Method of making a vehicle antenna
AssigneeHirschmann Car Communication GmbH
InventorsUwe Daum, Uwe Kreissig, Markus Pfletschinger, Bernd Schwarz
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for producing a vehicle antenna device (1) and to a vehicle antenna device (1) which is produced using this method and has a carrier film (2) which is composed of an electrically non-conductive material, wherein antenna structures (3) which are composed of an electrically conductive material are applied to the carrier film (2), wherein provision is made, according to the invention, for a plug connector (4) or an electronic device (6) to be fixed and electrically contact-connected directly to the carrier film (2) at a base point of the antenna structure (3).
Claims8
A method of making a vehicle antenna having a support film of a dielectric material and antenna elements of an electrically conductive material carried on the support film, the method comprising the steps of:
- fixing a plug-type connector or an electronic device directly to the support film at the base of the antenna elements so as to be electrically connected with the antenna elements;
- providing the planar support film with at least one projecting tab before or after fixing the plug-type connector or the electronic device to the support film;
- forming a cutout associated with the projecting tab in the support film;
- deforming the support film along a crease line;
- thereafter inserting the tab into the cutout while deforming the support film and antenna elements into a three-dimensional shape corresponding generally to an inner surface of a motor-vehicle outside-mirror housing;
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- fitting the deformed support film and antenna elements into the outside-mirror housing before installing a mirror in the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.