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US 11,699,845 B2Granted
Antenna device
AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsJanis Köstermann, Hendrik Hoppmann, Hans-Guenter Nieper, Stefan Paul, Michael Ponitka
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Abstract
An antenna device, a transportation vehicle, and a textile article having an antenna device. The antenna device includes conductive filaments woven into a carrier fabric, wherein the conductive filaments form an antenna structure and are a contacting structure at a first end.
Claims8
An antenna device comprising:
- a carrier fabric;
- and a plurality of conductive filaments woven into the carrier fabric so as to be contained within the carrier fabric, wherein the plurality of conductive filaments form an antenna structure within the carrier fabric, wherein the antenna structure forms a contacting structure at a first end of the plurality of conductive filaments, and wherein the plurality of conductive filaments are woven out from the carrier fabric so as to be external from the carrier fabric at the first end, wherein the external conductive filaments at the first end are combined to form a two-dimensional, annular contacting structure configured to contact a corresponding contact rivet on at least two sides of the rivet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.