Continental Automotive Systems Corporation

Bhavna Mantha

Thomas A Brey

Peter Saladin

David Gerald Teteak

A circuit-board mountable antenna () has a substrate () compliant with the IPC/JEDEC J-STD_0202C and IEC-norm standard 60068, which specifies the spacing and pin arrangements for a printed circuit board (PCB) mountable connector commonly known in the automotive electronic art as a 'FAKRA' or 'Fakra.' A radio frequency (RF) energy transducer or antenna () is applied to or formed over the substrate () which is provided with at least one mounting pin () and a signal lead (), the spacing and locations of which are compliant with the Fakra ISO-compliant hole pattern. The antennae () thus provide a circuit board () mountable antenna, compliant with the Fakra standard. The Fakra-compliant antenna or a Fakra-compliant connector can be attached to the circuit board () for a communications device () at the time of assembly to enable the communications device to use either a concealed or concealable antenna or an external antenna.

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Arlington Heights, IL, United States of America

Bhavna Mantha