an unencumbered swing space between the compact disk to be played that is positioned on the playback unit and the compact disks arranged in the holding compartments of the magazine.