EP0897198A2 - Carrosserie de véhicule plastique avec antennes - Google Patents

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EP0897198A2
EP0897198A2 EP98112223A EP98112223A EP0897198A2 EP 0897198 A2 EP0897198 A2 EP 0897198A2 EP 98112223 A EP98112223 A EP 98112223A EP 98112223 A EP98112223 A EP 98112223A EP 0897198 A2 EP0897198 A2 EP 0897198A2
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Mehran Aminzadeh
Ulrich Dieter Becker
Reinhard Berfelde
Manfred Burkert
Michael Daginnus
Wilhelm Probst
Andreas Schwarte
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01QANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q13/00Waveguide horns or mouths; Slot antennas; Leaky-waveguide antennas; Equivalent structures causing radiation along the transmission path of a guided wave
    • H01Q13/10Resonant slot antennas
    • H01Q13/16Folded slot antennas
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01QANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/12Supports; Mounting means
    • H01Q1/1271Supports; Mounting means for mounting on windscreens
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01QANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/27Adaptation for use in or on movable bodies
    • H01Q1/32Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles
    • H01Q1/325Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles characterised by the location of the antenna on the vehicle
    • H01Q1/3275Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles characterised by the location of the antenna on the vehicle mounted on a horizontal surface of the vehicle, e.g. on roof, hood, trunk
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01QANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/27Adaptation for use in or on movable bodies
    • H01Q1/32Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles
    • H01Q1/325Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles characterised by the location of the antenna on the vehicle
    • H01Q1/3283Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles characterised by the location of the antenna on the vehicle side-mounted antennas, e.g. bumper-mounted, door-mounted
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01QANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/27Adaptation for use in or on movable bodies
    • H01Q1/32Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles
    • H01Q1/325Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles characterised by the location of the antenna on the vehicle
    • H01Q1/3291Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles characterised by the location of the antenna on the vehicle mounted in or on other locations inside the vehicle or vehicle body

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  • the invention relates to motor vehicles in which the body at least in parts no longer in the conventional way from sheet metal or is produced as a self-supporting sheet metal body. It is becoming apparent that in the future parts or areas will increase the body and even complete plastic bodies be made or that you can frame structures with a Planking made of plastic understands. Plastics are also, with appropriate finishing, surface treatment and coating, find use as material for motor vehicle window panes.
  • the new premises for the antenna configuration result above all from a changed influence on the electromagnetic field within which the vehicle is located or moves.
  • the vehicle body has presented itself as a kind of cuboid made of sheet metal.
  • Part of the roof surface is usually based on rod-like elements, the spars, between which there are large, essentially rectangular openings - windows - which are sealed with dielectric material - glass panes.
  • This structure is located just above the great mass of the earth's surface and is surrounded by an electromagnetic field that comes from a variety of sources, including the transmitters whose signals are to be received.
  • the vehicle can also carry self-emitting emitters.
  • the metal parts of the body and the dielectric of the windows lead to a characteristic deformation of the surrounding field and to different field concentrations around the vehicle and in the area of the window openings. Signals from this field are primarily coupled out today with rod antennas and with radiator structures in the window panes.
  • the metallic body supports, in certain areas, the function of the antennas as wave type converters and coupling elements, and on the other hand, the metal surfaces provide the necessary ground potential for the antennas.
  • the plastic window is provided with a flat, electrically conductive metal coating that is connected to the DC electrical system. With a suitable arrangement of the heating current connections, uniform heating of the pane surface with surface temperatures which are not too high is then obtained.
  • a window pane with an - essentially - closed metal coating of good electrical conductivity is hardly suitable for the arrangement of wire and conductor track structures in the previous manner and for their use as antenna radiators.
  • the invention is based on a condition which, in extreme cases, is that of the above Blechquader "as the only metal parts the drive unit and parts of the undercarriage are left, surrounded by components made of dielectric material with possibly different ⁇ r , and that perhaps it was just the window panes - which previously served as carriers for integrated antennas - that have an electrically conductive metal coating for This task is no longer suitable or only suitable to a limited extent. It can be said that the field deformation caused by such a structure is neither experimentally foreseeable nor can it be simulated with reasonable effort. It is to be expected that the usual and proven methods of antenna configuration cannot be used here.
  • the invention has for its object a basic solution and to find a way to motor vehicles whose body under partial to extensive use of flat parts Plastic is made to equip with antennas, as well as around the function of such antennas experimentally and arithmetically optimize.
  • the antennas are preferably below that Select point of view that it integrated into the vehicle body can be and do not interfere with the shape flow of the body.
  • the invention is not succinct in that the old State is restored under new signs, i.e. that e.g. with a continuous metal coating on the plastic parts or the coating of a complete plastic panel quasi-sheet metal car is manufactured.
  • the invention uses the changed initial situation to the configuration of antennas to open completely new paths on the vehicle body and the thought the antenna integration into the vehicle body for the first time to be implemented in all consequences.
  • the entire vehicle becomes a complex antenna carrier, and the various radiators are arranged on and in it, where and how, according to their operating principle, they ensure the highest or optimal effect and can be implemented inexpensively.
  • All types of flat antennas which can be integrated into surfaces and which are known to the person skilled in the art are largely applicable, from conductor track structures, similar to the window pane antenna, and stripline antennas (patch antennas) via slot antennas to surface emitters and monopoles simulated on surfaces and dipoles.
  • Metallized surfaces which - whatever their function - lie behind the radiator structures, can be arranged at different distances from the radiators in front of them, due to the usual double-shell structure of most body elements today.
  • the metallization zones can be used for shielding purposes by arranging and designing them according to such functional requirements.
  • the simulation model enables the antenna developer to select and pre-configure an antenna type regardless of the availability of the vehicle to be equipped and the degree of replacement of metallic parts by plastic ones. In this way, the problem is addressed that the antenna is often still regarded by the car manufacturers as an accessory and the antenna developer is given little time and hardly any intervention options to get one antenna- and reception-friendly environment "within the vehicle construction or to test innovations.
  • the model according to the invention not only permits broad testing and application of the different antenna principles known to the person skilled in the art in the novel vehicle constructions from which the invention is based; in the same way it enables the reproduction of conventional bodies for basic work as well as for the optimization of antenna systems.
  • the bodywork which defined by means of the simulation model can be on the plastic parts of a vehicle in the Final state no longer recognizable. They disappear under the paint insofar as they have been applied to the outer surfaces, or are - function-related - in areas not visible to the eye arranged.
  • two vertical bars 17 are also included Roof capacity 17.1 on the side of a vehicle floor plate 1 arranged (groundplanes).
  • the vertical bars can be used as Metallization of the B-spar 3 (continuous middle spar between the doors) and the roof capacity can be obtained by Metallization of the side roof spars.
  • the base plate existed from sheet metal or from a continuously metallized material.
  • the two radiators could act as antennas for radio reception in the FM range (as ⁇ / 4 emitters) and in the AM range.
  • Figure 1b shows two rod radiators 18 with roof capacity 18.1, which were obtained by metallizing the A-pillars and sectionally metallizing the roof pillars above the windshield 12.
  • the radials 19 are required as a ground potential if the body paneling around the base of the antennas is not metallized. These antennas would be suitable for radio reception in a convertible. It is also conceivable that a rod-like or stripline-like metallization is led down to the base plate as a vertical rod.
  • antennas are shown, which are suitable for discs 12, 13 made of plastic with a highly conductive metal coating 15.
  • a flat, highly conductive metal coating may be necessary if, for example, you want to heat a motor vehicle rear window 13, which is made of plastic or plastic with a thin glass coating.
  • the previously usual conductor structures cannot be applied to this pane material because the sintering processes require temperatures that are not conducive to the novel pane structure.
  • the metal coating 15 for the window heating must be transparent, but it must be so dense and well conductive that it heats up sufficiently and evenly when connected to a heating power source.
  • a window is assumed which is provided with a metal coating 15 only in the visible area and which is surrounded by a metal frame or metal-coated frame 16. Between the metallized area 15 and the frame 16 there is a narrow free strip 20 all around.
  • This strip is used according to the invention for the formation of slot antennas 23 for different frequencies.
  • the slot length is defined by switching on RF-blocking means, for example short-circuit connections 21 and series resonant circuits 22.
  • the respective geometrical slot length is identified by the dimension arrows.
  • slot antennas of different lengths can be realized, which are placed next to one another - ie in a row along the strip 20 - and overlapping ".
  • Overlapping arrangement means that, starting from a common connection point 21, 22, different lengths to two other connection points 21.1, 22.1 are realized.
  • the connection point 21.1, 22.1 which is closest to the starting point, is dimensioned electrically so that it is blocking for the higher of the two frequencies and permeable for the lower. For the lower frequency, the connection point with the greater distance has a blocking effect.
  • An interesting application of this principle is that a slit can consist of a horizontal branch and a branch parallel to the side rail. In this way, fields with horizontal and vertical polarization components can be received cheaply.
  • FIG 3 are antenna designs using other areas the body shown.
  • the two slots 23 according to Figure 3a in Fenders 5 and in door 9 can be fed asymmetrically, to place the input impedance in low-resistance areas.
  • FIG. 3c shows a strip line array antenna (patch array) 26 in the roof 11 of a car. It is suitable for satellite reception in the GHz range.
  • the required ground potential can be provided with the necessary distance in the direction of radiation in the form of a metallization of the roof lining.
  • FIG. 4 shows the simulation model of a car according to the invention. It preferably consists of a rod structure which is planked as desired. Depending on the requirements, the planking is partially or completely metallized and / or provided with metal surfaces structured according to the invention.
  • the model is preferably divided into a base body and add-on elements that can be added variably.
  • the base body consists of the base plate 1 and the framework up to the height of the belt line, plus the A-spar with the roof-side border of the windscreen area.
  • the doors, bonnet and trunk lid are hinged.
  • the parts for the roof 11 and the B and C spars 3, 4 are added modularly as add-on parts and are interchangeable.

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DE19730173A DE19730173A1 (de) 1997-07-15 1997-07-15 Kraftfahrzeug-Karosserie aus Kunststoff mit Antennen
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