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Antenna assembly and method of installing an antenna

  • US 6,157,345 A
  • Filed: 09/24/1999
  • Issued: 12/05/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/24/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An antenna for a vehicle having a body panel defining an antenna supporting surface and a lower surface and having a hole extending through the body panel from the antenna supporting surface to the lower surface, the antenna comprising:

  • a mast;

    a mast base formed as a solid body having an upper surface and a bottom surface, the mast base being secured to the antenna supporting surface of the body panel, the mast being secured to the upper surface of the mast base, the mast base having a fastener receptacle on the bottom surface;

    a subsurface base assembled to the lower surface of the body panel and defining an opening that is aligned with the fastener receptacle in the bottom surface of the mast base; and

    a conductive fastener received in the subsurface base, extending through the body panel, and conductively fastened to the mast base, wherein the fastener is rotatable within the opening in the subsurface base and being secured without requiring that the subsurface base rotate with the fastener.

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