JP4244801B2 - Electronics - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic device in which connection terminals are respectively provided on two intersecting surfaces of an exterior case, and particularly to an electronic device in which the connection terminals can be closed with a single terminal cover lid.

  Conventional electronic devices of this type include those described in Patent Document 1, for example. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-133867 describes an electronic imaging apparatus having an external terminal for exchanging electrical signals with an external device. The electronic imaging device described in Patent Document 1 is an external terminal for exchanging electrical signals with an external device related to the electronic imaging device, and a part fixed to the main body of the electronic imaging device. A shielding portion provided with an opening for allowing the external terminal to be exposed, and a lid portion that is displaceable between a position that covers and exposes the external terminal that can be exposed by the shielding portion; And an external terminal lid formed of an elastic material provided with a bending allowance portion for enabling the displacement of the lid portion.

  According to the electronic imaging apparatus having such a configuration, an effect that assembly is easy and production efficiency can be improved is expected.

  Examples of other conventional electronic devices include those described in Patent Document 2. Patent Document 2 describes a connector including a synthetic resin spacer and a synthetic resin front cover, and a method for assembling the connector. The connector described in Patent Document 2 includes a connector housing made of synthetic resin having a plurality of terminal accommodating chambers and female terminals mounted on the lower side of the connector housing and accommodated in the terminal accommodating chambers. A connector comprising: a synthetic resin spacer that stops; and a synthetic resin front cover that is attached to the front side of the connector housing and guides the connection of the male terminal of the mating connector to the female terminal. The front cover is integrally formed with a connecting body.

  According to the connector having such a configuration, the spacer that locks the female terminal accommodated in each terminal accommodating chamber of the connector housing and the front cover that guides the male terminal of the mating connector to the female terminal via the coupling body. Therefore, the number of parts can be reduced and the cost can be reduced.

  However, in the case of the above-described electronic imaging device of Patent Document 1, an external terminal lid is disposed on the right side surface of the camera body so as to be openable and closable. The external terminal lid has a shielding portion attached to the lid opening portion of the camera body and a lid portion formed integrally with the shielding portion via the hinge portion, and the shielding portion can be opened and closed by the lid portion. ing. Inside the external terminal lid, an external device jack, which is an external terminal to which video output and digital output are connected, and an external power jack, which is an external terminal to which an external power supply is connected, are disposed. By closing the external terminal lid, dust is prevented from entering each external terminal when not in use.

  In Patent Document 1, there is one external terminal lid, and the single external terminal lid protects a plurality of connection terminals. As a result, when a plurality of connection terminals are arranged on different surfaces of the camera body, as many covers as the number of the surfaces are necessary. As a result, when providing covers as many as the number of surfaces on which the connection terminals are arranged, there is a problem that the number of parts increases, leading to an increase in product cost, which is uneconomical.

In addition, although patent document 2 has description about the connector and the assembly method of this connector, the description about the lid | cover for the terminal does not exist.
JP 10-336504 A JP 2000-315546 A

  The problem to be solved is that when the connection terminals are arranged on different surfaces of the outer case, if the terminal cover lids are provided on the same surface, the number of terminal cover lids increases, resulting in an increase in cost and uneconomical. In addition, the operability for opening and closing the terminal cover lid is poor, and the connection work of the plug or the like becomes troublesome.

  The invention according to claim 1 of the present application is a plurality of terminal engaging portions that are detachably engaged with a plurality of connection terminals in an electronic device in which a plurality of connection terminals are arranged on two intersecting surfaces of an exterior case. A terminal cover lid having a connecting portion for connecting the plurality of terminal engaging portions, and a rotating shaft portion formed in the middle of the connecting portion, and between the connection terminals of the outer case The most important feature is that a bearing hole in which the rotation shaft portion is rotatably fitted is provided in the midway portion.

  The invention according to claim 2 of the present application is provided with an outward flange-shaped head portion whose diameter is increased so as to prevent the rotation shaft portion from coming off, and the bearing hole has a size capable of passing through the head portion. It is characterized by comprising a large-diameter portion and a long hole portion that is continuous with the large-diameter portion and that is pivotally engaged with the rotation shaft portion.

  The invention according to claim 3 of the present application is characterized in that the terminal cover lid is formed of a flexible synthetic resin.

  In the invention according to claim 4 of the present application, the plurality of terminals and the bearing holes are arranged in one recessed portion provided on the surface of the outer case, and the terminal cover lid is disposed when the terminal cover lid is accommodated in the recessed portion. This is characterized in that the surface of the surface is substantially the same height as the surface of the exterior case.

  According to the invention described in claim 1 of the present application, the rotating shaft portion of the terminal cover lid is fitted into the bearing hole of the outer case, and the terminal engaging portions provided at both ends thereof are engaged with the connection terminals. Thus, the two connection terminals arranged on different surfaces of the outer case of the electronic device can be protected by one terminal cover lid. Therefore, the number of parts of the terminal cover lid can be reduced, and the cost of the product can be reduced. Furthermore, by setting the support portion of the terminal cover lid with respect to the exterior case between the two connection terminals, one of the two terminal engagement portions can be opened, or both can be opened simultaneously. In addition, by rotating the terminal cover lid around the rotation shaft portion, when the terminal engagement portion is opened, the terminal engagement portion can be rotated and displaced to a position away from the connection terminal. The workability at the time of connecting the connector of another electronic device can be improved.

  According to invention of Claim 2 of this application, while providing a head in the rotating shaft part of a terminal cover lid, and comprising a bearing hole by a large diameter part and an elongate hole part, a rotating shaft part Can be attached to and removed from the large-diameter portion so that the rotating shaft portion can be easily attached to and detached from the bearing hole, and the rotating shaft portion is moved to the long hole portion so that the rotating shaft portion can be removed from the bearing hole. It can be difficult.

  According to the invention described in claim 3 of the present application, by forming the terminal cover lid with a flexible synthetic resin, the terminal cover lid can be elastically deformed to be easily held. The moving operation can be performed easily and reliably.

  According to the invention described in claim 4 of the present application, the surface of the outer case and the surface of the terminal cover lid are set by setting the thickness of the connecting portion of the terminal cover lid to substantially the same dimension as the depth of the recessed portion. Can be prevented from protruding on the surface of the outer case.

  When connecting terminals are arranged on different surfaces of the outer case, it is possible to protect a plurality of connection terminals with a single terminal cover lid without separately providing a terminal cover lid for each same surface, and the terminal cover. An electronic device that can simultaneously open a plurality of connection terminals by rotating a lid has been realized with a simple structure.

  1 to 16 show an embodiment of the present invention. 1 to 4 are a perspective view, a front view, a plan view, and a side view of an embodiment of an image pickup apparatus showing a specific example of the electronic apparatus of the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the same imaging device as viewed from the rear on the disc side, FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the same as seen from the front with the disc lid opened, and FIG. 8 is also mounted with a disc-shaped recording medium. 9 is a side view, and FIG. 10 is an explanatory view showing the image pickup apparatus. 11 and 12 are exploded perspective views showing the disk side panel and the terminal cover lid of the exterior case according to the imaging apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 13 is a perspective view showing the terminal cover lid, and FIG. 14 is a terminal cover lid on the disk side panel. 15 is an explanatory diagram viewed from the inside, FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram viewed from the outside, and FIG. 16 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a state in which the terminal cover lid is rotationally displaced.

  1 to 10 uses a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) having a diameter of 8 cm as a specific example of a disc-shaped recording medium that is an information storage medium, and optically. A simple image is converted into an electrical signal by a CCD (solid-state imaging device) and recorded on a DVD or displayed on a display device such as a liquid crystal monitor (hereinafter referred to as “disk type imaging device”). . However, the disc-shaped recording medium according to the image pickup apparatus 1 of the present invention is not limited to the DVD shown in this embodiment, and it is needless to say that a CD-ROM or other recordable optical disc can be used. For example, a disk-shaped recording medium of another recording system such as a magneto-optical disk or a magnetic disk can be applied.

  The disc type imaging device 1 includes a disc drive device 3 (see FIGS. 7 to 9) that rotates (drives) a DVD 2 that is detachably mounted, and records (writes) and reproduces (reads) information signals. A control circuit (not shown) that controls the drive of the disk drive device 3, a lens device 4 that takes an image of a subject as light and guides it to the CCD, an exterior case 5 in which these disk drive device 3 and the like are stored, and this exterior case 5 is provided with a disc lid 7 or the like that is rotatably attached to 5 and can open and close the disc storage portion 6.

  The outer case 5 is disposed in front of and behind the disk side panel 8, the center panel 9, and the display device side panel 10, and the lens device 4 in the optical axis direction. The front panel 11 and the rear panel 12 to be combined with each other and a partition panel not shown in the figure disposed inside the central panel 9, and these panels 8 to 12 constitute a hollow casing. Then, the disk drive device 3 is elastically supported on the surface of the partition panel on the disk side panel 8 side via mount insulators 14 (see FIG. 11) provided at four locations. These panels 8 to 12 are configured to be assembled and disassembled by an adhering means including a fixing screw at an appropriate portion overlapped with each other or through another member.

  The lens device 4 is fixed in a state of being built in the upper part of the outer case 5, and the objective lens 15 penetrates the upper part of the front panel 11 forward and is exposed to the front surface. Although not shown, a CCD is disposed behind the lens device 4 inside the exterior case 5, and a viewfinder 16 is disposed behind the CCD.

  The viewfinder 16 is exposed at the upper part of the exterior case 5 and is configured to be moved forward and backward by a predetermined distance in the optical axis direction of the lens device 4 by a finder moving mechanism. The viewfinder 16 is configured such that the rear side can be rotated in the vertical direction with the front side as a rotation center. As a result, the viewfinder 16 can be adjusted to an arbitrary angle within a predetermined angle range (about 90 degrees in this embodiment) from a horizontal state parallel to the optical axis of the lens device 4 to an upward state in which the rear portion is lifted upward. It is said that. The angle of the viewfinder 16 can be adjusted at any position from the front end portion to the rear end portion of the viewfinder moving mechanism.

  Further, an accessory shoe 17 to which accessories such as a video light and an external microphone are detachably attached is attached to the upper part of the outer case 5. The accessory shoe 17 is disposed immediately before the viewfinder 16 so that when the viewfinder 16 is moved rearward, the insertion opening to the accessory shoe 17 is opened. The accessory can be attached in a state where the insertion port is opened. When the viewfinder 16 is moved forward after the accessory is attached, the insertion port is closed and the accessory cannot be removed. The accessory shoe 17 is usually fitted with a shoe cap 18 that forms a lid that fills the space when not in use.

  Further, on the front surface of the front panel 11, a remote control light receiving unit 20, a microphone terminal, and a stereo built-in microphone 22 are arranged in order from the top. The remote control light receiving unit 20 is a receiving unit for remote control operation. The remote control light receiving unit 20 also serves as an infrared light emitting unit that emits infrared light used for automatically adjusting the focus. The microphone terminal includes a video terminal and an audio terminal, and these terminals are covered with a terminal cover 21 so as to be opened and closed.

  As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the rear panel 12 of the outer case 5 is provided with a battery housing portion 25 to which a power battery 24 is detachably attached. The battery storage unit 25 is opened on the back and bottom surfaces of the rear panel 12, and the power battery 24 can be inserted obliquely from below and taken out in the same direction. Further, two support fittings 26a and 26b for hanging straps are attached to the rear panel 12. Of the two support fittings 26a and 26b, one support fitting 26a is arranged at the upper part of the right side, and the other support fitting 26b is arranged at the lower part of the left side.

  As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a display device 28 is attached to the display device side panel 10 of the outer case 5 so that the posture can be changed. The display device 28 includes a flat liquid crystal monitor 29, a panel case 30 in which the liquid crystal monitor 29 is accommodated, and a panel support portion 31 that supports the panel case 30 with respect to the exterior case 5 so that the posture can be changed. Has been.

  The panel support unit 31 has a horizontal rotation function that allows the panel case 30 to be rotated about 90 degrees in the horizontal direction about the vertical axis, and the panel case 30 about 180 in the front-rear direction about the horizontal axis. It has a front / rear rotation function that can be rotated at a time. Thereby, the display device 28 is in the housed state shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the panel case 30 shown in FIG. 5 is rotated 90 degrees, the liquid crystal monitor 29 is opposed to the rear, and the state shown in FIG. The state where the case 30 is rotated 180 degrees and the liquid crystal monitor 29 is opposed to the front and the state of the intermediate position thereof can be arbitrarily taken.

  Further, the display device side panel 10 includes an inner operation unit 32 including a plurality of operation buttons that are covered with a panel case 30 so as to be freely opened and closed, and an outer operation unit 33 including a plurality of operation buttons disposed above the panel case 30. Is provided.

  As shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the disk side panel 8 of the outer case 5 includes a side surface portion 8a to which the disk lid 7 is attached, an upper surface portion 8b and a lower surface portion 8c that are continuous above and below the side surface portion 8a, and a side surface. The disc housing 6 is opened on the front surface 8d side of the side surface portion 8a. The front surface portion 8d and the rear surface portion 8e are continuous to the left and right of the portion 8a. A portion from the substantially central portion of the upper surface portion 8b of the disk side panel 8 to the substantially central portion of the lower surface portion 8c through the front surface portion 8d is formed in a substantially semicircular frame shape. Further, a reinforcing portion 8f for the purpose of reinforcement or the like is formed on the inner side of the substantially semicircular frame-like portion so as to protrude inward.

  The disk storage unit 6 includes a fixed area having an opening for exposing a part of the disk drive device 3, and in this embodiment, the disk storage unit 6 is formed as an area having a size corresponding to a disk-shaped recording medium having a diameter of 8 cm. Yes. A table rotating device 35 of the disk drive device 3 is disposed at a substantially central portion of the disk storage portion 6, and the turntable 36 positioned at the central portion has a diameter of 8 cm showing a specific example of the disk-shaped recording medium. DVD2 can be mounted. The table rotating device 35 is fixed to a mechanical chassis 37 elastically supported by the partition panel described above, as shown in a part of FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 7, the disk storage unit 6 in which the table rotating device 35 is disposed is covered with a disk lid 7 whose side surface is rotatably supported by the disk side panel 8 so as to be opened and closed. The disc lid 7 has a shape commensurate with the shape of the disc storage portion 6. The disc lid 7 has a flat surface 7 a that covers the opening side of the disc storage portion 6, and a continuous circumference over substantially the entire circumference of the outer peripheral edge of the flat surface portion 7 a. It has a surface portion 7b. The peripheral surface portion 7 b of the disc lid 7 is configured to fit with the outer peripheral side notch portion of the disc storage portion 6 of the disc side panel 8.

  The disk lid 7 shown in this embodiment has a shell shape in which approximately 5/6 (about 300 degrees) around the outer peripheral edge is circular (the circular portion may be approximately 3/4 or more of the whole). The remaining portion is a square portion 7c made of a straight line. A lid rotation shaft portion 39 serving as a rotation center for opening and closing the disk lid 7 is attached to the rectangular portion 7c. Although not shown, the lid rotation shaft portion 39 includes a support shaft that penetrates the rectangular portion 7c and a bearing member that has a pair of bearing pieces that support both ends of the support shaft in a fixed manner. The disk lid 7 is rotatably supported by being fixed to the panel 8. The lid rotation shaft portion 39 is provided with a stopper portion for setting a maximum opening angle (for example, 90 degrees) of the disc lid 7.

  Such a lid rotation shaft portion 39 is attached to the disk side panel 8 with the axial direction of the support shaft set in the vertical direction. As a result, the disc lid 7 is rotatably supported on the rear portion of the disc-side panel 8 via the lid rotation shaft portion 39. As a result, the disc cover 7 can be opened approximately 90 degrees to the side by front opening with the front of the disc type imaging device 1 as the front side. The lid rotation shaft portion 39 can stop the disc lid 7 at an arbitrary opening position within a certain opening angle range, and attach the disc lid 7 to the opening side when the opening angle is exceeded. A spring member is mounted so as to be biased.

  The central panel 9 overlapped with the disk side panel 8 is continuous with the upper surface part 9a interposed between the upper surface part 8b of the disk side panel 8 and the display device side panel 10, and from the upper surface part 9a to the front side. It consists of a front part 8b and a front part 9b interposed between the front panel 11. A constriction 42 that becomes a concave portion is set in a portion extending from a substantially central portion of the upper surface portion 9a of the central panel 9 to a lower portion of the front surface portion 8d by being inclined toward the display device side panel 10 that is the inner side. A grip portion 43 for gripping and holding the disc type image pickup device 1 is constituted by the arc-shaped portions of the disc side panel 8 and the central portion panel 9 having the constriction 42.

  A lid opening / closing mechanism for the disk lid 7 is provided between the central panel 9 and the disk side panel 8. This lid opening / closing mechanism has a function of locking the disk lid 7 in a state of closing the disk storage portion 6 in the closed state and a function of releasing the lock.

  Further, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 6, a hand strap 60 is attached to the disk side panel 8 so as to surround the disk lid 7. The hand strap 60 supports the part of the user's hand that grips the grip portion 43 that is the grip portion of the outer case 5, and prevents the disk-type imaging device 1 from being removed.

  The hand strap 60 includes a support belt 61 having both ends fixed to the disk side panel 8 and a protective pad 62 that is attached to the support belt 61 and abuts against the back of the user's hand. One end of the support belt 61 is connected to a mounting bracket 63 fixed to the front lower portion of the disk side panel 8, and the other end is inserted inside through a through hole provided in the rear middle part of the disk side panel 8. It is fixed to the mounting bracket attached to.

  As shown in FIG. 6 and the like, a power button 64, a mode switching dial 65, and a recording button 66 are arranged at the rear part of the disk side panel 8. The mode switching dial 65 has a ring shape, and a power button 64 is accommodated in the hole. The power button 64 is composed of push-push type switch means, and the power supply from the power battery 24 is turned on and off by the pressing operation. The mode switching dial 65 is used to select an operation mode such as recording, and any mode can be selected from three modes of “still image mode”, “moving image mode”, and “view / edit mode” by rotating the mode dial 65. Can be selected. The recording button 66 includes push-push type switch means, and the start and stop of moving image shooting are repeated by the pressing operation.

  A shutter button 67 and a zoom lever 68 are disposed on the upper rear side of the disk side panel 8. The shutter button 67 is for photographing a still image, and one still image is photographed for each pressing operation by the pressing operation. The zoom lever 68 is for enlarging an image at the time of shooting or reproduction, and the magnification can be adjusted steplessly within a certain range according to the operation amount.

  Further, a DC / IN terminal 210 and a remote terminal 211 are provided on the upper rear side of the disk side panel 8. A DC plug of an AC adapter (not shown) is detachably attached to the DC / IN terminal 210. For example, a DC plug is connected to the DC / IN terminal 210, a power cord is connected to an AC adapter, and the disc type imaging device 1 is connected to an outlet of a household power source via these, thereby the disc type imaging device 1 The power supply battery 24 attached to the battery can be charged. The remote terminal 211 is connected to a remote terminal plug of another electronic device. By connecting a remote terminal plug of another electronic device to the remote terminal 211, the disk type imaging apparatus 1 can be remotely operated using the electronic device as a remote controller having a cord.

  The DC / IN terminal 210 is disposed on the rear upper portion of the side surface portion 8 a of the disk side panel 8, and the remote terminal 211 is disposed on the rear surface portion 8 e of the disk side panel 8. Further, the DC / IN terminal 210 and the remote terminal 211 are set at substantially the same height position. As shown in FIG. 11 and the like, a recessed portion 212 extending in the lateral direction is provided at a position corresponding to the DC / IN terminal 210 and the remote terminal 211 of the disk side panel 8. Inside, a rectangular terminal hole 213 and a circular terminal hole 214 having a shape corresponding to the shape of each terminal are provided.

  Furthermore, a bearing hole 215 is provided in the middle in the lateral direction between the terminal holes 213 and 214. The bearing hole 215 includes a large diameter portion 215a and a long hole portion 215b arranged side by side, and the width of the long hole portion 215b is formed to be appropriately smaller than the diameter of the large diameter portion 215a. One terminal cover lid 200 is detachably attached to the recessed portion 212 so that the two terminals 210 and 211 can be covered simultaneously using the bearing hole 215.

  The terminal cover lid 200 has a shape and a structure as shown in FIGS. That is, the terminal cover lid 200 has a first terminal engagement portion 201 that can be fitted to the DC / IN terminal 210 and a second terminal engagement that can be fitted to the remote terminal 211. It consists of the part 202 and the connection part 203 which connects between both the terminal engaging parts 201 and 202, and is integrally formed in the substantially L shape as a whole. The width of the connecting portion 203 is set to be slightly smaller in order to have more flexibility than the two terminal engaging portions 201 and 202.

  Furthermore, a notch 201a is provided at the distal end of the first terminal engaging portion 201 in the longitudinal direction so that a toe can be inserted in order to facilitate the peeling operation. Similarly, a cutout portion 202a is provided on the upper side portion of the second terminal engaging portion 202. The notch portion 202a is adapted to allow the toe to enter in order to facilitate the peeling operation. Both terminal engaging portions 201 and 202 are formed so as to protrude in the same direction.

  A rotating shaft portion protruding in the same direction as both terminal engaging portions 201 and 202 is provided in the longitudinal middle portion of the first terminal engaging portion 201 and the second terminal engaging portion 202 of the terminal cover lid 200. 204 is provided. The rotation shaft portion 204 is configured to be able to pass through a shaft portion 204a that is rotatably fitted to the elongated hole portion 215b of the bearing hole 215, and a large-diameter portion 215a of the bearing hole 215 that is provided at the tip of the shaft portion 204a. And a head 204b. As the material of the terminal cover lid 200 having such a configuration, for example, elastomer or polypropylene (PP) is preferable, but other synthetic resins are used as long as they have appropriate strength and flexibility. Of course you can.

  Note that reference numeral 220 shown in FIGS. 11 and 12 denotes a support frame that supports the shutter button 67 and the zoom lever 68. The support frame 220 is disposed inside the first and second terminal holes 213 and 214 and the bearing hole 215.

  As a material of the disk side panel 8, the center panel 9, the display device side panel 10, the front panel 11, and the rear panel 12 constituting the outer case 5, for example, ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene resin) is preferable. However, the present invention is not limited to ABS, and other engineering plastics can be applied, and metals such as aluminum alloys other than synthetic resins can also be used.

  As described above, the interior of the outer case 5 is partitioned in the left-right direction (the direction intersecting the optical axis of the lens device 4) by the partition panel, whereby the first chamber on the disc lid 7 side and the display device side are separated. A second chamber is formed. The partition panel is made of a plate-like member and is fastened and fixed inside the outer case 5 by a fixing screw. As the material of the partition panel, for example, stainless steel (SUS) is suitable, but it is possible to use steel steel, aluminum alloy and other metals, and engineering plastics other than metals can also be used.

  Although not shown, the disk drive device 3 is accommodated in the first chamber of the outer case 5, and the lens device 4, the control circuit unit, and the like are accommodated in the second chamber. Therefore, a plurality of support protrusions for supporting the disk drive device 3 are provided on one side of the partition panel, and a plurality of support pieces for supporting the lens device 4 and the printed circuit board are provided on the other side. Is provided. The control circuit unit includes, for example, a microcomputer, a storage device (RAM, ROM), a capacitor, a resistor, and other electronic components, and a printed board on which these electronic components are mounted.

  As shown in FIG. 7, the disk drive device 3 includes a mechanical chassis 37 attached to the partition panel, a table rotating device 35 fixed to the mechanical chassis 37, and an optical pickup showing a specific example of the pickup device. The apparatus 71 is provided. The mechanical chassis 37 is made of a conductive plate material, and is elastically supported by the partition panel via a plurality of mount insulators made of an elastic body made of an insulating material.

  Further, the insulator is made of a rubber-like elastic body formed in a cylindrical shape, and an annular groove that is continuous in the circumferential direction is provided in an axially middle portion of the outer peripheral surface thereof. A predetermined number (4 in the present embodiment) of the insulators is mounted by fitting an annular groove into a notch hole provided in the insulator receiving portion or the insulator receiving piece of the mechanical chassis 37. Then, after the center hole of the insulator is fitted to a plurality of support pins provided on the partition panel, each of the insulators is prevented from falling off by screwing a mounting screw to the tip of each support pin.

  The mechanical chassis 37 attached to the partition panel via such an insulator is constituted by a frame-like member having a sufficiently large strength. The conductor portions of the mechanical chassis 37 and the partition panel are electrically connected to each other by a ground member (not shown), and are configured to easily discharge static electricity or the like to the outside. The table rotating device 35 mounted on the mechanical chassis 37 includes a spindle motor fixed to the mechanical chassis 37 and a turntable 36 fixed to a rotating portion of the spindle motor.

  The turntable 36 includes a fitting portion 36a into which the center hole of the DVD 2 is fitted, and a placement portion 36b on which the peripheral edge of the center hole is placed. Further, the fitting portion 36a of the turntable 36 is provided with a plurality of engaging claws 36c that are engaged with the peripheral portion of the center hole of the DVD 2 and hold the DVD 2 in the circumferential direction. Each engaging claw 36c is urged radially outward by a spring, and the DVD 2 is positioned and fixed to the fitting portion 36a by the spring force of the spring.

  The optical pickup device 71 includes a biaxial actuator 74 having a pickup lens 74a facing the information recording surface of the DVD 2, a slide member 75 on which the biaxial actuator 74 is mounted, and the like. The slide member 75 is movable by being guided by two guide shafts not shown in the figure. The two guide shafts are parallel to each other across the spindle motor 72, and a pickup moving device is provided in the vicinity of one of the guide shafts.

  Although not shown, the pickup moving device includes a feed screw shaft that is engaged with a feed nut attached to the slide member 75 and a feed motor that uses the feed screw shaft as a rotation shaft. The feed screw shaft is set parallel to the guide shaft of the optical pickup device 71 and is rotatably supported by the mechanical chassis 37. Thus, by driving the feed motor and rotating the feed screw shaft, the optical pickup device 71 selectively moves in the direction approaching the turntable 36 and the direction away from the turntable 36 according to the rotation direction of the feed screw shaft. Moved. The disk drive device 3 is constituted by the mechanical chassis 37, the table rotating device 35, the optical pickup device 71, the pickup moving device, and other related mechanisms.

  By fixing the partition panel to which the disk drive device 3 having such a configuration is attached to a predetermined position in the outer case 5, as shown in FIG. It is disposed in the disk storage portion 6 of the disk side panel 8. The disk storage 6 is opened and closed by a disk lid 7, and the disk lid 7 is locked and unlocked by a lid opening / closing mechanism.

  According to the disc type imaging apparatus 1 having such a configuration, for example, the subject can be photographed by firmly holding the disc type imaging apparatus 1 with one hand in a state as shown in FIG. In this case, the disk side panel 8 and the disk lid 7 of the outer case 5 serve as a grip for holding the disk type image pickup device 1 with one hand as it is, and substantially the entire grip is formed in a substantially circular shape. Therefore, stable shooting can be performed with the large grip portion 43. In addition, since the constriction 42 is set inside the grip portion 43, a sufficiently large gripping force can be generated by gripping the constriction 42 with each tip portion from the index finger to the little finger.

  Further, two terminals arranged on two mutually intersecting surfaces of the disk side panel 8 of the outer case 5, that is, a DC / IN terminal 210 and a remote terminal 211 are provided with a first terminal cover 200 provided on one terminal cover lid 200. The terminal engaging part 201 and the second terminal engaging part 202 are detachably engaged. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 6 and FIG. 14, etc., only one terminal engaging portion is opened while reliably protecting the connection terminals provided on two different surfaces while being a single terminal cover lid 200. Alternatively, both terminal engaging portions can be opened at the same time, and the respective connection terminals can be used.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 15, by removing only one first terminal engaging portion 201 of the terminal cover lid 200 from the DC / IN terminal 210, the other second terminal engaging portion 202 is connected to the remote terminal 211. The DC plug of the AC adapter can be attached to the DC / IN terminal 210 while being engaged with the DC / IN terminal 210. At this time, since the terminal cover lid 200 is firmly engaged and held in the bearing hole 215 of the disk side panel 8 by the rotating shaft portion 204, the terminal cover lid 200 is not peeled off from the disk side panel 8. Moreover, since one terminal engaging portion plays a fixing role, the tensile strength of the other terminal engaging portion can be improved accordingly. Such an open state of the connection terminal is the same when only the second terminal engaging portion 202 is opened.

  In addition, as shown in FIG. 16, when the first and second terminal engaging portions 201 and 202 are opened at the same time and a plug or the like is connected to both connection terminals, the terminal cover lid is formed by the rotating shaft portion 204. Since 200 is firmly engaged and held in the bearing hole 215 of the disk side panel 8, the terminal cover lid 200 is not peeled off from the disk side panel 8. Moreover, by rotating the terminal cover lid 200 around the rotation shaft portion 204, the terminal engagement portions 201 and 202 at both ends can be temporarily moved to positions away from the respective connection terminals. . As a result, both the DC / IN terminal 210 and the remote terminal 211 can be greatly opened, so that the corresponding plug can be easily inserted and pulled out. Improvements can be made.

  The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above and shown in the drawings, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. For example, in the above-described embodiment, an example in which the present invention is applied to a disk type imaging apparatus using a DVD as a recording medium has been described. However, a disk-shaped recording medium of another recording system such as a magneto-optical disk or a magnetic disk can be used. In this case, the pickup device used for these is a magneto-optical pickup device, a magnetic pickup device or the like depending on the type of the recording medium.

  Further, the connection terminals that can be opened and closed by the terminal cover lid are not limited to the above-described terminals. For example, a microphone terminal to which an external microphone for capturing sound is connected, a video signal and an audio signal are connected. It can be applied not only to terminals such as input video / audio terminals, but also to protection of switches such as reset buttons of microcomputers in the control circuit section. Furthermore, the electronic apparatus is not limited to the above-described disk type imaging device, and other types of imaging devices (camera-integrated video tape recorder, digital still camera, analog still camera, etc.) In addition to the imaging device, the present invention can be applied to various electronic devices such as a cassette tape recorder, a radio, a portable television, and a portable telephone.

It is a perspective view which shows one Example of the imaging device which concerns on one specific example of the electronic device of this invention. It is a front view which shows one Example of the imaging device which concerns on the electronic device of this invention. It is a top view which shows one Example of the imaging device which concerns on the electronic device of this invention. It is a side view showing one example of an imaging device concerning the electronic equipment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the imaging apparatus shown in FIG. 1 as viewed from the back side with the display device opened to the side. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the imaging apparatus shown in FIG. 1 as viewed from the back side with a power battery attached. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the imaging apparatus shown in FIG. 1 as viewed from the back side with a disc lid opened. FIG. 2 is a perspective view for explaining an interference state between an opened disc lid and a hand strap in the imaging apparatus shown in FIG. 1. It is a side view of the state which opened the disk cover of the imaging device shown in FIG. It is explanatory drawing which shows the use condition which grasped the grip part of the imaging device shown in FIG. It is the perspective view which looked at the disk side panel and terminal cover lid of the imaging device which concern on the electronic device of this invention from the outer side. It is the perspective view which looked at the disk side panel and terminal cover lid of the imaging device which concern on the electronic device of this invention from the inner side. It is a perspective view which shows the terminal cover lid | cover of the imaging device which concerns on the electronic device of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the state which attached the terminal cover lid | cover to the disk side panel of FIG. It is explanatory drawing which shows the state which opened the 1st terminal engaging part of the terminal cover lid with which the disk side panel of FIG. 6 was mounted | worn. It is explanatory drawing which shows the state which rotated the terminal cover lid | cover of FIG. 15 centering | focusing on the rotating shaft part.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Disc imaging device (imaging device), 2 ... DVD (disc-shaped recording medium), 3 ... Disc drive device, 4 ... Lens device, 5 ... Exterior case, 6 ... Disc storage part, 7 ... Disc lid, 8 ... Disc Side panel, 9 ... Center panel, 10 ... Display device side panel, 11 ... Front panel, 12 ... Rear panel, 35 ... Table rotating device, 36 ... Turntable, 37 ... Mechanical chassis, 42 ... Constriction, 43 ... Grip part, 60 ... hand strap, 71 ... optical pickup device (pickup device), 73 ... turntable, 200 ... terminal cover lid, 201,202 ... terminal engaging portion, 204 ... rotating shaft portion, 204b ... head, 212 ... concave Part, 213, 214 ... terminal hole, 215 ... bearing hole, 215a ... large diameter part, 215b ... long Part

Claims (4)

In an electronic device in which a plurality of connection terminals are arranged on two intersecting surfaces of an outer case,
A plurality of terminal engaging portions that are detachably engaged with the plurality of connection terminals, a connecting portion that connects the plurality of terminal engaging portions, and a rotation shaft portion that is formed in the middle of the connecting portion And providing a terminal cover lid having
An electronic apparatus comprising a bearing hole in which the rotation shaft portion is rotatably fitted in a midway portion between the plurality of connection terminals of the exterior case.   Provided at the tip of the rotating shaft portion is an outward flange-shaped head that is expanded so as to prevent it from coming off, and the bearing hole has a large-diameter portion that can pass through the head, and the large-diameter portion. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising: an elongated hole portion having a size that is continuous with a portion and is rotatably engaged with the rotation shaft portion.   The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the terminal cover lid is made of a flexible synthetic resin.   The plurality of terminals and the bearing holes are disposed in one recessed portion provided on the surface of the exterior case, and when the terminal cover lid is stored in the recessed portion, the surface of the terminal cover lid is in contact with the surface of the exterior case. 2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the electronic devices have substantially the same height.

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