Motor vehicle having a glass roof and having an antenna arrangement seated on this glass roof

US10819001B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Angela Linow · Cologne, DE
• Vicky Patricia Delgado · Cologne, DE
• Daniel Hahnenberg · Cologne, DE
• Enrico Krause · Cologne, DE
• Victor Garrido · Gainesville, US
• Marc Bosbach · Rommerskirchen, DE
• Thomas Benderoth · Gummersbach, DE
• Werner Jakobs · Bensberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 16, 2018
• Grant date: Oct 27, 2020
• Expiry date: May 10, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D25/06
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The motor vehicle has a glass roof, an antenna arrangement seated on this glass roof, and a metallic frame. An opening of the glass roof is located below the antenna arrangement and is covered thereby. The frame is located below the glass roof and forms a dome, which extends into the opening of the glass roof and to which the antenna arrangement is mechanically connected. A reflection surface associated with the antenna arrangement is attached on the lower side of the glass roof. The reflection surface has a grid structure made of intersecting lines extending transversely to the z direction. The lines are provided with a metallization which has a width of 0.5 to 2 mm. The intersecting lines delimit free fields, which are not metallized and have a maximum clear dimension of 3 to 15 mm.