JP2825191B2 - Electronic device provided with cartridge reproducing unit and disk reproducing unit - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention, C D-ROM, cassette ROM, electronic instrumentation for performing a plurality of kinds of external storage medium reading out desired information software, etc. Operation and control such as an IC card
About the installation .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the diversification of external recording media, a
Read and operate information software etc. using recording media
There is a need for multimedia-compatible electronic devices.
For example, game software from cartridge ROM to game machine
It is common practice to supply
C to use D-ROM as software supply information medium
Game with D-ROM player and cartridge player
The information software
It is possible to cope with the diversification of resources.

[0003]

Accordingly, the present invention provides a C
Disk playback equipment such as D-ROM and cartridges ROM
It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic device having a new configuration including a playback device.

[0004]

Accordingly, the present invention provides a car
An electronic device equipped with a cartridge playback unit and disc playback unit
The cartridge mounting section and the disc mounting section are
Electronic device with both cartridge and disc loading slots
It is configured to be placed on the top of the
Image data by connecting to the
Circuit board with built-in control unit for processing voice and audio data
Is located below the cartridge loading section and the disc loading section.
It is characterized by being arranged so that it may be placed .

In one embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned
The disc regenerating section removably mounts the cartridge regenerating section.
A first part to be placed and a second part equipped with a disc mounting part
And the disk mounting opening of the second part is provided.
The surface portion is disposed at a position higher than the first portion and the cartridge
When the cartridge mounting portion is placed on the second portion, the cartridge mounting portion is
Almost the same as the top surface of the cartridge mounting part with the mouth
It is characterized in that it is configured to have the same height.
In the above embodiment, the game operation
Provide a connector for detachably connecting the operation unit
You may do so. Further, in another embodiment of the present invention,
, The information storage medium contained in the cartridge is removable
Insert the cartridge formed on the top to insert into the
The mouth and the disk-type information storage medium are detachably mounted.
A disc mounting opening formed on the upper surface to
The cartridge mounting slot and the disc are located below the top
Extends substantially parallel at a fixed distance from the disk mounting opening
And a control unit including an arranged circuit board, wherein the control unit
At least the cartridge mounting opening and the disk mounting opening
Also process game programs loaded from one
Including a CPU and a video control unit,
Connector for detachably connecting the operation unit for performing operations
It is characterized by having a dent part.

[0006]

According to the present invention, a disc mounting portion such as a CD-ROM is mounted.
It was arranged in juxtaposition to the cartridge mounting portion, de circuit board
It is located below the disk playback unit and cartridge playback unit.
Since a configuration, it is possible to small fence installation space
You . Further, in the disk playback section is top-loading, can be installed only opening the lid of the disk loading mechanism put the compact disc than on the turntable top
As a result, the number of parts in the loading mechanism is reduced and costs are reduced.
Is reduced .

[0007] In one embodiment of the present invention, the cartridge playback unit is placed on <br/> body portion dedicated provided in the disc playback unit, both connected cartridge reproducing unit
Performed directly in contact with the side wall portion of the side wall and the disk mounting portion of the
It is possible. Furthermore, a cartridge unit and a CD-
The ROM unit is directly mechanically connected and firmly fixed.
Therefore, it is easy to carry and can be stably transported. further,
According to another embodiment of the present invention, a circuit board constituting a control unit is provided.
Is a certain distance from the cartridge loading slot and disc loading slot
It is configured to extend substantially in parallel with a gap
Thus, the installation space can be reduced.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIGS. 1 to 7 show multimedia correspondence according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the electronic device of FIG. The configuration of the electronic device according to the present embodiment will be described. 1 to 4, electrostatic
Child device 21, CD-ROM player 23 is a disc player of the so-called top loading type for setting the disc 22, such as co-down compact disc from above reproduction
Disk unit 30 to be incorporated and cartridge R
OM (including the form of cassette ROM and IC card) 24
Cartridge ROM player has a car <br/> trip Jiyu knit 25 incorporated using.

The disk unit 30 includes an upper housing
It has a portion 23A and a lower housing portion 23B. Up
Square housing part 23A is provided protruding upward direction C
A protrusion 23A1 into which the D-ROM player 23 is incorporated;
The body 25A2 has a flat upper surface 23a on which the unit 25 is placed . Lower housing part 2
The control unit of the CD-ROM player 23 is mounted on 3B .
A circuit board 31 is provided. Upper surface 23 of body portion 23A2
Cartridge Jiyu knit 25 is provided to be mounted on a.

A protrusion incorporating a CD-ROM player 23
A loading port of the disc loading mechanism 27 is opened at an upper portion of the outlet 23A1 . A lid 27a for opening and closing the loading port is attached to the body. Connector 28 is provided in the side wall portion 23b of the projecting portion 23A1, facing the connector 28, the side wall portion 25 of the cartridge Jiyu knit 2 5
a is provided with a connector 29 connected to the connector 28.

A control section is mounted in the lower housing section 23B.
The main circuit board 31, which is the mounting is furnished, control of the main circuit board
Through the control unit connector 28 and the connector 29 are adapted to allow exchange of car <br/> trip di unit 25 and information.

[0012] cartridge in the Jiyu knit 25, connector 32 is provided et been to connect such a joystick (not shown) on its front edge, the cartridge loading section 3 of the order to mount the cart Lisi ROM24 on the upper surface thereof
7 are provided. In addition, cartridge Jiyu knit 25
The lower surface 25b of the unit 30 is provided with four hooks 38 projecting downward in an L-shape, and engages with corresponding engagement holes 39 formed in the upper surface 23a of the body 23A2 of the unit 30 ,
The cartridge Jiyu knit 25 on the top surface 23a, are freely attachable to made detachable. Although not shown,
An operation unit such as a control pad is connected to the unit 25.
Instead of being connected externally through the
It may be formed on the upper surface 25A of the knit 25 and incorporated.

The control unit 41 for controlling operation in cartridge Jiyu knit 25 is furnished. Figure 5, a control section 4
Is a diagram showing a block diagram of the control unit 41, also only by mounting the cartridge ROM24 the cartridge Jiyu knit 25 is adapted to operate solely. The control unit 41 is electrically connected to each other via the system bus 43.
Continued cartridge interface (I / F) 42
When a C PU unit 44, a RAM 45, an input control section 46, a video controller 47, audio reproducing section 4
9 inclusive.

The image control section 47 has an image table.
The display RAM 48 is connected to the
47 outputs a video signal. The sound reproduction unit 49 has a sound
The voice RAM 50 is connected, and the output of the voice reproducing unit 49 is a sound.
Sent to the voice mixing circuit 51 and the CD-ROM player 2
Mixed with audio signal from 3 and output as audio signal
Is done. Cartridge mounting of cartridge unit 25
Read from cartridge ROM 24 attached to mouth 37
The obtained data is transmitted to the control unit 41 through the cartridge I / F.
Is read in. Control pad 52 is input
Game player connected via control unit 46
Operation data is input in accordance with the operation of. CPU unit 44
Exchanges information and data of the above-mentioned parts at a predetermined clock frequency and, if necessary, a CD-ROM
The playback device also exchanges data and audio information to output monitor video output and audio output.

The CD-ROM player 23 is provided with a CD-ROM drive mechanism 56 for driving the disk 22, as shown in FIG. The CD-ROM drive mechanism 56 is, for example, as shown in FIG.

The CD-ROM drive mechanism 56 includes a spindle motor 57 for driving the disk 22 and a disk 2
2, a pickup 58 for inputting information, an actuator / motor drive 59 for driving them, a servo signal processor 60, a PF amplifier 61 for processing information input by the pickup 58, and a CD digital audio signal processor 64. It has a CD-COM digital data signal processing section 63, an interface buffer 64, a DA converter 65, an amplifier 66, and a system control microcomputer 67 for controlling these.

That is, the CD-ROM player 23 reads the recorded information in the disk by the drive mechanism of the disk 22 and the system control microcomputer 67,
Supplying exchange and audio output of the data information to the control unit 41 with the control unit 41 based on a command CPU44 of cartridge Jiyu knit 25. Therefore, the electric power of the present invention
The slave device 21 is configured to execute the software program based on more abundant information by adding the record information of the disk 22 in addition to the record information of the cartridge ROM 24.

FIG. 8 shows a CD-ROM in the electronic device of the present invention .
FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating another example of the control unit of the ROM player 23. The control unit 73 includes a CD-ROM drive mechanism 56 shown in FIG.
In addition, a ROM 71 is incorporated. ROM7
1, a CD-ROM control program and an entire system control program are recorded. Therefore, in this case, the electronic device 21 is the CD-ROM player 23
The control unit 73 is provided in the
The software program can be executed by using the recorded information on the disk 22 without mounting the disk 4.

FIG. 9 further shows an electronic device according to the present invention.
FIG. 14 is a diagram showing another example of the control unit of the CD-ROM player 23 in the present embodiment. The control unit 83 is the CD-ROM shown in FIG.
In addition to the drive mechanism 56 and the ROM 71, a CD-RO
A CPU 84 for controlling the M reproducer, and an image data processing unit 85 for applying effects such as rotation and zoom to the image
When a pixel data processing RAM 86, as mounted on the cartridge Jiyu two <br/> Tsu preparative 25 and another audio reproduction unit 87,
An audio source RAM (sound source) 88, a RAM 89 , an interface 90, and an audio mixing 91 are provided. By providing these, the multimedia- compatible electronic device 21 of the present invention can further execute a high-quality and powerful software program.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Arrange the disk mounting part side by side with the cartridge mounting part
And the circuit board is replaced with a disk reproducing unit and a cartridge reproducing unit.
Since a structure disposed on the lower side of the can be small <br/> Ku installation space. In addition, the top loading method
As a result, the number of parts in the loading mechanism is reduced and costs are reduced.
Can be reduced . Also, a cartridge unit and a CD-ROM
Since the units are directly mechanically connected and firmly fixed
Multimedia compatible electronic device that is easy to carry and stable
Can be realized.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view showing an embodiment of a multimedia- compatible electronic device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the electronic device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view of the electronic device shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of a main part of the electronic device shown in FIG. 1;

5 is a block diagram of a cartridge Jiyu knit electronic apparatus shown in FIG.

6 is a block diagram of a control unit of the disk unit of the electronic device shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating a control unit of the disk unit illustrated in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing another example of the control unit of the disk unit shown in FIG. 6;

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing still another example of the control unit of the disk unit shown in FIG. 6;

[Explanation of symbols]

21 multimedia electronic device 23 CD-ROM player (disc player) 23A upper housing portion 23B lower housing portion 25 cartridge Jiyu knit (cartridge ROM player) 30 disk unit

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Muraoka Ta 7-7-1 Nakagakiuchi, Daito-shi, Osaka Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (56) References JP-A-4-303488 (JP, A) (58) ) Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) G11B 33/06 A63F 9/22 G11B 31/00

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A cartridge reproducing unit and a disk reproducing unit.
An electronic device comprising: a cartridge mounting portion;
The disc loading section is the cartridge loading slot and disc loading slot
Are arranged on the top of the electronic device.
Are in contact with the cartridge
Then, a control unit that processes image data and audio data
The embedded circuit board is inserted into the cartridge
That it is located below the
Electronic device characterized by. 2. The disc playback unit according to claim 1 , wherein
The first part where the playback unit is detachably mounted and the disc is mounted
And a second part equipped with a
The upper surface where the mounting hole is provided is located higher than the first part.
And the cartridge reproducing unit is mounted on the second portion.
Cartridge that has a cartridge slot when
It is configured to be almost the same height as the upper part of the mounting part
The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein: 3. An operation unit for performing a game operation is detachably mounted.
A connector part for connection
The electronic device according to claim 1. 4. An information storage medium housed in a cartridge.
Cart formed on the upper part for detachably inserting
Removable ridge mounting slot and disk type information storage medium
Mount discs on top to freely place
The cartridge is installed below the mouth and the upper surface.
At a certain distance from the mouth and disc loading slot
A control unit including a circuit board extending in parallel with the control unit,
The control unit includes the cartridge loading port and the disc loading port.
Game program loaded from at least one of
CPU and image control unit for processing
To detachably connect an operation unit for performing game operations
An electronic device, comprising: a connector portion for the electronic device.