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Window glass antenna

  • US 5,565,876 A
  • Filed: 04/27/1995
  • Issued: 10/15/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/21/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A window glass antenna on a sheet of window glass having a peripheral portion extending along the entire periphery of the sheet of window glass and a central portion defined by the portion of the sheet of window glass surrounded by the peripheral portion, the sheet of window glass mounted within an opening in an electrically conductive body;

  • the antenna comprising;

    a receiving antenna pattern disposed on the peripheral portion of the sheet of window glass such that the central portion is free of any portion of said receiving antenna pattern, and spaced inwardly from the periphery of the opening of the electrically conductive body;

    an electrically conductive guard pattern comprising an open loop conductor having a gap defined therein, said guard pattern encircling said receiving antenna pattern and being disposed without directly connecting to at least the receiving antenna pattern and the electrically conductive body, said guard pattern being disposed on the peripheral portion of the sheet of window glass between the periphery of the opening in the electrically conductive body and said receiving antenna pattern, said guard pattern being disposed more closely to the periphery of the opening than to said receiving antenna pattern; and

    said guard pattern being positioned on the sheet of window glass in close proximity to said electrically conductive body for intensive electromagnetic and electrostatic coupling between said guard pattern and the electrically conductive body thereby reducing the intensity of electromagnetic and electrostatic coupling between said receiving antenna pattern and the electrically conductive body to provide a frequency vs. sensitivity characteristic close to the frequency vs. sensitivity characteristic of said receiving antenna pattern itself.

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