Apparatus and method for producing a jacketed mobile antenna
AssigneeHirschmann Electronics GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsChristian Joly, Tobias Kleinert
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Abstract
Apparatus and method for producing a jacketed antenna, especially a mobile telephone antenna for motor vehicles, where the jacket is formed about antenna conductive parts in a mold. The mold having a centering pin for insertion in an antenna base body having a mating hole, and an antenna receiving portion attached to the base body so as to be aligned and centered in the mold by the centering pin to assure that the antenna conductive parts are completely encased in the jacketing material.
Claims11
A mold in which a jacket is formed about an antenna electrically conductive base body, said mold comprising:
- a centering pin disposed to be centered in said mold;
- and,
- said centering pin having an outside diameter that fits in a hole disposed along a lengthwise axis of said base body so that when said base body is disposed on said centering pin said base body is maintained in a position centered in said mold to permit a jacket to be formed in said mold about said base body.
A method for molding a jacket about an antenna electrically conductive base body, said method comprising:
- disposing said base body on a centering pin disposed to be centered in a mold, said centering pin having an outside diameter that fits in a hole disposed along a lengthwise axis of said base body so that when said base body is disposed on said centering pin said base body is maintained in a position centered in said mold to permit a jacket to be formed in said mold about said base body;
- filling said mold with an elastic compound to form said jacket about said base body;
- and,
- releasing said mold and removing said base body with the encasing formed jacket.
A method for molding a jacket about an antenna according to clam 6, wherein a sealing piece is disposed on said mold and said centering pin is disposed from said sealing piece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.