Domed circuit board of an antenna amplifier for a vehicle antenna device

• US 20060238428A1
• Filed: 01/27/2004
• Published: 10/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hirschmann Electronics GmbH and Co KG (Belden Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hirschmann Electronics GmbH and Co KG (Belden Inc.)
• Inventors: Schmitt, Christa, Wischniowski, Boris
• Application Number:
  US10/549,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20060238428A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/713
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1207 for fastening a rigid aerial element
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1271 for mounting on windscreens
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 23/00 Antennas with active circuits or circuit elements integrated within them or attached to them
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/0278 Rigid circuit boards or rigid supports of circuit boards locally made bendable, e.g. by removal or replacement of material
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/09036 Recesses or grooves in insulating substrate
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2203/302 Bending a rigid substrate; Breaking rigid substrates by bending
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/0058 Laminating printed circuit boards onto other substrates, e.g. metallic substrates H05K1/0281 takes precedence

Abstract

A high-frequency device for a vehicle antenna device which can be mounted on a surface of the vehicle, comprising a circuit board (1) with strip conductors and circuit components, in addition to feed means such as lines or connectors or the like. According to the invention, the circuit board (1) has at least one recess (2) extending crosswise in relation to a domed surface (3) for approximate equalization of said dome-shape.

Claims

1. A high-frequency device for a vehicle antenna, mountable on a surface of a vehicle, and having a circuit board (1) with conductive traces and circuit elements and feed means like wires or sockets, characterized in that the circuit board (1) has at least one recess (2) extending transversely of a curved surface (3) for fitting to the curvature.

2. The high-frequency device according to claim 1, characterized in that the number of parallel recesses (2) depends on the amount of curvature of the surface.

3. The high-frequency device according to claim 1, characterized in that the recess (2) is made by milling.

4. The high-frequency device according to claim 1, characterized in that the circuit board (2) is directly mounted on and fixed to a curved surface (3).

5. The high-frequency device according to claim 1, characterized in that the circuit board (2) is fixed on the curved surface with interposition of spacers.

6. The high-frequency device according to claim 1, characterized in that the high-frequency device is an antenna amplifier.