Method for implementing a vehicular antenna system

• US 6,346,917 B1
• Filed: 11/09/2000
• Issued: 02/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Laird Technologies Incorporated (DuPont de Nemours, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: RecepTec LLC (DuPont de Nemours, Inc.)
• Inventors: Fuchs, Andreas D., Marino, Ronald A., Callewaert, Clyde M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Tan
• Application Number:
  US09/711,127
• Time in Patent Office: 460 Days
• Field of Search: 343/711, 343/712, 343/713, 343/906
• US Class Current: 343/713
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/1214 through a wall
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/3275 mounted on a horizontal surface of the vehicle, e.g. on roof, hood, trunk

Abstract

A method for installing an antenna system having an antenna located exterior to a vehicle. The antenna system has at least one electrically conductive wire to be extended into interior of the vehicle for providing electrical connection to a receiver located in the interior. When the vehicle includes at least one window pane surrounded at least partially by a flexible seal adjacent a weather shield to a portal, the method comprises the steps of positioning the conductive wire in the flexible seal; leading the conductive wire from the flexible seal towards the weather shield; and leading the conductive wire to the receiver through the weather shield.

Claims

1. A method of installing a vehicular antenna system having an antenna located exterior to a vehicle, said antenna having at least one electrically conductive wire to be extended into an interior section of the vehicle for electrically connecting the antenna to a receiver located in the interior section, wherein the vehicle includes a weather shield bordering the interior section and the exterior of the vehicle, at least one panel on the exterior of the vehicle adjacent to the weather shield, and a flexible seal at least partially surrounding the panel, said method comprising the steps of:

leading said at least one electrically conductive wire from the antenna towards the weather shield;

leading said at least one electrically conductive wire to the receiver through the weather shield; and

positioning said at least one electrically conductive wire along at least one section of the flexible seal prior to leading the electrically conductive wire towards the weather shield.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the panel includes a rear window glass pane of the vehicle.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the flexible seal includes a butyl rubber seal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle has a trunk and the weather shield is located adjacent to the trunk for shielding at least part of the trunk, and the electrically conductive wire is led to the receiver through the weather shield and the trunk.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said antenna has two electrically conductive wires.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the vehicle has a trunk and the weather shield is located adjacent to the trunk for shielding at least part of the trunk, and the two electrically conductive wires are led to the receiver through the weather shield and the trunk.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein one of the two electrically conductive wires is used for providing electrical power to said antenna.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one electrically conductive wire is a coaxial cable.