Automobile antenna
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsShigeru Yamazaki, Akinari Mouri, Toshiyuki Matsuo
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Abstract
An automobile antenna adapted to be mounted onto the roof of an automobile and which includes an antenna body portion formed with antenna receiving grooves which is adapted to be mounted onto the roof of the automobile with suitable suction cups or magnets mounted on the bottom of the antenna body and including a pair of rod shaped telescoping antennas which in a stored position are received in the antenna receiving grooves and which are movable to a second position to form a predetermined V-shape. Locking mechanisms lock the rod antennas in the antenna receiving grooves when in the stored position and means are provided for holding the rod antennas in the extended position when in use.
Claims10
A car antenna for mounting on a roof of an automobile, comprising:
- (A) an antenna body having antenna-receiving grooves;
- (B) means for mounting said antenna body on the roof of the automobile attached to the bottom of said antenna body;
- (C) a pair of rod antennas rotatably attached to said antenna body, said rod antennas being movable to a stored position in said antenna receiving grooves when not in use, and said pair of rod antennas movable to an extended upwardly, outwardly and rearwardly directed V-shaped position from said antenna receiving grooes when in use;
- (D) locking means for locking said pair of rod antennas in said antenna receiving grooves when not in use;
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- (E) holding means for holding said rod antennas in said extended V-shape position when in use.
A TV antenna for a motor vehicle comprising a generally longitudinal antenna body member formed with a pair of longitudinal grooves for receiving rod antenna elements and attachable to the roof of a motor vehicle, a pair of rod antenna elements pivotally attached to said body member so as to be, respectively, received in a longitudinal groove in a retracted stored position, so that said antenna has a small vertical height, locking means for locking said rod antenna elements in said stored position, and spring biasing means connected to pair of rod antenna elements to cause them to move to an extended outwardly, upwardly and rearwardly directed V-shaped operating position when said locking means are released.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.