EP3629418A1 - Antennenvorrichtung und verfahren zur herstellung der antennenvorrichtung - Google Patents

Antennenvorrichtung und verfahren zur herstellung der antennenvorrichtung Download PDF

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EP3629418A1
EP3629418A1 EP18196478.4A EP18196478A EP3629418A1 EP 3629418 A1 EP3629418 A1 EP 3629418A1 EP 18196478 A EP18196478 A EP 18196478A EP 3629418 A1 EP3629418 A1 EP 3629418A1
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Ryutaro MIURA
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/27—Adaptation for use in or on movable bodies
    • H01Q1/32—Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles
    • H01Q1/325—Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles characterised by the location of the antenna on the vehicle
    • H01Q1/3275—Adaptation 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
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q9/00—Electrically-short antennas having dimensions not more than twice the operating wavelength and consisting of conductive active radiating elements
    • H01Q9/04—Resonant antennas
    • H01Q9/30—Resonant antennas with feed to end of elongated active element, e.g. unipole
    • H01Q9/32—Vertical arrangement of element
    • H01Q9/36—Vertical arrangement of element with top loading
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q9/00—Electrically-short antennas having dimensions not more than twice the operating wavelength and consisting of conductive active radiating elements
    • H01Q9/04—Resonant antennas
    • H01Q9/30—Resonant antennas with feed to end of elongated active element, e.g. unipole
    • H01Q9/40—Element having extended radiating surface

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  • the present invention relates to an antenna device and a method for manufacturing the antenna device.
  • AM/FM radio antenna devices capable of receiving AM broadcasts and FM broadcasts.
  • AM/FM radio antenna devices of a rod type have been used
  • AM/FM antenna devices of a shark fin type have been preferred in recent years because of attractive design.
  • the antenna device of a shark fin type is named after its external shape.
  • Antenna devices of a shark fin have an upper limit of 70 mm in height and an upper limit of about 200 mm in length to comply with legal regulations.
  • Low-profile antenna devices due to the regulation have disadvantages, such as low impedance or radiation resistance and thus low receiving sensitivity.
  • Japanese Patent No. 5237617 discloses an antenna device that solves such disadvantages.
  • the device of Japanese Patent No. 5237617 includes an umbrella antenna component and is called a capacity loaded or top loaded antenna.
  • the feeding point of the antenna component is connected to the input terminal of an amplifier through an antenna coil.
  • the antenna device disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 5237617 includes the amplifier to compensate for the low reception efficiency in the low-profile antenna component.
  • the low-profile antenna component has low impedance or radiation resistance of the antenna component, resulting in reception loss due to the impedance mismatch between the antenna component and the amplifier.
  • the impedance mismatch can be reduced by providing an additional matching circuit including a resistor, a capacitor, and an inductor on the antenna component, the material and production costs increase.
  • An object of the present invention which has been made in view of the above-mentioned disadvantages, is to provide an antenna device including a coil on an antenna component, where the mount angle of the coil to the antenna component can be modified to adjust impedances without a matching circuit.
  • an antenna device mounted to an automobile includes:
  • the resonance point adjusting coil has a second end that is open.
  • the impedance of the antenna component is adjustable by the mount angle of the resonance point adjusting coil to the antenna component.
  • a direction from the first end of the resonance point adjusting coil to the second end along a central axis of the resonance point adjusting coil is vertically downward.
  • the resonance point adjusting coil is mounted at an angle of 90° where a mount angle of the resonance point adjusting coil is defined as 0° when a direction from the first end of the resonance point adjusting coil to the second end along a central axis of the resonance point adjusting coil is vertically downward.
  • a method for manufacturing the antenna device includes:
  • An antenna device 1 according to the present embodiment is an exemplary automobile antenna device that can receive radiowaves at the frequency bands for AM/FM broadcasts and is fixed on a mount face of the roof of an automobile.
  • the antenna device 1 includes an antenna component 10, an amplifier board 20, an antenna holder 30, an antenna base 40, an antenna cover 50, a gasket 60, and other components, for example, a hook 71, a cable holder 72, and a bolt.
  • the X axis indicates the lateral or right-left direction
  • the Y axis the longitudinal or front-back direction
  • the Z axis the vertical direction.
  • the antenna device 1 protrudes from the mounting face and has a height of 70 mm or less.
  • the antenna component 10 includes a metal plate 11 and a resonance point adjusting coil 12 having a first end connected to the metal plate 11.
  • the antenna cover 50 has a shape of a shark fin that is raised toward its rear portion.
  • the metal plate 11 has a top face 111, a left sidewall 112, a right sidewall 113, a connecting bar 114, a coil connecting hole 115, and a fixing slots 116, 116.
  • the top face 111 extends along the upper edge of the antenna cover 50 in the longitudinal direction.
  • the left sidewall 112 extends obliquely downward from the left edge of the top face 111 along the left face of the antenna cover 50.
  • the right sidewall 113 extends obliquely downward from the right edge of the top face 111 along the right face of the antenna cover 50.
  • the connecting bar 114 extends downward from the front edge of the top face 111.
  • the connecting bar 114 is inserted into a connecting terminal 21 mounted to the amplifier board 20 to connect the antenna component 10 to the amplifier board 20.
  • the resonance point adjusting coil 12 is connected to the input terminal of the amplifier board 20 via the metal plate 11.
  • the connecting terminal 21 is composed of a pair of spring terminals holding and crimping the connecting bar 114 therebetween, and the connecting bar 114 can be readily connected to the connecting terminal 21 only by the insertion.
  • the coil connecting hole 115 is provided at the rear end of the top face 111.
  • the resonance point adjusting coil 12 is inserted into the coil connecting hole 115 at the first end and is soldered. In this manner, the resonance point adjusting coil 12 has the first end connected to the metal plate 11 and a second end that is free or open.
  • the top face 111 has the pierced fixing slots 116, 116, as described above.
  • the amplifier board 20 is a circuit board provided with an amplifier to amplify AM/FM signals received by the antenna component 10.
  • the amplifier board 20 is fixed on the top face of the antenna base 40.
  • the amplifier board 20 may be disposed in any position, for example, in the longitudinal center or adjacent to the rear end. The free selection of the position can be achieved by the position of the connecting terminal 21 and the bend or extension of the connecting bar 114.
  • the antenna holder 30 is an insulator holding the antenna component 10 and stands on the antenna base 40.
  • the antenna holder 30 includes a metal plate holding block 31 on which an internal thread is provided. As illustrated, bolts are inserted into the fixing slots 116, 116, and the metal plate 11 is thereby fixed to the antenna holder 30.
  • the antenna holder 30 is provided with a coil holding block 32 for the resonance point adjusting coil 12.
  • the coil holding block 32 extends rearward from the rear end of the metal plate holding block 31.
  • the coil holding block 32 is disposed according to the position of the resonance point adjusting coil 12.
  • the mount angle of the resonance point adjusting coil 12 to the antenna component 10 in Figs. 1 to 5 is 0°.
  • the mount angle of the resonance point adjusting coil 12 is defined as 0° when the direction from the first end of the coil 12 to the second end along the central axis of the resonance point adjusting coil 12 is vertically downward.
  • the angle from 0° in the rearward position is defined as a positive angle.
  • the mount angle is 270° in Fig. 8A , 180° in Fig. 9A , 90° in Fig. 10A , and 270° in 11A.
  • the configuration in Fig. 8A is different from that in Fig. 11A in that the resonance point adjusting coil 12 in Fig. 8A is disposed under the metal plate 11 whereas the resonance point adjusting coil 12 in Fig. 11A is disposed above the metal plate 11.
  • the coil holding block 32 (and the entire antenna holder 30 and the antenna cover 50 if required) is disposed according to the position of the resonance point adjusting coil 12.
  • the metal plate 11 or the resonance point adjusting coil 12 may be appropriately varied so as to be held under the antenna cover 50. If both the metal plate 11 and the resonance point adjusting coil 12 are held under the antenna cover 50, the illustrated antenna holder 30 that is disposed under the antenna cover is not necessary.
  • the antenna base 40 has a hole through which a cable extends to the automobile or a protrusion, and is fixed to the mounting face.
  • the gasket 60 is disposed between the antenna base 40 and the mounting face.
  • the lower portion of the antenna cover 50 is fixed to the outer edge of the antenna base 40.
  • the antenna base 40 and the antenna cover 50 accommodate, for example, the antenna component 10, the amplifier board 20, and the antenna holder 30.
  • Fig. 7A illustrates a traditional antenna device including a coil 102 connected to an amplifier board 101 at a first end and connected to a capacity hat 103 at a second end.
  • the traditional antenna device is a comparative model.
  • Figs. 1 to 4 The models in Figs. 1 to 4 according to the present invention, the comparative model in Fig. 7A , and models in Figs. 8A , 9A , 10A , and 11A according to the present invention are simulated. Smith charts are prepared as illustrated in Figs. 6 , 7B , 8B , 9B , 10B , and 11B .
  • the models according to the present invention can more readily match impedances than the comparative model.
  • the antenna device 1 can adjust the impedance of the antenna component 10 by the mount angle of the resonance point adjusting coil 12.
  • the impedance of the antenna component depends on the capacity hat 103 along the upper edge rather than the coil 102.
  • the impedance can be adjusted only by a modification of the mount angle of the capacity hat 103. Since the capacity hat 103 has a large size, the angle cannot be readily modified.
  • the impedance of the antenna component depends on the resonance point adjusting coil 12 at the upper end rather than the metal plate 11. The modification of the mount angle of the relatively small resonance point adjusting coil 12 enables the impedance to be adjusted.
  • the mount angle of the resonance point adjusting coil 12 can be selected from the range between 0°and 90°, the range between 90°and 180°, the range between 18 0°and 270°, and the range between 270°and 360°, and the impedance can be finely adjusted.
  • a method for manufacturing the antenna device 1 includes adjusting the mount angle of the resonance point adjusting coil 12 and adjusting the pitch of the resonance point adjusting coil 12, the number of windings, and the length of the wire according to the mount angle to adjust the impedance of the antenna component 10 to a desired level.
  • the antenna holder 30 and the antenna cover 50 are produced and assembled into the antenna device.
  • the impedance of the antenna component 10 can be adjusted by the modification of the mount angle of the resonance point adjusting coil 12 of the antenna component 10 without a matching circuit.
  • the input impedance from an amplifier is adjusted by a matching circuit including a resistor in combination with a capacitor and an inductor and is matched with the impedance of the antenna component.
  • the impedance can be adjusted also by the antenna component 10, and thus the adjustable range of the impedance is wide. The losses caused by the impedance mismatch between the antenna component and the amplifier can be reduced, and a high receiving sensitivity can be achieved.
  • the antenna device 1 does not require a matching circuit including a resistor in combination with a capacitor and an inductor on the amplifier board. Thus, the number of components and the production costs can be reduced.
  • the amplifier board 20, the metal plate 11, and the coil 12 are connected in sequence, and the impedance can be thereby enhanced compared to the traditional antenna device illustrated in Fig. 7A where an amplifier board, a coil, and a capacity hat are connected in sequence.
  • the resonance point adjusting coil 12 is soldered with the metal plate 11 at one end, and the connecting bar 114 of the metal plate 11 can be inserted into the connecting terminal 21.
  • the assembly of the antenna device 1 is more ready than that of the traditional antenna device.
  • the antenna device for AM/FM broadcasting is exemplified.
  • the size of the metal plate 11 and/or the position of the amplifier board 20 are varied, and thereby a composite antenna device can be achieved that includes, for example, a patch antenna, such as SXM antenna or GNSS antenna, and an on-board antenna or a monopole antenna, such as DAB antenna or telecommunication antenna.
  • the antenna device described in the present embodiment is of a shark fin type mounted on a roof.
  • the antenna device according to the present invention can be mounted on, for example, a spoiler, side mirror, wing mirror, or dash board.
  • amplifier board 20 can be connected to the metal plate 11 without intervention of the connecting terminal to be directly powered.
  • the resonance point adjusting coil maybe of a helical type, a zigzagged type, a meander type, or a looped type.

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JPS5237617B2 (de) 1974-01-16 1977-09-24
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US20140002319A1 (en) * 2011-03-15 2014-01-02 Stefan Lindenmeier Multiband reception antenna for the combined reception of satellite signals and terrestrially emitted radio signals
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EP3142187A1 (de) * 2015-09-14 2017-03-15 Advanced Automotive Antennas, S.L.U. Mimo-antennensystem für ein fahrzeug

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JPS5237617B2 (de) 1974-01-16 1977-09-24
CN201229985Y (zh) * 2008-04-22 2009-04-29 蒋小平 汽车顶置天线装置及其天线放大器
WO2011004636A1 (ja) * 2009-07-06 2011-01-13 日本アンテナ株式会社 ホイップアンテナ
US20140002319A1 (en) * 2011-03-15 2014-01-02 Stefan Lindenmeier Multiband reception antenna for the combined reception of satellite signals and terrestrially emitted radio signals
US9240629B2 (en) * 2013-05-20 2016-01-19 Hyundai Motor Company Antenna for vehicle
US20160064807A1 (en) * 2014-08-29 2016-03-03 Laird Technologies, Inc. Multiband Vehicular Antenna Assemblies
EP3142187A1 (de) * 2015-09-14 2017-03-15 Advanced Automotive Antennas, S.L.U. Mimo-antennensystem für ein fahrzeug

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