Flachglas Aktiengesellschaft

Flachglas Automotive Gmbh

Hans-Jurgen Niklewski

Peter Paulus

Detlef Baranski

Paul Weigt

Helmut Piorek

A motor vehicle, especially a passenger vehicle, has a metallic body provided with a window opening receiving an antenna window. The antenna window has inner and outer panes bonded together by a bonding layer with an optically-transparent electrically-conductive solar central coating reducing transmission in at least a part of the solar energy range. At least one edge of the window is left free from the coating and in this region a slot antenna is formed. At least at one additional edge, the coating runs to that edge and is overlapped by the framing portion of the vehicle body and is coupled with a high-frequency coupling to the coating.

Motor vehicle with antenna window with improved radiation and reception

A windshield has a generally upright transparent panel, an array of horizontal and generally parallel heater conductors on the panel and having opposite ends, and respective conductive busses connected to the heater conductors at the opposite ends thereof. Thus electricity can be applied to the busses to pass current through the heater conductors and thereby heat the panel at the array. A pair of generally upright, generally parallel, and horizontally spaced antenna conductors on the panel extend across and connect at crossing locations to the heater conductors and an output conductor is connected electrically to the antenna conductors so that radio-frequency output is taken off the output conductor. The crossing locations of each of the antenna conductors are all located at points of the same potential on the respective heater conductors and the only direct electrical connection between the pair of antenna conductors is through the heater conductors. The output conductor can be connected to one of the heater conductors and therethrough to the antenna conductors. It can also be connected directly to one of the antenna conductors and indirectly via a nonresistive impedance to the other antenna conductor. This nonresistive impedance can be a capacitor or an inductor. It is also possible to connect both the antenna conductors via such a nonresistive impedance to the output conductor.

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Bochum, Germany

Hans-Jurgen Niklewski