Glass antenna system for vehicles

• US 5,999,135 A
• Filed: 07/23/1998
• Issued: 12/07/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Central Glass Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Central Glass Company Limited
• Inventors: Nozaki, Toru, Fujii, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ho, Tan
• Application Number:
  US09/120,735
• Time in Patent Office: 502 Days
• Field of Search: 343/704, 343/713, 343/850, 343/852, 343/860
• US Class Current: 343/713
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1271 for mounting on windscreens

Abstract

An antenna system for a vehicle is provided. The antenna comprises an antenna disposed on a window glass and having a feed point, a matching circuit connected to the feed point, and a coaxial cable connecting between the matching circuit and the radio receiver. The matching circuit includes a parallel circuit having a damping resistor, a first coil and a first capacitor. The matching circuit further includes a second coil and a second capacitor connected in series between an output side of the parallel circuit and a ground such that, assuming that MF1 is a lower limited frequency of medium-frequency (MF) broadcast waves and MF2 is an upper limited frequency of the MF broadcast waves, a receiving sensitivity of the antenna system has local maximum points which are present at a frequency F1 in the range from (MF1-170) to MF1 KHz and at a frequency f2 in the range from (MF2-230) to MF2 KHz, respectively, and a local minimum point which is present at a frequency f0 smaller than f1 and equal to or larger than 50 KHz.

Claims

1. An antenna system for a vehicle having a window glass and a radio receiver, comprising:

an antenna disposed on the window glass and having a feed point;

a matching circuit connected to said feed point; and

a coaxial cable connecting between said matching circuit and the radio receiver;

wherein said matching circuit includes a parallel circuit having a damping resistor, a first coil and a first capacitor, said matching circuit further including a second coil and a second capacitor connected in series and disposed between an output side of said parallel circuit and a ground such that, assuming that MF1 is a lower limited frequency of medium-frequency (MF) broadcast waves and MF2 is an upper limited frequency of the medium-frequency (MF) broadcast waves, a receiving sensitivity of the antenna system has local maximum points which are present at a frequency f1 in the range from (MF1-170) to MF1 KHz and at a frequency f2 in the range from (MF2-230) to MF2 KHz, respectively, and a local minimum point which is present at a frequency f0 smaller than said frequency f1 and equal to or larger than 50 KHz.

2. An antenna system according to claim 1, wherein said matching circuit is constructed such that the receiving sensitivity of the antenna system has a local minimum point at a frequency f3 in the range from MF2 to (MF2+1000) KHz.

3. An antenna system according to claim 1, wherein an electrostatic capacity of said first capacitor is in the range from 20 to 300 pF, an electrostatic capacity of said second capacitor is in the range from 300 pF to 0.01 μ

F, an inductance of said first coil is in the range from 20 to 150 μ

H, and an inductance of said second coil is in the range from 300 to 850 μ

H.

4. A glass antenna system according to claim 1, further comprising a series-parallel circuit connected between the output side of said parallel circuit and the ground, said series-parallel circuit including a second parallel circuit and a third coil connected in series with said second parallel circuit, and second parallel circuit including a third capacitor and another resistor, such that the receiving sensitivity of the antenna has minimum local points at frequencies f3 and f4 which are in the range from MF2 to (MF2+1000) KHz.

5. A glass antenna system according to claim 4, wherein an electrostatic capacity of said first capacitor is in the range from 20 to 300 pF, an electrostatic capacity of said second capacitor is in the range from 300 pF to 0.01 μ

F, an electrostatic capacity of said third capacitor is in the range from 3 to 60 pF, an inductance of said first coil is in the range from 20 to 150 μ

H, an inductance of said second coil is in the range from 300 to 850 μ

H, and an inductance of said third coil is in the range from 70 to 800 μ

H.

6. A glass antenna system for a vehicle having a window glass and a radio receiver, comprising:

an antenna disposed on the window glass and having a feed point;

a matching circuit connected to said feed point; and

a coaxial cable connecting between said matching circuit and the radio receiver;

wherein said matching circuit includes a first coil operative to produce a series resonance with a floating capacity between the antenna and a ground, a first resistor connected in parallel to said first coil, a second coil operative to produce a series resonance with the floating capacity between the antenna and the ground, by way of a first capacitor, a pair of a second capacitor and a second resistor connected in parallel with said second coil, and a series-parallel circuit connected between a junction of said first capacitor and said second coil and the ground, said series-parallel circuit including a parallel circuit having a third coil and a third resistor, and a third capacitor connected in series to said parallel circuit, said matching circuit further including a series circuit having a fourth coil and a fourth capacitor and connected between a junction of said second resistor and said coaxial cable and the ground such that, assuming that LF1 is a lower limited frequency of low-frequency broadcast waves, LF2 is an upper limited frequency of the low-frequency broadcast waves, MF1 is a lower limited frequency of medium-frequency broadcast waves, MF2 is an upper limited frequency of the medium-frequency broadcast waves, F0 is a frequency in the range from 50 to (LF1-20) KHz, F1 is a frequency in the range from (LF1-60) to (LF1+10) KHz, F2 is a frequency in the range from (LF2-30) to (LF2+50) KHz, F3 is a frequency in the range from (LF2+20) to (MF1-20) KHz, F4 is a frequency in the range from (MF1-130) to MF1 KHz, F5 is a frequency in the range from (MF2-230) to MF2 KHz, and F6 is a frequency in the range from MF2 to (MF2+1000) KHz, a receiving sensitivity of the antenna system has local maximum points at F1, F2, F4 and F5 and local minimum points at F0, F3 and F6, respectively.

7. A glass antenna system according to claim 6, wherein said first resistor is in the range from 1 to 20 KΩ

, said second resistor is in the range from 1 to 20 KΩ

, said third resistor is in the range from 10 to 300 Ω

K, and said first coil is in the range from 100 to 350 μ

H, said second coil is in the range from 30 to 100 μ

H, said third coil is in the range from 1 to 5 mH, said fourth coil is in the range from 750 μ

H to 2 mH, said first capacitor is in the range from 500 to 2000 pF, said second capacitor is in the range from 50 to 500 pF, said third capacitor is in the range from 500 to 3000 pF, and said fourth capacitor is in the range from 50 to 500 pF.