Vehicle antenna

• US 20070152895A1
• Filed: 05/04/2004
• Published: 07/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hirschmann Car Communication GmbH (TE Connectivity Ltd. (United Kingdom))
• Original Assignee: Hirschmann Car Communication GmbH (TE Connectivity Ltd. (United Kingdom))
• Inventors: Heuser, Jurgen, Schenkyr, Dieter
• Application Number:
  US10/559,566
• Publication Number:
  US 20070152895A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/713
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1271 for mounting on windscreens
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/44 using equipment having another main function to serve additionally as an antenna , e.g. means for giving an antenna an aesthetic aspectH01Q1/27 - H01Q1/34 take precedence

Abstract

In the edge area of a window (8) a vehicle (5) is provided with a completely opaque black print (9) and a grey print (10) with grid-like apertures (11) adjacent thereto in a direction toward the window center that together form an obscuring area (7), on the vehicle facing side of which a vehicle antenna (1) consisting of an antenna structure (2) and a feed line (3) is arranged. According to the invention, the antenna structure (2) is at least partially arranged within the region of the grey print (10) and designed such that it is completely covered by the interface (13) formed by the apertures (11). Thus the antenna structure can be placed in greater distance to the vehicle body, by which the electrical adjustment of the antenna is improved. Further advantages result from the embodiments of and modifications to the invention described in the dependent claims.

Claims

1. A vehicle antenna with at least one antenna structure that is arranged on a vehicle window mounted in an opening of a metal vehicle body that in a edge area has an obscuring area consisting of nonconductive material and formed by a black print adjoined by a grey print in a direction toward the window center, the black print being a completely black region and the grey print being a black region with grid-like apertures increasing in size in a direction toward the window center and separated by interfaces correspondingly decreasing in size, the antenna structure being provided on the obscuring area, characterized in that the antenna structure is at least partially provided in the area of the grey print and designed such that it is completely covered by the interfaces.

2. The vehicle antenna according to claim 1, characterized-in that the antenna structure is provided at the inner edge of the obscuring area facing the inside of the vehicle.

3. The vehicle antenna according to claim 2, characterized in that the antenna structure is printed on the obscuring area.

4. The vehicle antenna according to claim 1, characterized in that the antenna structure consists of at least one conductor trace that abuts at least the apertures most closely spaced relative to each other.

5. The vehicle antenna according to claim 1, characterized in that the antenna structure consists of at least one conductor trace that is remote from the apertures in the grey print.

6. The vehicle antenna according to claim 1, characterized in that all apertures of a grey print have the same shape.

7. The vehicle antenna according to claim 6, characterized in that the apertures are rectangular in shape, particularly square.

8. The vehicle antenna according to claim 6, characterized in that the apertures are circular.

9. The vehicle antenna according to claim 4, characterized in that the at least one conductor trace has a meander-like shape.

10. The vehicle antenna according to claim 4, characterized in that the at least one conductor trace has a sawtooth-like shape.

11. The vehicle antenna according to claim 1, characterized in that the narrow areas of the interfaces between the apertures with the closest distance to each other are as short and broad as possible.