US 6,983,137 B2
Electronic apparatus, drive mechanism and drive control method for a front panel
Yasuyuki Tobishima, Saitama (Japan)
Assigned to Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Jul. 18, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/197,467.
Claims priority of application No. P2001-238281 (JP), filed on Aug. 06, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2003/0027545 A1, Feb. 06, 2003
Int. Cl. H04B 1/06 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 455—346 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic apparatus comprising:
an electronic apparatus main unit;
a front panel attached at the front of the electronic apparatus main unit detachably from the electronic apparatus main unit;
a driving section provided at the electronic apparatus main unit to drive the front panel;
a main-unit-side communications element to perform signal communications to/from the front panel;
a battery provided at the front panel for storing power fed from the electronic apparatus main unit;
a panel-side communications element to perform signal communications to/from the main-unit-side communications element; and
a controller for controlling the driving section in order for the driving section to drive the front panel in a state where recharging of the front panel is allowed in case the charge voltage of the battery has dropped below a preset reference value.