Police radar warning receiver with cantilevered PC board structure

• US 4,686,499 A
• Filed: 03/12/1986
• Issued: 08/11/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Escort Acquisition Corp.
• Original Assignee: Cincinnati Microwave, Inc (Bel Tronics Ltd.)
• Inventors: Furnish, Gregory R.
• Primary Examiner(s): LaRoche, Eugene R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee, Benny T.
• Application Number:
  US06/838,931
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• Field of Search: 333/250, 333/230, 333/227, 333/247, 361/400, 361/399, 361/398, 343/786, 343/711, 343/712, 343/5 DD, 343/5 PD, 343/18 E, 455/328, 455/347, 455/280, 455/281, 331/96, 331/107 DP, 331/107 SL
• US Class Current: 333/230
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/022 Road traffic radar detectors

Abstract

A compact police radar warning receiver is provided having an antenna in which some of the mixer and oscillator components are secured to the antenna by a cantilever structure formed integral the circuit board overlying a portion of the antenna and to which the components are electrically and mechanically coupled.

Claims

1. In combination:

(a) a microwave circuit including;

a first wall having an inner surface;

a second wall spaced from said first wall and confronting said inner surface thereof to define a microwave cavity therebetween, said second wall having an outer surface;

circuit component means having opposite ends, one end of which projects toward said inner surface of said first wall, another end of which projects outwardly of said cavity through a hole in said second wall; and

(b) a circuit board secured with respect to said microwave circuit in overlying relationship to said outer surface of said second wall exteriorly of said cavity, said circuit board including;

a cantilever arm portion and a remainder portion, said cantilever arm portion having an inner end and a distal end, said cantiliever arm portion integrally connected to said remainder portion only at said inner end, whereby said distal end will deflect and said remainder portion will not substantially deflect when a deflecting force is applied to said distal end, said circuit board being positioned relative to said microwave circuit when secured with respect thereto, such that said distal end is positioned atop the circuit component means and in contact with said another end thereof so that said component means provides said deflecting force to thereby deflect said distal end, whereby said distal end cooperates with at least said first wall to maintain said circuit component means one end in contact with said inner surface of said first wall.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein said first wall inner surface is electrically conductive so that said circuit component means is maintained in electrical contact with said first wall inner surface when said circuit board is secured with respect to said microwave circuit.

3. The combination of claim 1 wherein said circuit component means includes a first circuit element and a second circuit element, said first and second circuit elements each have opposite ends and are electrically series connected so that when said circuit board is secured relative to said microwave circuit, said deflected cantilever arm portion distal end further maintains one of said opposite ends of said first circuit element in contact with one of said opposite ends of said second circuit element.

4. The combination of claim 3 wherein said first wall inner surface is electrically conductive so that said circuit component means is maintained in electrical contact with said first wall inner surface when said circuit board is secured with respect to said microwave circuit.

5. The combination of claim 4 wherein said one of said opposite ends of said first circuit element is also maintained in electrical contact with said one of said opposite ends of said second circuit element when said circuit board is secured with respect to said microwave circuit.