Orion Industries, Ltd.

Gould Inc.

James T Konishi

David B Parkinson

An adjustable cellular mobile antenna assembly capable of being mounted on a vehicle in which the angular orientation of the antenna whip or radiator is adjustable relative to the surface on which it is mounted. The antenna member of an adjustable antenna includes a whip or radiator and a support portion. The support portion includes a bottom member, suitably shaped to be receivable in a base attached to the vehicle. The antenna member is angularly adjustable relative to the base and is retained in such a selectable position by a retaining member adapted to engage and interact with both the antenna member and the base and to retain the antenna member in the angular position selected. The antenna assembly is designed to receive and connect to a cable to provide an uninterrupted electrical connection between a transceiver and the antenna whip over all of its angular positions.

Adjustable cellular mobile communications antenna

Cellular antenna

A composite battery plate grid and processes for making the same are disclosed. The novel grid is a composite of a flexible electrically non-conductive web material with a plurality of electrically conductive threads interlaced therein. The web material provides structural support for the grid while the electrically conductive threads form electrical connections for collecting current from an active material on the grid. The electrically conductive threads are incorporated within the web material as warp threads in one embodiment and as weft or filler threads in another. A third embodiment discloses the electrically conductive threads integrated as a pattern within the web material in a combination of the warp and weft directions. A process embodiment is described for manufacturing the composite grids which includes weaving the electrically conductive threads together with threads of the web material to form an interlaced matrix of web material and conductor threads in any of the disclosed forms of the structural embodiments. A second process embodiment describes forming the composite grid structures by sewing or inserting the conductor threads into the web material after the material has been woven.

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Willowick, OH, United States of America

James T Konishi