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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1998
Yutaka Imamura, Yokohama, JP;
Tatsuaki Taniguchi, Hiroshima-ken, JP;
Kazuo Shigeta, Hiroshima-ken, JP;
Harada Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A GPS wave antenna apparatus according to the present invention includes a substrate unit having a printed board on which an antenna constituting element including a GPS wave antenna element is mounted integrally as one component, a case having an opening portion at one end, for detachably receiving the substrate unit through the opening portion, and a conductive plate attached to the case so as to block the opening portion and arranged opposite to the GPS wave antenna element at a fixed distance therebetween. The GPS wave antenna element has a thin-film conductive pattern, and the substrate unit includes a low noise amplifier provided on the printed board and a feeder connected to a feeder section of the antenna element through the low noise amplifier.