Combination of tube assembly and clip for wireless antenna grounding
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsChao Chen, Timothy Kyowski
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Abstract
An antenna grounding assembly for a hand-held device, the grounding assembly comprising: an antenna having an antenna shaft connected between a grounding block and a protective sheath; an antenna tube affixed within the hand-held device and holding the antenna, the antenna tube having an upper end through which the antenna shaft is extended or retracted, and an inner end opposite the upper end; and a grounding clip installed into the inner end of the antenna tube, the grounding clip having a base and at least one contact pin extending axially along the antenna tube for resilient contact with the grounding block.
Claims14
A grounding clip for mounting within an antenna tube to enhance antenna grounding, the grounding clip comprising:
- a. a resilient base ring, said base ring having an outer circumference for contact with the antenna tube and a gap in said base ring for compression of said base ring;
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- b. at least one resiliently flexible contact pin being affixed to and extending from a first end of said base ring,
- wherein each of said at least one contact pin is adapted to contact a base of an antenna along a length of each of said at least one contact pin to enhance antenna grounding.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.