Window glass antenna device

• US 5,821,904 A
• Filed: 06/28/1996
• Issued: 10/13/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company Limited (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nippon Sheet Glass Company Limited (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsuoka, Yoshinori, Doi, Ryokichi, Kakizawa, Hitoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hajec, Donald T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAN, THO GIA
• Application Number:
  US08/672,406
• Time in Patent Office: 837 Days
• Field of Search: 343/704, 343/712, 343/713, 343/856, 343/858
• US Class Current: 343/704
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1278 in association with heating wires or layers

Abstract

A window glass antenna device disposed on an automobile window glass panel has a dedicated antenna disposed on the automobile window glass panel, a heater antenna comprising a defroster heater pattern disposed on the automobile window glass panel, and a feeder cable for transmitting received signals from the dedicated antenna and the heater antenna. An impedance transformer for effecting an impedance conversion between the dedicated antenna and the heater antenna, and the feeder cable has a primary winding having an end connected to the dedicated antenna, the primary winding having a tap connected to the heater antenna, and a secondary winding connected to the feeder cable.

Claims

1. A window glass antenna device comprising:

an automobile window glass panel;

a dedicated antenna printed on the automobile window glass panel;

a heater antenna comprising a defroster heater pattern disposed on the automobile window glass panel;

a feeder cable for transmitting receiving signals from said dedicated antenna and said heater antenna; and

an impedance transformer for effecting an impedance conversion between said dedicated antenna and said heater antenna, and said feeder cable, said feeder cable having a core and an outer conductor, said impedance transformer comprising a primary winding having a first end connected to said dedicated antenna, said primary winding having a tap connected to said heater antenna, and a secondary winding having a first end connected to said core of said feeder cable, said primary and secondary windings having second ends connected in common with said outer conductor of said feeder cable.

2. A window glass antenna device according to claim 1, further comprising a DC-blocking capacitor connected between said tap and said heater antenna.

3. A window glass antenna device according to claim 1, wherein said impedance transformer comprises a toroidal core of ferrite, said primary winding comprising a predetermined number of turns wound on said toroidal core, said secondary winding comprising a predetermined number of turns wound on said toroidal core.

4. A window glass antenna device according to claim 1, wherein the ratio of the number of turns of said primary winding to the number of turns of said secondary winding is 4:

1.

5. A window glass antenna device according to claim 4, wherein said primary winding has an opposite end connected to said secondary winding, and the ratio of the number of turns of said primary winding between said end thereof and said tap to the number of turns of said primary winding between said tap and said opposite end is 15:

1.

6. A window glass antenna device according to claim 5, further comprising a DC-blocking capacitor connected between said tap and said heater antenna.

7. A window glass antenna device according to claim 1, further comprising a pair of feeder lines extending from said secondary winding along a side edge of said automobile window glass panel and connected to said feeder cable.