MOTOR VEHICLE ROOF ANTENNA

• US 20090040121A1
• Filed: 03/21/2006
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Company KG (Rosenberger Technology (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Company KG (Rosenberger Technology (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Floren, Christian, Freundt, Jens-Peter, Blakborn, Willem, Rosenberger, Bernd
• Granted Patent: US 7,652,630 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/713
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1214 through a wall
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/3275 mounted on a horizontal surface of the vehicle, e.g. on roof, hood, trunk
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/506 assembled by snap action of the parts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6315 allowing relative movement between coupling parts, e.g. floating connection for coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, H01R12/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/02 for antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/26 for vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/52 mounted in or to a panel or structure

Abstract

The invention relates to a motor vehicle roof antenna (100) comprising an antenna housing (110) in which at least two antennae are arranged, wherein a first coaxial connector (114) is allocated to each antenna, and having a connector (200) which comprises a housing (210) and a number of second coaxial connectors (214) corresponding to the number of first coaxial connectors (114), said second coaxial connectors (214) being arranged at a plugging side of the housing (210) at pre-determined positions and with their respective longitudinal axes oriented parallel to a plugging direction of the connector (200), wherein every second coaxial connector (214) is allocated to a first coaxial connector (114) and is configured so as to be insertable into it. Herein, the first coaxial connectors (114) are fastened in a plug interface on the antenna housing (110) and each second coaxial connector (214) is arranged in the housing (210) movable in a plane perpendicular to the plugging direction and is linked via at least one electrically insulated elastic spring element to at least one further second coaxial connector (214) in elastically sprung manner, wherein the elastic spring element (244) is arranged and configured in such a manner that the second coaxial connectors (214) are pre-positioned at the respective pre-determined position, except for tolerance deviations, and can be deflected from this site in the plane perpendicular to the plugging direction in elastically sprung manner.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A motor vehicle roof antenna comprising an antenna housing and having at least two antennae arranged, wherein a first coaxial connector is allocated to each antenna, and having a connector which comprises a housing and a number of second coaxial connectors corresponding to said first coaxial connectors, said second coaxial connectors being arranged at a plugging side of the housing at pre-determined positions and with their respective longitudinal axes oriented parallel to a plugging direction of the connector, wherein every second coaxial connector is allocated to a first coaxial connector and is configured so as to be insertable therein, such that the first coaxial connectors are fastened in a plug interface on the antenna housing and each second coaxial connector is arranged in the housing movable in a plane perpendicular to the plugging direction and is linked via at least one electrically insulated elastic spring element to at least one further second coaxial connector in elastically sprung manner, wherein the elastic spring element is arranged and configured such that the second coaxial connectors are pre-positioned at the respective pre-determined position, except for tolerance deviations, and can be deflected from this site in the plane perpendicular to the plugging direction in elastically sprung manner.

17. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 16 including having the second coaxial connectors arranged movable in the housing such that the mobility of the second coaxial connectors in the plane perpendicular to the plugging direction includes tilting, or translational parallel displacement, or a combination of both movements, of the longitudinal axes of the second coaxial connectors.

18. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 17 including having each coaxial connector configured with an inner conductor and an outer conductor.

19. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 17 including having each second coaxial connector linked to a signal conducting element, which electrically connects said second coaxial connector to a connection site for a cable.

20. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 19 including having each signal conducting element configured as a coaxial conductor or a flat transmission line.

21. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 19, wherein each signal conducting element is configured with electrical screening.

22. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 19 including having all the signal conducting elements arranged, starting from the respective second coaxial connector in one plane extending perpendicularly to the plugging direction.

23. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 19 including having each signal conducting element configured as a rigid component and having a recess in its housing such that each signal conducting element is movable together with an associated contact element in a plane perpendicular to the plugging direction.

24. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 16 including having every second coaxial connector surrounded by an electrically insulating sleeve which is connected in elastically sprung manner via an electrically insulating elastic spring element to a sleeve of an adjacent second coaxial connector.

25. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 24 wherein the spring elements are formed Ω

-shaped in a cross-sectional plane perpendicular to the plugging direction.

26. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 24 including having the sleeves and spring elements formed in one piece with one another into a sprung housing.

27. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 16 including having a first detent formed on the housing and a second detent formed on each spring element which, in cooperation with the first detent, fix the spring elements to the housing.

28. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 27 including having each first detent comprising an elastically sprung clip which projects from the housing in the plugging direction and a recess, wherein every second detent comprises a detent lug which extends from the respective spring element perpendicularly to the plugging direction and fits into the recess of the sprung clip of the first detent.

29. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 28 including at least one of the clips of the first detent of the housing having a different width from the other clips.

30. Motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 27 including having at least two mutually spaced detent pegs each having a detent lug project from the housing in the plugging direction, said detent pegs being configured for locking into the antenna housing.

31. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 22 including having each signal conducting element configured as a rigid component and having a recess in its housing such that each signal conducting element is movable together with an associated contact element in a plane perpendicular to the plugging direction.

32. The motor vehicle roof antenna according to claim 17 including having every second coaxial connector surrounded by an electrically insulating sleeve which is connected in elastically sprung manner via an electrically insulating elastic spring element to a sleeve of an adjacent second coaxial connector.

33. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 24 including having a first detent formed on the housing and a second detent formed on each spring element which, in cooperation with the first detent, fix the spring elements to the housing.

34. The motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 33 including having each first detent comprising an elastically sprung clip which projects from the housing in the plugging direction and a recess, wherein every second detent comprises a detent lug which extends from the respective spring element perpendicularly to the plugging direction and fits into the recess of the sprung clip of the first detent.

35. Motor vehicle roof antenna of claim 33 including having at least two mutually spaced detent pegs each having a detent lug project from the housing in the plugging direction, said detent pegs being configured for locking into the antenna housing.