Glass antenna amplifier

• US 5,231,408 A
• Filed: 02/19/1992
• Issued: 07/27/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Harada Kogyo KK
• Original Assignee: Harada Kogyo KK
• Inventors: Nakase, Kazuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Hille, Rolf
• Assistant Examiner(s): LE, HOANGANH T
• Application Number:
  US07/839,740
• Time in Patent Office: 524 Days
• Field of Search: 343/704, 343/713, 343/745, 343/850, 455/286, 219/203
• US Class Current: 343/704
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1278 in association with heating wires or layers

Abstract

A compensating/amplifying device for a window glass antenna for an automobile. The device utilizes heating wires, which remove fog formed on the automobile window glass, as an antenna and includes band-pass filter coils interposed between a battery of the automobile and the heating wires, and the band-pass filter coils and a floating capacity between the heating wires and ground are used as a part of an input band-pass filter of a compensating amplifier.

Claims

1. A compensated/amplifying device for glass antennas which uses a heating element for removing fog on the glass of a vehicle window as an antenna element, comprising:

band-pass filter coils for AM signals and FM signals interposed between a direct current power supply of said vehicle and said heating element, said band-pass filter coils comprising an FM band-pass filters coil, an AM band-pass filters coil and a canceling coil each separately wound, said canceling coil being wound such that a direction and magnitude of a magnetic field created from direct current power supply passing through said canceling coil are opposite to a direction and magnitude of a magnetic field of said AM band-pass coil;

an amplifier means coupled to said band-pass filter coils; and

a floating capacity formed between said heating element and ground and provided in parallel with said band-pass filter coils, said floating capacity and said band-pass filter coils forming input AM and FM band-pass filters for said amplifier means.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said AM and FM band-pass filter coils is wound around a ferrite core which is of a pot type.

3. A device according to claim 1, wherein said input FM band-pass filter of said compensating amplifier is a band-pass filter for receiving FM band signals and includes a double tuning circuit comprising a primary tuning circuit and a second tuning circuit, said primary tuning circuit including said FM band-pass filter coil which is of an aircore type and said secondary tuning circuit including an inductance and capacitor.

4. A device according to claim 1, wherein said input AM band-pass filter of said compensating amplifier is a band-pass filter for receiving AM band signals and comprising a primary tuning circuit and a secondary tuning circuit, said primary tuning circuit is a high-pass filter including said AM band-pass filter coil, said floating capacity, and an additional capacity for adjusting tuning frequency, and said secondary tuning circuit is a low-pass filter including an inductance and a capacitor.

5. A device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said AM and FM band-pass filter coils is wound around a ferrite core which is of a torroidal type.