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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7109831 | System and method for a removable tuner module A radio frequency (RF) tuner includes a housing, a cantilever snap formed in the housing, the cantilever snap being configured to securely couple the housing to a consumer premise component, and a handle formed on an edge of the housing. ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 5185804 | Operating device of an electronic equipment mounted on a motor vehicle A knob for operating a fader as an electronic device of a car stereo is rotatably and axially slidably mounted on a grille detachably attached to a car stereo body. A wall of the car stereo body facing the grille when attached thereto, has an opening thro... | 02/09/1993 |
| 4347628 | Rotary tuning mechanism A rotary tuning mechanism comprises an integral dielectric structure including a gear wheel with a first set of teeth extending from a first face surface and a second set of teeth extending radially from a circumferential surface, a shaft attached to the ... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4254390 | Compact electronic tuning device A tuning device including a conductive housing in which are suspended a dielectric substrate. A pair of first and second resonant circuits is disposed on the substrate in parallel with each other. Each resonant circuit is formed by an elongated conductive... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4175259 | Construction of preset plate for VHF tuner Disclosed is a preset plate for a VHF tuner, having a first and a second rotary bodies which are unitarily mounted on a main shaft of the VHF tuner. The first rotary plate has a plurality of coils corresponding to respective channels to be selected and a ... | 11/20/1979 |
| 4158826 | Operator controllable detent mechanism for television tuners An operator-controllable detent mechanism is provided for a combination VHF-UHF television tuner. Separate torsionally-loaded detent springs are provided for two detent wheels which are mounted on the common station selector shaft of the tuner. A manually... | 06/19/1979 |
| 4128821 | Turret type television tuner The present turret type television tuner comprises a U-shaped chassis having first and second end walls joined by a side wall. A main channel selecting shaft is supported in said end walls. A toothed index wheel is mounted on the selector shaft adjacent t... | 12/05/1978 |
| 4056796 | Detented UHF television tuner with independent inductive fine tuning A UHF television tuner utilizes a mechanical fine tuning mechanism that alters the operation frequency of the oscillator of the tuner independently of the position of the main tuning shaft. The mechanical fine tuning mechanism utilizes a tuning slug dispo... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4054853 | UHF television tuner with electrical fine tuning An electrical fine tuning system for a UHF television tuner utilizes a voltage variable capacitor for adjusting the operating frequency of the oscillator. The capacity of the voltage variable capacitor is determined by a potentiometer that is mounted conc... | 10/18/1977 |
| 3973229 | Combined 82-position UHF and VHF television tuner with memory fine tuning A combination UHF and VHF television tuner having a single detented selector shaft for individually selecting each one of the 82 UHF and VHF television channels and a single fine tuning shaft for providing memory fine tuning of channels in both the UHF an... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3947787 | Mechanical TV control unit A television tuner includes a rotatable turret and a plurality of coil forms positioned in the turret. There is a pair of tuning coils mounted on each coil form and an adjustable tuning screw extending outwardly from each end of each coil form. The housin... | 03/30/1976 |
