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US 7,253,778 B1Granted
Cowl with embedded antenna
AssigneeADAC Plastics, Inc.
InventorsRobert L. Bingle, Joseph Meinke
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Abstract
An antenna is incorporated into the cowl grille of a motor vehicle adjacent the front windshield. The antenna comprises a receiver module or component and wire or cable which extends along the cowl grille generally parallel to the front windshield. The wire or cable can extend outside the cowl grille, and terminates in a connector which can be fed to the passenger compartment of the vehicle for connection to a radio, or the wire or cable can terminate as a molded-in connector as part of the cowl plastic allowing for direct connection from the vehicles wiring harness.
Claims12
A cowl for a motor vehicle comprising:
- an elongated body adapted to reside between a windshield region of the vehicle and a front hood region of the vehicle, the elongated body having a concealed surface when residing between the windshield region and the front hood region;
- a mounting structure incorporated into the concealed surface and adapted to attach a sensing member to the elongated body;
- the sensing member attached to the concealed surface by the mounting structure;
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- a connector portion extending from the sensing member along the concealed surface and configured to interconnect the sensing member with a receiver associated with the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.